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  • April 4, 2012 at 1:19 am in reply to: French glossary for InDesign terms? #61949
    Theunis De Jong
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    … The page will be the same but in french. …

    D'eau!

    April 3, 2012 at 10:35 am in reply to: French glossary for InDesign terms? #61940
    Theunis De Jong
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    Crossword in InDesign, as text and graphic elements? Yeah, did that ages ago ;)

    I can't promise it will still work on modern InDesigns, but you can try https://www.jongware.com/binari…..ssword.zip

    April 1, 2012 at 6:46 am in reply to: Updating of font name #61924
    Theunis De Jong
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    Uh, I was thinking of mentioning IDML (honestly!) because with that you can use find/replace to change just about everything in my list of “you can't do that with find/replace”! It can be done because everything that is “coded” in an InDesign file is written out as plain text inside an IDML file. So all you need is a good plain text editor. Well, that, and the know-how of how to edit IDML files (search IDSecrets for that).

    You have to be extra careful when editing, though, because your text editor will not see the difference between “font='Times New Roman”', “A straight-up font is called 'Roman'”, and “appliedParagraphStyle='TextRoman'” — if you want to change just the font style 'roman' to something else, you must make your changes very carefully.

    April 1, 2012 at 1:31 am in reply to: Updating of font name #61921
    Theunis De Jong
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    Fonts that are not in your system somehow slip through through the Scripting interface — in some ways you can “see” them, but you cannot set them in a Find/Change operation, so you cannot “do” anything with them …

    Unfortunately, this seems to be one of the few things that cannot be done with a script!

    March 31, 2012 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Updating of font name #61919
    Theunis De Jong
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    No, regular searches only search in plain text. You cannot search for “generated” text, such as “inside” a text variable, page number, or auto-numbered list; and also not “inside” things like font name (as in searching for “Times” would find the font “Times New Roman”), style names (as in searching for “head” would return a style named “headlines”), or inside a GREP style.

    If al you want to do is change one font to another (including its use in styles), you have to use Find Font.

    March 31, 2012 at 8:48 am in reply to: Script or GREP formatting to apply alternating character colors #61916
    Theunis De Jong
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    Marc, you are a sly devil ;)

    But can you make it ignore the space if possible as well?

    March 31, 2012 at 8:26 am in reply to: French glossary for InDesign terms? #61914
    Theunis De Jong
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    A little Google-fu found this InDesign Online Help en français: https://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/in…..index.html

    You can also switch your entire InDesign installation to use French: https://creativepro.com/cha…..ee-app.php

    Brwosing the French help, by the way, taught me that the French term for “Drop Caps” is lettrines. What a nice word :) (https://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/in…..6dc4a.html)

    March 28, 2012 at 11:00 am in reply to: How InDesign work with hyphenation? #61896
    Theunis De Jong
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    Only Adobe knows for sure how it works, and they won't tell. If you really want to see how hyphenation works internally, you could download the Software Development Kit for InDesign and look at what options it has. However, it will not tell you how exactly the existing ones work — but it may give you some hints.

    It is probably a combination of an algorithm, a look-up list for syllables, and (always the last resort) a fixed table of common words that slip through the mazes of the algorithms. So there is no way to “get” a list of all possible words with their hyphenation points.

    I am curious, though, about your statement that ID makes lots of errors in hyphenation. I find that ID really does quite well in general, having encountered something like maybe a dozen-or-so words where it has problems with. In about every case that was with some arcane jargon as well. And of course English based hyphenation rules have problems with, for example, German philosphers (Wittgenstein comes to mind), as these names do not comply to standard rules for English.

    Usually when I suddenly see floods of hyphenation errors, it's a case of User Error: I assigned the wrong language to my text.

    March 26, 2012 at 1:51 pm in reply to: GRep-Style for this anyone? #61887
    Theunis De Jong
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    Tricky. You cannot do it the way you envisage: apply your Bold style to three items in a row but not to the stuff between them. You can apply it selectively to (uppercase) followed-by “digits uppercase digits uppercase digits”, but that only works for the first item. To use this same trick for (uppercase digits) APPLY_HERE (digits uppercase digits), you need a variable-length lookbehind because there may be one, two, or three digits after that first uppercase. Of course you can add a GREP style for each of the three possibilities; but then you have to add, uh, (3 x 2) six more possibilities for the third part.

    So I propose the reverse: apply bold to the entire string of uppercase/3 digits; then, apply Regular again to just the digits. (Oh–and I see a single '+' in there as well!) That would be

    1. Bold to

    bud{1,3} ud{1,3}+? ud{1,3}b

    2. Regular to

    (?<=bu)d{1,3}+?s

    Note that this works on the small sample you provided, but may have side effects if there are any more uppercase-digit combinations in your text.

    It's simpler if you can be sure it's just these three 'L', 'D', and 'H' (followed by one to three digits) that should be bolded, and they do not occur more than three times (i.e., never something like “L10 H20 D30 L40” — but guessing what they stand for, I think it's safe to assume that):

    b[LHD]d{1,3}b

    If this line is always a separate paragraph, consider creating a paragraph style specifically for it.

    March 25, 2012 at 3:11 pm in reply to: #61883
    Theunis De Jong
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    [Paper] is where *no ink* should be applied. If you create a swatch 'white', InDesign will assume you want to print white ink (as a spot color — it is meaningless to create a cmyk separation swatch 'white', as it will behave the same as [Paper]: that is, it will put no ink on the page).

    You can see the difference if you edit the [Paper] swatch and make it green. That way you can see how what document would look like if printed on green paper. Everything you draw in black will still appear in black, of course, and naturally everything you mask off with a 'paper' colored square (which also would appear green) will not leave ink and appear in print.

    If you then create a White swatch — as a spot color — you can add white to your document, but you will only see this in the output if (a) you print on colored paper, and (b) your printer prints with white ink.

    Changing the [Paper] color is for screen preview use only, as (again, naturally) it will not appear as such in an exported PDF.

    March 25, 2012 at 12:36 pm in reply to: #61881
    Theunis De Jong
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    It means this:

    To copy or apply paragraph attributes only without having to change settings in the Eyedropper Options dialog box, hold down Shift as you click text with the Eyedropper tool.

    .. which is a straight copy from the InDesign Online Help pages …

    March 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Editing Paragraph Styles Globally #61878
    Theunis De Jong
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    A basic loop would do it:

    all = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles;

    for (i=2; i<all.length; i++)

    {

    all[i].minimumWordSpacing = 80;

    .. change more properties here ..

    }

    You must start at index 2, rather than the usual “0″, because the first two paragraph styles cannot be changed and/or it's useless to do so (do you know why?).

    It has been a decade since I last saw QX but I don't think they have paragraph style groups yet, so you don't need to take these into account.

    For a full list of thi gs you can change this way, look in the OMV Help, or its friendlier incarnation at https://jongware.mit.edu/idcsjs5.5/pc_ParagraphStyle.html

    March 23, 2012 at 2:59 am in reply to: Font handling instead of paragraphstyle #61871
    Theunis De Jong
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    That really grinds my gears.

    I'd like to handle it with script instead of paragraphstyle. [..] Because I just use it for 1-2 times, I don't want add to much paragraphstyle on list.

    So you want someone to write a custom script for you even though you will use it once, or maybe two times. I really have better things to do.

    Additionally, I agree with Eugene:

    I'm sure it's scriptable, but not necessary.

    March 22, 2012 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Script or GREP formatting to apply alternating character colors #61866
    Theunis De Jong
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    Here is a Javascript for you. Change the swatch names in the first line to the ones you are using, then select some text and run the script. Enjoy:

    var colorlist = [ “red”, “orange”, “yellow”, yellow-white ];
    var p = 0;
    for (i=0; i<app.selection[0].characters.length; i++)
    {
    if (app.selection[0].characters[i].contents != ' ')
    app.selection[0].characters[i].fillColor = colorlist[(p++) & 3];
    }

    By the way, this is what it looks like when run with 4 shades of red/yellow:

    March 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Script or GREP formatting to apply alternating character colors #61865
    Theunis De Jong
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    Since you can only apply one color (or char style) at a time using GREP, I think a script would work better.

    Let me think one while typing (uh, that means I am making it up as I write). Watch out for niceties added by the forum software, such as en-dashes and curly quotes. Those do not belong to the script!

    .. wait .. On 2nd thought, it'd probably be better if I fire up the ol' Mac for this as I was going to attempt to make up and type in an InDesign script on my iPad ;)

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