Alright, so here you can see the text box in question
in the native, original file in Quark
and
the first thing you'll notice is that
you can't click on the lines,
and if you
view the item, you'll see that it's not locked.
You'll see that it's
totally forward,
and you'll see the Content is only Text.
There are no
elements used inside of the
of the box.
Okay, so even if I select this,
I can't select this line in Quark.
I can if you look over here,
move the box a little bit over, watch how, as I move the box,
the text box,
those lines move with it. OK.
So, here, I can select this line.
This line is fine. I can move this line all around.
So, you see that. So, now let's go into
InDesign CS5 here.
Where is she? There she is.
Okay, so here we see, if I move some of these
palettes out of the way here,
you'll see we have the same condition in the converted files, you know, converted
with Q2ID v5,
which we're using,
and you'll see the same condition.
I get the same
box and
I can't select any of the lines. OK?
So, if i go over into
the line there,
once again you can see I can...
I can select this line.
We can check it in FlightCheck here for you in a second,
but
effectively,
Q2ID is converting this file correctly,
because you see the...
this line was
created within the text box,
and if we go into...
Okay, so just a recap here:
These are not lines in the traditional sense, as an object,
These are lines created under... in Quark.
Style,
formats,
you get your paragraph attributes,
You go to your rules
and there you can see Rule Above, Rule Below. It is a Rule Below,
there are indents
two millimeters from right
and adds that line with that style, that width, and that color.
That's how you get
those lines. They're not objects, but a Rule Below
within the paragraph within this text story.
OK? Just to make that clear.
Now, let's go back to InDesign.
Okay, so here we are within InDesign, same exact text
box, text story,
everything selected. I see the same lines.
How do I adjust them here in InDesign?
Well, it's quite easy, but it is a little bit hidden. It's nowhere in the main
menu items. It's all the way over to the right.
So, let me take you over there and show you where it is all the way over in the right
on the top of your
InDesign minibar.
Here, you'll see the Markzware items and
this is with regards to Q2ID converting this file
into
InDesign from QuarkXPress,
and where or how can I adjust these
lines?
These lines are not objects, but they are
Rule Below within the Paragraph Attributes.
So, now we're going to go over to the right. I'm going to show where, all the way over to the right on your screen,
I can adjust that within InDesign.
Okay, great! Now, we're
all the way over on the right here within InDesign.
Here's Markzware and the Q2ID, which we
just used to convert this
customer's test file
this customer's Quark file right into InDesign.
And, yeah, how can I get access to these... to these lines?
Q2ID did a perfect job. What you notice over here,
in this little
do-hickey thing within the interface of InDesign,
you get a whole bunch of options
and if we choose
Paragraph Rules,
we get this.
So, what are we seeing here?
Well, we have once again Rule Below and Rule Above. Rule Above is off, like it should
be.
So it converted over perfectly.
Rule Below is on,
weight of 0.3 points,
type of line it is... I mean, we can
switch this around to show you
how it works and you see how it instantly changes.
So, this is how you can adjust lines
and the indent and everything
within
InDesign.
You see the right indent, once again,
2 millimeters, just like it was within Quark.
So, Q2ID did a perfect job of converting this file.
That's how you can adjust these lines, which are actually
Paragraph Rules,
applying a line
with a Rule Below,
Rule On selected.
Well, wait, before I sign off,
I do want to let you know that PageZephyr v2.11
is now out
and this is a great way for you to have
a desktop search
on your Macintosh
to be able to search within
InDesign or Quark files and see all the content used
within those files.
So, here we see all the files we have indexed on our hard drive in this desktop search app,
Mac desktop search app that will now
allow me to see all of the
text stories used within any
particular document,
like this one here.
I can now edit
information here.
I can delete. I can stylize
and then I can upload to
by WordPress blog my Google Docs, my Scribd account,
or my Box.net documents.
Literally, it's that easy! You can
convert your content from InDesign,
in this case,
right into
WordPress blog or
Box.net document.
So, I just wanted to give you a little tip.
PageZephyr 2.11 is out. Check it out. 30-day demo on our
web page.
Thank you. Once again, David Dilling from Markzware, signing off.
Have a fantastic day!