How to auto flow text in pages
Perhaps I am wording this incorrectly and have not found the answer that already exists on the forums, but here goes...
How do you autoflow your text between text boxes? In previous versions Pages allowed you to create multiple text boxes on the same page as well as other pages and autoflow your text in your preferred order. It seems that in this new VERY MESSED UP iteration of Pages, this is no longer possible. I am asking the question in the hopes that someone with more knowledge can steer me in the right direction. Part B to this question is WHY IN THE HECK DID APPLE SCREW UP THIS PERFECTLY GOOD PROGRAM?? ;-)
It is a question we have all been asking for 4 months.
Pages '08/'09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Rate/Review Pages 5 in the App Store.
Peter
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--{code}
--[SCRIPT clear_Pages_format]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : clear_Pages_format.scpt
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Sous 10.6.x,
aller dans le panneau “Général” du dialogue Préférences de l’Éditeur Applescript
puis cocher la case “Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre des menus”.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/12/27
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on run
tell application "Pages"
ruler units (centimeters/inches/picas/points) *)
set |unité| to ruler units
set ruler units to centimeters
tell document 1
>>>>>>> Here is the list of document's properties which may be defined with this script.
body text (text) : The main text flow of the document.
bottom margin (real) : The bottom margin of the publication.
facing pages (boolean) : Whether or not the view is set to facing pages.
footer margin (real) : The footer margin of the publication.
header margin (real) : The header margin of the publication.
inside margin (real) : The inside margin of the publication when facing pages is enabled.
left margin (real) : The left margin of the publication.
outside margin (real) : The outside margin of the publication when facing pages is enabled.
page attributes (page setup) : Page settings for printing
right margin (real) : The right margin of the publication.
selection (selection-object) : The current selection or insertion point. Use the "select" command to change the selection. Setting of this property replaces the current selected object. E.g., set selection of document 1 to "hello".
top margin (real) : The top margin of the publication.
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set footer margin to 0.0
set top margin to 1.5
set left margin to 1.5
set right margin to 1.5
tell body text
>>>>>>> Here is the list of text's properties which may be defined with this script.
alignment (center/justify/left/right) : The horizontal alignment.
baseline shift (real) : Raise or lower the target text.
bold (boolean) : Whether the font style is bold.
capitalization type (all caps/normal capitalization/small caps) : Whether a capitalization style is applied.
character background color (color) : The color of the character's background.
character style (character style) : The representative character style of the object.
collapsed (boolean) : Whether the paragraph is collapsed in the outline view.
color (color) : The color of the font.
contents (any)
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font name (text) : The name of the font.
font size (real) : The size of the font.
hidden (boolean) : Whether the paragraph is hidden in the outline view.
indent level (integer) : The list indent level assigned to the paragraph, from 1 through 9.
italic (boolean) : Whether the font style is italic.
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label baseline shift (real) : The amount to move the label up or down relative to the first line of the paragraph.
label image data (image binary) : The image used for the label.
label indent (real) : The distance from the left margin to the list label.
label size (real) : When "scale with text" is disabled the label size is a text point size for text labels or a multiplier of original image size for image labels. When enabled, it is always a multiplier of the representative font size of the paragraph.
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outline (boolean) : Whether the font style is outline.
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paragraph style (paragraph style) : The representative paragraph style of the text.
prevent widows and orphans (boolean) : Prevent the first or last line of a paragraph from appearing alone on a page.
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right indent (real) : The space between the paragraph and the right margin.
scale with text (boolean) : Whether the label size proportionally changes with the paragraph text size.
shadow (boolean) : Whether the object casts a shadow or not.
shadow angle (real) : The directional angle, in degrees, that the shadow is cast.
shadow blur (integer) : The relative amount of blur of images seen through the shadow.
shadow color (color) : The color of the shadow.
shadow offset (real) : The offset from the text box content that the shadow extends to.
shadow opacity (real) : The amount of opacity for the shadow, in percent.
space after (real) : The space after the paragraph, in points.
space before (real) : The space before the paragraph, in points.
start new page (boolean) : Start the paragraph at the beginning of the next page.
strikethrough color (color) : The color of the strikethrough line(s).
strikethrough type (double strikethrough/none/single strikethrough) : Whether one or more lines are drawn through the characters.
subscript (boolean) : Decrease the font size and lower the baseline of the text.
superscript (boolean) : Decrease the font size and raise the baseline of the text.
text indent (real) : The distance from the label to the text.
text label string (text) : One to nine characters can be specified for a text label.
tracking (real) : The space between text characters, in percent.
underline color (color) : The color of the underline(s).
underline type (double underline/none/single underline) : Whether the font style is underline.
set font name to "Courier"
set font size to 10.0
set first line indent to 1.0
CAUTION : I guess that it's a bug but we can't use
set color to {25700, 17990, 0}
set properties to {color:{25700, 17990, 0}}
set paragraph background color to {60000, 60000, 60000}
end tell -- body text
end tell -- document
set ruler units to |unité|
end tell -- Pages
end run
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 26 décembre 2011 12:03:51
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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 11 mars 2008 10:15:17) -
I'm new to using flash in websites, and i need to know how to
automatically link to a page at the end of my flash movie. I need
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27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,42,0"
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width="750" height="580"
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