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Comment on Creating Shared Layouts (Composition Zone) in InDesign by babs

babs — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:38:10 +0000

I have used this technique in the past to replace the, I agree, painful composition zone feature in Quark. This is so easy to do, and makes perfect sense. Thanks for posting it.

Comment on Converting Text to Outlines The Right Way by Terri

Terri — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:21:38 +0000

I went through and made my way through the steps again and it just doesn’t work. This would be a real timesaver if I could get it to work…

Comment on Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use by Jongware

Jongware — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:54:19 +0000

Cem, that extra tab wasn't in your original question... Try this one: search for ^(\d+\.) ?(?!\t) and replace with $1.\t -- this will explicitly only find digits at the start of a paragraph that are not followed by a tab (that's the part at the end inside (?!...)). I didn't test this one but hey, I should be able to do this from memory by now.

Comment on Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use by Cem

Cem — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06:21 +0000

Oops!

Now it changes;

1.^tQuestion Text

1.^t^tQuestion Text

How can i ignore double TAB?

Comment on Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use by Cem

Cem — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:30 +0000

Thanks all.

Jongware, your expression isn’t matched. what is the problem i dont know. did you test it?

but david’s expression solved problem…

Comment on Converting Text to Outlines The Right Way by David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:55 +0000

Terri: if you can select the text when you open the pdf in acrobat, then something went wrong and it did not work.

Comment on Converting Text to Outlines The Right Way by Terri

Terri — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:59:09 +0000

After exporting the pdf, I can still select the text with the curser. When I convert to outlines, I can’t select the text (like an image). Did it not really flatten when I exported with flattened transparency like the directions say? help!

Comment on FindBetween: A Useful GREP String by David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:42 +0000

@Lisa, as you can see in comments before yours, our site destroys a lot of grep codes, especially things with angle brackets. It thinks it’s html code or something.

In general, I would recommend asking questions on our forum instead of a particular blog post. (Click forums in the nav bar up above. You’ll need to have a free membership to post.) You’ll still need to “escape” those special character with backslashes, but more people will see it there.

Comment on FindBetween: A Useful GREP String by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:40:49 +0000

Well that’s weird – my grep string changed after I hit the comment button.

Comment on FindBetween: A Useful GREP String by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:56 +0000

I work in the publishing industry and often have to format books, such as cookbooks. The text comes to me with tags at the beginning and end of each block that needs to be styled a certain way. This would be easy if the tag was at the beginning and/or end of each paragraph or line but it is not. I might have an entire ingredients list that begins with a tag, such as:

then lists the ingredients and after the last one, ends with:

The same goes for multiple paragraphs of text – codes at beginning and end of multiple paragraphs, not each one.

I am trying to figure out if it’s possible to format these easily. I tried:

(?<=).*?(?=)

but it only recognizes the first line. It seems the end paragraph mark messed things up. Any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!