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‎Dec 16, 2019
10:51 AM
Thanks Derek! I can't believe I didn't know such a simple keystroke. That will certainly help toward a quickeys/macro solution to this issue (in the absense of better "fit" commands, which are pretty basic). As is often the case with these things, not everyone needs the sort of specific options you find yourself needing!
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‎Dec 16, 2019
10:42 AM
Not output > Screen. Literally, the view. Quickly setting up a bunch of documents that are all set to view at page 4 at a particular zoom in a particular place.
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‎Dec 16, 2019
09:37 AM
Does anyone know of a way to automate switching to a particular page, at a particular zoom, at a particular location. I have thousands of similar documents and sometimes it would be nice to be able to just hit a keystroke that opened at a particular view of, for example, the index at a particular zoom and place (always p.3 for many of my docs).
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‎Oct 29, 2019
09:10 PM
Ah yes, this also works. Thank you! I've spent some time going through it before but don't find it at all intuitive. All the more reason I guess to do as you say and become more familiar with it!
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‎Oct 29, 2019
08:06 AM
Laubender! Thank you so much! Works like a dream just as you described 🙂 I know it seems like "how hard is it to use the contextual menu", and the answer is of course, it's fine for one or two. If you have loads of edits like this then this is so much nicer! Thank you thank you again 🙂
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‎Oct 29, 2019
06:22 AM
Is there a way to create a shortcut to "Reveal in Finder" a graphic that is selected in InDesign Mac? I've looked through "Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts..." but can't find it (I really wish there was a search function in there!).
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‎Jul 30, 2019
04:36 AM
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Thanks so much. I had no idea about the use of multiple match clauses This enabled me to construct exactly what I needed. I couldn't use \s as it lead to it finding multiple uses of \r which was not desired. Weird how those count as "whitespace" although I can kind of understand why. I also ran into an issue where if there were three spaces after "Copyright" it would select spaces 2 & 3 but not 1 thereby shortcutting the lookbehind rule, so I also added (?<! ) which made it look more complex again but at least worked. The workaround tip is also handy one that hand not occurred to me while battling with the GREP!
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‎Jul 29, 2019
07:35 PM
I'm trying to GREP for multiple spaces, but some copyright notices that appear frequently contain multiple spaces that I am not allowed to remove, and throw up many, many false positives. However, the "legal" multiple spaces are always preceded by one of a few words "Secured", "Copyright" or "Reserved". Is there any way to match multiple spaces that are NOT preceded by these words. I tried things like this but I think I've got the wrong approach. Maybe this isn't possible, it 'feels' like there should be a way to do it, but I could wrong! (?<!Secured|Copyright) {2,}
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‎Apr 10, 2019
03:45 PM
1 Upvote
Yeah, I learned something from every response! Brilliant forum
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‎Apr 10, 2019
02:24 PM
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Thanks for the tip but there was 1200+ instances, really too many (I don't have that superpower!).
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‎Apr 10, 2019
02:22 PM
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Thanks. This enabled me to flag (condition) all text that was already in the required format, then search for those instances that remained (unconditional). Excellent workaround, thanks Michel.
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‎Apr 10, 2019
12:24 PM
Is there a way to search Text/Grep for phrases that are NOT in a particular paragraph style? In case you're wondering why I'm asking – I'm doing some consistency checks and don't want to just fire off a search replace that I know will affect hundreds of instances, so it would be better to check those few that have either been missed, or don't need to be changed (if that makes sense!)
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‎Aug 01, 2018
07:36 PM
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Yes it turned out to be a combination of filename errors and inconsistencies, long with poor debugging skills. Once I'd got my head around some basic use of the console for debugging using your console.println(); suggestion everything was a lot easier. The following is up and working: var coverPath = "/Volumes/Disk2/SVN/FB | Publishing/trunk/DigitalCovers/"; var frontCover = coverPath + this.documentFileName.replace(/TEXT.*/,"DIGI_COVER_front.pdf"); /* console.println("------"); console.println("FC: " + frontCover); console.println("------"); */ this.insertPages ({ nPage: -1, cPath: frontCover, nStart: 0 });
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‎Aug 01, 2018
03:45 PM
Hi Thom in that last example I am backslashing the spaces in "FB Publishing Files" like this "FB\ Publishing\ Files" or do you not need to backslash spaces?
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‎Aug 01, 2018
12:56 PM
I've now made PDFs of the JPGs in case it was that, and tried inserting those after adjusting the paths etc and still no luck. If I can just get it to make this minor filepath mod and use that to insert a similarly named PDF or JPG from another folder I'll be away!
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‎Aug 01, 2018
12:36 PM
Still working on it. I seem to have set the filepath correctly now, I'm getting a "file error" in the console now. I'm trying to mess around with escaping spaces in the string and wondering if it's that. // PDF filenames and the JPG covers are very similar // just some differences in last part of name and suffix and so... // Determine names of cover JPGs based on name of PDF var frontCover = this.documentFileName.replace(/-TEXT.pdf/,"-DIGI_COVER_front.jpg"); // Specify path where cover JPGs are located var coverPath = "/Volumes/Disk2/SVN/FB\ Publishing\ Files/trunk/DigitalCovers/"; // prepend filepath to file name frontCover = coverPath + frontCover; // Debug ... This now shows the correct filename and path of the JPG // I just want to see if it's constructed the filename and path correctly so far // app.alert(frontCover, 3); this.insertPages ({ nPage: -1, cPath: frontCover, nStart: 0 });
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‎Aug 01, 2018
11:33 AM
This is where I'm up to ... I'm getting a popup with "Undefined" in it: // PDF filenames and the JPG covers are very similar // just some differences in last part of name and suffix and so... // Determine names of cover JPGs based on name of PDF frontCover = this.documentFileName.replace(/-TEXT.pdf/,"-DIGI_COVER_front.jpg"); backCover = this.documentFileName.replace(/-TEXT.pdf/,"-DIGI_COVER_back.jpg"); // Specify path where cover JPGs are located coverPath = "/Volumes/Disk2/SVN/FB Publishing Files/trunk/DigitalCovers/"; // prepend filepath to file name frontCover = coverPath.frontCover; backCover = coverPath.backCover; // Debug ... maybe there's a better way // I just want to see if it's constructed the filename and path correctly so far app.alert(frontCover, 3);
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‎Aug 01, 2018
10:37 AM
I have a bunch of documents named similar to the following: ThisProduct_01-TEXT.pdf ThisProduct_02-TEXT.pdf and JPG covers for them: ThisProduct_01-COVER-FRONT.jpg ThisProduct_01-COVER-BACK.jpg ThisProduct_02-COVER-FRONT.jpg ThisProduct_02-COVER-BACK.jpg (etc.) What I currently have: I have a working script that works as follows: [1] Before running script > Open a PDF, then drop the two cover images at the front of the doc. [2] Run script > Script moves cover JPGs to correct place and renumbers pages accordingly. What I want to be able to do: I want to be able to have JS access the filename of the currently open document so that I can then run some string replacements that enable it to automatically find the JPGs and run the rest of the script that I have working. The workflow would look like this [1] Open document [2] Run script ... and there is no messing around trying to find the right images as Acrobat JS determines what they are called based on the open filename My Question: How can I retrieve the filename of the currently open document using JS? The simplest thing for me would be a demo JS that when run just states the name of the file, then I could figure out the rest (string replacements and so on) myself. Can anyone help with this bit? I found a few similar solutions but couldn't quite figure out if they needed a list of filenames supplied and so on, I couldn't tell if they were for the open document.
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‎Jul 24, 2018
05:58 AM
Thanks Bob. I'll look into this. I should have thought of this in fact as it's vaguely on my radar being in the whole CC ecosystem, but I'm long term tired from the project!
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‎Jul 24, 2018
05:57 AM
Very good point, maybe I'm assuming too much. I'll thoroughly test for this.
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‎Jul 24, 2018
05:37 AM
I've been working on some documents that needed a lot (and I mean a lot) of text changes. Is there a better procedure for the proofing team other than using the commenting facilities in Acrobat on PDFs exported from InDesign. Acrobat commenting introduces lots of line breaks in long paragraph replacements. This leads me to suspect that there must be something better.
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‎Jun 27, 2018
08:45 PM
Shouldn't it be possible to assign Home and End keys for use in keyboard shortcuts? It says "That key cannot be used for shortcuts". Is that a problem with my keyboard, or Home and End genuinely not allowed? I tried to look up a list of allowable keys but could not find one.
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‎Mar 19, 2018
12:06 PM
What would be the best PDF type to create for download from a website, that would be marked as a high quality version for printing. This wouldn't be intended for print-shops and grphics professionals, but for non-graphics people (sales reps, researchers etc.) who probably have access to good quality laser printers etc. I'm assuming the [High Quality Print] option? The InDesign documents all use RGB images throughout.
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‎Jan 02, 2018
03:13 PM
No I'm not about to go paying any price gouging amounts to do something that should be fairly straight forward.
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‎Jan 02, 2018
10:20 AM
Is there a way to batch change numerous PDFs to reader extended format. I need to do the following operation to a lot of PDFs: File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable more tools (include form fill and save)
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‎Nov 14, 2017
04:20 AM
Not really. Preview doesn't show dynamic spelling, for example.
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‎Nov 14, 2017
04:14 AM
Hi Bob, thanks for your quick answer. What's important to me is that I can stop looking in the forums for how to do this - it isn't built in! I've just found I can do this fairly reliably with QuicKeys, using some careful setting for dealing with the way InDesign handles menus (if it doesn't find "Hide baseline grid" then that means it's probably hidden already, etc.).
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‎Nov 14, 2017
03:59 AM
Is there a way to load up a group of settings for Guides/Grids/Extras? For example, if I'm just checking for spelling/typography it is often easier to have this: normal screen mod baseline grid off text threads off frame edges hidden etc. etc. etc. Is there some way to save that as a set so you can then recall it? These settings seem to be saved with the document itself, so even if you set it up once, if you're checking 20 documents you have to set this up 20 times. I can't help but think that I've overlooked something, and if this exists I'm probably using the wrong words to search for it in the forums!
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‎Nov 01, 2017
05:46 AM
1 Upvote
Is there a good way to spellcheck and check grammar of a large batch of PDFs? I'm using the latest Acrobat CC. If there are reliable scripts or third party tools for this sort of thing that would be of interest too.
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