I suppose some text frames aren’t threaded! …

Best,
Michel, from FRIdNGE

David,

When I read this:

“My nature of work is in a way that I tend to avoid scripts, concerning people who will work on this project after me get in trouble in case future Adobe updates break the code.” [Kasra’s post above]

and his new answer:

“I think I’ve found a not-so-elegant way to fix this: …”,

not mentioning Peter Kahrel uses this way to do it by script, I’m tented to answer that Kasra is only not interested by a “paid” script!

… But if somebody gives him a for free script, he’ll take it! … Of course!

Even if Peter’s approach is not totally explained according to me, he’s totally and definitely right! You too! ;-)

In this way, as each article is a separate file, the use of the “famous” DOI as file name could be the key.

Knowing that, a script could, playing with the “book”, already mentioned by Kasra:

0/ keep the page numbering per each doc as 1,2,3,4 … [simple, nothing to do!]
1/ create a “list” of the DOIs. [simple to be scripted]
2/ open each doc and update a personalized variable corresponding to the current page number naming as: DOI-1, DOI-2, DOI-3, DOI-4 … [+ save it] [simple to be scripted — could be done separately outside the main script]
3/ temporary include a prefix section for each doc, as indicated. [simple to be scripted]
4/ update the book TOC/INDEX including these temp prefix sections. [+ save the TOC/INDEX files] [simple to be scripted]
5/ replace each temp prefix section by the corresponding DOI. [simple to be scripted]
6/ remove these temp prefix sections [closing each doc without saving] [simple to be scripted]

… So, a simple loop simple to be scripted and finally just 1 click to play!

Personally, I’m not interested to write such a simple but professional solution for free! [I’m going to write it for a client]
… But I gave you the scenario for free! [to be mentioned!]

Best,
Michel, from FRIdNGE
michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

Ok!

I know how to do it! …

[to be continued! … on Adobe Forum thread]

Best,
Michel, from FRIdNGE
michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

Hi,

When I read John, answering to David:

“You are right. So if you hide something the only way to get it back is to unhide everything that is hidden, including the things that have been hidden via the Layers palette.”

I just think, personally, “no!”.

Same answer about “locked/unlocked” items!

I think that because I’ve written 2 scripts [one for making items visible/invisible, the other for locking/unlocking] as “up-and-down”!

So, If I hide something with the “visibility” script, clicking again will make it appear but not all those hidden using the layers panels!
New click, it will disappear! …

Best,
Michel, from FRIdNGE
michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

Pages

Après la tambouille … une bonne nuit de sommeil !

Au cas où ! … tu as mon email !

Cordialement,
Michel, de FRIdNGE
michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

Donc le nombre de caractères sera toujours le même et le nombre total sera ce chiffre x le nombre de pages !

Tout peut être défini dès le départ ! … Bref, je ne comprends pas la question !!

Tu ne voudrais pas repasser en Anglais car je vais finir par passer pour un abruti ! …

Ou alors tu m’éclaires sérieusement plus ! ;-)

Frenchie?! …

I could do it! … But no time!

Maybe someone on Adobe Forums! …

Best,
Michel