Thanks David! What I mean by “accurately” and “non-destructive” is I want the pdf to appear as designed without having to use the pathfinder tool on a frame or revert to rudimentary techniques that take longer.

I created a stroked line segment with text in the center. I wanted the frame to fit the text with equal spacing on either side, but the text length varies. My thought was to use a knockout group the size of the text frame. I guess this is tomayto, tomahto as far as technique; rather than have two line segments and a text frame, I have a line segment, knockout frame, and text frame.

The other, more important, knockout I’m using is covering a part of an image frame so content that didn’t fit the layout doesn’t appear. We used a third party designer for the image elements, and his text callouts don’t fit. I don’t want to have to destructively modify the shape of the frame, so I used a knockout in the event that I’ll utilize it in the future.

Neither of these display as designed in browsers, but will print fine.

I tried exporting to Acrobat 4 with Simulate Overprint checked. That does show the knockouts correctly, but it also creates a lot of white hairlines that appear in both Acrobat and browsers—worse in the browser. It’s even showing white hairline outlines of an underlying layer over an image.

I think ^.+?(?<!https)\: solves my problem. Sometimes it seems the simpler strings are what works!

Thanks for the comment, David! That is a crazy workaround!

OMA does move it, but it’s not outside the margin like it should be. OMA stops doing anything at around 60pt, and after 30pt it starts pushing the quote back in.

I work with primes as well, so I typically call out the left double and right double in my GREPs (~{|~}). I then created a separate tracking modifier and use positive lookaheads to apply tracking to the first left quote at the beginning of the paragraph and another lookahead on the last character of the paragraph to give a little extra space between the quotes.

I wound up just moving the text frames 3pt toward the page edge and changing the paragraph style to have a 3pt indent with -3pt first line. That coupled with a 12pt OMA, it lines up pretty well. I then added a 3pt indent to all other paragraph styles in the frame. I’m sure I could play with the indent and remove OMA, but I already had it set on each frame.

These are business card-size layouts, and some of the pages are right-aligned, so I did the opposite and it works on those too.

If you’re wondering, I try to only use Adobe fonts now, so my header is a 15pt Bio Sans, and the body is 7pt Open Sans. I liked the quotes on Bio Sans, so the character style is 9pt Bio Sans with a -1 baseline shift. The tracking is 100 between the quote marks and text.

Thanks Sam! It appears the links were relinked to the links folder except for the InDesign file that was linked. Interestingly, the links folder contains most of the links for the linked indd file except the logo—which is the least important part of that file and not even shown.

Thanks for the tip!

That seems to be a text threading plug-in. I only saw threading options in the documentation. I was looking to link identical text on alternate layouts so I only have to update one instance rather than multiple.