Hi, Graeme:
Graeme R Forbes wrote:
It looks like the new version of ID in CS3 has got some better
long-doc handling tools. Or so Adobe says. I would still rather switch
from FM to ID than run Windows FM under simulation - Parallels or
whatever. One foresees just too many unforeseeable problems.
So: does anyone know what the current state of development of the
MIF->ID filter that DTP Tools (?) is working on is?
Reading the ID forum at Adobe suggests that the new version still
doesn't have x-refs. Anyone know if that's right?
No x-refs in CS3.
There's also a claim to do footnotes. Anyone know if ID does footnotes
*correctly*: do they break across pages like real footnotes are
supposed to, or does the entire note jump to the next page if it
doesn't all fit on the current page, a la FM?
Good question. I hadn't looked at the footnotes, while testing, until
you asked. They do break across pages; it's a document-level option, to
break or not It looks like different component documents in a book can
set break or no break, but I haven't experimented with this, yet.
I tried a couple of goofy layouts with one-, two-, and three-column text
frames in one story (same as one FrameMaker text flow,) and found it
hard to predict how the various sized footnotes - small, medium, and
large, intermixed - would split (or not split). Perhaps it's saner in
real situations than an undisciplined test like mine. There were no
whitespace gaps in the footnotes or the story's text.
There's a lot of formatting and layout control over footnotes. No table
footnotes, though. No x-refs to fake them, either.
Thanks for asking.
HTH
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