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Bruno Lemgruber
MemberIt is hard to know what is behind your exploration but I guess this what you did is almost the whole thing. If you could automatically apply a progression of variable colors to something in a page (a background rectangle?!) it could be applied to any other object.
Naturally, in this approach, the automatic page numbers would need to be detached from the master pages so they would be just another object like your background.
I am not sure I understood your question “How do you do with a colorized para between 2 pages!?”. Did you mean “paragraph” when you wrote “para”? This would not be the case, at least in my case, this is specifically intended for the automatic page numbers, not for the overall text/paragraphs, so there would never be anything “between 2 pages”.
I saw David’s post about you being a scripter for hire and I wish this project had any budget for it but editorial design usually has a limited budget and, when the book is about culture, that just gets an even tighter budget.
MemberThanks for clearing that up David. As I said, I am new here and would not know who is who here and, mostly used to platforms like Github, did not think of a hiring option but
it is good to know — not this idea, intended for a specific book about culture in Brazil, would have a budget for it anyway.MemberI guessed that.
Not really sure even how to start experimenting with your suggestion but thanks anyway.
MemberThanks for reposting the script David.
MemberObi-wan, I am just a young padawan… would you mind expanding on your idea?
MemberA PDF for printing a physical book in CMYK.
MemberThanks David. Happy to be here and I hope to be able to contribute sometime soon.
If you are right about Obi-wan this is what I was kind of guessing and it is (unless I did not get it yet) what the intent is here.
The idea is that every single page has a slightly different color, so page one is 0/0/100/0 CMYK and page 2, 0/10/100/0, page 3 0/20/100/0… page 10 could be 10/100/100/ and some progression like this — those would not be the actual colors but the idea.
This seems to be exactly what Chung_Chiang’s was looking back in 2008 but he was not as lucky as I was.
The closest thing I found to a variable automatically altered by its page number is Jacques Letesson’s post “Modify width of rectangle based on page number in InDesign via Javascript” ( https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1248995 ) but I don’t understand javascript enough to evolve it from modifying size to reapplying different colors.
MemberHi Obi-wan. Thanks for your suggestion but, even though I use ID since ID1, circa 1999, it may be because it is my first day in here, I could not even start to understand your suggestion.
My intention, like Chung_Chiang’s in a 2008 unanswered post (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/289283) is to vary automatic page numbers based on the number itself so each page on the book progressively varies its hue.
I could not understand if your suggestion addesses this goal and, if it does, would you mind exploring it a bit further?
Many thanks
MemberThis post has been closed for a while and ShayR never posted back and De Jong’s script link is missing (404 page) but I have a similar situation and would love to hear if this script is available and currently working for InDesign CC.
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