Your page layout looks fine, but your printer is probably not capable of printing borderless, so the page's content (including the bleed distance) is being positioned and printed from the available area inwards. Like others have said already: check the capabilities of your printer, include crop marks, and check the print setup's preview, so you can clearly see what's printed where.
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Re: Bleed Issues
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Re: Creating Editable, Secured Forms in InDesign.
You can't create a form-like button which will let users choose and insert an image file somewhere onto a PDF page.
And with plain (and free) PDF tools like Acrobat Reader or Apple's Preview, users can't manually add an image either.
So you're stuck between a rock and a hard place...
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Re: Indesign file printing in grayscale
Your printer dialogue shows you're using a "Ricoh Pro C7100" PostScript Printer Description (PPD). Which is also a color printer, but the communication might be incorrect for a Konica printer. Look for the Konica model in the popup menu !
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
InDesign has nothing to do with the commercial and secured distribution of content. The Publish Online option is just for simple proof-reading or somewhat secured downloading of PDFs. Nothing fancy. And Adobe XD has nothing to do with your goals either.
Look for services like ISSUU, where you can upload PDF content, and have a sophisticated and controlled distribution.
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Re: Not all thumbnails print
Please post at least a screenshot of the Pages panel,
so we can see any odd numbering scheme you might be using.
And it might be easier for these thumbnail grids to simply export JPEGs of your pages, and import these into your grid, in stead of full-blown PDFs (singles or spreads). Or even better: use the option to print miniatures directly !
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
InDesign's Publish Online can be used for more than just proofing. It's particularly useful for items like catalogues, samples and Prospectuses.
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
You're totally right, technically it's capable of showing many kinds of content.
But it can't beat the swift overview of multiple pages and the many other extended functionalities of a proper PDF viewer. It's still in its infancy, and Adobe is not putting much effort in improving it either. So I'm reluctant in endorsing it as a viable and serious way of (public) distribution. That's my 2 cents...
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
But, unlike PDFs, Publish Online can show animations, video, audio and so on.
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
Oww... those are even more areas in desperate need of some Adobe product manager's and developer's love and attention.
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
thanks Everyone,
interesting insights.
what about publishing to kindle? Is that just the EPUB output option?
I thought adobe would have built a lot of these workflows, kind of like premiere has a lot of settings for devices and social media outputs.
I had a look at the AJAR, the samples seemed very slow to load, images loades slowly. wonder if we can install on our own cloud set up with that?
issuu is good I read they take 30% of commercial sales if you use their platform I`ll have to check that >.<
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
I like issuu, dont know if it supports video, or html5 animation embeds.
but I think they take 30% if you go commercial...?
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
To be honest, apart from Export to PDF, all the other publishing output formats Adobe has touched on in the past and present are a mix of successes and a bag of hurt. My quick-and-dirty shortlist of them all:
- So all plain vanilla PDFs (for print production) are great, but of the interactive PDF, only the forms and comment features are well-developed and fairly reliable. Adobe kind of acknowledged their weakness in this interactive area and has stalled the development or improvement of other and further interactive features.
- Of the ePub flavours, creating a decent ePub reflowable (2.0 and 3.0) is a long-standing and strong feature in InDesign (since CS 5.5). But although Adobe's and Apple's support for ePub Fixed Layout (3.0) seemed promising, the viewing of them on other devices than Apple's Macs, iPads, and iPhones is just terrible.
- Then there once were Flash and DPS– both output platforms were touted and tried for a few years, but killed-off after that.
- Publish Online started really well, but we're still waiting for serious and necessary upgrades to this feature.
- Native Kindle formats are a conversion of an ePub Reflowable 2.0 (check out their tools to do that). So it's not something you can directly export from InDesign, but it's not that difficult.
- Native HTML-output from InDesign is almost non-existent, but IN5 will offer you many inroads to that, as others already mentioned.
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
ISSUU will let you add video layers and other media and interactive features as overlays to your (static) PDF.
Also check out Twixl if you're looking for creating commercial and interactive publishing, with/without InDesign.
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Re: selling digital magazines via login or download?
You may want to consider in5, a plugin for InDesign that allows you to export interactive content to HTML5 directly from your layout. This content will open in any web browser. So you can host the content on your own site that is password protected.
Unlike PDF, in5 allows you to use all InDesign's interactive features, such as hyperlinks, buttons, multi-state objects, animation, movies, sound and more to create your interactive magazine. I've been using this plugin for a while and it's amazing what can be done.
Here's a link to Ajar's website: Ajar Productions: Design Design Software (Makers of in5)
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Re: Creating Editable, Secured Forms in InDesign.
Not possible using InDesign. If you have Acrobat Pro you can create a button that will let users click on a box and navigate on their computer to the image they want to use. You would need to use JavaScript to do this.
Users would need to use Acrobat or Reader, not Preview. The JavaScript will work on a desktop or laptop computers.
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INDESIGN PDF creation limitations? (for word count)
If I create a form PDF that I want clients to fill in, like a word book, multiple choice, but also free text entry boxes, can they be limited to the word count (character count) or is it unlimited? (for say like journal or diary type entries where a lot of text will be written).
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Twixl looks great i`ll give that a try as well. Thank you Peter.
Thanks Derek and Jeff, will give Ajar a go too! Test it out,
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Re: INDESIGN PDF creation limitations? (for word count)
You create the form in InDesign and fine tune it in Acrobat Pro. This can include changing the size, font, alignment and colour of fonts that appear in the fields and there you can also limit the number of characters.
Looking at this again, it appears that in the latest version you can do that in InDesign now (keep Multiline unticked).
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Thanks Derek!
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Re: Indesign file printing in grayscale
I have this strange behavior sometime. This is InDesign, a program for doing books, but not for printing them (so many bugs). Prefer always to do export to PDF and only then print from Acrobat something for "good" print. InDesign direct print is only for some drafts. My strong IMHO.
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