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David BlatnerThank you, Austin! Sorry about that. I have now fixed my code above.
David BlatnerGreat suggestions here! It’s always awesome when the community makes suggestions like this, and there’s usually more than one way to do something, especially when it come to GREP.
Here’s another way:
Search for (#)([\w]+?)(#)
and replace with $2
That finds the number sign, followed by anything that is a word character or a space character, followed by a number sign, and then it replaces it with whatever #2 — that is, the words between the # symbols. You can then set the Find Format field to your italic style.
David BlatnerUnfortunately, javascript for Acrobat is really different than JS/extendscript for InDesign. Interactive PDF is pretty clunky these days, and javascript doesn’t always work on all devices, I believe.
David BlatnerWhat is the error?
One of the most common problems when copying and pasting scripts is that curly quotes often have to be changed to straight quotes. Are the quote marks straight in your code?
David BlatnerThat sounds very strange! But if you export an IDML and then open it, will it work correctly again? Sometimes InDesign documents get corrupted or have bugs, and then you have to export to IDML and open that IDML to “clean them up.”
David BlatnerIt sounds like you’re describing a DAM. But you’re right that there are simple dams like Bridge. Another option might be CI-HUB (https://ci-hub.com)… not sure if that would work, but worth looking at.
There are a ton of DAM options out there, including those from Extensis: https://www.extensis.com/connect/platform
David BlatnerK4 is an editorial workflow system… there are many of these, including from Woodwing. For example, let’s say you have a team of 10 people, including editors, designers, art directors, marketing team… and maybe you’re doing a magazine. And each article is in a different InDesign doc. So the workflow system lets you, the production person, send a layout to the art director with a note saying, “hey, can you review this” and they can send it back to you, etc… And the editorial workflow system knows who has the “live” version at any given time, and who is supposed to be doing what.
I’m sure it can be far more complicatated than that (including DAM systems, etc.), but that’s the basic idea of a workflow system.
David Blatner@payam: There are shortcuts for this, such as the post blow.
You can also do a GREP Find, and search the current story for \Z
David BlatnerIf you can do this in Word, you can probably do it the same way in InDesign. But I don’t see how you can do this in Word the way you describe. (At least I can’t when I try.)
If it were just changing 5pm to 6pm, it would be easy, but because you have two instances of “5 pm” in each table, it makes it tricky. InDesign doesn’t really have a good way to search for text in multiple cells.
Is it just a single table? Or 365 different tables?
David BlatnerI would normally change the name of the image. For example, if I make the image black and white, I’d do a Save As and call it something like “image-v2_BW.jpg”
Then I’d update file_v3.indd with the new image (using Relink).
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