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September 16, 2010 at 12:10 am in reply to: Illustrator shapes wont paste in ID CS5 as vectors… #57026
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Participanthmmm, I have to look into that. It works with simple shapes with solid fill, not gradients. I think there's a difference in the way id cs5 and cs4 work on this, but i have to check it first.
September 15, 2010 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Illustrator shapes wont paste in ID CS5 as vectors… #57022ParticipantI verified the options in clipboard handling in id cs5 – it makes no difference, the shapes are treated as an object in id, not vectors. I don't think it's illustrator's fault because from the same illustrator cs5 it works well when I take shapes to id cs4, but not id cs5. I will try rebuilding of preferences.
Can anybody confirm that this feature works as it should in id cs5 ? Anybody tried it?
Participantuu, I just found it… its cross reference to paragraph number… Now the big step to change all of them … At least future modification will be easy…
Participantuu, I just found it… its cross reference to paragraph number… Now the big step to change all of them … At least future modification will be easy…
ParticipantDepending on what you really want (it's not very clear to me…) you could try to use the feather option in indesign so the images wont have a straight edge but a feathered one…
ParticipantDepending on what you really want (it's not very clear to me…) you could try to use the feather option in indesign so the images wont have a straight edge but a feathered one…
ParticipantHurraaay ! I am impressed with this… It saves me a lot of formating. I usually bring one article in a text frame, format it, apply style to title and body text and then I want to put the body text in 2 or 3 columns – of course the title outside the box. So I made 2 scripts with obvious shortcuts: alt+2 and alt+3: I changed my mind, i want the old frame in columns: 2 or 3 accordingly.
I expected problems if I have inset to the original box or a tint. There were no problems…
I tried it with threaded text frames, running the script for the first in the chain (I wouldn't use it for the second) – there were no problems. I only have to be careful to not have overflow in the box – it should be my next step in fixing…
In my earlier post I was talking of VBA as Visual Basic for Applications – the one that ships with word or coreldraw. Both these applications have the ability to record actions and offer tremendous amount of help to total beginners in scripting. My only hope is adobe will improve a lot the help with scripting in CS5.
ParticipantHurraaay ! I am impressed with this… It saves me a lot of formating. I usually bring one article in a text frame, format it, apply style to title and body text and then I want to put the body text in 2 or 3 columns – of course the title outside the box. So I made 2 scripts with obvious shortcuts: alt+2 and alt+3: I changed my mind, i want the old frame in columns: 2 or 3 accordingly.
I expected problems if I have inset to the original box or a tint. There were no problems…
I tried it with threaded text frames, running the script for the first in the chain (I wouldn't use it for the second) – there were no problems. I only have to be careful to not have overflow in the box – it should be my next step in fixing…
In my earlier post I was talking of VBA as Visual Basic for Applications – the one that ships with word or coreldraw. Both these applications have the ability to record actions and offer tremendous amount of help to total beginners in scripting. My only hope is adobe will improve a lot the help with scripting in CS5.
ParticipantUauuu… Thank you Jongware – I was too shy to ask for this script – it saves me a lot of work.
Just 2 small things… I dont want this line “newframe.fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);” so I put // in front. But now… The height of the new frame is the height of the old frame… So after a little digging :D I put this at the end: “newframe.geometricBounds = [newframe.geometricBounds[0], newframe.geometricBounds[1], newframe.geometricBounds[2]- newheight, newframe.geometricBounds[3]];”
Everything works perfectly for me.
I think it would have been a better idea to cut off a selection instead of the paragraph above but it works great with this approach.
So I have a question, hoping I wont be OT: I need to change the number of columns of the newframe (to 1). I guess it should be pretty easy if someone posts this info, but I want to know how should I find it myself… In VBA I put “newframe.” and after the “.” it gives me everything on newframe (intelisense). I choose one from the list and press F1 and I get the help for that choise I made – and see even an example. I tried opening the object model viewer in ESTK, searched for frame… it didn't give me anything (too many results). What am I doing wrong? Or adobe wants only smart intelligent people to script … :D :D :))
March 24, 2010 at 11:17 am in reply to: Split selected text into separate non-threaded frames #55267ParticipantYeess ! 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.
ParticipantUauuu… Thank you Jongware – I was too shy to ask for this script – it saves me a lot of work.
Just 2 small things… I dont want this line “newframe.fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);” so I put // in front. But now… The height of the new frame is the height of the old frame… So after a little digging :D I put this at the end: “newframe.geometricBounds = [newframe.geometricBounds[0], newframe.geometricBounds[1], newframe.geometricBounds[2]- newheight, newframe.geometricBounds[3]];”
Everything works perfectly for me.
I think it would have been a better idea to cut off a selection instead of the paragraph above but it works great with this approach.
So I have a question, hoping I wont be OT: I need to change the number of columns of the newframe (to 1). I guess it should be pretty easy if someone posts this info, but I want to know how should I find it myself… In VBA I put “newframe.” and after the “.” it gives me everything on newframe (intelisense). I choose one from the list and press F1 and I get the help for that choise I made – and see even an example. I tried opening the object model viewer in ESTK, searched for frame… it didn't give me anything (too many results). What am I doing wrong? Or adobe wants only smart intelligent people to script … :D :D :))
ParticipantYeess ! 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.
ParticipantI agree with you, Colin, imposition should be a job for the printer. And my question still stands… because I'm supposed to be the one to impose jobs as I work for a printer that can't afford expensive solutions…
As I said, Indesign as a imposition tool gives me total freedom: If I need a little resize, or a special registration mark in the middle of the sheet (if it's on the bleed part of an imposition it can be helpful and it will be cut off anyway).
So, anybody knows how should my data merge txt file look like if I want to import a certain page from an ID file? If I find out this… imposition in ID will be a snap… with the help of excel.
ParticipantI agree with you, Colin, imposition should be a job for the printer. And my question still stands… because I'm supposed to be the one to impose jobs as I work for a printer that can't afford expensive solutions…
As I said, Indesign as a imposition tool gives me total freedom: If I need a little resize, or a special registration mark in the middle of the sheet (if it's on the bleed part of an imposition it can be helpful and it will be cut off anyway).
So, anybody knows how should my data merge txt file look like if I want to import a certain page from an ID file? If I find out this… imposition in ID will be a snap… with the help of excel.
ParticipantJust thought of one personal need for the original question… I need to mark my pages from an indd file with F1, V1, F2, V2 etc. So the page no 5 would be F3. I was thinking of formulas, or variable (depending on page number), but I didn't manage to make it work.
But, it could work by importing a text that contains these “F1. V1. F2. V2. …” etc, and placing them in a master page item… So the same goes for Unclejessum's question…
I'll go and give it a try…
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