Shawn:

With the assumption that you're using CS5 or CS5.5, I'd take a different tact altogether. While also assuming the final piece is 11 x 8.5, create a document with two sets of three facing pages each 3.6875″ (3-11/16″) wide x 8.5 deep. You'll have to uncheck “Allow Document Pages to Shuffle” in the pages panel to arrange three pages side-by-side. Then with the page tool, change the shorter ends to 3.625″ (3-5/8″). That will make the total width 11″ with the shorter flaps 1/16″ less (1/8″ seems like overkill IMHO).

Now you can set up single columns/margins in each panel (though technically a page). When you export or print, just be sure to select spreads. And with this setup you won't have to draw in fold marks, just be sure to include the crop marks when exporting or printing.

BTW, if you select each three-page “set” in the pages panel, then uncheck “Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle,” you can then deselect facing pages in the document setup. You'll be presented with a dialog about maintaining spreads that you'll need to OK. Not really necessary, but it keeps things tidy if desired. Your pages panel should now look like this:

Bob

Thanks Anne-Marie. Not bad for a guy who only scored a four on your Geekness Quiz. Using the Make Cropmarks script hadn't crossed my mind even though I use it occasionally.

BTW, do I get an extra geek point for having a cat named Kes?

Masoud:

Two things will help with the overset problem

1. use another invisible like a hair space (instead of the space bar): Type>Insert White Space>Hair Space
2. adjust the tab space: Type>Tabs, select the column then press Control+Shift (Windows) and drag the bottom triangle to adjust the space

Even with the characters invisible, you'll be able to see the adjustment. You can then resize the column width.

Bob

Jongware:

That did the job. I will still need to check for overset text when the picture frames are narrow and the file names are long, but in that case I need to watch for side-by-side labels too, so that's probably for the best.  The changes to the two scripts will eliminate the other manual work.

Thanks again for your time and for the  mini-tutorial.

Bob

Jongware:

That did the job, thank you.

I copied a couple of lines from near the end of the Label Graphics script (the indents do not show in the post). I only have a cursory understanding of scripts, but my sense is that the ignoreWrap command should be inserted somewhere in these lines, or should I be looking for something else?

myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset; 

myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(0).appliedParagraphStyle = myLabelStyle;

I tried copying in the last 15 lines or so, but indents and line breaks were removed in the post.

Bob

Jongware:

Your Image Scales script has aided me in my job as a prepress tech, and I thank you for that. Is there a way, however, to make the text boxes that the script creates ignore text wraps? Could such a command string also be added to the Label Graphics script that shipped with CS3 and CS4 and still works with CS5.

I use the scripts to create visuals with image info for our customer service and image enhancement departments, and manually modifying text boxes to ignore text wraps when they occur can get tedious.

Bob