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Ari Singer
MemberIs this specifically an InDesign issue, or do you experience this in all the programs on your machine. If the latter is true then you should probably ask around on a Microsoft Windows forum.
June 14, 2016 at 8:52 pm in reply to: text disappeared from a text frame and images from image place holder #85765Ari Singer
MemberTry to export the file as IDML and then open up the IDML and see if it’s fixed.
June 14, 2016 at 6:02 pm in reply to: using indesign menu select all then object pathfinder intersect using script #85764Ari Singer
MemberSkemicle, the ‘and’ operator (‘&&’) is an equality operator, not an assignment operator.
This script should work:
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Subtract Paths"); function main() { try{ var mySelection = app.selection; var myPicture = mySelection[0]; var myPath = mySelection[1]; var topPicture = myPicture.duplicate(); var half1 = myPath.subtractPath(myPicture); var newPath = half1.duplicate(); var half2 = newPath.subtractPath(topPicture); var myGroup = half1.parent.groups.add ([half1, half2]); app.select(myGroup); } catch(myError) { alert("Make sure you selected 2 path items") } }June 14, 2016 at 12:21 pm in reply to: using indesign menu select all then object pathfinder intersect using script #85749Ari Singer
MemberTry this:
var myArray = app.activeWindow.activePage.allPageItems; myArray[0].intersectPath(myArray);
Ari Singer
MemberPlease send me an email to designerjoe[at]outlook.com with a detailed explanation of the problem and how the script should fix it, and I’ll see what I can do.
Ari
Ari Singer
MemberI’m not sure I understand your question. Are you referring to CS5? Because I’m not aware of a CSS version of InDesign.
Ari Singer
MemberI hope one of the moderators cleans up the spam.
Re: your question. I did not watch the lynda.com movie, but from your description I assume they used the ‘Gridify’ trick.
Check out these articles:
https://creativepro.com/quickly-place-images-indesign-document.php
June 14, 2016 at 8:11 am in reply to: On single Italic / Oblique character style for Regular / Bold #85740Ari Singer
MemberI feel your pain, and as far as I’m concerned there’s no other way around this. It drives me nuts as well from time to time, but I learn to live with it. Let’s hope that in the 2016 CC release there will be some improvement.
Ari Singer
MemberYou’re right.
Ari Singer
MemberI bump into this issue as well from time to time (on a PC).
Ari Singer
MemberIn my experience, placing Word files and the like into InDesign messes up the formatting. To have better control it’s a good idea to select ‘Show Import Options’ when placing the file, and in the dialog box that pops up select any options that you need as well as optional style-mapping.
Though, even with this, things could still get messed up. There a lot of excellent articles and posts on the site that deal with issue. Just do a search.
P.S. Why do you place the text in the master?…
Ari Singer
MemberI do it on purpose, to bring you down… ;) I know most of these tricks from InDesign magazine. I’ve read most of the back issues and gained a lot of knowledge in the process.
Ari Singer
MemberOr even better. From the page (not the master, the regular page) Shift-click any item from the master and only that item will be overridden.
Ari Singer
MemberSimple. Set up the text frame’s vertical justification options to ‘Justify’.
You can find it in the Text Frame Options dialog box. Or you can press its icon in the control panel.
Ari Singer
MemberYou don’t have to convert the text to outlines. See these articles:
https://creativepro.com/creating-see-through-text.php
https://creativepro.com/turn-any-object-into-a-transparency-mask.php
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