Help w. blocks of text in the Master Page

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• Blocks of text on the Master Pages with CS3?

  I produce a catalog in CS3 on my Mac using OS Mavericks.

  I put in place of master pages with square 6 graphic blocks on each page. Each of them has a CAPTION below, in which I put up as a block of text. I clicked on "Apply Master pages", but when I go to the blocks of text pages are not displayed to the top. The only way I can enter captions on pages is by creating new blocks of text, 6 on each page, which is very tedious and time consuming. What I am doing wrong?

  Thank you.

  Welll...

  As bob says it is not Quark where you can just click to type in a main frame, but you CAN Cmd + Shift + click to override the main chassis and type in it. You might be better off, however, with a framework prédimensionnée and style in a library that you can drag onto the page and position. My feeling on frameworks masters get substitution is that they probably shouldn't be on the master page at all.

• Why not my text on the master page appearing is not on a page of body?

  I'm working on 11 FM. I have a text box "this page intentionally left blank." on a mooring on a master page called blank Page. When I assign this master page to a page of body (using the master page), the headers and footer appear, but isn't my text "this page left blank.". How can I fix it?

  Is "this page intentionally left blank." as part of the main text (flow one) on the Master Page 'white '?

  If so, remove it and place it in a new block of background text on this page.

  Flow text on MPs does not appear on the pages of body.

• Cannot change the text in the Master Page

  I don't often work in InDesign.  I had created a template file for a book back in December 2011 (initially created in CS3).  I opened this file in CS6 today and did save as.  Now it's time to change a few things to customize for this new book.  So, I went into the Master Pages to tweak things.  But, I can't edit any text.  I can click on some pictures (not all), but no text is selectable or editable.  What in the world happened to my account?

  I have also returned for the final files for the book that I did in December (not the template file, the files of actual work).  Those who give me the same behavior.  Text that should be editable is not selectable.  Once again, some photos can be selected and moved, etc. but no text/text box.

  Is there a conversion that takes place opens a CS3 file to the CS6 which causes this?  How should I do?

  Thank you

  Matt Tyree

  You can always open the objects individually using either the layers panel (which is been updated, too), or by clicking on the lock icon on the object itself (near the upper left corner).

  That said, you'll be happier if you cahng Evos preferences to allow selection of locked objects. This essentially restores the beahvior you are used to see - post is locked, but you can still select and put the content in a frame.

• Blocks of text on the Pages of body 'Buried' after update of the Page Master

  I have a background full screen on my main page (on the left in this case) that integrates static graphics and borders for certain master pages. I use the borders/boxes for NOTE and END of text on some pages. Blocks of text on these master pages do not overlap. I added text blocks with my icons and the text of the note to these body Pages that I need them. All great so far.

  I decided to update the background chart on page master to change colors, etc.. All files are linked.

  Now, with funds master page updated, these pages where I added text blocks are 'buried' as on a sublayer. I checked that my Master Page background images are "sent back". I tried to wear my text boxes at the front on the Pages of my body, but they are still hidden. Interesting as the anchored frame (the icon), I attached to each NOTE or TIP point appears, but the text is not. Also, I can see and select the contours of the block... the text is hidden. If I drag the fame to another part of the document (for example, on top of another Master Page text frame sank, while the text is displayed.

  There is no image on the master page to the enclosed area. I wonder if that's what I need trouble. Just add a backstory (not attached flow)?

  Advice before I go and screw something else?

  It is what it is supposed to look like (1). Image (2) what I mean now.

  

  

  Thanks Arnis,

  It was the property of skin! How simple... I didn't have on this subject.

  Solved!

  To answer you question, however... my approach for the construction of this new model was:

  1. I created a graph from bottom (full page) to contain the image of brand and imported/positioned.
  2. I placed the header and a footer frame and filled with content.
  3. I placed the blocks of text with streams (as a single stream in this document).

  I'm not dropping blocks of text for the content of the body... except for these tips and remarks. I don't want to use a workflow for this because I never know where they'll pop up and I want to be able to (position) specifically on each page. Is this a good approach?

  Yes, I'm aware of the continuous line down the block of text NOTE you mentioned. Originally, I had all the text within the limits. When I have updated master, all offbeat pages (only in blocks of text body page with notes/tips). I repositioned and they flow very well now.

  Thank you very much for your help continues with it. Why these problems always pop nitpciky - up to date - not when things are slow!

• CS5 - most effective way to wire and independent streams of two blocks of text in the same document?

  Greetings...

  I am responsible for creating a 100-page instructor guide and I looking for a little guidance in the use of independent text blocks that thread the length of the document.  The idea behind the use of two columns, is that the first column (left) must be used for the notes 'instructor-only', advice, etc..  The second column (right) should be used for the text of the student guide.  Two columns (or blocks of text) would need to move independently of each other.  In other words, when the left column is filled with text placed on the page, the flow of additional text in the left column on page two, left column on page three, etc.  Same thing applies to the right column.  There is no link or thread of the text between the two columns on the same page.

  I tried to reproduce this in a two-column table format, however, the table row height is limited and overset text will not continue the table in the block of text on the next page.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Set up master page text frames.

  If you use facing pages, put on the student to the student and executive trainer instructor on master pages.

  Be very careful when your document is redéroule however. Take a look at this discussion, we had recently on the subject:

  http://forums.Adobe.com/message/3588735#3588735

  HTH,

  Substances

• Clone blocks of text with the titles bunch

  I hope someone out there can help us with this question.

  We have a book with an illustration on one page and a legend (list of issues) on the opposite page.

  The star of the picture must appear on both pages. The paragraph for the title style uses a format of automatic numbering.

  But we do not want the section on the right for the auto-numbering page, we want to clone what's on the left page.

  Is the a way to clone the title on page 1 (left page) so that it appears on page 2 (right page)?

  The goal is if the text is changed on the left page, the change is also displayed on the right page.

  The problem we found is that the cloned text block takes the next number of topic. For example, "1. Topic' on the left becomes "2. The topic"because of the paragraph style.

  We tried with related stories, text variables, etc., but the title on the right-hand side always takes the next number.

  Thoughts anyone?

  Thank you.

  Bruce

  InDesign CC - Windows

  Could not get this text variable to automatic numbering on the master page, but works well on the pages of the document.

  Thanks for the help!

• Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Text stream object and the master page

  I need to create a book. I did a master page with a page number, the text box and the header, made up of 65 pages in total.

  clicked on apply to all, he said , he asked, and each consecutive page has an 'A' on this subject, but no figure of page? And I clicked to place the text, the first page is visible, but none of the subsequent pages. There is a small top of the icon to the left of each page that says that if I click on it: "this story is the flow of the main text of the master", but there is no visible text, it did not sink on the page. Help! I am a new user of Indesign. I tried all the online tutorials, you tube, etc. Lyndas yesterday, but nothing covered this issue. Any ideas?

  We need to see a screenshot of the page master and a document page, but it seems to me that you put the page marker in a primary text block. I don't think it will work. Markers must be in an ordinary setting which does not thread with something else. You can put other static text in the frame with the marker, however, if you wish.

• 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

• Script to collect the "Master page-text-content of the framework" details

  Hello

  The collection "Masterpage - TextFrame - content" Indesign file details.

  If the spread of the master page text frame, I need to retrieve this text frame content in separate folder. If it possible by Indesign script?

  Thank you

  hasvi

  Hi Hasvi,

  I hope this helps you!

  var doc = app.activeDocument;

  var master = doc.masterSpreads;

  var content = "";

  for (var i = 0; i)<>

  {

  for (var j = 0; j)<>

  {

  If (master [i] .parentPage .textFrames [j]! = null) {}

  content += [i] master .silence .textFrames [j] + "\t" + master [i] .name + "\r";

  }

  }

  }

  var file = new File ("c:/1. txt");

  leader. Open ("w");

  leader. Write (happy);

  leader. Close();

  Kind regards

  Cognet

• How to create the new page in the master page and make reference to the reference text framework previous page id?

  I have problem to apply/create an element of the master page and how to run the previos page text block to create the page text

  InterfacePtr<IPageSetupPrefs> iPageSetupPrefs (,static_cast<IPageSetupPrefs * > (:QueryPreferences() IID_IPAGEPREFERENCES, docRef)));

  if (iPageSetupPrefs is nil) {

  Assert (iPageSetupPrefs);

    break

  }

  InterfacePtr<ICommand> iNewPageCmd (CmdUtils:kNewPageCmdBossCreateCommand());

  if (iNewPageCmd is nil) {

  Assert (iNewPageCmd);

    break

  }

  InterfacePtr<IApplyMasterCmdData> iApplyMasterCmdData (iNewPageCmd, IID_IAPPLYMASTERCMDDATA );

  if (iApplyMasterCmdData is nil) {

  Assert (iPageCmdData);

    break

  }

  InterfacePtr<IPageCmdData> iPageCmdData (iNewPageCmd,UseDefaultIID());

  if (iPageCmdData is nil) {

  Assert (iPageCmdData);

    break

  }

  Int32 numPagesToInsert = 1;

  PMRect pageSizeRect = iPageSetupPrefs->GetPageSizePref();

  Int32 pos = iPageCmdData->GetNewPageInsertPosition();

  ISpreadGeometry InterfacePtr<IGeometry> (spreadList->QueryNthSpread(0));

  if (iSpreadGeometry is nil) {

  Assert (iSpreadGeometry);

    break

  }

  spreadUIDRef =:GetUIDRef(iSpreadGeometry);

  PMRect dfltPMRectPageSize = iPageSetupPrefs->GetPageSizePref();

  PMReal pageWidth is dfltPMRectPageSize. Right () - dfltPMRectPageSize. Left ();

  PMReal pageHeight is dfltPMRectPageSize. Bottom () - dfltPMRectPageSize. Back to top ();

  PMRect usrDefPMRectPageSize (0, 0, pageWidth, pageHeight);

  K2Vector< PMRect> pageBoundingBoxes;

  for ( int32 i = 0; i < numPagesToInsert; ++ i) {

  pageBoundingBoxes. push_back (usrDefPMRectPageSize);

  }

  iPageCmdData->SetNewPageCmdData(spreadUIDRef, numPagesToInsert, pos +1, & pageBoundingBoxes, nil);

  / / CreateSpreadFromSpread (docRef, spreadUIDRef);

  InterfacePtr<IBoolData> iBoolData (iNewPageCmd,UseDefaultIID());

  if (iBoolData is nil) {

  Assert (iBoolData);

    break

  }

  bool16 allowShuffle;

  if (this->GetShufflePref(allowShuffle, docRef) iskFailure) {

    break

  }

  iBoolData->Set(allowShuffle);

  CmdUtils:ProcessCommand(iNewPageCmd);

  Above code, able to create a page but the problem in applied master page?

  Using document Pages face?

  I think that your posToInsertAt for IPageCmdData::Set is incorrect.

  If the doc does not have facing Pages, posToInsertAt = 1;

  If doc is facing Pages and page insertion is the left-hand Page, posToInsertAt = 2;

  If doc is facing Pages and insert page is the right Page, posToInsertAt = 1;

  posToInsertAt = spread-> GetNumPages();

  newDocCmd and newDocCmdData are not used, you can delete these.

• find and delete blocks of text with the same geometricBounds

  Hi writer... .new question from here:

  mySelection var = app.activeDocument.selection [0] .geometricBounds;

  alert (mySelection);

  throughout the document, I need search and delete blocks of text with the same geometricBounds.

  If possible, the same dimensions, but not the same positions.

  Thanks for the help!

  OK Bala... .in to decimal differences, some executives have not been removed.

  I solved with "Math.round' instead of 'number '.

  ===================

  mySelection var = app.activeDocument.selection [0] .geometricBounds;

  var myWidth = Math.round(mySelection[3]-mySelection[1]);

  var myHeight = Math.round(mySelection[2]-mySelection[0]); Alert (myHeight);

  var allFrames = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;

  While (t = allFrames.pop ()) {}

  {if (t.IsValid)}

  var myTextframe = t.geometricBounds;

  var myTWidth = Math.round(myTextframe[3]-myTextframe[1]);

  var myTHeight = Math.round(myTextframe[2]-myTextframe[0]);

  If ((myWidth == myTWidth) & (myHeight == myTHeight)) {}

  t.Remove ();

  }

  }

  }

  ===================

  Now, your script works great!

  Thank you very much!

• Second block of text during the first

  I have a doc who, for some reason, has a new block of text layered on top of one.  Typing goes into the new framework and I can't change the original text.  I can delete the new framework to obtain the actual text, but it happened on all pages of the doc.

  My question is, where it comes from?  I didn't add it, and it was not there a month ago.  I have rename the stream and the new framework is called flow of A, which is the default value and which should not exist anymore.

  What gives?

  Docs framework must have a stream called default 'A' - even if delete you or rename, the next time that FM open the doc it will create the flow of 'A' and plunk on the pages of body, always above any other flow, using a 'frame size to default text flow.

  In some docs to the unusual requirements (aviation manuals) I've resized the frame of 'A' on the master pages to be, say, 1 "x 1" and moved to the outside corner of right-to-left page and then created named needed additional streams. I then use flow one as a container for the markers that were later taken over by interpolations to dynamically fill created lists of markers or headers/footers body - the applicable page.

  Sheila

• Why is the text in my master page header reformatted after the publication of Business Catalyst?

  Everything goes well with the text in my master page header in Muse, but when you are viewing my site online, the text is reformatted and a biased. I contacted tech support, and they told me that there is a problem with Business Catalyst, they are working on right now. The workaround is to open your site in Muse, click 'File', choose 'Properties of the Site' and under "Advanced", uncheck «Enable in the browser Edition.» Once you publish the site again, the problem should disappear. I'm curious to hear if anyone else has had this problem and if this workaround is successful or if you know other solutions.

  Hi Rebecca,.

  If you are publishing to Business Catalyst, go to file > properties of the Site in Muse. The 'Advanced' Panel will turn off IBE. We will address this problem in an update very soon.

  Kind regards

  _Ankush

• Video tutorial of Danielle Beaumont 'Add sensitive to the master page items' is not working properly. Adobe can address?  Or, please can someone help me?

  Video tutorial of Danielle Beaumont 'Add sensitive to the master page items' is not working properly. Now I'm stuck with the "Pigeon" - site and I do not know. can someone help me?

  Hello

  I don't know why he's not working on your side, because I am to play the tutorial in all browsers, however, I would suggest you to please try to delete the cache of your browser.

  And also to change your network if you are connected to a wifi.

  If none of them works, please try to uninstall the flash player and put it back, once the browser will ask you to do.

  Kind regards

  _Ankush