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David BlatnerKeymasterThe right-to-left features are not visible in the normal version of CC. You might consider trying World Tools from in-tools.com
David BlatnerKeymasterSounds like you want this:
https://creativepro.com/split-up-data-merged-pdf-files-into-smaller-files.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterNot sure. Is it perhaps set to view in a separate window? (In pdf options)
David BlatnerKeymasterYou could do a regular search for
^a,and apply the No Break style to it. That code is “any anchored object followed by a comma”As for Gert’s grep code above: Wow, I completely forgot that grep find/change would do that. How annoying! It’s like it dissociates the styling with the text. Weird! That is probably why in the SortParagraphs.jsx script, there is a way to do it with or without paying attention to the formatting.
Personally, I think the trick of breaking it into a table and manipulating it in Excel is a pretty good one. Pariah S. Burke wrote an article about doing something like that in InDesign Magazine a while back… must have been in 2008, because I referenced it in this post: https://creativepro.com/alphabetize-data-in-tables.php
David BlatnerKeymasterDoes all that have to be a paragraph style? Why not just insert the triangle and lines as anchored objects or as characters in the text?
David BlatnerKeymasterNo easy way to do it. This was brought up in this old thread:
One option might be to figure out a way to do it with the ProperVJ plug-in, which came up in this blog post:
https://creativepro.com/adding-space-between-paragraphs-not-lines.php/comment-page-1#comment-473518December 24, 2013 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Character and Paragraph Styles importing problem from CS3 to CS5 #66497David BlatnerKeymasterThat shouldn’t happen. Need more info. What disappeared?
David BlatnerKeymasterHm. Well, I guess I’d say it probably has to do with the scripts or plug-ins that you’re using then. Might need to be modified.
David BlatnerKeymasterIn general, once you set it up once, it stays “sticky” and will apply that to PDFs in the future. No?
David BlatnerKeymasterWhat you are asking for is totally reasonable. But it’s impossible. The whole SWF thing was supposed to be the answer, but now that flash is mostly dead, it won’t work, as you pointed out. Adobe has not given us anything within pdf to replace it, sadly.
So you can go the lots and lots of pages in the PDF route, or you can use a different technology, such as DPS (or some other tablet app solution), or HTML5 web app (such as in5 at ajarproductions.com.
We’ll be discussing exactly these kinds of issues at pepcon.com. I hope the company will send you!
David BlatnerKeymasterDon’t know, but if anything is possible, it would likely be here: https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/footnotes.html
David BlatnerKeymasterThis sounds a bit like an Acrobat question, not an InDesign question… yes? My guess is that you’ll need to check on an acrobat forum, or check with W2P (don’t know what that is) and see why it’s removing overprints.
December 14, 2013 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Empty fields in data merge are causing blank lines to show up. ID 6.0.6 #66433David BlatnerKeymasterFinally wrote it up!
https://creativepro.com/rid-empty-lines-data-merge.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterOkay, check this out:
https://creativepro.com/downloads/conversation.zip
There is an IDML and a csv file there. If you open the IDML file in InDesign, then open the data merge panel, it should be set up. Turn on/off the preview checkbox in data merge to ensure that the first conversation exchange is working. Then select the big text frame and run the inlinemerge script.December 11, 2013 at 10:07 am in reply to: Automatically adding shape to corner of table cell #66402David BlatnerKeymasterCool. So here’s what you do:
Make a text frame and put two paragraphs in it. On the first paragraph add an inline object in the shape and color you want. Make sure it’s a text frame. On the next paragraph, do another inline text frame (different shape/color).
In excel (or whatever spreadsheet you’re using), make the first column person 1 and second column person 2. Save as CSV.
Then, in data merge panel, select your data source (the csv file). Now use type tool to click inside first inline object and click Person1 data field; then click inside next inline text frame and click Person 2 data field. Save your work.
Now here’s the trick: Download and install the InlineMerge script. I explain how it works here:
https://creativepro.com/data-merge-into-inline-anchored-objects-so-they-flow-in-a-story.php
Save your INDD file first. Then select the big text frame (the one that has the two inline frames in it) and run the script. When the script asks what to insert, use Carriage Returns.
If it doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll post a file for you. -
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