Object Style

How do I make an object style which generates a fixed size frame (100mmx60mm for e.g.)? And is it possible to then make that box appear at a fixed point on a page? I have tried to create this using object styles and using the anchoring options, but cannot get it to work...

Sounds more like a case for a library item than an object style (though you can apply an object style when you create the item). Possibly a snippet would be able to make it appear at the fixed location, though I'm not sure about that.

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Hi, i have an effect that (an outer glow) and now it's perfect on my graphic that is 1 in X 1.5 in. Except that i will need to have multiple version of this grahic at different sizes, i want to know if there is a way to create an object style taht will make the same effect if i have different graphics at different sizes (without having to import the graphic at the same size and then scale it).
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The only way I know to scale an effect with the art in ID is if the art is linked. You could do this with an Illustrator file, for example, or make the art in ID as a separate file, then place it into another document and scale.

Can you set object style to Fit to Content?

Hi all,
I'm setting up a document for an exhibition showguide and before I get too bogged down, I could do with some help.
Each exhibitor gets a text entry, with a logo alongside. There will be a few hundred exhibitors in total.
To make things as easy as possible (I hope) I've made a anchored image frame to hold the logos (40mm wide x 40mm tall), which is anchored to the Company Name. This should mean that the logo stays with the correct entry at all times.
Once I've put my text in, I will have a couple of hundred empty image frames into which I can drag and drop the logos. I've set the 'Fitting on Empty Frame' to Fit Content Proportionally so that the logos all fit nicely.
The problem is that, after I have placed all the logos into the document, I want to make all the anchored logo frames change from Fit Content Proportionally, to FIt Frame to Content, so that the frame will shrink around any logos that are less than 40mm tall.
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Or, is there a way to set the object style to Fit Frame to Content?
I feel that I should be able to automate this, but the process/solution is eluding me.
Cheers
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As far as I know, the only way to do this would be by script after the images have all been placed. You should ask over in scripting.

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I am trying to create an object style that will create my subhead formatting after each body of text; in other words, I'll have 5 or 6 subheads, all in need of the same formatting, but they will be separated by bodies of text with multiple paragraphs. How do I go about specifying this repeating formatting in an object style?

Unless the number of paragraphs between headings is always the same, and always needs the same formatting, you can't.

Best-practice for use of object styles to manage image text wrap issues when aiming at both print and EPUB output?

I have a work-flow question about object styles, text-wrap, and preparing a long document with lots of images for dual print/EPUB output in InDesign CC 2014.
I am sort of experienced with InDesign but new to EPUB export. I have hundreds of pages and hundreds of images so I'd like to make my EPUB learning curve, in particular, less painful.
Let me talk you through what I'm planning and you tell me if it's stupid.
It's kind of a storybook-look I'm going for. Single column of text (6" by 9" page) with lots of small-to-medium images on the page (one or two images per page), and the text flowing around, sometimes right, sometimes left. Sometimes around the bounding box, sometimes following the edges of the images. So in each case I'm looking to tweak image size and placement and wrap settings so that the image is as close to the relevant text as possible and the layout isn't all wonky. Lovely print page the goal. Lots of fussy trade-offs and deciding what looks best. Inevitably, this will entail local overrides of paragraph styles. So what I want to do, I guess, is get the images as closely placed as possible, before I do any of that overriding. Then I divide my production line.
1) I set aside the uniformly-styled doc for later EPUB export. (This is wise, right? Start for EPUB export with a doc with pristine styles?)
2) With the EPUB-bound version set aside, I finish preparing the print side, making all my little tweaks. So many pages, so many images. So many little nudges. If I go back and nudge something at the beginning everything shifts a little. It's broken up into lots of separate stories, but still ... there is no way to make this non-tedious. But what is best practice? I'm basically just doing it by hand, eyeballing it and dropping an inline anchor to some close bit of text in case of some storm, i.e. if there's a major text change my image will still be almost where it belongs. Try to get the early bits right so that I don't have to go back and change them and then mess up stuff later. Object styles don't really help me with that. Do they? I haven't found a good use for them at this stage (Obviously if I had to draw a pink line around each image, or whatever, I'd use object styles for that.)
Now let me shift back to EPUB. Clearly I need object styles to prepare for export. I'm planning to make a left float style and a right float style and a couple of others for other cases. And I'm basically going to go through the whole doc selecting each image and styling it in whatever way seems likeliest. At this point I will change the inline anchors to above line or custom, since I'm told EPUB doesn't like the inline ones.
I guess maybe it comes down to this. I realize I have to use object styles for images for EPUB, but for print, manual placement - to make it look just right - and an inline anchor seems best? I sort of feel like if I'm going to bother to use object styles for EPUB I should also use them for print, but maybe that's just not necessary? It feels inefficient to make so many inline anchors and then trade them for a custom thing just for EPUB. But two different outputs means two different workflows. Sometimes you just have to do it twice.
Does this make sense? What am I missing, before I waste dozens of hours doing it wrong?

I've moved your question to the InDesign EPUB forum for best results.

How to change Anchor Object Options Status of Object Styles?

hi to all,
here i'm creating Object Style and applying some properties, when i create a Object Style, and the anchor Object options not become true status instead it being in false status how do i change status of anchor Object options of object styles
pls help me
here the i tried code,....
myAnchorFrame.contents =selItem;
     try{
     var rightObjStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.add({name: "RightAlignment"});
     with(rightObjStyle.anchoredObjectSettings)
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      horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.COLUMN_EDGE;
      anchorXoffset = spaceVal;
      verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.lineBaseline;
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       myCharacterStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorXoffset= spaceVal;
      try{
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      spineRelative = false;
      anchoredPosition=AnchorPosition.anchored;
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      horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.COLUMN_EDGE;
      anchorXoffset = spaceVal;
      verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.lineBaseline;
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       myCharacterStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorXoffset= spaceVal;
      try{
     var L_RObjStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.add({name: "L/RAlignment"});
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      horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.LEFT_ALIGN;
      horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.COLUMN_EDGE;
      anchorXoffset = spaceVal;
      verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.lineBaseline;
     }}catch(e){
       myCharacterStyle = myDocument.objectStyles.item("L/RAlignment");
       myCharacterStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorXoffset= spaceVal;
      if(align =="Left")
       myAnchorFrame.applyObjectStyle(app.documents[0].objectStyles.item("LeftAlignment"), true);
      else if (align =="Right")
       myAnchorFrame.applyObjectStyle(app.documents[0].objectStyles.item("RightAlignment"), true);
      else if(align =="Left/Right")
       myAnchorFrame.applyObjectStyle(app.documents[0].objectStyles.item("L/RAlignment"), true);

Is it the:
   enableAnchoredObjectOptions = true;
As shown here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/454988?tstart=30

Frame fitting options in object styles

We are producing multiple pages using tagged templates and importing xml - to populate both text and images.
Back in CS3 - our object styles using frame fitting worked perfectly. Since we have upgraded to CS5 and now CS6 - when xml is imported the frame fitting element of our object styles are no longer being honoured - when clicking on the object frame, it shows the style has been applied but with overrides - and it is adding random offsets to the frame fitting crop settings.
We are producing large numbers of pages through xml automation, therefore it's very time consuming to open every page and clear overrides/reset frame fitting on every affected graphic.
I've seen on other questions/forums that this may be a known bug - anyone have any up-to-date info on fixes or workarounds?
Thanks for your help :-)

Hello,
We have a free startup script that clears the overrides after a place action.
http://www.kerntiff.co.uk/free-stuff/afterplaceobjectreseter
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How to find un used Object styles in a indesign document?

hi,
I need to remove unUsed Objects Styles.
How do i find out?
How to remove it?
by,
Subha

As far as I can tell, you need to get an array of all the styles you are using, then compare it to the available styles and remove those that don't match up. I did something similar for swatches and changed it for object styles, but I am curious if there is a better way now or in the future. The following code compares and removes used and available styles based on the indexes, ignoring default styles in brackets... but hopefully someone has a more efficient way. jerrod //try this var usedStyles = new Array(); for(var x=0;x<yourDoc.allPageItems.length;x++){ usedStyles.push(yourDoc.allPageItems[x].appliedObjectStyle.index); } usedStyles.sort(compareNumbers); var currentIndex = yourDoc.objectStyles.length-1; for(x=usedStyles.length-1;x>-1;x--){ while(currentIndex>usedStyles[x]){ try{ if(yourDoc.objectStyles[currentIndex].name.charAt(0)!="["){ yourDoc.objectStyles[currentIndex].remove(); } }finally{ currentIndex--; } } currentIndex=usedStyles[x]-1; } function compareNumbers(a, b) { return a - b }

[CS3/4, JS] Apply feather using an object style

I was hoping to apply transparency effects via an object style using this:
myObjectStyle.objectStyleContentEffectsCategorySettings.enableFeather = true;
But "Object does not support the property or method..." etc.
I'd be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance -- Jeremy

Yes, I had got that far by stumbling blindly through the undergrowth, but it still seems to leave feather switched off, according to the Object Styles Panel, and my fumbling attempts to adjust choke, noise, etc. do not seem to have any effect, so I think it really must be switched off. What gave you the impression that that line was successfully switching feather on?
Partly, my difficulties stem from the fact that I find the Extendscript Toolkit CS4 Object Model Viewer incomprehensible. I mean, take a look at the picture below. What is "Object Model Object Model Object Model Object Model", supposed to mean, and why is every version of InDesign labelled "CS4"?

[JS CS3] JS method for Object Styles Break Link to Style

I have pages full of objects that are assigned the pesky "Basic Graphics Frame" object style. I need to do the equivalent of choosing "Break Link to Style" in the Object Styles panel on all the objects in many files.
I haven't been able to find anything equivalent to the "Break Link to Style" functionality in looking through the Object Browser. Finding all objects with [Basic Graphics Frame] object style and applying an object style of [None] doesn't do the same result. Any ideas?

hi:
//FindObjectPreference
myDoc = app.documents[0];
app.findObjectPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeObjectPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeObjectOptions.properties =
objectType: ObjectTypes.allFramesType, //graphicFramesType, textFramesType, unassignedFramesType
includeFootnotes: true,
includeHiddenLayers: true,
includeLockedLayersForFind: true,
includeLockedStoriesForFind: true,
includeMasterPages:true
//var graphicOStyleName = "[Normal Graphics Frame]";
app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles = myDoc.objectStyles.item(1);
var dstStyle = myDoc.objectStyles.item(0);
var founds = myDoc.findObject(0);
var foundsLen = founds.length, i, found;
for(i = 0; foundsLen > i ; i++){
//app.select(founds[i]); alert(founds[i].appliedObjectStyle.name);
founds[i].applyObjectStyle(dstStyle, false, false);
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[JS][CS3] Applying an Object Style

Hi.
This is a simple one, I am trying to apply an already made Object Style to a text frame.
I am using a similar method as used to apply a paragraph style:
myFrame.appliedObjectStyle.name= "GreenBox";
and also
myFrame.appliedObjectStyle= "GreenBox";
But these dont work.
I have researched the forums and found something like:
myFrame.applyObjectStyles(GreenBox , true);
and
myFrame.applyObjectStyles(GreenBox);
but these dont work either.
Can someone give me a hand with the correct syntax please?
Thanks in advance
Roy

void applyObjectStyle (using: ObjectStyle[, clearingOverrides: bool=true][, clearingOverridesThroughRootObjectStyle: bool=false])
Applies the specified object style.
Parameter
Type
Description
using
ObjectStyle
The object style to apply.
clearingOverrides
bool
If true, clears the Button's existing attributes before applying the style. (Optional) (default: true) (Optional)
clearingOverridesThroughRootObjectStyle
bool
If true, clears attributes and formatting applied to the Button that are not defined in the object style. (Optional) (default: false) (Optional)
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Object Style Manager: How to import styles into CP8 from CP7

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I save it as a different file name in CP8
I create a new Object Style - say for a Text Caption
I export the Style - I've tried just the new style, all styles, all styles for all objects.
I create a new CP8 file, save it.
I try and import the styles exported in step 4 and get the error: "Cannot import Styles.The style file you are trying to import was exported from an earlier version of Captivate"
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For instance, I have a photo and have set up a shortcut to generate a static caption. I can apply a paragraph style to it, but I don't see a away to apply an object style that will automatically apply an 11 pt text wrap on the bottom of the text box.

For instance, I have a photo and have set up a shortcut to generate a static caption. I can apply a paragraph style to it, but I don't see a away to apply an object style that will automatically apply an 11 pt text wrap on the bottom of the text box.

How to replace a paragraph style with object style

Hi,
I am having this issue lately that in paginating a newspaper I have to do all premium post with a Rectangle Border. the problem is that the text is in the grid.
Is there anyway that, while I add a specific paragraph style to some parts of the text, I can automatically give this text a specific Object Style (like stroke rectangle)
Does it make sense?
Thank you very much

Michael,
I think that I did not explain myself as I should have. The problem is not really related to links but more of a automatic replacement issue.
Every time I do this newspaper I include a new text information and the location of the Headers changes in every single case.
http://i.imgur.com/sgQ2wIK.jpg
In the link, the blue paragraphs need to be replaced with the respective Header Icons that you see on top and everytime this location of the headers in the newspaper changes due to the different number of posts in each specific category. Now the problem is related on how to autoaticaly replace this string in blue with its respective header
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Object Style Manager issue in Captivate 6

Hi there,
I'm using a trial of Captivate 6 and am setting some styles using the Object Style Manager.
When I alter some preferences for the Rollover Caption (e.g. font size, alignment, caption background), the changes take effect on the Text Caption as well. I'd like the Text and Rollover captions to have different styles, is it possible to set this up inthe Style Manager?
Many Thanks

Hi,
This is happening as the Text caption, Rollover caption uses the same style as its default style. You can try creating a seperate style for the Rollover caption.
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2. Select 'RolloVer Caption' from Standard Objects>Rollover Caption, Click on the 'Clone' button
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Bug in CP5 Object Style Manager?

Hi,
I created own styles using the Object Styles Manager and everything seems to be fine. However, when I create a new project the character size is always automatically changed to '22' although '14' was the predefined font size. This even happens if I create a project from a Project Template or a Master Slide.
The good news is that if I change the setting back to '14' before recording this size will be used for the recording. Nevertheless this is annoying because I want to provide to users a template they can use without any changes.
Best reagrds,
Alex

Hi,
For checking the preference file, you could rename the name of the folder with name "Captivate 5" at the following location:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\adobe\Captivate 5.
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