4 Replies Latest reply: Aug 4, 2009 9:39 AM by mattaca RSS

    keeping local text overrides when changing or synchronzing object styles

    mattaca Community Member

      PowerPC G5, OSX Leopard (10.5), ID CS4 6.0.3 here.

       

      I'm having problems keeping local overrides to object styles when I synchronize chapters in a book. Some items (such as colors or an added stroke) remain after synchronizing, and the object simply shows a + next to the applied object style—as it should. But when an object style is set to use a Paragraph Style and "Apply Next Style," it can't seem to recognize that I've manually adjusted the tracking. It reapplies the default settings, causing oversets where paragraphs had been tightened and empty lines where paragraphs had been loosened up. In fact, this problem also happens within an individual document. If I change anything about the object style, it immediate reapplies it to any objects using that style and clears out my overrides.

       

      InDesign is smart enough to maintain local overrides when synchronizing/updating paragraph styles; why is it not smart enough to keep my overrides when it's built into an object style? I stopped using object styles in CS2 because of this problem...I thought they would have fixed it by now.