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• • April 7, 2010 at 8:49 am #55436
    skilldrick

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    Hi everyone. I've just started working on a template for a client who require all text to be black and on a text black layer (this is for international co-editions, so new languages can be slotted in and out without having to redo all the plates).

    This is causing me pain as I'd like to group text with objects not on the text black layer, but obviously in InDesign you can't group across layers.

    Does anyone have any useful hints and tips for working on documents like this? Or do I just have to to marquee selects all the time before I move anything?

  • April 7, 2010 at 9:02 am #55437
    Anonymous

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    As long as you're only moving black objects around then it should be ok.

    How about using Object>Path> Make Compound Path

    Although that might be more problematic.

    I've never used this and not sure it does what you want but maybe? https://www.dtptools.com/produc…..e=features

  • April 7, 2010 at 3:38 pm #55444
    Theunis De Jong

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    Wouldn't grouping black text with non-black objects violate the requirement that the entire text layer can be replaced with another?

    I think it would be alright to group objects to move them around, provided you ungroup them again and put everything back onto the layer where it belongs when you are done with them.

    In case you might forget to do so, it's possible to write a script that checks each and every object, moving all text frames to a layer of their own, and even ungrouping when necessary. (Just don't fiddle-diddle with some layers having Ignore Text Wrap and others don't — now that'd be a recipe for disaster.)

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