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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d20a"><h3 class="topictitle3">About preferences and defaults</h3>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1fa"><h3 class="topictitle3">Set general preferences</h3>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ea"><h3 class="topictitle3">Set defaults</h3>
</a></p><ul><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1da"><h4 class="topictitle4">Specify default settings for new documents</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ca"><h4 class="topictitle4">Specify default settings for new objects in a document</h4>
</a></p></li></ul></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ba"><h3 class="topictitle3">Restore all preferences and default settings</h3>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1aa"><h3 class="topictitle3">About InDesign styles and presets</h3>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d20a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d20a"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">About preferences and defaults</h2><div><p><dfn class="term">Preferences </dfn>include
settings such as panel positions, measurement options, and display
options for graphics and typography. Preference settings specify
how InDesign documents and objects behave initially.</p>
<p>Numerous program preferences and default settings are stored
in the Adobe InDesign preferences files. These files, including
the InDesign Defaults file, are saved each time you exit from InDesign.
The settings files are located here:</p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Windows XP</dt>
<dd>Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\[Version]\[language]</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Windows Vista</dt>
<dd>Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\[version]\[language]</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Mac&#160;OS</dt>
<dd>[username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe/InDesign/[version]/[language]</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>InDesign preference settings are fully scriptable.
To share a consistent set of preferences across user groups, develop
a script to set the preferences, and then have all users in the
group run the script on their computers. Don’t copy and paste one user’s
preferences files onto another computer, as doing so might cause
application instability. For more information about scripting, see
the Scripting Guide on the InDesign CS4 DVD. </div>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1fa" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1fa"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">Set general preferences</h2><div><div class="section"><p>This section covers preference settings in
the General tab of the Preferences dialog box. For information on
other preferences, search for the appropriate setting.</p>
</div>
<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose
Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt; General (Windows) or
InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt; General (Mac&#160;OS),
and then choose the type of preferences you want to specify.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Page Numbering section, choose a page numbering
method from the View menu.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Font Downloading and Embedding section, specify
a threshold to trigger font subsetting based on the number of glyphs
a font contains. This setting affects font downloading options in
the Print and Export dialog boxes.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the When Scaling section, you can determine how scaled
objects are reflected in panels. </span> <ul><li><p>Select Apply To Content if you want the point size
to change when text is scaled. If this option is selected when a
graphics frame is scaled, the percentage size of the image changes,
but the frame reverts its percentage to 100%. </p>
</li>
<li><p>Select Adjust Scaling Percentage to display the original
point size with the new point size in parentheses when you scale
text. If this option is selected when you scale graphics frames,
the percentage size of both the frame and image changes.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Scripting section, select Enable Attached Scripts
to allow JavaScript actions to be attached to features in InDesign.
You may want to turn off this option if you’re opening an InDesign
document from an unknown source.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click Reset All Warning Dialogs to display all warnings,
even the ones you’ve already checked not to display. (As warnings
appear, you can select a check box to prevent the warning from appearing
again.)</span></li>
</ol>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ea" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ea"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">Set defaults</h2><div><div class="section"><p>If you change settings when no documents
are open, your changes set the defaults for new documents. If a
document is open when you change settings, the changes affect only
that document.</p>
<p>Similarly, if you change settings when no objects
are selected, your changes set the defaults for new objects.</p>
</div>
</div><div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1da" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1da"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Specify default settings for new documents</h3><div><ol><li><span>Close all documents.</span></li>
<li><span>Change any menu items or panel or dialog box&#160;settings.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />If you use the same page size and language
for most of your documents, you can change these defaults with no
document open. For example, to change the default page size, close
all documents, choose File&#160;&gt; Document Setup, and select
a desired page size. To set a default dictionary, close all documents,
choose Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt; Dictionary (Windows)
or InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Dictionary (Mac&#160;OS), and select an option from the Language
menu.</div></div>
</div></div><div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ca" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ca"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Specify default settings for new objects in a document</h3><div><ol><li><span>With document open, choose Edit&#160;&gt;
Deselect All.</span></li>
<li><span>Change any menu items or panel or dialog box settings.</span></li>
</ol>
</div></div></div>
<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ba" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1ba"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">Restore all preferences and default settings</h2><div><div class="section"><p>When
InDesign is behaving erratically, deleting preferences (also referred
to as “trashing preferences” or “removing preferences”) often solves
the problem.</p>
</div>
<div class="p"><span><img src="images/dingbat.png" />&#160;Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>(Windows) Start InDesign, and then press
Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference
files.</p>
</li>
<li><p>(Mac&#160;OS) While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control,
start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference
files.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div></div>
<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1aa" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1aa"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">About InDesign styles and presets</h2><div><p>You&#160;can
store settings for reuse, including settings for the&#160;following
items:</p>
<ul><li><p>Creating paragraph and character styles. (See <a href="WS60910FA3-2BD7-449d-9904-05CFA551665Da.html">Add paragraph and character styles</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating object styles. (See <a href="WSA23BFAF6-554B-4ea8-8CEA-409C5ED8D74Fa.html">Define object styles</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating table and cell styles. (See <a href="WSB6F55310-B838-4179-BF7A-2112A56C399Fa.html">Define table and cell styles</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating PDF export presets. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-70c1a.html">Customize Adobe PDF presets</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating print presets. All the attributes in the Print dialog
box are included in the style. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7095a.html">Print a document or book</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating trap presets. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6e9ba.html">Trapping color</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating transparency flattener presets. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6ea7a.html">Flattening transparent artwork</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating table of contents styles. (See <a href="WS15BD5626-3C31-4174-82F0-3C35A43D28FDa.html">Create or import TOC styles</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Saving the workspace configuration.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating document
presets. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7145a.html">Define document presets</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Creating stroke styles. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bf5a.html">Define custom stroke styles</a>.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In general, change the feature settings in the dialog box, and
then save the settings. Styles and presets are stored in the document
in which they are created. You can use the settings from another
document by importing or loading the styles and presets from that
document. In addition, most presets can be exported or saved to
a separate file and distributed to other computers.</p>
<p>You can also share styles and presets across all documents in
a book file. For more information, see <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6cbda.html">Synchronize book documents</a>.</p>
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