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  1. robinp
    I have made a numbers spreadsheet which calculates column widths for creating guides using the guide manager as a short term fix until the feature is implemented. Currently it works for 2-6 columns. I think that should work for most people's uses but it would be fairly trivial to edit to allow for more columns. You have to input some key data for each layout: Page width (crucial info for obvious reasons) Inner margin Outer margin (these three together then calculate the useable width within the margins) Number of columns you require (up to max 6) Gutter width I thought it would be helpful to others so you can download using the link below. Please use and edit it as you wish. calculating columns_to share.numbers Robin
  2. robinp
    What I understood from your previous post was that you were inserting two images with the same physical dimensions but different DPI. Ie one with vastly higher resolution which you were saying is smaller when linked. I can now see you are talking about something else but it wasn’t clear before.
  3. robinp
    Yes, I tried to explain that earlier but in a much less clear way. It would be a good and simply short term fix to enable snapping to the column lines.
  4. robinp
    Yes, you are right. I was focussed on finding a way to deal with linked files and forgot about that issue @Chris_K
  5. robinp
    Great, pleased to be able to help. Maybe a restart might sort out the icons.
  6. robinp
    Yeah, fair enough. Maybe there is some kind of caching going on as well? Thats pure speculation, but it clearly this embedded images / file linking / file size issue needs sorting out.
  7. robinp
    What happens if you select one of these SVG files, get info (in finder) and change the app associated with it? What if you do that for all files of that kind? Does this fix it?
  8. robinp
    This maybe true in the final export / print, it certainly isn’t the case in InDesign for the embedded previews which is what this thread is about. Just running with the principle, there would be no point in embedding a lower quality preview in InDesign if it actually resulted in a larger, slower file. What is clear with AP is that it isn’t properly linking files. It embeds them for sure, in their full, high quality glory. This makes file sizes big and slow.
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    This is definitely not the case. We regularly work with image heavy indesign files, they are never over 100MB whereas often individual artwork files can be well over that on their own. As far as I’m concerned, the point of linking is twofold: - Keeps the file size manageable - Allows a team to work on the preparation of a document in parallel, ie editting artwork while someone else is doing the layout edit: re the original post, it seems to me that linking isn’t working properly at the moment given some of the other problems around it. Maybe it is embedding it, leaving it embedded even when it says linked?
  10. robinp
    Thanks, I’ll give it a go in a bit. Still, a shame that guides don’t snap to the columns! I’ve made a spreadsheet to calculate so that guides can be created by mm in the guides manager panel.
  11. robinp
    I'd like to add another part to this. I would like to be able to copy and paste guides from one spread to another. Not just one, but to be able to select multiple guides and paste them en-masse into a new spread. This is a very helpful thing to be able to do.
  12. robinp
    Do you know if it is possible to adjust the space / gap between the columns? Edit: guides do not appear to snap to the text frames columns
  13. robinp
    I have tried to do this but the guides can either be set out manually (by dragging with the mouse) or by typing in specific dimensions or %s in the guides manager. This is fine except if you're trying to do 3 equal columns it divides the page rather than within the margins. We typically work with a 3 column arrangement in InDesign where there is a set spacing between the three columns and they are all equal divided within the margins. Is this something that will be added in due course?
  14. robinp
    @Pauls Thanks! Publisher is grinding a halt under the load of working with a 100+MB PDF though. Is it because it is embedding it rather than linking by default? BTW, I should say, I LOVE this method for choosing different pages in a PDF. SOOO much better than InDesign.
  15. robinp
    Is it possible to select a specific page from a placed multipage PDF?
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    It seems that some of the bugs are connected to the early issues I had. More testing in a new file and it now largely seems to work as expected when the placed files are placed a fresh. This includes the seamless conversion from embedded to linked without the finder dialogue box. The feature requests above still apply, with the addition of one other: When replacing a linked file, it should stay linked rather than defaulting back to being embedded (this is closely connected to the desire for a default behaviour towards linked files over embedded files) A couple of new issues I have noticed, and perhaps they are connected: When an afdesign file has been edited through Publisher when it is embedded, the file is then no longer editable in the current version of Design I think the above may be why the placed file wouldn't update The preference setting that says 'automatically updated linked resources when modified externally' doesn't appear to work @Chris_K
  17. robinp
    @Chris_K just wondering if you've seen the later replies on this regarding the Resource Manager not working as expected?
  18. robinp
    It's worth saying that from the other thread, that I have not had any luck with the Resource Manager method due to, I presume, a bug or series of bugs.
  19. robinp
    Check out the ongoing discussion here:
  20. robinp
    I'm pretty sure this isn't possible
  21. robinp
    I have noticed this slider issue, it even happens where the slider is the only UI element visible for Publisher, for example when using publisher full screen on a different Space, the slider is visible on another Space.
  22. robinp
    This doesn't seem to happen for me with the standard grid. There is definitely an elastic like relationship between edges of frames, grid and guides that happens when scrolling but once scrolling stops, it seems to settle back to the expected location. However, changing the grid using the advanced settings to be similar to yours (my ratio is 1:0.75) the shifting of the grid does occur. Digging further, and changing the ratio to 1:1.375, the top row seems to flip between the expected ratio and being square. Perhaps this is where the bug is, ie if the first row is being calculated incorrectly intermittently, then the whole grid will appear to move / jump.
  23. robinp
    This seems like a reasonable work around for the time being. Not great for a ~500 page book though but for most smaller documents this seems OK. The InDesign shortcut of holding a modifier key or two down and clicking on the elements to edit from the master is pretty helpful. Allowing by item control for each page as to which master elements are applied and which are not, very powerful and means you may only need a small number of master pages per document.
  24. robinp
    Yeah, I thought I was going mad!
  25. robinp
    More digging on the problem of embedded vs linked as above. Having converted an embedded file into a linked file, when double clicking on it, it opens it up as before. It still says <embedded> in the new edit tab. Presumably it isn't actually making it into a Linked file. So I've tried Replacing the embedded file before making it linked and the artwork doesn't change either. When double clicking on it, it still shows the old version of the file without the artwork fully within the artboard object (as per original problem)
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