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Live Captions issue displaying dimensions

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December 22, 2017
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Hi All,

Quick question on live captions, we have to put together large documents regularly that have placed indesign files to show progress on jobs we are working on. We have to specify each artworks size, why doesn't the live caption display a linked indesign files dimensions? It just displays <NO DATA FROM LINK> if this worked, it would save us hours of work!

Any help would be great. Many thanks.

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Correct answer Colin Flashman

G'day Kasyan.

Thank you for letting me know. Try this link: Dropbox - drawarrowsaroundobjects.jsxbin

I've updated the article, and if a script in one of my articles fails, try my downloads page. Has to do with Dropbox removing support for the "public" folder so I had to move all of my scripts and relink them, no doubt I've missed a few.

Colin

Srishti Bali

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Hi JRHarvey86,

I would like to know if the steps suggested above worked for you, or the issue still persists.

Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.

Thanks,

Srishti

Colin Flashman

Community Expert

Prior to Christmas of 2015, I'd created a script that might assist the opening poster. It adds measurement guides to selected objects. More information can be found here and it is a free script: https://colecandoo.com/2015/12/12/bonus-script-for-the-holidays-draw-arrows-around-an-object/

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Kasyan Servetsky

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Hi Colin,

When I try to download the script, I get the "Dropbox - 404 - File not found" error message.

— Kas

Colin Flashman

Correct answer

Community Expert

G'day Kasyan.

Thank you for letting me know. Try this link: Dropbox - drawarrowsaroundobjects.jsxbin

I've updated the article, and if a script in one of my articles fails, try my downloads page. Has to do with Dropbox removing support for the "public" folder so I had to move all of my scripts and relink them, no doubt I've missed a few.

Colin

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Kasyan Servetsky

Legend

I think this happens because the info is taken from metadata: namely the Exif Properties

For example a JPEG, contains this info:

However INDD doesn't have this namespace:

So you can't use what you don't have.

At first sight, the metadata of indd files contain no info about the doc size. (I didn't look carefully into this so I may be wrong).

Of the top of the head, this can be easily solved by a simple script which would open each doc one-by-one and add the doc size into, say, the Description field so you could generate captions.

— Kas

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