Comments on: Removing Space Along the Left Edge of Text

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:33:40 +0000

Scratch that comment … I think the script only failed when I had text that would become overset when the Drop Caps operation was called.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:29:21 +0000

Dave’s script is great, but it seems to work only intermittently in CS5 so I’m back to adding a hair space and kerning.
Any news on getting around this in CS5 or 5.5?

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:28:47 +0000

I can’t get my Drop Caps to align to the left margin! Help!

I am using Myriad Pro Regular for my body and Myriad Pro Bold Condensed for my Drop Cap.

I have set the Drop Cap to be a 5 lines deep and one character, I have set it to be left aligned in the Drop Cap and Nested Styles menu, it does move over but not enough, it needs to move over about twice the distance.

I have tried the other methods and Daves script (though I know it’s me and not your awesome scripting handywork Dave!) but to no avail!

Any and all help much appreciated.

Regards,

Nik.

By: Stephan Möbius

Stephan Möbius — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:52:47 +0000

One more thank you! Thank you so much.

By: Harbs

Harbs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:53:04 +0000

I’d probably put that ratio closer to 5% – 95% !!!

To write the script may not take more than an hour or two, but to get rid of all those little holes can take weeks. (especially if it’s dealing with a large number of variables/uses…)

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:39:13 +0000

I’ve heard that it’s often true with scripts that it’s about 20% of the work to write the basic script, and 80% of the work to handle all the things that may go wrong with it (putting in error handling, dealing with edge cases, and so on). Especially with a free script, we can’t expect it to work perfectly.

I find it’s often a good idea to save your documents before running a script; that way you can always use Revert to get back to where you were. Scripts may run dozens or even hundreds of “actions” on your document, and using Undo after that can get tedious (I’ve been there).

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:24:51 +0000

Yep. I warned about that in point d of the comments David published above. I wrote this as a proof of concept and before you know it David wanted a version to publish so I banged out a control loop.

I’ll try to improve on that. But you can probably fix it by just hitting Undo a small number of times (probably 3 times — once to undo the drop-cap and twice to get the ruler units back to what they were).

Dave

By: Per Arne Flatberg

Per Arne Flatberg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:24:19 +0000

Great script, Dave. But have you noticed what happens when there’s no room at the bottom of the text frame (for instance if you have done a fit frame to content) and try the script on the last line? Ugly error message and we are left with problems…

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:49:20 +0000

That is just fantastic, not only did he write the script, but explained what each bit did, which is fascinating, I’ve never seen a break down of a script before and what each piece does. It’s fascinating.

Any chance of making this a blog post of it’s own?

Good job, Dave!

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:37 +0000

Wow, Dave! This works, so we don’t need to twiddle with this manually anymore — thank you!