InDesign Capability Question

Hi,
Can InDesign be used for as a central repository to hold images / text for a multi language printed catalog

Probably. ;)

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InDesign printing question - help really needed!

Maybe an easy question maybe not!
Usually here at work our printing is out-sourced, but for a project I'm currently working on I need to print a few bits on the work printer [for the client]. So, I've got a black page [4 colour black] with large red text - when I send to print, obviously the black prints first; leaving white gaps for the text; red prints next but due to slight movement [I guess] I always seem to get what appears to be a tiny white outlines around sections of the text [where the red hasn't printed exactly in the gaps left when applying the black].
Just wondering if there is any way around this, to minimise the issue, in InDesign. Or is this due to the printer used?
Cheers in advance

I'm reading the post to look something like this (0|100|100|0 red on a field of 65|50|50|100 black):
http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/redonK.png
If I hide the black channel it looks like this:
http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/cmy.png
If I simulate the black plate off register, it looks like this:
http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/offreg.png
In this case you couldn't get white because there's no white on any of the plates.

InDesign workflow question for longer document (book)

I'm new to Indesign and have read through the help topics and searched around but I can't seem to find an exact answer... I may be phrasing my question wrong.
I have a complete book in basic text (txt). What is the desired (or best in your experience) way to start work. In my mind I want to import the text as a whole, populate all pages, then I want to come back and format chapters and add images.
Everything I try doesn't support my idea (I am new to this software and I may just be approaching this incorrectly.) I also come from a different background and a different tool set so any advise would help.

To elaborate on Simon's answer, this is my workflow for straight-on books:
- Make a basic set of Master pages. You will need at least a single set with page numbering and, optionally, headings.
- Load all text. You will get lots and lots of pages, because it's still unformatted, but that's okay.
- I usually cut off front matter and put each item on a page of its own, so tiddling with it won't cause reflow of the entire document. You will need at least a title page and a reverse; "proper" books have a minor title page, a (c) page, a proper title page, and a blank. (Grab any one from your bookshelf that you like and copy its layout for these.) My first "true" flowing page is the first page of chapter 1. Remember to insert 2 pages (or perhaps more -- an even number) for a table of contents.
- Go through the main text from first to last page, applying basic formatting, paragraphs, subtitles, etc. -- the plain text works. Make and use paragraph styles for each unique format -- do not (or at least as possible!) apply local formatting. Use character styles for italics and bold in plain text.
- Go through the main text again, applying formatting to each new chapter. Insert page breaks (Odd Page Breaks for right-hand starting chapters) where appropriate. If you use Odd Page Breaks, insert them before
i every
new chapter (or use the "Break On Odd Page" Keep Option) -- i.e., not just when you seem to need one. It will change if you reformat or add picchers.
- Go through your text
i again,
this time adding all pictures, tables, etc. You can do the previous steps in any order you like, but this one must be done from front to back. If you have right hand chapters and the one before it has no text, make that one completely blank (i.e., remove header & page numbering).
- Tidy up the front matter and generate the contents.
- Remove the extra blanks at the end. These were the overspill from the plain text import.
- Sit back 'cause you're done!
As you see, your own ideas weren't bad at all.

Two Page/Bleed Spread? InDesign Newbie question

Hello,
I am hoping you can lead me in the right direction, I have a quick (probably basic) question that I can't figure out! I am new to InDesign and am trying to figure out the best way possible to have one image go across the span of two pages, with a .5in border around it. I already have the border and everything all set, but I am having issues getting my image to "stretch" properly and stay in proportion so there is no distortion. I know how to do fit to frame, but the problem is that the frame that I am creating spans both pages and therefore it does not keep proportions correct. If I do fit to frame proportionally it will just put the image on one page instead of two.
Also, I am curious what the best way is to do this so that I can account for gutter space and do not loose part of my image in the fold of the book. Can you help? Thanks so much in advance!!
Phil Spiegel

Use fill frame proportionally in the fitting options.
If it's a photo, make sure you have a enough image date. Check the
effective resolution in the info panel.
Bob

Api/capability question re. simple chat room creation

Hi
I stumbled across cocomo this evening and it looks like it could save a lot of time but need to know something before investing in a lot of reading/playing about. I need to be able to create a public chat room on-the-fly that will permanently stay.
I don't want to manually create a room.
Does the SDK allow this? (sorry if its an obvious question).
The app is a bit like a CB radio where a web user can pick a channel in their own geographical location. e.g. members of a particular zip area get directed to a room. If the room for that zip does not exist then it's created...
If all users go away the room remains. Other users can jump in etc..
Is the capability there? Anyone know of any close examples I could use ?
Thanks in advance.
Kevin

yes, we provide service API that you can call from a separate server that allow you to create and manipulate rooms.
we have libraries for a few languages (ruby, python, php, java, ColdFusion) so it should be pretty easy for you to implement what you describe.

General Capability Question

I wish to maintain a "collection" of produced digital video clips that can be web published. Say, on the left side of web page screen, is the video clip field. On the right side, are fields to be filled in by user. (Data to be stored in database). Based on user supplied data in each field, the video would "jump" to the proper clip and play instantly. At the conclusion of enetering data and playing multiple clips, user data needs to be outputted to another database.
Please help...how can this be accomplished??? Final Cut studio? / Flash? / Cold Fusion? / Filemaker? / other database? / Flex?

Thomas is right about this not being the best place to post. Not sure if there is a good forum here to do it in, since it's not an Apple related question.
Lucky for you, I happen to be a web designer. I'm a little confused as to how exactly this interface works (hint: don't make it over complicated), but I'm guessing the basic idea here is to have a user submit input through a form field, have it look up clip data in the database, have it return that data and start playing clips, and then save the timing information of that sequence of clips back to the database. Kind of sounds like a web-based editor. Pretty tricky.
Making this a Flash application would probably be your best on creating a good interface. I don't actually use Flash myself, but it seems like it would be capable. Your other option would be to use HTML and Javascript to build an AJAX interface. I think that would be a lot trickier, and feel a lot less slick.
As far as the backend goes, any of the major server side scripting languages will do the trick. PHP, ASP, Ruby/Rails, Coldfusion, etc. The industry standards for web applications databases are usually mySQL or PostgreSQL.
If this is a serious project, as opposed to simply an experiment, I would look into finding a talented web designer with skills in the above mentioned technologies. This isn't something that can be hacked together quickly, or easily.
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Video upgrade capability questions,

HI, im looking to upgrade my video card on my hp pavilion p7-1003w,
my specs are:
AMD Athlon II X4 650:3.2 ghz
8 GB of ram
250W power supply
N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix) mother board.
windows 7 64 bit,
ATI Radeon 4200
I would like to now if my computer would be capable of running a :
XFX ATI Radeon HD6670 1 GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card HD667XZAF3
efficently, and would be compatable,
i have never upgraded my video card before and if you need any aditional information please tell me,
-Conner
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InDesign 2 questions

I had heard at a seminar there were some downloads for InDesign 2 which would make our life easier at the newspaper where I work. Where could I find them on the Adobe Web site?
Also, are there compatibility issues between InDesign 2 and 3? I was thinking of downloading a version of 3 to see what new things have come out, but if there are compatibility issues I don't want to be designing pages and stuff with it.
Thanks!
Larry See
Relatively new user

Peter,
given the current economic situation of most newspapers, it is reasonable to not replace 100s of working computers mainly used as typewriters, upgrade all software and push the staff thru retraining every other year, just to follow the latest fashion in software advances. Heavy metal people are used to think in 10 year or longer investment cycles.
Larry,
as Peter said it would help to know whether you really mean InDesign 2 (blue butterfly on blue background) or InDesign CS2 (pink butterfly on white background). The startup screen will also give you the numbers.
Next, please tell us your OS (Mac or Windows), and whether you're working with an editorial system and eventually which. Indicators are login windows, extra menus that are not in the regular manual and feel more like "business", newspaper specific rather than "creative".
There should also be some person at the help desk / user support or even management that knows these nifty details. Before you get into downloads and such, you should anyway talk to these people whether it is ok at all to install additional software.
Independent from the version, there are two kinds of additional software:
Plugins are modules created by programmers, the same way as internal InDesign functionality. Assuming you really have InDesign 2, back then there have been only few plugin developers with few products and even if you find them these old versions are most likely out of support. For example I had only two plugins for ID2 for image related tasks, and the earliest version that I have built in the past two years was InDesign 3 (CS). Another disadvantage of plugins is that they usually have a price tag - no free downloads off the Adobe site.
Scripts are written in simplified programming languages, often the authors are regular/advanced users. They also may come as source code so you could adjust them to your use. Note that InDesign 2 only supported AppleScript (Mac) or VisualBasic (Windows) while a large share of scripting is nowadays done in JavaScript which was introduced with InDesign 3.
You could definitely download example scripts in these languages from newer versions, strip out all the added functionality not supported by your version, adjust some more required changes and eventually end up with something useful. This of course depends on whether you can spend the effort (time) and go thru the learning curve to become a scripter. There is a dedicated forum for that next door. As you say you're relatively new, it helps to first know the program from the user side. Note there are books even covering such old versions - see eBay or Amazon.
Back to the initial questions. If you have an editorial system there might be a user group around with similarily old installations, where other people already have built a collection of scripts. Try to get in touch with them.
Regarding compatibility from newer to older versions, you're mostly out of luck here because documents prepared in newer versions at best require conversion before you can use them with your old system, dropping all newer features and likely causing reflow and other trouble in the existing workflow. If you have isolated, special tasks (tables? fancier graphics effects?) you could of course produce a PDF and place that like an image.
Best luck,
Dirk

Newbie to cs4 InDesign --quick questions...

I'm trying to upgrade from PM to indesign, finally. Going through the learning curve, and taking as many video instructions I can. Quickly though... Printing... alot of my documents have PMS colors, but when I go to print, I only see RGB selections or CMYk--I want it to print to my color laser as my pm documents did. What do I have to select? Also, I'm getting errors from my standard black and white laser/postscript printer, all of sudden with indesign. Never happened with pm7. What gives?
Also where is the color swatch area? I find it under view, but all I'm seeing is rgb or greyscale selections, where is selecting pms colors, or the regular colors in the document?? I saw it once, and now it is gone.
Ok, how do you get to the styles and master pages quickly?
Most important two items... what is the keyboard shortcut to zoom? I used to right click and it would come up, now sometimes it does and doesn't. Arghhh...Also, how do you totally view the page without outlines of text blocks, frames, and guides??? I just want to see the page, no STUFF.
Thanks so much. happy new year.

There is, of course, no good reason to use Pantone spot colors if the output is going to be on your color laser, which has no capability to actually print spot colors. If it isn't postscript, your best bet is to define colors as RGB and let the printer do the color conversion internally. If you send a non-postscript printer CMYK numbers it will first convert them to RGB, then back to CMYK using the internal tables, and you will get color shifting.
If the printer is postscript, choose composite CMYK as the output color in the print dialog, if not choose Composite RGB.
If you have colors in the document for which there are not yet swatches, and you want to add them to the swatches collection, select add unnamed colors from the flyout menu. You can also mix your own custom colors in the color panel and add those. From the panel flyout you can choose CMYK or RGB sliders.
Another useful default shortcut for the zoom tool is Ctrl + Spacebar which gives you the tool temporarily, add the Alt key for zooming out. Double-click the hand tool to fit the spread in the window, double-click the zoom tool for "100%" which isn't really, but depends on your monitor size and resolution. Any keyboard shortcut can be changed to suit your style, and more added, under Edit > Keyboard shortcuts...
You should also look at Quick Apply as a way to get to styles quickly.
You might want to download the PDF version of the help files to read up on this basic stuff, or take a book out of the library (Sandee Cohen's Visual QuickStart is popular). A couple of hours reading now will save you a lot of frustration down the road.
Peter

Bridge, Lightroom, InDesign workflow question

Hey everyone,
I've been using Adobe InDesign CS5 and Apple's Aperture software together (on a Mac) to do design projects over the past year and a half or so. I'd never been that interested in Adobe's other applications until recently, when I got a Creative Cloud membership, and now am reveling in the bounty of creative possibilities. Recently i've been interested in integrating Bridge into my workflow and transitioning away from Aperture to Lightroom (as i imagine many other people are considering/in the process of doing right now). I've been taking some video tutorials on Lynda.com and recently came across Terry White's "Bridge CC vs. Lightroom" youtube screencast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8XLYG8A0s#t=20). While I really appreciated Terry's perspectives and find them helpful, I think he polarized the "Design" (Bridge) and "Photography" (Lightroom) paradigms that he used to distinguish the programs: Bridge is a file browser for working numerous file types across creative cloud applications, whereas Lightroom is a tool for photographers to do powerful non-destructive edits.
Part of what I've liked about using Aperture with InDesign is that (however buggy this feature is) I can directly access my Aperture library from within the OS X open dialog box, thus allowing me to use files that i've edited and keeping all my work in one library. However, from what i've learned so far, and what Terry's video didn't (directly) address is what are some good practices for using edited photographs within an application such as InDesign. It seemed in the video he simply exported image files from Lightroom into folders, and then I suppose you could use mini-bridge to browse that folder. But i'm wondering if there isn't a better or simpler way to do this, and I'm wondering if i could solicit opinions from folks as to how they work between Everything i've tried to do in my workflow is minimize steps and keep track of the proliferation of images i work with. As much as I see that Lightroom is a better maintained tool than Aperture, it sure is nice to be able to directly access those image files from within InDesign…
Very new to all of this. Thanks in advance for everyone's help.
Quin

Hey everyone,
I've been using Adobe InDesign CS5 and Apple's Aperture software together (on a Mac) to do design projects over the past year and a half or so. I'd never been that interested in Adobe's other applications until recently, when I got a Creative Cloud membership, and now am reveling in the bounty of creative possibilities. Recently i've been interested in integrating Bridge into my workflow and transitioning away from Aperture to Lightroom (as i imagine many other people are considering/in the process of doing right now). I've been taking some video tutorials on Lynda.com and recently came across Terry White's "Bridge CC vs. Lightroom" youtube screencast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8XLYG8A0s#t=20). While I really appreciated Terry's perspectives and find them helpful, I think he polarized the "Design" (Bridge) and "Photography" (Lightroom) paradigms that he used to distinguish the programs: Bridge is a file browser for working numerous file types across creative cloud applications, whereas Lightroom is a tool for photographers to do powerful non-destructive edits.
Part of what I've liked about using Aperture with InDesign is that (however buggy this feature is) I can directly access my Aperture library from within the OS X open dialog box, thus allowing me to use files that i've edited and keeping all my work in one library. However, from what i've learned so far, and what Terry's video didn't (directly) address is what are some good practices for using edited photographs within an application such as InDesign. It seemed in the video he simply exported image files from Lightroom into folders, and then I suppose you could use mini-bridge to browse that folder. But i'm wondering if there isn't a better or simpler way to do this, and I'm wondering if i could solicit opinions from folks as to how they work between Everything i've tried to do in my workflow is minimize steps and keep track of the proliferation of images i work with. As much as I see that Lightroom is a better maintained tool than Aperture, it sure is nice to be able to directly access those image files from within InDesign…
Very new to all of this. Thanks in advance for everyone's help.
Quin

InDesign & Photoshop question

I use InDesign CS6, I was told that if i hold the ALT key down and double click on a picture it will be opened in Photoshop. When I do it, it opens in Windows Photo Viewer. How do i get it to open in Ps?

Your file associations for that type of image set in the operating system are set to open in Windows Photo Viewer.
I can't tell you how to change them in Windows, but someone else will.
In the meantime, choose Open With from the Links panel menu and select Adobe Photoshop when the image is selected.

Importing a large amount of text into InDesign (Newbie question!)

Hello all,
I am new to InDesign and would really appreciate some tips/advice on how best to transfer a large amount of text from Microsoft Word into an InDesign document. I have been tasked with creating a very simple pocket sized book, the content of which will be a series of business Acronyms (700+) and their defintions (just imagine a very simple dictionary). As you can imagine there is a lot of text in the Microsoft Word document so any advice on how to transfer it all as quickly as possible would be really helpful. Or, as the case may be, would it be simpler to just use another programme?
Can you paste/import all - or large chunks of - a word document in one go? If I format a master page will Adobe InDesign automatically paste the text into the required number of pages? Or do i have to do it page by page from a clipboard?
Obviously I am not expecting InDesign to format the text perfectly on each page, I just want to dump it all in one go and then go back and tidy it all up.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Matthew

File > Place.... and navigate to the Word file. Show Import Options to allow you to preserve the Word Formatting, or dump it, or map styles to ne styles in your ID document.
If you have a text frame on your master page, put the loaded cursor over the frame area on your document page and watch for the cursor to change so it is surrounded by parentheses, then hold the Shift key and click. If you don't have a master frame (and most experienced users will tell you that more than 90% of the time a master text frame is more hindrence than help if you set your margins correctly), hold the Shift key and click where you want the top of the first column to start.
In both cases, ID will add pages as required to place the entire document and thread the text through all the frames. If using master frames, they will be linked and overrridden onto the document page automatically, if not, your first frame will start where you click and extend down to the bottom margin and succeeding frames will fill the column guides (hence mention of setting your margins correctly).
ID is a professional program and you really need to spend some time learning how it works. One good place to start is the Help files. Another is Sandee Cohen's Visual QuickStart Guide to InDesign. If you prefer video training, Lynda.com has good content.

Getting started with inDesign -- download question

I just joined Creative Cloud. Tried to download inDesign to get started....but the download center only makes the trial version of inDesign available. Is this correct, or am I doing something wrong?

Please follow the below given steps to download Indesign and other CC Software.
1. Login on creative.adobe.com
2. Click on Download Center
3. Download Creative Cloud Desktop Application on your computer and install the same.
4. Launch Creative Cloud Desktop Application from your computer and login with your Adobe ID and password.
5. Download the software which you want to install.
After installing the software you can use it as a full version software.
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Quark to InDesign CS3 Question

I have a Quark 6.5 file for Mac and need to be able to open in InDesign CS3 (PC). I do not have the plug-in and have no need to purchase it as this is the only file I have. Would it work to save the Quark file down to version 4 and then open in InDesign that way?
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Yes it would, except that Quark 6 will save down only to Quark 5. So you
would need to then open it in Quark 5 and save down to Quark 4.
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XI Capability Question

Hi,
i m very new for SAP XI. Since my company intend to use SAP XI to replace original AI system for sales business, I dun know how good SAP XI is. I am thinking of below things:
1. currently customers only send us their trading partner number in EDI, I need to mapping these trading partner numbers to SAP internal customer number - sold-to party, ship-to party and so. I knew EDPAR table can manage the mapping for orhter partner function mappings except sold-to party. I dun know whether SAP XI can do this mapping or not.
2. Currently AI can split EDI file into several IDocs because of too many line itmes in one sales order. I am not sure SAP XI can perform IDoc split or not. I knew SAP XI BPM seems be very strong but still not know it much.
If you can provide mroe info about my doubts, please feel free to share. I will appreciate very much.
Best regards,
Allen

Hi Allan,
Welcome to XI world!!!
XI can definitely do any type of mappings.XI is having different mapping techniques.
1)Graphical mapping
2)ABAP mapping
3)JAVA mapping
4)XSLT mapping.
Depending upon the requirement and complexity diffrent mappings are choosen.
Yes!! Using XI u can split a IDoc into N nos..... and vice versa...
Just read the discussion here!!!
Re: HTTPs
u can search in forum with keyword "Idoc split" and "Idoc merge" u will get a lot!!!
Yes BPM is ..one of the gr8 feature of SAP XI...
read this for a brief idea!!
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/content.htm
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