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    • November 13, 2012 at 3:33 am #63545
      darrylrc
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      We receive a lot of pages with Paragraph Rules (rule below set to .25pt or .3pt and many other weights), all manually applied, not built into a Para Style, is there any Scripts out there that can globally find/change these, at the moment its a slow trawl them with cmd+alt+J to change them, as there are 100's even 1000's per document, we are trying to find a way of speeding things up, I've look at Grep but it doesn't seem to support Para Rules.

      Most printers would be able to cope with .25pt and .3pt rules but they are being screen printed onto 440mic PVC, and are reveresed out of a dark grey, or a light brown on White so need to be thicker so to be able to see them when printed, at .25pt or .3pt they dry in on the PVC.

      Power Styles has been suggested, but as there are so many variations of line weights it would be virtually impossible to use this, as we would have to create hundreds of para styles

      It would be fantastic if anybody could help

      Many thanks in advance

      Darryl

    • November 13, 2012 at 5:54 am #63546
      Theunis De Jong
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      Apart from a crucial missing detail, it's fairly easy to script.

      .. at the moment its a slow trawl them with cmd+alt+J to change them ..

      .. The missing detail is “What do you actually change, then?” :)

    • November 21, 2012 at 5:00 am #63596
      Hopsa Rijnen
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      Are there a lot of different headings and body text types? Or is it fairly easy to find a (let's say) bold, italic or roman?

      Perhaps you can use a find/change command with a new paragraph style, as rules are only applied to the rule with a paragraph end marker (^p) then change the paragraph to the desired new paragraphstyle 'no line'

      Something else if that doesn't work out

      Textstitch from Rorohiko is free and can automaticaly thread all textboxes on the same spread together,

      than you can easely select all text and do the 'command alt J-thang'

      Good luck with that “#@$!#”-task!

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