Perfect; thanks so much. I used the Eyedropper | colors ampler tool to complete this. jwc ... View more

Perfect, many thanks. jwc ... View more

Goof tea. Will use that instead, thanks. ... View more

Thanks, but I was looking for the setting in D-W that always puts files to server, automatically, when saved locally. ... View more

Many thanks. jwc ... View more

This is Looking very promising. Next question: can I pass parameters to the php? That would make ever smooch more useful for my present purpose (showing jpg images in sequence). With thanks in advance, jwc ... View more

Thanks, Nancy; this looks very promising. Will respond further after implementing and testing (may be a while; several files to work on). jwc ... View more

Perfect; many thanks. When I changed 'Current' to 'Current & Below', behavior returned to what I normally had in prior installations. I also had to select the background layer on which to make the clone-stamp corrections. Without that, there was no 'action' whatever (probably for obvious reasons[!]). In answer to your other question,  no; preview was not showing anything; just white (or lack of content). ... View more

thanks, will try this when and if it recurs. ... View more

Hi Randy, Thanks, very helpful, but for some reason I am prohibited from posting to that forum directly. Here is the content with which I would like to respond. Hope this works: There was an earlier statement to the effect that index entries apply to character styles rather than to paragraph styles. Indeed, most of my image captions are single-line 'paragraphs' consisting of the following: • Occasionally, 'A', 'L', 'R', 'FC', 'BC', etc., as reference to the actual location of the image being indexed. That content would go in place of page numbers of those items; • Always, genus + species; • One or more other adjectives/modifiers (not to be indexed), i.e., clone names, hybrid-parent crosses, etc. Orchid naming is somewhat complex (orchid show judges train for literally 7 years); In view of all of the above, I believe that I need to do my indexing by character styles. Any comments appreciated. Best, jwc ... View more

Yes, perfect, Randy. Thanks for the examples. Have not tried to implement them yet; that will be a more time-consuming process. What keeps nagging at me is that I already have a successful implementation in an existing .indd file. As stated earlier, I failed to keep adequate notes/logs to document what was done in that case. Is there any way todo any data-mining from that .indd to help in this regard? Of perhaps I will simply end up re-learning what you have already explained in the current thread . Going forward (to next book , etc.), if I understand this process correctly, instead of waiting until the book is finished, I should define all of the relevant (index-)styles at the outset, and create index entries as and when images are added as a part of the book creation process. Another question: Since each book will be a part of a series, it might be potentially useful, in addition to the index for each individual volume, to produce a free-standing, cumulative index containing entries for the latest volume as well as for all prior volumes, i.e., entries by v.pg. (e.g. 'ii.29', etc.). Nothing urgent here; only food for thought. I have already encountered references to multi-volume documents within inDesign documentation, about which I will need to learn more going forward, but the idea of the cumulative index (my Leica and I have made thousands of orchid photos in five countries on three continents) is very interesting. Best, jwc ... View more

OK, understood. The earlier book (first of a series), consists mainly of photographs of orchids, Every orchid genus has given rise to one or more species over many years of evolution. There are (and will be in, my new book as well) two levels of character style, for genus and species, each with its own formatting.  The index in my previous book appears with genus entry (ies) followed by species entry (ies) indented below the respective genus. As stated above, I'm no longer certain of the procedures/scripts followed in generating the index of the first book I expect to produce multiple, additional books of orchid photos, so I really need a well-organized, reusable approach to index-generation based on genus and species. Please advise if I can somehow 'lift', duplicate or modify/adapt the script used in generating the index of the first book, for use in the second, etc. Failing that, would you please point me to procedure(s) for creating a script along the lines indicated above. Thanks, jwc ... View more

Perfect, thank you, Barb. jwc ... View more

Thanks Barb. Can I just align the page number away from the spine, thus keeping to one, 3-col page for my index?? Best, jwc ... View more

Thank. Resolved by stopping and restarting inDesign. That seemed to have cleared whatever strange, error-state had been created earlier, when I first found the tool-bar missing. Best, jwc ... View more

I'm already in 'edit' mode, and and need to expand the active text box. Pressing 'Tab' simply edits text in the existing text box. IOW, the 'Tab' cannot help me here. Any ideas appreciated, as always. jwc ... View more

I would like to index the document beginning at the first page, and ending at the last page. I have already created my topic list. All that remains now is to flow the text from the topic list to the index pages. That is the step for which I cannot find instructions. Any help would be appreciated. ... View more