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February 22, 2022 at 7:11 am in reply to: Script to create a list of images and their attributes #14358942
David BlatnerKeymasterTolbain, this is a binary JSX file, so it’s impossible to know what it does, or if it does any (perhaps unintentional) damage. Can you post it as a readable JS? (JSX is often used for commercial, paid scripts from companies.)
Here is an AppleScript alternative from a while ago (I have not tested it recently):
I also see options here:
https://www.marspremedia.com/software/indesign/links-reportFebruary 22, 2022 at 6:56 am in reply to: Some pages don’t have a preview in Adobe Bridge, just show InDesign icons?! #14358941David BlatnerKeymasterMasoud, I think you have asked this same question before… maybe even 2 times before! I think you can click on your name (here in the forum) and then click “Topics Started” to see your previous posts.
For example, see these answers:
The “Preview Window” of Adobe Bridge; doesn’t show all pages of a .indd file?
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this blog post:February 22, 2022 at 6:48 am in reply to: Finding unformated footnote references in the text #14358935David BlatnerKeymasterSorry my GREP didn’t work better… it’s tricky! But Peter Kahrel’s solution on that Adobe forum thread to use ^F is a great one… as long as the numbers are actually footnotes. I had made the (wrong) assumption that you just had numbers in text. The ^F code will work in Find/Change if the numbers are inserted using the Insert > Footnote feature.
February 21, 2022 at 10:15 am in reply to: Finding unformated footnote references in the text #14358929David BlatnerKeymasterGREP is all about finding patterns, so you need to identify what’s different about those numbers. For example this expression:
(?<=|[[:punct:]])\d+
will find all numbers that follow a lower-case letter or punctuationDavid BlatnerKeymasterWhat?! Dhafir… that is magic. Can you help us understand why this works?
[\S]+means “find one or more characters that that are either a horizontal space OR not a space”? That doesn’t make sense to me.
And\p{l*}*~j\p{l*}*is really a mystery to me. I know ~j is the non-joiner, but… huh?!David BlatnerKeymasterWow, that’s crazy! To be honest, I have never quite understood the single-line on/off features. This makes no sense to me… but yes, I can see that it works. Well done.
David BlatnerKeymasterDhafir, that’s brilliant. Love it! Thank you. However, I think this will only work if the first part of a word is italic and the last part is not italic.
If the first two letters of the word are not italic, and the rest are italic, you would have to do the opposite, yes?David BlatnerKeymasterUnfortunately, GREP only knows characters, not formatting. So I don’t think this is possible. (Happy to be proven wrong if someone else has an answer!)
You might be able to figure this out by exporting the story as Tagged Text, and then using GREP on that plain text. It’s VERY geeky but it can work. I wrote about something like this here:
GREP Find/Change on Formatted Text (solution to a big problem)
David BlatnerKeymasterSorry, Petar. I’m not sure why that was stuck in moderation. I have approved it now.
David BlatnerKeymasterIt sounds to me like some other feature or app is “stealing” your shortcut. That has happened to me. You might try changing or adding a different keyboard shortcut to that feature (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts).
February 16, 2022 at 9:13 am in reply to: Bible Refernces in Page Header – auto number Chapter / Verse #14358679David BlatnerKeymasterUnfortunately, InDesign’s headers are just too simple… That’s why Harbs created PowerHeaders (in-tools.com)… but sadly it has been updated in several years and I don’t think it works with any new version of InDesign.
David BlatnerKeymasterIt’s usually an image compression or resolution issue… I usually use 150 ppi and Medium compression.
But sometimes it’s other stuff hidden in the PDF. See:David BlatnerKeymasterWow that is awesome, Dhafir! I did not realize you could set tracking and horizontal scaling that large… However, here is something weird: Your trick only seems to work for the first paragraph in a text frame. If there is another heading later in the story, it stops working. Isn’t that strange? Does it work for you?
David BlatnerKeymasterGREP Styles cannot insert characters, no… You could use the GREP feature in Find/Change to insert characters (like a line break).
David BlatnerKeymasterSadly, this has been an issue for a very long time. Here are some possible solutions to consider:
https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_change_case.html
https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/title_case.html -
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