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• • June 20, 2024 at 11:20 am #14404317
    David

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    I thought I had bookmarked it when I first came across the video on Lynda (or maybe it was LinkedIN) by David Blatner I think, showing this cool trick for creating generic tint character styles which can be applied to an object or text, but apparently I did not. To better describe what I’m saying, here’s some text at 100% blue on the page, and I want to change the tint to 80% by way of a character style I’ve set up in advance. In other words, regardless of the color of the text , when I apply the character style, it becomes that prescribed tint percentage. I’ve exhausted all attempts to remember how the process of creating this kind of character style goes and tried to reverse engineer it by opening an old document where I had a number of the tint styles saved in a folder, but oddly it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Does someone remember the steps and/or can someone let me know if it’s now a “deprecated Easter egg,” for lack of a better way to describe it?

  • June 20, 2024 at 11:27 am #14404319
    David

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    For some reason, cannot edit my post. Disregard anything having to do with objects (duh… character style) or that it wasn’t seeming to work when I opened an old document.

  • June 20, 2024 at 11:46 am #14404321
    David Blatner

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    Hey David, it sounds like it’s partly working for you… but is some of it still broken?
    This might be the article you meant:

    Making a Character Style Change Only the Tint of Your Text

    If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription, you can also see the video here:

    InDesign Secrets Video: Making a Character Style Change Only the Tint of Your Text

    • June 20, 2024 at 12:14 pm #14404322
      David

      Member

      Command/Control Clicking the sample swatch! THAT’S the part I couldn’t remember. All working now. Thank you!

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