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• • March 22, 2013 at 1:42 am #64465
    Anonymous

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    So I have a long InCopy document with plain text paragraphs and headings, which I would like to use in InDesign.

    However, the headings need a special design, and would need to flow through their special textframes to allow me to do this. Is it possible to have special anchored text frames for headings or the only way is to copy them manually and make room for them in main text textframes?

  • March 25, 2013 at 9:50 am #64481
    dleather

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    Maybe I'm not following exactly what you mean, but this sounds like the thing paragraph styles and nested styles are made for:
    https://www.adobe.com/designcen…..tyles.html

    If your page layout follows a specific design/format, but you want to use a separate text frame for the headline in each instance, you can also set that up with Data Merge (https://www.adobe.com/designcen…..merge.html), but you still start witth setting up paragraph styles.

  • March 25, 2013 at 10:00 am #64483
    Anonymous

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    Of course I have paragraph styles, but I do not have heading text frames I can fill with a color, and rules cannot always to the job.

    For example, how can I have a heading box filled with color, from left to right page margin, and the heading in it's center without manually extracting the heading text from normal text flow?

  • March 25, 2013 at 10:04 am #64484
    Anonymous

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    So basically, a kind of data merge, but with text and based on text styles… Maybe there are other solution to my problem and I cannot see them…

    So, I will try to reformulate the problem.

    Getting text from InCopy. Just two paragraph styles. Body and Heading. I would like Heading to be in a separate text frame without cuting and pasting it manually.

    Then with the separate text frame, I can do what I need.

    Problem is that this separate text frame, needs to be placed automatically somehow and link with the rest of the flow.

  • March 25, 2013 at 10:20 am #64485
    dleather

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    There is probably a way to script what your'e trying to do, but that is beyond me… A work-around could be setting your “heading” paragraph style to have a negative value underline. This screen snap shows a style with a heading of 14 point type, a 16 point underline, with a -5 offset. It doesn't fill the whole page width as you desire, but it will fill the amount of space that the letters take up.

    

    March 25, 2013 at 10:44 am #64486

    Anonymous

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    Tried that already but not working, if the heading has more than one line, everything changes and negative line cannot accomodate it.

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