Exporting based on Object Styles?

Hi, I'm hoping that Jongware or someone can help with with a question I have. I'm wondering if there is a way with scripting to
gather and export the contents of text frames based on their object style?
So for instance, let's say I have a document that has a series of linked text frames with a style of "body", mixed in with a series of text frames that are styled "captions". Would it be possible to export the text frames styled "caption", and retain the styles within them?
(The goal is a cleanly styled export that we can give back to authors for revising in Microsoft Word).
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-ThisGuy

Well this wasn't exactly what I was after, but this is a great InDesign to Text plugin, which is stemming our backout pains...
http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/indesign-downloads/text-exporter/

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Captivate v5.5
Before I had work done on my Laptop I exported my default Object Styles.
Now I want to import them - not to a specific project but as my default global styles.
I cannt see how you re-import the styles via the Menu at the top of Captivate. Most are not active as I dont have a project open - but I dont want to apply them to a single project - they should be my "global" defaults.
Any ideas please ?
Noel

Captivate v5.5
Maybe I did not make myself clear.
I installed v5.5 on my laptop.
I spend time setting the global object stlyes to meet my needs. - as and when I open a new project.
Later I have to uninstall Captivate v5.5 due to work on my laptop.
Before I uninstall Captivate I want to save my global object styles and once I have got Captivate back on my laptop I want to re-import all my global object styles.
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Hi,
I'm trying to create an object style for decorative images as artefacts and set that style for export to PDF, but in the Object Style Options panel the Export Options settings (which I've seen before, bottom left of the panel) are not displayed. Can anyone tell me how I can make them visible? I'm on InDesign CS6.
Thanks, Ally

Hi changilainen2,
Yes, we are following Adobe Forum!!!
Thanks for your inputs. Actually while implementing this feature we were bit confused if it is of more importance to have these options in the Object Styles. That's why you are finding it missing from there.
But feedback from you and some other folks, made us realize that we should have it in object styles too.
Thanks we'll try incorporating this in the feature.
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Exporting Objects Style Manager file? And Overriding Preset Defaults?

Hi,
We received our upgrade of Captivate 5 from Captivate 4. I noticed the Captivate 5 does not use design template as it is replaced with Object Style Manager. I have a question, how do I override objects styles preferences presented to us from a vendor with my department's standard design template? Also, we have two copies of licensed Captivate softwares installed (One in Austin, TX and one in Washington DC).
What I am asking is it possible to export a full Style Manager file from one location and share this file with other computer where 2nd copy is installed? I don't want to export INDIVIDUALLY as I am looking for a full, and complete export?
Secondly, when we receive a Captivate project from a vendor, they have their own object design preferences and we don't want to use their preferences if we present this simulation onto our Learning Content Management System (LCMS) as we want to override preset defaults with our standard design template, is it also possible?
I want to make sure that we exhaust all of our options before we downgrade to Captivate 4 from Captivate 5.
Thanks for taking your time reading this and assistance in advance!

As you've noted, Cp5 doesn't use Design Templates, and neither does it have anything exactly equivalent to CSS or style sheets that can be applied quickly and easily across multiple projects, as you can do with web pages.
You can export all styles from a current Captivate 5 project and import the entire style set into another Cp5 project. However, in current Cp5 functionality the imported styles do not overwrite existing styles that may have the same name, and this includes the default styles. What you end up with is a lot of additional styles that have the same name with a number appended to the end to differentiate them from existing styles. Do this once or twice and things can get very messy very quickly.
We've logged a request for Adobe to consider adding the ability for authors to choose whether or not to overwrite existing styles with identical names on import. Hopefully this will happen soon. For the present however, you need to work around the issue as best you can.
If your vendor sends you a project with an existing set of styles that are customised versions of the default styles, my suggestion is that you create your own style set with unique names (e.g. a two or three letter prefix to identify them in the Object Style Manager lists) and then import the entire set as a single file into your projects.
I'm afraid that the bad news is that, since you cannot overwrite styles on import, you will need to apply your new set of styles one by one. You can use the Apply This Style To option to change all objects of a given style over to your new style, but it's still a rather tedious process.
There is no downgrade option from Captivate 4 to Captivate 5. You cannot save a Captivate 5 file as Captivate 4 format. No Captivate version has ever been able to do this as far as I can recall.

How to export/Import default prefs and object styles with no project open?

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I'm using CP8 on a Windows 8.1 64 bit machine.
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Thx.
Lori

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Lilybiri

Best-practice for use of object styles to manage image text wrap issues when aiming at both print and EPUB output?

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I am sort of experienced with InDesign but new to EPUB export. I have hundreds of pages and hundreds of images so I'd like to make my EPUB learning curve, in particular, less painful.
Let me talk you through what I'm planning and you tell me if it's stupid.
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1) I set aside the uniformly-styled doc for later EPUB export. (This is wise, right? Start for EPUB export with a doc with pristine styles?)
2) With the EPUB-bound version set aside, I finish preparing the print side, making all my little tweaks. So many pages, so many images. So many little nudges. If I go back and nudge something at the beginning everything shifts a little. It's broken up into lots of separate stories, but still ... there is no way to make this non-tedious. But what is best practice? I'm basically just doing it by hand, eyeballing it and dropping an inline anchor to some close bit of text in case of some storm, i.e. if there's a major text change my image will still be almost where it belongs. Try to get the early bits right so that I don't have to go back and change them and then mess up stuff later. Object styles don't really help me with that. Do they? I haven't found a good use for them at this stage (Obviously if I had to draw a pink line around each image, or whatever, I'd use object styles for that.)
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Does this make sense? What am I missing, before I waste dozens of hours doing it wrong?

I've moved your question to the InDesign EPUB forum for best results.

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How to remove it?
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Object Style Manager: How to import styles into CP8 from CP7

Here's my problem:
I open a Captivate file created in CP7
I save it as a different file name in CP8
I create a new Object Style - say for a Text Caption
I export the Style - I've tried just the new style, all styles, all styles for all objects.
I create a new CP8 file, save it.
I try and import the styles exported in step 4 and get the error: "Cannot import Styles.The style file you are trying to import was exported from an earlier version of Captivate"
I don't get it. I opened the CP7 file and resaved it with a new name in CP8 in a different location.
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OK finally I have an answer:
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Paste all slides to this new file & save
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Import/ export of an object or item in portal 10g

Good Morning!

can anyone tell what is the format of import / export of an object or item in portal 10g?
 this is in the context of updating or rolling into production server an item whose earlier version might be sitting in the production server before. and it is based on the premise that the environment/ system is composed of more than one servers and production is only one of them.
 apologies ... if i am not even phrasing the question right. by format, what i mean to know is does it first delete the older component and then generate the new one or it renegades and keeps the older version and bring on the newer version, or what.

any hints will be appreciated.

syed

Kasia,
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Applying object style to all objects in a project?

In Cp4, it was possible to change the style of an object and then apply those changes throughout the entire project.
How is this accomplished in Cp5?
I have set up a default style for captions but it seems like I can only change the style of individual captions (one at a time) in the properties of each caption.
Is there a hidden "apply to all" feature in Cp5?
Thank you

Hello Lilybiri,
I really tried to follow your example but it simply did not work for me.
>Supposing I already have a lot of Text Captions and decide to change their style, which can include font,
>caption style, alignment, colors....
Yes.
>All Text Captions up to that moment did use the Default Caption Style as it was set in
>the Object Style Manager...
>If you want to change object styles for future projects you have to set them in the
>Object Style Manager without any project opened.
This is problem one. I have one standard caption style for all my courses. I have changed the default in the Object Style Manager with and without a project opened. The change simply doesn't stick! Additionally, I have exported a new style to a .cps.
Let me pick through your instructions:
1. First, I open a project.
2. I open the Object Style Manager and notice that the default caption style is back to the original Adobe default (Adobe blue).
3. I import my new caption style. The style is called NewTextCaptionStyle.
4. On the first slide, I select the first text caption (in Adobe Blue).
>I then change one Text Caption to the new style and a + sign appears next to the
>Default Caption Style as you can see in the screenshot.
How do you come to that? The moment I go to the first slide and select the first text caption, it already shows: "+[Default Caption Style]" I have not changed the caption style yet. If I select my desired caption style (NewTextCaptionStyle) from the pull down menu, there is no "+" symbol. I cannot follow this step.
In an attempt to interpret your instructions, I went back to the Object Style Manager and changed the default caption style to what I need.
Okay, now the [Default Caption Style] is exactly what I require.
Back at the first slide, I select the first caption (which is still Adobe Blue). Now, I can follow your first step.
>There are 2 quick ways to proceed now:
>1. If you will not use the original Default Caption Style anymore in this project (it will have no consequences
>for other projects), use the Save icon (yellow highlighted) to save the changes and have a new
>Default Caption Style that will automatically be applied to all Text Captions that are already created and
>new Text Captions will get the same style too.
I will follow your first method.
1. I select the Save icon. [Save Changes to Existing Style]
... it doesn't work. ????
I wonder... the project that I am working with were converted from Cp4 recordings. I wonder if that is causing my grief?

Apply All Default Object Styles

Captivate v5.5
Having opened Captivate v5.5, not opened any projects and going straight to Edit/Object Styles - I have created the styles I want to work with for projects I create in v5.5...Let's call them my default styles for this question
When I open a blank project in order to create a new project it seems (but not yet fully tested this) that my default styles have been applied. So far so good.
However as I often create new projects based on a copy of a recently created project, the styles are not my "default" styles.
1. How can I quickly apply all my default styles in one go to a project that has other styles already applied?
2. Would it make sense if you could name and save your styles (and preferences) and so quickly identify and apply them ?
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Anjaneai,
Actually, Global Styles don't quite work that way. If you set up a Global Style, it is ONLY available in new blank projects, not ALL projects.
As a test, set up a new Global Style with some unique name, and then open up a project that already has a number of custom local styles created. You'll find that the new Global Style you created does not appear in the Style list, or in the Object Style Manager. However, if you open a new Blank project that has no custom styles, THEN the global style will show up on the Style list.
So Noel's point is quite valid. Global styles SHOULD be available in all projects. But that's not the way they actually work in practice.

Create 'Object Style' by script

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My 'Library.indl' file has the 'Box1', 'Box2'. I need to create the object style(with dummy properties) based on the Library file names.
If the library has BOX1, BOX2, I need to check my Indesign file has Object Style with the same name(BOX1, BOX2).
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If I select line 54(line 55 is deselect) script is not working, but I want to select library file from the folder path, so I need line 54 action.
Correct my script here:
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I'm glad you managed to sort that out.
Is it possible to omit the line breaks between elements referring to the same page?
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So then, for the moment let's assume the only way to get the caption and the description into the same TOC paragraph is to put them in the same paragraph on the document page. Also still assuming I truly understand the end-result you want; here's how I would do it:
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There is no problem when I do that from the same Java program.
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It should work in any version of Java as long as the server socket factories are null or equal according to Object.equals() or its override in the SSF.equals() method if any. Which needs to be present and needs to take the form:
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