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Alexandro Cuperus
MemberWill do! Thank you for submitting it. Maybe your gravitas will convince the engineers to bump it up the backlog.
MemberHi David, thank you very much for replying and thank you for everything you do for the InDesign community.
I am almost positive that this didn’t happen in InDesign v.14, at least.
I retested the Find/Change issue and it seems you are half and half too :D, but that’s because of me, I should’ve been more exact when describing the test.
If you search ONLY for the Font Family, it does find it. But, if you search for the Font Family AND Font Style, in our case Times New Roman, Bold, it won’t find those words that have the Character Style applied to, as if there isn’t any bold text anywhere.
You can see how this poses a lot of problems when you are trying to find some specific problems or text that you want to find, etc. so I’m extremely surprised I didn’t find this problem posted anywhere.
Stay safe!
MemberOh, wow, pleasant surprise to hear from the creators.
Will surely give it a try! Thank you for the trial extension offer too!
I mainly wanted to make sure it can handle hundreds of pages combined with the tenths of styles each .indd file has before I would go to the trial. But indeed, you can’t know for sure unless you try it yourself.
Will report back ASAP.
Thanks for the replies!
All the best!
MemberHi David!
We break the book in chapters, each chapters has around 100 to 200 letter sized pages, some might reach 300 pages tops.
Thank you for replying! You are Anne-Marie are doing a wonderful job with everything InDesign!
May 21, 2018 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Convert faux footnote numbers (superscripted) to actual footnotes #103887MemberI can’t really reply to a set of three question marks. Care to be more explicit?
May 19, 2018 at 5:41 am in reply to: Convert faux footnote numbers (superscripted) to actual footnotes #103856MemberI think I’ve nailed the script and from primary tests it works fine. Here’s the code:
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ‘d+’;
app.findGrepPreferences.position = Position.SUPERSCRIPT;
found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
for (i = found.length-1; i >= 0; i–) {
found[i].insertionPoints[0].footnotes.add();
found[i].remove();
}May 18, 2018 at 7:20 am in reply to: Convert faux footnote numbers (superscripted) to actual footnotes #103851MemberTo give a jumpstart to the conversation, I’ve found a script very similar to the one I’m looking to achieve, created by Peter Kahrel in [url=https://creativepro.com/topic/use-grep-to-put-in-footnote-reference]this[/url] post a while back:
[code]
(function () {
var i;
var placeholders;
var fnote;
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ‘[[(.+?)]]’;
placeholders = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for (i = placeholders.length-1; i >= 0; i–) {
fnote = placeholders[i].insertionPoints[0].footnotes.add();
placeholders[i].move (LocationOptions.AFTER, fnote.insertionPoints[-1]);
}
}());
[/code]P.S. I have no idea what the formatting code is for this forum.
MemberSorry for resurrecting an old thread, but searching the web if there are any new ‘cheats’ to this problem that persists through InDesign iterations I ended up here.
I don’t encounter this problem often in my work, but when I do it’s driving me absolutely mad. The variable that is on the left hand pages usually tends to put that extra space at the end of the text and can be eliminated with the ‘delete end punctuation’ option. The ones on the right behave as described above.
Does anyone have an understanding why this soft return thing behaves in this particular way? Is it extremely hard to fix for the Adobe engineers or is it just overlooked since it’s rather minor?
I figure that if I get to understand it a bit, it will help with my anger management on this problem. :)
MemberI can only thank Kai again for his amazing help. All that he did is sorcery to me, but it works flawlessly. I hope this script will prove useful for anyone else that wants to put their time in the actual design process of the layout, rather than wasting it with boring (but sometimes necessary) tasks.
MemberIDML file sent.
MemberThank you for the fast reply. Is there an e-mail where I can send you a file? I can’t really release them in the open…
MemberHello everyone,
coming back with an update regarding the scripts, which I have been using with some success for the past months.
The only problem I encountered that I have no idea how to fix is that on bigger files, with (maybe) many changes made, when running the scripts (either Kai’s or Peter’s, using the latter most), InDesign just freezes. I’ve left if even 30 minutes to ‘do its thing’, but it just remains frozen, eating about 25% of the CPU power, like its doing something.
Any ideas why this happens and if there is a workaround?
I can’t thank you enough for the help!
MemberIndeed, this is why I avoid character styles altogether to highlight changes. They’re not for temporary stuff and it’s a hell to fix them, especially in books with lots of para and char styles.
Using conditional text hasn’t really crossed my mind until now, and you are totally right: it can prove very useful and nondestructive.
Although I am sad that they can’t have keyboard shortcuts. Dunno why Adobe restricted shortcuts to only a few ‘applicable’ characteristics of the text, like para, char and table styles. Would’ve loved to have some for Swatches or even conditional text (although the latter can be applied through quick apply).
MemberWorks as intended, although I think that usually after all the modifications are made they just select the whole text (Ctrl+A) and revert to normal color (which the script doesn’t seem to do). So they could just go to the Conditional text and delete the highlight from there.
Thank you for the extra morsels! I think everything could be clumped together in a single script with dropdown choices too if you want to get fancy with it :)MemberThank you so much to both of you. I now have two lucrative scripts that work excellent.
I think I’m not the only one that needs this sort of stuff, so maybe an article on the website would make it more popular (or even come up with new ideas).
Thank you again!
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