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Theunis De Jong
MemberPlease define what you think is “a Unicode font”.
MemberProblems with PDFs on the iPad are Apple's fault (just as problems with PDFs in OS X's Preview).
You could try asking for other options or file formats for embedding the movie in an Acrobat forum (https://forums.adobe.com/commun…..ty/acrobat, for example), although it sounds like they also are likely to offer nothing more than their sympathies.
A better place to ask would be Apple's own forum :(
December 7, 2010 at 3:05 am in reply to: Can I create a drop cap and nested style once and then keep applying it? CS4 #58015MemberAh, I get it — RWI shows you how to do it once, not as part of a style.
Yup: the disadvantage of that method is twofold. First, you cannot edit the property globally, and second, you get a '+' added to that paragraph, showing it has local formatting.
December 6, 2010 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Can I create a drop cap and nested style once and then keep applying it? CS4 #58012Member?? Drop caps are defined in your paragraph style, and that's where you set how large it should be. In addition, you can optionally have it apply a character style automatically. Then use this paragraph style on each paragraph where you want the drop cap to appear in.
If you want to change it later on, change its size in the paragraph style, or its appearance in the character style.
MemberIf you have a cell (or row, or table) selected at the moment of pasting, you are replacing the entire contents of it — conditional/invisible or not. Could that be your problem?
November 30, 2010 at 1:41 pm in reply to: Grep find/replace to sort list of book titles starting with "The" #57967MemberTry this. Search for
^(A|An|The) (.+)$
and replace with
$2, $1
If you're about my age, you might remember a little band called “The The”. How are you gonna solve that one?
(Ed. small improvement to get rid of an extra space)
November 29, 2010 at 2:48 pm in reply to: InDesign CS5: italics missing from imported Word document #57946MemberOne idea comes to mind: InDesign won't make text italic if there is no such thing as an italic in that typeface.
Oooh — I spotted a mistake there!
While it's true you cannot make ID italicize a text if it has a font applied without an italics (not without some trickery — but it's pointless to boot), ID will merrily import faux italicized text. Thus, you can end up with “Univers [Italic]”, rather than the regular “Univers 56 Italic”.
I must confess that while I've had tons of troubles with Word files, your Disappearing Italics is a new one. But whenever my ID CS4 seems to have a little trouble with a certain Word document (*), I shuffle over to the next computer which has still CS3 installed. CS3 imports most (but not all) troublesome documents without a hitch. Your footnotes problems, for example, only appear in CS4 and newer, whereas CS3 has virtually no problem with those.
(*) Every now and then I get a batch of Word documents of different authors that appear to be edited by a single person. When the first of those set of files fail, the same usually goes for every other one. So it must be related somehow with the Word version that last wrote the file. Unfortunately, Word is so incredibly backwards compatible that it's impossible to figure out what version that exactly was — but there is something weird in the files, and it persists through repeated re-saves as well.
MemberHi Duncan,
Make a new document with a text frame. Click your text cursor into the text frame, and run this script to get a list of all ID's (ID boasts slightly over 3,200 commands!). I don't know how to get the “invoke” name, though — perhaps these are somewhere in the SDK documentation or headers. I'll have a look when I get home.
res = [];
for (a=0; a<app.menuActions.length; a++)
res.push (app.menuActions[a].name+” (“+app.menuActions[a].area+”) = “+app.menuActions[a].id);
app.selection[0].contents = res.join(“r”);MemberAh — just thought of this. Are there single backslashes in that string? Since this is a Javascript string, the backslashes act as escape characters, so you must double them — like this: X:\YourPathHere\AndSomeMoretc-etc. Alternatively, I think InDesign's Javascript also recognizes the single forward slash as a path separator, so you could try that as well.
MemberDid you think of placing your path in the line that says
f[i].insertionPoints[0].place (File ('—–replace this bit——' + name));
? It really really looks to me a path should (could) be in there.
MemberOuch! InDesign was right to complain, you are moving components of the actual program around! (So I hope you restored them to their original position straight away.) The glyph sets are in a folder called “Glyph Sets”, as David said, so that wasn't the smartest thing to try …
Behind my Window system I can find this folder at C:Users[My Actual Name Here]AppDataRoamingAdobeInDesignVersion 6.0en_GBGlyph Sets (you can see why I couldn't recall the full path from memory), and in it I find two little files “Glyph Set 1” — which I made for the occasion — and “Recent Glyphs”.
That's on a Windows 7 machine, the full path may well be slightly, somewhat, or entirely different on other versions of Windows, and possibly also whether ID was installed as “Administrator” or “User”.
MemberFirst impression: a nice, clean-looking curriculum of someone comfortable with the concept of “using white space”. Not crowding lots of information, but clearly tabulated and using short to-the-point sentences.
A few loose remarks ;)
* Why'd you use the Distiller? Export to PDF is very trustworthy …
* Hot Pink: mmm … I think I like it. But it's tantalizingly close to 100% Magenta (I read it as 2% Cyan, 92% Magenta) — I'd make it a full 100%.
* Garamond Pro for your main text — isn't that a bit too lofty? The other day I chose it for a collection of poems, but for a CV you might want to consider a slightly less formal font — Minion Pro pairs nicely with Myriad Pro. Unless you want to make a personal point by using this font!
* On the other hand, you are using two sans fonts that visually don't match — Helvetica and Myriad. It's OK to use another font for your personal logo/infographic at the top lefts, but your are mixing sanses in your main text as well.
* Multiple-column layout: excellent! It shows you know how to distribute text and images, and are not afraid of making it just a bit more difficult.
* '4 top contributions' — I'd write “Four” in full here.
* Table on page 2: it fits snugly in the allocated “text” area, but it gets very drawn out vertically. You might want to make it just a little bit wider … (that should make it look better; if it doesn't, you might as well leave it as it is).
* Another plus (in my opinion): you used en-dashes between date ranges!
* Write out “BS” in full? (I dunno, calling it “BS” might be comme il faut in the specific area of work you are looking in to).
MemberApart from a brief 30-day stint with the trial, and in general blissfully ignorant of ID's multi-version shenanigans, I've never used CS5 …
Oh wait, I still have my Scripting Resources.
(…)
No, “ExportFormat.INDESIGN_INTERCHANGE: Exports to InDesign CS3 interchange (INX) format.” no longer can be found in the Export Formats list for CS5. You could still try with its numerical value (1229871136), but that's a real long shot.
MemberAren't those stored in files somewhere in your Users/[your name]/Adobe/InDesign/5.0/ [etc.] path? I've seen these somewhere before …
(Can't recall the actual path from memory :P and also not “behind the right computer”)
MemberIt states ofcourse whats in between the extra parenthesis! OR is that it is in separated inbetween parenthesis)
Yeah, you would put a ? right after a single code if you want that one once or not at all — as in “Figures?”, which is a neat way of looking for both “Figure” and “Figures”. Right after a parenthesized group it works on that entire group.
So in this case it looks for (decimals), then optionally (-decimals), meaning that it will match “(10)” and “(10-22)” but not “(10-)” or “(-10)”.
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