PBKSteve Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 Hi, I'm sure this is something very basic that I'm just missing. I come from the world of Adobe, as I'm sure most of you do. I'm trying to make some very basic text edits to an indesign file. When I go to open the file, everything looks right in the Pages panel on the left side, but the main workspace appears to be in what I would call out line mode. I can see blue outlines of all the page elements, but no the actual elements. I've been playing with it and googling it and looking in this forum and I can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help me? Please see the attached screenshot, thanks! Quote
MikeW Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 It appears there are some black curves/rectangles on top. Maybe more than one, but difficult to zoom in far enough on the Layer panel using my phone. Quote
PBKSteve Posted October 6, 2020 Author Posted October 6, 2020 44 minutes ago, Lagarto said: Please check Edit > Preferences > Performance > Renderer and try switching the renderer. There might some problem with the display driver that causes this problem. I appreciate your thought, that didn't seem to help. Though, it did make launching the application on restart take a long time. Quote
Old Bruce Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 Without the actual .idml file there isn't a lot we can suggest just by looking at the screenshot(s). Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
PBKSteve Posted October 6, 2020 Author Posted October 6, 2020 Huh, apparently it's not a really common issue. I figured it was something obvious that I wasn't getting. I'm attaching the file here. The linked images obviously won't load but maybe this will help troubleshoot. Thanks! AmSch_Rate Card_2018.idml Quote
Old Bruce Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 It opens 'fine' here on OS 10.14.6 Fine as in missing artwork. The only thing I can do to get it to look like your screenshot is to put a black rectangle on Master A. Seeing as I don't have the original artwork It may be a problem with one of those. I have big red ? marks to show the location of the missing art. Put all the art in a new folder so as to hide them from the document and try again. See if it looks like this Aside: Cool seeing the list of contributors. Who here remembers Hannah Arendt or Arthur Schlesinger Jr, I guess Aldous would be recognizable because of "Brave New World" finally making it to the (small) Screen. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Old Bruce Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 Arghh, submitted with out the file AmSch_Rate Card_2018 via bruce.afpub Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
PBKSteve Posted October 6, 2020 Author Posted October 6, 2020 I appreciate your thoughts. I opened your file and it looks about the same. Blank in the main work area but I can see the blue outlines. I can see all the content in the pages panel with the red question marks. I also tried your trick of renaming the links file so that my original file couldn't find them, that also didn't work. If it's useful, I'm running 10.15.4 Also, I use an external monitor with my laptop. It occurred to me that this may be the problem. Anyway, I unplugged it to see what would happen and then there were no artboards in the editing space. I guess you'd call them artboards, I'm really coming from Illustrator. But if I drag the Publisher window from the external monitor to the desktop monitor, the artboards vanish. And yes, I've tried zooming way way out. I wonder if does have something to do with my display setup? I just don't know what to check there. Quote
Old Bruce Posted October 6, 2020 Posted October 6, 2020 1 minute ago, PBKSteve said: I guess you'd call them artboards, Spreads. In the file you supplied they are one page spreads. 3 minutes ago, PBKSteve said: But if I drag the Publisher window from the external monitor to the desktop monitor, the artboards vanish. And yes, I've tried zooming way way out. Try hitting Command + 0 (zero) after dragging to the desktop monitor, this will centre the selected spread. 5 minutes ago, PBKSteve said: I wonder if does have something to do with my display setup? I just don't know what to check there. I haven't run multiple monitors for yonks, too many problems with too many different programs and no consistent workaround. I would suggest you unplug the external monitor shut down the laptop and restart it and see what happens. Does this happen with other .idml files? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
PBKSteve Posted October 6, 2020 Author Posted October 6, 2020 Ok! Unplugging the external monitor and then restarting the computer worked! Thanks for your input! Old Bruce 1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted October 7, 2020 Posted October 7, 2020 4 hours ago, PBKSteve said: Ok! Unplugging the external monitor and then restarting the computer worked! Thanks for your input! Great to hear that Roy's advice from The IT Crowd worked. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?". Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
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