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May 29, 2023 at 10:18 am in reply to: A way to get captions in the ‘descriptions’ xmp tag of images in batch? #14392498
Godfried Vonk
ParticipantI have since found a way of working that does exactly what I described in my question: for this, I need a small programme and a script.
The programme I used is called ‘Photo Metadata Export’ (in Apple’s app store), it can export a lot of types of metadata from a folder of images to an excel file, but for me in this case it’s just about the file name, description and possibly keywords.
From a folder of images, I create an excel list with the exact names of the images and the description field. There are more programmes that can do this. The beauty of this little programme is that it can also put a small thumbnail of the image in front of the name. This is easy to recognise which image the description belongs to.
The author of the issue can then put the caption of each image in the matching description field.I then use Mars Premedia’s Photoshop script ‘Metadata from CSV’ to import the descriptions from the excel file to the metadata of the images.
Mars Premedia, by the way, has written a lot of great scripts for InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Most scripts are free to download, but if you get some use out of them, a voluntary contribution is asked for.This way, I can quickly and flawlessly write descriptions to metadata that I can then easily call up in InDesign as a caption.
Maybe someone will find this useful. (I myself have no further connection with Photo Metadata Export or Mars Premedia.)
ParticipantSelect the entire table, in GREP search field type: .+ (this means: “one or more (+) of any character (.) )
GREP change field stays empty,
search in: ‘selection’
press ‘change all’January 20, 2023 at 11:03 am in reply to: How to automatically add horizontal line between images #14385405ParticipantIs it an option to use a table of only 1 column and … rows to place the images in and use a cell style to place the lines between them?
ParticipantWhat you want is not something InDesign is good at, it seems more like a job I would do in Illustrator. It looks like you want to create some kind of logo design. What you could do is put all the letters individually in a text box, outline them and create a composition with that.
ParticipantGroup the text frame of the numbers with the photos? Or is that thinking too simple?
ParticipantYou can align from spine!
November 9, 2022 at 8:03 am in reply to: Common INDD file with sections; want TOC to reflect selected sections. #14374661ParticipantYou can make parastyles that look the same but have different names
ParticipantYou can use the ‘next style’- function in the Paragraph style, a helpful script could be ‘fix_pstyle_pairs.jsx’ (see https://creativepro.com/find-change-the-next-paragraph-style-with-a-script/). You can find the first and last paragraph of the text with GREP and assign the needed paragraph style to them.
ParticipantDhafir, just curious, why do you use [\S]+ in stead of .+?
January 13, 2022 at 10:08 am in reply to: GREP search that works only in the endnotes. Why? #14356490ParticipantCoincidentally, I’ve visited Budapest last week, BEAUTIFUL! Next time I’ll drop by! :^)
January 13, 2022 at 8:32 am in reply to: GREP search that works only in the endnotes. Why? #14356487ParticipantI tried your expression and it didn’t work because of the ^~U in it, could that be the culprit?
January 13, 2022 at 6:43 am in reply to: Wrapping long chapter titles in table of contents #14356481ParticipantMaybe this is a solution: give the entire paragraph a right indent, and then use a negative value for the ‘last line right indent’ to hang the numbers off to the right side.
January 12, 2022 at 7:44 am in reply to: GREP search that works only in the endnotes. Why? #14356443ParticipantToo many questions…
About the paragraph search limit: in Peter Kahrel’s must-have book it says: “Single-line mode determines the behaviour of . (the dot wildcard). When single-line mode is off, which is GREP’s default state, .* matches everything from the cursor position to the end of the paragraph, except the paragraph mark itself.”Maybe someone else has an answer to your last question…
January 12, 2022 at 6:42 am in reply to: GREP search that works only in the endnotes. Why? #14356436ParticipantMaybe so:
Find what field:–(.+?)–
Replace field:–~s$1~s–
But this will work only within a paragraphDecember 1, 2021 at 12:10 pm in reply to: How do you apply an alternative number 1 in a font automatically #14351221Participant>>Thanks Godfried, but how did you know about stylistic set 3 and what each stylistic set offers?
I installed the font and tried…
Font designers can offer glyph alternatives in these sets.
In the glyphs panel you can see what the different sets offer. (glyphs panel > show > stylistic set 1, 2, etc.)
In a paragraph style you can specify which set you want to use for a specific font (you can choose more sets if you want) -
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