here's a simplified version of the formula in the referenced script (horizontal resolution / screen horizontal inches) / 72) * 100 a 23" Apple Cinema display running at 1920 gets you 137 — (1920/19.5)/72)*100 but on my laptop the formula result is 149, so there's no universal percentage that works on all monitors. Photoshop's Print Size doesn't work either as the last poster in the other thread implies—unless your monitor is running at exactly 72ppi, which would be unlikely. ... View more

I'll investigate more. Is there any transparency on your page? ... View more

Here are my test files: http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/pdfsample.zip ... View more

For example here's your posted logo saved as a PSD (no visible anti aliasing in the box edges) placed in ID and exported to default low file size preset: and then exported with sampling and compression off: ... View more

It is still blurry If you are getting anti aliasing at the max zoom in Acrobat and it's not in PS, then it's happening either via compression or resampling in your PDF preset. Try setting them to None and Do Not Downsample. ... View more

Do you see the anti-aliasing when you zoom in Acrobat—1600%+? What happens if you turn off down sampling and compression in the PDF preset? ... View more

Not sure what you mean about posting samples, do you mean the logo? Screen capture an area of the problem PDF and add the capture to a reply message—click the camera icon ... View more

That worked, thanks. ... View more

There are many white space and break possibilities all with their own invisibles. Here is a sc with some common symbols: space, en space, em space, non break space, tab, indent to here, right indent tab, end story: http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/invisible.png Turn your invisibles on and choose the available spaces and tabs from Type>Insert Special Characters>Others or Insert White Space. ... View more

Got it to work with URLVariables. I needed to match the variable to the name of the field in the HTML page—datapoint needed to be data. Thanks for your help! ... View more

I tried this and it returns the same error: private var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); private var xmlrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(); private var urlvars:URLVariables=new URLVariables(); public function sendXML(sxml:XML):void { loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, outputError); loader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityError); loader.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler); urlvars.datapoint=sxml; xmlrequest.url=databaseurl; xmlrequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; xmlrequest.data = urlvars; loader.load(xmlrequest); trace(urlvars.datapoint) } The documentation for contentType states that it should be left at the default if the data is a URLVariable. Maybe I should go back to sending the raw xml as the data and setting the contentType to XML. Would that be "text/xml"? ... View more

Below is my send function, trace(sxml) returns the xml ok. My httpStatusHandler returns an error code 500 private var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); private var xmlrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(); public function sendXML(sxml:XML):void { loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, outputError); loader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityError); loader.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler); xmlrequest.url=databaseurl; xmlrequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; xmlrequest.data = sxml; loader.load(xmlrequest); trace(sxml) } ... View more

It turns out that the database company is using a C# program to connect to the db with a simple html form to capture the XML as the frontend. They were assuming if I did an HTTP POST via Flash to the form page it would work—it does work if I manually paste the XML into the HTM page. My Flash URLRequest POST method does not—Safari's Activity panel shows an internal server error. Is there any way this would be possible or would we still need a simple PHP script to relay the post to the HTML page? ... View more

Thanks Ned, I've always used PHP, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an easier route. ... View more

It looks like you are trying to pick up a flashvars variable from SWFObject and then add it to your URLVariables object which you have also named flashvars right? If so in your html shell try this: var flashvars = {}; flashvars.id = "hoster:<?php echo (urlencode($hoster)) ?>&guest:<?php echo (urlencode($guest))?>"; and then in ActionScript you need to reference the stage to pick up the flashvars id variable, so: var flashvars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); this.stage.loaderInfo.parameters.id; Just make sure this.stage is not null and is actually the stage. ... View more

The scripts are AppleScript so you would need to be on a Mac to use them. Here they are compiled, just open the .zip archive below and put the two files in your scripts folder (Applications/Adobe InDesign/Scripts/Scripts Panel) http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/wordcount.zip If you are not on a Mac you could try posting in the Scripting forum and see if someone will translate them to JavaScript for you. ... View more

This AppleScript will get the total word counts of a folder of ID files—it shouldn't be too hard to convert to JavaScript if you are not using OSX: tell application "Finder" activate set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder containing the files to count" set myFiles to every file of folder myFolder whose file type is "IDd5" end tell tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3" set wordcounts to {} set total to 0 repeat with j from 1 to (number of items in myFiles) open item j of myFiles tell active document tell every story set wordcounts to wordcounts & (count every word) end tell set totalstories to count every item of wordcounts repeat with i from 1 to totalstories set total to total + (item i of wordcounts) end repeat close end tell end repeat display dialog "The documents in the selected folder have a total of " & totalstories & " stories, and " & total & " words" end tell ======================================== If you just want the active document's count it would be: tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3" tell active document set wordcounts to {} tell every story set wordcounts to wordcounts & (count every word) end tell set total to 0 set totalstories to count every item of wordcounts repeat with i from 1 to totalstories set total to total + (item i of wordcounts) end repeat display dialog "Total words in all " & totalstories & " stories: " & total end tell end tell ... View more

Does the version you have resize the canvas in Photoshop to eliminate the crop marks from my PDF preset, or are the crop marks visible when the script finishes? ... View more

When you write a class this can be useful if you want to make a function parameter available to the entire class. Something like below where this.w=w makes the w var available to the entire class. package{ import flash.display.Sprite; public class ClassName extends Sprite { private var w:Number; private var h:Number; //- CONSTRUCTOR -------------------------------------- public function ClassName(w:Number, h:Number) { this.w=w; this.h=h; } //- PUBLIC METHODS ------------------------------------ public function myFunction():void { trace(w, h); } } } ... View more

Here is the link to the discussion Peter mentioned http://forums.adobe.com/message/2747248#2747248 Rick's right there's no way an algorithm as simplistic as the one in the post would get you a meaningful conversion. Maybe you could tell us exactly what you are trying to do. I think you will need to find a way to leverage ID's color managed conversions and store the conversion results in a variable somewhere. ... View more

You should be able to load a color into the Color panel (but not the Color Picker or Swatches) via the Eyedropper. When the eye dropper icon is pointing right it's loaded and will apply it's attributes to an object when you click it. When it's pointing left it's empty and gets loaded when you click an object. To empty the dropper click the pasteboard or no object. To pick up color in the Color panel hold down your Option key and the eyedropper will pick color without applying anything. ... View more

Your right using the eyedropper in the Color panel you can pickup color managed CMYK values. Getting a color managed version of a built CMYK color, something like 20|0|0|20 (which you would never get in an RGB>CMYK conversion, or find in the color field), is more problematic in the Color or Swatch panel. You would think you could dial in 20|0|0|20, switch to RGB, then back to CMYK and get the conversion, but that doesn't work—the original CMYK values are remembered. ... View more

P Spier wrote: The ID color picker is strictly a RGB tool (other than being able to create a CMYK or Lab "equivalent" swatch, which inthe case of CMYK porbably won't be very close most of the time due to gamut restrictions), and is a very dangerous place for you to go when working in CMYK. As long as you leave your cursor in one of the CMYK fields when you click OK or Add CMYK Swatch, the Color Picker lets you spec any CMYK build. While you don't get visual gamut clipping in the color picker field (if you are picking from the field), the swatch or color is brought into gamut when you click OK. The Color Picker does let you convert built CMYK colors via color management, which isn't easily accomplished elsewhere. If you want the CMY equivalent of 10% K based on your CM settings, you can get it by building 10% K as 0|0|0|10  then clicking on the cursor in the color field. Or you could easily get a legal version of a color that exceeds a total ink limit, something like 100|100|60|60 in the same way. ... View more

This is just a doubt. Why in a software which is mostly used for print production rather than web purpose, RGB Color space view is put and not cmyk color space. This question is asked to me by many of my friends & colleagues and i have no answer The Color Picker lets you easily get a color managed conversion of a color from one space to another. So, 0|0|0|50 CMYK might be equal to 148|148|148  RGB, but there are also many possible conversions of 148|148|148 RGB to CMYK depending on the press profile—it could also be something like 44|36|36|2. The Color and Swatches panels let you make CMYK builds, but the don't let you easily make conversions between spaces. ... View more

How many objects are you tweening? You've set your framerate to 30, but that doesn't mean you'll get 30 if the client computer can't handle the tweening. The frame rate could drop depending on the CPU capability and the quality setting you set when the swf loads. ... View more

You need to import the easing classes import com.greensock.easing.*; ... View more