Haven't tried this, and I'm not a scripter. For this line: myExtensions = [".jpg", ".jpeg", ".eps", ".ps", ".pdf", ".tif", ".tiff", ".gif", ".psd", ".ai"] I would suspect one could do something like this: myExtensions = ["100*.jpg"] But only if that variable can accept a wildcard in the prefix of the filename. Hopefully someone will come along that actually knows ID javascript. Else I can try it out after dinner. ... View more

I use to make a lot of forms. If we had a sample, we would always begin by drawing columns on the printout to determine how many columns the table would need. If we were designing from scratch, we basically would create a table with more columns than we believed we would need, (almost) always an odd number so if we needed a rule in the center at any point, then it would be there. Then we would begin entering the static labels, combining cells as needed. Sometimes with a from-scratch form, we would use a typewriter to type the static text, arranged by eye and using tabs to align to "columns" and then draw would lines to represent the tables we would eventually create (typically in Word or WordPerfect). I would recommend you do a similar approach. You will need more columns than you presently have. Mike ... View more

...Even quark has this option. That would be, "even Quark use to have this option." Quark in all their wisdom yanked host-based separations in version 10. They may put it back in due to popular request/demand. Only the Shadow knows. I quite often use QXP 9.x for making the seps for a couple local screen printers when the jobs aren't basic vector art done in CorelDraw. Mike ... View more

They are relatively easy to make in ID. It is pretty much the same as using Illustrator. Make two circles, center them. I color them differently just so I can see them. Select both, use the Object menu, Pathfinder, Subtract. You will then have the outer ring. Create a rectangle the width that you desire to create the segment separation. Center it on the ring, like shown in the above screen shot. Holding Alt/Option down, rotate the thin rectangle, let go and that will create a copy. Once you get enough lines, create a compound path with them. Select the outer ring and the rectangles that were made into a compound path. Subtract again. Release the compound path and each segment can be colored. Mike ... View more

It isn't a worthless answer. If I were to actually have this question and need an answer, it would be the first thing I did. This is what I get when I Google the question as Peter suggested...So I would suggest refining your search to the phrase Peter suggested (without the quotes as he also mentions). YMMV, of course. FWIW, I do exactly like Eugene suggests for most any layout work. No need for Google. ... View more

Well, I agree with Bob to a large extent. The argument that if a company can publish fonts (and create some) that they will therefore make the best font manager, is nonsense. Now, they just might make the best. In the one day I had it installed just recently, I found it slow as a snail jogging down the expressway. Didn't muck anything up on my system, though. So that's a plus. As to Bob's posting frequency? You did look at his profile to view his activity, didn't you? He averages 2400 posts per year since what Adobe shows as his join date. That would be about 200 posts per month. Which is about 6.6 posts per day. While Bob and I would disagree on a few issues (mainly the viability of using a subscription model for software), I know if I needed to request help, I would read his post(s) and try what he has to say. ... View more

Agree on CC. I don't need it nor want it as a subscription. Because I use CorelDraw for large-scale work (and always have), I only use AI for when I have to return files in AI. I'll likely get some customers using ID CC at some point and have to rent in those cases. Hasn't happened yet, though. Don't know why on this under-powered laptop I can export even a 48" x 48" artboard with more than a simple circle at 450 dpi as both a JPG and PSD but others cannot. Sometimes I simply hate software. Love it when it brings in cash, though. ... View more

One portrait letter-sized with a circle and a 1 pt black outline using CS6. Exported with Art Optimized, 450 dpi to a PSD. PC version. JPG exports same size/resolution, as does PNG. ... View more

This thread is going nowhere pretty fast. ... View more

Hi CD--I have the latest version. It has a choice for doing all pages of a document, but it does not thread from page to page: Running Uwe's script afterwards does connect the frames across the pages: Because Justin's script replaces the frames in logical order (here from top down, all pages), the script from Uwe then connects "the dots" so to speak. Take care, Mike ... View more

The Ajar script succeeds. From reading down through it and trying to understand it, I think the Ajar script is actually replacing the current text frames (and progressing logically down the page) and the result must be that they are in ID's internal order correctly. Then when your's fires off, it is able to connect the pages (I think yours is skipping already threaded frames, dunno). In any case, the combination does work. I have used it over a dozen times last night and today, going through page by page making sure the numbers are in order. I can post on dropbox if you would like and send a PM. That way it doesn't clutter the thread and it can be reviewed for accuracy. Mike ... View more

Uwe--I may have miscommunicated. The Ajar script processing in logical order, top to bottom (if set that way in the dialog box). It however does not thread from page to page. But it does perfectly succeed in I think what you are terming, geometrical order. So the combined script I have that first executes the top-bottom logical order runs, then yours runs and threads page to page. It works perfectly when combined. ... View more

I finally had it go completely wonky. I don't know whether to cheer or cry in my beer. Once it went wrong, it goes wrong every time. Not even IDML of the merge document opened, saved then the merge occur would produce a correct order. I cobbled together three scripts others wrote which run one after the other. It produces a correctly threaded file. It only works in the scenario above where I mentioned a full, left margin to right margin frame. First one to run is the Ajar script cdflash mentions. I have used it before for other types of threading. Then Uwe's delete script for the markers, lastly Uwe's threading script fires off. I think the reason it works is that at some point, ID's internal frame IDs get mucked up and Uwe's stitching script depends on ID getting it correct. I see no other posibility. @Uwe, if given the scenario of a full-width (margin to margin frame) merge frame, how much work is involved to make the stitching proceed top to bottom regardless of internal frame ID? For what amounts to a book produced from a merge, one is going to delete all the pages and all but a single frame anyway and then reflow the first frame. I think it would be just the ticket. Mike ... View more

In the first screen shot, it looks mucked up. But the later ones look correct. Once the Stitch script has been run like in the last screen shot, you can go to the pages panel, delete all the pages. Delete all but the first text frame. Drag out the only text frame from margin to margin, side to side, top to bottom. Make it two columns. Create a second page. Click on the out port at the bottom of the frame on page one. Hold down shift, go to the top left of the second page and click (while hold shift down) at the intersection of the top and left margins. ID should add pages and frames until the end of the document. ... View more

I added a sequential record number to the merge file... I added the field to the ID merge document...it was added in front of the Subject Code... It only is in place when there is a Subject, else it is on its own line... else it is in a blank paragraph. I went through the entire merged and stitched file that I reflowed. The numbers are all correct. At this point I have no idea how to satisfy you that it worked. Other than give you my files. Which I would do if you really want them. I'll simply leave the thread now. Good luck, Lina. ... View more

Puns always work for me when I am only on my second cup o' Joe. ... View more

Yes, ran the whole Excel file I have. A quick scan of the records beginning on page 6, compared against the tab-delimited merge file I used shows they are in order. Page 6 spread: Page 66 spread: ... View more

This is what I get merging. This is what I get when I delete all the pages, make the frame page-width, make it two columns, then autoflow the document. And then deleting the double-returns... Mike, using CS6 ... View more

No ruckus, no debate a happenin' Once again, this has been one of the best working threads I have been a part of. Thanks to all...and a special thanks to Uwe. ... View more

The 4 lines in the screen shot, leave the middle var line ... View more

Thanks, Uwe! @Peter, you can always edit the script. I have for the double return (don't need 'em). I commented out the necessary lines for the just in case, one day I'll need them scenario. Again, Uwe, thank you for all your efforts. ... View more

Ran the loicaigon.com script. It does replace the native merge function. Two issues. (1) It runs within the merge document. In other words, it doesn't do its thing going into a new, merged document. Easy to overwrite a template. (2) Suffers the same fate as ID's merge when removing blank lines. So in Lina's merge, the Title paragraph has the correct appearance applied as an override to the Genre paragraph style. Mike ... View more

Current CS6 version is 8.0.2.413 I doubt that affects the merge issue, but... ... View more

No never have run it. I had it stored in my shortcuts after finding it. I'll give a whirl later. I have been using up time this morning without being productive. Got the flu, ain't too excited about work. Not certain about the Rorhiko solution (which I have used many times) if Lina has issues installing the plug-in due to her work contraints. It is just really strange about the XML tagging, including the other thread Uwe points to where it happened. Which is why attempting to find the source of the issue may well provide a smoother work-flow down the road. ... View more

One such script is here: http://www.loicaigon.com/en/indesignsecrets-presents-our-inlinemerge-script/ Another, requires a plug-in installed, and so may not be appropriate in your circumstance is: http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/indesign-downloads/textstitch/ You need to follow Rorohiko's installation procedure explicitly. ... View more