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Chuck Nigash
MemberI've done this a lot. Here is the logic: you have a (hard) tab within a Table.
Steps:
Create a Para Style that employs the tab on decimal. Best practice > choose centered justification.
Create a sample Table and make sure you have a tab character in the cells that you want to invoke this aligment.
Once you tweak that cell as you want it, hit ESC and define the cell, then create a Cell Style.
Cool would be to search all cells not aligned as you wish, enter a tab character before the number, then apply the cell style.
MemberSolved!!! See Peter Kahrel's fine work from this morning in this Adobe scripting forum.
https://forums.adobe.com/messag…..58#4706758
Thanks to Peter, Kas & DB for pointing the way. Here's something for everyone.
MemberThank you, DB !
After many attempts, I had to give up on it.
I tried a simple test: 5 pm; 6 pm; 11:30; 11:45. My results with a subtraction of 1 were … 4 pm, 5 pm, 10:29, 10:44. That was a rounding factor of 0. Other rounding factors gave unpredictable results. So either I can't figure out the variables or it cant do times with minutes. I'll keep trying, see if anyone posts.
I might have to create/combine GREP combos such as d.:d. to grab the whole number 11:30 and then see if I can apply math where 11=10.
MemberAnother good one from Kasyan's site. See if this one works for you too.
Member… and ultimately this. https://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/find_change_by_queries.html
This record find change currently supports text and not GREP. With maybe some tweaking, you could get what you want. I am after something similar to build arbitrary fractions.
MemberThis is a good link and will lead you to what you want.
MemberThanks a ton, Loic.
Found them here — a fantastic resource.
MemberA twist down memory lane on this.
Can this script be modified to specify layer and scale the layer's elements by percentage?
MemberBrilliant! I really like the context too. As mine is for news publishing, sometimes editors need to make long names fit into prescribed column widths — the hardest being a single column. And here is what I did (following your steps): In GREP Style, I used [[:alnum:][:punct:][:space:]] to seek and adjust the possible characters.
To make it effective, I had to adjust leading to taste for each Character Style. I tried to zero out that leading and it was overleaded (unleaded? heh heh). But this is a great tip and I'm glad to have asked.
18 Thank You's!
Chuck
MemberRats! You're forcing me to speak english correctly.
I completely forgot that linebreaks IS an Adobe term. I have paragrah (“graf') breaks in the middle of paragraphs.
But break it to me. I can handle it — there is no trend to be able to find/change this.
MemberVery very early impressions: We didn't expect it to be, and make no mistake it is not ID.
Good News
Works just like Keynote and there is a lot to like.
It is well-organized and mostly intuitive.
Doesn't have problems publishing, doesn’t require deep knowledge of ePUB ins and outs, publishes free without DPS.
Bad News
Styling text is not great. After you've had InDesign you've had the best. Styles editing needs to improve—vastly. I mean, no baseline grid, shoot me now.
Styling text is inconsistent and lacks hi-end features (nested styles, glyphs for custom bullets, many more). I created a style. I put my cursor in a different graf and tried to invoke the new style. There were overrides, it didn't work, and I couldn't figure where to clear those overrides. BLECH!
Apple offers these great click & edit widgets, like slideshows, media, html, 3d … but when you drag them on your page it lets you know that if you want an html widget, it's not an html page you're loading from Finder — no, it's a Dashcode element created in some other Apple app. Same for 3d, it does not import the standard dxf or obj or 3ds file formats, it wants a Collada .dae file. (what the frack?!!)
Draw a text box and try to import text — no, it doesn't work that way. You have to Insert Chapter! WHAT!?!? So it's back to the caveman days of cut & paste.
Who is it ready for? It's prime-time for the person who wants to type into Apple's templates.
October 14, 2011 at 8:00 am in reply to: How to set and apply 3 paragraph styles at once? Any guidance from experienced user,please? #60767MemberThis depends on 2 workflows (your choice): separate text frames or 1 text frame.
If 1 text frame, do this:
–create your last style first–create your second to last style and choose the last style in the Apply Next Style pulldown
–create the first style and choose the second style in the Apply Next Style pulldown
Now, create an Object Style. Go to Para Styles in the Obj style panel and choose the first style, then click Apply Next Style.
If it's all separate text frames, the first post in this thread will get it done.
September 30, 2011 at 10:31 am in reply to: Resize graphic frames with an Object style applied #60656MemberThis is a pretty good thread. And another reason why — maybe with our new ID Secrets website coming — we should have an ID wishlist portal.
Because if Adobe's listening here … Object Styles should also contain geometry that include X,Y position, proxy & X,Y proportion, maybe even scaling percentage would be nice.
Talk about efficiency. This is a cross-court winner. Obj Styles could contain it, but even BETTER would be Object Tags in which values relating to print & digital media are tagged & controlled by the text frame attributes themselves.
As InDesign begins to merge print with digital platform export, there are huge advantages here.
2 cents …
September 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Is there a script to make pictures of a PDF and insert them into InDesign? #60520MemberFor $300 U.S. you could also buy PDF2ID. This will open and convert a pdf to ID. Done.
September 13, 2011 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Is there a script to make pictures of a PDF and insert them into InDesign? #60519MemberThat's a fairly unqie request. But you could easily:
–Open the PDF and extract all the pages to a folder (one command)
–Open Photoshop and batch process the PDFs to a folder (one action).
–In InDesign, Place multiple photos, place them as a contact sheet (one action)
While it's manual, it's not bad.
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