Find/Change object size

We have a document where each page header/number needs to be changed to a different language. We can find change the text ok but when the text is changed the text box is too small. Unfortunately the headers are not on master pages and the colours vary depending on the background colour.
How can we do a find/change for the size of the text box?
We want a text box of size 5mm x 20mm to change to 5mm x 35mm, expanding to the right.
As far as I can see there is no way to do this with the inbuilt find/change object. Any ideas?

I think you're doing it a weird way, but who am I to criticise, I've done far weirder things.
If you don't want to add this to the master page then that's fine, I think you'd be better off and it would make things easier in the long run.
For changing the width of a frame you'd need a script to that, and I really cannot help you on that one, scripts are not my forté.

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Hi guys,
So this is the problem:
I have over 900 pages long catalog and I made a little changes to a textframe options and other object styles, but bottomline is that now I have to change all the textframes width to 62 mm (its now 61 mm). I have tried the Find/Change "Object" options, but I just can't find the right way to do it. Is it even possible to do it with the Find/Change Object? I have to change over 6000 textframes manually if this dosen't work :/
Do I have to do this with Grep scripting and how is that possbile if I have to do it with it?
Thanks beforehand if you reply to this problem!

Ha!
I found the solution(ish), basically it's possible to change object dimensions with the "Find/Change Object". Thanks Bart Van de Wiele for the "Columns Fixed width" tip.
."Find Object Format" -> What kind of "Object style" you are looking for and then put "Text Frame Options" -> Width (exp. 55 mm)
"Change Object Format" -> go to "Text Frame General Options" -> "Columns: Fixed width" -> width (exp. 56 mm, I have 3 mm inset spacing left&right so 56 + 6 is 62 mm).
Change the desired textframes, BUT THEN you have this kind of problem where you can not change the textframes width sizes because they are "fixed sized".
Click one of the changed textframes and go to "Style options" where you get that "+" -sign. Click in the options "Clear overrides".
Now you have changed the all desired textframes and you can change the width too.

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Hello. I'm new here but it seems to be the only place where I can post this question to.
I'm working in a C# application that uses InDesign CS3 scripting. I'm trying to create an index automatically from a tabbed list of words in a text file.
As C# is a strongly typed language, I have to cast all objects to the right type. I'm having problems when I try to add the page numbers to the created index entries using the following code (I've used the CreateIndexEntry.jsx scrip as a starting point).
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text is not an InDesign.Text object (Interfaces doesn't match)
So the question is what object type should I use to cast each object resulting by calling the Document's FindText method.
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Regular selection tool cannot change object size

I am using CS6. When you create a simple square or any object, you will be able to use the regular selection tool to change the size by draggin on the "control point" around the object.
However, I was able to do it before but I dun know why I can't do it suddenly. The regular selection tool just enable me to move the image even I click on the "control point" on the object. If I need to change the size, I need to use the resize tools which is a hassle.
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It was handy, now it's gone.

No objects locked.
Actually, it seems stranger.
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CS6: Object Find/Change-Stroke weight?

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I've tried searching for all frames, text frames, graphic frames, within the Document, but the query is not finding any of the bad strokes. (I watched a Lynda.com tutorial and it looked so easy, but I can't figure out why it isn't searching for them. (none of the objects are locked)
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Thank you! That worked.

How to change Font Size of Object Explorer in "SQL Server Management Studio"

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"SQL Server Management Studio" is a fantastic IDE for the database.
There are so many customization options available but one thing many users missing is that " How to change Font Size of Object Explorer?"
Can you please accumulate this feature in IDE ASAP?
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I used to have a +.- displayed in upper left corner to click and change text size. My sister used my computer and now I can no longer find this feature.

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Urgent: How to find out the size in bytes of java object

Hi Experts,
We've a requirement that we need to find out the size of a java object at run time, is there a direct java API to get the size of a composite object in memory?
Here is my requirement: We are adding string objects (which is an xml string of considerable size) into a List. After reaching certain size limit (lets say 5MB) of the list i need to put this data into DB as a CLOB. So every time I add a string object to the list, I need to see if the total size of the list exceeds the limit and if yes, flush the results into DB.
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We've a requirement that we need to find out the size of a java object at run time, is there a direct java API to get the size of a composite object in memory?
Here is my requirement: We are adding string objects (which is an xml string of considerable size) into a List. After reaching certain size limit (lets say 5MB) of the list i need to put this data into DB as a CLOB. So every time I add a string object to the list, I need to see if the total size of the list exceeds the limit and if yes, flush the results into DB.
I am not sure if java has a direct API for this, if not what is the beast way to do it, it s critical requirement for us.
It would be really great if someone could help us out.
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Could you explain your actual requirement a little more fully.
1. Is each individual string a separate XML string? Or is it just a fragment? Why would you just concatenate them together into a CLOB? That won't produce valid XML and it won't let you easily separate the pieces again later. So provide a simple example showing some strings and how you need to manipulate them.
2. Are you using these xml strings in Java at all? Or are you just loading them into the database?
For example if you are just loading them into the database you don't need to create a list. Just create a CLOB in Java and append each string to the CLOB. Before you append each one you can check to see if the new string will put you over your length limit. If it will then you write the CLOB to the database, empty the CLOB and start appending again to the new clob instance.
If you explain what you are really trying to do we might be able to suggest some better ways to do it.

For the life of me, I can't find out what size a photo is in terms of inches or how to change the size of the photo[s] so I can print them. I think I read somewhere to click edit, then click adjust. Nothing there about sizing.

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How to change the size of a particular object in the picture?

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Finding changes in an object

Hi Gurus,
Please let me know how to find out what exact changes has been done on a object in the system. For example, if changes are done in a infopackage or a transformation, how do we know what are the exact changes that are made. Please let me know.
Regards,
Rajesh.

Hi Rajesh,
I do not think there is any method to find out what exactly changes has did in infopackage or any object...you can find out what date you have changes object, no of transport request etc...If you want to find out changes then before transport you can compare the objects with next system means you have made changes in development system and you want to findout what changes then comare same object with quality..
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Smart Objects...changing canvas size problem

When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
Is there a solution to this, or an easy way to quickly update every instance of the smart object on the original doc?
To clarify: I know that you can change the dimensions of the smart object on the original doc and it'll fix it, my question is if there's a way to automatically have that happen and have the original doc smart objects respect your canvas size changes on the smart object doc.
Reproduce:
1) Draw a circle
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4) Save the smart object
5) The circle on the original document will now be squished.
I'm using Photoshop CS5

xg3 wrote:
When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
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