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  • May 3, 2011 at 8:14 am in reply to: Unintentional colour shifting #59483
    Theunis De Jong
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    What you're overlooking is this: you are selecting a color in RGB mode, but the document itself is set to CMYK mode. Now InDesign doesn't want you to look surprised when the color you selected doesn't come out of the printer the same (printers cannot print full bright green, for example), so it dims the color on-screen to mimick what it will look like.

    If your document is to be printed, make sure it's set to CMYK mode (that's under “Edit -> Transparency Blend Space”, for some reason) and don't expect all of your screen colors to look the same. For Best Results, don't select RGB colors either, but mix them in CMYK.

    If your document is going to be screen-only (PDF for on-screen, or web, or SWF, or iStuff), change the blend space to RGB.

    May 2, 2011 at 1:51 am in reply to: The end of a text frame/object in InDesgin #59456
    Theunis De Jong
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    That's still not really clear :)

    Can you draw up a dummy image, outlining what you mean?

    May 2, 2011 at 1:49 am in reply to: Losing the hyphons #59455
    Theunis De Jong
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    I agree with Shone1505 — first of all, that's not really “a lot”!

    Secondly, this is the price that comes with justification. You can choose between a nice even spacing OR lots of hyphens, but you cannot have both. And this preference can be set in the Hyphenation settings dialog.

    April 28, 2011 at 2:07 pm in reply to: Display of effective ppi in link info #59430
    Theunis De Jong
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    Your image is scaled out of proportion — it's horizontally less than vertically (there are more horizontal pixels per inch than vertically, so it's squeezed).

    Check your scale percentages.

    April 24, 2011 at 4:29 am in reply to: Can I still use CS3 after upgrading to CS5? #59406
    Theunis De Jong
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    If you are going to thrash that old PPC Mac, yes, it'd be wise to de-activate the old ID. You can re-install your CS3 a couple of times, but I lost count of how many times I did that and forgot (or just couldn't) de-activate it first. So next time, it's gonna be a gamble if it still works.

    There are a few known issues with running different versions side-by-side: you must install them in chronological order (don't first install CS5 then CS3), and your system may attempt to open a double-clicked document in “the wrong version”. The latter is not a problem if it attempts to open a CS5 document into CS3 (it will simply fail) but the other way around, you'll be inadvertently 'upgrade' a document to CS5. And there is no way back from CS5 to CS3, without a CS4 to sit inbetween.

    As for the operating system for new iMacs: ask Apple … (it's a fair bet they won't be doing that.)

    April 23, 2011 at 6:43 am in reply to: another (easy) grep question. #59403
    Theunis De Jong
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    Sure. Here it is, on the next line, between brackets:

    ( )

    Just copy and paste into the GREP field.

    All fun aside: did you ask because “s” grabs every kind of whitespace? (As per its description.) There are lots of special GREP codes, but there are even more 'regular' characters that don't need any special handling … a single space is one of them.

    April 22, 2011 at 2:41 am in reply to: Why oh why is this GREP query seemingly impossible? #59386
    Theunis De Jong
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    GREP searches do work with returns and shift-returns, but not if you try to use them as part of a character range, which is why I separated them out into their own half of an or declaration.

    I think using either the single-line or the multi-line modifier can fix this (one of them makes the period match paragraph breaks as well). Somewhere along the line I got the idea CreeDo intended to use this as a GREP style, hence my warning about it not working cross-multi-paragraph-y. But for plain searching it'd do nicely.

    It's funny you got almost exactly what I got. Well, plus some returns and minus the backslashes :D

    April 22, 2011 at 1:53 am in reply to: Why oh why is this GREP query seemingly impossible? #59381
    Theunis De Jong
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    There is an Edit button for when you post-and-reread — it looks like a lil' pencil icon. Oh — and the secret for is to double them: \ (and to type that, I actually had to enter “\” !)

    Now on to your GREP: because of the missing backslashes it's kinda hard to see what you tried. First off, the curly braces are special characters in GREP, so you have to escape them. In case you did: the error probably lies in that 'n' in the middle of your GREP (assuming it was actually an 'n' ;) ). GREP styles usually don't work at all with multi-line stuff, but I must admit you seem to have found a workaround: they do work with shift+returns. Well, perhaps that's because a shift+return doesn't count as a paragraph break (triple clicking it will select the entire paragraph, shift+returns and all). But it does force you to exclusively use shift+returns in your CSS!

    A short word on “shortest match”: usually, +, * and ? use the longest possible match. Following this character with a “?” will make it force to use shortest instead. Without your examples of the stuff that didn't work, I can't comment on why they didn't work :P

    I think this comes closest to what you want:

    (?<={)[^}]+(?![^{]*})

    It did give me a spot of a head-ache so I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out how it works.

    (Edit — a reply to a message after this original post!)

    And as far as I can see, you can only edit your post until another post has been added after it. Once there's another post – yours or someone else's – the edit facility disappears.

    No it doesn't. (Although I must admit I've seen this happen as well. Dunno what the exact parameters are…)

    (Edit/Edit) Oh nooo! I forgot to reinstate all double/triple/quadruple backslashes after editing!

    April 21, 2011 at 1:39 pm in reply to: New to indesign..need to put a border around text..help! #59372
    Theunis De Jong
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    I bet that's not what the OP had in mind, and was actually hoping for a “Border Around Any Text” tool. There is a commercial plug-in for that; it's not standard built-in into ID.

    Apart from bordering an entire text frame, you can also insert a small table into your text and use that to get borders around entire paragraphs. Anything smaller than that — say, a border around a single word or a single character — will need more than a passing knowledge of using Anchored Objects.

    April 21, 2011 at 3:30 am in reply to: Line tool to Outline Stroke from inside InDesign? #59363
    Theunis De Jong
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    No. There is *some* overlap in functionality between ID and Illy, but for anything more serious than drawing a simple line you should really use Illustrator.

    April 20, 2011 at 7:00 am in reply to: How to make Agend 2012 #59338
    Theunis De Jong
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    It sounds like he means a diary, and that's exactly what the OP in the post I refered to was after (never mind its deceptive title).

    The very first script in that thread does the brunt of the work: it writes out day and month for an entire year. After that, the OP confessed it wasn't quite what he had in mind, and the script evolved into a fully tailored solution for any year (I think), with days aligned on a spread left and right and with custom character & paragraph styles all in place.

    April 20, 2011 at 3:38 am in reply to: How to make Agend 2012 #59335
    Theunis De Jong
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    Please make sure you typing slowly and carefully. Obviously English is not your native language, but a little more effort would be highly appreciated … And there is a separate forum for scripting related questions.

    A full script doing exactly what you asked for gets developed in the course of this discussion:

    https://forums.adobe.com/message/3068058

    April 19, 2011 at 7:11 am in reply to: Can't get page numbering to start at 1 on actual page 7 #59318
    Theunis De Jong
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    .. Are you trying to set a new page number start on a master page? That's not going to work. You can only change it on a regular page:

    April 19, 2011 at 2:09 am in reply to: Apply style to every other/every third paragraph? #59312
    Theunis De Jong
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    InDesign's GREP is different in the sense that it can also deal with typical InDesign attributes, and that's not something you can find anywhere else! (*)

    But in general, the typical GREP commands are the same as anywhere else. There are a couple of 'dialects' of GREP, so not everything you find on https://www.regular-expressions.info/, for example, will work. I have a list of supported 'standard' functions at https://www.jongware.com/idgrephelp.html.

    (*) It's also mentioned in the online help, of course. But you hardly can learn to use GREP from there, as it's just a list of commands.

    April 19, 2011 at 1:56 am in reply to: Tethering an Android 2.1 with an iPad2 #59311
    Theunis De Jong
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    Uh. On which of these machines are you planning to run InDesign?

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