General information about image and text blocks

In order to place or enter images and texts in the editor, in addition to the possibility of adding text/image via top menu, image and/or text frames can be created in the IDML and their editing can be limited by means of BlockSettings.

(Blocks inserted by the user in the editor can also be limited in their editing via BlockSetting presets).

Specialties of image blocks in the printformer:

• If a stroke and/or fill color is assigned to the image frame in the IDML, it is adopted in the printformer template, but cannot be changed or deleted in the editor. (The size of the stroke cannot be changed either).

Specialties of text blocks in the printformer:

• Text blocks must be created using the Type tool (if a frame created using the Rectangle tool is converted to a text frame, it is mandatory to assign an object format)

• Text frames should not be reduced in size using the “Fit frame to content” command as otherwise the last line of text in the printformer editor may be cut off.

• Metric kerning is used for texts in printformer; possible adjustments using the InDesign feature, e.g. extended character formats, cannot be made. (If text was formatted in the InDesign template with this, this is reset in printformer). More information on font files and text styles.

• If a stroke and/or fill color is assigned to the text frame in the IDML, this is adopted in the printformer template, but the stroke size cannot be changed or deleted in the editor

• There is no automatic hyphenation in the printformer, for typesetting or for defining wanted word separations a Discretionary Hyphen (Choose Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens And Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen.) can be inserted in each text.
  (Hyphenation can already be deactivated in the paragraph format so that there can be no discrepancies between IDML and the editor later on).

• By the BlockSetting text-grow the text frame can be enlarged automatically for longer content

• The formatting of the default text is adopted from the IDML file. To ensure this, a corresponding paragraph and object format must be created and assigned to the text frame (and the paragraph format must be assigned to the object format). Otherwise, the entire text block cannot be reformatted. (If the text frame contains different formatting and the text is completely deleted in the editor, the formatting of the last first letter or paragraph format takes effect).

• Not all InDesign text formatting features are implemented in printformer, see Supported Text Styles.

• When adjusting the tracking, they are not visible in the Safari browser (in the preview, the tracking is displayed correctly in all browsers).

• There are special requirements for text frames with free forms.

If spaces are inserted in the editor at the beginning or end of a text block, they are automatically deleted.