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Utter Nonsense: There is no such
Authored by: Sandee Cohen on Dec 07, '02 06:17:12AM

I have read the comments about a supposed "bug" in InDesign. these comments are total nonsense. I have covered them as they occurred.

> It appears that InDesign, when saving
> out as an EPS, will 'outline' text that is too close to a graphic. But
> it also keeps the remaining text within the EPS as text, thereby
> causing the bolding effect. The workaround is to merely put the text on
> a layer above the graphic.

The person has described the problem incorrectly. InDesign does not
automatically outline all text next to a graphic. That is complete nonsense!

InDesign MAY outline text that is set with a transparency or has a
transparency effect near it.

And in that case, yes, putting the graphic on a layer above any transparency
will avoid the problem. However, it would be better if the person creating
the ID file understood more about the flattener settings rather than just
this one way to work. After all, what if you do want text to be part of the
transparency.

> It's possible that InDesign is doing what Quark does . . .

I assure you that whatever InDesign is doing it is NOT doing what Quark does
with boxes with background color set to None. The above information has
nothing to do with InDesign. Ignore it.

> InDesign rasterizes type that is close to a graphic on the same layer.
> This is especially problematic with text wrapping, text near the
> graphic's path get rasterized.
> The solution is correct: put text on another layer. Unfortunately, this
> doesn't work if you need the text to wrap around a complex shaped
> graphic. In one case I made a separate path to wrap the text to and
> made sure it was a tad bigger than the graphic's path.

The person above speaks with such authority I am almost ready to believe
him. But once again, this is someone who doesn't understand what they are
talking about. InDesign does not rasterize type that is close to a graphic
unless there is some sort of transparency effect involved. If there is no
transparency, then you can jam type anywhere you want.

And of course, text wrapping should have no problems if there is no
transparency.

Ahhh, but if there is transparency? Well then, once again, someone needs to
read up on the flattener settings.

Finally, the person says that "this [putting text on a higher layer] doesn't
work if you need the text to wrap around a complex shaped graphic.

Nonsense again. Obviously this person is thinking like a Quarker, or has
never used InDesign. Unlike QuarkXPress, you can put text ABOVE a graphic
and the graphic will still cause the text to wrap. You don't have to have
the graphic above the text.

Hope this all helps.



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Utter Nonsense: There is no such
Authored by: Roel on Jul 06, '05 10:21:24AM

I've got this problem too but it's not fixed if i put the text in an other layer. The image is half under the text and the text is half bold. where the imagebox starts the text gets bold. ?? If i create outlines from the text the entire text gets bold. Anyone got a solution?
Thanx
Roel



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