Hi Kaimar,

this isn’t possible with InDesign. You can try, if it works with the Autofit-plugIn from Typefi. However: Another way would be to give your images names and avoid the textframes first. After everything is done, a script could set the numbering based on the name.

If this doesn’t work for you, the script could remove the number in the selected frame and put it back after you have scaled the frame.

So, there are several things possible.

Kai

Sarah, it seems that my previous one wasn’t a good one.

Try this one:
Find what: (https?://|www\.)(([^/]+/?)+)/
Change to: $1$2

Hi,

I’m not a fan of scaling or tracking. It is always better to shorten the text, than to scale something :)

However:
This is only possible with a (paid) script: The script assumes, that the whole cell is overflowing and can then scale or track the contents, until the cell is not overflowing. This is dangerous, cause it can destroy your text …

Kai

Hi Candice,

this happens, when you wrote something and you did not check, if this is correct :(
The mentioned script updated several TOCs in one doc. If you have multiple docs in one bookfile, the script must be rewritten.

If you interested, you can contact me at forum at ruebiarts.de

Kai

This is a bit tricky, cause otherwise slashes are removed in the middle, if you start a GREP a second time. Did you realize, that your GREP will find content between two URLs, cause the “*” is greedy?

Try this one:
((https?:|www\.).+)/(?!\w)

This may not work in every case.

Kai

I wrote 2 or 3 weeks ago a script for the same task. You should find it, if you search after posts from me.

Kai

Some interesting stuff!

Alex has about 1200 conditions on 70 pages. With the line from Peter

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().characters.everyItem().appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents[0].characterStyles.item(‘change’);

there is no result and I crashed InDesign after 15 minutes.

var curDate  = new Date();
var oldStamp = curDate.getTime();

var allChanges =app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().getElements();
var nChanges = allChanges.length;

for (var i = 0; i < nChanges; i++) {
  var curChange = allChanges[i];
  var nCharacters = curChange.characters.length;
  if (curChange.changeType == ChangeTypes.INSERTED_TEXT) {
    for (var j = 0; j < nCharacters; j++) {
      curChange.characters[j].fillColor = "Magenta";
    }
  }
}

var curDate  = new Date();
var curStamp = curDate.getTime();
var difSec   = (curStamp-oldStamp)/1000;
alert (difSec);

122 seconds

var curDate  = new Date();
var oldStamp = curDate.getTime();

var allChanges =app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().getElements();
var nChanges = allChanges.length;

for (var i = 0; i < nChanges; i++) {
  if (allChanges[i].changeType == ChangeTypes.INSERTED_TEXT) {
    allChanges[i].characters.everyItem().fillColor = "C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0";
  }
}

var curDate  = new Date();
var curStamp = curDate.getTime();
var difSec   = (curStamp-oldStamp)/1000;
alert (difSec);

30 seconds!

So it seems, that a combination of everyItem() AND getElements() + counting the length of something outside the for-loop is much faster.

Kai