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Kai Rübsamen
MemberJacqui, I have no interest here to guess what the problem might be … but nevertheless I would like to give you a few hints:
1. InDesign CS5.5 was the first version with a real epub-output (the good news)
2. InDesign CS5.5 produces realy bad code (the bad news)
3. I assume, that ADE honors the output of the cascading stylesheet (the formatting), while other readers (especially iBooks) doesn’t.
4. How things are displayed in iBooks depends on
– the version of iBooks,
– the version of your EPUB > with CS5.5 surely EPUB 2,
– if your paragraphs are tagged or not
– and the fact, if there is manually included a special file ‘com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml’.
This file is responsible for displaying fonts and for alignment.Kai
MemberJohn, first I’m not able to open the 661 epub in iBooks on my Mac. So, this is surely not good.
Second, if I crack up your file with BBedit and search for a link, I found something like:<p class="Basic-Paragraph ParaOverride-1"><span id="_idTextSpan360" class="Hyperlink CharOverride-6" style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;">https://www.campdubois.com/?</span></p> </div>
But it should be something like:
https://www.campdubois.com
That means: You have no real hyperlinks!
MemberJohn, this is working, but 661 MB for an EPUB > sure?
Please provide also one page as idml with a link and answer my question, if the links won’t work on iBooks iPad/iPhone or on your Mac.
Thanks
KaiMemberJohn, where should I find a epub on the site??
Member“the formatting is off” isn’t realy a good description of a problem ;-)
So please provide screenshots from your iPhone or tablet, ADE and your epub-file and describe what is “off”!
Also the version of InDesign is needed, since InDesign behaves differently in each version since CS5.5.btw: Usually it is exactly the opposite (looks perfect on iBooks and poor on ADE)
Kai
MemberiBooks on your Mac or iPad/iPhone?
Please provide a example, that doesn’t work for you als epub/idml.
MemberDragos, this isn’t the flexibility as you described, but try changing:
theSelection.geometricBounds = bounds;
to
theSelection.geometricBounds = theSelection.parentPage.bounds
MemberScott, instead of yelling what is not possible, you should give your students an overview, what IS possible ;-)
I’ve no idea, what you mean with alt-click on cell styles. If I create a table style, cell style with applied pStyle and apply the cell style to the body rows inside the table style, everything is fine here.
One last word: Surely there could be a lot of improvement here, but since the table feature is fully scriptable, it’s no problem to deal with headers, footers, width or height …
Kai
MemberHi Scott,
first I can recommend Diane Burns title on table styles at lynda.com.
Second, the big secret is, to understand, how paragraph styles, cell styles and table styles are working together.
For example:
1. If you create a table and any other pStyle besides Basic Paragraph is selected before, you will get an override on [None]-cell style.
2. If you select cell strokes in the control or stroke panel > changing the stroke drawing order won’t work
3. It is easier to control strokes with alternating patterns at table style level, than apply cell styles
4. This list could have surely 10 more topics ;-)So, if you set up your table, open table style, cell style, character style and paragraph style panel and watch what happen. Consider yourself before, what can be part of a table style and only the exceptions and the character formatting should be part of a cell style.
Realize, that only in minor cases header and footer rows are necessary. But realize also, that you can abuse header or footer rows, if you want e.g. a big stroke at the top or bottom of your table.To your second question:
While row height or column width cannot be included in cell styles, it is very easy, to control these things with InDesign-Scripting.I’m not sure, what divider lines are for you. If you mean a gap between two columns, try to create a custom stroke style, that shows only e.g. 50% of the stroke. The more your stroke increases later, the more your gap gets bigger.
Kai
MemberHi Matt,
I posted today in the adobe forum a script, that I wrote a while ago (at the end of the post). There are two other scripts, with similiar tasks as well in this thread.
Maybe a benefit from my version: It can work with 20 styles at once and will check, if you want to style all tables in your document or only the selected ones.
If you should need a special version of the script, this should not be time consuming.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/9097144#9097144
Kai
October 25, 2016 at 6:58 am in reply to: Mapping MS Word styles to InDesign styles in style groups #89311MemberHere is a basic idea: https://forums.adobe.com/message/8559488#8559488
But maybe there is more than one style or maybe there are styles with the same names in different locations …
So, a script could loop through all paragraph styles with specific names, e.g. ‘paraStyleName (styleGroupName)’ and check, if a group ‘styleGroupName’ is available. If so, check further if inside this group a style ‘paraStyleName’ is valid. If both checks are true, paraStyleName (styleGroupName) would be removed and the right style could be applied.
Kai
October 25, 2016 at 1:44 am in reply to: Mapping MS Word styles to InDesign styles in style groups #89302MemberHi Aaron,
style groups are something unic to InDesign. So a style group outside of InDesign is seen as ‘paraStyle (stylegroup)’. In this case, the hierachy is lost.
So there are only two ways to solve this:
1. Map the styles during the import
2. Map the styles after the import with a scriptI could imagine, that ‘2.’ will maybe work in a Woodwing environment too.
Kai
P.S.: If they don’t like InCopy, they had the wrong training for that!
MemberHi Steve,
this cannot be done with GREP, cause you must collect things in one place and try to insert in another place. This can be done with scripting! But, if you have the chance to merge the content in Excel, this would surely be the easiest way.
Kai
October 21, 2016 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Script to modify all objects with the same Object Style #89255MemberI have no idea, what Loic is trying to do here ;-)
So, please test this verry short version (will not work with grouped textframes):
var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var allTextFrames = curDoc.textFrames; var nFrames = allTextFrames.length; for (var i = 0; i < nFrames; i++) { var curFrame = allTextFrames[i]; if (curFrame.appliedObjectStyle.name == "name") { curFrame.move(undefined, [0, "-0.25in"]); } }Kai
MemberHi Steve,
it seems, that a guy called ‘neoveninet’found a solution in 2013: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91923&page=2
I have no idea, if it works in 2016 as well, but it would be a good starting point for testing.However: Those changes must be made in the code. Here I would recommend BBEdit with Multifile-GREP-Search.
Kai
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