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I'm having issues with my photos jumping all over my document, not moving to where I drag them and then not staying put once I do get them in place. I really must be doing something wrong. I've tried Placement->Moves with Paragraph and Position on Page to no avail. The other odd thing is that the ce...

Tried it again this time using the export as... in Photoshop that let's you pick transparency color, etc. It worked.

Hmm, oddly adding 1/2 of the background as white in Photoshop (the most recent version) causes the entire PNG to save with an opaque white background.

Thanks Martin, yes, I have a few images like this and now that the first few chapters are relatively "stable" from a page perspective, I can easily do that.

So in rethinking the heading numbering... I need to be able to have some headings numbered - chapter names, primary headings like 1. XYZ, 2. ABC. But I don't like to go deep with dot-numbers so on the next level I prefer not to have a number at all. I never (at least in this book) go deeper than tha...

This is exactly the kind of best practices info I was looking for! Ironically, the book I'm writing is really a best practices for 3D printing based on over a decade of helping people (like me here) go down wrong paths and/or not understand the capabilities and limits and the options on how to do th...

I put a fair amount of time into choosing the font for this book and this one was "perfect'. It's an Adobe font so I thought it should be clean. The ONLY issue I've found is this odd combination of "ff" followed by another character. I ended up creating a character style that changes ...

Well, I just purchased a 3 license pack so I can use on my laptop and desktop and have one for my wife too. I feel a lot better today. I think the text box stuff was not a good approach. I couldn't include footnotes for example and I needed to do that. My goal really is to have a place visually dist...

Perfect, thank you! I was just searching for this and here's the answer.

It must be the Adobe Caslon Pro font, if I change those 3 characters to any other font it works perfectly. I also see that the sequence ffm also doesn't behave properly - it's the "ff" that seems to be the problem. I suppose I can create a character style and use a different font and small...

Wow, I learned some new things! Thanks. I duplicated your steps but after the Gremlins (12 of them I recall) were removed, I still am not able to make all 3 "f" small caps. Take a look at the zoomed in screenshot, it looks like the first one is slightly different from the other two! Yet th...

Thank you both for your thoughtful (and helpful!) replies. Firstly, sorry for the semantics, I actually did begin attempting to create true sidebars. When I found that they moved around the document causing layout issues in other places I went down the path of putting the text blocks in line with th...

Also, when I rebuild the TOC I get chap 3, 4, 5, 6 and appendix 1 & b duplicated at the end of the TOC! This ones new, I haven't had this happen before.

UPDATE: I did "pull the plug" and bought a 3 user license of Nisus Writer Pro. Much of what I experienced was due to operator error and lack of a good understanding of how the software works. Several members here really helped out as you will read below... I'm about ready to pull the plug...

I would like to be able to flow text around one side of a transparent object that is positioned next to a border like the attachment shows. I pulled this off by drawing a transparent rectangle 1/2 the width of the photo with no border and placing it behind my photo in the right side to block the tex...