Here's an odd one. CS4 Mac Snow Leopard iMac twin-carb Intel

The document consists of 12 pages of 6 images. The images are individual pages in a 36-page PDF, placed at full-size (no reduction, etc.).
The PDF document is 24x10 picas, not terribly large, consisting of 36 pages of a colored frame, one line of text (several words), and a single bitmapped 300dpi RGB photo--usually JPEGs, but a few PSDs, too.

When I place the images, I have Import Options on so I can select only six at a time (1-6, 7-12, etc.). That allows me to dump six on one spread with an Opt-click. Then go back for six more. This is where it gets weird.

When I import the second set of 6 pages, I click on the second spread to make sure it's active, then I Opt-click to place all six (and ID dutifully shows me a progress info message). When the message clears, I see nothing on the pasteboard. BTW, I'm zoomed way out so I can see several spreads at one time. Nothing on the second spread. Nothing on the third, fourth, etc. I look in the Links panel and see that the images did in fact get placed in the document. (But since I dumped them on the pasteboard, not on the page itself, the Links panel only shows PB as their page location. Hmmm. I click on one of the PDFs in the second batch, select Go To Link from the flayout menu, and ID highlights the link (and zooms the page, which is an annoyance because now I can't see which spread it's on). So I zoom out and see the highlighted frame, but no contents. If I click off the image, nothing is visible, but when I drag the selection cursor around the area, I can select them. I see six bounding boxes in blue in an offset stack--BUT the contents are still invisible until I drag them to the second spread where they should have appeared. When I release the cursor after the drag, THEN they become visible!

But here's another weird thing. They are NOT on the second spread. They're on the fourth pasteboard. Why? I made sure I placed them on the second by clicking on it. And just to make sure (this has happened repeatedly tonight), after I imported the six pages, while the cursor was loaded, I temporarily changed to the selection arrow and highlighted another object on the second spread to verify that it was active. Then I Opt-clicked to drop all six of them. But, as I said, they wound up on spread 4.

When I imported the third batch and made sure spread 3 was active, they wound up on spread six. The fourth dump wound up on eight. Very very strange.

What in the bejeesus is this all about?


| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Michael Brady
michaelb@michaelbradydesign.com
http://considerthepreposition.blogspot.com/
http://thinkinglikeadesigner.blogspot.com/
Subscribe: Words-and-pictures-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: Words-and-pictures-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com



--
This list is a free service of LassoSoft: http://www.LassoSoft.com/
Search the list archives: http://www.ListSearch.com/InDesign/Browse/
Manage your subscription: http://www.ListSearch.com/InDesign/