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Downsaving, Backsaving, Legacy save CS6 to CS5 batch processing

jason@micrographix.co.uk 2 years ago (Show more)

Hi, I have hundreds of files that I need to back save from CS6 to CS5 using the Batch process in the Actions palette. Previous attempts using Actions have resulted in the file not being backsaved,…

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alanomaly (to Larry G. Schneider) 4 months ago (Show more Show less)

Great script, very useful, thanks! Here's a few notes for anyone looking to batch save as CS4 not used to scripting so they know what to expect: If you want to change the version, e.g. to downsave…

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Using "Fit Artboard to Artwork Bounds" in an action?

ficholasnorneris 5 years ago (Show more)

Hey all, I'm using a handy action that does some what I call "clean up" on various open files, nothing fancy - names all the used swatches and deletes unused etc - but I'm having trouble getting…

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alanomaly (to ficholasnorneris) 4 months ago (Show more Show less)

Same problem in CS6: neither "Fit to artwork bounds" nor "Fit to selected art" will record for me (although strangely, "Fit to selected art" recorded on the first attempt but never worked again, even…

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Check InDesign data merge template for errors without creating document?

alanomaly 4 months ago (Show more)

I've got a big InDesign template with hundreds of rows. Producing a full batch takes over an hour, and sometimes crashes. The deadline is fast approaching, and I'm waiting for the final minor…

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Data Merge in newest version of InDesign

GrahamHe 2 years ago (Show more)

Hi all, Was wondering if anyone can point me to the improvments to Data Merge in the newest version of InDesign (assuming there are some). We are specifically looking for a way to output single PDFs…

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alanomaly (to TStanwood) 5 months ago (Show more Show less)

If it's saying "'The number of pages per row is not an integer (5.454545454545454, 60 pages, 11 rows)" that means that the number of pages isn't divisible by the number of rows. So, yvesha has 60…

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Is there a way to export / extract a document's used data merge placeholders?

alanomaly 5 months ago (Show more)

Is there any way, by feature, scripting or XML trickery, to extract a list of the Data Merge placeholders that are actually used in an Indesign document? InDesign clearly has this data - it uses…

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Text Frame Auto-size and Data Merge

InDesign for RF 2 years ago (Show more)

I have the sneaky suspicion that this isn't something that has been fixed in ID yet. I have been struggling with this ever since CS4. The document I'm designing is a directory much like the old…

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alanomaly (to InDesign for RF) 5 months ago (Show more Show less)

I had the same problem as posted here. In the end, what worked for me was rebuilding and rethinking the layout so that the data merge content went into table cells in a table rather than auto-fit…

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