Hard swipe text frame?

I was browsing Russian GQ and they have managed to build a page with a hard swipe, while keeping a static frame with an image at the top.
http://i.imgur.com/vSQ5oM2.jpg
Only the text moves on a hard-swipe. I was wondering if this is possible in DPS? We would love to use this feature in our magazine, but have had no luck figuring it out on our own.

ha ha, do you really want to know how they pulled this off?
they make clever use of a how articles are loaded and displayed in the viewer.
When you see an article on your screen, the article next to it is already loaded into the iPad's memory and waits off screen to get pulled into view. There's a bug with bleeding objects: When the next page containts interactivity (like a slideshow) that is sticking out of the page, the viewer does not crop the article and displays the bleeding object on the article prior to it (the one you are looking at right now).
It's hard to explain. It only works with objects bleeding out to the left. Here's a video of GQ russia that shows how this works and you can also see when it get's loaded. You can also see why it only works best if the next article only has one page.

Similar Messages

Hard return paragraph breaks at top of text frames

I'm learning how to do book layouts in InDesign CS4 and I have a problem I can't figure out how to solve. I'm autoflowing huge chunks of pasted text into linked text frames and when a paragraph breaks (with a double hard return) at the same place as a new page/column, there is a blank line on the top of the text frame like so:
Is there a way to automatically make that paragraph break line go away when it comes at the top of a new text frame? My document is 400+ pages with many, many paragraphs. I don't want to get rid of the hard return spaces between all of them, just the ones that come at the top of text frames.

To expand slightly, space before and after are ignored at the top of a column or frame, but the empty paragraph is not.
You might want to try out the "Find/Change by List" sample script which fixes multiple returns along with leading and trailing whitespace and double space after a period (among other common problems). It's really just a chained set of Find/Change operations that can speed up the cleanup of new text.

Double-click to enter a text frame - selecting text unresponsive

Ok.
So frustrating...I haven't been able to find a solution to this anywhere online.
Let's say I've got an InDesign document open, and have my selection tool (V).
I double click on a text frame (that is full of text), see that there is now a cursor inserted in the text frame, so I go to swipe or double-click to select/highlight some text, and NOTHING HAPPENS (it is unresponsive).
I wait a second, and then I can select text.
But this was not an issue in CS6 on the Mac I used to use for almost 2 years.
I could double click on a text frame and quickly swipe text to select, it was very fast. This second-long delay in responsiveness trips me up every time, disrupts my flow and is really, really annoying when I am selecting and editing different text boxes hundreds of times all day long. I am using ID CC on a Windows machine now, but the CPU is super fast (16 GB ram, i7 processor) and should not be having any lag issues in InDesign.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there something in the InDesign preferences that I can change, or is this a bug?

de_fault, please send a complaint to Adobe otherwise they won't fix it:
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
Problem description: When switching from the Selection tool to the Text tool (by double-clicking in a text box) there is a 1-2 second delay before you can select text.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Make a text box and fill with text
2. Select the Selection tool (V)
3. Double-click in the text box so that you see a cursor
4. Immediately try to select text
Results: You have to wait 1-2 seconds before you can select text.
Expected results: There should not be a delay. There was no delay in previous versions.

Keynote 4 - selecting text in text frame causes spinning beach ball

One friend of mine called me tonight and was seeking for help. He has Mac OS X 10.5.1 and Keynote 4.0.1. He imported picture in Keynote, added text frame on top of it and typed in some text. Then he went to another slide, but then returned back to resize text in the text frame. As soon he selects text, he gets spinning beach ball of death...
I asked him to repair permissions and restart his MacBook Pro 17", but still he has the same problem. He tried the same with different font in the text frame - the same. As soon as he tries to select text in the text frame, he gets spinning beach ball again.
Any ideas how to help him?...

OK, Carolyn, I wrote down all my prefs (glad I did), trashed the prefs file, restarted, relaunched TextEdit, reset all my preferences to my liking (which had reverted to default settings), quit TextEdit. Then I tried double-clicking some text files -- and the same problem (#2 above) persists. None of my TextEdit or text files have TextEdit as the default launch application -- they're still all either "None" or "ams1108.html". And, as before, if I try to change it to "TextEdit" in the file's info box, then click on "change all," it does not work: not only does it not change all the text files to be TextEdit, but clicking "change all" will cause the file in question to revert to "None" or "ams1108.html". However, if I only change the default app for that one file to TextEdit, and don't click "change all," then it will stick -- for now at least. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if after a restart they all changed back to "None.")
The short assessment is: trashing the prefs did NOT fix problem #2 above. It may or may not have fixed problem #1 -- hard to tell immediately, since the only way to find out is the use TextEdit for two days.
So, setting aside problem #1 for now: any suggestions for fixing problem #2 (default app can't be changed to TextEdit by clicking "change all")? I have thousands and thousands of TextEdit files I use, so changing them all manually one-by-one isn't feasible. Thanks.

How to align/flush completely to the right margin or text frame?

Is this possible? I'm trying to align the Standing Head to the edge of the frame.

Is the colored background simply the color of your text frame? If so, no, you cannot move text out at the right hand side (on the left side, inserting a thin space before the first character and using a negative kern value works -- but not on the right side). Optical Margin Alignment does something, but it appears to move the right-aligned text to the left instead ...
If you want to be able to apply a paragraph style and forget about it, you will have to separate the background color and the text frame itself. Then you can make the text frame just a bit wider, and set the right margin of the "regular" text to that same bit.
You can also put the header into a separate frame and make it an anchored object. More work, harder to adjust, same effect -- but you don't need to resize your text frame.

Unlinked text frames!!

I was given a big textbook to polish up in Pagemaker 7. The text of the each chapter is already broken into dozens of random unlinked, discrete text frames. These are complete in themselves - there's no "+" in the windowshade handles at the top or at bottom, either black or red. When I style the text of the first frame, it doesn't flow into the second because it isn't linked, and I can't link the frames by clicking the window handles as all the tutorials say. When I click the bottom handle on the first box and then click into the next frame, all that happens is another new frame is created, with the same problem as the first. The text doesn't flow from that frame into the next one either.

Thank you for replying!
I've never actually used the Scripts pallete before, but I tried "merge stories" - and got an "invalid state" error message whether in both Layout and Story view. I'll start Googling for help on this script - any help you can give me much appreciated.
I've been trying to get by with doing it manually, cutting and pasting. Some of the sections are huge, dozens of pages. I copy and paste and when it's ok delete the copied block entirely. No point having more than one text block really. Working from the back is a good tip, thanks.
The only reason I can figure that they did this is that in one part of the text there are several images. They put these in separate text blocks rather than embedding them in the text. Otherwise I have no idea why they made so many text blocks. Maybe because it's so easy to do accidentally, and once you have a text block it's hard to get rid of it. I've been "closing the sandwich" on blocks to see if I can get the block before it and the block after it to flow together, which amounts to deleting the middle block.
What a drag, hours of time wasted on this. You would think there would be some simple one-click way to "combine all text."

Need to convert all text frames to intinal caps.

Hi All,
I need to convert all text frames in the eps files the text should be first letter to be caps.
EXAMPLE:
" The Example Text In The Discussion" to be " The example text in the discussion "
I am manually converting around 350 Eps files daily,
Any help!!!
regards,
Vinoth

Hi Larry,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, excatly we do manually by Type>Change Case>Sentence Case
But i need this to be done in scripting. My Knowledge in scripting is not good.
Could you please help me regarding this issue.
regards,
Vinoth

Text will NOT align to top of text frame

The text is low in the text frame even though the vertical justification is set to align TOP in the text frame options and the first baseline offset is set to Ascent in baseline options. There is no baseline shift or inset set and align to baseline grid is NOT selected. Any ideas how to fix it so the text is at the top of the box? Thanks!

@gtingley – did you try:
1. Copy/Paste the text frame to a fresh document?
2. Export as IDMS (snippet) file and place it again?
Just out of fun, did you try to copy/paste the text to a new text frame? Is a object format applied to the text frame? (Just fishing in the dark.)
Uwe

Some pages use master text frame, others don't. Fix?

It turns out in my document, some of my pages have a master text frame and others don't. Many don't. It must be the way I created the frames, accidentally creating independent frames. Is there a fool proof way not to accieentally create independent frames and is there a good way to make sure all these pages with independent frames are turned back into master text frames?
What I can do is delete the independent frame, then link the previous frame to the inside of the master text frame (I think I used to drop the link on a ruler too often and that creates an independent frame that is in most cases indistinguishable from a master text frame). This is tedious to do for the entire document. Is there an easier way?

It sounds like you understand what happened. Clicking the place gun cusror on any type of guide will ignore your master frames. Overriding a master text frame before placing the text and Shift-clicking in the overridden frame will also ignore the master frames on subsequent pages.
The bes thing you can do is keep your eyse open to watch the shape of the cursor. If ID is going to use an existing frame the cursor will be surrounded by parentheses and a new frame will use a cursor with a square upper left corner. You should also develop the habit of clicking in empty areas away from guides if you are using existing frames -- you don't need to click at the top of these frames.
It's also possible that you did everything correctly and you are working in a facing pages file and at some point added or deleted a single page somewhere other than the end. That would cause all following pages to switch sides and master objects would be reapplied behind any overridden frames.
There is no easy way to deal with extra frames. If they are not causing a problem you may be able to simply ignore them.

Set top and bottom inset spacing values in Text Frame Options via jsx script

I am looking for a way to set the top and bottom inset spacing values only to 2 points in Text Frame Options via a .jsx scrpt.
For years, I have used a script that sets Preferences, such as:
with(app.storyPreferences){
    opticalMarginAlignment = false;
    opticalMarginSize = 12;                // pts
I would like to add the code to this same script that would make Top = 0p2 and Bottom 0p2 but leave Left and Right as 0p0.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the full .jsx file that we now use to set preferences.
Ideally, this could be modified to include setting any text frame created to have 0p2 inset Top and Bottom, but 0p0 Left and Right:
//ApplicationTextDefaults
//An InDesign CS2 JavaScript
//Sets the application text defaults, which will become the text defaults for all
//new documents. Existing documents will remain unchanged.
with(app.textDefaults){
    alignToBaseline = false;        // align to baseline grid
    try {
//        appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Times New Roman");
        appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Helvetica");
    catch (e) {}
    try {
        fontStyle = "Medium";
    catch (e) {}
    autoleading = 100;
    balanceRaggedLines = false;
    baselineShift = 0;
    capitalization = Capitalization.normal;
    composer = "Adobe Paragraph Composer";
    desiredGlyphScaling = 100;
    desiredLetterSpacing = 0;
    desiredWordSpacing = 100;
    dropCapCharacters = 0;
    if (dropCapCharacters != 0) {
        dropCapLines = 3;
        //Assumes that the application has a default character style named "myDropCap"
        //dropCapStyle = app.characterStyles.item("myDropCap");
    fillColor = app.colors.item("Black");
    fillTint = 100;
    firstLineIndent = "0pt";
//    firstLineIndent = "14pt";
    gridAlignFirstLineOnly = false;
    horizontalScale = 100;
    hyphenateAfterFirst = 3;
    hyphenateBeforeLast = 4;
    hyphenateCapitalizedWords = false;
    hyphenateLadderLimit = 1;
    hyphenateWordsLongerThan = 5;
    hyphenation = true;
    hyphenationZone = "3p";
    hyphenWeight = 9;
    justification = Justification.leftAlign;
    keepAllLinesTogether = false;
    keepLinesTogether = true;
    keepFirstLines = 2;
    keepLastLines = 2;
    keepWithNext = 0;
    kerningMethod = "Optical";
    kerningValue = 0;
    leading = 6.3;
//    leading = 14;
    leftIndent = 0;
    ligatures = true;
    maximumGlyphScaling = 100;
    maximumLetterSpacing = 0;
    maximumWordSpacing = 160;
    minimumGlyphScaling = 100;
    minimumLetterSpacing = 0;
    minimumWordSpacing = 80;
    noBreak = false;
    otfContextualAlternate = true;
    otfDiscretionaryLigature = true;
    otfFigureStyle = OTFFigureStyle.proportionalOldstyle;
    otfFraction = true;
    otfHistorical = true;
    otfOrdinal = false;
    otfSlashedZero = true;
    otfSwash = false;
    otfTitling = false;
    overprintFill = false;
    overprintStroke = false;
    pointSize = 6.3;
//    pointSize = 11;
    position = Position.normal;
    rightIndent = 0;
    ruleAbove = false;
    if(ruleAbove == true){
        ruleAboveColor = app.colors.item("Black");
        ruleAboveGapColor = app.swatches.item("None");
        ruleAboveGapOverprint = false;
        ruleAboveGapTint = 100;
        ruleAboveLeftIndent = 0;
        ruleAboveLineWeight = .25;
        ruleAboveOffset = 14;
        ruleAboveOverprint = false;
        ruleAboveRightIndent = 0;
        ruleAboveTint = 100;
        ruleAboveType = app.strokeStyles.item("Solid");
        ruleAboveWidth = RuleWidth.columnWidth;
    ruleBelow = false;
    if(ruleBelow == true){
        ruleBelowColor = app.colors.item("Black");
        ruleBelowGapColor = app.swatches.item("None");
        ruleBelowGapOverprint = false;
        ruleBelowGapTint = 100;
        ruleBelowLeftIndent = 0;
        ruleBelowLineWeight = .25;
        ruleBelowOffset = 0;
        ruleBelowOverprint = false;
        ruleBelowRightIndent = 0;
        ruleBelowTint = 100;
        ruleBelowType = app.strokeStyles.item("Solid");
        ruleBelowWidth = RuleWidth.columnWidth;
    singleWordJustification = SingleWordJustification.leftAlign;
    skew = 0;
    spaceAfter = 0;
    spaceBefore = 0;
    startParagraph = StartParagraph.anywhere;
    strikeThru = false;
    if(strikeThru == true){
        strikeThroughColor = app.colors.item("Black");
        strikeThroughGapColor = app.swatches.item("None");
        strikeThroughGapOverprint = false;
        strikeThroughGapTint = 100;
        strikeThroughOffset = 3;
        strikeThroughOverprint = false;
        strikeThroughTint = 100;
        strikeThroughType = app.strokeStyles.item("Solid");
        strikeThroughWeight = .25;
    strokeColor = app.swatches.item("None");
    strokeTint = 100;
    strokeWeight = 0;
    tracking = 0;
    underline = false;
    if(underline == true){
        underlineColor = app.colors.item("Black");
        underlineGapColor = app.swatches.item("None");
        underlineGapOverprint = false;
        underlineGapTint = 100;
        underlineOffset = 3;
        underlineOverprint = false;
        underlineTint = 100;
        underlineType = app.strokeStyles.item("Solid");
        underlineWeight = .25
    verticalScale = 100;
//Units & Increments preference panel
//Must do this to make sure our units that we set are in points. The vert and horiz
//units that get set default to the current measurement unit. We set it to points
//so we can be sure of the value. We'll reset it later to the desired setting.
with(app.viewPreferences){
    horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;    // Ruler Units, horizontal
    verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;        // Ruler Units, vertical
//General preference panel
with(app.generalPreferences){
    pageNumbering = PageNumberingOptions.section;    // Page Numbering, View
    toolTips = ToolTipOptions.normal;                    // Tool Tips
// Not supported in CS4
//    toolsPalette = ToolsPaletteOptions.doubleColumn;    // Floating Tool Palette
    completeFontDownloadGlyphLimit = 2000;                // Always Subset Fonts...
    try {
        //Wrapped in try/catch in case it is run with CS4 and earlier to avoid the error
        preventSelectingLockedItems = false;                // Needed for CS5+
    catch (e) {}
//Type preference panel
with (app.textEditingPreferences){
    tripleClickSelectsLine = true;    // Triple Click to Select a Line
    smartCutAndPaste = true;        // Adjust Spacing Automatically when Cutting and Pasting Words
    dragAndDropTextInLayout = false;    // Enable in Layout View
    allowDragAndDropTextInStory = true;    // Enable in Story Editor
with(app.textPreferences){
    typographersQuotes = true;            // Use Typographer's Quotes
    useOpticalSize = true;                // Automatically Use Correct Optical Size
    scalingAdjustsText = true;            // Adjust Text Attributes when Scaling
    useParagraphLeading = false;    // Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs
    linkTextFilesWhenImporting = false;    // Create Links when Placing Text and Spreadsheet Files
// Missing following (Font Preview Size, Past All Information/Text Only)
//Advanced Type preference panel
with(app.textPreferences){
    superscriptSize = 58.3;                // Superscript, size
    superscriptPosition = 33.3;            // Superscript, position
    subscriptSize = 58.3;                // Subscript, size
    subscriptPosition = 33.3;            // Subscript, position
    smallCap = 70;                        // Smallcap
with(app.imePreferences){
    inlineInput = false;                // Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text
//Composition preference panel
with(app.textPreferences){
    highlightKeeps = false;                    // Keep Violations
    highlightHjViolations = false;            // H&J Violations
    highlightCustomSpacing = false;            // Custom Tracking/Kerning
    highlightSubstitutedFonts = true;    // Substituted Fonts
    highlightSubstitutedGlyphs = false;    // Substituted Glyphs
    justifyTextWraps = false;                // Justify Text Next to an Object
    abutTextToTextWrap = true;                // Skip by Leading
    zOrderTextWrap = false;                    // Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath
//Units & Increments preference panel
with(app.viewPreferences){
    rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.spreadOrigin;                    // Ruler Units, origin
//    These are set at the end of the script after all the changes have been made
//    horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;    // Ruler Units, horizontal
//    verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.inches;        // Ruler Units, vertical
    pointsPerInch = 72;                    // Point/Pica Size, Points/Inch
    cursorKeyIncrement = 1;                // Keyboard Increment, Cursor Key
with(app.textPreferences){
    baselineShiftKeyIncrement = 2;    // Keyboard Increment, Baseline Shift
    leadingKeyIncrement = 2;        // Keyboard Increment, Size/Leading
    kerningKeyIncrement = 20;            // Keyboard Increment, Kerning
//Grids preference panel
with(app.gridPreferences){
    baselineColor = UIColors.lightBlue;    // Baseline Grid, Color
    baselineStart = 48;                        // Baseline Grid, Start
    baselineDivision = 6;                    // Baseline Grid, Increment Every
    baselineViewThreshold = 50;                // Baseline Grid, View Threshold
    baselineGridRelativeOption = BaselineGridRelativeOption.topOfPageOfBaselineGridRelativeOption;    // Baseline Grid, Relative To
    gridColor = UIColors.lightGray;            // Document Grid, Color
    horizontalGridlineDivision = 12;    // Document Grid, Horizontal, Gridline Every
    horizontalGridSubdivision = 12;            // Document Grid, Horizontal, Subdivisions
    verticalGridlineDivision = 12;            // Document Gird, Vertical, Gridline Every
    verticalGridSubdivision = 12;            // Document Grid, Vertical, Subdivisions
    gridsInBack = true;                        // Grids in Back
    documentGridSnapto = false;                // snap to grid or not
    documentGridShown = false;                // show document grid
//Guides & Pasteboard preference panel
with(app.documentPreferences){
    marginGuideColor = UIColors.violet;                // Color, Margins
    columnGuideColor = UIColors.magenta;            // Color, Columns
with(app.pasteboardPreferences){
    bleedGuideColor = UIColors.fiesta;                // Color, Bleed
    slugGuideColor = UIColors.gridBlue;                // Color, Slug
    previewBackgroundColor = UIColors.lightGray;    // Color, Preview Background
    minimumSpaceAboveAndBelow = 72;                    // Minimum Vertical Offset
with(app.viewPreferences){
    guideSnaptoZone = 4;                            // Snap to Zone
with(app.guidePreferences){
    guidesInBack = false;                            // Guides in Back
//Dictionary preference panel
with(app.dictionaryPreferences){
    composition = ComposeUsing.both;    // Hyphenatin Exceptions, Compose Using
    mergeUserDictionary = false;    // Merge User Dictionary into Document
    recomposeWhenChanged = true;    // Recompose All Stories When Modified
// Missing (Lang, Hyph, Spelling, Double Quotes, Single Quotes)
//Spelling preference panel
with(app.spellPreferences){
    checkMisspelledWords = true;                    // Find, Misspelled Words
    checkRepeatedWords = true;                        // Find, Repeated Words
    checkCapitalizedWords = true;                    // Find, Uncapitalized Words
    checkCapitalizedSentences = true;                // Find, Uncapitalized Sentences
    dynamicSpellCheck = true;                        // Enable Dynamic Spelling
    misspelledWordColor = UIColors.red;                // Color, Misspelled Words
    repeatedWordColor = UIColors.green;                // Color, Repeated Words
    uncapitalizedWordColor = UIColors.green;    // Color, Uncapitalized Words
    uncapitalizedSentenceColor = UIColors.green;    // Color, Uncapitalized Sentences
//Autocorrect preference panel
with(app.autoCorrectPreferences){
    autoCorrect = true;                            // Enable Autocorrect
    autoCorrectCapitalizationErrors = false;    // Autocorrect Capitalization
// Missing (Language, Misspelled word pairs)
//Display Performance preference panel
with(app.displayPerformancePreferences){
    defaultDisplaySettings = ViewDisplaySettings.typical;    // Preserve Object-Level
    persistLocalSettings = false;
// Missing (antialiasiing, greek below
//Story Editor Display preference panel
with(app.galleyPreferences){
    textColor = InCopyUIColors.black;                // Text Color
    backgroundColor = InCopyUIColors.white;            // Background
    smoothText = true;                                // Enable Anti-Aliasing
    antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.grayAntialiasing;    // Type
    cursorType = CursorTypes.standardCursor;    // Cursor Type
    blinkCursor = true;                                // Blink
// Missing (Font, Size, Line Spacing & Theme)
//File Handling preference panel
with(app.generalPreferences){
    includePreview = true;                        // Always Save Preview Images with Doc
    previewSize = PreviewSizeOptions.medium;    // Preview Size
with(app.clipboardPreferences){
    preferPDFWhenPasting = false;                // Prefer PDF When Pasting
    copyPDFToClipboard = true;                    // Copy PDF to Clipboard
    preservePdfClipboardAtQuit = false;            // Preserve PDF Data at Quit
// Missing (Enable Version Cue)
//    Optical margin (hanging punctuation, outside margins)
with(app.storyPreferences){
    opticalMarginAlignment = false;
    opticalMarginSize = 12;                // pts
//Wrap Up (do at end of script)
//Units & Increments preference panel
//Must do this to make sure our units that we set are in points. The vert and horiz
//units that get set default to the current measurement unit. We set it to points
//so we can be sure of the value. We'll reset it later to the desired setting.
with(app.viewPreferences){
    horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.picas;    // Ruler Units, horizontal
    verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.inches;    // Ruler Units, vertical
//    These two flags are turned off to avoid the error message about
//    missing image links when InDesign opens an ad. This can especially
//    be a problem when doing batch processes.
with(app.linkingPreferences){
    checkLinksAtOpen = false;            // checkbox: true/false
    findMissingLinksAtOpen = false;        // checkbox: true/false

InDesign Text frame options - how to reset?

Working in InDesign CC 2014.
I have somehow set my text frame options so that when I use the type tool to create a text frame, columns are added as I make the box wider.
I know that I want Columns - Fixed number of 1, because I have found the settings I want by opening a new doc and creating a basic text frame and looking at the settings.
In my working doc, when I change the text frame option settings, they will not "stick" and I can only create text frames with columns, and the width increases incrementally.
Only way I can make the basic text frames I want is to copy a basic empty frame from a new doc and paste into my working doc.
How can I get the settings I make to "stick"?
Thanks!

Open the Basic Text Frame Object Style, and fix your column settings there. Your new text boxes are based on those settings.

Object - Text Frame Options

Why do my Object, text frame options, inset spacing settings change when I close and open my document.I set my inset spacing to 0.125 an all and when I close the document and open it later it is all set back to 0. Any suggestions? My defalut settings are 0.125

I did this. I open in design but no doc's set inset to .125 and then open a doc and it is set to 0.125. I use it and save it when I open it again it is set at 0. But the pages I created previously are set to 0.125. Could it be something else in a default somewhere?

Text Frame Options. Room for Side Heads added without warning

Hi -
I just got asked this and have no clue how to help. Anyone know what this is?
Every now and then, my Frame file will –apparently on its own – reset most of its text frames into having room for side heads. Makes for lots of bad labels on graphics – everything’s suddenly offset and scrolling off the bottom.
This will happen suddenly. It will usually be only one or two chapters in a book, but if I ignore it has been known spread like the black death throughout the book.
The only solution I’ve found so far has been to revert to a backup or touch each text frame individually. Setting properties for two at a time messes up location on the page.

HI -
Here's what I heard back.
I believe it’s for everything except main text flow, including headers&footers on master pages, and special elements on unused master pages.
It appears to be spontaneous, but I can’t guarantee that.
I don’t use MIFs, and I’m pretty sure no one else does.
Yes to formatting imports , because we frequently change variables in one chapter and copy them back to the rest (esp date doc was last edited – not same as print date per our regulatory agency.) Likewise conditional text. We know not to copy from a file into itself in a book, although it has happened and we do exchange manuals between revisions at times.

Text Frame Options

Hi, I am using CS6 in Saudi-Arabia. When I put a new text frame with more than one column on a page, the cursor automatically jumps to the right column. In English texts I can't get it to start on the top of the left column. Who can help?

Are using indesgn ME?, try to draw text frame with Type Tool (T) and not ME Type Tool, and make sure the language is english on control panel.

ID CS3 - text wrap doesn't work at the end of a long multi-columned text frame

Did a search - don't think this specific issue has been addressed:
We design large graphics often used on walls. When working with a text frame that that was 11 feet long and had 8 columns, text wrap would not work on an image placed in the last column. The same image with the same text wrap applied will work fine anywhere else in the text frame. I found that if I shortened the width of the text frame a little bit at a time eventually it would work, but there doesn't seem to be a specific cut-off width - sometimes the last column won't text wrap when the frame is 115 inches wide and sometimes it doesn't work when the frame is only 80 inches wide. Again, all of the other columns work fine. I have tried all of the obvious stuff, the only variable between the columns that wrap and the one that doesn't is it's position at the end of the text frame.
We have gotten around this issue by using multiple threaded frames instead of one long frame with multiple columns, but I am curious if anyone else has run into this or might know what the issue is.
thanks

Did a search - don't think this specific issue has been addressed:
We design large graphics often used on walls. When working with a text frame that that was 11 feet long and had 8 columns, text wrap would not work on an image placed in the last column. The same image with the same text wrap applied will work fine anywhere else in the text frame. I found that if I shortened the width of the text frame a little bit at a time eventually it would work, but there doesn't seem to be a specific cut-off width - sometimes the last column won't text wrap when the frame is 115 inches wide and sometimes it doesn't work when the frame is only 80 inches wide. Again, all of the other columns work fine. I have tried all of the obvious stuff, the only variable between the columns that wrap and the one that doesn't is it's position at the end of the text frame.
We have gotten around this issue by using multiple threaded frames instead of one long frame with multiple columns, but I am curious if anyone else has run into this or might know what the issue is.
thanks

Hard swipe text frame?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for