Comments for Creative Progression http://www.creativeprogression.com Enhancing your creative potential. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on InDesign CS5.5 Book PDF Export Problem: Incorrect Page Numbers (CONFIRMED BUG) by Lee Przytula http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/#comment-2761 Lee Przytula Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:38:16 +0000 http://creativeprogression.com/?p=424#comment-2761 Here's a relatively easy fix. <b>Cliff Notes:</b> Cut out and then paste back in each page number text frame from your InDesign document. Don't ask me why, but it works. The IDML procedure didn't work for me, but this worked. Adobe sucks monkey balls. <b>The Steps:</b> 1. Open the document that's giving you problems. 2. Select the text frame that holds the page number. You may need to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl/shift+click to unlock it since it's a master object. 3. Cut the text box (ctrl/x) 4. Paste it back in place (ctrl/shift/alt+v). For the less experienced users, use Paste In Place and not Paste or else you're gonna have page numbers in really strange places! 5. Repeat as needed. 6. Save when you're done. 7. Render your PDF and do a happy dance when you realize this actually worked. I found it was faster to view the document as a spread and do both pages at once. So unlock the left page, unlock the right page, select both text boxes by either shift-clicking the boxes or draging your selection tool around them. Then cut and paste both as one selection. Oh, and Adobe, if you're reading this, you suck monkey balls. Thanks for wasting two hours of my life. This should have been fixed months ago. Here’s a relatively easy fix.

Cliff Notes:
Cut out and then paste back in each page number text frame from your InDesign document. Don’t ask me why, but it works. The IDML procedure didn’t work for me, but this worked. Adobe sucks monkey balls.

The Steps:

1. Open the document that’s giving you problems.

2. Select the text frame that holds the page number. You may need to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl/shift+click to unlock it since it’s a master object.

3. Cut the text box (ctrl/x)

4. Paste it back in place (ctrl/shift/alt+v). For the less experienced users, use Paste In Place and not Paste or else you’re gonna have page numbers in really strange places!

5. Repeat as needed.

6. Save when you’re done.

7. Render your PDF and do a happy dance when you realize this actually worked.

I found it was faster to view the document as a spread and do both pages at once. So unlock the left page, unlock the right page, select both text boxes by either shift-clicking the boxes or draging your selection tool around them. Then cut and paste both as one selection.

Oh, and Adobe, if you’re reading this, you suck monkey balls. Thanks for wasting two hours of my life. This should have been fixed months ago.

]]> Comment on InDesign CS5.5 Book PDF Export Problem: Incorrect Page Numbers (CONFIRMED BUG) by Bob Garber http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/#comment-2757 Bob Garber Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:08:17 +0000 http://creativeprogression.com/?p=424#comment-2757 I have this problem as well. I tried the export to IDML method and it did not work for me. I did find a way that worked for me. SOLUTION: Create a new document file. Copy all content from the text frames (you have all content threaded, right?) Create a new text frame in the new document. Paste content into new text frame. Stlye master pages as needed. Save new file over old one. Open book file and update link. Export to PDF. Repeat for other chapters as needed. BG I have this problem as well. I tried the export to IDML method and it did not work for me.
I did find a way that worked for me.

SOLUTION:
Create a new document file.
Copy all content from the text frames (you have all content threaded, right?)
Create a new text frame in the new document.
Paste content into new text frame.
Stlye master pages as needed.
Save new file over old one.
Open book file and update link.
Export to PDF.

Repeat for other chapters as needed.
BG

]]> Comment on InDesign CS5.5 Book PDF Export Problem: Incorrect Page Numbers (CONFIRMED BUG) by Paul Erdman http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/#comment-2625 Paul Erdman Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:05:21 +0000 http://creativeprogression.com/?p=424#comment-2625 Jonathan, This is exactly how the problem manifests, except usually in my experience the numbering will appear correctly in the panel in InDesign. I'm not sure what could cause automatic numbering to not work properly even when you have all the documents set to automatically number and have the book numbering options set properly. However, the problem with the numbers being messed up in the exported PDF would be unrelated to your issue with the auto numbering, as far as I know. Please be sure to export to IDML/import/replace every problem document in your book, then export a new PDF. Does this have any effect on the problem at all? In my experiences, this will often cause those chapters to be fixed, but then other chapters might show the problem, in which case I repeat the process for those chapters. If that does not help, then there are other workarounds that might work for you if you do not need to preserve interactive features. These include exporting the problem chapters as separate PDFs from InDesign's file menu and then using Acrobat Pro to replace pages in your PDF with the files that have good page numbers, or printing a PS file of the entire book and then converting it to a PDF. More information on these is in my article: http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/ Good luck! I hope we have a real fix from Adobe soon. Jonathan, This is exactly how the problem manifests, except usually in my experience the numbering will appear correctly in the panel in InDesign. I’m not sure what could cause automatic numbering to not work properly even when you have all the documents set to automatically number and have the book numbering options set properly. However, the problem with the numbers being messed up in the exported PDF would be unrelated to your issue with the auto numbering, as far as I know.

Please be sure to export to IDML/import/replace every problem document in your book, then export a new PDF. Does this have any effect on the problem at all? In my experiences, this will often cause those chapters to be fixed, but then other chapters might show the problem, in which case I repeat the process for those chapters.

If that does not help, then there are other workarounds that might work for you if you do not need to preserve interactive features. These include exporting the problem chapters as separate PDFs from InDesign’s file menu and then using Acrobat Pro to replace pages in your PDF with the files that have good page numbers, or printing a PS file of the entire book and then converting it to a PDF. More information on these is in my article:

http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/

Good luck! I hope we have a real fix from Adobe soon.

]]> Comment on InDesign CS5.5 Book PDF Export Problem: Incorrect Page Numbers (CONFIRMED BUG) by Jonathan http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-book-pdf-export-problem/#comment-2603 Jonathan Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:39:59 +0000 http://creativeprogression.com/?p=424#comment-2603 I must have a very advanced version of this problem. I've created dozens of books from InDesign CS3, CS5 and 5.5 without problems, but my latest book (which was created in CS5.5) won't show consecutive page numbers in the Book window. All separate chapters have been set to automatic page numbering and in the options in the Book window, the book has been set to "continue from previous document." I then manually set each file to begin at its correct page number but, in exporting to PDF, the page numbering has gone looney. I tried the IDML method and had exactly the same result. (I even re-opened a book I had done a month ago and saw the same problem re-occur, so the problem isn't with the files but with the Book feature. Any thoughts? I must have a very advanced version of this problem. I’ve created dozens of books from InDesign CS3, CS5 and 5.5 without problems, but my latest book (which was created in CS5.5) won’t show consecutive page numbers in the Book window. All separate chapters have been set to automatic page numbering and in the options in the Book window, the book has been set to “continue from previous document.” I then manually set each file to begin at its correct page number but, in exporting to PDF, the page numbering has gone looney. I tried the IDML method and had exactly the same result. (I even re-opened a book I had done a month ago and saw the same problem re-occur, so the problem isn’t with the files but with the Book feature. Any thoughts?

]]> Comment on InDesign CS5.5 Buttons to Open other PDFs with Relative Path in New Windows—FAIL by Matt http://www.creativeprogression.com/indesign-cs5-5-buttons-to-open-other-pdfs-with-relative-path-in-new-windows%e2%80%94fail/#comment-2064 Matt Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:05:45 +0000 http://www.creativeprogression.com/?p=612#comment-2064 This is a huge problem. ,Thanks This is a huge problem.
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