Comments on: InDesignSecrets Videocast #1: Line Styles and GREP Styles

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:26:28 +0000

@Gardenia: We haven’t heard that from other folks. Were you watching here in the blog or at adobe.tv or at blip.tv or…? Perhaps try one of the other options?

By: Gardenia Gonzalez Gil

Gardenia Gonzalez Gil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:48:57 +0000

There is no video or sound. After a couple of minutes of black screen the last frame of the video appears with the message: “You have just watched Line Styles and GREP Styles”

By: Mark Hebert

Mark Hebert — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:52:10 +0000

This is what the doctor ordered. I think…
I have this darned list of product names, some single word and some multi-word, to be italicized in every instance in every style sheet through the whole publication. So far FindChangeByList works perfectly. It makes each product name the character style I intended. I can then use IndexMatic to find what products were mentioned in the publication and put them in the legal noise at the bottom of the last page.

But you would think…
using GREP styles would do the same, but it doesn’t. After applying the GREP style for the paragraph it does change the product name to the exact formatting I had in the character style. But then, when selected in the character style panel it shows as [None]. Now when I run IndexMatic I get each word of the product name listed, not the whole multi-word name.

I guess you gotta give to get.

By: Richard Isom

Richard Isom — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:26:56 +0000

Watching this makes the pain of not being able to upgrade yet to CS4 that much more intense. When I discovered nested styles I was absolutely salivating over the time savings I was going to enjoy. GREP and line styles take that to a whole new level.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:30:22 +0000

Looks like this is now available on Adobe TV. We have our very own channel!

By: Harbs

Harbs — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:04 +0000

One comment on the content of the videocast:

I would always recommend to include word boundaries when creating greps.

For example instead of blintz(es)? it would be \bblintz(es)?\b

If of course you want blintz with all possible suffixes, you would do: \bblintz(\w)*

Now with the word blintz or blintzes the likely of having a word which contains these letters is pretty unlikely (scrabble anyone?) , but for many other words it’s very easy to come across conflicts…

By: john renfrew

john renfrew — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:14:52 +0000

Have found my own answer by piecing together some things from a script David wrote and an answer on Adobe forums

grep[TAB]
{findWhat:”.+$”}[TAB]
{appliedCharacterStyle:app.activeDocument.allCharacterStyles[0]}[TAB}
etc etc

Brillliant –but why so complex?? Which graphic designers are REALLY going to get this far into code???

By: john renfrew

john renfrew — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:24:39 +0000

Like the ability to SEE what is happening…

I have a GREP question though which I have not been able to fix in the findchange by script
How can I remove all character formatting??

The equivalent of setting character style to “None”??

Answers gratefully received….

By: Harbs

Harbs — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:04:36 +0000

@Travis:

In addition to Peter’s great book, Dave Saunders’s blog is a great resource for scripting InDesign. A lot of great information and examples. He hasn’t added content is quite some time, but the information is (more or less) timeless. Check it out Here: http://jsid.blogspot.com/

By: dfking

dfking — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:40:38 +0000

You guys are great. Thank you so much!!!