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David BlatnerKeymasterThis article might help:
https://creativepro.com/type-any-unicode-character-you-want-in-indesign.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterVishal: Yes, you need relative links instead of absolute links. Relative links are “relative” to the position of the document; absolute links are the path on any one particular computer.
However, the bigger issue is that this is very difficult. PDF is not a very good “file management” tool. This is not what PDF was designed to do.
David BlatnerKeymasterSo you want to make a link inside one PDF that will open another PDF? That is possible… I wrote something up here about this, but I think we will be publishing a newer method by Keith Gilbert soon:
https://creativepro.com/making-relative-hyperlinks-to-files-in-indesign.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterSee “Something is really wrong with InDesign” here:
David BlatnerKeymasterHi Rivkah: I just tried the script above and it works great. It needs some customization for your situation, of course. In this case, it is looking for a paragraph style called “CT” and when it finds it, it applies “B-Master” to that page. You can change “CT” and “B-Master” in the script to your specific paragraph style and master page name.
Here is an article that shows how to save the script and install it:
https://creativepro.com/how-to-install-a-script-in-indesign-that-you-found-in-a-forum-or-blog-post.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterThere are several very good references for scripting on the web… for example, Marc Autret often writes about scripting matters at: https://www.indiscripts.com
Loic (who posted above) has information at https://www.ozalto.com
There’s more information here: https://creativepro.com/category/secrets/scripting-secrets
David BlatnerKeymasterJames, I am not a scripter, but I asked some who replied:
“you can do all of the same things in ExtendScript. Basically, $.writeln(string) is equivalent to console.log(string).”
Note that this requires you’re working in ESTK (extendscript toolkit)
Another person wrote: “Can also use log factory in any environment https://creative-scripts.com/logging-with-a-smile/ “
January 29, 2018 at 9:24 am in reply to: Combining/Merging indices for a series of journals that belong to a single vol. #101299David BlatnerKeymasterI told Mr. Excel (Bill Jelen) about this thread, and he sent me this via email (he was about to teach a class so he couldn’t log in to post it). Bill will be speaking at The InDesign Conference this June.
Step 1:
Get each page number separated to a new row. You can use the InDesign technique suggested by Obi Wan Kenobi. If you have Excel for Windows, the new Power Query Split by Delimiter To Rows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGygtOutMtg) will solve it. In Mac Excel, you will have to use Data, Text to Columns, and then some copying and pasting.Step 2. You have topics in column A, single page number in B. Headings in Row 1 and data starts in row 2.
Sort the data by Page number within topic.
Heading in C1: Temp Result
Formula in C2:
=IF(A2=A1,C1&”, “&B2,”B2)
Copy that formula down
Heading in D1. Best Answer For Topic
Formula in D2: =IF(B2<>B3,True,False)
Copy that formula downSelect Column C. Copy. Paste as Values.
Turn on the Filters using Data, Filter.
Filter column D to True
While filtered, copy column C and paste back to InDesign.January 29, 2018 at 7:27 am in reply to: Combining/Merging indices for a series of journals that belong to a single vol. #101297David BlatnerKeymasterObi-wan loves scripting, so when he looks at a problem, he usually thinks “Oh, this is easy with a script.” :-)
However, your solution using Excel sounds great!
David BlatnerKeymasterI wrote up an article about this here:
https://creativepro.com/when-applying-paragraph-style-has-no-effect.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterHi Matt, my guess is that Harbs is not tracking this forum all the time. Have you written to him at in-tools.com?
I corresponded with him recently and he said that the changes required for CC 2018 were harder and taking longer than expected.
David BlatnerKeymasterDid you update InDesign recently? What version are you using? Accessibility is a tricky and strange science…
David BlatnerKeymasterPersonally, I would use Nested Styles instead of GREP Styles for something simple. But both are good. :-)
But it sounds like John wanted to use Find/Change to do this. So in that case, GREP is the way to go.
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