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MemberLarisa,
No, I don’t know how to fix this. I operate three newspapers each with distinct paragraph styles… but I had mine named the same. About 25% of our content appears in multiple publications so my team will copy content. When copying from one publication to the other I see it duplicate the paragraph style, but it has the same name.
Article Body Indent
Article Body IndentAs a workaround I changed my style names so that each has a single character to represent which publication that style came from. Now when someone copies content/styles I can fix things. I’ll check my paragraph styles and if I see two that are similar like this:
Article Body Indent – P
Article Body Indent – LI’ll delete the erroneous one and this prompts me to select the style I want to have replace it.
I’d love to hear a better solution, but at least my workaround lets me maintain he proper formatting in three uniquely styled publications.
MemberJeanne,
I was a 100% newb with InDesign 6 months ago. You _ARE_ in the right place to learn. I’d also take a look at Lynda.com. There are some great videos, but Anne-Marie and David (Indesign Secrets), but also Nigel French and Russell Viers have great introductory videos on InDesign.
Finally, if you want to contact me I can send some ad work your way. That’s how I learned.
MemberChristine,
I’ll give a big +1 to Adobe stock. Adobe seems to have the right image for me 95% of the time and they are all indexed very well. As David says, they also have some “blah” images, but I just scroll past those.
On a side note, a friend of mine did a Women’s History timeline book and the photography were sky-high for her with multiple images per page. Owning the rights to photographs is a fine way to make money.
MemberMasood,
I’m going to start exploring an XML work flow later this year. Keep me posted on what you find and any other resources you used for learning.
MemberHey Paul,
I have a couple bits of advice. First is that when searching google for how to do thing with GREP, you will probably want to use the search term REGEX (REGular Expression). This will open up a whole new collection of answers to your questions. Adobe calls it GREP, but most other areas of computer science called it REGEX.
Secondly, there is a some nice websites you may want to bookmark. In my case rubular.com has a place to test your REGEX/GREP statements and a place to enter the text you want to check against. This is generally a faster way to figure things out
Finally, try out:
p\S*
I hope this helps
MemberDong,
+1 to what David said. His video class on color management is essential if you are going to publish.
MemberLuiz,
I’m curious about this one too. We do “Drop Caps” on our lead paragraph so that the first character is three lines high. If you look in “Paragraph Styles” you’ll find Drop caps and there is a third drop-down that allows you to set a character style. Perhaps you are using a character style to produce the colored circle? If so, I think that could be the answer.
Hope this helps.
MemberRobert,
I do an occasional crossword puzzle for out paper and we are the same dimensions and… I get a PDF from a third party. Actually, we subscribe to a service that builds one for $10/mo and I’d really rather build one based on vocabulary in our current edition. That’s another story. Here is what I do:
1) CMD + D and place the PDF on the page
2) Scale the puzzle (forget the clues for now) to however many columns you think works.
I’m a 4 column paper and span the puzzle across 2 columns.
3) Crop it down so you only see the puzzle and position it.
4) Now…. grab your clues as text and place them as text and format them they way you want them.My crossword guy provides me with a PDF _AND_ a text document with the clues, but you could probably grab then with Acrobat.
Hope this helps.
MemberHi James,
Kai has a point. Grep uses a REGEX, or regular expression. Think of it as a way of abstracting the searches. For example, if I want to find every occurrence time in my document and I know my times look like 10:00 or 1:00 you can see that it follows a pattern — numbers a colon more numbers. There is a pattern there in the characters.
I don’t see the pattern in the Leicester or Earls Barton.
Learning grep isn’t that easy and unless I am mistaken, your current issue isn’t a great example to get you started.
November 23, 2016 at 9:15 am in reply to: Shortest GREP Pattern to address URLs and e-mail addresses? #90033MemberMark,
I tries your super-short grep and tried it with my newspaper this time. One problem is that it underlines my times (shown below) as well as the URLs… close, but too short.
([^]+)\.([^]+)
Saturday, Dec. 10 and Sunday, Dec. 11, 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m.: Celebrate the holiday season with friendly event! Info: jackalopeartfair.com.
MemberAleksandar,
I don’t use Microsoft Word anymore so i could not do an exact test, but try using the GREP button and then search for
^
and replace it with nothing. To explain this
^ = the beginning of a line
= means any single whitespace characterI hope this helps.
MemberHave you guys ever used https://rubular.com to test your expressions? I’d recommend it. It’s a fast way to test your expressions.
In my last job I wrote a lot of code and sometimes figuring out the regular expressions (REGEX) was the hardest part. If you don’t use this tool, what are you guys using? Finding the right tools is important.
MemberDavid,
So simple. I need to spend more time on Lynda videos. Probably 80% of everything I know if is from watching you, Anne Marie, Nigel French and Russell Viers.
Worked like a charm
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