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  • July 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm in reply to: script to close up 3 em dashes in bibliography #76425
    Ariel Walden
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    Just type three em dashes and kern as needed. Now, cut them to the pasteboard. In the change to field of find/change, choose Other>Clipboard contents formatted, and in the find search for 3 em dashes. That should work!

    June 1, 2015 at 9:26 am in reply to: Autmoatically add an Object at start of a Paragraph Style? #75741
    Ariel Walden
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    It should be possible, actually. Create your object, and cut it to the clipboard as usual.

    Now, do a GREP search for the beginning of the paragraph, set the search paragraph style as needed, and replace with the contents of the clipboard, formatted.

    The result will be that this object appears at the start of each of the paragraphs with the style you specify.

    May 26, 2015 at 6:46 am in reply to: Running Header Issue #75653
    Ariel Walden
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    To me it sounds like you have a couple of master pages, and you simply forgot to edit away the space on one of the master pages but not on the other. If it is a bug, it’s not one I’ve ever encountered.

    May 22, 2015 at 2:08 am in reply to: Numbering each paragraph. #75550
    Ariel Walden
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    This product can number paragraphs, and has the option to place the number at the end of the paragraph: https://www.id-extras.com/products/line-numbers

    May 19, 2015 at 8:02 am in reply to: Fonts when creating interactive buttons #75480
    Ariel Walden
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    FormMagic is actually 2 scripts: One is for InDesign, one for Acrobat. Both are needed. The InDesign script is installed as usual, and the Acrobat script has to be placed in a particular folder for Acrobat to see it.

    If you download the Free edition, there’s a text file with the necessary installation instructions for both Mac and Windows. If you need help with the installation, send us an email: admin [at] id-extras.com

    May 17, 2015 at 11:53 am in reply to: Set AppliedMaster to paragraph #75448
    Ariel Walden
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    Hi Doug,

    You don’t mention which version of InDesign you’re trying to get this to work on, and the method did slightly change at some point, but certainly from CS6 onwards, to find the page, you can do this:

    app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage

    However, this is slightly simplistic: for instance, if the text frame of the selected paragraph is sitting on the pasteboard, the above line will return Null.

    Likewise, you would need to check what happens if your text frame is in a table, footnote, etc.

    Learning to script InDesign is a very worthwhile exercise in my opinion. Nevertheless, if deadlines loom, etc., you may want to check out https://www.id-extras.com/products/mastermatic.

    May 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm in reply to: Question About Resizing Document #75253
    Ariel Walden
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    There is a built-in way to do it with InDesign’s alternate layouts. It’s a little complicated, and not very reliable.

    There’s also our QuickResize add-on: https://www.id-extras.com/products/quickresize which is very simple, and pretty reliable.

    Make sure to watch the video tutorials on that page, especially the second one which (a) demonstrates how to use InDesign’s scale feature, and (b) shows some of the problems with it!

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