Newbie questions for CS Indesign

[dehavenphoto]

Newbie questions for CS Indesign

1. When I do a return to start a new paragraph, how can I get the space between paragraphs to be smaller?

2. When I place a graphic (photo), the photo is linked to the file. I have tried to go to links and change to embed but cannot find a way to do this. I want to embed the photo.

3. I print mostly internally on a Xerox Phaser printer, how can I get rgb as default instead of cymk?

4. I know you can't put a text box on top of another text box but I want to! Is there a workaround?

Thanks,

Jack DeHaven

[annc]

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

Newbie questions for CS Indesign

1. When I do a return to start a new paragraph, how can I get the space between paragraphs to be smaller?

In Paragraph Styles, double-click the style you want to change, and then select Indents and Spacing. Set Space After to the size you want it to be. The measure will be whatever you have set in your Preferences. I use mm, but believe most Americans use picas.

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

2. When I place a graphic (photo), the photo is linked to the file. I have tried to go to links and change to embed but cannot find a way to do this. I want to embed the photo.

Why do you want to embed graphics? You'll end up with a huge file, and will need to re-embed them if you change them in Photoshop.

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

3. I print mostly internally on a Xerox Phaser printer, how can I get rgb as default instead of cymk?

With InDesign open but with no open documents, select Edit > Colour settings and set your colour space. InDesign will then apply this as the default for all new documents until you change it.

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

4. I know you can't put a text box on top of another text box but I want to! Is there a workaround?

You can. Just create the new text box on the pasteboard, and then drag it on top of the other text box.

[dehavenphoto]

Thanks for the tips. I'm going to work early and will try this tips this morning. The reason I wanted to embed graphics is that I do lots of work with photos and they are constantly being moved or deleted. Just yesterday, I had to move 5gb of files to another drive. Unfortunately, some of those files were linked to Indesign files and I had to go back and find them. The smart thing for me to do is probably make a pdf file once I've completed a flyer, etc. That should lock in the graphic.
Jack

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

The reason I wanted to embed graphics is that I do lots of work with photos and they are constantly being moved or deleted. Just yesterday, I had to move 5gb of files to another drive. Unfortunately, some of those files were linked to Indesign files and I had to go back and find them. The smart thing for me to do is probably make a pdf file once I've completed a flyer, etc. That should lock in the graphic.

Or you could create a folder for each job, keeping the ID file and the image files together. If you don’t need them again (often, anyway), you could compress it with StuffIt or a Zip utility; or archive the folders to CDs and delete them from your hard drive.

I know it is extravagant of disk space, but that isn’t nearly as precious today as it once was, and wasting time (or worse, actually losing a needed image) is usually more costly.

Although I do not know this for sure about InDesign (it was a terrible problem in PageMaker, however), embedding images in files can lead to instability (as well as humongous sizes).

[Shane Stanley]

Originally Posted by ktinkel

Or you could create a folder for each job, keeping the ID file and the image files together. If you don’t need them again (often, anyway), you could compress it with StuffIt or a Zip utility; or archive the folders to CDs and delete them from your hard drive.

I know it is extravagant of disk space

But it probably uses no more space than embedding the files anyway...

Shane

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by Shane Stanley

But it probably uses no more space than embedding the files anyway...

Are there any other advantages — or disadvantages?

[dehavenphoto]

I guess I am going to have to make a folder as you suggest. Then I will make a pdf file and print from that. I noticed today, that when I print from another computer on the network, the file has trouble finding the links and the print is not as good. When I printed from a saved pdf file, the printing was much better.

thanks,

Jack DeHaven

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by dehavenphoto

I guess I am going to have to make a folder as you suggest. Then I will make a pdf file and print from that. I noticed today, that when I print from another computer on the network, the file has trouble finding the links and the print is not as good. When I printed from a saved pdf file, the printing was much better.

thanks,

Jack DeHaven

Don’t you just hate it when computers make life worse instead of better? Grrr.

[Shane Stanley]

Originally Posted by ktinkel

Are there any other advantages — or disadvantages?

Bigger files are always going to be slower to open, save and work with, and there must be at least a theoretically greater risk of corruption. And if it happens, you've got all your eggs in one basket.

Shane