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October 12, 2016 at 7:13 am in reply to: Applying Diacritical marks for transliteration of Arabic language #88987
Olaf Nelson
MemberI would like to see your files just to analyze how you did it and compare with my various experiments. If you want to send them or a dropbox link or something, my email is my first name at chinooktype dot com. Thanks.
OlafOctober 3, 2016 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Applying Diacritical marks for transliteration of Arabic language #88835MemberI too do a lot of work with Arabic transliteration, and I too have been fighting the related font issues forever. Going on 2 decades, now that I think about it. And I too have solved some of the issues by using IndyFont (though not with Garamond–my problem was a font that didn’t have small caps of the dot-under letters).
I like your explanations on the Behance page.
I would like to see a comparison of the text at the end with and without the improved kerning.
I also wonder if you’d be willing to share the mini-font of dotted letters you created for Garamond.
Nice work. And glad to know I’m not the only one fighting these particular battles.
OlafMemberYou're saying not to change the swatch but to change just the swatch's formula?
I'll try that, but knowing that color can have such an unexpected effect it will be hard for me to trust that nothing moved anywhere in hundreds of pages.
Thanks.
MemberOK, that edit at the end was wrong. Turns out I hadn't looked hard enough. Changing the color manually does cause reflow.
September 7, 2012 at 10:22 am in reply to: Options for working with remote editors — anything new/better in CS5 #63092MemberI've been using the Dropbox method happily for the last couple of years (since right after I posted in this topic) with almost no problems. Any problems I've had were due to human errors (mostly people not understanding how Dropbox works and deleting files).
September 7, 2012 at 3:22 am in reply to: Options for working with remote editors — anything new/better in CS5 #52981MemberI've been using the Dropbox method happily for the last couple of years (since right after I posted in this topic) with almost no problems. Any problems I've had were due to human errors (mostly people not understanding how Dropbox works and deleting files).
June 10, 2012 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Possible to find unstyled character(s) touching styled characters on either/both sides? #62385MemberThe query (?s)(S(?!.))|((?<!.)S) is working beautifully (after I took an extra “)” off the end of it) for offending characters before, during and after styled ones. It's not finding spaces, which is great. It does find the footnote references, as expected. Is there a way to exclude numbers? I don't think there will ever be a situation in this book where a number would need to be found.
As you said it would, it does still find the end of notes. I can live with that. It just means a few hundred extra clicks and that's nothing compared to the number of clicks I'm saving! Besides, a fairly short session browsing fishing gear online while avoiding the drudgery of finding unstyled commas might take a few hundred clicks without my even noticing it, and all the time you've saved me can theoretically be spent fishing instead working (or avoiding work).
June 10, 2012 at 12:32 pm in reply to: Possible to find unstyled character(s) touching styled characters on either/both sides? #62383MemberYour reply came in while I was typing my last one (about changing . to w), so now I'll go try the new ones you've provided.
Thanks
June 10, 2012 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Possible to find unstyled character(s) touching styled characters on either/both sides? #62382MemberBy changing (?s).(?!.) to (?s)w(?!.) I can avoid it finding spaces, final periods and footnote references. Of course I'll have to do it differently for punctuation after styled characters (mostly commas) that needs to be found.
In the half hour I've been using this search I've saved at least a couple hours, so even if I have to scan through for the end-of-word diacritics and do them manually, this GREP help has already added quality time to my life.
June 10, 2012 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Possible to find unstyled character(s) touching styled characters on either/both sides? #62380MemberIt also finds the period at the end of every footnote (the invisible character # must be the different formatted thing it's finding) and every superscripted footnote reference. Not sure if it's possible to have multiple ignores in a query.
June 10, 2012 at 12:00 pm in reply to: Possible to find unstyled character(s) touching styled characters on either/both sides? #62379MemberThanks, Jongware!
That works great for anything that's at the beginning or in the middle of a string of styled characters. It doesn't pick up the ones that are at the end, though, and I don't think you meant it to. Can it be modified to do so? That would pick up the end-of-word diacritics and the commas.
The only other downside is that it finds every space that's before a styled character, of which there are probably tens of thousands. Still better than scrolling through doing it by eye. Far better.
Thanks!
November 20, 2011 at 3:34 pm in reply to: ID CS5 and 5.5 crash on startup after installing Blatner Tools on new PC #61116MemberRemoving the whole DTP tools folder from the plugins folder eliminated the problem. Haven't had time to look into different versions or try the install again.
October 27, 2011 at 12:26 pm in reply to: Table of Contents (CS5) takes forever, hangs, has odd errors, but soemtimes works fine #60932MemberJust found the “activate entire family” check box in the preferences. Not sure how I missed it when I set it up, but it was a long time ago. Unchecked it and expecting to be happier now.
August 22, 2011 at 8:03 am in reply to: Possible to script automatic faking of small caps when font doesn't have them? #60354MemberThanks for that link. The percentage trick would be a good way of adjusting once I've got the right ratio of font sizes dialed in, but my initial thought is that it won't work for setting the faked small caps because it would make the strokes of the lower case small caps characters thinner than the initial capital letter in the word, and that's precisely the problem with applying small caps to fonts that don't have them built in.
I'm also hoping to find a way to do this via a script or something greppy (though this is CS3) that recognizes whether the first letter of a word (or any letter in a word, I suppose) is capitalized and applies the style to the rest of the letters but not the capital, and knows to apply the style to all the letters in any word that has no capital.
The reason I asked this in this forum is that I would love it if it could happen without me having to select any text at all in order to manually apply anything. I'd like to find a way to have it happen automatically when I click (or apply via a style) small caps for a font that does not have its own small caps.
February 28, 2011 at 11:18 pm in reply to: Crop image data to frames sometimes isn't, and it gets stranger… #58832MemberWonder why photobucket blocked the picture. That's odd.
David: Yes, printing from Acrobat Pro. Didn't try printing from ID since my focus was on getting a PDF that the printer could use to produce the book. Mine is not a true postscript printer, but I don't think that matters in this case, since the problem is there in the pdf when viewed in Acrobat Pro.
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