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  • in reply to: GREP for breaking titles #14357975
    Max Pinton
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    Have you looked at “Balance Ragged Lines”? You have to be using the Paragraph Composer or it does nothing, but it seems pretty useful for headlines.

    in reply to: “Undo (Command/Control + Z) broken #126727
    Max Pinton
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    I’m still running 15.0.3 and have been holding off upgrading largely because of this bug, which I ran into a few versions ago and was an absolute showstopper for me. I never realized how much I use Undo to experiment.
    Anyway, 15.1.2 is out and I don’t see any mention of this being fixed in the change list (though it is mentioned as a fix in 15.0.2):
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
    Anyone know if this has been resolved?

    in reply to: InDesign Menu Templates #126396
    Max Pinton
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    It’s not the best idea ever, but you could try more esoteric versions of the colon, which are allowed in filenames:
    ? MODIFIER LETTER RAISED COLON
    ? MONGOLIAN COLON
    ? SMALL COLON
    ? FULLWIDTH COLON
    ? MODIFIER LETTER COLON
    Font support for these varies but you could always use a grep style to change your faux-colons to a font that includes them.

    Max Pinton
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    Could you inline the eight text frames inside a single full-height text frame that’s set to vertically justify? You can do some pretty magical stuff with anchored objects.

    Max Pinton
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    I wonder if the resolve method could be coaxed to return the coordinates relative to the frame. This is from page 121 of the CS6 Scripting Guide. The other CoordinateSpaces they mention that seem promising are CoordinateSpaces.parentCoordinates and CoordinateSpaces.innerCoordinates:

    Resolving locations

    Sometimes, you need to get the location of a point specified in one coordinate space in the context of another coordinate space. To do this, use the resolve method, as shown in the following script example. (For the complete script, see ResolveLocation.)

    var myPageLocation = myRectangle.resolve([[72, 72], AnchorPoint.topRightAnchor], CoordinateSpaces.pasteboardCoordinates, true);
    //resolve() returns an array containing a single item.
    alert(“X: ” + myPageLocation[0][0] + “\rY: ” + myPageLocation[0][1]);

    in reply to: Data Merge Export to PDF Record Limit not working? #1252964
    Max Pinton
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    Thanks. That’s an ingenious use of bookmarks. I think I’ll give MyDataMerge a spin next time. For this project it wasn’t a dealbreaker to have 306 individual pdfs, which I renamed with a Perl script.

    in reply to: Changing filename variable with javascript #1250878
    Max Pinton
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    You want the results of the replace (it doesn’t replace in-place), so try:

    myDocName2 = myDocName1.replace(‘indd’, ‘ps’);

    in reply to: Custom Page Numbering #1250865
    Max Pinton
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    Depending on how you define “break the automatic numbering,” you could just start a new section for 20.1 with the section prefix “20.” and then start a new section for page 21 after your new page(s) to resume your existing numbering. If you added or removed pages before 20 you’d have to adjust your section settings but otherwise the auto numbering would update correctly. This is all controlled in Layout > Numbering & Section Options.

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