Fix the Document Setup feature

In previous versions of Illustrator and all the other CS programs, you go to"File>Document Setup" and you have a place where you can type in the page size you want. In Illustrator CS4 they eliminated this feature. You can click on a button called "edit artboards" and drag handles to resize the page, but if you want a specific size, it's best to type in the page dimensions, not drag handles like you were cropping a photo.
Pleas bring back the ability to type in a page size in the Document Setup dialog box.

The problem with that is that now that Illustrator supports multiple artboards (let's not call them “pages”), how should Illustrator interpret the values you enter? Change all artboards? The last edited artboard? The first artboard? Let Illustrator guess? That only makes sense if there is only one artboard or if all artboards are the same size. Even then, one might actually want to change only one artboard, not all of them.
The interface for artboard size, much like the interface for bloody everything else in Illustrator, is awful. What’s needed is a Freehand-like Inspector panel where thumbnails of artboards can be resized and arranged without having to zoom way out, change tools, enter sizes in the Control panel, drag artboards around, wait for the art to redraw, do the hokey-pokey…

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Please fix the "Capture Recording" feature...

Ok..
Here's how "Capture Recording" (a.k.a. "Retrospective Record" in other audio applications)
is supposed to work:
The song either is or isn't playing.
You play your instrument.
You liked what you did, even though you weren't recording.
You press the "Capture Recording" button.
Your software captured what you played, even though the song wasn't playing.
And that's why Retrospective Record was asked for, and implemented in the DAW's of the world.
But in Logic, if the song is not playing, and you play something you liked,
Capture Recording just puts every note onto Bar1, Beat1 of a new track.
And there's what you wanted to "capture", every note you played, sitting at Bar1, beat1, All at the same time. lol.
Now, I know that in this particular user group, there are many who love
to jump onto a fast response in defense of this application.
And that's ok, because I love this app also.
but the Capture Recording feature needs to be fixed.
Capture Recording (or "Retrospective Record" as Cubase calls it (they were first to implement it in 1995 btw))
works as described above in bold, it DOES make a very VERY big difference, believe it or not.

I want My ES2 wrote:
Ah,, that must be because Logic stops sending Midi clock to ext. Instruments. I know Cubase continues to send MC when stopped, so its clock must continue while stopped and it bases(nu pun intended) your recording on this clock. But like i said, it must needs quite some editing afterwards since you didn't hear a click. The note must be all over the place, rhythm-wise. Cheers.
No, it has nothing to do with MIDI clock being enabled or not, it's the manner in which Logic's MIDI/Audio engine is implemented and can be traced way, way back. When Logic is not running, there is zero processing going on, this is part of Logic's intentional design and is one of the main reasons Logic is processor efficient, it also allows large instrument templates to be designed and loaded, if Logic's not running, no CPU is used. All other DAW's keep plugins partially active, you will always see CPU use. Early on when Mac's had limited graphics processing this was a big advantage, when Logic was stopped you had the full CPU to perform editing. This behavior was carried over as more powerful hardware was introduced.
The downside: Many of Logic's quirks can be traced to the fact that nothing is being processed when Logic is halted. The "System Overload" message, missed notes at the beginning of bar 1, not being able to play a song all the way through the first or second time it played. Say you have a region at bar 40 that uses a processor heavy instrument with a couple of Waves FX plugins... a second or two before bar 40 Logic starts to fill the FX and Instrument buffers with data as the plugins become active... "System Overload". I'm guessing Logic 10 will do what recent versions of Cubase has done, offer a preference that enables either type (active, inactive) processing.
If anyone wonders why some Cubase users get on Logic's case... it's pretty much payback as Logic users use to really slam Cubase as being unprofessional because it was pirated so much it had many, many users who were completely clueless musicians/producers.
The shoe is on the other foot now, a Mac is a dongle for Logic, while Apple would rather have your $199, they're not going to gripe at pirated versions as it will sell Mac hardware... and Apple makes their money with hardware, software is merely a support group for the hardware. As anyone on this forum can see, It's Logic collecting the clueless these days.
Users don't realize how much they owe Steinberg/Cubase...
Logic's Arrange Page
Virtual Instruments
Low Latency Audio Systems
Piano Roll style editing
And that's just a few, make no mistake, Steinberg has been the innovator on a lot of the breakthroughs.
I've used Logic since version 2.1 (MIDI Only) and Cubase since version 3.

Please fix the "word substitution" feature!

The macros "%b" "%B" "%p" of word substitution is broken since 10.1.0. It is import for me. I have thousands of entries of it on my BOLD9900(about 30000 entries). Without them I can not input text efficently.
The macros "%b" "%B" "%p" just don't work. And if I use two of them, the second is treated as normal letters except a macro. For example, I set a Word Substitution entry like this:
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myname %b%bqueshw
Then I get "%bqueshw". The second "%b" is treated as normal letters now.
1. Please fix the broken macros.
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3. Please open the APIs of "word substitution", and I can develop an app myself to import my entires from BOLD9900 to my Q10.
Please!!!

The macros "%b" "%B" "%p" of word substitution is broken since 10.1.0. It is import for me. I have thousands of entries of it on my BOLD9900(about 30000 entries). Without them I can not input text efficently.
The macros "%b" "%B" "%p" just don't work. And if I use two of them, the second is treated as normal letters except a macro. For example, I set a Word Substitution entry like this:
myname %bqueshw
Then when I type "myname" twice, I get "queshw queshw". There is a space between the two "queshw". It should not be there.If I set a entry like this:
myname %b%bqueshw
Then I get "%bqueshw". The second "%b" is treated as normal letters now.
1. Please fix the broken macros.
2. Please activate the "word substitution" feature as default for the TextArea class. There are two class for inputting text , TextField and TextArea. But the TextArea is setted to inactivate the "word substitution" feature as default now.
3. Please open the APIs of "word substitution", and I can develop an app myself to import my entires from BOLD9900 to my Q10.
Please!!!

Document ID - Property field shows on item view property page after deactivating the Document ID Service features at Site Collection level

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When a site collection was created, I enabled the Document ID feature at site collection level. Then some item was created in a document library as well as list libarary
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Troubleshoot
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Hi,
I would just remove the column from the view. You can make views for each list, it you look under the list by Clicking List while the list is open, you should see a link in the ribbon which say "Modify view" click this link.
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According to this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559302.aspx
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The Document id service will add new columns to the document content type and the document set content type.
It also adds an event receiver which should be deactivated when you deactivate the doc id service.
Theoretically. You should be able to go in and remove the columns from the document type, and then force an update.
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Rock Wang
Rock Wang TechNet Community Support

What is a good ID5 Document Setup for an epub ebook for the iPhone?

I'd welcome some help using ID5 to create an ebook that is optimized for displaying on the iPhone.
In particular, I'm looking for appropriate dimensions of the base page, in pixels, to enter in the Document Setup dialog box.
From what I've read, 320 x 480 pixels should work well for both the iPhone 4 as well as previous versions.
Is that accurate?
The Setup page also includes boxes for Bleed and Slug. Should any values be entered there, or should they remain zero?
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-- Mike

On InDesignSecrets David Blatner lays out the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly facts in Best Document Size for EPUB Export:
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This is a great question because it seems like there should be… but the truth is that there isn’t. The reason there isn’t is important: You don’t lay out an EPUB “ebook.”
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Change document setup by adding 1/2 inch on the left

Hi,
I am working on a 8 1/2 X 11 document (36 pages) and I would like to add 1/2 inch but only on the left side. Of course, I could just change my document set up for 9 X 11 but then, I have to reposition my elements to the right wich I would like to avoid.
Is there a way to do that?

Yo don't say if this is a facing pages document, but I'd guess not if you only want to add to one side. You should change the document setup, but it would be possible to do this by adjusting the bleed settings at output, which I really don't recommend as it's likely to be forgotten at some point.
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Items outside of Document Setup size don't appear in PDF

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MAC OS 10.5.8
Illustrator CS3

Can you post a screen shot I am not certain I understand what you man by essential objects?
Here I just duplicated the art board and put some extra text on the second artboard and all the marks were on the first and second page of the pdf.
I don't say you don't have a good point but what I think they should have is a feature like ID but that can be included in the pdf which is a library
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It's possible modify the document BUT not move the margins?

Hi, this is a new situation in the work:
I have a document with differents margins, but now i must change the document size (the width)...My intention is change the width but dont move the margins. If i use the option File--->DOCUMENT SETUP change the size and the margins move for maintain "the same margin". I this case if i change the document size, i must recalculate the margin later. I want a "automatic mode".
This is what I need (in a odd page):
To this
automatically...
It's possible?

Not as far as I know, and it's one thing I've always found a bit annoying about ID, but I put up with it because uncoupling the document setup and margin setup functions allows so much flexibility in making different master pages for differnt purposes.
Would make a nice new feature though. Add a button to "recalculate margins on all pages" or something. Here's the wish form: Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Document setup

please help
I dont get the document setup in the drop down menu when i tap on the tools logo in the menu bar in numbers on my ipad
Is there something i need to do before it will show
I am making really long invoices and i need to be able to set page breaks and print size

Yes your are right it only shows up in pages .
I got confused when I was going through the numbers online help , when you make a search in help for number you will also get answers from the pages help mixed with answers from numbers and keynote
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I still have not figured out how to split up my invoices in to seprate pages so .
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Advanced Setup Features???

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second
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I could not find a manul setup
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Is there a document outline feature on Pages 5.0.1

Pages '09 has this neat little feature where i can detail the paragraph style useing the document outline feature. I am looking for this in the newer version of Pages but i can not seem to find it. I do know how to edit the paragraph styles but it is the particular outline feature that i am looking for.
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You know the old saying, if it is free, it is probably too good to be true?
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The document could not be opened

I was working on a Numbers '08 document that consists of a few sheets. Last saved it an hour or so ago and now it won't open saying "The document "blahblah" could not be opened". Of course, there is no fresh backup as I have just entered a ton of data in the last few hours. There is a log being posted to Console that looks like a few lines in the form of +Numbers[538]: Object (0x3024500 of class __NSDictionary0) named "NSMutableDictionary-0" was already registered with another name "NSMutableDictionary-16".+ followed by +Numbers[538]: Caught the following exception while trying to open blahblah.numbers, * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil+, followed by more lines that look like +Numbers[538]: NameKeyHashSet and ObjectHashMap out of sync: object map entry for __NSDictionary0 0x3024500 references name "NSMutableDictionary-0" instead of "NSMutableDictionary-44"+, and the last line is +Numbers[538]: Failed to open document, but no unrecoverable error+. I tried downloading iWork 09 trial, updated to the latest version in Software Update, same error. The document does display in QuickLook though. Trashed the prefs, restarted, all to no avail. Is there any app that understands the Numbers format that could be used to open/import and reexport the data, or perhaps some tool to fix the affected document? All other Numbers documents I tried open fine.
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TIA

KOENIG Yvan wrote:
wh1tebalance wrote:
I was working on a Numbers '08 document that consists of a few sheets. Last saved it an hour or so ago and now it won't open saying "The document "blahblah" could not be opened". Of course, there is no fresh backup as I have just entered a ton of data in the last few hours.
Why "of course" ?
When we work seriously, we save seriously and you didn't do that.
Saving seriously means: save every 10 (about) minutes and keep the result of these repeated save task.
No matter whether I work seriously or not, I have a habit of pressing Command-S every 1-2 minutes whenever it's available. I do this automatically and without thinking, ever since I started using Word 6. Used to work for me until today and needless to say, I have never seen documents get corrupted like that, for no obvious reason. If by "seriously" you mean cloning my HD every 10 minutes, then I guess I'm not very serious about saving my progress. Then again, I don't work for NASA.
The minimal scheme is to use only save but activate the preference named "Back up previous version before saving".
I wasn't aware of this option, thanks for pointing it out to me. Hopefully it will work for future incidents like this (although if Numbers is prone to such nasty data-losing bugs perhaps it's time to change the application).
Given what you describe, the index.xml file describing the contents of your document is missing or corrupted.
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You are a lucky guy as you may read the doc thanks to Quicklook.
I guess..
I am able to rebuild a document when the index is corrupted but readable with TextWrangler but I do that only for users working seriously !
I might as well recreate it all from scratch.
Perhaps I should rephrase my questions:
• is this a known situation (a newly introduced bug related to Snow Leopard or something?) and if so perhaps someone may have come up with a way to fix the document?
• or are there any apps that understand enough of the Numbers format that might just import the data from the document without getting stuck on whatever it is that Numbers gets stuck on?
• any other ideas that might actually help?

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