Comments on: Find Text, Change to Graphic

By: Tina DeJarld

Tina DeJarld — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:51:25 +0000

I also use find/replace with clipboard contents to swap in graphics for text placeholders, it’s great!

But what about round-tripping back to the originating dept. to update for the next issue? I have to change all of those graphics back to their original place-holder text in order to send the final text (with all the changes that were made during revision rounds) back to the content originator.

Is there a way to tag each inline graphic as something unique that can be found? If you copy one, it finds any inline graphic.

Thanks,
Tina

By: john

john — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:24:01 +0000

Hi I was reading your suggestions. I have Word 2002 SP2. I would like to do what you are suggesting in Word by replacing a graphic image I don’t like with another version of the image throughout the text. The find replace wont let me put the symbol for the graphic in the find box. I know quite a bid of VBA macro language but I don’t know how to do this. Any ideas?

Thanks.
John

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:52:30 +0000

@Chien: Unfortunately, I do not know any way to select more than one anchored object at a time. Frustrating!

By: Chien

Chien — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:31:37 +0000

Sometime I’d like to transform whole inline graphic in my file, but I can do that with available tools of Indesign.

How to do “Fit frame to content” with multi inline graphics

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:17:59 +0000

This seems like a really great tip, but I can’t seem to do this in InDesign CS2 on Windows.

I don’t get the “Other” choice in the Change To fly-out

Should this be working in Windows versions? Am I missing a plug-in or something?

By: Dieta dos Pontos

Dieta dos Pontos — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:30:06 +0000

This is one of those techniques that can save a lot of time, and its very easy to learn! Thanks for sharing

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:40:20 +0000

Adam Said: I typically have to convert to a condensed font, which then converts all the bold to regular type. Grrr.

Adam, converting to another typeface is a cinch for imported word files. If you get a script called “preservelocalformatting.jsx” you can import a word file, run the script and it makes and applies character styles for Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Superscript and Subscript (probably others too).

Anywho, this gets all the text into appropriate character styles. All you have to do is hit the paragraph override button on the paragraph panel. Voilla! All the bold, italic etc. is still in tact.

Also, another thing I do when I get word files is I massage them first. Very first. This simply involves having a Word Template that I apply the to the text. I then have similar style names to that of my indesign document.

The reason it’s in Word and I don’t do the styles in InDesign because I work in a small team for this project. Word files come in, someone processes them with styles in word, then changes are made by the copy editor (in word, they can clearly see level 1 headings, level 2 etc.), I import the Word file with the styles into the magazine and I have the styles map to the InDesign ones.

I find it a good workflow once I got into it.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:21:55 +0000

Sounds familiar Adam! At least the find and replace should help!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:00:03 +0000

Pete,
I appreciate the suggestion but getting the other dept to convert their hundreds of files to Excel falls into the old dog-new trick category. Actually falls into the “not my problem” category, from their view.

Thx – adam

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:08:38 +0000

Hi Adam, Could you not use data merge for these labels? Perhaps if the other dept can be convinced to use Excel instead?

Pete