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• • November 5, 2012 at 5:11 am #63496
    8bit31

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    Hi There,

    my name is Matthias and i have to do a crawl for a film. I always layout crawls in Indesign, but now a client wishes that i do a slightly baseline Offset for every Character. In AfterEffects there is a kind of effect, where i could do this, but setting a crawl in AfterEffects is real horror… So i think there is a simple solution to do this with a Script in Indesign but my Programming skills are really bad.

    the script should

    -go to the first Character

    – set the baseline Offset to a value from-1 to +1

    -then go to the next Character till the end of the Document

    It would be very nice, if someone could help me with this Script, because i cant find anything on all of the IndesignScripting pages that matches my problem.

    Best!

    Matthias

  • November 5, 2012 at 8:39 am #63497
    8bit31

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    After some hours google i found this little miniscript…

    for (i=0; i<app.selection[0].length; i++)
    {
    app.selection[0].characters[i].baselineShift = Math.round(1*Math.random())/2;
    //app.selection[0].characters[i].pointSize += Math.round(4*Math.random())-2;
    //app.selection[0].characters[i].horizontalScale = 100+Math.round(20*Math.random())-10;
    //app.selection[0].characters[i].verticalScale = 100+Math.round(20*Math.random())-10;
    }

    Maybe someone can use this…

  • November 5, 2012 at 9:33 am #63498
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    The first line inside the loop sets a random baseline shift. Following the formula, it seems this sets either 0 or 1, nothing else. In your case, you want −1 to +1 and all values in between. So try this line instead:

    app.selection[0].characters[i].baselineShift = 2*Math.random()-1;

    The real question everyone will want an answer to … What is a “crawl”? :)

  • November 5, 2012 at 9:55 am #63499
    8bit31

    Participant

    Thanks a lot for your input so i will use this line of code.

    Here is the answer everybody is waiting for ;-)

    its a rolling end credit – normally no one will see this because theyre out of the cinema at its beginning…

    thats the bad thing of my job :-(

  • March 19, 2015 at 3:03 pm #74067
    Matthew Appleton

    Member

    Hi there — this little script is great! Many thanks for posting…

    Any chance you could point out how I could do a similar thing but with tracking?

    thanks

    matt

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