Add / Save paragraph and characters styles in PDF

Hi all,
We recently did some tests with PDF to ePub export (different settings, different tools). What we saw is that none of the tools were able to respect paragraph and text styles. They just threw some text back to the screen (ePub Reader). This brought us to the philosophical discussion whether it is possible to export / add character and paragraph style information in a PDF, as we know it from e.g. Adobe InDesign (via the content stream, through metadata) so "a" tool can access that information to use it for exporting (properly) to ePub or another file format. So is there a PDF-standard or 'variant' (PDF/X, PDF/VT, PDF/A, ISO 32000 as such) that would make such a construction possible? And if so, would 'a' tool (e.g. PDF to ePub conversion tool) be able access that information to translate the style info etc. to another file format (e.g. a proper e-Pub file). BTW: we tried 'Create tagged PDF' out of Adobe InDesign, but that didn't help the outcome very much.
Thanks in advance!

Yes, it is quite possible and in fact Adobe InDesign will/can produced Tagged PDF that incorporates this information.
Of course, that means that tools needs to respect it when they read/convert the PDF. to my knowledge, NONE of the 3rd party PDF conversion tools support PDF tags/structure ☹.

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Unable to save paragraph and character styles

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"Could not complete the Modify Named Character Style command because a specified layer is locked."
I did notice that in the Fireworks created PSD that without any layer even being locked I'd still get an error. It may be that this other document got some bad mojo from the Fireworks PSD. When creating a test doc and only creating a couple text layers and a bunch of empty groups and layers I'm unable to reproduce this. It appears to happen to me when I have a slew of text layers.
Has anyone else experienced this and figured out a more solid workaround?

If you want to add the styles to an already created document:
1) Create you Character style containing only the character color
2) Find and Replace, searching for text with red color and replace formatting with the new character style. (Don't type anything in the text part of the Find and Replace dialog)
3) Create and apply your paragraph style to all. The text with the Character Style applied will stay red.

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Hi
i used fireworks for a while, when it was still macromedia product, glade to see all the improvments in CS5.
i used Photoshop to create a very specific prototyping (including all CSS properties) of my website, but when i come to prototype the rest of the pages i totaly lost control, than i realize Photoshop is not the right tool for prototyping a whole website.
fireworks shuld be the answer of my prays, as i could read in the articles, in CS5 you can set all properties for text and fireworks will export it as CSS file, than al you have to do is copy and paste code according to your CSS structure, that grate time saver.
but one thing is really betters me, you cant do really good prototyping if you dont have the ability to create a paragraph and character styles (as you would with InDesign)
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Thanks
S

Window > Find and Replace will enable you to change all the instances of a text color in the entire document.
You can create your own character styles by saving them in the Styles panel. To do this, click on an instance of a style you want to save, and then on the little down arrow at the top right of the Styles panel to open the New Style menu. Select which characteristics you want to save, then click the OK button to close the panel. To apply your custon style, select the object you want to apply it to, then click on your custom style.

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Hello,
I am using FrameMaker 11 in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 and I need to find a script that will generate a list
of paragraph and character styles from the book level.
I am working with unstructured FrameMaker books, but will soon be looking at getting a conversion table developed
that will allow me to migrate all my data over to Dita (1.1 for now).
Any thoughts, ideas on this is very much appreciated.
Regards,
Jim

Hi Jim,
I think the problem you are having with getting a response is that you are asking someone to write a script for you. Normally, you would have to pay someone for this, as it is something that folks do for a living.
Nonetheless, I had a few minutes to spare, so I worked up the following script that I believe does the job. It is very slow, clunky, and totally non-elegant, but I think it works. It leverages the book error log mechanism which is built in and accessible by scripts, but is spendidly unattractive. I hope this gives you a starting point. It could be made much more beautiful, of course, but such would take lots more time.
Russ
ListAllFormatsInBook()
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            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, doc, 0, "");
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Sorry for this question (and my terrible English, by the way), I'm a javascript noob and I know when I've reached my limits.
Well, I'm trying to take a set of paragraph and character styles out of the style groups they are placed in, in hundreds of InDesign documents (that cannot be treated as a book). As far as I've tried (thanks to the invaluable help of previous posts in this forum) I've been able to move a style into a group and change it's position inside the group, inside the root level or even between groups. But it doesn't matter how I try, I don't know which move reference should I try in case I want to take every style out of their style group and place them after their original group folder, at the [Root] style level .
I have tried:
var doc=app.activeDocument;
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It didn't work, the script sent an invalid parameter value in the reference field, so I cant use the group folder itself as reference.
Tried other (obviously wrong) solutions, like use the first available style as reference. Therefore, my second script was
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var pStyles=doc.allParagraphStyles;
var pGroups=doc.paragraphStyleGroups;
for (i=pGroups.length-1; i>=0; i--){
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It didn't work either, another invalid parameter in the reference field. Similar results with my other attempts (I even tried "[Root]" as literal with similar luck).
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Thanks in advance to whoever decides to spend more than a minute thinking about my humble worries, and my apologies for shamelessly ripping some of your lines of code for my purposes.

Okay, tried a few things and got really weird results!
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3. You can duplicate the style, but then you get a copy in the same group. Still no luck.
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Document | Application | ParagraphStyleGroup
"Application" is easy -- that's when you make a style global. So what's the difference between 'Document' and 'paragraphStyleGroup'? Simple -- well, when you finally get it...
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-- I didn't really try that out, but it should work.

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David,
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I have been trying the javascripts in this discussion:
Adobe Community: Specified font need to be changed in all paragraph styles
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Hi James. Just a few threads down the list there is this: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1198632?tstart=0
Even the name of the thread is similar to yours.
But first, you should do a bit of housecleaning in your font library. From your description it sound like a big mess.
Do you use any font management tools? Most of the times they do more harm than good (but i am aware that it's a necessary evil for the most part).
The fonts you are trying to use are in the font library or in the indesign document's folder?
While Mac is a lot better than Windows in managing multiple fonts/font versions, it's also a lot more "fragile" if something goes wrong with a font.
Try cleaning the font cache first:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
the restart the font server
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping
have a look here also:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1201617?tstart=0

Problem with paragraph and character style

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My bet is that you haven't got a clear understanding of the difference between character styles and paragraph styles, and that you are using the former incorrectly.
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Hello all,
I am trying to import Word documents based on the Word Import Preset documents.
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Has anyone done this or got any ideas?
Regards,
Trevor

Paragraph Tools from SiliconPrairieSoftware.com will do it and it's cheap.
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4/25/15 6:34:35.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(49) deny file-read-metadata /Library
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4/25/15 6:34:35.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(49) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ocspd
4/25/15 6:34:35.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(49) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ocspd
4/25/15 6:34:35.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(49) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ocspd
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4/25/15 6:34:35.373 PM sandboxd[287]: ([49]) appleeventsd(49) deny file-read-metadata /Library
4/25/15 6:34:35.400 PM sandboxd[287]: ([49]) appleeventsd(49) deny file-read-metadata /Library
4/25/15 6:34:35.422 PM sandboxd[287]: ([49]) appleeventsd(49) deny file-read-metadata /Library
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file:///Users/Stu/Dropbox/
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4/25/15 6:34:51.119 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Safari.53708[1318]) Service exited due to signal: Terminated: 15
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4/25/15 6:34:57.231 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
4/25/15 6:35:22.976 PM SubmitDiagInfo[457]: Submitted problem report file:///Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-04-25-183453_Stuarts-MacBook -Pro.hang
Please help.
Thanks,
Stu

Looking at the system log messages, I solved my own problem.
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Stu

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Can we show Paragrpagh and Span styleNames applied to a TLF text ?
Something like the image below shows the Style Names in the Red box:
Thanks.

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I'm trying to achieve 2 things with my form:
How can I remove the first blank page (its giving me a headache)
How can I script the 'add page' button to automatically add unlimited additional pages (page 4 to be precise) to my form?
My form is in the link below. I would appreciate your help.
Thanks.
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I can click on the style in the window, but the keyboard shortcut suddenly does nothing.

Hi James. Just a few threads down the list there is this: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1198632?tstart=0
Even the name of the thread is similar to yours.
But first, you should do a bit of housecleaning in your font library. From your description it sound like a big mess.
Do you use any font management tools? Most of the times they do more harm than good (but i am aware that it's a necessary evil for the most part).
The fonts you are trying to use are in the font library or in the indesign document's folder?
While Mac is a lot better than Windows in managing multiple fonts/font versions, it's also a lot more "fragile" if something goes wrong with a font.
Try cleaning the font cache first:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
the restart the font server
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping
have a look here also:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1201617?tstart=0

How do i add images in the header and footer to a PDF using iText

Hi ,
I want to add images to the header and footer of every page while i am genrating a pdf i have created a separate class called EndPage which i am instanceiating its default constructor in another class 's button action method.
The above code genrates a PDF for me however it genrates a file with file size zero bytes and does not open it following is my sample code
//**********Any Help would be appreciated
Thank You
public class My_Class
public String pdf_action()
EndPage ep=new EndPage();
return null;
}//My_class Ends
class EndPage extends PdfPageEventHelper
* Demonstrates the use of PageEvents.
* @param args no arguments needed
public EndPage()
try {
com.lowagie.text.Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 70, 70);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("D://proposals/endpage.pdf"));
writer.setPageEvent(new EndPage());
document.open();
String text = "Lots of text. ";
for (int k = 0; k < 10; ++k)
text += text;
document.add(new Paragraph(text));
document.close();
catch (Exception de) {
de.printStackTrace();
public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) {
try {
Rectangle page = document.getPageSize();
PdfPTable head = new PdfPTable(3);
for (int k = 1; k <= 6; ++k)
head.addCell("head " + k);
head.setTotalWidth(page.width() - document.leftMargin() - document.rightMargin());
head.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, document.leftMargin(), page.height() - document.topMargin() + head.getTotalHeight(),
writer.getDirectContent());
PdfPTable foot = new PdfPTable(3);
for (int k = 1; k <= 6; ++k)
foot.addCell("foot " + k);
foot.setTotalWidth(page.width() - document.leftMargin() - document.rightMargin());
foot.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, document.leftMargin(), document.bottomMargin(),
writer.getDirectContent());
catch (Exception e) {
throw new ExceptionConverter(e);
}

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response.
The problem is that when I keep the logo as a watermark, the pdf is not adjusting itself to include the logo as header.
But if I add a header text via Tools -> Headers and Footers, the pdf is adjusting itself so that the header text is at the beginning , not overlapping with the contents of pdf.
But while using logo as watermark, some times overlapping of the pdf contents and logo is happening.
Is there any way to add a logo in the Header and Footer via the option in Tools -> Headers and Footers
Thanks,
Vidhya

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