Too much grey (desktop)?

[mikky78]

Hi,

I have a problem with indesign. I'm working on a 100 pages document, but suddenly I have a lot more desktop (the grey area around the pages) than neded? It makes the job defficult too work with, so how do I get it back too normal size?

I'm a new user, so I'm sorry if this topic have been talked about earlier?


Mikky

 

[jimoblak]

Try zooming your VIEW back in.

 

[cubsdude]

Sounds like you've removed the paste board view. Click the left lower button on the bottom of the tools palatte. If you hold your cursor over it it should show normal, the other button shows preview.

 

[mikky78]

Hi,

sorry, I know how too zoom? Hmmm, it's more like this:

Lets say I'm wathing my document in 100%. Normally in Indesign there will be around 3 inches of desktop between the speads. Suddenly there is like 20 inces, so it takes forever to scroll down my document?

WHY?

Mikky

 

[mikky78]

Hi again,

nope did'nt help.

If I see the whole thing in normal view, (with the white background), there is too much white (desktop) around the pages?


Mikky

 

[jmgalvin]

What does your View menu tell you you're lookag at - Actual size, Fit page, fit spread, etc? Try fit spread. The normal normal vertical distance between spreads in ID is 2 inches. Scroll cown and see what the ruler tells you is the distance between the bottom of the top spread and top of bottom spread, he ruler should show 1 and then 0 = 2. the gray band between the spreads should be about 1/2 inch when set to fit spread. If it reads that and you have this vast space, your View settings are screwed up.

As a test create a new ID document of at least 4 pages. See if it matches the above, you're ok. If the distance is still huge, quit Indesign, trash your Indesign preferences and relaunch. See if things are back to normal.

On Mc prefs are found at User.Library/Preferences/com.adobe.InDesign.plist. Don't know where they are on PC.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[MarcusStringer]

I get the same thing happening, but only on two files so far.

It starts off normal, (with the normal amount of white space around the document) but then it will something will happen and it will go like this.

I haven't found a solution to fix the problem yet, I simply continue working in it, only I use the Pages pallet to navagate around instead of the scroll wheel.


Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[jimoblak]

Are these fresh INDD files or were they converted from Quark?

 

[mikky78]

It's a fresh INDD job..

 

[jmgalvin]

Did you trash yur prefs yet? Corrupted prefs are the largest cause of problems with Acobe apps.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[pbrodsky]

I think I remember a discussion of this problem a while back on the adobe forums

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

I don't remember what the solution was, but you might try looking for the topic there.