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Kai Rübsamen
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Kai Rübsamen
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Mar 06, 2015
02:31 AM
Hi Jarek, what do you mean with good condition? I would display a dialog with checkboxes, based on the layers names in the acual document. If the checkboxes are checked, the selected object will be duplicated on these layers. We had a similiar goal some weeks ago with checked layers in ai-files in our german forum. –Kai
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Mar 06, 2015
01:16 AM
Just a idea: What if the user select the layers not in the normal panel, instead he click on checkboxes in a dialog? –Kai
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Feb 28, 2015
10:02 AM
After a further test: It seems that 'recompose' is not necessary, if the textframes column have a fixed width (to hold 2 or 3 numbers) and 'Autosize' is turned off.
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Feb 28, 2015
09:29 AM
Hi Guys, although this seems to be answered a idea for a nonscripting way: 1. Create a paragraph style with autonumbering in a separate textframe with Autosize > width only. 2. Insert your textframe with the numbers 3. Write your text, add or delete some numbers, half way done 4. You will maybe discover a problem, that is shown in my screenshot. Sometimes the textframes and the followed character are overlapping. I think this is a bug. 5. Solution: Create a shortcut for "Recompose all stories immediately". After refreshing the document everything is fine, so no script needed –Kai
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Feb 28, 2015
12:33 AM
Think, they changed the library with CS6. Since then we have also \v and \h. Sadly, no one at Adobe is able to spread the word about such great news. @jongware: Thanks for \R. Did not know that . –Kai
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Feb 27, 2015
12:18 PM
1 Upvote
Peter, why? the first screen shows ((?<=Name)|(?<=Age))\t. Because of the length-limitation it could not be written as (?<=Name|Age)\t The second one shows a new metacharacter, that was found months ago and mentioned on the facebook-grep-list (don’t know who discovered it first). You find more informations here: Keep The Text Matched So Far out of The Overall Regex Match
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Feb 27, 2015
02:20 AM
1 Upvote
Hi Jarek, hm again. I don’t see the problem here 😉 The scope of the search can be reduced by using different paraStyles. Even with one style, it should be possible to find only those tabs, that are preceded by special words. To reduce the scope a bit further, we could use a lookbehind with the different words. To avoid the limitations of a lookbehind, we could also use \K. Kai
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Feb 27, 2015
01:32 AM
Hm, maybe I did not understand the question … these are normally InDesign-basics: Apply the underline not to the tab in the tab panel, instead apply a characterStyle with underline-option = true to the tab itself. This can be one by a grepstyle.
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Feb 04, 2015
09:17 AM
Hi Julian, my workflow will only work in CS6 and above. If I tried your script, I had the same problems. Even if I use the loop for all pages instead of allParagraphs. First I think the script must be a bit quicker, if you check not every paragraph (more than 5000), instead I check in my version every page and assume, that the page has one textframe and the first para in this textframe must be my target. The problem for me in this case is 'smartTextReflow'. So I found here in the forum a line 'myDocument.recompse()' and it seems, that this solves the problem. Try this:
app.doScript( allOverAgain, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Run the script!" );
function allOverAgain() {
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myPGS_CS = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item( "Chapter Subheading" );
var allPages = myDocument.pages;
for ( var p = 0; p < allPages.length; p++ ) {
var curPage = allPages ;
var tf = curPage.textFrames[0];
var firstPara = tf.paragraphs[0];
if ( firstPara.appliedParagraphStyle.name != myPGS_CS.name ) {
continue;
}
var chapterSubheading = firstPara;
var chapterHeading = tf.paragraphs[1];
var chapterFirstPara = tf.paragraphs[2];
var myStartFrame = tf;
myStartFrame.geometricBounds = [ 170 , 606 , 1026 , 52 ];
myStartFrame.textFramePreferences.insetSpacing = [ 70 , 45 , 88 , 45 ];
//Then, add the cover image text frame on the current page.
var targetPage = myStartFrame.parentPage;
var myChapterImageTF = targetPage.textFrames.add( {geometricBounds: [ 0 , 663 , 300 , 0 ] , name: "chaptercover" } );
myChapterImageTF.sendToBack();
myDocument.recompose();
}
} // End allOverAgain function
// end of the action
var dlog = new Window( "palette" );
dlog.size = [ 320 , 100 ];
dlog.add( "statictext" , [ 80 , 100 , 320 , 116 ], "Done." );
dlog.show();
$.sleep(1500);
dlog.close();
btw: Do you realize, that you can use margins in your doc and that every frame has a white fill and stroke > no good practice! best –Kai
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Feb 04, 2015
03:36 AM
Hi Julian, sometimes it’s better to loop backwards than forwards. But to find your error, it would be helpful to have your document. Apart from that, I would solve the task differently: 1. Create two masterspreads with primary text frame enabled (since CS6) 2. The primary text frame on masterspread two sits lower and the masterspread has also the placeholder for the chapter image 3. So search for your paragraph and apply a different masterpage to the corresponding page That’s all. –Kai
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Dec 03, 2014
01:34 AM
1 Upvote
Hi,
var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
// all paras in stories
var allStoryParas = curDoc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
// all paras in tables
var allTableParas = curDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
Notice, that you get also paras that hold the tables! – Kai
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Dec 02, 2014
11:12 PM
Jarek, if you set your values e.g. to Left Indent: 20 mm, First Line Indent 20 mm, Tab Position 50,8 mm, you will get autoamtically a tab on the ruler in the tabs bar. However: If you delete the tab in the ruler, the value in the bullets and numbering dialog is still alive and honored. If you try to control this value, there is no tabStops[0] >> therefore no possibility to control the position ?! Sudha is this your problem?
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Nov 20, 2014
12:29 AM
Do you know, that you can split your document on paragraph style level, if you click the checkbox in the tagsexport tab of the paragraph style? So I would recommend, not to split in InDesign, instead split it during the export for PDF or EPUB. –Kai
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Nov 12, 2014
07:20 AM
Hi Vetha, I’ve no idea, if this is good practice, but for me this works too:
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
var myDoc = app.open( File.openDialog( "Select InDesign File" ) );
myDoc.properties = { textPreferences: { smartTextReflow: true, limitToMasterTextFrames: false, deleteEmptyPages: false, addPages: AddPageOptions.endOfStory } };
myDoc.textFrames[0].place(File.openDialog ( "Select Word File" ));
myDoc.save ( new File ( myDoc.fullName.toString().slice(0, -5) + "_Flowed.indd" ));
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
Notice, that you get an error with your and my version, if you click cancel in the dialogs. That should be checked too. Notice also, that smart text reflow will not work, if the textfame on page 1 is not a primary textframe or a master text frame (in older version). If there exists better solutions, it would be great, if the advanced scripters share them with us. –Kai
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Nov 11, 2014
06:05 AM
Good to here 😉 Maybe it is not clear, what you are tryin to achieve here! First, those options are created only during the export and are not available via scripting. What I normally do: 1. Map the styles by hand or via scripting 2. Emit the InDesign CSS on paragraph level or during the export 3. Include my own CSS
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Nov 11, 2014
05:54 AM
I don’t think so! Nevertheless: If you interested in bad CSS, export your file, crack up your epub and copy the css.
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Nov 11, 2014
05:13 AM
The export details are only a summary. Those attributes and values will be created during the export and not live in InDesign. " and read the export details to write a css class for each with this information" What does that mean? InDesign writes the css for you. But if you want to apply class-names via scripting, this is possible, but not really faster, as if you choose Edit > All Exporttags. – Kai
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Nov 11, 2014
04:22 AM
or this one:
var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Italic";
app.findTextPreferences.position = Position.NORMAL;
app.findTextPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;
var findResult = curDoc.findText();
if ( findResult.length > 0 ) {
var italic = curDoc.characterStyles.item( "15 Italic" );
if ( !italic.isValid ) {
italic = curDoc.characterStyles.add({ name: "15 Italic", fontStyle: "Italic" });
}
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = italic;
curDoc.changeText();
}
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences =null;
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Nov 11, 2014
01:03 AM
Hi, thanks for your code. "PS: in your findWhat \l{3,4} will not catch .ai files" That’s true. So leave it as your {2,4} "and what means .source at the end? is that doing necessary escaping, so with it it's posible to write \l instead of \\l" Yes. With 'source' you can write it, as you would write it in the UI. This is sometimes better to read. Nothing more.
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Nov 11, 2014
12:18 AM
Hi Guys, can someone explain to me, why this whole filtering-thing (and Mac / PC is necessary) and if the above script is the right way to do that? To the grep-part: 1. The reset should be insert before the 'findWhat'-Part 2. If the file does not exists, the script will generate an error 3. There is no need for 'ChangeGrep', since the text will be replaced with the graphic I would do the GREP and place part in this way:
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = /\b\l+\.\l{3,4}\b/.source;
var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
var props = {
anchoredObjectSettings: {
anchoredPosition: AnchorPosition.ABOVE_LINE,
horizontalAlignment: HorizontalAlignment.TEXT_ALIGN
}
};
for ( var i = 0; i < found.length; i++ ) {
var curFound = found;
var replaceElem = File ( myFolder + "/" + curFound.contents );
try {
var mPlacedObj = curFound.place( replaceElem )[0].parent; // Placing Ancored Object
mPlacedObj.properties = props;
} catch ( error ) {
alert ( error );
}
}
– Kai
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Nov 05, 2014
08:31 PM
If I understand the goal correct, you want to find a colon, but not when the colon is followed by a number. So try this one: ^[^?!:]+:(?!\d)
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Oct 22, 2014
11:08 PM
Thanks for your samples. First of all, live isn’t always easy 😉 Apply some colors to your character styles and you will see, that your first style isn’t honored (OFF > off) Second: It is a big difference for grepstyles, if you enter a softreturn in the same paragraph or you enter a hard return (new paragraph). Since the scope of grepstyles is paragraph based, your second para did not know the first one. So in your special example you could use (with|coupon)[^\r]+ That means, search for: with or coupon, followed by anything that is not a hard return, multiple times. But if you have other phrases, this may not work or must be extended.
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Oct 22, 2014
01:51 PM
Sure. Please make a screenshot from this part. It is then easier for me to give you the correct grep.
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Oct 22, 2014
09:17 AM
Am I messing a repeat 1 or more times character? Yes. Everything in [] counts as one character. Instead of [A-Za-z0-9%]\r you coud also write [\w%]\r . This will find only the last character before the return. But this will not find spaces or dashes! To find more you could use 'with .*\r' as you mentioned. But this will also find "with all my friends." followed by a return. So this is maybe not the best way. If you know, that you have digits, followed by a space or not and a percentage character in your text, include it in your expression! So this 'with.+\d+\s?%.+\r' will find "with your 25% savings pass!" followed by a return, but not "with all my 25 friends"
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Oct 22, 2014
05:01 AM
Hi, try the following: (Over )?\d+% OFF|\x24?\d+\.\d+ or if you want to find those combinations only at the beginning of a paragph: ^((Over )?\d+% OFF|\x24?\d+\.\d+) – Kai
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Oct 21, 2014
04:02 AM
Hm, sorry but I did not understand the problem … maybe some advanced scripters see something that I’m not aware of. Assume you have 4 rectangles. The script take curDocRectangles[0] and assumes, that this one is the tallest one. If you create a new rectangle, this new one get the index 0. So if you start the script again, this rectangle will be check at first. So, if you have a problem with this, try to built a example, where the script goes wrong and try to describe in good english your steps. – Kai
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Oct 20, 2014
10:57 AM
He, why don’t you use the code-editor? To find the tallest rectangle on every page, I would do something like:
var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
var allPages = curDoc.pages;
var list = [];
for ( var p = 0; p < allPages.length; p++ ) {
var curPage = allPages ;
var curPageRectangles = curPage.rectangles;
var theTallestHeight = curPageRectangles[0];
for ( var r = 1; r < curPageRectangles.length; r++ ) {
var curRect = curPage.rectangles ;
if ( curRect.visibleBounds[2] - curRect.visibleBounds[0] > theTallestHeight.visibleBounds[2] - theTallestHeight.visibleBounds[0] ) {
theTallestHeight = curRect;
}
}
list.push( "Page " + theTallestHeight.parentPage.name + ": " + String( theTallestHeight.visibleBounds[2] - theTallestHeight.visibleBounds[0] ) );
}
alert ( list.join( "\r" ) );
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Oct 17, 2014
10:08 AM
1 Upvote
Just a another idea: If you can find your first paragraph apply the para style and then loop through all paras in the document and compare the name of the applied style. If you have a found, the next paragraph ist the current one +1, the second is the current one +2.
var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "Head \\d\\r";
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "h1";
var startLine = curDoc.findGrep();
curDoc.changeGrep();
var allParas = curDoc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
for ( var p = 0; p < allParas.length; p++ ) {
var pStyleName = allParas .appliedParagraphStyle.name;
if ( pStyleName == "h1" ) {
allParas[p+1].appliedParagraphStyle = "p1";
allParas[p+2].appliedParagraphStyle = "p2";
}
}
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Oct 16, 2014
09:48 AM
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Thomas, a picture says more than 1000 words … First of all ([\d]+([\.,][\d]+)*) could a bit simplified: (\d+([.,]\d+)*) or maybe this work too: (\d[^\s]+) Then you should provide some real examples. ([Different types of spaces]?)([Word1|Word2|…Word20) isn’t really helpful. So built a idml-example and a example with your textfile and provide those files for download to all scripters here. From where should the script collect your textfile (same folder as the .indd?) What is the name of this file? Do you want to search the whole document or a selection? – Kai
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Oct 16, 2014
09:14 AM
Try this one:
var name = "Alexandra De Poorter";
var fName = name.slice( 0 , name.indexOf(" ") );
var lName = name.slice( name.indexOf(" ") + 1 );
alert ( fName + "\r" + lName + "\r" + fName + " "+ lName );
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