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‎Jun 06, 2019
01:16 PM
Honorable experts, DOM only offers jpeg export resolution *as a real number*: app.jpegExportPreferences.exportResolution = 72; With the little trick you can get the desired width in pixels, and usually that's enough. Now to the problem: on a regular basis, have a page to export, with both exported jpeg pixel dimensions strictly pre-defined, and those don't match to original layout dimensions. Well, client doesn't care about aspect ratio here, so this is easily doable in Photoshop, from *regular* pdf. However, being so lazy, I'd love to include this little function in a some bigger script, and avoid firing up Photoshop just for this. Is there still a itty bitty teeny weeny chance to force InDesign to follow both given dimensions, and don't care about aspect ratio?
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‎Jun 05, 2019
01:23 PM
[Jongware] wrote I'm going to go ahead […] Will report back if successful. Sounds very promising. I'm holding my breath already . We really need some functionality of this kind in ID.
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‎Jun 05, 2019
10:19 AM
3 Upvotes
InDesign has a lot of exciting features. Well, not this one. FWIW, Acrobat has something close (Tools > Print Production > Fix Hairlines):
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‎Jun 04, 2019
12:28 PM
Glad you did it. Just a note / warning: the first regex \x{0024}\d+\K1(?=\.) is somewhat limited. I mean, it won’t catch prices more than a dollar but less then a two, like $1.08, $1.99, etc., because \d+ reads as one or more digit. If you believe you can encounter such prices you should use asterisk instead of plus sign - \d*. Asterisk reads as zero or more. \x{0024}\d*\K1(?=\.) Another regex is OK as is. That’s it, now your guns are really loaded
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‎Jun 03, 2019
12:51 AM
1 Upvote
That's perfectly normal appearance if you use inner bleed other than zero in pdf export settings. Your pdf looks ready for printer, unless you're going to spiral bind your printed document. Except single page or spiral bound projects, inner bleed is actually not needed and always cut. However, many printers prefer to do it themselves, and ask designer to leave ALL bleeds, just like you did. That said, you may check with your printer, but I bet you did everything right.
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‎Jun 02, 2019
02:44 AM
That's why they say: "think finishing at the beginning". To make such an edits painlessly all the tables should flow in one text thread, with each image anchored to its table. I strongly suspect it isn't the case. Now you can (exact workflow highly depends on actual layout): 1. Rearrange products manually, leaving the same problem unsolved for possible future updates. 2. Remake everything right (and charge your client for this). 3. Abandon this project, if client believes it must be as easy and simple as inserting here and there pieces of text in Word.
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‎Jun 01, 2019
12:12 AM
1 Upvote
joank32284658 wrote "the value must be between 0,0353 cm and 548,64 cm These are the limits in earlier versions, too. 548,64 cm / 5486,4 mm is almost 5,5 meters. Your desired document page size 1,3 x 1 m / 130 x 100 cm / 1300 x 1000 mm is perfectly capable by InDesign of any version. Recheck the numbers you're entering.
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‎May 31, 2019
02:39 PM
Did you try the codes? Are they working for you? You marked the question as Assumed Answered, and this confuses a bit. \x{0024} is just the unicode notation for a dollar sign. I find it safer to use than \$
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‎May 31, 2019
11:54 AM
1 Upvote
Create a char styles, one with tracking -120, and another with tracking -150, and use these regexes as a GREP style in your para style options to apply: \x{0024}\d+\K1(?=\.) apply -120 \x{0024}\d+\K\.(?=1) apply -150
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‎May 28, 2019
01:14 PM
1 Upvote
Indesign CS 5.5 64-bit version doesn't exist. It's a 32-bit application. Yes, you can try it on 64-bit OS, but be aware it's not supported on Win10 (actually, it's not supported at all nowadays). It still may work, but you're on your own here.
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‎May 28, 2019
01:04 PM
Not sure if I understand your problem from the description, but in a such cases when a specific file behaves strangely / erratically / not showing some menu items etc., exporting to idml may help. At any rate, I would try this first. If issue is presented in all files, you might try clearing your InDesign cache folder and then your preferences if that doesn't work.
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‎May 22, 2019
03:49 PM
1 Upvote
hm, for me *normal* text frames on a master work, too…
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‎May 21, 2019
01:53 AM
hi vinny thank you, sure you're right. it's been a damn busy days, obviously, too busy… I should take a break.
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‎May 20, 2019
03:52 PM
… or try this safer approach with parenthesis: \bc?m\K(2|3) or, if you don't care about cubic and centimeters, just the basic: \bm\K2
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‎May 20, 2019
03:02 PM
3 Upvotes
it must work. What ID version you're using? Could you show Grep Style tab of your para style? Like this:
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‎May 20, 2019
11:03 AM
Not only me, there's a lot of excellent contributors around here
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‎May 20, 2019
10:44 AM
Well, it wasn't a step-by-step instruction, however, I see you did your homework successfully. Cheers!
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‎May 20, 2019
08:19 AM
1 Upvote
\bm\K2|3 Also covers m 3 \bc?m\K2|3 will pick up centimeters, too.
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‎May 20, 2019
06:55 AM
3 Upvotes
Nope, you can't to Select All Similar, like in Illy. Actually, you can't select any objects from different spreads in InDesign, simultaneously. But yes, there is a *hidden nugget*, and its name is Find/Change panel (Edit > Find/Change). It's a quite complex and very powerful tool. Needless to say, it easily can help you to find all text of specific formatting, and apply a given para style to it. All in one go. Explore Find/Change!
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‎May 20, 2019
06:37 AM
1 Upvote
Worked with WoodWing Smart Styles plugin in the early days of ID v.3 (CS) and was really impressed by its ability to catch quite complex patterns. The only drawback - it's cooostly, and, unless you're dealing with tables every day, you may have a hard time to justify the purchase to your boss or your own wallet. On the other hand, it is applicable not only to tables… Why oh why Adobe couldn't buy it and include in, say, version 15.
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‎May 20, 2019
04:17 AM
1 Upvote
OK, amount of characters was just the first thing to try, since titles usually are shorter then descriptions. Well, not always. What else you can say about your text, how machine could tell title from description? Maybe there's always a certain number(s), or any punctuation, or words in ALL CAPS somewhere in descriptions, but never - in titles? (Almost) anything can be used. Could you say about something: this is always found in Titles, but never - in Descriptions, or vice versa.
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‎May 20, 2019
02:31 AM
1 Upvote
In case your longest Title is still shorter then the shortest Example Text, it is doable with GREP. 1. Apply Example Text para style to the whole table. 2. Use this GREP query ^.{1,20}$ to locate any paragraph ranging from 1 to 20 characters long, and apply Title style to it. Sure, you can use any number instead of 20, which fits your threshold.
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‎May 19, 2019
01:24 PM
Funny, like Steve, had a very busy Sunday today… Hopefully, this short clip will give you some ideas how it works. Too tired for words…
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‎May 19, 2019
12:55 PM
Hi Joel, 1. What you’re trying to achieve, is perfectly doable. I’d recommend you to read Steve’s article, and notice you can have only one Primary Text Frame on a page, while you need 3 separate threads. So, use one Primary and two *normal*. 2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Type, and disable that stupid silly smart (ah, that’s the word!) - Smart Text Reflow. It just brings you problems you described in posts 11-12.
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‎May 18, 2019
02:20 AM
2 Upvotes
InDesign 14.0.2, by chance? For long documents containing more than 50K characters, GREP search fails to find all matching instances
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‎May 01, 2019
09:12 AM
6 Upvotes
Seems to me like a path saved in jpeg, and applied in InDesign as a clipping path. Examine your jpegs in Photoshop (Paths panel): is there any path? You can remove it here, or, better, disable directly in InDesign, with placed image selected: Object>Clipping Path>Options.
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‎May 01, 2019
04:56 AM
Ha! Seems so simple and straightforward. Sure, used to use lookahead and lookbehind simultaneously to get some kind of *look-around*, but due to obscured reason never thought about doubling parts. Very useful idea, thank you!
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‎Apr 30, 2019
03:25 PM
3 Upvotes
Try this Labeled Pages Exporter script. It exports pages by their color labels.
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‎Apr 28, 2019
01:40 PM
2 Upvotes
If you're on the latest InDesign 14.0.2 Update (CC 2019), Pickory is right, no doubt here. I just wonder about your posted queries… While the first surely will work, the second is erroneous. Why not to use something more simple and straightforward, like (\d\d:){2}\d\d © Less is more
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‎Apr 19, 2019
04:06 AM
1 Upvote
Nope, you can't, and it was never possible. What you can do, highly depends on what you're after. I doubt you can do much with imported pdf's in InDesign. Usually we use styles, or Find/Change function capabilities (they are powerful, indeed). Sometimes scripts may help a lot. I guess you need to re-think your workflow, whatever it is now. EDIT: regarding your imported pdf content you should edit it in Illy, and then update link(s) in InDesign. BTW, there's no need/requirement for pdf, feel free to place ai files directly. Just save them in Illy as pdf compatible.
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