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March 16, 2022 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Will applying a dot gain twice double the amount of adjustment? #14361007
David BlatnerKeymasterI’ve never tried that, but I assume that the dot gain conversion would be applied twice to the original images. As for what the dot gain would be… that sounds like a math problem. If you do 15% two times, what’s the result? Hm. I think it’s tricky because dot gain is usually not a linear thing… it’s usually a curve, so it’s applied differently at 80% than at 50%… tricky. But in general, yeah, I wouldn’t run it twice on the same images. That’s just me.
David BlatnerKeymasterThe only way to get images here is to put it somewhere (like dropbox or google drive or an image service) and link to it.
Are you adding a single page in the middle of the document? That is an issue as old as InDesign itself… if the master page objects (like your footers or other frames) have been overridden, they’ll double up when the page turns from a left-hand page to a right-hand page.More here:
David BlatnerKeymasterWonderful solution!
David BlatnerKeymasterI apologize because I did not catch that you were trying to do this with the Captions feature. That makes sense.
Very glad you figured it out! What did you end up doing?
David BlatnerKeymasterIs all of that in a single paragraph, with forced line breaks? Or is each line a different paragraph? If the latter, then just make a “Title” paragraph all-caps and bold.
You might want to use the “apply ___ then next style” feature if you have 4 different paragraph styles:
March 11, 2022 at 10:22 am in reply to: Table of contents showing the first word only from a paragraph style #14360247
David BlatnerKeymasterYou might want to use something like IndexMatic to do this. Here’s an article about an older version, but it will get you to the right place:
Building an Index Using Character Styles or External Word List
David BlatnerKeymasterDo you need to use GREP for this? You can search for underscores in the TEXT tab of the find/change dialog box, right?
March 8, 2022 at 8:18 am in reply to: HELP using Conditional text or Layers for study guide and answers #14360015
David BlatnerKeymasterThere are a number of articles about conditional text here on the site, including:
and
David BlatnerKeymasterMarxzware makes a fascinating tool that may help:
If you try it, let us know how it goes!
March 6, 2022 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Are there any command line switches for InDesign.exe in Windows? #14359812
David BlatnerKeymasterInDesign is very scriptable, but I’m not sure it would work in the command line like that. I’d think you’d need to have InDesign running, but I’m not sure.
Peter Kahrel wrote a book about using javascript in InDesign here: https://creativepro.com/product/javascript-for-indesign-2nd-edition/
(and there are other articles on this site about scripting InDesign)
David BlatnerKeymasterVery strange, Sharon! But thank you for letting us know of your solution.
David BlatnerKeymasterDoes double-clicking on other things work? For example, if you double-click the red color in the Swatches panel, does it open?
David BlatnerKeymasterIntersting… but I still do not see why you include
You do not want to include horizontal spaces that are italic, do you? It seems like \S+ would be enough. No?February 22, 2022 at 9:22 am in reply to: Some pages don’t have a preview in Adobe Bridge, just show InDesign icons?! #14358952
David BlatnerKeymasterOh! Thank you very much for explaining the difference. I see now. It sounds like maybe it is a Bridge icon cache problem? I am not sure.
February 22, 2022 at 7:29 am in reply to: Script to create a list of images and their attributes #14358944
David BlatnerKeymasterThank you! That seems to work. I’m having some strange results in the image resolution… and the CSV exports with a ; (semicolon) instead of a comma — Excel is confused. :-)
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