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• • April 3, 2017 at 11:23 pm #93419
    Anonymous

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    Hi!

    I have a text frame, and I want to make the following:
    1. When I insert “0”, the character will be replaced automatically with object one (like in the attached image)
    2. When I insert “+”, the character will be replaced automatically with object two (like in the attached image)
    3. When I insert “-“, the character will be replaced automatically with object three (like in the attached image)

    The image:

    View post on imgur.com

    How can I do this?
    I have Windows 7 & Indesign CS5.5

    Thanks!

  • April 4, 2017 at 5:33 am #93426
    Kathy Cote

    Member

    Hi,
    You can do something like that with typinator:
    https://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/

    you have to set your default settings. Exemple: when you tap “pictogrey”, it will be replace with your image. You can tell that you want it only for Indesign and not for all software.

    ??

  • April 4, 2017 at 6:26 am #93428
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    If those graphics are characters in a font, you could easily do this with GREP styles in InDesign (just change the font using a character style).

    Otherwise, there are scripts and more manual ways to do it, such as:
    https://creativepro.com/find-text-change-to-graphic.php
    and these scripts:
    https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2014/06/24/peoples-choice-indesign-script-pepcon-2014-replace-words-images-vice-versa/
    or
    https://www.siliconpublishing.com/about/about_resources.html

  • April 4, 2017 at 6:36 am #93429
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks a lot!

    The second script suits fine for me!

    Do you know how could I make that script run automatically when opening a specific document?
    I don’t know much about code, so I tried to put this JSX in the ‘startup script’ folder to activate the ‘swimmer script’ when I’m opening document called ‘Pas_yomi.indd’, but the ‘swimmer script’ don’t run. you can help me, please?

    This is the JSX:

    #targetengine “onAfterOpen”
    main();
    function main() {
    var myApplicationEventListener = app.eventListeners.add(“afterOpen”,myfunc);
    }

    function myfunc (myEvent) {
    var doc = myEvent.parent;
    if ( doc.name == “Pas_yomi.indd” )

    alert( “it worked !” );
    }

    Thanks a lot!

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