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  • in reply to: Images to hyperlink #89746

    Dear 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!

    If 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)

    in reply to: PDF X series and old RIPs #89480

    Thanks, will do it. Let’s see what will happen… :) I’ll keep you posted. Maybe it will help other people in the future.

    If 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.

    in reply to: Overprint will solve? #89144

    Thanks, 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. :(

    in reply to: Next Style and variations #89110

    Hi.

    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!

    in reply to: Overprint will solve? #88970

    Hi.

    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!
    Luiz

    in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87746

    :)

    in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87709

    DCurry,

    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. :)

    in reply to: GREP to style foreign words #87630

    I 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!

    in reply to: GREP to style foreign words #87620

    Thanks, Chris but I’m on a MacBook so I don’t have side numpad to make shortcuts. :( I miss my desktop sometimes. :)

    in reply to: GREP to style foreign words #87593

    Thanks, 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.

    in reply to: Help! Print production wants me to use mostly Photoshop #87549

    Hi, 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

    in reply to: Script to insert characters count info in text frame #86464

    Hi.

    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();

    in reply to: Table adjustment and flow #85847

    Dear Ari,

    Thanks, I’ll try the scripts. Free Transform Tool and Scale tool didn’t work, unfortunately.

    Luiz

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