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  • January 14, 2025 at 10:02 am in reply to: Data Merge #14410527
    David Blatner
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    Sure, there are many third-party options for database publishing. See:

    Conplex data merge

    January 8, 2025 at 11:58 am in reply to: re: blocking swatches #14410365
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Keith: I agree that it would be cool if InDesign could look inside the Illustrator file and copy out the CMYK files… but it can’t.

    You might request that here: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

    January 8, 2025 at 11:42 am in reply to: re: blocking swatches #14410363
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Keith: Add Unnamed Colors does not add colors from inside placed graphics. It only collect unnamed colors created in InDesign (for example, with the Colors panel)

    January 3, 2025 at 3:52 pm in reply to: InDesign Tidbit #14410291
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Thanks, David! That worked. It’s great to have (and share) all kinds of examples to draw from.

    January 3, 2025 at 9:42 am in reply to: InDesign Tidbit #14410260
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    David, if you scan them and zip them up, maybe put them in a dropbox or onebox or google drive location? And then put a link here so we can download and view them?

    January 2, 2025 at 12:44 pm in reply to: Formatting for variables #14410222
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Sorry that I gave you wrong information. I did not read your original post carefully enough.

    Yes, the problem is that variables are considered a single character in InDesign! The only way to format some words inside a variable is to convert it to regular text. There is a script to do that:

    Script to convert all text variables

    January 2, 2025 at 12:38 pm in reply to: How to search for ‘any colour that is NOT 100% black’ #14410220
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Try choosing “Add All Unnamed Colors” from the Swatches panel menu (in the upper-right corner of the panel). That should add all the variations as swatches. Then you can delete them and replace them with [Black]

    January 2, 2025 at 8:46 am in reply to: Formatting for variables #14410209
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    You can also search for variables of various sorts in the @ menu inside the Find/Change dialog box. So you could search for that variable and then apply a character style to it.

    To do it automatically, you could apply the character style using a GREP Style:

    5 Cool Things You Can Do with GREP Styles

    December 17, 2024 at 8:28 am in reply to: Dock switches randomly to the wrong monitor #14409766
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Good one, Linda! In many Mac apps, you can also hover the cursor over the green dot in the upper-left corner… that opens a little menu that lets you assign a window to a display. However, it does not appear to work in Adobe apps that I’ve tried.

    One other thing: I don’t know why, but InDesign often resizes its window to fill the screen… which is sometimes what I want, but sometimes not! I have an app/utility that resizes windows for me to specific sizes (such as “left side of monitor”), but after I use it, InDesign resets itself to fill the screen. Really annoying. But if I resize using the utility and then change the size of the window manually by dragging a corner or edge, even just a few pixels, then InDesign will remember it.

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