Drop Cap Issue

So have a Drop Cap set up as a nested style for an opening chapter for a book. Body style is Sabon and the Drop Cap is Gill Sans and is set up through 1 character. The drop cap is applying the Gill Sans properly to the first letter (which is the Drop Cap), but it's also making the next character Gill Sans as well (not as a drop cap but in its regular size. So for example, the word "All" starts the paragraph, and the A is Gill Sans and a drop Cap, and the first 'l' is Gill Sans and the second "l" Sabon. I've cleared all charcter styles and still the second character won't automatically change to Sabon. I've even tried setting the Nested Style through 1 letter, but that didn't help either.
Using latest version of CC.

Why do you use nested style? Use only the proper style in Drop Character section of the nested styles.

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Drop Caps Issues

Hello,
I'm designing a newsletter. I'm using drop caps. I'm a bit alarmed that, when I use drop caps, it literally throws off the baseline alignment of succeeding lines. The paragraph with the drop cap hugs the baseline, which I've told it to do. But, succeeding paragraphs are dropped down a couple of points. Why? If I take out the drop cap from that first paragraph, everything base aligns again. It's as if it displaces text just by being there, the drop cap.
Thanks.

Is drop sahdow set in the document with nothing selected?

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Great, drop caps work, thanks.
I wanted to kern them back (I can't help myself) and I found that if I put a space after the box and then kerned the space back, it worked visually. Do you think that will cause issues down the road? It previewed ok.
Also if I make the boxes too tight, again to make it more typographically pleasing, may I have issues later if people increase or decrease the font size?
I don't have an iPad yet so I can't check it that way. If something previews, will it run?
thanks

Control space after the Drop Cap

ID3, XP
We character style drop caps. When the DC is a single character, we use the tracking in the character style to add space to the right of the dropped character. However, this method cannot be used when it is a two character drop, in this case, chapter numbers are dropped 2 lines. We want to adjust the space between the dropped number and the start of text, and keep that space equal on both lines.
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The first issue is still that humbled wasn't able to add space after the drop caps and maintain alignment of the text. Bottom line is that his method of using character spacing was a bad hack. I'm pointing out that the alternative solutions he tried (ex. post #4) didn't work because he wasn't using the correct value for the number of drop characters. And per his post #21, he is still assuming that 2 is the correct value to define a double digit drop cap. If he gets past that, solutions to other complications may come easier. In fact, unless he needs some specific sized space HIS WHOLE PROBLEM FROM START TO FINISH could be solved simply by selecting 3 as the number of characters for his drop caps rather than sticking with 2. That would have the effect of including the space after the chapter numbers as part of the drop cap making it larger and adding considerably more space. If he does need more space, then he is going to have to add another character. But that character still has to be included in the DC character count: 12<space>Text (3 drop caps) 12<hardspace>Text (3 drop caps) 12<space><hardspace>Text (4 drop caps) He can even use a tab character for a specific indent if he wants. Just switch a tab for the hardspace above. P.S. The same logic holds true for in single drop caps. If you want extra space after, increase the drop cap count to 2 to include the space after.

Drop Caps PDF export problem

When I export the document I'm working on, all of my drop caps change slightly. I've attached an image showing the IND (CS5) layout, and on the right the exported PDF change to the drop caps.
They have been set up using styles with drop caps that use a character style to style the letter itself.
I have another document with the same styles used and it exports fine. I've tried exporting with different settings with no luck.
Anyone ever seen this happen? Any thoughts on the cause?

Thanks Steve—I think I solved my own question.
Baseline grid issue, it seems.
For future reference if this comes up with anybody though:
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iMac
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Ending drop cap styling after a paragraph return

I’m working back in the dark ages of CS4 and I’m having an issue with drop caps and my workflow in the office. I have a drop-cap applied to the first paragraph via the Paragraph Style and I have apply next style active. When editors go into the text box and add a new paragraph, mid way through the existing first paragraph, the newly created paragraph had the drop cap applied. How do I get InDesign to deactivate the drop cap command after the first word or first sentence so this will not happen.

You'll just have to apply a new paragraph style to the new paragraph.
The Next Style doesn't apply here, because there's text after the cursor
where you split the paragraph.
So just apply a new paragraph style that doesn't have a drop cap --
verty quick if you use a keyboard shortcut for it.

Dropped frames issue on a G5 2.7DP w/DV footage

Let me first tell you my setup:
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At seemingly random times, playback from the timeline will stutter and stop, thus throwing up the dropped frames dialog box. If I re-play from the same point, it will normally play. This has happened on several current projects in which I'm working in DV. I've also worked on a project in 8bit uncompressed using my Kona LS card with the same drives, and had the same error.
I've had this issue ever since I setup this system--from the first install of FCP5 to the most recent update of 5.0.3, as well as from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3. I've tried turning off the internal Airport card in the G5, and quitting all other programs.
There is a little utility that came with the Kona card to test data rate of your drives. I'm getting well over 100 MB/s Read, and slightly less write rates, so it seems like drive speed isn't an issue.
What is the weak link here? WiebeTech was nice enough to send me a replacement eSATA PCI card, and the issue hasn't gone away, so it wasn't a bad card, although I guess there could be some flaw inherent in all of the cards.
What other steps should I take to try and isolate/solve this problem? This is kind of embarrasing that I can't play DV footage on the timeline without the possibility of dropping frames--even when working with only one layer of video.
I'm capturing video to the eSATA RAID, and my project files/graphics reside on an internal SATA drive in G5 (not the boot drive--I added another seagate 250 gb). Seems like there should be enough throughput in this thing to handle basic edits, but I'm beginning to have my doubts....
Your ideas?????

Clay,
Regarding your statement "My thinking initially about my workflow was to not keep them on the same drive as the footage because my feeling is that the RAID isn't as "safe" as the single 250 GB drive I have inside the G5".
I store all of my media, GFX and project files on whatever FW drive I happen to be using for a project. I NEVER have media for a specific project on two or more drives. For safety's sake, I ALWAYS have my Autosave Vault set to my internal drive, with a relatively high save rate (every 10 min). That way if the FW drive ever failed completely, I'd at least have a recent copy of the project file to work with (even if I have to redigitize the footage or redo the GFX). All I can say is keep all of your media (per project) on one drive - it's been kind of the Bible in this industry for years, and as far as I know it hasn't changed.
As far as RAID's go, I'm no expert. But if I remember correctly, back in my old Avid days we also used to avoid having the media on different striped partitions - something else you may want to try if you're media is spread across a few stripes.
It seems like I've run across more than a few posts here regarding the same problem happening on Dual 2.7's. You may want to do a more thorough search here to see what you come up with. All I can say is I'm running FCP 5.0.3 on a G5 Dual 2.0 with only 2.5 meg of RAM and have had no dropped frame issues.
Try Matt's suggestion of playing some footage off of your boot drive (NOT recommended for everyday use!). If it works then it's got to be a problem with your RAID and not FCP.
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HH5 (Type A) - Drop-out issues now resolved? Still...

I have had a quick read about the forums - nothing conclusive on this one and as BT told us time and time again there wasn't a fault with the HH5 I don't suppose there will be an official post confirming a fix :-)
So, I had an HH3 with external VDSL modem - all was well. Upgraded to HH5 (Type A) and I had nothing but problems. Constant rebooting and my lovely 78/14 connection becamse 52/8 and wouldn't budge.
So I went back to the HH3, had an engineer visit and all was well once more.
Fast forward to yesterday. HH3 takes a nose dive. Don't believe it is PSU, but basically it switched off and won't come back on - it's looking rather broken.
So, I've still got my HH5 (Type A) in the draw and thought, well I do need fast broadband at home.
So, to the questions.
Has the issue with the HH5 (which I had, many others had, BT said wasn't an issue etc.) now been fixed? I appreciate that I will have out of date firmware, however if I start to use it and I'm assuming the firmware will aitomatically update itself, will all the old dropped connection issues have gone away?
If not, is an acceptable option to use the HH5 togeother with my external VDSL modem? I remember this solving a lot of people's disconnection problems as it appeared to be an integrated modem issue in the HH5 and not using that seemed to solve all issues.
Your advice greatly received.
Thanks.

the firmware fix has for vast majority fixed the connection dropping problem of the hh5a many chose to get modem and use that in conjunction with the hh5a and were happy with their choice as it stopped the conenction drops. it also appeared to help connection in general
so you can try just leaving modem conencted and connect the hh5a to modem using hub wan port or you can conenct hub direct to master using the hub dsl socket
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How to overcome "dropped frame" issues on my project

Hey reader,
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The camera is connected to the external hard drive chain via Firewire cable to the MacBook Pro and I was trying to capture to the internal hard drive. I am in the UK and am still struggling to get my head around the different frame rates but initially I got the dreaded "dropped frames were encountered during the last capture attempt" and it just wouldn't work, so I unselected the report dropped frames tab and abort capture in User Preferences as was suggested on here.
Now I get "Capture encountered a problem reading data on your source tape. This could be due to a problem with the tape. Capture has been aborted and your clip has been saved" but the tape is fine (heads are also clean) as I had to (under time pressure, me) use iMovieHD 6 instead and it worked like a CHARM.
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Should I try to capture to one of the external hard drives? I read that the internal might be a problem as it is busy with the operating system jobs.
Please and thank you.

I got some dropped frames last night and posted this before noticing your post:
There can be a number of reasons for getting dropped frames during capture.
Yesterday I videoed a relative's wedding (in HDV) and on getting home late I captured the footage into FCP 6.0.3 only to find in a couple of places I got an abort on dropped frames.
This morning I decided to recapture and did so without a single dropped frame.
Why ? ......... there are several possibilities.
It could be that there was some physical problem with the tape or camera heads but I believe it was most likely caused by my camera's power supply.
Last night I used the battery whilst this morning I plugged in the power connector.
I feel that this provided a more constant supply of full power and helped prevent frames from being dropped. (The fact I was using FCP is immaterial as the dropped frames would almost certainly have also occurred in FCE).
From now on I will always use the power connector during transfer to and from the camera.

How do you make drop caps in Pages?

Word has a drop down in the Format column that give you an ap to make drop caps... like at the beginning of a chapter. How do you do it in Pages?

Here you have two ways to do it
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=85&highlight=dropped +caps&mforum=iworktipsntrick

How do I use a picture as Drop caps?

I have a picture that I want to place to the left of the paragraph. I want the same function as a Drop cap, ie it should occupy a certain amount of rows, and it should follow the first line in the paragraph.
Just placing the picture before the first letter and juggle with the Text Wrap settings seems to be impossible. I have to use the Drop cap setting, but then I get other strange behaviors.
Placing it as a picture alloww me to adjust the Text Wrap and position correctly, but then the image will not follow the Paragraph...
I hate when I don't understand how I should do things!
How do I do?

Text Wrap is the best way to go. But you also want the graphic to move with the text.
So you need to create an Anchored Object. You can read about the topic in InDesign Help.
If you tried to cut and paste the graphic into the text, it won't work because it's just creating an inline graphic. You actually want to create the graphic to be anchored in the previous paragraph so you can also have the text wrap. Here are a couple screen captures to help you.
It's a lot easier to create this in InDesign CS5.5 (you didn't say which version of InDesign you're using) because you can drag from a blue square which appears at the upper right corner to where you'd like to anchor the file. It's a little trickier in earlier versions of InDesign.

Getting Rid of Space After Drop Caps?

Styles are awesome, and using InDesign is a real treat! However, I'm having a rather frustrating problem when exporting to EPUB.
My Drop Caps span only 2 lines, and they display just fine within InDesign itself. Yet, when exporting to EPUB, there's a large space after the Drop Cap. It;s really ugly and screws up the text flow, of course. How do I eliminate this problem??
I'm new to InDesign, so a step-by-step would be great! In case it;s needed, here's the style setup for this paragraph:
1. First two words are small-capped AND bolded
2. First letter is, additionally, drop-capped (2 lines)
The styles are applied separately - no nesting. I can use either CS5 or CS5.5, if that makes a difference. If you have any other questions to help me resolve this, please feel free to ask. Thanks!
Mike

I do believe I answered my own question. I also had the first line indented 2p0, just like the other normal paragraphs. I set the drop cap to 0p0 - on a lark - and the problem resolved itself. I supposed, with a drop cap, there's really no need to indent, so I won't!
However, if anyone knows a way to indent the first line 2p0 without the space after a drop cap, that'd be nice to know. otherwise, I'm okay for now. Thanks!
Mike

How do I achieve this effect with a drop cap letter?

How do I achieve this effect with a drop cap letter as shown in the picture below in indesign?:
Thanks.

Apply drop caps then select the letter and create outline from type menu. Select the outline letter and apply drop shadow

Drop cap for FIRST paragraph only

I know how to create a drop cap for a paragraph manually. But I will be filling a textbox from XML, which may contain one or more paragraphs. If I assign a drop cap as part of the paragraph style, every paragraph gets a drop cap, when I only want it on the FIRST paragraph. It seemed liked Nested Styles offered some promise, but that appears to only work with character styles, and drop cap is available only as a paragraph style.
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Please forgive my ignorance, but is "next style" some kind of intrinsic functionality (as suggested by the quotes)? If there is some kind of functionality that says apply a variant of style to the first paragraph, and the original (based on) style to the rest, that's what I'm looking for.
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When text in TextFrame is aligned to baseline and scaled - Drop Cap becomes too large and hangs over text. Is it an InDesign bug or I've missed something?
Here is an example of such behaviour: scale is 200%, drop cap size is 8 lines. I'm using InDesign CS5.5.

One can use this script to produce document with this bug (or behaviour?):
#target indesign
function main() {
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 var document = app.documents.add();
 document.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.pixels; // horizontal ruler - in pixels
 document.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.pixels; // vertical ruler - in pixels
 document.viewPreferences.textSizeMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.pixels; // text size - in pixels
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 var s = "";
 for (var i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
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I know that redefine scaling to 100% fixes everything, but it is not an option for me (because it affects text reflow, text wrap offset, etc). Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

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