Comments on: This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 18

By: Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepcion — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:33:02 +0000

Thanks for the link, Klaus! But note they say over and over that they’ve killed the 20-times DEactivation limit. No mention of RE-activating it.

So sure, you can DE-activate it now as often as you want! But good luck reactivating it!

I’m half-joking … assumably they’re talking about a 20-times deactivation/REactivation limit that’s been lifted.

Still.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:01:14 +0000

Apropos of, well, something else, I just read that Adobe has now killed the 20-times max. limit for activations! I think that’s good news, worthy of, well, being mentioned somewhere on this site?

http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/2010/01/removing_deactivation_limit.html

By: Jongware

Jongware — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:05:06 +0000

… a bit tricky though to get it working well on text…

Yah… Ideally, you would start the script and get an outline copy to move around and scale at wish, before committing to ‘render’. Sadly, ID scripting is not yet that far! As it is, it would take a dedicated plugin for that kind of interactivity.

I’m thinking about an upgrade, as I suddenly have some serious competition in the Javascript department
3D shading? Curved “swoosh” text? Faster drawing? I need to think about it …

By: Gary Spedding

Gary Spedding — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:40:20 +0000

That Extrude script is pretty neat. Nice way to make Canyon like ridges with plains on the top. Or core segments. I think it will be trial and error and a bit tricky though to get it working well on text. Maybe a few examples from…. ahhem… the experts to help us neophytes out?