Improve the implementation of graphic and paragraph styles

The implementation of Graphic and Paragraph Styles should be more consistent:
You can currently edit the attributes of paragraph styles (e.g., point size) but not of graphic styles (outer glow). With graphic styles, you have to overwrite the existing style rather than edit it.
Graphic Styles have the concept of "breaking the link" whereas Paragraph Styles don't.
Add the ability to select objects based on a paragraph style (yes, you can select based on Attribute, but not all objects with a specific paragraph style).
Combine graphic and paragraph styles. For example, I want a style with a 12 pt font and an outer glow.

Same thing happening here.
You can though first create some type with a 12 point stroke , then define a new paragraph style, and even though it says 10pt will apply 12pt.
If you have not looked into graphic styles, that might be a better option for stokes. You can
Move the fill on top of the stroke (allows you to use a different color for stroke, so the orignal sahep of type doe not get squeezed)
Use multiple strokes aroudn type
Set the corner options to round
For appearance & graphic style, the secret to type is to first set your type fill and stroke to none (this removes the stylization at the character level), then apply strokes and fills in the appearance palette at the type level only. This way the stylization won't fight with each other.

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I need help writing a script that finds the first instance of a paragraph style and then changes it

I need help writing a script that finds the first instance of a paragraph style and then changes it to another paragraph style. I don't necessarily need someone to write the whole thing, by biggest problem is figuring how to find just the first instance of the paragraph style. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Hi,
Do you mean first instance of the paragraph style
- in a chosen story;
- on some chosen page in every text frames, looking from its top to the bottom;
- in a entire document, looking from its beginning to the end, including hidden layers, master pages, footnotes etc...?
If story...
You could set app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle to your "Style".
Story.findText() gives an array of matches. 1st array's element is a 1st occurence.
so:
Story.findText()[0].appliedParagraphStyle = Style_1;
//==> this will change a paraStyle of 1st occurence of story to "Style_1".
If other cases...
You would need to be more accurate.
rgds

[JS] [CS3] Finding the longest instance of a paragraph style

I'm pretty new to JS but I'm trying to write a script that will return the longest instance of each paragraph style in a manuscript (which has been imported into InDesign). Currently, my script lists all the paragraph styles found in the document and puts them in a new document. My next thought was to loop through the style names array and find the longest instance.
Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this?
Any help is much appreciated. I'm learning a lot reading this forum.

Your question is slightly ambiguous. Do you mean you are looking for the longest instance of a paragraph in that paragraph style? That's the most likely meaning. Or are you looking for the longest run of text in that style? Because that's what you'll find if you're not careful in your script.
The essence of the script would be:
1. Setup a FindText for the paragraph style in question (or each style if you're looping through them all).
setupFindText(); // use function to setup the find -- search this forum on setupFindText to find it
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myStyle; // where myStyle is the style in question
2. Issue the find getting all the references into a variable.
var myFinds = app.documents[0].findText();
3. Loop through all the finds to locate the longest paragraph.
var longestLength = 0;
var longestPara = null;
for (var j = myFinds.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
     myParas = myFinds[j].paragraphs;
     for (var k = myParas.length - 1; k >= 0; k--) {
          myPara = myParas[k];
          if (myPara.length > longestLength) {
               longestLength = myPara.length;
               longestPara = myPara;
4. Make sure that longestPara is not null (no instances found); If not, then longestPara is a reference to the longest instance
Dave

Quick question: what is the difference between graphic and movie clips?

What is the difference between the two symbols: graphic and movie clips? They both contain frames..?

movie clips can have
instance names : so they can be controlled via actionscript
filters applied : drop shadow, glow, blur, color adjust etc
blend modes applied : difference, screen, lighten, darken, etc.
3d transformations
graphics:
none of the above
the only real practical reason to use a graphic is the reason jdehaan stated. a graphics internal animation can be scrubbed via the main timeline. graphics will only advance when the main timeline advances. when the main timeline stops.. graphics stops.
movieclips on the otherhand are said to run independent of the main timeline. so you can have a MAIN timeline with one frame only and the movieclip's interior animation will run constantly.
also via the properties panel you can tell a graphic to stay stuck on a certain frame or loop a set number of times.
always use movieclips unless you have a reason not too. as kglad said it will save you and others a lot of hurt in the future.

Tagging character styles and paragraph styles in inDesign

I'm working on a complex book in which everything on the pages is styled.
I've been asked to tag the vocabulary terms in the text, so that the correct page number shows up in the index.
I've been asked to tag the folios as well, for the table of contents.
The folios are a paragraph style.
The vocabulary terms are styled with a character style.
How do I do this?
Any help much appreciated.

InDesign's built-in Table of Contents function picks up text based on paragraph styles. I'm not sure you really men, though, that you want to pick up the folios, if you are using the term as I understand it, to mean the page numbers. You really want to pick up the various headings used to identify the topics or titles. ID will supply the page numbers.
As for the indexing, there may be a script that can find text with a particular character style assigned and add it to an index (you should ask over in the scripting forum: InDesign Scripting) but you should also read the Help on Indexes and learn more about how they operate.

Applescript/Pages and adjusting column width (and paragraph style)

I was hoping that some someone might know how to adjust the width of individual columns in Pages using Applescript. It seems like it should be a simple task, and I can adjust the overall width/height of the table, but I haven't found a way to adjust the column width. Alternatively, I could have the program create the table in Numbers and copy/paste it into Pages, but I'd imagine that would get a bit messy and wouldn't allow me to use a hanging indent in the cells (to the best of my knowledge).
Also, is there a way to adjust the paragraph style used by the text in the table? Otherwise, I could just use a templet and define the the default table style appropriately. (Though not the most elegant solution).
Thanks in advance for your help!
(In case it helps, the script I'm working on parses an unformatted inventory and parses it into paragraphs/tables.)

Try this:
set tableCount to 0
--open file to be pased here, excluded for example
tell application "Pages"
    activate
    set theDoc to (make new document)
    tell theDoc
        --makes paragraph styles used
        make new paragraph style with properties {name:"Folio", font name:"Times New Roman", font size:12, bold:true, alignment:left, space after:5, keep with next paragraph:true, space before:15}
        make new paragraph style with properties {name:"Place", font name:"Times New Roman", font size:12, bold:false, alignment:left, line spacing type:relative, line spacing:100}
        make new paragraph style with properties {name:"Description", font name:"Times New Roman", font size:12, bold:false, italic:true, alignment:left, line spacing type:relative, line spacing:100}
        make new paragraph style with properties {name:"Table", font name:"Times New Roman", font size:12, alignment:left, left indent:0.5, first line indent:0.0}
        --begin repeat, gathers MS info from one doc (unformatted) and writes it into another with formatting, setting variables directly for example
        set MSName to "new Manuscript"
        set MSPlace to "place where MS is stored"
        set MSDesc to "description of MS"
        set tableData to {{"folio", "title", "composer"}, {"", "subtitle", ""}, {"etc", "next", "next"}}
        --write paragraph information from earlier
        set currentPar to (make new paragraph at end of paragraphs with data MSName)
        set paragraph style of currentPar to "Folio"
        set currentPar to (make new paragraph at end of paragraphs with data MSPlace)
        set paragraph style of currentPar to "Place"
        set currentPar to (make new paragraph at end of paragraphs with data MSDesc)
        set paragraph style of currentPar to "Description"
        --create table, add data, and format
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pages"
            key code 125 using {command down} -- move the insertion point to the end
            tell menu bar 1
                -- Insert a new table:
                click menu item "Table" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Insert"
                -- Delete the header row:
                tell menu 1 of menu bar item "Format"
                    click menu item "Delete Row" of menu 1 of menu item "Table"
                end tell
                -- Show the Inspector:
                tell menu 1 of menu bar item "View"
                    if menu item "Show Inspector" exists then
                        click menu item "Show Inspector"
                    end if
                end tell
            end tell
            tell window 1 -- the Inspector window
                click radio button 7 of radio group 1 -- select the Table Inspector
                perform action "AXRaise" -- activate the Table Inspector
                tell tab group 1 of group 1
                    click radio button "Table" -- select “Table”
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                    repeat 3 times
                        set value of text field 2 to "0.5 in"
                        set focused of text field 2 to true
                        keystroke return
                        keystroke tab -- next column
                    end repeat
                    key code 126 -- the Up Arrow
                    -- Set width of each column:
                    repeat with theValue in {"0.75 in", "4.25 in", "1.5 in"}
                        set value of text field 2 to theValue
                        set focused of text field 2 to true
                        keystroke return
                        keystroke tab -- next column
                    end repeat
                    key code 126 -- the Up Arrow
                end tell
            end tell
            keystroke "i" using {option down, command down} -- hide the Inspector
            -- Add the data:
            repeat with i from 1 to 3
                set thisRow to item i of tableData
                repeat with j from 1 to 3
                    keystroke (item j of thisRow)
                    if (i * j = 9) then exit repeat
                    keystroke tab
                end repeat
            end repeat
        end tell
        set tableCount to tableCount + 1
        tell table tableCount
            select
            set stroke width to 0.0
            set wrap to center
            set name to MSName
        end tell
        --after which it would continue with the next MS and repeat the process until all are done
    end tell
end tell

Gylphs and paragraph styles in InDesign CS4

When I insert a character from the glyph palette, it doesn't retain the paragraph style. For example, I'm using Minion Pro and inserting the fraction for one half. The fraction inserts, but then the paragraph style has a plus sign which indicates a change to the paragraph style. What's causing this?

Well I tested it myself before posting. The Glyph from the Glyphs panel is using a different style set than that in ther paragraph style.
You can see this yourself if you make a Fraction with fractions turned on and also insert a glyph.
Use File>Export and choose InDesign Tagged Text. Open the Tagged Text file in notepad or similar and search for "fraction" and you'll see that the style sets are different.
When I tested it in InDesign the Paragraph override didn't come on when I unchecked the style sets in the Paragraph Style.

How can we improve the Roto Brush tool and Refine Matte effect?

If you use the Roto Brush tool and/or Refine Matte effect, let us know how you're using it and what you'd like to see improved.
(We'd especially appreciate it if you gave feedback after you've had a chance to learn how to use the features and try them out on some real work.)
Normally, we like to encourage feedback through the feature-request form, but in this case we'd like to get a more public conversation going.

Hello,
I've been using the Roto Brush and so far I am very impressed. It is much more stable than I anticipated and gets me pretty far with much less work. I'd say I can get my shots 85-90% of the way done with the Roto Brush tools, in a fraction of the time. Bravo to Adobe for such a great tool. I have however, hit one major snag. I am part of a pipeline and I need to render out my mattes and pass them up the chain. When I look at my Roto Brush precomp it is beautiful, the motion blur is perfect and the alpha looks identical when I check that out. However when I render out my tiff sequence and pull it back in to check it, there is bleed in the motion blur. I'm not sure this is a roto brush problem because when I look at the alpha of the roto brush layer and the rendered matte they appear identical. Any suggestions on how to get the bleed out of the blur?
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How do you improve the speed of processing and printing of PDF from CAD in indesign?

I work for an engineering consultancy company and for a long while I have suffered with using PDFs files generated from AutoCAD when placed within an InDesign report. There are three issues that arise:
The files take a long time to process when preparing the InDesign report. (This is mainly in high quality preview mode)
The files take a long time to export to PDF
(The most annoying one) The files take a long time to process and print when sent from the PDF to the colour laser printer. So much so, a single page from InDesign that contains a PDF generated from CAD can take up to 15 mins to print.
I have tried converting the PDFs to jpegs prior to insertion into the InDesign document, but the quality and colour is dramatically reduced thus them useless. Is there any pre processing on the PDFs generated from CAD that I can do to reduce the impact that it has within InDesign and in the post processing?
We also get missing font warnings that arise from the inserted PDFs from CAD that may or may not be an issue. Your advice here would also be appreciated.
I would be the first to admit that I am not the most advanced user of InDesign though I am sure that my workflow could be improved to alleviate the situation.
Your assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks for your quick response.
I have tried both options you have recommended, but unfortunately the file size doesn't seem to be the issue. Most of our CAD files (except for when they contain raster backgrounds) are around 0.5-2Mb which isn't massive compared to some jpegs. The PDF optimization process does make a small difference to the file size but only in the region of perhaps 5% reduction.
If it helps the most awkward file I am using at the moment has this audit result, pre-optimization. This is typical of the CAD files produced by AutoCAD. As you can see the content streams take up the highest percentage that doesn't reduce that much even when the optimizer has all options engaged.
What do you think?

Override Character and Paragraph Style

I have a character style: "K: text: roman tight" the color of the style is PANTONE 222 C.
I need to be able to change the color of to PANTONE Warm Gray 11 C and revert back as necessary.
Essentially the color is being used as a highlighting feature.
Any ideas?

Hi,
My idea:
Define 2 charStyles with proper fillCollor settings. Assign keyboard shortcuts to them.
(i.e. Num 0/Shift-Num 0)
use those shortcuts as a switcher.
rgds

Automatic place graphic below a paragraph style

Is it possible in Indesign CS4 to place automatic a graphic below or above a paragraph style when you apply the paragraph style to a paragraph?
In Framemaker it is possible, because they use "Reference pages" and in the the window to design a paragraph style, you can select which item on the reference page must automatic added below or above that style.
I'm new for Indesign and I would like to know how to solve this problem. Any suggestions?

jessevic wrote:
That would be the most possible acceptable solution Peter!
In Framemaker is this also the solution, but I thought there would be a better solution.
In Frame, I created also a tabel with 2 columns and 1 row, in Indesign I will create a table with 2 columns and 2 rows.
I hope it is possible to create a table-style where the illustration is already inserted.
In ID, if you prefer, you can create a one-row two-column table, then split the left cell horizontally (Table > Split Cell Horizontally), paste the graphic in the bottom part of the split cell, and the text in the upper, then adjust sizes.
If you want the developers to consider adding the ability to attach a container above/below a paragraph style to ID, post a formal request at:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
DTP Tools' cross-reference plug-in for ID has a feature that you may want to investigate; the inserted cross-reference can define a cross-reference format that displays the reference source text according to the language property at the insertion point.
EDIT: Contact for this plug-in is at www.dtptools.com.
For example, if your cross-reference source text is "Note:", you can define the cross-reference format to display it as "Nota:" if the surrounding language at the insertion point is Italian, "Aviso:" if it's Spanish, "Achtung:" if it's German, etc. (DISCLAIMER: I'm only guessing at the word for "Note" in these other languages.) It's something like conditional text behavior, but instead of choosing show/hide, you set the language attribute for all content in the document to make it work. It may be simpler, hence more practical, to change the show/hide condition setting, which you can do across a book of files with the Synchronize feature, than to change all text styles to a particular language. Unlike FM, ID doesn't have a Global Update Options feature to change a property, like language, in all, (or selected) paragraph styles in a document in one action. Based-on paragraph and character styles might introduce more complexity than is necessary, though the operation is only needed once per language version.
This may be TMI - probably conditional text is the simplest to implement, once it's set up.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
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How to improve the screen and audio quality on my Satellite c655-s5132

I recently bought a used Satellite C655-S5132 laptop. Although this machine is designed to run on Windows 7, it came equipped with Windows XP. The machine runs OK except for the screen which shows a distorted image and the sound which is tinny and low volume.
I suspect this is due to a software shortcoming rather than a defect in any of the hardware. The image distortion may be due to the fact that this laptop comes with a wide screen with an aspect ratio of 6:9, whereas the Windows XP operating system that is currently installed on this laptop is set at an aspect ratio of 4:3 and doesn't allow me to switch to the other aspect ratio.
As a result, the image fills the entire screen but appears to be stretched horizontally. As for the audio, I checked the volume settings and they are all set at their upper limit.
I have done the following:
1. I did a system check which shows that there are 2 drivers that need to be updated: video controller and video controller (VGA compatible). But when I prompt the machine to install updated drivers it gives me a failure code 28 "device not installed properly".
2. I ran 2 driver software programs: one shows that for both video controllers "the manufacturer is unknown" and "drivers are not installed", and the second shows that the driver is installed but needs to be updated.
3. Searched the web for the right drivers and found that for this machine running on Windows XP (32 bit), Intel produces a graphic driver, GMA 4500.
4. I tried to download this driver from the Intel website but the installation process failed. Perhaps it failed because Toshiba has specified a custom version of this graphic driver that can only be downloaded from its own website.
5. I searched the Toshiba website but was unable to identify the drivers for sound and image for this machine.
Could anyone help me find the right drivers on the Toshiba website that would allow me to: (i) change the setting for the aspect ratio and in doing so get rid of the image distortion, as well as improve the overal picture quality, and (ii) increase the audio volume and improve the overall sound quality?
Thank you.

Satellite C655-S5132
Downloads here
My advice is to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media. All the drivers and utilities are properly preinstalled. Windows is preactivated.
You can obtain recovery discs from Toshiba. Scroll down to Get Recovery Media here .
For instructions, see the section Restoring from recovery DVDs/media, which begins on p. 71 of the User's Guide.
Satellite L640/L650 Series User’s Guide
-Jerry

JS Accessing the Paragraph Styles Panel Menu?? PLEASE HELP!

I haven't heard anything yet about this topic, can anyone help me?
Hi all,
I'm hoping you can help me with is, I'm about to tear my hair out! I'm using JavaScript in InDesign CS3 (PC). I have three heading scripts that I wrote that go through a series of actions when clicked, and I need to be be attached to the appropriate paragraph styles. This is so the user will receive a certain look and feel when they click the style, but they won't know a script ran at all, they'll think it's just another paragraph style.
I ran the menu id script from the InDesign Scripting Guide, and it says that the root ID should be "Paragraph Style Panel Menu", however, that is not working. HELP! How can I get InDesign to reference the existing Paragraph Style Panel Menu?
THANK YOU! Code below:
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var setpath = "~/Application Data/Adobe/InDesign/Version 5.0/Scripts/Scripts Panel/";
var myScript1 = new File(setpath + "Heading 1.jsx");
var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("InD - Heading 1");
var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false);
var myScript2 = new File(setpath + "Heading 2.jsx");
var myScriptAction2 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("InD - Heading 2");
var myEventListener2 = myScriptAction2.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript2, false);
var myScript3 = new File(setpath + "Heading 3.jsx");
var myScriptAction3 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("InD - Heading 3");
var myEventListener3 = myScriptAction3.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript3, false);
try{
var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Paragraph Style Panel Menu");
myScriptMenu.title;
catch (myError){
var myScriptMenu = app.menus.add("$ID/Paragraph Style Panel Menu");
var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1);
var myScriptMenuItem2 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction2);
var myScriptMenuItem3 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction3);

K Jane wrote:
"How can I get InDesign to reference the existing Paragraph Style Panel Menu?"
var myParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("myParaStyelName");
Is this what you are after? Don't know how it relates to your sample code though.
Brett

Problem with paragraph and character style

Recently I have noticed that when I alter a paragraph or character style that the text won't change to the changes I performed.
It doesn't matter whether it's just the preview mode or when I clicked "OK"- no changes will be performed whether it be typeface or size.
Does anyone know what can be wrong?

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.
Paragraph styles include basic font formatting information that is applied to all text in a paragraph UNLESS that text also has either a character style or a local format override (select the text and change something) applied. The formatting heirarchy works with paragraph style at the bottom, character styles trump formatting applied in the paragraph style, and local formatting trums everything else.
Select the text in question. Look in the the Paragraph Style field in the Control panel, or open the Paragraph Styles panel to see what is applied. If there is a plus sign next to the name local formatting overrides have been applied (hold the Alt or Opt key and click the style name to remove them), but character styles are not considered overrides, so if there is no plus sign, check the Character Style field in the control panel or ope the Character Styles panel to check if any character styles are also applied.

Why is the Pages paragraph styles list incomplete?

Dear Support Community,
I created a new document and selected the 'Note Taking' template. The default document says 'Subject' in a line under 'Title'. The 'Subject' line is shown to have a paragraph style called 'Heading 3'. But when I click on the drop-down list of paragraph styles, I see no such option.
Why is there a paragraph style that is not listed?
I am using Mavericks and Pages 5.2.
Sincerely,
TUIT
(pronounced with a 'w')

Hello shal1y,
Thanks for the question. The following article may provide relevant information to your question:
iBooks Author: Customize the table of contents
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2752
Thanks,
Matt M.

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