InDesign fill with placeholder text

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• Fill with placeholder text does not

  My order of "Fill with placeholder text" no longer works.  No text only inserted when I select the command. (He used to work. I used it a lot.) I have read on the substitution.txt file and made my own and place in the InDesign Application folder, following the instructions that I found on one of the forums.  I can see the file, and it is named correctly. But I still get all inserted text.  It seems that something is broken. It's like InDesign does not see the substitution.txt file, even if it's in the right place. (I use CS5.1). Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might happen? Thanks in advance for any help!

  I have to fill with placeholder text works again. In my opinion, it may have been something fishy with the sequence of several frames on the line that has been not to let the text get inserted. I'm embarrassed to say that I did not sufficiently stable before that I blamed the control. I did learn some things, however, and appreciate the advice I got.

  Bonnie

• Filled with dynamic text by key STROKE

  I've implemented the the user clicks a button and gives me the result of what they clicked, however how I put in a dynamic text field. I have problems with the AS3 code for it. Here's what I have so far. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
  
  package LIKE {}
  import flash.display.MovieClip;
  import flash.display.DisplayObject;
  import flash.events. *;
  import flash.ui.Keyboard;
  
  SerializableAttribute public class KeyboardExample extends MovieClip {}
  
  public void KeyboardExample() {}
  stage.addEventListener (KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler);
  stage.addEventListener (KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyUpHandler);
  
  }
  
  private void keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void {}
  trace ("keyDownHandler:" + event.keyCode);
  trace ("key pressed:" + string.fromCharCode(0)) (event.charCode));
  stage.texttest.Text = string.fromCharCode(0)) (event.charCode);
  
  }
  
  private void keyUpHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void {}
  trace ("keyUpHandler:" + event.keyCode);
  }
  
  
  }
  }
  

  that seems fine except for one thing - you are referring to an instance on the stage through the stage class. (I understand the confusion!)

  must be:

• fill with text support

  Does anyone know if fill with placeholder text is accessible through javascript or applescript?

  Hello

  with the image selected:

  app.menuActions.itemByID(119681).invoke();
  

  or create your own substitution.txt - place inside The Folder(or anywhere else) App , and place (file) method allows to manage.

  Jarek

• I can't do anything with the text boxes in my InDesign file.

  I consider myself fairly well with InDesign. But now, I'm quite a. I just spent two hours designing a newsletter before and inside the cover. I filled two text boxes with the text that I stole from a Word file. But now, I can't do anything in the text boxes. I click and nothing happens. Nothing does highlight. The framework is not locked. I don't know what to do. I am little freaked out that InDesign can do this to me.

  Look for the locked layers

  (Menu) object > unlock all on the spread

  Check the Live Page vs Master Page (you could have worked on the master (?)

• Object placeholder, text, symbol helps Indesign cs6

  Hi, I need a holder object in place (with text) in indesign for work wireframing, I want to add placeholder text etc. on all pages of a menu nav (or anything else that I think will be updated later) and then when I get the actual data I can change the names of nav to their real titles and it will change in all instances of the placeholder (through object of 60 pages or more)

  In flash or illo, etc., you could do a symbol etc. and change it and it would change all instances. Is there anything close to that in Indesign (the library panel does not allow for editing of the item master is he?)

  You will get instantly big mojo luck if you answer this quickly and without * very * sarcasm...

  Well, InDesign has yet to symbols.

  But you can create the object with the text in Illustrator and save it in format I. Then place the file HAVE anywhere where you need the object placeholder. When you need to make changes, change the Illustrator object and text and it will be replaced in InDesign overall.

• Combining acute accent with Cyrillic text in InDesign

  Nice day

  Someone has never managed using Unicode, combining acute accent with Cyrillic text in InDesign? If so, I would like to know your operating system version and InDesign.

  Thank you for your interest.

  Giordano

  I've never needed to do, because I have a personal dislike for combining accents (having been burned in the past in Vietnamese projects) but I can test it easily enough. It works without problem on CC 2015 on OS X Yosemite. I can test on a variety of versions and platforms, if you want to know something specific. I suggest that you tell us what policies should we use, too.

  If you need Cyrillic with accents for some languages not Russians, there are a few ways to go. Once more, I recommend combining accents - you can still use the tool already thin to concoct a single precomposed glyph that is encoded correctly and don't risk getting an accent combining when you switch to a font that does not have the acute combination.

• Is there a way to put Illustrator files in InDesign with editable text

  I have a catalogue prepared in Illustrator, but now an international distributor wants in InDesign for the translation.

  Every attempt I make to get the text to import in InDesign just gives me images. It's a catalogue, so I really don't want to manually rebuild all text objects. These two programs are Adobe and do the same thing, so why they don't communicate with each other?

  Copy the text to the Clipboard of Illy after choosing with the text tool.

  In InDesign, draw a text frame and with the cursor still in the frame, glue.

  You can synchronize the paragraph styles in the CC libraries and get close enough to the formatting you need.

• White type in the text box with fill with transparency

  This page of color in my INDD document a lot of transparency on this - in the following stacking order:

  1. downstairs are two boxes gradients covering the entire page.

  2. next is a background photo that's an advantage to feathers.

  3. then comes my text box that floats over a part of the photo in the background. The text box is filled with a gradient purple feather. The text box contains 8.5 PT. White type (Helvetica Neue Medium).

  4. a transparent dingbat straddles a corner of the text box.

  Where the white guy is pictured in the background, a color is reflected type. I have not noted on the PDF, but of course, the work of back of the printer, you can see.

  I thought all type except automatically eliminated black?

  I pulled out the file using PDFX-3 (1.3) because my printing does service provider ' t supports the 1.4. I underdstand this version flattens transparency. I scanned "Print Production Guide for transparency" Adobe and learned that the areas of complex transparency can cause unexpected results. Is what happened here?

  When I opened the flattening of transparencies and he asked to highlight objects with 'Text of Raster-Fill and Stroke' or 'Text described', this type area is highlighted. No other boxes on this page type were noted, even where it overlaps the background photo (which has applied feather).

  Several other transparent dingbats (such as duplication of the text box) are also highlighted as 'Raster - Fill and Stroke text'. They are all on the highest layer (type).

  This isn't a disaster - it's still readable - but the details of the publication who are affected, which is important. Maybe next time I won't be as lucky. What would I do different?

  It is possible in the more recent versions of ID to the value of transparency to the object, STROKE, fill and levels of content, and I suspect that you have applied your effects to the object level. I was able to recreate what you see as well by using the gradient feather tool and in the effect controls panel and using the pen it y to the entire object. Oddly enough, once the gradient feather tool has been used I couln can't access options in the effect controls panel or in the menu object.

  In all cases, if you can, select the block of text, open the effect controls panel or object > Effects > menu feather degraded, remove the gradient feather and reapply just the filling.

  If you are not able to do so, copy the text, delete the block of text and create a new and paste back the text, and then select the image and apply the gradient feather to complete using the effect controls panel or the menu object.

• How to place an image inline with the text using InDesign CS4?

  I'm writing the first draft of an instruction manual how two for some software.

  I'm writing the manual directly in InDesign CS4 and making screen shots that I'm making progress. I format the screenshot in Photoshop and export it to a JPG file.

  In InDesign, I double-click in the text box where I want to insert the image, go to file > place, get the picture, then press on open.

  Usually InDesign inserts the image at the cursor flashing in the text, but sometimes what happens is that no picture inserted and everything after it disappears. I get several empty text boxes and need to Control-Z to get back to where I started.

  Now I can put the image outside the text box and then manually move it to the text where I want to go, however when I export the file as HTML, then I need to manually move it to the appropriate area in Dreamweaver (when the image is placed inside the text box to the flashing cursor, the HTML file shows the image in the right place).

  I was able to insert the line in file with the text to a new paragraph mark, but sometimes InDesign doesn't let me do. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

  I don't know what I'm doing to prevent it from placing the paragraph mark and the blinking cursor (which is where I want it to appear).

  This is a recording of screen 54sec of my actions:

  http://storytechnician.com/temp/idcs4-place/

  Steps to follow:

  I double-click inside the text box

  I place the image

  everything goes

  I have a few pages scroll, and then return to the starting point

  I have to scroll through a page or double-click inside the text box then press return a few times, and the previous image, I put in this way is automatically pushed to the next page.

  I go back to point of original departure, try again, and it does not work.

  I've done it before, but now it does not work. I don't know what's happened prevents him from online to the location of the cursor.

  Help, please.

  Thank you

  It seems to me that the image is too wide for the frame. You can place it on the editing table, scale in the size, then cut to the Clipboard and paste it into the flow of the text.

• Can I create a book, whose pages are dynamically filled with text, images?

  Can I create a book, whose pages are dynamically filled with text, photos, videos?

  And then want to give these pages a curl effect when activated. Pls. note I want to build these pages on the fly.

  If it is possible, what are the possible technologies that I can use?

  See you soon,.

  Samantray

  Flash can read data from several sources (XML files, text files, on the web, on-site, etc.) and you can use these data to populate your address dynamically. He can do the same thing with the pictures and any other active flash can use (images, video, etc).

  The effect of curvature of page can be done in different ways. Just google for flash page flip effect and tons of resources and tutorials will appear laboriously explaining how to do it.

• Framework will not completely fill with color InDeisgn CS

  I have a recurring problem in InDesign CS, but this project don't happens only every six months, and I don't remember how I came across the solution from last time. Hope someone might be able to help.

  I have a page layout left magazine, that I have used for years with just a couple of blocks of text and a picture. I have not changed in ages content, except to switch text updated with each new issue. (It's just an editorial page, essentially).

  Behind this layout, I placed a picture and filled with a beige background.  It begins at the gutter (right side) and then reaches the purge in the other three directions.

  For some reason, on the left side and at the bottom, I have a domain that will not color fill.  If I duplicate the image on the right page, this substantive area extends all the way at the bottom of this page, too.  It's almost as if there is something with a text wrapping or a white fill bumping into the outer edges (not the gutter and not by the top) of the page.

  For the life of me I can't figure out what it is.  I have recreated the spread, started, stopped the program.  I paused to screw up my preferences because I hate the idea to recreate.  But I have this vague memory, the last time I think than that, it was something pretty simple and does not require screw up my preferences.

  I know I'll feel stupid when the answer presents itself - whether by someone on the forum or if I remember on mine.  But of course, I do not no progress trying to figure out or work my memory.

  I have, moreover, ensure transparency, attributes and effects.  Nothing there.  I'm puzzled.  And I'm in the middle of a date limit.  Anyone who has the magic answer?  Do not hesitate to make me feel as stupid as you want

  Thank you!

  There could be a corruption in your InDesign document in this case.

  Try the following:

  1. Choose file > save as
  2. In Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac), select InDesign CS4 or earlier (IDML)
  3. Click Save.
  4. Then choose file > open in InDesign and go to the. You have already saved and open the IDML file.
  5. If everything seems OK, then save this file and use that one.

  CARI

• Can't add placeholder text data merge for all blocks of text on the document

  I'm trying to put together a script that loops if all pages in an indesign file, search all text frames label caption1, caption2, caption3... (whenever you get to a new page, the number of text images label starts again from 1) and add a placeholder in the text data fusion: caption1, caption2, caption3... but this time, when you get to a new page the number continues to go... caption4, caption5 and so on.

  Page 1 - image text = caption1 = tag > data merge placeholder = < < caption1 > >

  Page 1 - image text = caption2 = tag > data merge placeholder = < < caption2 > >

  Page 1 - image text = caption3 = tag > data merge placeholder = < < caption3 > >

  page 2 - text = caption1 = image tag > data merge placeholder = < < caption4 > >

  page 2 - image text = caption2 = tag > data merge placeholder = < < caption5 > >

  Currently, the script is adding placeholder text merge data only for the two text frames first (out of 6) on a page (about 8 pages) and just the first image of text on the page two (out of 3)

  Any help will be greatly appreciated

  Here's the script:

  myDocument var = app.activeDocument;

  -SOURCE DATA CALLS FUSION

  main();

  main() {} function

  myDataSource var = File.openDialog ("Please select a datamerge source", "text files: * .txt");

  If (myDataSource! = null) {}

  myDocument.dataMergeProperties.selectDataSource (myDataSource);

  myDocument.dataMergeProperties.dataMergePreferences.recordsPerPage = RecordsPerPage.MULTIPLE_RECORD;

  }

  }

  -MERGE OF DATA FIELD

  function get_field (captionString, myDocument) {}

  fields var = myDocument.dataMergeProperties.dataMergeFields;

  for (var f = 0, l = fields.length; e < l; f ++) {}

  If (fields [f] .fieldName == captionString) {}

  Returns the fields [f];

  }

  }

  Alert ("error: did not find all the fields with the name" + field_name);

  }

  THE TEXT - ADD PLACEHOLDER DATA MERGE

  var countFrames = 1;

  for (i = 0; i < myDocument.pages.length; i ++) {/ / TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES in the DOCUMENT}

  var capPerPage = 1;

  for (x = 0; x < myDocument.pages [i].textFrames.length; x ++) {//COUNT TEXT TOTAL IMAGES PER PAGE

  If (myDocument.pages [i] .textFrames [x] .label < 0) {}

  Alert ('can not find any image caption');

  } ElseIf (.textFrames [x] myDocument.pages [i] .label == 'caption' + capPerPage) {//IF IT IS A TEXT LABEL of IMAGE 'caption1' EXECUTE

  var captionString = "caption" + countFrames;

  var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages [i] .textFrames [x];

  var myDataMergeProperties = myDocument.dataMergeProperties;

  var myTextFrame.parentStory = monarticle;

  var myStoryOffset = myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints [-1];

  var myNamePlaceHolder = myDocument.dataMergeTextPlaceholders.add (monarticle, myStoryOffset, get_field (captionString, myDocument)); ADD DATA FUSION TEXT HOLDER TO THE TEXT BLOCK

  countFrames ++; INCREASE THE NUMBER TO ADD DATA FUSION TEXT PLACEHOLDER FOR THE NEXT BLOCK OF TEXT

  capPerPage ++;

  }

  }

  }

  Hello

  To verify this change (replace for...) loop)

  var countFrames= 0, currLabel, capPerPage;
  
  for (i=0; i
  Notice countFrames starts at 0.
  Jarek
  		   

• Change the color of the text just highlighting the placeholder text

  Hello

  Is this possible with Indesign CS6 to simply change the color of the text when I just click on the placeholder instead of having to highlight the text in the placeholder every hour.

  This is done in Illustrator, but when I do the same in Indesign, it's the bottom of the placeholder that changes color and not the text.

  I want to be able to click on several areas of placeholder text and just change the color of the text when required?

  Thank you

  Select the text block with the selection tool, and then press the letter (J) on the keyboard. and the Swatches palette or color, select your color.

• Placeholder text replacement script help

  Hello expert AppleScript!

  I have a problem with the script to replace text placeholder from this source: https://iworkautomation.com/pages/script-tags-placeholder-text.html

  For testing purposes I just wrote a text on a white sheet (not insert a text box and the text typed there) and insert an image, a placeholder text marked (and a picture too) through the instrument standard Pages: Format-> advanced-> mark as placeholder text (image) (don't remember the exact wording)

  Then I executed the script but it worked only in part to replace the placeholder image but not the text.

  Is there an error in this script, or maybe I did something wrong?

  Thanks for the help in advance!

  5.6.2 pages

  OS X El Capitan v. 10.11.5

  Hello

  It's a bug when a placeholder is in the body of the text with one of the following conditions:

  No insertion point in the document.

  The insertion point is not in the body of the text (in an text box as example)

  Workaround:

  The script must create a new section in the document, place the insertion point in the body of the text

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  Tell application "Pages".

  activate

  the value of thisDocument to make the new document with properties {model: "Journal Newsletter" template}

  According to thisDocument

  make new section - who put the insertion in the body of the text

  -MAKE ALL TAGS

  -do something with a space reserved

  tell the end

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