The fontdesigner didn’t bother to design all of the letters! Sure all of the normal ones are present but not things like ü, é, ø and more. Of course your clients now needs a German text in your design also. And guess what? Germans love the ü! It’s everywhere. The letter is not in the font, so InDesign can’t show it and just shows nothing at all. Now you have to search through a German text for a missing letter. Great.



After that lovely exercise you’re not out of the woods yet. Your client wants the headings to be bold. But there isn’t a bold in this font family! Now you need to result in faking the bold by adding a thin line around the type. This looks butt-ugly as the font was never designed to be bold. Thank God your client didn’t request an Italic!

Na alles nogmaals nagelopen te hebben moest ik toch echt concluderen dat elk onderdeel goed gemaakt was. Eigenlijk was alles okay. Maar toch… geen knoppen! Het was ongelooflijk, maar ik zat vast! In zo’n geval is het verstandig om eens bij andere vakbroeders aan te kloppen. Aad Metz to the resque! Aad heeft net zijn nieuwe boek, Leer jezelf professioneel InDesign CS5, gedrukt en hij kon zonder wijzigingen een PDF met ‘klikbare’ knoppen maken van exact hetzelfde bestand. Dus het bestand was goed… What gives? Uiteindelijk wees Aad me op een (voor mij) nieuw pulldown-menu’tje onderaan het Export Venster.



En wat staat daar bij mij? “Adobe PDF (afdrukken)”. Dat klopt, ik wilde deze PDF afdrukken. Echter als je het pulldown menu bekijkt staat er óók “Adobe PDF (interactief)”. Dat was de optie die Aad koos toen hij exporteerde.



Een stap verder, bij het export-menu van InDesign, kun je ervoor kiezen om Hyperlinks en Bladwijzers toe te voegen in je PDF. Je kunt ook de PDF optimaliseren voor weergave op internet. Echter… Als je een stap eerder niet hebt gekozen voor “Adobe PDF (interactief)” kun je ‘klikbare knoppen’ wel vergeten. Gelukkig was daar Aad om me te wijzen op het ‘pulldown-menu’ dat voor mij, als CS3 gebruiker, nieuw was.

Overigens, Aad’s nieuwste boek, Leer jezelf professioneel InDesign CS5 kunt je hier bestellen.

It was the new interface. Every image now has a circle when you ‘mouse-over’ the frame. But because I usually click the center of the frame when I want to grab it, I now clicked the new circle so InDesign activates the frame’s content instead of the frame itself. As I was moving things around and working rather fast I hadn’t noticed this at first. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it, but for now I have to train myself to not click the center of an image frame. It looks like there’s no way to deactivate this new behavior.

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Een tijdje terug heb jij getwitterd,
en niet eens heel erg verbitterd,
dat men doodleuk had besloten
jou VosLibert uit te stoten.

Dat verbaast mij uiteraard,
want jij was elke euro waard.
Maar ik ga, tot mijn grote spijt,
niet over VL’s personeelsbeleid.

Je vindt ongetwijfeld heel snel weer
een baan als ‘digital engineer’.
Jouw gedicht was toen een mooie geste,
mede daarom wens ik je het beste!

(Jouw gedicht heb ik helaas niet meer.
Die heb je toen intern verstuurd en daar
kan ik al heel lang niet meer in.)

Wim Platje, NetCopy, de online tekstwinkel.

(Mijn hart-onder-de-riem gedicht aan Wim indertijd is helaas verloren gegaan).