Jun. 11, 2008
Have you ever changed an Indesign preference to find that the next document you open your preference has reverted back to its original setting?
Thats because Indesign in theory lets you save preferences in two specific ways. What I call local and global preferences. If you have no documents open and change preference settings from the Indesign preferences dialogue, all new documents will maintain the settings you chose. This is what I call a global setting.
According to Adobe if you have a document open and change preference settings, the preferences will be assigned to that document only. This would be a local setting. So the next document you create or open, the preference settings will have reverted back to their global states because Indesign didn’t recognise your preference settings to be permanent due to the document you had open at the time. That’s what they say in theory, however its just not that straight forward.
There are many instances when you will have a document open, make a preference change and find it’s still current next time you create or open a new document. For my sanity and for the sake of being too technical I’m not going to dive into that right now. Just remember if your wanting to change settings permanently (globally), make sure all your documents are closed beforehand, this way you can be certain you’ll get the result you’re expecting.
Similar rules apply when working with objects, text and panels. If you were working with objects on your page and decide you want your default fill to be magenta and the stroke cyan for all new objects (smashing I know), change these settings when no objects are selected. Your changes will be set as the default fill and stroke for all new objects drawn on that page. Once you close that page all these changes will revert back to their global states, they are specific to the document you had open at the time.
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