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February 11, 2022 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Applying an opacity and/or blending mode to the [paper] swatch or white swatch #14357920
David BlatnerKeymasterThanks for referring to my article, John. However, I don’t think I’d say don’t use it at all… I think it’s probably great for what Nick is looking for. (If I understand it.) For all intents and purposes, Paper is just “white” (zero % of all plates).
So let’s say you have a frame filled with 50% cyan, and then you put another frame filled with Paper over it. Then, if you set the opacity of the Paper (white) frame to 50% in the Effects panel (or control or properties panel), then the result will be 25% cyan — well, it should be… it might be slightly off depending on this and that.
February 11, 2022 at 6:25 am in reply to: Footnote congestion breaks InDesign and gives me a headache! #14357872David BlatnerKeymasterMy sense is that InDesign’s footnotes feature is a good start, but people who need very heavy-duty footnotes end up managing a lot of their notes with automation (scripts) and a lot of manual work. For example, see Peter Kahrel’s scripts here: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html
David BlatnerKeymasterI have not used these scripts recently, but please see this article:
Batch Export InDesign Documents as PDF, JPEG, or EPS with the Free Page Exporter Utility
Let us know if this works for you!
David BlatnerKeymasterI’m not sure! We have a couple of applescripters that come through here sometimes, but there are many more on the Adobe InDesign scripting forum, or on the Facebook InDesign scripting group.
In the meantime, a couple links that may or may not help:
January 30, 2022 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Entries from linked InDesign elements not appearing in TOC #14357114David BlatnerKeymasterNo, InDesign cannot see text inside placed INDD files. It treats placed INDD files more or less as though they were PDF graphics.
David BlatnerKeymasterI think it works better if you set the Keep Options for the hymn title to “start in new column” (or new page, etc.)
Something is just problematic about the combination of Keep Options and the fact that the image can’t fit at the bottom of the page, etc.January 28, 2022 at 8:05 am in reply to: GREP – find prices with SKU preceding, but with varying white space types used #14357086David BlatnerKeymasterYes, the ? is important if you want to find the “shortest match”. For example, if you search for
U.+Xyou will find most of that sentence. But if you search forU.+?Xthen you will find just a small bit of text.does find a nonbreaking space for me. So that is strange. But you might also try (“any horizontal space”)
You might also consider using the number adjuster script:
David BlatnerKeymasterI asked Mike Rankin about this and he pointed me to this good article by Kurt Lang:
https://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.htmlDavid BlatnerKeymasterWow, that is very strange. My theory is that it was inserted by some software the printer was using. Like, maybe the printer was running the PDF through a rip or some processing software that was accidentally set to add a watermark.
January 19, 2022 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Apply color to all tracked changes in Story Editor #14356784David BlatnerKeymasterAwesome! Thanks for coming and letting us know, Sibren.
January 17, 2022 at 5:34 am in reply to: Creating Interactive Forms – Indesign or Acrobat? #14356678David BlatnerKeymasterBy the way, if you do need to make edits to the InDesign file after creating a form, this article is really important:
Designing Forms with InDesign? Acrobat’s Replace Pages Feature is at Your Service.
January 17, 2022 at 5:34 am in reply to: Creating Interactive Forms – Indesign or Acrobat? #14356677David BlatnerKeymasterI find making forms in InDesign much better than in Acrobat. However, you are correct that there are some kinds of form fields (such as date and calculation) that cannot be done in InDesign. So many forms need to be finalized in Acrobat.
I’m not sure what you mean by resetting the tab order. What do you mean by “once you amend the document”? I have not had problems with that. I can set the tab order, then make edits, and the tab order maintains.
David BlatnerKeymasterI don’t know of any way to do that, no.
David BlatnerKeymasterSometimes posts and replies get held for moderation. Not sure why that happens. But if your post doesn’t show up, you can always email us at info@creativepro.com and say “hey, my forum post isn’t showing up.” :-)
Glad this worked!
David BlatnerKeymasterHi Constanza, glad you found my article!
If you’re just looking for words that have hyphens around them, you can try:-\w+?-
The dash will find a hyphen. \w means “any word character”. +? means one more more.
But if you’re trying to get rid of the hyphens as you turn the word italic, I’d suggest searching for-(\w+?)-
And then replace with$1 -
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