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June 4, 2014 at 11:39 am in reply to: Automating Accept Tracked Changes in Word & save as .doc #68808
Matt Mayerchak
ParticipantMahmood,
I have hired a developer to help me and we’re currently working on it. He is working on a Visual Basic script to run from within Word.
If it works, I’ll let you know.
ParticipantYou can print thumbnails to a postscript file in InDesign, and then turn that postscript file to a PDF with either Distiller or Preview. But, in my tests, I can only get it to work if the page size for the thumbnails document is letter size. When I try to export them on Tabloid-sized pages, the distilled PDF shows the thumbnails but they are just cropped off at the 8.5×11 page size. I have not found a way to make InDesign export a thumbnail postscript file that can be distilled into tabloid-sized pages.
If anyone knows how to get a tabloid-sized thumbnail page pdf, please let me know. But at least, it is possible to make a book map PDF from an existing document, if 8.5×11 pages will suffice.
ParticipantIf you export the file as HTML, under the Images submenu you can select “Preserve Appearance from Layout”. Then you can set the color space to cmyk and the resolution to 300 dpi (or whatever settings you want).
You will get a folder with HTML and an images folder within that . . . you can ignore/delete the html and just keep the images.
Then, you can use Bridge/Photoshop to create a Contact sheet of all the images – I believe there are other scripts/plugins that will do this as well.
But the key is that you can use the HTML export to get all of the images collected with the cropping and sizing from your layout.
ParticipantNo, unfortunately there is not a keyboard shortcut for apply [current paragraph style] then next styles for the selected text.
I ended up paying for a custom script to be written, which can be triggered by a shortcut. (Any script can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut.)
The script looks for particular phrases that pertain to my project and starts the sequence of styles at that point and continues until it sees the phrase again, so it goes in a repeating cycle pattern.
ParticipantThanks for the link – I will join the Applescript forum and try there; if I have success I’ll report back here.
ParticipantHi – has anyone been using a script that does what LinkOptimizer does, with either CS6 or CC?
Basically, if you have a large document (72 pages, in this case) with over 100 images, and you want to resize them all to 300 dpi at 100% or close to that, and re-import them. Ability to convert colors or assign color profiles would be great, too.
What do you use for this?
April 1, 2014 at 10:20 am in reply to: Using different colors for the same styles in chapters of a book #67819ParticipantIf each chapter is a separate InDesign file, can you just use the same Swatch name for all of them, but change the CMYK values for each chapter?
I.e. the swatch would say Chapter Key Color (or whatever name you like) but in Chapter 1 it would be a blue, in Chapter 2 a Red, etc.
Having different definitions for the same swatch name is something I would usually advise AGAINST from a production POV, but if used deliberately it might achieve the result you want.
Is that what you already tried? Or, perhaps I’m missing the point of what you are trying to do.
ParticipantKen,
Terry White’s video is a good overview of form field creation, but it doesn’t mention whether it’s possible to have live text in a field that shows up in Acrobat. I’m guessing that this is not possible – i.e. the only way to do it is to open the form in Acrobat and then add in the text. But that’s cumbersome and has to be redone every time we make a new pdf.
So, if anybody else knows how to do this, please do post a reply.
ParticipantIf you’re using find/change, not a GREP style. . . it sounds to me like you just want to use a positive lookbehind for an opening paren, followed by a string of Word characters (one or more), followed by a positive lookahead for a hyphen. If that’s correct, then you could apply the character style to what you find.
If that is the case, you can do all of this via the dropdown menus in the find/change dialog box – see if you can figure it out! If you get stuck, write back and I or someone else can post the correct grep code. But I bet you can figure it out from the menus . . .
Did I miss something?
ParticipantAre the foreign words tagged in the manuscript in any special way? There needs to be something unique about them (but similar to all of the foreign words) that you can use to find them. For instance, if they are all bold in the Word file, you can use that to tag them. But if they are all just non-English words, they may not have anything about them that makes them searchable.
ParticipantWhat is the question mark for in the 2nd set of parens? It should work with just (\d+).
ParticipantI am willing to take a shot at it. I also know of a GREP group on Facebook that may be of help . . . so, if your GREP is over my head, I’ll ask the group if they would like a new member!
Post away!
December 4, 2013 at 9:45 am in reply to: InDesign won't find fonts in packaged 'Document fonts' folder #66338ParticipantIs the folder named Document fonts, exactly – Capital D, lowercase f, etc.? If not, it won’t work.
ParticipantThis is not difficult.
Do you want to have Indesign automatically switch the opening page of a chapter to left (verso) or right (recto) based on what side of the spread the previous chapter ended on? If so, you should just have the Book feature using auto page renumbering. If you want to manually decide which side of the spread each starts on, just set the section opener page # for each file as the page # you want to use, and tell the Book feature not to renumber the pages.
You can control this from the Book panel, whichever way you choose to do it.
However, your inside/outside margins may not come out correctly when the pages are switched from verso to recto, depending on how they were set up. In InDesign CS6 and CC, you can use a primary text frame on the Master page to help this work better for the main text thread, but a lot depends on how complicated your layouts are and what else is on the spread. I strongly recommend starting from the front of the book, and manually setting the page #s for each chapter using the section options menu, so that you can decide which side of the spread each page is on. An odd numbered page will stay on the right side, and an even numbered page will stay on the left.
ParticipantP.S. I did find a way around the problem, due to other unique formatting (an em dash and a thin space) being used before the author’s initials; but it bothers me that the GREP is ignoring the end-of-paragraph code, especially since it works when the find character style code is set to Any or None.
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