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1. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
P Spier Apr 29, 2014 12:13 PM (in response to zimbop)The crop option should be sticky if you pick a single PDF to import, selct the option, and place it. Your choice should now be the defualt until the next time you make a change.
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2. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 29, 2014 3:11 PM (in response to P Spier)Hi Peter, thanks, but it's not a sticky option for me in InDesign CS5.5 on Mavericks.
Here's what I'm doing.
- Place blah.pdf
- by default page 1 of blah.pdf is selected, so simply choose "media" from crop options and OK
- Move to next page in .INDD and place blah.pdf again
- Choose page 2 of blah.pdf to import
- Crop option is still set to "bounding box", was hoping it would be sticky "media" but no, have to constantly keep reselecting the same thing, not very clever.
Seems like not much of a deal until you've imported a few hundred pages!
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3. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
P Spier Apr 29, 2014 3:18 PM (in response to zimbop)It shouldn't be changing like that. Try trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences
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4. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 29, 2014 3:46 PM (in response to P Spier)Hello again Peter, and many thanks for the confirmation on this. A couple of months ago I had a another issue with preferences being corrupted. I wonder what it is that I'm doing that is leading to this.
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5. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
P Spier Apr 29, 2014 3:50 PM (in response to zimbop)Hard to say... Do you run any utilities in the background?
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6. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 29, 2014 4:10 PM (in response to P Spier)A few things, but nothing that should be messing with the library.
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7. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
P Spier Apr 29, 2014 4:29 PM (in response to zimbop)zimbop wrote:
A few things, but nothing that should be messing with the library.
Should being the operative word...
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8. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 29, 2014 4:44 PM (in response to P Spier)Hey Peter, are you aware of any utilities in particular that are known to cause trouble?
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9. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 30, 2014 2:43 AM (in response to P Spier)Peter Spier wrote:
It shouldn't be changing like that. Try trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences
I've been working on this issue and trashing prefs hasn't fixed it. The other problem I was experiencing is also back (show baseline grid shortcut not working).
I've tried the following:
- Manual trash of prefs
- Trash prefs using the cmd-alt-ctrl-shift starup option
- Removed every utility I could find, rebooted and trashed prefs again
Interested to hear if there are any utilities known to mess with InDesign
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10. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
zimbop Apr 30, 2014 2:56 AM (in response to zimbop)Aha! One of the problems is solved - the default InDesign shortcut for Show Baseline Grid is being overridden by the Keyboard shortcut preset for Move Focus To The Window Drawer. I didn't set this up, either it's default in Mavericks or an app I use added it. I Disabled all these and the problem of the Baseline Grid shortcut disappears.
Now I just have to get my head around the PDF import issue.
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11. Re: Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset
P Spier Apr 30, 2014 5:28 AM (in response to zimbop)Try it in a new user account to see if it behaves differently.
As far as third-party software conflicts, I don't have a list, sorry (though I recall some discussion of troubles with MacKeeper in the past, and Suitcase has been implacated in some strange behavior from time to time). I'm a Windows user.



