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• • July 19, 2010 at 3:22 pm #56398
    Anonymous

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    So, I'm going through the painful experience of using InDesign's index feature for the first time. And the program I'm used to have automate things for me and make life easier in general is suddenly lacking any functionality what so ever…

    I'm doing this on a 2.2 Ghz Mac Book Pro (4 Gb RAM) on a graphics intensive project of about 250 pages split over 10 indd-files in a book. Each time I add a new topic or reference (or, even worse, both at the same time) it takes about two minutes or more until the program unfreezes and allows me to move on to the next entry. Clicking “Add all” takes up to 10 minutes depending on the number of entries. Deleting a reference only takes a couple of dozen seconds – something that is appreciated only by comparison.

    Is there a bug here? Or is the index feature this slow and painful, even besides it's other problems? In that case, is there a script or plug-in that could help me?

  • July 28, 2010 at 3:25 am #56479
    Hopsa Rijnen

    Member

    INdex Pro:

    https://www.virginiasystems.com/

    not a very beautiful site, but hey, they are probably better in programming then designing!

    For the speeding problems, i have no idea. it seems like you have the hardware to do it.

    text shouldn't take that long to be read by indesign.

    Your text resides on it's own layer i presume? Somehow it seems to work out better if it does.

  • July 28, 2010 at 4:07 am #56480
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    @Johan: No, that is NOT the way it is supposed to work. Something is wrong. Indexing takes a long time because there are so many little steps, but adding an index entry should only take 1 second! If it is taking so long, perhaps the file is corrupted, or you need to restart, or something like that.

    @Hopsa: Virginia System's indexpro is more of a “make a concordance” plug-in. It's not the same thing. I have not had very good luck with that. However, if you know what you want to index, search our site for “indexmatic” or “indexbrutal” free scripts.

  • July 28, 2010 at 4:35 am #56482
    Hopsa Rijnen

    Member

    Whoah!

    That looks great, i'm going to dive in it tomorrow.

    Helas on the https://marcautret.free.fr/geek…..rut/en.php

    the download is no longer available…

    Someone in here with the free script, willingly sharing it with your everyday inDesign usergroup buddies?

    ;-)

  • July 28, 2010 at 5:20 am #56485
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Oops! Sorry, the developer moved the scripts! Frustrating. Try here: https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/10/indiscripts-temporary-archives

  • July 28, 2010 at 6:03 am #56488
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks for the tip about the scripts – they might make the process a bit less demanding. Now if I could just index by GREP…

    And I figured out what caused the ridiculous processing times. This particular project was on a local Version Cue server. Once I moved everything into a normal folder it goes a lot more smoothly.

  • July 28, 2010 at 7:23 am #56492
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Now if I could just index by GREP…

    (?i)^Now there is a (good|great) idea for Adobe! Perhaps as an option on the ~{Add All~} button — ~{Add Using GREP~}

    It would make it possible to have “dog” as entry, and use the expression “dog(s)?” to add all occurrences of both “dog” and “dogs”. Or even “(?!dogfight)dog*”, to add all words starting with “dog” — excluding “dogfight”. Oh the possibilities …

  • July 28, 2010 at 7:43 am #56493
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I'm not sure what you mean by “index by grep” but I think you can do this with indexmatic: Use Find/Change to apply a character style (a “blank” one that does nothing to the text) using GREP, then use indexmatic to create the index based on that character style.

    For example, if you want to index all the words that begin with “a” you could use find/change to apply a character style called “index me” to

    b[aA].+?b

  • July 28, 2010 at 7:33 pm #56509
    LAURENT TOURNIER

    Member

    Hello

    Index by GREP will be very very usefull. I found an old script but never used it : https://www.adobescripts.com/mo…..storyid=24

    You can only use Peter Kahrel's script for indexing : https://www.kahrel.plus.com/ind…..dexes.html

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