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  1. hippogriff

    Help with recovering a Indesign file

    Hello, My computer crashed while I had a indesign document open, and now I cant open or recover that file. Does anyone have any suggestions on opening it? Does Indesign make a temp or backup file anywhere that I could try opening? Any info will be much appreciated as I have spent alot of time...
  2. hippogriff

    Help with strange "Grouping" problem

    Good day, I just noticed that the items I had grouped together lost their group. This happened throughout my entire document which is 40 pages with many things grouped. Also, when I try to 'group' them again, it does not work. Does anyone know what happened? Thanks!
  3. hippogriff

    Help with clipping of image

    Hello, I am having a issue when I place a tif, jpg, or pdf images. InDesign is clipping off a small portion of the bottom of my image. I have extended the bottom frame to make sure the rest of the image is not hiding but it's just being cut off. Does anyone have any ideas as to why it's doing...
  4. hippogriff

    Transfering Files in indesign to a new computer?

    Good day, I just bought a new computer and activated indesign on it. Unfortunately, I forgot to get all my saved color swatches, and setting from my old computer before I deactivated indesign on the old one. Is there a way to get the color swatches from an indesign folder from my old...
  5. hippogriff

    Help on 'frame' weirdness

    Good day, Recently, whenever I export to a pdf, then bring that pdf into a new document, the frame around that object is larger than the object on all sides. The frame doesnt 'fit' the object I bring in. Does anyone know the reason for this? Thanks!
  6. hippogriff

    Bullets and spacing

    Is there a way to decrease the spacing between the bullet and the wording? I didnt see anything in Preferences. Thanks!
  7. hippogriff

    Problem with frames around image

    Good day, Just suddenly, Indesign started doing something wierd. Lately when I 'place' a rectangular image within my document the frame around the image no longer fits snuggly to the image. The frame now comes in larger than the image. Sometimes on only two sides and sometimes on all four...
  8. hippogriff

    Default Font

    Good day, How do I make a font style a default? Times New Roman 10pt has been my default style but it suddenly changed and I'm not sure how to get it back. I read that one solution is to pick the font I wanted, then exit Indesign. Indesign is supposed to remember the last font I used and...
  9. hippogriff

    degree sign

    Is there a way to make the "degree" sign in indesign? I didnt see it under the special characters. Thanks!
  10. hippogriff

    No Hyphens?

    Hello, Is there a way to make an entire document to not auto hyphenate? It looks like I can do it one text block at a time by unchecking the "hyphenate" box in the paragraph area. How about the whole document? Thanks!
  11. hippogriff

    How do you turn off "word splitting"?

    Good day, I was just wondering how you turn off the option that splits a word that is too big to fit on a line of text? Thank you!
  12. hippogriff

    Bending text

    Hello, Is there a way to bend a text frame so that the words make a curve or "U" shape? or is that something I would have to do in photoshop? Thank you.
  13. hippogriff

    Text boxes not totally transparent. Please help.

    Hello, I just did a test print of a magazine I created in Indesign. I'm noticing in several places that the text frames aren't quite transparent. It's making a rectangle that I can see quite clearly over a colored background. This seems to happen only when the frame is over a photograph...
  14. hippogriff

    Showing master through layers

    Hello, I have a graphic on a main layer that is going to be placed on top of one of my master objects (page number). Is there a way to make the page number show up through the graphic? Thanks.
  15. hippogriff

    Rollerball problems

    Hello, Sometimes, out of the blue, I loose the scrolling ability of my rollerball on my mouse in Indesign. This is annoying as I use this technique very much. The only fix I have found is to close and open the document again. Has this happened to anyone? If so, is there a better fix for it...
  16. hippogriff

    Default font

    Hello, My default font used to be Times New Roman. Now it somehow switched to Latina. Does anyone know how to set it back to Times? Thanks!
  17. hippogriff

    Layer question

    Hello, I have a 40 page doc with text and images but they are all on the some layer. I now want to put the images on another layer but it appears that then I cant arrange the images behind the text. Am i just missing something or cant I put layer 2 behind layer 1? Thanks.
  18. hippogriff

    Hiding master object

    Hello, I'm pretty new to indesign. I'm having a hard time finding where to hide a specific master object on one of my main pages. Basically, I have my website name (from the master) at the bottom of all my pages but I would like to hide the site name on some pages? Is there an easy way to do...
  19. hippogriff

    Exporting object

    Good day, Is it possible to export to pdf, just an object you have selected, as opposed to exporting a whole document or book? Thanks!
  20. hippogriff

    Printing 8.5 x 11 document on 8.5 x 11 paper

    Good day, I am creating a magazine the will be 8.5 by 11 inches. The graphics and text will go to the edge of the page. Of course my printer cannot print to the edge of the page. However, I would like to show the entire document when it is printed. So, is there a way to set the scale of the...

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