InDesign

Why does a number appears in parentheses next to the number of font size in the character Panel? as 9pt (8.84)

I m working on a book, and when I select a title, in the font option in the character panel size appears a number in parentheses next to the number that indicates the size of the font. For example, I chose 9 pt for the title, but after I applied this

Dynamic text for the JS CS4 sorta block size

I play with the idea of ranking by size of the text boxes based on the text I want to put in it. What I hope is that someone will respond with an actua existiing function that does this.For example, the GraphicLabel script.I want the text block just

CS2 > CS4 text color problems

I recently imported some files CS2 in CS4 and also a few quarters of text, all seems good, but when that we send it to print, some of the text prints black. I went through the file by ensuring that there was no transparency, without spot color settin

transition from PageMaker in InDesign CS4

This weekend I will be improved in PageMaker 7.0 to InDesign CS4. I use PageMaker (and upgrades) since 1986. To how hard or different can I expect InDesign to be? Any suggestions on learning AIDS (books, online videos, etc.) that can make the transit

Find hyperlinks

While, I'm not clear lack...I don't see any easy way to check the hyperlink to specific text. (i.e. text.hyperlinks - or what-have-you)Before you start writing a function very complicated and expensive to check if the text is a hyperlink, and what it

[JS] CS3 ScriptUI - progress bar

HelloI know I'm late to the game with ScriptUI in CS3, but I would use a progress bar with some of my scripts any longer.I read through the relevant part of the guide to script, but can't seem to get things to work, the guide seems to refer to a scri

GREP expression - limits to the entire word

To make a conditional search for cat or baby bed I know not part of the expression is c(a|o) tTo search only the whole word instead of cot and cotton or cat, catnip, I could use location: beginning of the word \ < and end of Word ------> but suspect

Text box is doubled

When I draw a tex box is an extra blue box around it. How can I get rid of him?

Change the language of the Document

Hi Chaps,Back with another question for you all...A few weeks ago, I found this script by a smart guy that changes the language of the paragraph/character styles.I wonder if this can be tweeked or a simple find and replace to allow all the text boxes

ChangeCase [JS]

I have this piece of codefind = app.documents [0] .findGrep ();for (i = 0; i < finds.length; i ++) {}finds [i] .silence = finds [i].contents.toLowerCase (); }That works very well for the lowercase and uppercaseCan someone tell me how to get TitleCase

arrow with fade effect buttons

I made arrows on each side of a document, that I intend to export to PDF.  They are set to behave so that when the reader of the pdf file click on one of them he takes them to the previous or next page. the question I have, is that they are distracti

1 accidents strike and InDesign CS3 (but not always!)

I inherited a worker laid off an iMac (24 inch, late 2007). To the best of my knowledge, she had no problem with InDesign.Now, with * some * documents I'm working, I can import/export/resize/etc. on the page graphics. Can I remove the text. But at th

[CS] TextFrame and page.place [JS]

Hellopage.place("...") allows to import a file and create a textFrame. How can I get the textFrame?page.place return a story...

[CS3 JS] Ship - sub / subsub topic (subject of parent setting)

Hi allI try to have my script to add an index, that consists of nested themes:ParentChildChild underI can read in the object model, it is a parameter 'withProperties', but I can't make it work...var myDocument = approx. activeDocument;for (var j = 0;

JS [CS3]. Specify a default folder in openDialog()

Is there a way to specify this folder as we can in argument selectDialog (command prompt, default folder object)?Otherwise the openDialog indicates the last folder accessed by the user. Or can one change the window environment variable?Thanks, Alex

Text block ignores dressing

I created blocks of text with a script, but I want to ignore the text wraps as you can with the gui text frame options. I can't understand. Can someone help me please?

Build an index of product codes...

I have a catalog of 450 pages (21 InDesign documents organized as an InDesign book) with a few hundred tables containing several thousand product codes.All my product codes using their own style of single paragraph (product #).I need to generate an i

Creating a style in ID CS4

It is a question of style of journalism.  I want to create a style in ID CS4 such as:1. the first letter is a drop cap, AND2. the first line is "BOLD", small caps, AND3 the rest of the story is a certain body type.Is that possible to have a style tha

[CS2 - VBS] Ordering boxes of selected text

HelloI use the following code:For i = 1 To myInDesign.Selection.CountREM myIndesign.Selection (1) .silence. Export idExportFormat.idTextType, "d:/test.txt.REM msgbox myIndesign.Selection (i). ContentBuff Buff = & myIndesign.Selection (i). ContentNext

Header issues with two pages of language of numbering.

I have created a book. Almost all of the text is set up in the tables. A column is in Norwegian, and a column is in English. The title, I need to have numbered as 1: 1, position 2 position: 1.1, section 3: 1.1.1 and so on. This works very well for a