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David BlatnerHard to know, but sometimes weird stuff creeps in. Here are some articles that might help:
https://indesignsecrets.com/zap-gremlins-in-problem-data-merge-files.php
and
https://indesignsecrets.com/troubleshooting-data-merge-errors.php
David BlatnerThank you, Sol!
Is it this video? https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/356-numbering-items-in-a-diagram
David BlatnerHi Mike… sorry the Adobe forums are down, but we don’t really support Photoshop on InDesignSecrets. :-)
Good luck getting it installed!
David BlatnerI think there is a script here on indesignsecrets somewhere that turns on the clipping paths for all images in a document… not sure where to find it, though. Would take some searching.
David BlatnerI think it’s awesome that you care about making the text look good like that. While optical margin alignment (OMA) only works at the margin edge, one way to do this would be to use a table instead of a tab. Just make 2 columns… 1 with the number and 1 with the clue. OMA works in table cells.
David BlatnerWow, that is very strange. And it happens even if you delete all but one of your pages, and then start over?
David BlatnerYou can use GREP find/change or GREP Styles to do this. For example, you could use (?<=:).+?\? (that finds all the text after the colon, and including the question mark.
David BlatnerNo, I don’t think there’s much of a chance that Adobe will change their mind and update ESTK. That’s old technology to them.
Peter wrote a very good book about JavaScript in InDesign, which you can find here: https://indesignsecrets.com/shop
David BlatnerI wonder if Barcode maker can do it?
https://www.teacupsoftware.com/product/barcodemaker/
David BlatnerMichel is a pro scripter in France, and sees the world through a very cool lens of “everything can be automated with scripts!” He is right, that there are much better ways to do this, through scripting.
David BlatnerHi Tim! You should know by now that nothing involving numbering in InDesign is going to be as easy as we hope. ;-)
One option is text variables, but I think that’s not efficient for part numbers:
https://indesignsecrets.com/linking-numbers-in-a-list-to-numbers-on-an-image.php
The best option is probably x-refs… remember you can format the cross-reference to show just the number!
https://indesignsecrets.com/figure-numbering-in-indesign-and-cross-references-to-them.php
David BlatnerMy guess is it’s a style name issue:
https://indesignsecrets.com/beware-basic-styles.php
David BlatnerThis is a book file with multiple InDesign documents? Yeah, hyperlinks from one document to another is VERY clunky in InDesign. One of the many reasons I recommend people creating books in a single INDD file (and not use the book feature) when possible.
David BlatnerIt is a kind of crazy, advanced technique and does not always work. Keep backups!
https://indesignsecrets.com/changing-default-font-indesign-document-advanced.php
David BlatnerDefinitely scriptable. But the hard part is figuring out what the dependencies would be. Like, what does it mean for one swatch to be based on another?
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