In message <4ea5c82c40louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Louie <louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
1. I need to produce a layout sheet for the printers so that they can
You could use the thumbnails print format combined with some way of adding text which only appears on the layout print - perhaps styles which you turn on when you're printing the layout.
The other alternative is to generate a document for your layout sheet. This has frames that you drop your pages into. You then print your document to something like SPrinter and drop the resulting sprites into the frames in the layout sheet.
but also, so that if I change something, like add a page, it will automatically update the thumbnails to move correspondingly. i.e. I need it kind of dynamic.
Have a series of frames layed out on the grid pattern you desire. Next link the text flows between them (again in the order you want). Finally embed a number of frames in the text flow, drop your sprites into these embedded frames.
2. I'm really stupid, but I keep crashing Ovation pro. It keeps coming up with "internal error type 5" or something like that. What am I doing wrong?
Without more information this is hard to answer. The problem could be nothing to do with OP - might be hardware, might be other software.
Of course it could easily be a bug in Ovation Pro. If it is a bug it will be triggered by a specific set of actions.
It is a good idea to not propagate old documents for a huge number of generations, i.e. always basing a new document on an old one, because if there is some corruption in the old document it will keep getting copied to the new ones.
If you save a document in DDL format and then reload the DDL, it is cleaned up and any corruption is likely to be removed.
3. (This proves I'm stupid) I can't seem to be able to put pictures in frames without taking loads of memory. So is there anyway to do this so
Yes use the referenced pictures feature. See the chapter in the manual on dealing with big pictures.
I'd echo what others have said today, try not to use images that are far bigger than necessary. Can be difficult of course because when you start you may not know what the final size is going to be.
2. I have had another problem at the printers, this time saying that the text is not actually black, and that it is appearing on all four CMYK plates. I have checked the colours and the text is black, and I have checked to see the composition of black, and it is 100% black with nothing else in it. Yet it is still appearing on all 4 plates.
Check which black is actually in use and then check that it is defined in the CMYK colour model.
The dangers are that there is more than one black, in other words what colour is the text actually in, and that the black is defined in RGB space.
This point should be easy to resolve if you send me a small example document.
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