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Script for avoiding rivers

Community Beginner ,
Mar 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021

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I have 10,000 names that need to be flowed into multiple linked text boxes. As the names are different lengths, I am getting some bad rivers. I'd like to find a script that will re-arrange the names (they don't have to be in any particular order), in order to best minimize bad rivers. Hope this makes sense.

Any ideas, anyone?

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Mar 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021

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Word and letter spacing for justified text is controlled by the paragraph’s Justification and Composer settings. Changing those setting will affect the rivers. Can you post a screen capture?

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021

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Yes, I know that. I need a script that will re-arrange the words, within the same space, in order to minimize the rivers.

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I'm not aware of such a script. It's not easy, and will be slow to run because you need to get all the spaces on a page and work out where they are and which ones overlap partially ('partially' should be defined) for a defined number of lines. It'll be quite a challenge.

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Thanks Peter
Yes, I thought it might be a difficult thing to achieve. Way too hard for me to attempt. If you should come across such a script please let me know... it could save me days of work!
Thanks again
David

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