Print Without Hyperlink Character Styles

Hi,
I have applied a character style to URLs in my document that look like links so that when I export to pdf, people can click the obvious URL link.  However, the document will also be printed and I do not want the text to have this character style applied to it (or be a hyperlink).  I thought when I exported to PDF and unchecked 'Include Hyperlinks', no hyperlink formatting would be present in the pdf, including character styles applied to hyperlinks, but I cannot seem to print without the character style being applied. 
Is there a way to choose in the print dialog whether I want the character style applied to the text?  Or what is the easiest way to toggle between showing hyperlinks and not showing hyperlinks (including character styles) as I need to switch between print versions and electronic versions of my document?
Thanks so much!

Or maybe easier would be to define a second style with attributes, then use find/change to change from one to the other. Easy to go back and forth that way.

Similar Messages

  • Why is the character style for hyperlinks not displaying correctly in design mode/viewing/output?

    I am using RH9 and generating WebHelp, and I needed to globally bump up the font size of just my hyperlinked text. I went into my Style Sheet > Character tab, changed the font size of the various character settings for hyperlinks, and clicked Apply and then OK. Normally, this would change all of my hyperlink text font sizes immediately across all of my topics. However, this time, it made no changes to any existing hyperlinked text, and it only affected new hyperlinks that I subsequently added. For the existing hyperlinks, I can only manually change the font size of the each hyperlink one at a time, but that's crazy (there's 100's in this help).
    I can successfully change other characters styles and paragraph styles. This issue only affects the hyperlink character styles. It also shows up in all RH modes - Design mode, viewing, and in the final output.
    Is this an indication of a corrupted style sheet or some other combination of events that I have yet to discover?

    Hi,
    You probably have inline styling in your project overwriting the font size of your style sheet. How are you changing the font size of the individual hyperlinks?
    There is a workaround for inline styling: Open your CSS in notepad and add !important after the font-size:
    font-size: 4pt !important;
    Note that this is a workaround, not a solution. As a solutions you can remove all the style attributes from your hyperlinks to force them to take the CSS styling again.
    Greet,
    Willam

  • [CS3 JS] Correcting a Character Style Anomaly

    It used to be that you could define a character style to merely colour the text and give it an underline (e.g. for Hyperlinks) or just superscript the text (for Reference citations). When such styles, which do not call for a particular font or font size, are placed into InDesign CS, the styled text would take on the font and font size of the underlying paragraph style. However, after placing a Word .doc with these styles into a CS2 template, the font and font size becomes Times New Roman and 10 pt. The solution was to save an .rtf file and re-import the text. Now, in CS3 this work-around doesnt quite work: the font is okay, but the font size reverts to that default size of 10 pt.
    So, I would like a script that finds all occurrences of two specific character styles (Hyperlink and bibref) and then corrects the font size of the found text to that of the underlying paragraph style. These styles can appear anywhere within a document, including in tables. I have trawled through this forum and found enough to be able to search for the character styles, but I cannot fathom how to apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
    By the way, re-applying the character styles doesnt work because the character styles dont define the font size; also clearing the overrides on the paragraph style while the text is selected isnt a viable solution, because other local formatting (i.e. italic) would be lost.

    Hi Peter
    Thank you very much for your quick response. I tried your script and it did as you intended by clearing the Font, Font Style and Point Size in the character style, but unfortunately it did not correct the problem of the style becoming some default style and size (Times New Roman 10 pt) when placed into ID.
    In fact, I had already set up the 'bibref' and 'Hyperlink' character styles with these fields blanked out. Also, I made Adobe aware of this bug when CS2 came out and they warned me that CS3 wouldn't fix the problem; but I didn't realize that CS3 would be worse than CS2 so that using an rtf file wouldn't fix things.
    So, I am left with my initial query: is it possible to write a script to search for the character styles in question and apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style?
    Thanks a lot for any help you can give.

  • CS5: Hyperlink to text anchor from character style?

    Is it possible to script the following:
    A text has several occurances of the same string, e.g. 'A10'. One is marked with a character style 'Anchor' and the others are marked with a character style 'Link'. The idea is to create text anchors from the 'Anchor' style and then find every occurrence of the character style 'Link' and create a hyperlink to the matching anchor.
    I've managed to find a script that creates text anchors from a character style 'Anchor'. Can someone offer some suggestions on how to do script creating the links?
    // Written by Kasyan Servetsky
    // March 13, 2011
    // http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua
    // e-mail: [email protected]
    //======================================================================================== =================================
    if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("Please open a document and try again.");
    const gScriptName = "Create Text Anchors";
    const gScriptVersion = "1.0";
    var gDoc = app.activeDocument;
    if (!gDoc.characterStyles.item("Anchor").isValid) ErrorExit("Character style \"Anchor\" doesn't exist.");
    CreateDestinations();
    //======================================================== FUNCTIONS  =====================================================
    function CreateDestinations() {
        app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
        app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ".+";
        app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = gDoc.characterStyles.item("Anchor");
        var finds = gDoc.findGrep();
        var destCounter = 0;
        for ( var j = finds.length-1; j >= 0; j-- ) {
            var found = finds[j];
            try {
                if (!gDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.itemByName(found.contents).isValid) {
                    var hypTextDest = gDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add(found);
                    hypTextDest.name = found.contents;
                    destCounter++;
            catch(e) {}
        if (destCounter == 0) {
            alert("No text anchors have been created.", gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion);
        else if (destCounter == 1) {
            alert("One text anchor has been created.", gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion);
        else if (destCounter > 1) {
            alert(destCounter  + " text anchors have been created.", gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion);
    function ErrorExit(error, icon) {
        alert(error, gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion, icon);
        exit();

    Hi,
    The way is:
    create hyperlinkTextDestination;
    create hyperlinkTextSources;
    create hyperlinks using one destination and various sources;
    so:
    // to create hyperlinks alike:    one destination==>many sources
    // destination is the 1st occurrence of text with charStyle "anchor" applied
    // sources are each occurrences of text with charStyle "link" applied
    var mDoc = app.activeDocument;
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = mDoc.characterStyles.item("anchor");
    var
         mAnchor = mDoc.findText()[0],
         mDest;
    if (mAnchor) mDest = mDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add(mAnchor,{name: mAnchor.words[0].contents});
    else {alert ("no anchor found"); exit(); }
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = mDoc.characterStyles.item("link");
    var
         mSource = mDoc.findText(),
         len = mSource.length,
         currSource, currHyper;
    if (!len) {alert ("no link found"); exit(); }
    while (len-->0) {
         currSource = mDoc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(mSource[len],{name: "sourceLink_" + len});
         currHyper = mDoc.hyperlinks.add(currSource, mDest, {name: "mHyperlink_" + mDest.name + "_" + len});
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    Jarek

  • Character styles over ride text hyperlink styles

    It took me a while to figure this out. I could not get my hyperlink styles to work. Just as an experiment I changed the text to none in the character style (I am using it styles on the entire site) and my hyperlink styles were working correctly. I think perhaps this would be helpful to know as many people seem to post about text hyperlinks not working properly

    Thanks for posting this Marcy. This behavior is a known bug our engineering team has logged.
    To workaround the problem you can select the hyperlinks within your text and remove the character style applied (i.e., change the character style to "none").
    Best regards,
    Corey

  • [FM11] Print Image Link and Index Markers with specific Character Style

    Hello,
    I'm new with scripting for Framemaker. I want to export FM docs to RTF so I can import these into InDesign. For the placed images I want to insert a text line that is showing the image link (reference). Besides that I want to show the Index Markers at the mark insertion position with a different Character Style. Can someone help me with that?
    Regards, Sjoerd

    Hello Sjoerd,
    One note about your method to retrieve all linked graphics: this will also process the graphics that might be linked into the master and reference pages. Just to be safe against unwanted side effects you should restrict your list of graphics to the ones in the main flow of your document.
    About the tLoc: you are really looking for the anchor of the anchored frame that contains graphic. It is a little confusing that FM calls both the anchored frame and the imported graphic by the same name. Even if you add an anchored frame to the text to put an equation or a text box in your document, the anchored frame will show up in the linked list of graphics in the document. If you do have an anchored frame containing an imported graphic file, you have a list of graphic objects inside the anchored frame, which itself appears in the list of graphic objects of the document.
    This function should do what you want to do:
    function ListGraphics(doc)
              var aframe = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc;
         while (aframe.ObjectValid()) {
             if (aframe.constructor.name == "AFrame") {
                                            graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame;
                 if ( graphic.type == Constants.FO_Inset )
                                                 doc.AddText ( aframe.TextLoc, graphic.InsetFile );
             aframe = aframe.NextGraphicInDoc;
    I assume you will also want to remove the anchored frames (the imported image files) from the text. This can be done in the same routine, but you must first catch the following element in the linked list of graphics in the doc before you can delete the current one. Otherwise you will only remove the first and end up with an invalid object. The easiest and safest method to do this is to create an array of elements to be deleted. After ending the while loop, you delete those objects. The full code looks like this:
    function ListGraphics(doc)
              var toDelete = [];
              var aframe = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc;
         while (aframe.ObjectValid()) {
             if (aframe.constructor.name == "AFrame") {
                                            graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame;
                                            if ( graphic.type == Constants.FO_Inset ) {
                                                           doc.AddText ( aframe.TextLoc, graphic.InsetFile );
                                                           toDelete.push ( aframe );
           aframe = aframe.NextGraphicInDoc;
              for ( i = 0; i < toDelete.length; i++ ) {
                             toDelete[i].Delete();
    This works on a small test file I created. If you need more support, feel free to contact me: jang at jang dot nl

  • Cross references not picking up character styles in source text

    I'm getting some annoying odd behaviour with cross references in Frame 12.
    I have some tables, where the paragraph style in the cell is called "Cell Body" (nothing odd there).
    Quite a few of the cells only have one word in them, and that word is set to courier font with a character style (called "Code").
    Then, elsewhere in the document, I am referring to this text using cross references. I am referencing the paragraph style Cell Body, and the cross reference format applied is like this "<hyperlink><$paratext><Default ¶ Font>"
    "hyperlink" is another character style that makes the text go green.
    So, the cross reference out to take the text from the cell (in Courier) and reproduce it, coloured green.
    However for about half of these cross references, it isn't picking up the Code character style in the source text, so the cross ref is just green, no green courier.
    Things are further bamboozled when I output to HTML Help.
    In the CHM file, the cross refs which appear to work OK (green courier) are now just courier.
    The ones which failed to pick up the courier look the same as they do in Frame (just green).
    Any ideas as to what's going on?
    I've tried troubleshooting by clearing the cells, reapplying the para style and default character style, then reapplying the code character style, then replacing the cross reference - which sometimes seemed to fix it but didn't always.

    Arnis Gubins wrote:
    Using two character tags in-line together (a la <hyperlink><Code>) is asking for trouble. IIRC, FM doesn't re-apply these in order on an update and depending upon how they are defined (and what is set to AsIs), the outer one usually wins. .
    So why does the blimmin' dialog invite me to do precisely that, by providing me with a list of all the character styles I have, and allowing me to select as many of them as I like??? /sulks/   Indeed, if Frame still shipped with a printed user guide instead of  stupid "optimised for viewing on iPhones" online webhelp nonsense, I suspect I might very well be able to find an example in the manual of using multiple character styles in that dialog!  If it doesn't want you to use more than one, why doesn't it grey out after you add the first one? /sighs/  The concept is called "cascading styles", it's a fundamental web paradigm! And it works in the main body text - why not in Xrefs!
    Also, I have been very scrupulous to keep my character styles orthogonal so none of their AsIs's mash each other up.
    But, rant over, I shall follow your splendid suggestion for a "Code Hyperlink" style.
    Arnis Gubins wrote:
    Also, x-ref formatting may behave differently in the new Publishing modules depending upon ....
    ...Depending on how badly designed and buggy this new Frame12 feature is, I should say!   The Publish module should not randomly stop behaving in a WYSIWIG manner in completely undocumented fashion just because Adobe couldn't be bothered to code it properly.  /sighs/
    Frankly, for my current project, I've given up trying to jump through hoops for Publish - I'm concentrating on getting the Frame source right and assuming these quirks will be fixed in Frame 13 (or 14, depending on how superstitious they are). Because if I put in ad hoc workarounds for them in Frame 12, I (or a colleague) will only have to undo them later when they're fixed, and by then we'll all have forgotten what the original problem was.

  • URGENT: Paragraph/Character style help (doing massive amounts manually)

    I'm using CS3 at work but if it's magically easier, i may have access to cs4 (less likely but possible). It's a long post but I wanted to be in  depth with my problem which at its core is simple. I have included a 2-page spread example in pdf.
    What I greatly need help with is your opinion of how I can set this up to speed up the process, unify the document, and make future edits simple instead of crazy difficult. Can I configure a paragraph style to NOT replace font style? Can that style include my preset tabs (for bullets) which list as follows?:
    number, small letter, roman numeral, bullet
    Let me start by saying I SCOUR the net and all available options before posting.  I'm cleaning up/editing a production manual for a portrait company I work for and am new to indesign but have figured many things out. I'm quite proficient with the Adobe Suite and computers. I'm using last year's indesign file and it was done very poorly. The words are right, the lines are right, the tabs are terrible and i've needed to move many pages out of order and add plenty. I also chose to disable 1 text box that flows from page to page (i see now it's helpful but they had made it impossible for me to use the existing one and I didn't have time to redo). The pictures I can add and manipulate freely but an embedded text-wrapped version would be nice as well (less important by far).
    The manual is spiral bound with text on the right page and a notes page on the left for the layout. (flipped open the left side is lines for notes and the right side is operations). It's set up with a Header at the top (in some cases a sub header almost identical right below it), a space or two, then an outline format IE:
    1)     Open job
              a) Go into G:\Location
              b) Select job code
                   i) *Note: Be sure to select the right one (etc)..
    2)      Continue
                                       |                                                    |
                                       |                                                    |
                                       |                    Picture                      |
                                       |                                                    |
                                       |______________________________|
    Page size is 8.5x11 with a .5 safe print border all around (document is 11x17). The Document is about 100 pages of written directions (so double that for indesign pages). It will be printed on a Xerox IGen3.  The whole book give or take is set up like that. Thus, a few paragraph and character styles are in order. I've been editing/cleaning up each page re-tabbing, re-laying out. It's hell and must be done in 2 days.
    I'm using Myriad Pro universally as the font.  The sizes are as follows:
    Header: 16 bold center
    Sub (if applicable): 15 bold center
    Body: 12 point
    I've gotten paragraph styles to work sort of. I tried setting up numbering and bulleting but it's been giving me so much grief that I typed those all by hand or have just adjusted existing ones (I don't have much time currently, BUT need to learn for future updates and to convert it to styles). I know styles are the way to go with a couple master pages involving bulleting and character styles... however I could not become an expert overnight unfortunately; i tried =)
    The real killer for paragraph styles have been:
    - The portions of the directions that pertain to specific menu options or clicks are in bold, occasional important info is red. Normal text including numbers/bullets are normal. There are many words repeated that need bold so perhaps some kind of search/replace script could help however im not positive.
    - When I go to apply a paragraph style it must make all type bold or not bold. It doesn't replace the color of the text which is good.
    -  Having major trouble with bullets/numbers working the way i'd like.

    It is unfortunate you only have two days, but you could play around with these suggestions below and see if they help more than they hender... (NOTE: SAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU START MONKEYING AROUND IN CASE YOU HATE THE RESULTS!)
    For starters, you could certainly do the lists via stylesheet. It would require 3 lists based on your sample. Base list 2 and 3 on list 1 or all 3 on a default List paragraph style, so that you can globally control your list formatting without having to change all 3 each time you want to apply a tweak.
    List 1 would be leve 1, 1,2,3 style with indents like 3p, -1.5, 3p. Align right and don't restart numbers. If you want bold numbers, make a bold character style called List# and apply it.
    List 2 would be level 2, a,b,c style with indents like 4p, -1p, 4p. Restart on level change.
    List 3 would be level 3, i,ii,iii style with indents like 6.5p, -1.5p, 6.5p. Restart on level change.
    Tweak as necessary to match your actual text.
    Then just do a global GREP search and replace, replacing out the manual list numbers with real styles.
    List 1 replace ^\t[0-9]+\t with ~- (discretionary hyphen is a nice invisible character that won't break anything) and paragraph style of list1.
    List 2 replace ^\t\t[a-z].\t with ~- and paragraph style list2.
    List 3 replace ^\t\t\t[ivx].\t with ~- and paragraph style list3.
    The last step of list replacement would be to manually restart numbering for each new list.
    As for the keywords, unless you have a complete list of what will be bold and it will always be bold, just manually style them with character styles.
    Make a character style called "Keyword" and apply bold to the formatting.
    Make a character style called "Keyword Important" and apply bold and red formatting.
    If you know certain words are always, always the same and you have CS4, you could create a GREP style that applied Keyword character style to any words that matched.
    For example, if the keywords Left, Right, Top, Bottom always were bolded at the beginning of the paragraph, you could add the GREP style that applied Keyword to ^(Top|Bottom|Left|Right).
    In all likelihood you will be applying a lot of manual keywords too though, so make sure you put a keyboard shortcut on (like cmd-opt-1, 2, etc) on the Keyword and Keyword Important character styles. That way you can just fire through selecting text and whacking cmd-opt-1 where appropriate.

  • Table of contents from lists or character styles

    I have a legal document and I want to create a table of contents that includes, not just Headings (Article I, II, III, etc.) but also the sub headings (eg: Artilcle IV.3) which were created as numbered lists.  If I give the list item a paragraph style it will put the whole text into the TOC.  If I put a carrige return after a List heading it makes the body text as a new number in the list.  Is there some wat to get either lists or character styles into the TOC? Can you have an in-line paragraph style? Here's what the document looks like:
    Article VII Heading
    List Heading.  body text...
    a)   Sublist heading body text
    b)   Sublist heading body text
    List Heading.  body text...
    Is there any way to do this so that the TOC reads something like this:
    Article I   Heading              ....... page 2
              2. List Heading          ....... page 2
                a) Sublist Heading   ....... page 2
                b) Sublist Heading   ....... page 2
              3. List Heading          ....... page 3
    Article II                              ....... page 3
    etc. ??
    I could do this manually, but this is document is being edited now and again and I don't want to have to change the TOC everytime we make a small chage to the document.
    Thanks,
    Brendan

    The numbering and lettering are automatically generated by the List I selected.
    It's been a few months since I did this, so I'm trying to remember exactly how the process went.
    I've edited Bylaws and Constitutions like this several times for several non-profit organizations over the years, first on MS-DOS with floppy-discs using WordPerfect, later Windows and MS-Word, and now Mac OS-X and Pages '09. With each new iteration of software it keeps getting less painful, but it's still not a piece of cake.
    This time, I began with scanned images of the last printed original copy (2008) for a document that no longer existed in any original computer format (1994). I imported the scans into Optical Character Recognition software included with my Canon printer/scanner.
    I was determined NOT to re-type the whole document from scratch, so the editing I describe WAS time-consuming and a bit tedious, but still a bit less painful that starting from scratch. I'm a volunteer and retired. A paid fast(er) touch-typist working in an office (and their supervisor) might strongly disagree!
    After cleaning up a few OCR-generated typos, I was also determined not to manually re-create the outline format and the table of contents if at all possible. Even 1980's WordPerfect on floppy discs could automatically generate an outline and a table of contents from marked text!
    I used Lists to generate the desired outline format similar to the original, in some cases, correcting errors, but as shown in the above example, there are a few A's without B's and so on, because the original document (1994) was formatted that way, and I didn't want to substantially re-write the Bylaws at this time. (Save that for another day!)
    As I edited, with the printed original by my computer, I did delete the original outline I's, A's, 1's a's, and so on as I went through, letting List do the re-numbering, and using Style to format the newly numbered headings.
    Simple shortcuts when auto-generating lists: a [Tab] moves the active heading to the next-lower designation, and [Shift]+[Tab] moves it to the next-higher designation. Occasionally, I have to just use [Delete] to back up over the suggested letter, and start over again with [Return] to force the next letter/number.
    And opening Inspector, Text, Lists, as shown in the example above, might help you more easily 'control' the outcome, as does Inspector, Document, TOC, noted earlier.
    Hope this helps!

  • Chinese seal script won't print, though other Chinese styles will print just fine

    Windows 8.1, Word 2013/365, printer is HP Photosmart 5514. The printer simply doesn't print the document. It says,  "The printer couldn't print Microsoft Word ____" (document name is where ___ is).
    I can print documents in other Chinese character styles (楷書、行書、and 隸書). I can not print seal script (小篆) documents. I can not export this file to PDF (I get an error message), but I can export it to RTF and OpenDocument Text (those also refuse to print).
    I understand that apparently a machine that can print all manner of pictures still requires fonts to print text, but I have the font in Word. The attached image has the beginning of the document if that clarifies anything.
    Thanks for reading !

    >> ... HP is one of the largest computer companies in the world and there product refuses to do what it is supposed to. Just wondering why. Would also like to know how to fix the problem ...
    This forum is a peer-to-peer forum; most advisors (including myself) have nothing to do with HP, other than as users of some of their products.
    It is not a portal into HP technical support (although some HP staff do look at some of the posts).
    >> ... I was able to get it to print using the program CutePDF, but ideally I would want to be able to print directly ...
    Which confirms that a different application, in conjunction with the same printer driver and font, appears to work OK.
    As I said before "the fault must lie in how the application (in conjunction with the printer driver) is handling the text in the problematic font".
    i.e. it appears that the generated print stream from your Word document(s) contains something invalid which the print objects to; or is it that Word itself fails? Your error message doesn't make it clear where this comes from.
    To investigate further would require (at the least) a copy of one of your problematic documents (hopefully quite short, and with 'sanitised' data) and a copy of the TrueType font.
    If the printer was a PCL5 or PCL6 printer, given those files, I could do some investigation (but without any guarantee of finding the cause of the problem).
    But as it is an inkjet device, using PC3GUI, I can't help, sorry.

  • Bolding all type before en space without using nested styles

    I'm trying to have all the words before an en space in all paragraphs made boldface without using nested styles. The nested styles work great for print, but don't seem to do the trick for epubs, such as this project.
    For example:
    Car Ferrari GTO
    I tried doing a find/change for all the text formatted with the nested style, changing the nested style to no char. style + Bold. But for some reason the nested style stays attached, and if I delete the character style that is called for in the nested style, the text loses its bf.
    Thanks for any help!!

    Silly me -- that trick uses another sort of workaround.
    I meant to point you to Harbs' script ApplyNestedStyles: http://in-tools.com/indesign/scripts/freeware/ApplyNestedStyles.zip

  • My keyboard on macbook pro (laptop) is acting weird. One key is not responding at all. Have verified using Keyboard viewer and some other keys are printing the unresponsive character at random.

    my keyboard on macbook pro (laptop) is acting weird. One key is not responding at all. Have verified using Keyboard viewer and some other keys are printing the unresponsive character at random. "z" is the unresponsive character.
    Is it a damaged keyboard ?
    The laptop is just 2 months old, will Apple replace it with a new one if its indeed a damaged keyboard or just repair, I use it for official purposes so being without a laptop is not much of an option.

    No one here works for Apple, so we don't know what Apple might or might not do.  If it's a genuine defect, they will of course repair it under warranty.  It is not their responsibility if it effects your ability to work or not, so that's on you.
    If, however, they determine that the key is problematic as a result of your misuse of the laptop, then everything is on you.  And trust me, if they find a glob of dried up beer or coffee there, they will charge you.
    Your only choice is to take it in for repair.

  • Link Character Style to Paragraph in CS5.5?

    I have created a few different Character Styles in Indesign e.g. SM and I want all of the Character Style SM to link to it's definded abbreviation 'Site Manager' in the document.
    Is it possible to link all of that Character Style throughought the document to that part of the document, or must I create all of them individually (monotonously)?

    To anyone this may help in the near future:
    To assign a Text Anchor, select what you want to be the destination (when you click on the link is where you end up): this case Principal Contractor (PC). Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks, click top right button.
    New Hyperlink Destination, From drop-down menu select Text Anchor > Ok.
    Congratulations you've now made your Text Anchor.
    Setting up the Link:
    Now we need to select the actual link itself.
    Select whatever text you like;
    Click top-right corner;
    Insert Cross-Reference;
    Under Text Anchor: you can select what you would like to link to. As you have already defined Principal Contractor as your destination link this will do nicely (and will be your only option selectable if you only did as above);
    Under Cross-Reference Format > Drop - Down menu > Text Anchor Name: This is where you select what you wish it to be displayed as. You should create your own by clicking on the pen to the right > then the little + at bottom left corner.

  • Character Styles in the Real World

    Rick:
    Thanks for your efforts, and let me add my Amen to both
    subjects (on file locations and on Character styles).
    My real-world use of Character styles is a combination usage
    of Paragraph and Character styles for Notes: I have a Paragraph
    style called Note, which simply adds margins of .15in Left, 10pt
    Top, and 8pt Bottom. Within this paragraph style, multiple labels
    announce the type of Note with the use of Character styles
    NoteLabel (Navy), RecommendLabel (Teal), CAUTIONLabel (Purple), and
    WARNINGLabel (Red).
    This way, you can change the color of one or more labels
    without worrying about the paragraph settings (or vice versa).
    Also, when placing a Note inside a table cell (which might
    have limited horizontal space, especially with three or four
    columns), we still use the "Label" character styles but
    without the Notes paragraph style. This still sets off the
    text visually, without adding unnecessary extra vertical space.
    Thanks again, Rick!
    Leon

    I can tell you about two sites.
    1. A system which allocates and dispatches crews, trucks, backpack hoses, spare socks, etc to bushfires (wildfires to you). It operates between two Government departments here in Australia. Each of those despatchable items is a remote object and there have been up to 50,000 active in the system at a time during the hot summer months. This is a large and life-critical system.
    2. A monitoring system for cable TV channels. A piece of hardware produces a data stream representing things like channel utilization, error rates, delay, etc and this is multiplexed via RMI to a large number of operator consoles. Again this is a major and business-critical system.
    And of course every J2EE system in existence uses RMI internally, albeit almost entirely RMI/IIOP.

  • Automate character styles?

    Tuesday morning, I have to sit down and pop hundred and fifty summer events into a flyer. Choice A is easy - I can print them and type them. In the shower, though, I began thinking about Choice B, and I don't know whether InDesign can do what I want.
    I have control over the database where they're hosted, and it's pretty easy for me to pop them out in the format
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Date - Time  [carriage return]
    Event name
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Date - Time  [carriage return]
    Event name
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Date - Time  [carriage return]
    Event name
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    which is all the information I need on this document. On the finished product, though, I want Date and Time to have character styles applied (for color and weight). It's not that hard for me to assign hot keys to Character styles and do this by hand - just twenty minutes of tedium.
    But!
    Could I format this as
    (where the symbols are just unique symbols)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ªDate - ∞ £ Time ¡ [carriage return]
    Event name
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    and then use a Find/Replace function to tell InDesign
    -  in the case of "  ª . . . ∞  ", apply character style "Date style"
    -  in the case of "  £ . . . ¡ ", apply character style "Time style"
    and then go through and delete all instances of ª, ∞, £ and ¡
    (Extra spaces applied for ease of reading)
    Or, if I'm imagining this wrong, is there another way I can format the original data to automate the application of styles?

    I don't even think you'd need grep for this.
    I'd create two paragraph styles, one for date/time with the next style being event name and event name with the next style being date/time.
    Then create a character style for time and have the base paragraph style for date/time being the formatting you want just for date.
    The date time style would have nested style with none through the hyphen and time through the end of the paragraph.
    Place the text and then select all of it and in the paragraph styles panel right click date/time and from the contextual menu choose apply date/time and next.
    That should fully format all of your text.
    Bob

Maybe you are looking for