Name of "ornamental" style?

Hi,
I have recently fallen in love with a graphical style, which name i dont know and cant figure out.
I figured that the adobe forums are the best place to get an answer!
I attached picture of a recent discovery in GQ's October 2009 issue with Olivia Wilde (the black and red "ornaments" around "Olivia").
Another place to get an idea of what i am talking about is at www.mika78.com
I have no idea how to describe it. Dingbat? Ornaments? It looks french to me.
If someone knows what it is called, please let me know, because I would like to learn how to make it in illustrator.
Tutorials, anyone?!
Thanks a ton!

Mario,
I don't know that the style has a name, but it is definitely an ornamental style. Maybe you would be interested in looking into Guilloché patterns too for the borders.
http://jerrydmills.deviantart.com/art/Guilloche-Pattern-Brushes-121706004
http://illustratorworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1846
Also a good template for creating symetrical shapes live: http://blog.choppingblock.com/2009/03/illustrator-cs3-cs4-reflection-templates/
Definitely if you combine Go Media's tutorial that PrepressPro1 suggested with some of what I linked to you could create very cool stuff.
And also, yes, you could find elements to play with if you search for ornamental dingbats and vectors.

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<script type="text/javascript"> function init() { document.getElementById("file_upload_form").onsubmit=function() { document.getElementById("file_upload_form").target = "upload_target"; } } </script> <form id="file_upload_form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php"> <input name="file" id="file" size="27" type="file" /><br /> <input type="submit" name="action" value="Upload Image" /><br /> <iframe id="upload_target" name="upload_target" src="" style="width:100px;height:100px;border:1px solid #ccc;"></iframe> </form> <div id="image_details"></div>
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Lets see whats happening here - a play by play commentary...
document.getElementById("upload_target").onload = uploadDone;
Set an event handler that will be called when the iframe has compleated loading. That will happen when the file is completely uploaded and the server has returned the data we need. Now lets see the function uploadDone().
var ret = frames['upload_target'].document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerHTML; var data = eval("("+ret+")");
These two lines are an eyesore. No - it goes beyond 'eyesore' - this is an abomination. If these lines causes you to gouge out your eyes and run for the hills, I can understand completely. I had to wash my hands after writing those lines. Twice.
var ret = frames['upload_target'].document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerHTML;
This will get the data the server side script put in the iframe. This line cannot be avoided as far as I know. You can write it in different ways - but in the end, you will have to take the innerHTML or the nodeValue or something of the body element of the iframe. I used the smallest code in the sample. Even if you specify the Content type of the iframe page as text/plain, the browser will 'domify' it.
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var data = eval("("+ret+")");
Thankfully, this line can be avoided - you can use some other format(in this particular case the best format might be plain HTML) so that you don't have to parse a string that comes out of innerHTML. Or you can use CSV. Or plain text. Or JSON as we are doing right now - just parse it without using eval(). Reason I choose it? Smallest code - and easier to understand.
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Internet Explorer
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Okay - now we have a IE-proof working system. Upload an image using the below demo application to see it in action.
If you have a better way of doing this, please, PLEASE let me know. I feel dirty doing it this way.
See it in Action

You also need to consider when someone removes a product and what happens in terms of the things uploaded.
Not saying your way wont work but I have the structure for this basically very similar on sites already that covers all the basis of real world use and works well.
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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.
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.
--[/SCRIPT]
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How can you create a paragraph style that removes all spaces and forces everything to lower case?

Hi,
Is there anyway of using GREP (or some other magical wizardry) to create a paragraph style that automatically removes all spaces and forces words into lower case?
Strange request i know....I'm wanting to use it for datamerged email addresses.
Thanks

so doing it through InDesign is a work around I'm exploring.
Excel has the 'LOWER' function and the ability to record macros for a quick find/replace on the spaces - so that's definitely a good option if it can't be solved purely in InDesign.
You can change case via scripting in InDesign. This AppleScript (OSX only) will set the case of the selected paragraph style to lower. It would be possible to add some code that would strip spaces as well:
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Same as source file name when converting .msg to PDF

Hello,
When I right click a Word document and choose to convert it to an Adobe PDF file it takes a few seconds and asks me where to save it, not only this but it pre-populates the file name to match the original Word document, but obviously when saved if will be a PDF file - brilliant.
I have a folder structure with hundreds of *.msg files (Outlook email messages). When I do the same as the above the file name is not pre-populated, it is simply called "Memo Style.pdf", which in-turn means I can't batch the process easily either.
I checked the PDF Conversion settings in the Adobe ribbon menu in Outlook, however there is no setting to not prompt for a file name.
What makes this a little worse is the client is adamant this never used to happen and I can see evidence of this.
HELP!
Regards
J

Hello, I'm away from the computer right now. But I have lots of .msg files in a folder, I'm right clicking them in Windows explorer and selecting "Convert to Adobe PDF", when this is selected it triggers Outlook and starts converting the message to PDF, but it pre-populates the name as "Memo Style.pdf" which is a real pain and the client says this never used to be the case. We ideally want to do this in bulk, keeping the name it has before, but with the new .pdf extension - again the client says this used to be possible.
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