Yup, seen it often enough.

Check if you have assigned the paragraph style for the text variables to blank lines, just before the one it ought to pick up. A single 'next page' page break also counts as a separate paragraph, and in my experience this is the culprit most of the times.

Your English is fine — I bet it's better than my Peruvian (:D)

The trick is to search for any string of digits, just as long as the very last one is odd (or even). Try this:

bd+[13579]b

The b marks a word boundary — that is, when at the left of a 'word character', there may not be another word character; it's the same when it's to the right of a 'word character'.

d+ is any digit, and the + means you can have one or lots of them.

[13579] means any single character in this set, so it will match '1' or '3' but not '2' or '?' or 'a'.

Then another b follows, to ensure this is the very last character in the search string and no other word character follows.

(A 'word character' is, according to InDesign, 0 to 9, A to Z and a to z, as well as all accented characters, and even the alphabetical characters in Greek, Cyrillic, and many more. It's by definition not anything like a space or punctuation — anything that separates words from each other.)

The file opened in my CS4, and Roland could open the CS4 exported IDML without any problems on his CS5.

I also could find no physical problem with the file — all of its data structures are accounted for. It must have been CS5 was feelin' miserly. Filed under “uhwhat?”.

That sounds like a lot of work … with, honestly, no up-front guarantees.

Send the CS4 to me, yeah? I'll see if I can open it on my CS4 and return it as an IDML. I have a hotmail account, under my usual nomme de guerre “jongware”.

Conricus, I'm surprised that you are confusing a HTML layout design program (which of course should be able to link to anything on the web) with a page layout program that happens to be able to export to HTML and SWF.

Are you sure you are using the right tool to do what you want?

Hi Alan,

.. a bit rudely, imho — I've never done anything to ID that would warrant such shabby treatment ..

( :D If that happens to me, I usually take it as its revenge for all the times I .. blessed the dear thing from the bottom of me heart.)

Well, I dunno. I don't know for sure how enabling Layout Adjustment and changing margins would work from within a script — it's not something I've done so far. I've never even sync'ed master pages manually across a book! I must say that I am a bit wary of all of the synching functions, it seems you get all or nothing. Last time I needed to synchronize a couple of GREP styles across a single 660 p./58 document book, I didn't rely on it either but wrote a script that checked stuff instead of changing it blindly!

But I will look into it. If I can make it work by script, I can only test it on some small fry docs, so it's entirely probable that it runs at my end but still has difficulties with your (presumably) more complex documents.

Ah, yep, got it.

Warning: this script may switch off all visible layers in some documents! (I'm just sayin'.)

The initial state of the checkboxes in the dialog box cannot be trusted! It only shows a valid state for the layers in the first document in the book (on and off); it cannot check all other documents, because same-named layers may be on in one document and off in another. I don't think scripting can handle an “undetermined” state of its checkboxes, but even if it did, well, I just hacked this up in 5 minutes ;)

Click here to download the script; use with care, make a back-up, check your documents after running it, don't trust strangers, & oh — happy holidays by the way!

See Importing multiple Word docs into InDesign on the Adobe InDesign forum.