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Terry Mikkelsen
August 3, 2011 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Opening PM5 files

These assets included product designs still vital today…

The need to access the legacy PM5 and FH5 files is vital.

If these files are so important to your business, I would just purchase a new copy of the software. It would have been much faster than all of this.
https://www.amazon.com/Macromedia-FreeHand-Version-5-5/dp/B000GYUZNM/ref=sr_1_2?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1312383123&sr=1-2
$35 is cheap

https://www.amazon.com/Adobe-PageMaker-6-5/dp/B0017RFSEI/ref=sr_1_9?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1312383408&sr=1-9
and $75 is a little pricey for what you are getting, but it sounds like it would be well worth it in your situation.

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Terry Mikkelsen
August 2, 2011 at 7:58 pm in reply to: How do I change the white space surrounding a page in InDesign?

You really don’t have a lot of control over it. However, the setting you are looking for is in:

Preferences>Guides & Pasteboards>Pasteboard Options>Minimum Vertical Offset

I think default is set to 1in.

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Terry Mikkelsen
August 2, 2011 at 7:52 pm in reply to: Turning text to “dot to dot”

Right. Because you want dots only at junction points or where your pencil should change direction. Indy doesn’t know where those points are in the letters of any given font. Maybe you could find an actual dot-to-dot font?

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 18, 2011 at 8:25 pm in reply to: Apply grep style to first space in paragraph

I suck at grep. Someone else will have to field this one.

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 15, 2011 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Finding where a character style has been applied

Two thoughts come to mind:

1 – You could apply custom tracking to the style & then turn on highlighting for “Custom Tracking/Kerning” in the preferences.

2 – Is more involved, but fun
a. Make a new swatch color that you want your text to be highlighted with (maybe Pantone Yellow?) making sure it is a spot color and not process.
b. Make a new swatch color that is CMYK with all 0 (zero) values (be sure to make it a spot color too).
c. In your paragraph style, add underline options with a heavy weight to cover your text. You will probably need some negative offset as well to get it in the right position. For color, choose your highlight color (I picked Pantone Yellow, remember?) Be sure to select “Overprint Stroke”.
d. No goto the Ink Manager and alias the highlight color to the White swatch we made in step b.
e. Finally still in the Ink Manager, convert the White spot swatch to CMYK.

While you are editing the document, you will see your text highlighted. If you print or turn on Separations Preview, your highlight will disappear.

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 14, 2011 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Flickering issue using rollover effect in InDesign

Does it still have a problem when you export the document? Maybe it is only a preview error.

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 14, 2011 at 8:05 pm in reply to: settings for . ? ;

Not sure. Never seen anything like that before. Maybe try saving the word document as an earlier version or as plain text?

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 14, 2011 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Frame Fill Showing on Export

Simple test:
Can you export as pdf and see if you have the same problem? I don’t know if pdfs fit into your workflow though.

Not so simple solution:
Duplicate the green boxes onto a new layer and set the fill to none. (Make sure this new layer is above the green boxes layer.) Then make the layer with the green boxes non-printing by double clicking on the layer name and deselecting the check box “Print Layer”

Depending on how many spreads and templates that you have this could take a bit of time. Sorry.

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm in reply to: align to center of canvas? distribute evenly?

As to the first question, simply select the layer in the layers palette, then with the black arrow tool selected press CMD+A to select all. Then goto Layer>Align Layers to Selection>Vertical Centers. Then repeat with Horizontal Centers.

The second is more difficult and I haven’t found a good way to do it yet. I usually measure the distance between the objects, divide that number by the number of objects which then gives you the measurement needed between each object. Its a pain.

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Terry Mikkelsen
July 6, 2011 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Interactive PDF from InDesign CS4 – FIle Size

Even though you can down-rez images when creating a pdf, I find that Photoshop does a better job. I would resize your images so the effective ppi is 72 (since it is for screen viewing). See if that gets youto your target file size (including the “glow”). If that doesn’t work, please define the “glow” better as to how it was made and how it is affecting the other elements on the page.

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