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November 15, 2015 at 8:22 am in reply to: Crowdfunding/lending campaign for my printing startup #79452
David BlatnerKeymasterHi Andreas, wow that sounds pretty cool. Can you explain the difference between the fundanything and the kiva sites?
David BlatnerKeymasterThere is an option to print text as black in the Print dialog box, but there isn’t one in the Export PDF dialog box, I think. I’m not sure why it would be affecting your PDFs. Try different PDF presets (such as pdf/x4). Maybe try some troubleshooting techniques, such as export doc as IDML and open that (to clean up possible doc corruption). Or try exporting to PDF using a different computer, or a different account on your computer.
David BlatnerKeymasterI wonder if the white text is somehow being set to Overprint?
You’re exporting using File > Export?David BlatnerKeymasterYes, grep is extremely precise. But you can turn off the case insensitivity with a code. For example, this should work:
(?i)(very|just|okay|really)David BlatnerKeymasterThat is correct. Data Merge uses its own “fitting” features. I talk about this in my title about data merge at lynda.com.
Look inside the Content Placement Options dialog box, in the Data Merge panel menu.
David BlatnerKeymasterAnother option: https://creativepro.com/repeat-supercharges-production-single-step-action.php
(Note that the plug-in is no longer being supported. But it might work.)David BlatnerKeymasterHi Masood, this could be scripted, of course, but I’m thinking for 100 pages it would only take 10 or 15 minutes to do it manually. You can center it by cutting it to the clipboard. pressing command-zero to fit page in window, then pastting (because paste always places the object in the middle of the screen). You can adjust one image, then go to the next page and repeat using Object > Transform Again.
Or, if the object is in the same place on every page, and you just need to move it and enlarge it the same every time, then you could use Transform Sequence Again:
https://creativepro.com/transform-again-rescue.phpNovember 4, 2015 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Using XML to automatically create category headers at the top of each page #79211David BlatnerKeymasterIt’s hard for me to know, but my guess is that if the company shows up in more than one category, you would likely need to either write a script to handle that (everyone I’ve talked to about XML seems to say “oh, yeah, you’d have to write a script or XSLT to handle…” such-and-such), or you would have to set up the data correctly (repeating the company, once for each category).
But I’m really not an XML specialist. If you massage the data right, you might be able to pull it off with data merge, a script, and possibly anchored groups of frames.
https://creativepro.com/data-merge-into-inline-anchored-objects-so-they-flow-in-a-story.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterA couple of posts to read:
https://creativepro.com/tip-week-decimal-align-numbers-table-cells.php
and
and consider using tabular style numbers:
https://creativepro.com/exploring-opentype-pro-fonts-part-3.phpNovember 4, 2015 at 11:22 am in reply to: Using XML to automatically create category headers at the top of each page #79203David BlatnerKeymasterWell, my rule is “if there’s any way to do it without touching XML, then do that.” There are exceptions, but if you can do it with data merge, I’d strongly suggest that. One problem with data merge is that you cannot have a field that contains more than a single paragraph. I can’t tell from this example if you need that.
Is the challenge of changing the categories a matter of changing the text? Or changing the color? It might be easier to flow the whole thing and then do a quick find/change to find all “Category 2” and assign a paragraph style with a blue background, for example.
David BlatnerKeymasterI suggest looking through some of our many articles about GREP, including “Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use”
https://creativepro.com/resources/grepIn general, you need to need to search for something like
(\u\.)(\u)and replace it with$1 $2 -
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