Mistakes happen, and sometimes you might reference a style or image in your content that doesn't exist in the Typefi-ready template (perhaps you need to check in the template). When this happens, Typefi automatically applies a default style to missing styles and images, and you will see a warning in the job log.
You can customise how Typefi displays content with missing styles or images.
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Customising the appearance of missing styles ↩
During the automated page composition process, Typefi creates a bright red "on-the-fly", or impromptu, style when it comes across content with missing paragraph, character, table, or cell styles.
TIP When Typefi creates an on-the-fly style, you'll also see a warning like this in the job log: Paragraph style (paragraph-style-name) not found in template. Creating it on the fly.
You can customise the appearance of Typefi's on-the-fly style. For example, you can change the color, or use a custom font and an extra-large font-size so that the missing style stands out.
To change the color:
- In your Typefi-ready template (.indd), create a color group named TPS On-the-fly.
- Within the TPS On-the-fly color group, create an RGB process swatch named TYPEFI_ERROR_COLOR and set the value to #FF0000 (or whichever color you choose).
You can use this color to further customise a style for missing paragraph, character, table, and cell styles.
To specify a style for missing paragraph styles:
- Deselect everything on the page: choose Edit → Deselect All, or, with the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool, click at least 3 pixels away from any object.
- Create a paragraph style group named TPS On-the-fly.
- Create a paragraph style named TPS Missing paragraph style and specify the formatting attributes.
- Assign the TYPEFI_ERROR_COLOR swatch to the text fill of the TPS Missing paragraph style style you created in Step 3.
To specify a style for missing character styles:
- Deselect everything on the page: choose Edit → Deselect All, or, with the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool, click at least 3 pixels away from any object.
- Create a character style group named TPS On-the-fly.
- Create a character style named TPS Missing character style and specify the formatting attributes. Attributes you do not set are ignored; when the style is applied, the text retains the paragraph style formatting for that attribute.
- Assign the TYPEFI_ERROR_COLOR swatch to the text fill of the TPS Missing character style style you created in Step 3.
To specify a style for missing table styles:
- Deselect everything on the page: choose Edit → Deselect All, or, with the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool, click at least 3 pixels away from any object.
- Create a table style group named TPS On-the-fly.
- Create a table style named TPS Missing table style.
- Assign the TYPEFI_ERROR_COLOR swatch to the table border of the TPS Missing table style style you created in Step 3.
To specify a style for missing cell styles:
- Deselect everything on the page: choose Edit → Deselect All, or, with the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool, click at least 3 pixels away from any object.
- Create a cell style group named TPS On-the-fly.
- Create a cell style named TPS Missing cell style.
- Assign the TYPEFI_ERROR_COLOR swatch to the cell fill of the TPS Missing cell style style you created in Step 3.
Now, when Typefi comes across a missing style, it applies the style you specified instead of the generic on-the-fly style.
Customising the appearance of missing images ↩
A missing image changes the Element Image Frame from a graphic frame to a text frame. The text frame is filled with either the @comment
attribute on the missing <image>
tag, or an error message strung with the original file path to the missing image.
You can style this by adding a default custom paragraph style to an object style applied to the Element Image Frame (object styles can include formatting for both graphic and text frames simultaneously; only the applicable styles are applied).
You can also configure the object style so that the frame automatically resizes in case of a missing image:
- Open the Object Styles panel (Window → Styles → Object Styles) and double-click the style that is applied to the Element Image Frame. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or control-click (macOS) the style and choose Edit.
- In the Auto-Sizing pop-up window, choose Height and Width.
- Set the reference point to match the Expand From point of the Typefi Element Image Options. TIP If you don't remember where the Element Image expands from, right-click (Windows) or control-click (macOS) the Element Image Frame and choose Typefi Frame Options.
- Set the Minumum Height to 2p0 or 24pt (or whatever value will fit two lines of text with the Basic paragraph style applied).
- Set the Minimum Width to 6pt narrower than the Main Story Frame width.
- Click OK.
If you have any questions about customising the appearance of Typefi document composition errors, please contact us. We're here to help.
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