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• want to add text effect, I can only add effect of block of text, the box is not an option to add text effect it self

  want to add text effect, I can only add effect of block of text, the box is not an option to add text effect it self of ideas?

  Hello.

  Please refer to the link below which explains this scenario very well.

  Appllying effects shots, bevel, glow to text

  Concerning

  Vivek

• can we define the auto size property for blocks of text through jsx?

  is it possible to set automatic size property for blocks of text through jsx. This option is present in the dialog box type options in illustartor.

  To open the dialog box.

  Select a textFrame-> Type-> area type Options. -> now see property auto size check box.

  Any help or suggestion will be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Upendra

  We can set the auto sizing preference:

  app.preferences.setBooleanPreference("text/autoSizing",
    !app.preferences.getBooleanPreference("text/autoSizing"));
  

  You must run the script before adding tetFrames.

• It is scriptable to unscrew the paragraphs [or lists] to get blocks of text?

  The method I use is to break a story in many pages, split a block of text via the menu "Save options" + ' paragraph 'start' on the next page and then apply a script which unscrew all of the text. " But a lot of time and work involved not to mention that the stories not threads isolated in dozens of pages.

  
  

  But my scripts known to wire/unscrew the text might only manage the frames and never paragraphs.

  
  

  The idea is to convert this kind of paragraph/lists in four simple stories

  Fig. 180 - risk 2010-2014¶

  Fig. 181 -number of devaluation 2009-2014

  Fig. 182 - Inflation 2008¶

  Fig. 183 - average index of prices¶

  Probably a hiccup of copy/paste of my own:

  var main = function() {
    var ps, n;
    var hu;
    if ( !app.documents.length ||
    app.selection.length!=1 ||
    !(app.selection[0].properties.parentStory) ){
    alert("Please select a text frame");
    return;
    }
  
    hu =  app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits;
    vu =  app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits;
  
    app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits =
    app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
  
    ps = app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs;
    n = ps.length;
  
    try {
    while ( n-- ) {
    createFrame ( ps[n] );
    }
    }
    catch(err){
    $.writeln ( ">>>"+err );
    }
  
    app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = hu;
    app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = vu;
    if ( app.selection[0] instanceof TextFrame ) {
    app.selection[0].remove();
    }
    else {
    app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].remove()
    }
  }
  
  function createFrame (p) {
    var x1 = p.insertionPoints[0].horizontalOffset,
    x2 = p.insertionPoints[-2].endHorizontalOffset,
    y2 = p.characters[0].baseline,
    y1 = y2-p.characters[0].pointSize+3.35;
    y2+=5;
    var tf = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activePage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[y1,x1,y2,x2]});
    p.duplicate ( LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, tf.insertionPoints[0] );
  };
  var u;
  app.doScript ( "main();", u, u, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT );
  

  Try again?

• Divide the long text into multiple blocks of text by PARAGRAPH breaks, and not by line breaks

  I'm creating a catalog of the auction. Right now I have a long table in Word, where each line is an item in the catalog.

  I know how to place the table in InDesign and convert it to text so that each line is its own paragraph (click table > > convert table to text).

  Now, I want to run a script so that each paragraph becomes its own text box.

  I tried to use the script of Jongware mentioned on this thread (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/652308), but it breaks to the top of each LINE in its own text box, not each paragraph.

  Previously, a solution that worked for me is to manually adjust the text boxes until each paragraph is in a separate box, then use the SplitStory script to remove all the. However, the catalog has over 100 articles in there it is time consuming. Is there a way to separate each paragraph into its own text box automatically?

  Well, I guess you can set up a master page with two frames of text related to this topic.

  To keep Options (see above), choose 'Start in the new framework' rather than 'new page '.

  Create a page in the document and apply the master page.

  Then follow the first set of instructions, I gave above. For autoflowing, click inside the box of one of the blocks of text on the master page (I mean, do it on a regular page that has the master page applied; the text block should appear with a dashed line, because it is on the master page). Now, all text should flow between these two images, two images per page which gives you 1 point in each image.

• I can auto adjust all the blocks of text with overset text?

  Due to several factors (change computers, versions of different fonts, etc.), I had to change most of the fonts in my text-heavy document.

  There are a lot of charts and tables in this 125-page document, and now most of all text frames have overset text.

  The new font is in fact identical to the previous one, however, there are a few differences that are causing it take more text frames. I tried to adjust the line spacing in my character and paragraph styles, but these do not seem to effect.

  Is there a way to automatically adjust all frames in excess to account for the new font?

  Thanks in advance.

  Not sure that the result will be 100% desirable, but there is a way to define all frames to auto-size...

  Run find/replace and choose the tab object.

  Down, choose the Document research: menu. Choose the blocks of text such as: menu.

  Click the icon of glass/frame next to the search Object Format field:

  

  In the Options of Format object search dialog box, choose Auto setting 'Off' on the text size Options > menu automatic sizing:

  

  Click OK, and then click the icon / window next to the subject of change Format field:

  

  In the change object Format Options dialog box, choose 'Height' only on the text size Options framework Auto > auto-size menu, and then click the up button in the Center in the framework - pinning proxy:

  Note: Another option for pinning would be better according to your presentations, but this setting will make executives grow at the bottom, which seems the most logical... in most cases.

  

  Click OK, and then change all.

• Irregular vertical justification for a block of text

  I have some irregular text blocks - they not in them, like a Ziggurat. I would firstly the vertical justification to the Center, but when I call the Options of text block Panel, this option is not available. Thus, they are all justified top, which is of course the default value. Can I change this?

  I assume you are using an older version of InDesign. I think it was possible in InDesign CS5 or later. Here is a screenshot of InDesign CC 2014.

  

• InDesign: how tilt blocks of text without distorting the text?

  I want to put in place several large blocks of copy to these requirements:

  -the basic lines of the text are at an angle on the page

  -the left and right edges of the text block are shot-on horizontal (aligned with the guides in the screenshot below)

  -the block of text can be enlarged or reduced without changing the angle of the left and right edges

  -forms of the letters themselves are not distorted

  

  This screenshot shows what I'm after.

  

  This screenshot shows the real bounding box for the text block.

  

  This screenshot shows how the angle of the text box changes when I change its size.

  I think Illustrator is a kind of function that allows you to "zero" (reset the transformations of a grid of 90 degrees) an object after it is transformed. Not finding anything like that in InDesign. And I find no way to set a custom angle constraint that would allow me to use the direct Selection (white arrow) tool to change the height or width with confidence.

  I'd appreciate some tips! Thank you for your attention.

  I do so with the example of shooting. Tilt works the same way.

  1. draw your rectangle, I applied a text frame reference grid (textframe options)

  

  2. with the Selection tool or the transform tool turn the frame in one direction, you can also do this with the entrance of the value in the transform Panel, what I would recommend.

  

  3. now, select the direct Selection (white arrow) tool and hold the ALT key and click on the frame. Now, only the frame is selected. Turn the other way, or insert the value in the transform Panel.

  

  I also have another method to offer:

  1. Draw the main frame with the text tool.
  2. Draw a small box above, it must be much smaller than the main frame.
  3. Turn the small frame in the direction that where you want to go the text.
  4. Select the two images.
  5. Go to the Pathfinder > Add.

  Now, you can add text or select a text based frame reference grid. He will do the same as above. May be simpler.

• Automatically add the blocks of text or pages

  Greetings,

  I would like to know if it is possible for InDesign (either automatically or by script) to add any columns or pages if the content exceeds the width/height of the text frame.

  

  The content is imported via the import option in XML format. My layout is composed of 6 columns per page. When I import the xml into the gray text block, the framework grows in height that overlap the next block of text instead of "push," as I want it too. It is the same for the other blocks of text.

  Is it possible to automatically add text blocks to fit the content and/or the pages?

  That's what I mean, but you will need to click on a place that does not already have a block of text (a new page or an empty column) and autoflow will add as many pages as needed from there.

• Images are pasted as text embedded in a block of text.

  Whenever I paste an image I copied with ctrl + c from another software, its pasted into indesign as an object embedded within a block of text.

  What should I do to have all the images pasted with ctrl + v always be stuck like a graphic block?

  PS: I have no style object created or assigned to what it is.

  A roundabout method would be to save the Word document in PDF format, then copy the PDF file and paste into FrameMaker with nothing selected. You will probably have to develop a method to resize the image firat. If all images must be resizing the same amount, you may be able to use the options under object > transform or object > transform again on multiple selections.

  HTH

  Kind regards

  Peter

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  Know-how ProServices

• How can I create a series of blocks of text using the Excel list values?

  It is first of all, the first script I am trying to write from scratch. I'm completely green at the script and I picked up a few bits of ID Adobe scripting guide, but nothing has really stuck still relating to this particular goal.

  My supervisor maintains a master list of advertising space, with the name of the account, is the width of the space, and how space is the height, in an Excel sheet. These spaces can number in the hundreds, and I'm stuck manually drawing a rectangle for each space, which takes a lot of time.

  I would like to create / helped to create a script that will take these values and "magically" to draw these spaces in the form of blocks of text, with the width (in columns) and the height (in inches) defined by the values in the main list, as well as the name of each account in the subsequent text frames.

  The script didn't necessarily need to be able to pull the values directly from the Excel sheet; Can I transfer a file text if necessary, or directly in the script, values he change because I need it. A great thing (if she is not able to pull directly from an Excel sheet) which is the number of spaces a week changes, and so do the accounts and the width and height. Accordingly, it would be ideal that values of the sheet could be modified easily, in order to create a new set of spaces as necessary.

  Positioning for each space is not crucial, only the height and width. If they were all on top of each other on the same page, it is a result for me. The main idea is to not have to draw them all manually, one by one.

  For me, this looks like a command, but I hope that some experienced there Scripting Guys can help me, because I want to become experienced as well.

  Thus, the TL; DR version:

  -Script to draw a series of text blocks.

  -Size of the text boxes should be defined by the values width and height of spreadsheet Excel.

  -Text blocks must have the account name as content (from account in the Excel worksheet names).

  -Accounts, width and height changes every week in the Excel sheet, so must be relatively easy to exchange all values.

  -Width values on the Excel worksheet columns. It would be ideal that the script could turn those numbers into multiples of columns as necessary.

  -Script (optionally) can take values directly from Excel sheet.

  -Script (option) can set the fill color for the gray text frame. (If it works as I think, I could just select all the resulting images of the text myself and put them all to grey at the same time... I'm not lazy as )

  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help in any way possible, even if it's just a little push in the right direction. This script will save 1 to 2 hours of boredom every week.

  Look like the perfect thing for the InDesign scripting.

  I copy content from Excel to a text file, for a format easily read in InDesign, and there will automatically be a TAB for each 'cell', just using copy and paste.

  Here is a piece of code, perhaps you could go on with (the addition of variable to change pages and the location on the page and other things).

  The readFileLineByLine function, can be easily reused with any function using "recall". You simply tell the function what you want to be executed for each line of text that reads:

  const COLUMN_WIDTH = 2; // Define the column width in inch
  
  var pageIndex;
  var textFramesExported; // not implemented.
  
  // Add a new dokument. Set myDoc to app.activeDocument to use
  // the current document instead of creating a new one.
  var myDoc = app.documents.add();
  
  // The doSomethingWithTextRow function is called upon for every line of text read.
  readFileLineByLine('c:\\test.txt', doSomethingWithTextRow);
  
  function doSomethingWithTextRow(row){
      // We expect the text line to be TAB separated (\t = TAB). We get that from just copying the contents of an
      // excel file into a text document.
      var cells = row.split('\t');
      var companyName = cells[0]; // The Company name in the first slot of the array
      var width = COLUMN_WIDTH * cells[1];
      var height = cells[2];
  
      // Create a new text frame for every row handled
      if (pageIndex==undefined) pageIndex = 0; // Count up when you have exported a number of texts, I leave this for you to do.
      var newTextFrame = myDoc.pages[pageIndex].textFrames.add();
      newTextFrame.contents = companyName;
  
      // The text frame is created in the top left corner.
      newTextFrame.geometricBounds = [0, 0, height + ' in', width + ' in']; // Top, Left, Bottom, Right 
  
      // You might want to move the textframes to other positions, keeping track of how many you put out per page.
      newTextFrame.move( [10, 10] );
  }
  
  function readFileLineByLine(path, callbackFn){
      var myFileIn = new File(path);
      if (File.fs == 'Windows'){
          // This was probably added to recognize UTF-8 (even without its start marker?)
          myFileIn.encoding = 'UTF-8';
      }
      myFileIn.open('r');
      var myEncoding = myFileIn.encoding;
      try{
          if (!myFileIn.exists){
              throw('Missing file: ' + myFileIn.fsName)
          }
          var ln = '';
          while(!myFileIn.eof){
              // Read the lines from the file, until an empty line is found [now as a remark].
              ln = myFileIn.readln()
              // if(ln !='' && ln!='\n'){
                 // Call the function supplied as argument
                 callbackFn(ln);
              // }
          }
      }catch(e){
          alert(e);
          gCancel = true;
      }
      finally{
          myFileIn.close();
      }
  }
  

  The file in C:\ in my example was recorded in UTF-8 format and looks like this (showing hidden characters):

  

  Post edited by: Andreas Jansson

• Copy blocks of text between documents

  I have two documents which have the same number of pages. I want to write a script to copy blocks of text on each page of the document source to the corresponding page in the target document. There is usually only a single block of text on each page, and I want it placed exactly the same in the target as the source. I tried the following:

  for (var i = 0; i < fromDoc.pages.length; i ++) {}

  for (var j = 0; j < fromDoc.pages [i].textFrames.length; j ++) {}

  var fromTextFrame = fromDoc.pages [i] .textFrames [j];

  App.Select (fromTextFrame);

  App.Copy ();

  toPage var = toDoc.pages [i];

  App.Select (toPage);

  App.Paste ();

  }

  }

  It gives me an error on the statement of app.copy: "Cannot copy/cut because of invalid selection."

  Can someone help me with the right code? That the ks!

  Sorry - it's a bug in the forum software that is sometimes

  submitted by email do not appear. What I said is:

  You should avoid the use of copy(), paste() etc. - There is almost always a

  best way to do things.

  In this case, see the duplicate of a textFrame method:

  TextFrame.duplicate (for: varies by: table of unit of measure (number or))

  String)): PageItem

  Adobe InDesign CS6 (8,0) Object Model

  Duplicates the TextFrame to the location specified or offset.

  of: Data Type: varies

  The location of the new TextFrame, in coordinates specified in the

  format. Can accept: table of 2 units, spread, Page or layer.

  (Optional)

  by: Data Type: table of unit of measure (number or string)

  Amount to compensate for the new original TextFrame

  TextFrame position. (Optional)

  You can see that the setting 'to' duplicate() accepts various

  things, which seems to be what you are looking for: page.

  So if you set myPage to a page in a second document, likely to be you

  will find that it has been reproduced on this page:

  myTextFrame.duplicate (myPage)

  Try and see how the text block lands facing upward.

  If this isn't in the right place, I suggest to copy the

  the source for the new textFrame textFrame geometricBounds (he can be)

  have other ways to do it). Just ensure that the origin of the rule and

  units of measure in the two documents are the same.

  HTH,

  Ariel

• hide link on blocks of text handles

  On the blocks of text, is it possible to disable or hide the text-frame-link handles? I work with several text boxes that are each a high line. I have many of them resize vertically. The best way to proceed would be the handful of frame of text on the side of the box, but the link handle is much too narrow and is really annoying to get around. I'm sure it's a simple menu option, but I'm not and it drives me crazy. Please help if you can. Thank you.

  

  You can not hide, but if you click on what you call the link handles

  and to pause with the button of the mouse to the bottom, they will change the resizing

  the boxes you want and you can then resize the text as block

  usual.

  HTH,

  Ariel

• How place a document that requires a block of text to span several pages?

  I'm working on an information folder and have a word doc that contains 3 or 4 pages of text I want to merge my flyer. No matter what I try, when the use of Place (command-B), I can't get the text block resulting automatically create pages as needed. I checked n the option of 'Smart Text reflow' preferences and unchecked option "limit of main text Frames". Deparation, I even created an empty text block, turned on the Auto for this image and copied sizing the command + V) text in, but he did not better. I would prefer not to have to divide the text into chunnks and put it in blocks of text separated on each subsequent page. Any ideas?

  I use CS6 on a new MacBook Pro running OS X Lion mountain with 16 GB of RAM.

  When you place the text, hold down the SHIFT key when you click on the page.

  Bob

• Overset text when you create a block of text to another object

  I apologize if this has been answered in other discussions, but the search function does not work now. I am trying to create a block of text on top a .pdf bound. I can create the block of text, but as soon as I enter the text, I get the text marker in excess on the frame, despite the fact that the frame is big enough to accommodate the text that I entered. This happens if I simply enter a single period.

  If I click on "mount the frame to the content" he develops vertically the text block until it is large enough to have a part that leaves at the edge of the linked .pdf below, and the text that I entered appears here. Of course, now, I have a block of text that is 20 times bigger that I need, and I still have no text in the position where it is needed.

  Here is a link to a screenshot:

  http://Tinypic.com/r/i3vqjs/7

  I'm still a newb on InDesign, and I hope that there is an easy solution to embarassingly on this point I should have, but any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  You probably dressing applied on the structure with the PDF file. Either remove it, or open the options of text block for your frame on top and check the box to ignore the dressing.