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ParticipantI can’t send any data because I can’t get the problem to repeat itself. There are no nested styles in the paragraph, but there is GREP which, among other things, looks for the first phrase before two spaces and applies a character style to it:
^(?<!).+?\x{20}\x{20}
That character style of course then also applies to the bulleted character. This has worked perfectly fine for hundreds of paragraphs over the last year or so (whenever it was I applied that GREP) but just recently we’ve seen this problem where the spacing of the paragraph stays accurate, but the key letter disappears, and only in one or two places.
(Other note: the paragraph preceding the paragraph with the error had the same paragraph style applied.)
ParticipantThanks Roel — This link indicated that the script is only compatible in CS5, CS4, and CS3 though. I have someone trying to work something up for me (for PhotoShop in Creative Cloud) that includes the option to resize is smaller steps, rather than go from 100% to 24% in one fell swoop. If it works, and the rest of you are interested, let me know. He may be willing to share with a wider audience.
ParticipantWhat if you allow the paper size to be “Defined by Driver”? Perhaps then when you “print” to PDF at 150% the post script driver will automatically decide what paper size is necessary… Just a thought. I’ve never had reason to try what you are trying.
ParticipantI realize this is an old thread, but I’m having a related problem. Hopefully this message finds it’s way to the near-top of the list.
When I select a photoshop path in clipping path options, the path with “holes” shows up correctly. However, if I choose to inset the path by a pixel to get rid of a couple errant white edges, I lose my “holes”. I thought clicking the “Include Inside Edges” option would work, but that option is greyed out / unselectable.
What is happening here? Why won’t the inside area of the path continue to be recognized when I select an inset value?
Thanks for any advice you can lend…
ParticipantI bought it directly from a programmer in Russia, from this website (https://sites.google.com/a/lapay.biz/www/), for about 10% of the cost of LinkOptimizer of course. But thanks for the suggestion. It looks like this could work. I will look into this and see if it suits my projects. Thanks David – InDesign Secrets always has an answer!
October 2, 2013 at 11:22 am in reply to: Scripts to resize images to 100% for Creative Cloud? #65614ParticipantI don’t know. Part of the coding in the script identifies the version of the software. I tried to update those version numbers in the script, but apparently there’s something else a-miss, prompting an error message that says “unable to write the ini file”. I don’t know what that means. I wrote to the author of the script and he told me not to expect it to work in CC, and that he didn’t plan to re-write it. Ugh. I did find another script that resizes the linked image to 100% in a single step, but it over writes the original image with the smaller one. The script I bought did this:
1) Open a folder with any number of InDesign files in it
2) Searched the documents for images that did not meat specs (RGB, <300 ppi, etc.)
3) Opened the acceptable files in PhotoShop
4) Resized the image down in 20% increments (or by any other % I specified)
5) Rotated/flipped the image as necessary based on InDesign settings
6) Identified the area showing in the InDesign frame and added 15 pixels
7) cropped the image at that dimension
8) saved the image as JPG with a new extension, in a new folder
9) Placed the new image in the ID document at the proper position in the frame
10) saved and closed the ID document.All I had to do was copy my InDesign files to a new folder so the originals didn’t get over written (which is important in my workflow). Pretty amazing little piece of work.
ParticipantAm I the only one still worried about this? Maybe Adobe’s technology has gotten good enough to translate an image directly through InDesign to Acrobat without degradation? I still see moiré problems with some images, but I do admit the results have gotten better over the last ten years. Anyone else still resizing images to 100%?
ParticipantThat moves some of the key letters a smidge to the right, actually “unaligning” them with each other. And the text after the bullet is still not aligned. Any other ideas? This has got to be able to be done…it’s probably something obvious… like why might my “tab position” field be uneditable?
ParticipantChalk that up to a “duh”… I didn't even realize I had a tab in the Grep code of that field. That must be the default setting, because I can't remember typing that myself. I did have it correct in a different style though, so maybe I'm crazy. Thanks Anne-Marie, InDesign Secrets is the best!
ParticipantThere is probably a way to script what your'e trying to do, but that is beyond me… A work-around could be setting your “heading” paragraph style to have a negative value underline. This screen snap shows a style with a heading of 14 point type, a 16 point underline, with a -5 offset. It doesn't fill the whole page width as you desire, but it will fill the amount of space that the letters take up.
ParticipantMaybe I'm not following exactly what you mean, but this sounds like the thing paragraph styles and nested styles are made for:
https://www.adobe.com/designcen…..tyles.htmlIf your page layout follows a specific design/format, but you want to use a separate text frame for the headline in each instance, you can also set that up with Data Merge (https://www.adobe.com/designcen…..merge.html), but you still start witth setting up paragraph styles.
March 25, 2013 at 9:44 am in reply to: Text Disappeared – Possibly related to text thread problem #64480ParticipantYeah, that sounds like there are some breaks ( or “no-breaks”) applied accidentally. I see similar problems when someone copies text from an older document to paste into a new document where there are styles with the same name, but different settings. If you think your paragraph styles are properly applied, try clearing all of the character styles to “none”. You may have to manualy reapply paragraph styles or character styles to applicable sections to get back to normal.
ParticipantOr (to follow up on Jongware's post) create a style that is in essence “nothing” and replace it with your new, custom, absolutely blank style. (You may have to set up one variable – like changing the opacity to 0% or something that won't affect the rest of your document.)
February 6, 2013 at 1:49 pm in reply to: Do forced line breaks always interrupt a Paragraph Style? #64077ParticipantThat did work in the end to solve the soft return problem. Thanks!
One other question: regarding “x{20}x{20}”, I get that {20} is a space through what I've seen in web coding, but what is the x for? I don't see that or {20} in the adobe cheat sheet I use (found here: https://tinyurl.com/b7pqzkw)
February 5, 2013 at 6:49 am in reply to: Do forced line breaks always interrupt a Paragraph Style? #64066ParticipantHm. I will try that today and see if it helps. Thanks for identifying the Nested vs. GREP discrepancy.
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