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ParticipantDoes it make sense to anybody that CMYK swatches would be causing this issue?
I have another file that uses this and is not posing issues. I’ve copy/pasted the object into my current working file and it exported fine (with RGB swatches used for the gradient as the otehr file was digital) when i converted it to CMYK swatches it gave issues again.
ParticipantThis worked, thank you for the suggestion.
This gradient is background element we use for a lot of things across a lot of different shapes and sizes, so hopefully I can get this ironed out and not have to use linked files for it all.
I’ve also worked with a different printer that seemingly had no issue printing the gradient
ParticipantAnother confusing piece to the puzzle:
Opening the pdf in Illustrator causes the transparency issues (gradient displays at 25% opacity, gradient is removed and is one solid color, when turning to 100% transparency it has a feathered edge all around).
But PLACING the file in an already opening artboard brings it in with 0 issues.
I am at such a loss *sigh*
ParticipantHello,
No I am not using spot colors in the gradient. I also just did a color search in the file to make sure there were no spot colors mistakenly being used and there are not.
ParticipantHi Nick,
Honestly I’ve tried so many at this point. Original output was with the standard set to none an compatibility to Acrobat 5.
I’ve tried higher versions of Acrobat and I’ve tried x-4, x-3 and x-1 standards. I have layers turned off as well, and I’ve set the transparency flattener to high quality.
I don’t know if I’m missing something, doing something naively wrong or what. My printer doesn’t seem to be much help with presets either.
ParticipantThanks for the reply, Anne-Marie. I was thinking the same thing, that they ere getting confused — and admittedly hoping they were, due to them being an extreme know-it-all lol.
ParticipantHi Patrick,
If I’m understanding correctly, all that you should need to do is make sure that “Allow Document Pages to Shuffle” and “Allow Selected Spreads to shuffle” is checked (You’ll know that a spread isn’t allowed to shuffle if the page numbers appear in brackets in the panel).
To do this, right-click on a page in the pages panel and select just that — if they both have a checkmark next to it, then you’re good.
Hope this helps!
ParticipantDavid’s expression?
I had that trouble at first as well, but noticed the left bracket was left out.
Find: (#)([\w]+?)(#)
Change: $2Change format: italics
Try that
ParticipantThank you, David!
Ive read a bunch of your articles and such on GREP to help me get a basic understanding of it in regards to InDesign. I’m still pretty new at it. This code is perfect and kills two birds with one stone. I was about to setup a script with ChainGREP that changed everything to italics and then deleted the #’s with two separate queries, but no need now!
I appreciate your help and everyone else’s responses as well. Thank you everyone.
ParticipantThank you! This seems to work, aside from one spot and its really confusing me. The code is changing each one as it I wanted, except when it comes to between (6) and (7). The “and” is being changed and I can’t figure out why. I tried adding extra words to see if it was an issue of it just being one word in between, but that wasn’t the case. Any thoughts on this? I’m very very new at this all myself. Paragraph from indesign below:
ALEC ZAJAC is a winter editorial intern for (1)#DBusiness#(2). During his time with the publication, he contributed articles to the On the Move and Give Detroit Spotlight sections of the (3)#DBusiness#(4) website, and to the (5)#DBusiness Daily News#(6) and (7)#DBusiness Tech and Mobility News#(8) newsletters.
ParticipantI tried it, but it still resulted in the same issue. My understanding of the difference between * and + is just that * searches for 0 or more of the preceding command, and + searches for 1 or more, which when breaking it down that way would show that it wouldn’t make a difference in this situation.
I use the * command, as an example, when searching for a string of words that might have a comma or space between them, but also might not.
ParticipantI am changing all the words in between to italics. I work for a media group that publishes magazine and the #’s are the editors way of denoting what needs to be italicized. I’m trying to automate the process of doing it just for efficiency’s sake.
The # character could be included, and in fact, if it were included that might solve the problem as I could change my search parameters to include a find style for a non-italicized font, and then once its converted it would no longer show up in the search results.
So I guess my question now becomes how do I include the # characters in the italicization while still searching between those two characters?
ParticipantHi Aaron,
Thank you for the response and for the article! Seems, as I guessed, it’s not a native feature to Indesign at this time. After looking at the summary of IndexMatic 2, I think I’ve got a winner for the exact thing I’m looking for.
Thankfully I do already have a master sheet of all 500 that I’ve applied a pretty tight workaround to — I can pump out a fully formatted index of all 500 people in about 30 minutes or so — but I dont know that the process I came up with will easily apply to every situation. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
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