… and if you want the text wrap to be consistent for all your image frames — just set one up and save it as an object style, then apply that style to all your other frames.

m.

G'day

By 'overrides' do you mean that a paragraph styles has been applied and then a change has been made to the text so that it no longer matches the original paragraph style?

If so, then you need my handy InDesign tip : #03.

Go to Find/Change

Make sure Find what and Change to are both blank

Set Find Format and Change Format to your paragraph style

(make sure you change your Search field if you don't want it to do the whole document)

Hit Change All

Hope that's what you're looking for

m.

G'day Gobit

Have you updated your operating system too?

That first problem occured with CS5.5 too — once we updated to Lion.

I've also read where the same issue even occurs with CS4 on lion — https://forums.adobe.com/message/4070435

Lion is causing all sorts of issues — like crashing CS6 whenever a warning dialog is generated. Not Nice.

BTW : that particular issue has a workaround : https://helpx.adobe.com/indesig…..boxes.html

d.

G'day

Wouldn't that be cool? — I've not seen a way to do it

But… you could have a script do it for you

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS5.5”
tell layout window 1 of document 1
set theZoom to zoom percentage
zoom given show pasteboard
set zoom percentage to theZoom
end tell
end tell

Copy that into Script Editor (Applications > Applescript)
Change first line to your version of InDesign
Save it as a script to Applications > InDesign > Scripts > Scripts Panel
Open Scripts Panel in InDesign (Window > Utilities)
Double click to run it

If you have nothing selected it will centre the page
If you DO have something selected, it will centre on that

You could even assign a keyboard shortcut to run the script for you

m.

G'day

I used script labels when I was automating the layout of 60+ calendars each year. For that sort of complex, repetitive work it's worth going to the trouble of labelling frames in templates so that you can have a script do all the monkey-work of placing those frames in the correct positions, etc. You can see the script in action in this video, which may give you an idea of how useful they can be. For that particular workflow, script labels were pretty much essential — but I haven't really used them in many other instances.

m.

G'day

I've not found a way to do that, but if you're interested in automating stuff you might try a script to export your PDFs — which you can set to always use the filename. That will save you having to work out how to access the “internally saved name”.

You can find a scripting lesson about exporting PDFs using applescript here. You can also download a complete working script to tinker with.

Hope that helps.

m.

G'day

These are the basic building blocks for an InDesign dialog :

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS4”
activate
set mgDialog to make dialog with properties {name:”The text at the top of the dialog”}
tell mgDialog
tell (make dialog column)
tell (make border panel)
tell (make dialog column)
make static text with properties {static label:”Text field instruction : “, min width:160}
end tell
tell (make dialog column)
set mgTextField to make text editbox with properties {edit contents:”Default Entry”, min width:200}
make static text with properties {static label:”Additional instructions maybe”}
end tell
end tell
tell (make border panel)
tell (make dialog column)
make static text with properties {static label:”Text next to buttons : “, min width:160}
end tell
tell (make dialog column)
set mgButtons to make radiobutton group
tell mgButtons
set mgButton1 to make radiobutton control with properties {static label:”Button1 Label”, checked state:true}
set mgButton2 to make radiobutton control with properties {static label:”Button2 Label”, min width:200}
set mgButton3 to make radiobutton control with properties {static label:”Button3 Label”}
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell (make border panel)
tell (make dialog column)
make static text with properties {static label:”Check box instruction : “, min width:160}
end tell
tell (make dialog column)
set myCheckbox1 to make checkbox control with properties {static label:”Checkbox1 label”, checked state:false, min width:200}
set myCheckbox2 to make checkbox control with properties {static label:”Checkbox2 label”, checked state:false}
set myCheckbox3 to make checkbox control with properties {static label:”Checkbox3 label”, checked state:true}

end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

set mgResult to show mgDialog
if mgResult is true then
–gather the results for whatever purpose you have
destroy mgDialog
else
error number -128
destroy mgDialog
end if
end tell

Copy this into Script Editor (Application > Applescript) and ensure the first line matches your version of Indesign.

This script just builds a dialog — you then need to capture the results.

You can find some other introductory stuff over at my scripting lessons 08 and 11

Hope that gets you started

m.