CREATING TABLE WITH ROWS AND COLUMNS
CREATING TABLES In our last post we focused on some of the properties of table cells. The scripts relied on a table already existing in the active document. In this post we will concentrate on creating the table and look at concepts having to do with rows and columns. The width of a table defaults […]
WORKING WITH TABLES – CELLS
TABLE CELLS A table cell is an element of a table which is an element of a page item (such as text frame) within a document page or spread. Get Reference from Selection If the user has made a table cell selection, you can get the reference to the cell using the following: set cellRef […]
INDESIGN: UPDATE NAME FOR LINKED FILES
UPDATING LINKED FILE NAMES You have a document that is graphic-intensive, and now, for some reason, you have the need to update the names of the files linked to your document. Not a difficult task, but time intensive if you have to do it one file at a time by hand. Should you have […]
INDESIGN EXPORT TO HTML II
PREPARING DOCUMENTS FOR HTML EXPORT, PART II In our previous blog we introduced a page layout that presented some issues when it comes to HTML export: Image flush to top and right Side bar with text Pullquote In looking at the layout for this example, our first impression was to have all text in one […]
INDESIGN EXPORT FOR HTL
Setting Up InDesign Documents for HTML Export For preparing InDesign content into web-ready form, exporting to HTML may be a preferred solution especially if you don’t mind having to add a line or two to the CSS style sheet created. When you use text, object, and table styles exclusively for styling you can pretty much […]
WORKING WITH OBJECT STYLES
Our previous blog post presented some compelling reasons why paragraph and character styles should be used for styling text. Not only do styles provide consistency and prevent possible error, should you decide to export the document to HTML they provide some control over how these files are written. The same can be said for using […]
TEXT STYLE TO HTML TAGGING
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TEXT STYLING In our last post we discussed some of the benefits of using text styles. Creating styles and style sheets does add a little effort to the document creation process. But using a script to create styles or import them from standing style sheets can take a fair amount of work […]
AUTOMATING TEXT STYLES
APPLICATION VS DOCUMENT STYLES Any style created without a document open becomes a default (Application) style. Application styles are added to any new document created thereafter. A style created with a document open is only available for the document. If you have not created any styles at the application level, your document will have two […]
ASSIGNING KEYBOARD SHORTCUT TO A SCRIPT
CREATING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT In this week’s blog post we take a step backward to review creating a keyboard shortcut to launch a script. If you want to follow along with this post you will want the script that we created in our previous blog post: Web Document from Preset. You can get the script from […]
ADDING DOCUMENT STYLING TO DIALOG
Building OnThe Past For the month of February our blog posts have been working toward the completion of a script that would create a web document from a selected document preset (preset with web intent). Our post for February 22 introduced using a custom dialog to have the user select a document preset and determine […]