Thanks, I’ll have a look.

The “apply master based on paragraph style” seems like an awesome trick to have, but I am not sure how it would solve my problem though. The styled text would move with the page, so the master would be applied to a moved page also, no? Or am I misunderstanding something?

I would like to be able to keep these frames always on pages, say 8-9, 16-17, 24-25, etc. so even if I move the pages/spreads around, the stitches marks stay on the correct spreads.

I’ll go and read more about scripting, I’ll try to write something to copy/paste a frame on specific pages.

Thank you!

I had stupidly completely missed the “gap color” option… >__<

mmmh… Thanks, but either I am missing something obvious, or something was lost in translation in my question.

What you are suggesting gets me only the ability to have one colour stroke, and even if I create a custom stroke, the “thick”/white part is in fact non-existant/transparent, so it does not work on coloured background.

What I would like to achieve is the first image on my example below, with the ability to have a thick padding coloured border around the image, and a another thinner one in another color, without having to stack multiple frames, and obviously without having to measure for each image to accommodate the size of the padding, etc.

Thanks for the article.

I have tried to trash and reset, plus the set-quit tip, we’ll see… fingers crossed.

What seems weird is that the trashed preferences problem came out of the blue. I don’t change them that much, and usually quit InDesign manually at the end of the day, saving/closing each doc before. So in these last few days, at least one set of preferences should have been saved, but then again, one random crash and all is reset; I would perhaps not even have noticed if my interface color choice did not suddenly go from white to black.

I’ll explore the plugin option. By chance I don’t use much, Font Explorer X Pro auto-activation indeed, Zevrix Output Factory, and the “how could one function without it” Multi-Find/Change.

I also re-installed TeaCup Pattern Maker this last week for a recurrent annual project, but I cannot remember if the crashes went worse after that.

That should make for a nice week-end… ^__^

Oh, wow, bravo, oui si tu es d’accord je suis très volontiers preneur de ta solution, qui m’a l’air plus simple et plus adaptée à ce que je cherche à faire.

Yep. Totally that. Fixed page character count x page number | total book character count.

Is there an easy way to automate the calculation in a text frame?

I won’t hardcode it on 1’500 pages, even if I know the numbers ^__^

Swiss ;-)