Comments on: TableTweaker Scripts

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:12:23 +0000

No matter! Anything that makes tables less awkward is a blessing. I’m handicapped by the fact that I’m quite familiar with tables in Word, and some of the table stuff in InDesign works almost the same — same cursors, icons, etc. — but the rest doesn’t, and I find it be counterintuitive to the point of necromancy. Problem is, I never know which nec I need to romance. Or wring…

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 28 May 2006 21:58:21 +0000

That’s right. Most of the time, of course, people don’t use tables in multicolumn text frames, but that is certainly not universally true, so I took care to accommodate multicolumn frames for this script. The result is a bit of a mouthful, though.

The Vertical Justification script would be much harder to write for multi-columns. It will work in certain cases but generally speaking it only works for single-column text frames. I wrote to to make a 12-page table I was working on look better across the spreads of the document.

Thanks,

Dave

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Sun, 28 May 2006 19:57:29 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Dave! I think I’ve got it now (edited the post). Let me know if I’m still cornfused.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 28 May 2006 19:31:21 +0000

Thanks Anne-Marie.

Your description of Fit Width is hard to follow. I hope you didn’t quote me verbatim from somewhere. What it does is fit the width of the table to be the same as that of the first column of the first text frame that contains the table.

Dave