[JS][CS3] Superscript
I have seen other posts on here sort of relating to my question, but have not managed to solve my problem.
I simply neeed to change all instances of ® to superscript within mystory.
This is what I have:
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "®";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "®",{position:Position.SUPERSCRIPT};
myRSearch = myStory.changeText();
but no change is made to the ® signs.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Roy
Hi Roy,
In findWhat replace "®" with "^r".
Checkout below working code:
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^r";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "®";
app.changeTextPreferences.position = Position.SUPERSCRIPT;
myRSearch = myStory.changeText();
Shonky
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Create your superscript character style, then for the paragraph style that you use for your text add a nested style like this:
none up to 1 (insert the symbols you want to superscript as a string)
superscript through 1 (insert the symbols you want to superscript as a string)
In CS2 you'll have to repeat that sequence at least as many times as you will ever have the symbols in a paragraph. CS3 is a bit more sophisticated in its repeat ability.
The trick is the string of symbols. Don't use spaces between them, and the string cannot contain any character that you would ever not want to superscript. You might have to copy and paste them into the field. InDesign uses strings in this case in a non-intuitive way. Rather than matching the entire string, InDesign will use the first instance it sees of any single character in the string as the trigger.
If you are careful, and you can limit the characters, you should do fine, but do some tests on a sample paragraph. If you see whole words or parts of words superscripted you have a problem. Note that since this is triggered by single characters you can't use it for superscripting things like ordinals or multi-digit exponents, but I can't think of a case off the top of my head where a multi-character superscript wouldn't involve characters that shouldn't be superscripted most of the time.
Peter -
I'm using InDesign CS3, when I'm exporting the document to epub, suoerscript applied in the document is not coming in epub. I've used character style for applying superscript.
Any suggestion why it is not coming in epub?Hi Jaswin,
It clearly shows that we need to apply the proper character styles in InDesign file before converting the file into ePub, since the manually applied styles are getting ignored during the ePub conversion, but still I find a problem in the CSS for some styles (Small caps & Superscript). So we need to update the CSS file as per the details below after generating the ePub file (The ePub file can be easily edited using the freeware 'Sigil'):
span.italic {
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
span.bold {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
span.smallcaps {
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: normal;
span.superscript {
vertical-align: 33%;
font-size: 75%;
Hope this will resolve your queries, pl. check and let me know for any further clarifications.
Thanks,
Praveen -
Adobe Bridge CS3 windows error
Hi,
When I open Bridge cs3 on its own after a few seconds the window banner comes up. Adobe bridge has encountered a problem and needs to close.We are sorry for any inconvenience. The same happens if I try to open bridge from within Photoshop cs3
I can still work in the programme ok and move the windows error aside, I would like to fix the problem, Tried to debug but the programme just closes.
I use windows xp pro with all the latest updates that are available.
have any others experienced this problem and how to fix it.
Thanking you in advance.Mikep500 wrote:
This is a copy of the message that comes up.
No messageto see, but you can check your Startup Scripts in Bridge preferences. Mine are like this: -
Text Wrap options not showing in InDesign CS3
Using InDesign CS3 on a Mac 10.4. I've had this problem for a couple of months now and it's getting past the point of annoying. When I open my text wrap options pallete it's blank even when I expand options. I can see the text wrap icons in my header panel, but I no longer have options to change the right/left/top/bottom margins. Just a general "add wrap" and "remove wrap". Is there any way I can get my pallete back? I've tried defaulting my tools, but still it does not show up. I don't know what to do to get it back.
Did you try resetting preferences? While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. If you don't get the message about deleting preferences, you weren't fast enough.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f86173837510 01ea8cb3f-6d1e.html
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