Comments on: Avoiding Disaster with Paragraph Styles

By: LaurenMarie

LaurenMarie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:35:53 +0000

Tynan, I prefer to stay away from JPG (actually ID will take native PSDs!), but you are right about the file size. I think there's an ongoing debate among print designers about the best resolution, too, most argue it's about 200-250 (2x the lpi of the printer), not the 300 dpi we're taught in school. You seem to know quite a bit about various PDF settings, Tynan! Would you be interested in writing an article on it for this blog? I would love to hear more about what you think are the ideal settings, why you think so and how to create them. You're welcome to contact me (I'll send you an email later this evening as well). Oh, and you're welcome to ask any ID questions in the comments or email me. I love helping and figuring things out!

By: Tynan

Tynan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:38:10 +0000

Hello all, reading and finding this ID articles very helpful, long time Quark user moving over to ID

one point, jpgs are fine and I use them all the time, Maximum or even high quality will still save you sometimes huge amounts of file size while not touching the quality of the picture, the printing process will downgrade it far more, you can always keep your ‘master’ tiff or eps file in case

and Acrobat’s reduce file size essentially discards redundant crap in the file, it’s all settable anyway, for example excessive resolution in graphics is sheer waste and can go

very worth poking around in Distiller settings (or pdf export settings) minor tweaks on compression and downsampling can bring huge benefits in final file size

and I’m a publishing professional in case anyone thinks I’m a tyro!

By: LaurenMarie

LaurenMarie — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:26:20 +0000

giridhar, I've never used an XML workflow before. You can try to look it up in InDesign LiveDocs on the subject or, if that doesn't help, I would highly recommend InDesign Secrets.

By: giridhar

giridhar — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:17:41 +0000

Hi,
Really Informative article.I have question,

I have text loading from xml file, which has
text like below
“Welcome
The People of United States of America”
coming in single xml tag.

I want to show “Welcome” in one line and the rest in second line. How to apply Shift+Return in this case.

Thanks
Giridhar