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Luiz Silveira
MemberDear Kai Rübsamen,
Sorry: what I need is, when exporting the Magazine PDF, to make the advertising page “clickable” making user go to company’s website.
I was thinking about a textframe because I didn’t find a way to auto convert from the image, and I went to a solution using a TXT file with the ad to store the URL and used like this:
set MyLink to (read (file “url.txt” as alias))
But you’re right: Metadata! I really forgot. I will try your suggestions. Thanks a lot!
November 4, 2016 at 7:06 am in reply to: Grep to ital between commas if it contains an ' and two numbers #89594Luiz Silveira
MemberIf it helps, I use those:
No Break:
.{15}$
(?i)(http|ftp|www)(\S+)|(\S+) (\.gov|\.us|\.net|\.com|\.edu|\.org|\.biz)
(\d)( am|am| pm|pm)Yellow highlight:
\d+ dollars
(\d)( a.m.|a.m.|am| p.m.|p.m.|pm)Luiz Silveira
MemberThanks, will do it. Let’s see what will happen… :) I’ll keep you posted. Maybe it will help other people in the future.
November 1, 2016 at 9:43 am in reply to: Grep to ital between commas if it contains an ' and two numbers #89475Luiz Silveira
MemberIf i helps, I like to make some GREPs in styles to highlight common mistakes according to the magazine standard, like in “10am”, “10a.m.”, “10 am” or “10 a.m.”. Or even “US$40”, “$40” or “US$ 40”.
If I see something highlighted in yellow in the middle of the text I already know I need to correct.
Luiz Silveira
MemberThanks, DCurrry. I’m finishing a new file to be printed this week, and I’ll be in the printer during the whole process. They are a very big company, but they said the made the last issue in a hurry, so they had so many mistakes… I’m really not happy with that, but I know them from the past so I think we can do a good work together, I just need to set up all the standards with them.
They should be done right in the first time, but here we need to thank when they at least do part of their jobs. :(
Luiz Silveira
MemberHi.
I just tried the “End Nested Style” and it worked fine, thanks a lot.
About the “Next Style”, yes, nothing happen. After reading your message I decided to make some tests and it only work if I type the text and hit Return/Enter. If I paste a text in the box and decide to break the text in two paragraphs, the second one will have Drop Caps too. Maybe I’m doing it wrong pasting and breaking it, any suggestion will be great. :)
Thanks a lot!
Luiz Silveira
MemberHi.
Yes, it was okay. I did the “Attributes” and “Overprint Stroke” as always and just checked my PDF in Acrobat. Bad news for the printer. :) As I said, they made a lot of mistakes…
Thanks a lot!
LuizAugust 23, 2016 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87746Luiz Silveira
Member:)
August 22, 2016 at 10:54 am in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87709Luiz Silveira
MemberDCurry,
One thing that happens a lot are people “having no time” to update their specs. They buy a new machine or change something, but don’t tell the costumers in a formal way. :) Maybe there are not stuck in old parameters anymore, but they don’t care enough to tell. :)
Luiz Silveira
MemberI had a keyboard, but that small one without the numpad. Hahahaha. But you’re right: I’ll buy a regular one. Will be useful and my “j” key is growing a small crack, so will be good to give my keyboard a little break.
Thanks again! Have a great weekend!
Luiz Silveira
MemberThanks, Chris but I’m on a MacBook so I don’t have side numpad to make shortcuts. :( I miss my desktop sometimes. :)
Luiz Silveira
MemberThanks, Chris and David. I really don’t see a way too. I read the documentation about scripts and didn’t find any way to “capture” the “wrong” words. In my case I only work with latin languages, so I will still do it manually.
My idea is always make my files the most automatic as possible to avoid forgetting something when in a hurry closing files overnight. This thing would help but it’s not essential. Maybe soon I’ll find a way and if so, I will share here.
Thanks a lot.
August 17, 2016 at 10:20 am in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87549Luiz Silveira
MemberHi, Natalie.
I need to say I was like your team. :) A lot of time away from printing and full of rules from the past. All that she said made sense in the 90 as David said. Those articles David suggested helped me a lot when the printers here complained about my “old formats”. :)
But one thing is important: a lot of people doesn’t really understand about formats, sizes and so on and are doing a lousy job and getting a very bad quality material when printing. So do not just discard those old rules. If you understand why they want them to be used and know what is possible to be used today to have the same result, you will be safe. :) My opinion. :)
Luiz
Luiz Silveira
MemberHi.
I’ve found a way. I’m pasting it below just in case someone want to use it or maybe improve it.
Thanks,
Luiz—-
myDoc = app.activeDocument
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;// create arrays to save frame infos
var xizes = [];
var xizes2 = []
var ipes = [];
var ipes2 = [];
var valors = [];
var valorsw = [];// get frame infos (position and text lenght)
tf = app.activeWindow.activePage.textFrames;
var fim = tf.length;for(var i = 0; i<fim; i++){
textFrame = tf[i];
tamanho = textFrame.characters.length;
palavras = textFrame.words.length;
par = textFrame.paragraphs.length;// the locations for the textframe
var sp = 5;
var y1 = textFrame.geometricBounds[0] – sp;
var x1 = textFrame.geometricBounds[1];
var y2 = textFrame.geometricBounds[2] – sp;
var x2 = textFrame.geometricBounds[3] – sp;
xizes[xizes.length] = x1;
ipes[ipes.length] = y1;
xizes2[xizes2.length] = x2;
ipes2[ipes2.length] = y2;
valors[valors.length] = tamanho;
valorsw[valorsw.length] = palavras;}
// create one frame for each existing, in a position a little different, showing char count
var main = function() {var doc = app.activeDocument;
// set the origin to the page
var curr_origin = doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin;
doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;tf = app.activeWindow.activePage.textFrames;
var ende = tf.length;for(var g = 0; g < ende ; g++){
var content = “Chars: ” + valors[g] + ” Words: ” + valorsw[g];
// create the textframe
var tf = app.activeWindow.activePage.textFrames.add({
contents: content,
geometricBounds: [ipes[g], xizes[g], ipes2[g], xizes2[g]]
});
// apply style: I’ve made one with a PINK shading to simulate a box
tf.paragraphs[0].appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item(“myStyle”);}
doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = curr_origin;
};
main();Luiz Silveira
MemberDear Ari,
Thanks, I’ll try the scripts. Free Transform Tool and Scale tool didn’t work, unfortunately.
Luiz
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