Zapped by InDesign

[Katlynn]

I have had a few things happen to me while using InDesign CS4, one on the PC and the other while on the Mac.

On the PC, I opened a file that was in InDesign CS2 and resaved to InDesign CS4. Some of the text headings in the converted file was missing. The same text heading was ok on other pages and I had no messages on fonts. The text box was there with just the symbol # . I opened the text box, no overset - nothing but # was there.

Also on the Mac I re-linked an eps that had minor changes to it, but was renamed, I re-linked - the original eps was at 100%, I assumed that the new re-linked eps would also be 100% (the preserve images dimensions is checked on) - but it was enlarged to 105%.

I find this quite unsettling and wonder if anyone has had similar experiences and how are you handling the situation or if anyone has any suggestions.

 

[DavidMa]

For one, the text engine was heavily modified between CS2 and CS4, so it's understandable that you will have/see issues with fonts in a file that is converted, probably more prevalent on a PC than a Mac.
A good practice is to open a file in the same app that created it, in most cases, the "conversion" may have undesirable side effects.

How did you relink the new eps file, did you do a file/place and replace selected or did you do it from the links pallet? If you did the former, I would assume the new file had a bounding box change/difference and that was what made it change sizes when replaced.

 

[Katlynn]

I did a re-link in the Link panel. The designer added Rev to the name of the file. But I can not think of why adding a small amount of type would change the file enough that it would come 5% larger. Though I do not work a lot in Illustrator myself, I would think that if I had a panel layout that I saved as an eps, then had to add additional type, I would do a save-as, so I am not sure why the bounding box would change.

 

[pcmodem]

The bounding box would change if they modified something on the outside of the art and didn't tell you about it.

 

[DavidMa]

In your case, the file was enlarged when you replaced it, so it would stand to reason the bounding box was made smaller, so when the new file was updated, it had to grow to fit the dimensions of the original file.

make sense?

Everything in a digital file, Illustrator, Indesign, Quark, has a bounding box which surrounds all the pieces of of the file. If you were to open your Illustrator file, do a select all, the rectangle that is displayed around all the prts is the bounding box. If anything is changed that would alter the size and shape of the bounding box, it will alter the size and position of that artwork where ever it has been placed as an external file.