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• • May 2, 2014 at 10:26 am #68281
    Noemi

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    First post on an Indesign forum, so here goes! ;) This may be too complicated to do automatically, but any ideas are welcome!

    We have a couple hundred single page children’s stories that have a footer on each page that the client wants centered on a dingbat. Each story name is different, so we have to re-position each footer. The footer text looks like this:

    [Story Name][Story Number][Story Date]{Dingbat}[Copyright and Website URL]

    Of course the text is unbalanced, so if I center the text in text frame the width of the margins, the dingbat isn’t in the center. Up till now we’ve been manually positioning the text frame. I’d like to cut down the time we’re spending on each file.

    Does anyone have any ideas on how to automatically position the text? Maybe a paragraph style? I’ve done some googling, but maybe I’m using the wrong terms.

    Thanks!
    Noemi

  • May 2, 2014 at 11:02 am #68284
    Dwayne Harris

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    If I understand correctly, it’s the dingbat itself that always has to center? And that the text on either side of that won’t necessarily align?

    If so, are you using a font for the dingbat (such as Zapf). If so, you can set up your tabs in the paragraph style to align on the zinbat. You just will have to make the style flush left and put a tab in front of each line.

    When setting up tabs, select “align on” (it looks like a down arrow with a dot under it). Paste the dingbat until the small window where you see the period. And it should center.

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