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Jon Chambers
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Jon Chambers
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‎Nov 07, 2022
01:51 AM
No, but they LOOK like a 2x2 table, and for print media, that's close enough.
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‎Nov 06, 2022
08:43 PM
I already solved it. Is my solution not showing up? I'm puzzled as to why more solutions keep flooding in. No, adding a stroke to the text frame definitely wouldn't solve the problem. The solution is to create four more text frames, group them, and add a stroke to THAT border, as presented in my solution. (admittedly, the image doesn't show that step yet)
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‎Nov 06, 2022
08:02 PM
I found a very hacky inelegant solution, which also highlighted a problem behind the problem. So, by adding a lot of funny whitespace characters, I have tricked inDesign into thinking two different paragraphs are really the same paragraph, getting the behaviour I want. But on closer inspection... there is no consistency between where the shading ends. I don't really care how far from the bottom of the textbox the shading ends, so long as it's the same consistently. It isn't. So, a bug within a bug. Inception of bugs!
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‎Nov 06, 2022
07:51 PM
Please vote for my bug here https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/45948208-bug-with-paragraph-borders-across-multiple-textbox
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‎Nov 06, 2022
07:36 PM
Will do. I thought the bug was me not knowing how to use the software properly.
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‎Nov 06, 2022
05:41 PM
I acheived it! My latest picture was an example of success. That's exactly what I was trying to do this whole time. When I do it with a table, it doesn't work. But when I do it with 4 textboxes, it works. No idea why, but I'm just rolling with it.
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‎Nov 06, 2022
05:39 PM
Inside my textboxes, I have: Unchecked: Display Border if Paragraph Splits Across Frames/Columns Checked: Merge Consecutive Borders and Shading with same Settings So far so good. Everything works exactly as I want it to, except for one edge case: Sometimes a paragraph happens to end at exactly the same place as the textbox. When this happens, it displays the border. But I want it to NOT display the border when this happens, just as I want it to not display the border if the paragraph splits across frames/columns. This only ended up happening at one place in my document, so it looks like an error.
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‎Nov 06, 2022
04:03 PM
I think I understood you. Or if I didn't, my misunderstanding of you worked perfectly. Using a table just didn't work as hoped, but using four textboxes in a group, c/p directly into the main textbox worked exactly as I intended. Here's a screenshot of the final result. I'm still slightly disappointed that I couldn't get this feature to work when inserting a table, but given that I wanted a 4 cell table with all cells of exactly equal size, this restriction hasn't hurt my workflow for this project. Though having this behaviour work with inserted tables is something I still don't know how to do. Should I put in a feature request for it?
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‎Nov 06, 2022
02:42 PM
The before text is 1811 words (at time of writing) and spans across 17 pages. The after text is 252 words long and spans across 2 pages. Edit2: I deleted my first edit, which showed my misunderstanding of the solution presented.
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‎Nov 06, 2022
02:38 PM
No... I want the text above and below to share the same border with eachother, and I want the table in the middle to share that border also. So I need to figure out how to turn it on for the table. I already know how to turn it off for the text. It took me ages to get it just right to begin with.
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‎Nov 05, 2022
09:47 PM
Better? Yeah, those are paragraph borders Edit: If it helps to know, this is the top of 16 linked textboxes. So there is some wordwrap from the previous textbox.
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‎Nov 05, 2022
09:31 PM
Hopefully the image above tells you all you need to know, but this is the inside of a textbox. I swapped out the genuine text with placeholder text so as not to distract you, but otherwise this is a very real project I'm actually working on. So the text above appears inside a border. The text below appears inside a border. But what I actually want... I generated my desired output using photoshop, but I don't know how to replicate it into anything sensible in inDesign. (I'll be changing the colour of the cells later anyway, so it doesn't matter if the solution preserves the transparency inside the cells or not.) So, how do I do this?
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‎Oct 16, 2022
10:06 PM
The key thing here, is that if two paragraphs have the same border, they join. If they have different borders, they do not join. A lot of my experience is in CSS and html tags. Someone who knows CSS better than I do may correct me on this, but I don't think I could ever get CSS to behave like this. This is so counter-intuitive that it would ever work like this, but I cannot come up with a better way of communicating this feature to the end user. Maybe we just need more tutorials that mention it.
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‎Oct 15, 2022
02:32 AM
I tried, but within the border style either the entire thing must be body text or the entire thing must be heading 2. The idea of a selection that has a border with part heading 2 and part body... I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
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‎Oct 15, 2022
01:47 AM
Maybe the standard solution to my problem is completely different, so I'll describe the use case: I've got a typical document with all the typical styles. Headings 1,2,3, and so on. I may add more as I go. Occasionally, I'll want some text bordered. It took me a while to get the border just right, including offsetting the border inward slightly and adding some space to the left and right indent. These are all stylistic choices I may want to change later. For example, suppose we have HEADING 2 TITLE Body text BORDERED HEADING 2 TITLE Bordered body text ANOTHER HEADING 2 TITLE Another body text So I want to keep the formatting as is, but I weant to make some exceptions just for the bordered stuff in the middle. What is the "correct" workflow to acheive this? Keep in mind, I want the option to change my mind about border styling later, as well as being able to change my mind about Heading 2 later. Assume I have way too many bordered sections to ever want to select them all manually.
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‎Dec 01, 2017
08:10 AM
1 Upvote
I had a think, and here's the best idea I have so far: I will animate the body with some tracking references for the head to follow above the neck. Xs or squares should work, but I'll try the other if the first doesn't. From there, I can animate the body, and have the head automatically follow using After Effects tracking. It's slow, CPU intensive, less than perfect, and not what the programs were designed to do, but it's the best workflow idea so far. I'll mark this as "correct answer" in 48 hours unless someone can top it.
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‎Dec 01, 2017
06:58 AM
3 Upvotes
I love the lip sync feature of Character Animator, but I prefer to animate bodies in Animate. No problem, just make the head in Character Animator, add it to Animate (with background transparency) over the body. Done. Or not. It's possible to export it with transparency to After Effects. From there, After Effects is very versatile, so I can make it into any file type imaginable! Which file types (with transparency) does Adobe Animate open? Is there another way of getting my lip sync data across?
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‎Oct 03, 2017
06:02 AM
I had a stab at creating an action, but it wouldn't track. I've got a batch of files (and many more to come) that need to have all the data set variables removed so they can be Adobe Muse compatible. Is there a way of doing this without opening every file manually?
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‎Aug 28, 2017
05:37 AM
I also wish someone much more intelligent than me could put this in as a feature request. It seems that every time I try to describe what I want done, someone gives me instructions to perform a completely different task. I can't imagine what the feature request people would make of my confused ramblings.
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‎Aug 28, 2017
05:24 AM
I want to mark that as "correct answer", but I'm still holding out hope that it might not be. On the plus side, I learned about markers. They were cool, but just don't do anything I want them to do.
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‎Aug 27, 2017
10:48 PM
Okay, below is the original file. Above is the output at the end of the process. If I had done it correctly, all clips should be in exactly the same position. However, all clips have moved left, or earlier. Is there a way of doing all of that, such that the clips appear in the same place as the original file?
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‎Aug 26, 2017
10:46 PM
I want them on the same track, but I want them placed with the same gaps that existed in the original. Or put another way, the "Use embedded timecode when inserting clips into Multitrack" doesn't seem to do anything. I expected it to keep the timing of the original file, but it doesn't.
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‎Aug 26, 2017
05:57 AM
I did check all the things you told me to check.
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‎Aug 26, 2017
05:56 AM
Sorry about the delay. I won't bore you with why the project was on hold for so long. Okay, so got the markers figured out. I like markers. Markers are good. I've got all the bits I want marked. I also checked my preferences, just as you said. Still, when I inset all the marked clips into the multi track, they insert by the playhead, where ever the playhead happens to be at the time. If I select them all and insert in one batch, the first one appears exactly at the playhead, the second appears exactly at the end of the first, and so on. What am I doing wrong?
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‎Aug 11, 2017
06:24 AM
I guess that could be, SLIGHTLY faster, but isn't there a way to select all the sounds automatically? If I can have everything that isn't silence selected, I could do as you say and that would save a LOT of time. But how do I get the sounds selected without selecting the silence is the real question.
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‎Aug 11, 2017
04:41 AM
Well, I'm just starting, so there is no established "typical" yet. Though I always try to learn the techniques for one scale above the current project so they'll still be relevant as my projects get bigger. The point is, I do want to mess with the sync, but I want to knowingly mess with it. As in, I might be listening and think "that sound came in too early. Let's delay it slightly" or "this one was too loud, let's turn it down". Stuff like that. Last time I tried this, if I wanted to move a sound, I had to get the razor tool, make a cut before, make a cut after, drag it until it was cross fading. It was really tedious, especially if I made the cut too close to the sound, and the digital silence cross fading into digital silence must be a waste of hardware resources. If I wanted to change the volume, again, razor tool, look for the silence, cut, cut, adjust the clip volume. The whole time thinking, "There MUST be a faster way of doing this." I am unfamiliar with markers. Would using them be faster than what I'm already doing? I'll learn any trick to shave off an extra second.
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‎Aug 10, 2017
10:42 PM
When anyone here finally understands the question, could you please tell me how to word it? I need to learn the professional words here so I can be understood.
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‎Aug 10, 2017
10:41 PM
Okay, I'll try to explain it with pictures this time. See the two clips on the bottom? See the clips above? I want the two clips on the bottom to be separated out into individual clips like the clips on the top, but I want it done automatically, because doing it manually would take forever.
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‎Aug 10, 2017
10:32 PM
It is true, there that no clip means digital silence, but it's not true that digital silence means no clip. I can have a clip of digital silence. I can have a clip with digital silence between a pair of noises. Yes, I could have separate clips exported, but then I wouldn't know where to put them at all. They have been carefully positioned within the wav file, and I only want to tweak them, not put the entire jigsaw puzzle together from scratch. The main reason for this is I want a visual cue to let me know where the silence is when I've got all 40 minutes on screen at once. This will be a big time saver, if I can skip all the scenes that don't have any sound effects at all. As it currently stands, I need to zoom right in and look at the wave form to see if it's flat or not. Sorry guys, this is a very difficult one to explain, though the most important thing here is I am talking about the multitrack editor. If I were talking about the wav form editor, the question itself wouldn't make any sense, because "No clip" isn't even a thing in the wav form editor. Everything in the wav form editor is "clip"
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‎Aug 10, 2017
12:33 PM
You misunderstand. In all the places where there is digital silence, in the multi track editor, I want there to be no clip there. So, imagine I've got a clip that goes, "Bang! Ting! Boom!" I want Three clips. One that goes "Bang!" one that goes "Ting!" and one that goes "Boom!" If I hit play, it will still sound no different, but now I can drag "Ting!" back and forth without "Bang!" and "Boom!" moving with it. Yes, I could manually put two cuts between "Bang!" and "Ting!", and another two cuts between "Ting!" and "Boom!", remember this is the multitrack editor, I click between each pair of cuts so that I now have three very short clips instead of one very long one.
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