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September 23, 2010 at 8:14 am in reply to: how can I replace all numbers in one list with numbers in another? (re-indexing book) #57091
Matt Mayerchak
ParticipantThanks – that would be a great option if I thought I'd be doing the next round of this book. But this is a large textbook publisher who's likely to send it to India next time around. We're only doing a minor repackaging for this edition so there's no budget for inserting index markers and generating a new index.
It's pretty common that I have to pick up a book done by someone else and not set up to take advantage of things like indexing or cross refs etc. So, I'm looking for an “afterthought” option.
It occurred to me that I could potentially export the index to a tagged text file, fire up my old G4 in Classic mode and use Torquemada to replace all of the numbers. I've never used it with Indesign tagged text, so i don't know if there would be a lot of other numbers in there that were part of the tags that I'd want to preserve, so that might be a problem. But if so, we could just strip it to plain text and reformatting it would still be faster than changing all the #s by hand.
Is there anything like an equivalent of Torquemada that I could use on the text in OS X? Does BBEdit do this?
ParticipantIf you stay in a mixed CS4/CS5 environment, I'd recommend a cheap utility from Rorohiko called Soxy. It's only $19 and it can distinguish which version of an Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, or even Quark file you have and open it with the appropriate version of the app. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it is useful for preventing inadvertent opening in the higher version. Trying to open in the lower version is less of a problem because it won't open the file, but it's a bummer to open a CS4 file and save and realize you've just converted the file to CS5 by mistake.
Unfortunately, they haven't released a CS5-aware version yet. (Coming soon, they tell me.) I bought 2 copies of it (for two workstations) when I upgraded to CS4 because a lot of my clients were still in CS3 until VERY recently. I don't get any $$ from Rorohiko, but my experience using it with CS2/CS3/CS4 was good enough for me to recommend it. It comes with the typical 30-day free trial, so check that out when they release it.
ParticipantIf you stay in a mixed CS4/CS5 environment, I'd recommend a cheap utility from Rorohiko called Soxy. It's only $19 and it can distinguish which version of an Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, or even Quark file you have and open it with the appropriate version of the app. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it is useful for preventing inadvertent opening in the higher version. Trying to open in the lower version is less of a problem because it won't open the file, but it's a bummer to open a CS4 file and save and realize you've just converted the file to CS5 by mistake.
Unfortunately, they haven't released a CS5-aware version yet. (Coming soon, they tell me.) I bought 2 copies of it (for two workstations) when I upgraded to CS4 because a lot of my clients were still in CS3 until VERY recently. I don't get any $$ from Rorohiko, but my experience using it with CS2/CS3/CS4 was good enough for me to recommend it. It comes with the typical 30-day free trial, so check that out when they release it.
ParticipantI had someone else work on a CS4 file, and when it came back I now also get the missing plugin error message.
mm.ms.im.Kernel.InDesignPlugin
Every time I save that document I have to name the file – it's like it was converted from an older version or something. I did a Save As, but that didn't fix it. My other files work fine. It's just this one file.
Any idea how to get rid of this? It's a 28-page newsletter . . . I suppose I could try drag-copying the pages. Anybody figured this one out?
ParticipantI had someone else work on a CS4 file, and when it came back I now also get the missing plugin error message.
mm.ms.im.Kernel.InDesignPlugin
Every time I save that document I have to name the file – it's like it was converted from an older version or something. I did a Save As, but that didn't fix it. My other files work fine. It's just this one file.
Any idea how to get rid of this? It's a 28-page newsletter . . . I suppose I could try drag-copying the pages. Anybody figured this one out?
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