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4:22 am
August 28, 2010


Ann_Camilla

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There used to be a really cool plugin from aextra-software which would break a frame wherever one put the text cursor. Sadly they haven't upgraded it for CS5. Here's my story: twice a year I set up a large book catalogue. There are white pages, blue pages and an order form. The white pages have to be split into 2 equal parts (each divisible by 8 of course!) because the blue pages and the order form (also divisible by 8) have to be inserted. All this after loads of edits/changes/amends.

The split in the white pages always always comes in the middle of a sentence at the bottom of the page. The 2 scripts that come with InD CS5 (splitstory.jsx and breakframe.jsx) don't do anything other than completely wreck the document — as far as I can see and IMO. Now that I no longer have aextra-software's CleverText.jsx all I've been able to do is copy all the text from the white pages' centre to the end (thank goodness for Shift+Control+End) and paste it into a new document set up with the same styles, grid, master pages etc. etc.

Perhaps that's the only way? Anyway, thanks for listening.

11:13 pm
August 29, 2010


Stix Hart

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Have you tried putting that script into a folder called Version 6.0 Scripts and running it from there?  It must be called exactly that name, with that little trick you can run old scripts in CS5.

1:29 am
August 30, 2010


Eugene Tyson

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Not really sure what the issue is, your story is a bit hard to follow. If you could post some screen shots or something to what you're trying to do?

"Ingenious, isn't it, Mr. Bunt? "

9:27 am
September 2, 2010


Ann_Camilla

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Oops — my bad. It's not a script, it's a plugin.

What I need to do is simple. At the bottom of, for instance, page 96 of the 198-page catalogue I need to break the story so that I can save the catalogue in two parts: white pages part 1 and white pages part 2. With all the other stuff in 44 pages (called blue pages), I can then set up a book: white pages part 1, blue pages, white pages part 2, and that deals with page numbering so that I can export each part as a PDF for the printer.

In fact it's already at the printer but I had to Cut (from the top of p97) and Paste into a new document. I suppose that isn't so bad but I'd just like to be able to do it with a simple click (as before with the CleverText plugin from aextra software).
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