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ParticipantGood to know it's not just me. Is there a standard place where such bugs get reported? I know there are adobe forums, maybe also email etc.? I want to mention it wherever it might actually get noticed. Where did you report your own issues? I haven't had to deal with the super minimized window yet, knock on wood.
ParticipantGo to your printers folder (control panel, or start –> devices and printers on newer windows). Right click the acrobat PDF printer and choose printer preferences. (or do printer properties, then the printer preferences button).
You should get the pdf printing options screen. One of the dropdowns is “Adobe PDF output folder” and you can choose my documents or “prompt for filename”. Change it to that and you should be set.
ParticipantI have it on CS4, windows 64. But only occasionally. Happened one time just now then I can't recreate it. Think it's the entire creative suite but not all windows apps.
Participanthaha, this must just be me… but it's really just driving me batsh!t. I've had to re-maximize it about ten times just today. Horizontal scrollbar keeps hiding behind the taskbar. I go to click a menu and click my browser or something instead. How is it adobe's messed up one of the most basic windows function? In ten years of windows I've never had a window that consistently forgets it's maximized.
Participantvery nice, I'm looking forward to trying this. Thank you!
May 16, 2011 at 10:01 pm in reply to: How can I -precisely- scale a cropped object in indesign? #59623ParticipantCheers, kicking myself for not seeing it. Much obliged.
ParticipantHowdy – yeah, what I needed to do was essentially fix some double spaces, but not fix double tabs that were intentional. Somehow I didn't think to just do it the literal logical way :P
ParticipantParticipantThanks grep experts for the ideas so far. My original post wasn't super clear, but yes, I'm trying to apply a grep style (not a search and replace, though that would be pretty sporty… why highlight the problem when you can run a replace that automatically fixes it?)
I do also make css the way oriel describes, with breaks, and yeah, I use shift+enter breaks so grep doesn't hate it. However even then there's frustration… grep's period does not match the shift+enter “character” (if that's what it is)… so I have to hold its hand and put in something like (n)? in every place where I think one might appear. And then there might be more than one. And then there might tab or white space or characters before or after it. I also just figured out that while some grep styles apply dynamically as your text changes, this is one where you must manually apply the paragraph style after, say, deleting a brace, or it doesn't show up.
Jong's final version worked best, and seems to handle manual line breaks wherever I put them. It also handled whitespace and random text between the opening braces. Seems like we have a winner. Oriel, I can see how yours works but it didn't work with my css. I think it's less “bulletproof” than jong's. Jong's I'm still parsing… lookahead for the opening curly brace, then… match anything in the [] character set, that is not a single closing brace? one or more times. Then …negative lookahead and match if there is …NOT NOT an opening brace? haha. I can't understand it much less describe it. Followed by match if } is NOT there.
edit: thanks for the tip about the pencil. Doh.
Participantsigh. forum that can't format grep queries even if you surround them in
tags, and won't let you edit posts. There's a backslash before the n. So (backslashn.*) describes a full line that has 0 or more characters in it.
Participanterrr, all my backslashes got removed in the post and I can't seem to edit it. Oops. I guess I shoulda used a code tag of some sort.
Well the thrust of it is: grep doesn't seem to match backslash r backslash r.
ParticipantDavid I'll definitely give it a look. I'm currently struggling a little with GREP. In case you check back to this thread, maybe you or jong want to take a crack at this. Actually it's maybe mentioned in your tutorial.
I eventually solved the problem I was having with some imported text, but I still want to know if it's possible to style the first line of every paragraph using grep styles. Specifically I'm just curious if grep (within indesign) can ever work with multiple paragraph breaks as part of a match. Because as far as I can tell, it can't. It only applies to one paragraph at a time. You can't, as a condition, say “style everything that is preceded by 2 paragraph breaks”.
I tried a lot of ways and it seems like grep just stops within the boundaries of a paragraph break. I tried straight rr.+r or rr.+$ to style any line with two paragraph breaks in front of it. I tried a positive lookahead (?= rr).+$ …I tried seeing if I needed to specify the breaks as beginning of paragraphs using ^ rather than r …or maybe beginning then end of paragraphs like so: ^r^r.+$ or just …It simply doesn't match anything. Ever.
I found out about single line vs. multiline and tried enabling single line mode before the expression, it didn't help.
2. Another issue that I'm wondering about… No grep character can match an indesign “text box break” or whatever you'd call it. The natural word wrap that occurs when text hits the edge of the frame and goes to the next frame. Is there a known workaround for this other than manually breaking these lines?
My best solution, which I guess is perfectly ok, is to search and replace all paragraph breaks (r) with forced line breaks (n). Then the following works:
nn.+$
Any time I put a double line break, the next line of text is styled up til the end of line (but of course that's only to a break character, not to indesign's text frame breaking the line).
ParticipantI had to revisit this thread to plug this little course I found while searching for more resources. It's a very good, logically structured step-by-step to learning grep specifically for indesign. Professionally done and easy to follow.
https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-…..368-2.html
Not free but maybe worth the price of membership ($25.00) for anyone who has to use ID a lot and needs to waste a lot of time search-and-replacing or manually styling snippets of text in long documents.
ParticipantWell, it's nerdy to say but I'm excited to learn about grep. I'll probably be bringing stuff into indesign just to take advantage of the grep search.
ParticipantThat's a handy link and would no doubt do me a lot of good. But I'm a cheapskate. Would a general GREP tutorial I find online apply to indesign or is indesign's grep different?
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