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‎Feb 04, 2020
04:43 AM
Ok, that's much more clear, but I have one more question - what is "edit/s" ? You mean save file?
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‎Feb 02, 2020
03:25 PM
Hi! @Eugene_Tyson Sorry, but I'm not sure if I follow. Can you elaborate?
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‎Feb 02, 2020
06:02 AM
Hi, So I have a huge document with multiple instances of a particular graphical label in it. The problem with the label is that it has some text embeded in the graphic, and I need to have it editable in Indesign. So what I did is I created a similar graphical label, but without the text, then added the text with styling in Indesign on top of the label, and grouped it together. Is there any way to mass replace all the instances of the old label (just gfx) with this new one (gfx+txt grouped together)? Thanks!
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‎Sep 07, 2018
02:49 AM
Having the same problem - some layers get randomly 'blocked', and when I try to move them I get a program error. Closing PS and opening it again fixes it, but still - pretty annoying!
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‎Sep 04, 2018
09:56 AM
Hi, I'm trying to write a GREP to find the prices and cut the decimal part out. For example price 123.45 needs to change into 123 and price of 12 345.67 needs to change into 12 345. The prices include a dot (always), a spaces (sometimes), numbers (0-9) and 2 decimals (always). I've already found something like this "[\d ]\.\d{2}" the problem is it just selects the last number before the dot, and everything after the dot, but not everything. The second problem I have, is that I also have numbers that are not prices, but have similar format. To narrow it down I need the Grep to select only if there's an end of paragraph right after the price (I think this can be done by adding $), OR the price is followed by a space and another price (for example "12 234.35 643.36"). Is something like this possible?
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‎Aug 22, 2018
09:53 AM
There's honestly no way of doing that?! I'm surprised! Word is unfortunately not an option, as there's simply too much graphics:/ I considered data merge for this, but hoped I'll find something better. Not sure why data merge wouldn't work - it works perfectly on multiple pages project I create. The only problem is that each time I'd have to create the CSV file myself, because as BobLevine mentioned - no one will provide me with a proper one. Is there really no other software dedicated for that stuff? It seems like such an obvious feature!
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‎Aug 22, 2018
09:05 AM
Hi, I have this big master document with an offer for clients. It works as a template - each time someone from the sales team visits new client, I need to customize it (adding name of the client, changing logo, adding special log in url, removing couple pages, and so on). My question is - is there any way to make this process less time consuming. I thought about two possibilites: Option Max - it would be great if the sales people themselves could do it. For that I'd need it to be editable in acrobat with some predefined options. I imagine it like a form, in which they fill what is the name of the client, select an image with logo from the disk, which slides they want removed. And then they click 'generate' and it automatically generates the PDF with those settings. Is that possible? Could someone point me where to look? Option Minimum - if the option Max is not possible, then maybe something similar could work directly in Indesign, so that I'd have an easier life? I could live with positioning the logo image or removing pages, but stuff like links, names of the client and so on - is there any way to have only one place where I could add them, and it will automatically copy itself to all the right spots? Thanks!
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‎Jul 26, 2018
08:08 AM
Ok, thank you!:)
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‎Jul 26, 2018
07:05 AM
Ok, and maybe there's a way of mass changing the size of an object that contains a certain text? Basically anything that will help me to not have to do it manually.
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‎Jul 25, 2018
03:42 PM
Hi! So I'm trying to change object style of all objects, that have a particular paragraph style inside. Is it possible? The problem is - I have a small text field that's multiplied 200x in the project. It holds a particular variable, that has a certain paragraph style attached. But it doesn't fit (the text field is too small). So I'd like to expand all the 200x text fields at once. I wanted to do it with mass replace of the object style, but I don't know how to narrow down the ones that I need. The only thing in common is the paragraph style, and the text, but Indesign's Find > Object, doesn't allow to search for any of those. Any ideas? D.
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‎Jul 25, 2018
03:14 PM
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@Jean-Claude I ended up doing sth like this: .+(?=\rProdukty komplementarne:)|.+$ And it seems to work perfectly! Thanks for all your help!!!
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‎Jul 25, 2018
12:24 PM
Hey, @Jean-Claude Yes, I'm mass replacing the text with something else. That's why I used "test". @vladan It works, but... There's this one little thing that I forgot to mention in my original post. The GREP that I was using before (^.*?(Produkty komplementarne|$)(?m)) had problems, but it had one advantage - it also selected the fitting text if it didn't ended with "Produkty komplementarne". And when I use your GREP - it only works if the "produkty komplementarne" text appears, otherwise it just ignores the text completely. So below is an example. Is it a way to modify the GREP to select both cases? I was trying to add |$ like in my original script, but it didn't helped. Sorry for not being more clear about it...:( EDIT - to be even clearer - I use your GREP with very specifing formatting search, so I basically need sth like this - select all text that fits the formatting, and end the selection before "produkty komplementarne", and if that doesn't appear, then select until the formatting fits. DM
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‎Jul 25, 2018
08:07 AM
Unfortunately it doesn't. When I use the GREP u suggested it does select the text, but it also selected the end of paragraph, so after I use mass replace it changes from this: to this:
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‎Jul 25, 2018
06:06 AM
winterm​ Ad. 1 it worked perfectly! Ad. 2 I struggle to use this code, because it seems to do much more than I need. Is there any way to get the actual GREP line from it, just for selecting the proper part.
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‎Jul 25, 2018
05:58 AM
1. Yup, but fortunately winterm​ answered my question! But I actually will use the GREP you provided too for different cases, I just need to modify it a bit more, and maybe you could help me on that? I need it to only select the price if: - it doesn't have letters in the same string (only numbers, space, and dot) - it has one or two decimal numbers, not more Basically there are other number in the project with dot in the middle, and they are not prices and I need to skip them. 2. This is how it looks with the hidden chars:
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‎Jul 24, 2018
10:12 AM
Hi, I'm trying to figure out two GREPs. 1. I have a lot of prices in my document that I need to mass replace. They look like this: XX.ZZ, where XX is numeral part, and ZZ is decimal part, with dot between them. How I can select only the numeral part? Please note that sometimes it has a space to divide thousands (for example 12 000.30 , or 3 322.99), and in this case the space also needs to be selected. 2. I need to select a bunch of text until a specific text appears. It basically looks like this: The whole text from "DED6601..." up until "...19.00" is one text field, and I need to select only the part in the red rectangle. I've tried to just do normal text search, where I left "Search for" empty, and select only by format, and it works, but when I do replace - it also removes the end of paragraph, and changes the style of "Produkty komplementarne". So then I experimented with sth like this: ^.*?(Produkty komplementarne|$)(?m) And additionally I add format requirements. And it works, although sometimes the text has couple paragraphs, and when I do mass replace - it makes couple replaces instead of one. Any ideas how I could fix that? D.
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‎Jun 18, 2018
02:46 PM
Tested it and... IT WORKS!!! So ar I tested it on a smaller doc, but in a week or two I'll have this huge leaflet coming it and will test it further. THANKS!
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‎Jun 11, 2018
12:52 PM
This looks awesome. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know o it works. Thanks!!!
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‎Jun 08, 2018
02:43 PM
Hi Loic, It works better and doesn't hang now - thanks! But, I still have some issues. 1. The letter thing is problematic. It seems that if the variable name in data merge is "PROD01", and I write it like this: <<PROD01>>, your script will change the letters to <<prod01>> in the text itself, and also won't tag it as a variable (I guess because it doesn't match now - the data merge var is with big letters, and the text with small). EDIT: I did some more testing. It seems that it actually works ok! Sorry! 2. If I have a text field with content like "Price: <<var>>", and I have different formatting styles (e.g. "Price" is bold), after using your script the formatting of the first part overtakes the formatting of the entire text field (so in this case the whole thing becomes bold). EDIT: Did some more testing on that too. And discovered sth else. If I have sth like that "<<var1>>: <<var2>>" than your script will change it into "<<var1>><<var2>>" (deleting the middle part), reset the formatting as described previously, and also it'll just tag the var2. Anyway, thanks for all your help! D.
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‎Jun 08, 2018
12:40 AM
Thanks Loic, I'll check it as soon as I'll get to work!
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‎Jun 06, 2018
02:07 AM
IT WORKS! Thanks a lot!!!
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‎Jun 05, 2018
02:13 PM
I think I did everything as you said, but the script seems to hang my Indesign. http://prntscr.com/jrbnzn Any ideas? Maybe the amount of tags in data merge is too big?
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‎Jun 05, 2018
07:04 AM
OMG! This sounds EXACTLY as what I need! Thanks, will test it today!
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‎Jun 05, 2018
04:58 AM
I'm sorry but I'm not sure how this changes anything? Switching between the languages is super easy in data merge, so that's not a problem at all. For each specified variable you have multiple translated contents, and you can switch all the variables in the doc to a specified language with one click, so that's not a problem. The problem is basically how much time you lose on putting the variables in the document. You have to click the text field, then find the variable on the huge list in data merge pane, and then click it. I know exactly which variable goes where, because their names have a clear structure - prod1_name, prod1_desc, prod2_name, prod2_desc, and so on. So it would be 10x faster to just type the name of the variable, instead of looking for it on the list. But if I do this - Indesign doesn't recognize this string as a variable... I wonder is there maybe a way to write a script that will use regex to search the text fields for all strings between << and >> , and automatically turn them into the variables from data merge that match their names (so for example if the variable is "desc" and the text is "<<desc>>" - it turns it into variable). That would be beautiful, I'd just write the names of the variables into the text fields by hand, which is much quicker, and then turn them all into actual variables with the script.
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‎Jun 02, 2018
03:48 PM
Sure. So I have a leaflet with hundreds of products. Each product has a name, description, and couple others. Now I need to translate it to 10 different languages. So what I did is created a list with all the translated content in the CSV doc, like this: prod1_name, prod1_desc... "Name in EN", "Description in EN"... "Name in DE", "Description in DE"... ... What I need to do is just add those variables into right places, and than I can easily switch between the languages. The problem is - to add a variable you need to open a data merge pane, browse through a list of 4000 variables with your mouse, find the one you're looking for, and click it. Which takes A LOT of time, and is very error prone. The result of this action is that this variable appears in this text field, looking like this "<<prod1_name>>". So I was trying to just write "<<prod1_name>>" in this text field, but it doesn't work this way. You have to add it from the list so that Indesign recognized it's a variable. So I'm looking for a workaround. Is there any fast way of adding a variable not using this list? Hope that helps.
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‎Jun 02, 2018
02:59 PM
Hi, I'm doing a huge leaflet with multiple (around 4000) text strings that need translation. I have each of those strings split into variables and imported from CSV via data merge. The problem is - to input the variable into a text field I have to find this variable on a huge data merge list, and click it. What I would like to do is just input the variable by hand, write it's name in the text field, instead of looking for it. Is there any way to do it? Example: I have two text fields in my doc, one for the name, and the second one for description. I have the content for those fields in data merge, under variables "name" and "desc" What I want to do is to just write in <<name>> and <<desc>> into those fields, instead of having to find those variables on the data merge list. If that's not possible - than is there any way to search this data merge list somehow? Or anything else that will speed up adding those variables? Thanks!
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‎Jun 02, 2018
04:22 AM
And if I use the 2.0 version of the script - it does something, even excel opens for a second (and closes immediately) when I run the script, but I don't see any results and in JS console it says "Result: undefined" PS. Sorry for third post in a row!
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