IDML import problems paragraphs & frames

[design punch]

Newest beta .663, WIN 10

Hi,

while working on an old brochure (36 pages A4), opened the IMDL in publisher, following failures appeared. (I could reduce the demo file content to minumum to show the effects easily. )

A. PARAGRAPH - TEXT STYLES PANEL

1. open "Test Brochure 2017.idml" in Publisher
Its a complete emptied file (in INDD) with one .jpg embedded left

2. Import into the text style panel the file "new text styles.afpub"
Its a set of new defined text styles in hierachical order (starting with BOOK), they are not applied to anything yet.

PROBLEM: as long as this picture (looks like any picture !?) is in this file, all paragraph values of BOOK (and below) are changing wildly.
E. G.: MASTER "BOOK" has a master definition of 10 pt, but is modified to 7,5 pt.
"Space within paragraphs" are changing on some font styles from automatic (xx) to fix values
Indent on list type paragrahs changing, e.g. 6/4mm lines to 3/4,5mm etc.

 

B. TEXT FRAMES

Here I was facing from around page 32 on wild variations in frame content (paragraps text size), I don' t no why? (I could reduce to a understandable part of this phenoma in the sample page attached)

Please open file "sudden change in frames.afpub".
The linked second frame is showing very small character size.
You can move the size of the frames or delete frame 2 and replace it ... same problem.
On the brochure itself, I got more wild things. Turning the content of second frame back (decreasing frame 2) , the small text (which is now back to frame 1), suddenly changing font size to 30 pt or more. Coming back to frame 2 again, the text in frame 2  is getting very small again (can't be seen in this example).
(You can use "Back to Standard" on frame 2, but than all paragraph adjustments are gone, and problem coming back again if frame sizes are changed again)

 

 

I have no idea, whats going on here?!
Can you please check wether you facing the same phenomenas?

 

new text styles.afpub

sudden paragraph change in frames.afpub

Test Brochure 2017.idml

[Joachim_L]

Before someone is saying, that you resized the frame by the outer handle ... no this can happen on opened IDML or - in my case - opened PDF from Indesign. In most cases Reset Formatting works (see image), which removes only the deviations. But in some cases you have to copy the whole text and paste into new text frames.

[Jon P]

A. This is a bug and is logged with us, it is because the document DPI of both documents aren't the same, and it is doing some scaling based on that that it souldn't be. If you change your document with the picture in to 300 DPI the text styles should import as expected.

B. This is also logged with us, we've seen this from IDML import as Joachim mentioned, which I guess is what this file was created from?

Thanks

[design punch]

Hi,

thanks you both for your answers ...

A. resetting the formats is rather difficult, as the MASTER is changed (no reset possible) .. anyhow as it is a bug, it will be improved later .. I hope ...

B. Yes, copying into a new frame solves the problem so far ...