I just updated to MacOS Catalina and Pitstop does not seem to work as normal. Does Pitstop not work with this version of MacOS?

Quote from: Joe on November 03, 2021, 07:04:30 AM
Looks the same on mine. Either giving no readings or the wrong readings.

Always happy when others share in the misery! Nice to know it is not just me.

Is anyone else having issues with viewing separations in the latest release of Indesign? I guess I should reword, it is not exactly viewing separations but viewing the CMYK makeup when hovering the mouse of a colour. Worked fine in the previous version, but not this. I did try trashing my preference file as well with no change.

Not sure if anyone uses this, but I have been using Epson Scan for years with my V550 scanner. Now that Adobe is needing Catalina or later for their apps I am going to need to update my OS. Going through my 32 bit apps and I only have 2 I need to update. I did find Epson Scan 2 but it is lacking some simple functionality and I am wondering if I am missing something. In Epson Scan I can load a preview, then highlight an area I want to scan with a box and then it scans only that area. I do not see this option at all with Epson Scan 2. Anyone use this app and know if the feature is just removed or is it hidden somewhere?

It does seem to be a limitation with the font. I switched to another variable font and that one had even more options than what you see in the "4" gif. Everything else you suggested does not work and I had tried before. I have not used variable fonts often, I am going to explore the settings for the font and see if there is an answer there. Thanks!

**edit** I feel like a moron now, completely forgot about this little button. Does what I need, though the other way is simpler.

Not sure if my terminology is correct in the title, I do not do a lot of book setups.

I have 2 gifs showing what I am doing and was working till I got to #5. Why would this work for 1, 2, 3, 4 but not 5 and up?

this is what I want to continue doing
https://gyazo.com/77711cdc0351220ca43a96749ef5f565

This is what it does 5 and up
https://gyazo.com/f9aa1c2405eeb092a0dca7db2be17610

I setup calendars like a magazine if saddle stitched. I setup landscape and then switch to portrait and treated it like any other magazine for imposition.

Quote from: jwheeler on May 04, 2021, 11:03:28 AM
Check out "DesignMerge" by Meadows Publishing. This is a VDP plugin for InDesign. Fusion Pro is great, but it's for PDF's and has some limitations since you're not working with the native document. The 'pro' version of DesignMerge has some very powerful rendering output options so the files don't bottleneck at your print controller. Here's a link to DesignMerge: https://meadowsps.com/designmerge-pro/

EDIT: One more thing I forgot to mention, is that since it is working with the native InDesign document, you can now make EVERYTHING variable. Including changing the typeface, the color of the font, the color of the background, and of course, scaling the text to auto fit.

Thanks for the link, looks interesting but honestly and no offence to you, I hate when prices are not posted on their website and demos require you to request one. I should not have to go through a sales person just to see if it would even be in budget and worth while. And again no demo unless I request and then I am assuming a sales person gets a hold of me to try and get me to buy rather then letting me check it out and search on my own. If I have questions I would ask. My VDP needs are light, what I am dealing with now is the first time I have ever come across this so I am not going to go through all the hoops just to get a price and a demo. This is 2021, none of this should be necessary. I guess this is where this emoticon is used 

Quote from: scottrsimons on May 04, 2021, 07:20:51 AM
I wish I could find the job I did in Indesign that had the similar issue, which I solved using GREP to fix this while it did the data merge. But I don't remember the job at this point. And we use FusionPro for most of our variable data jobs.

But it was something like this: Episode 3: Using GREP styles to fit text into a text frame in InDesign - https://youtu.be/TFzWt_hrS-A.

Thanks for the video! Did not know that was even possible and would have made life much simpler for a few jobs where I had to manually adjust longer company names on certificates.

Quote from: DigiCorn on May 03, 2021, 10:32:11 PM
We used to merge to file, and then fix the offending records manually. Most of our data merges in-house were a few thousand records, and we typically merged <500 records at a time (trays usually max at 380 or so for USPS), so you'd only have to fix a couple out of the whole batch.

If you ever spend the <$1000 to get Fusion Pro, it will make that adjustment upon checking a box, and could be modified with a simple script adjustment.

Would fusion pro be used for a merge inside a catalogue? Not addressing or anything for mailing but a list of products sequentially over a span of pages? Pretty much all the variable I do is simple mailing which Indesign handles perfectly. I just get these unique cases every now and then and am left scrambling to figure it out on a deadline.

Think I have a work around that only adds a little bit of manual adjusting. I had my cells set to be an exact size so they would not move. When I turned the cell to be at least a certain size they reflowed and enlarged as needed. Now the tables do not go right on top of each other for formatting that is something I can manually fix without a whole lot of time waisted.

Quote from: Joe on May 03, 2021, 08:53:03 AM
Take a look at this. I've never tried it but it says it is compatible with InDesign's data merge.

https://www.id-extras.com/products/fit-text-to-frame/

Thanks, unfortunately no budget to buy a script. This also looks like it just enlarges or reduces the text size, not the cell size to fit. Having never used data merge this way it may be a limitation of the merge and I need to make the cell bigger to fit all the text without reducing text size.

I am working on a catalogue and have a data merge to do. I have never done multiple records on a single page. I got the basics of it but am stuck where cells are not enlarging to fit the content in it when needed. I have 4 column by 4 rows. I have attached a screen shot of my setup. This gets repeated on the page sequentially. Now the issue is the content that would be in the bottom right box "designed by.." us the names do not all fit in the preset size. I could enlarge it but then there is a huge space and the majority do not need extra room. Is there a way for it to auto size to fit when needed?

Quote from: Joe on April 01, 2021, 07:36:03 AM
Have never seen this happen. Maybe a new feature in Acrobat recognizing content that was on a master page in the page layout app?

My google searches have ended in failure. Could be a new feature, need to do more research. Not a feature I am liking thus far! At least with Indesign I can override master page items if needed, so far I see no way around this. I got the working file from the client to fix that way till I can sort this out.

I have an annual report I am fixing up. Customer supplied a PDF. This is a 100+ page perfect bound annual report. I need to do some slight fix ups and adjust some spreads for perfect binding. The issue I am having, and I have never seen this before, is when I move the page number and a graphical element with the page numbering, it moves the same piece on other pages. This would be like moving a master page item in Indesign accept this is in Acrobat DC. Is there a way to unlink these from each other? It would be fine if they had them all in the same place but they are slightly different so I need to adjust a bunch of pages manually.