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• • March 23, 2010 at 4:06 pm #55249
    Rickard ÌÎÌ?rtegren

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    Ok, common scenario:

    I'm workin on a magazine spread. I've imported/cut&pasted a text document containing a headline, a lead, the authors name and then some bodytext. It all goes into one frame. Now, I know I want to place the four items in separate frames as I want to move them around and rezise them separatly.

    Wouldn't it be nice to just select a piece of text and press a shortcut and it gets extracted in to a separate non-threaded frame?

    Wouldn't it be even nicer to select the header, press a shortcut and have it temporarily marked with a colour, select the lead and press the same shortcut and have it marked with another colour, select the authors name and press the same shortcut and have it marked with a third colour, press another shortcut and BAM it splits into four separate non-threaded frames (the body text remaning in the original frame)?

    Yes it would!

    This would also be extreamly useful if composing a graphic design where you want to play around with a lot of separate words originating from one imported text and be able to move them around freely, change size etc.

    I've searched around for plugins and scripts but haven't found anything. The work around is to select text, press cmd+x, hit Esc (Mac only, Win-users have to select the black selection tool) and press cmd+v.

    I'm also posting this in the scripts forum.

  • March 24, 2010 at 5:24 am #55259
    Rickard ÌÎÌ?rtegren

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    Just to make clear, I'm not talking about using this for straight-forward Article-design where I'd rather use masterpages and set up a “Next style”-sequense.

    This is for onetime designs. Maybe a gig-poster is a better example. You get all the information from the band: date, time, venue, ticketprice, directions, website etc. etc. in an e-mail and paste it into a frame. That's where this would be really handy.

  • March 24, 2010 at 5:53 am #55260
    Tim Hughes

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    Cut and paste.

  • March 24, 2010 at 6:32 am #55263
    rydesign

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    I agree… if you cut the word then hit ESC then paste it without creating a frame InDesign already puts the word in a seperate non-threaded frame. I guess the down side is you have to Copy and Paste each word. I just don't see where a script would be need to do this. Maybe I just don't understand the situation.

  • March 24, 2010 at 7:36 am #55264
    Rickard ÌÎÌ?rtegren

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    Guess it's very individual what gets to you, I see a lot of scripts out there doing things that takes about three seconds with a few shortcuts, and I don't even see it as a problem, but this one has been bugging me.

    Got a great answer and script (!) on this one in the scripts forum, check it out. When you apply a keyboard shotcut it makes sense.

  • March 24, 2010 at 11:17 am #55267
    albastru22

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    Yeess ! I need this script… I would find it very useful in newspaper layout: you bring each article in a text frame, you move and resize the frame to its location, you enter the frame, select the first line (usually the title) cut it, escape, draw another text frame usually the same width as the body frame, paste the title there and apply a style to it. Then make the body frame a 3 column or whatever you want… Do this 50 times in one edition and you'll immediately want this script… I want to select the first line, run the script and at least cut me some work.

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