Questions tagged [character-styles]
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Set text to white automatically on dark spreads
I'm working on an illustrated book with artwork throughout. Every so often, I have a spread that has a dark background. I've created a Master page with headers and folios set in white but I can't see ...
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How do I find a specific character and apply a character style using InDesign?
How do I find all the ®'s and ™'s in a large body of text and apply a superscript character style to each find? Thanks.
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Set each letter to a different colour based on a rule
Is there a way in adobe illustrator to change all same letters to a specific colour, ideally based on a rule.
For example look at the image below:
I'd like to have a "rule" (something like ...
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Auto decimal for numbering in Indesign
Is there a way to make numbers separated with decimal symbol automatically and non-destructive in Indesign?
For example there is large numbers in my article which I'm designing now:
I have "six ...
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When using underlines for emphasis, should spaces be underlined?
I'm not asking when to underline. There are myriad references for that via a simple internet search. However, this one doesn't seem to appear anywhere...
For print-based projects....
I'm curious if ...
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Illustrator: I have paragraph styles with baseline shifts, can I make a character style to add to that shift?
This is kind of a confusing question, so let me try and elaborate. I made paragraph styles with different baseline shifts depending where they start around objects. For example directly to the left is ...
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GREP: Change spaces for tabs in specific conditions
I want to know the way in InDesign with GREPs, if possible, to any paragraph that starts with numbers followed by a period and a space ("00" + [.] + [space]"), and replace the space for ...
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how get paragraph style and character style of selected text in indesign by script
I want the selected text to be displayed to me when I select a word or text in InDesign by executing the style paragraph script and its style character?
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InDesign Create Table of Contents based on character style?
I'm creating a small dictionary to accompany a new project and in it I have things formatted where the paragraph style is just my generic Body Copy style but the defined term itself is its own ...
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Can I automatically apply a different paragraph style to all paragraphs beginning with a specific character style?
I'm laying out a very long encyclopedia which has lots of entries. The title of each article is inline with the first paragraph (each entry has multiple paragraphs), but does have a character style ...
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Styling characters into a pragraph
I am looking for a specific design on characters or words in an Adobe InDesign paragraph.
I styled a paragraph as a little pill.
But I want to apply this design on a certain word in a larger ...
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Determining the usage of a character style in InDesign
While working on a book layout on InDesign (2019 version), I've made some experiments with character styles. Thus, I've created an empty character style in order to use it for marking the part of a ...
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Setup GREP Style to move numbers to next line InDesign
I'm working on typesetting a book in InDesign that has verses. Each verse starts with a number. The numbers can't be at the end of the line as it is the beginning of the text on the next line. I ...
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InDesign: shift baseline by percentage amount
I know I can enter horizontal and vertical scales as percentages, but the baseline can only be entered by points. Is there any way to go around this with a percentage value?
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InDesign GREP is not searching [any] styles
I'm troubleshooting one of my book designer's files and I can't seem to wrap my head around what's going on.
She reached out to me that her GREP was not picking up characters she was searching for, ...
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Import InDesign character and paragraph styles into LibreOffice
I have an InDesign file with many character styles and paragraph styles defined in it, including use of the features "next paragraph style will be ____", numbering, indentation, hanging indents, grep ...
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How to make only my first letter of my first paragraph Drop Cap without changing all next paragraphs with drop caps? [duplicate]
I am struggling with Drop Caps and character styles. When I try to make my 1st letter of my 1st paragraph in my body text style Drop Cap, all other paragraphs a beginning with Drop Cap.
How can I do ...
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Why wikipedia years are lower case?
For example, this webpage about the Eruption of Krakatoa starts with the year written in lower case? Lower case numbers have a different baseline. Should it start with upper case? What's the style ...
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Combine english and chinese fonts in 1 paragraph style
When formatting in Chinese text, I 'm wondering if you can create a paragraph style so the Chinese is set in 1 Chinese font, while the numbers are set in English font. So you don't need to highlight ...
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InDesign GREP, Single Character Underlining
I'm new to the concept of using GREP. I work on documents which contain Australian Indigenous terms which contain special characters, for example, Ayers Rock's Indigenous name is Uluru, whereby the r ...
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How to effectively combat or response to the unfounded design-feedbacks?
"Make the logo bigger",
"This looks like cartoon",
"Bright colours are visual assault",
"This is not centred",
"I also know something about design".
Until recently, I really used to think these ...
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How to have a TOC with a specific character style?
With TOC user can call a series of texts in order of document with a specific paragraph style to create a table of content.
Is it possible to do the same calling character styles?
Any tricks like ...
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How do I purposely corrupt a good line art drawing so it looks like this image in photoshop?
Please check below for the difference. One of them is pixelated and sharp and the other one is smooth and clear. I want to purposely corrupt the good image so the style looks like the bad image. What ...
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Styles in Indesign
How should I use character, paragraph, table or object styles in InDesign to create specific spacing between elements in the example provided? My goal is that when the information is updated, the ...
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How to change html tags into xml elements with xslt in InDesign xml import
I'm importing XML into InDesign (with merge content mode) and using XSLT to pick specific XML elements from the XML file. Problem is that some of the text inside XML elements contain HTML entities (...
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How to hide half of a character in InDesign?
Let's say I have a movie with rating 2.5 and I should write this rating with specific star character which is ✪ (272A, http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/2700-27BF). Is there some way I could use ...
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InDesign: how to make a "phone button" style or inline graphic
I'm making a manual where I need to show which buttons to press on a phone in order to make something happen. I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to accomplish a style as in the picture below:...
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InDesign TOC character styles grabbed from body text
This has been asked before, but I've seen no answers: how do I give my inDesign TOC different character styles than those they have in the text of the document?
I have created a TOC from designated ...
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Indesign CC, combine paragraph and character styles into one palette
Is there a way to combine paragraph and character styles into the same palette of styles? It would make navigating and applying styles easier, instead of continually moving between the paragraph and ...
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InDesign: Any way to prevent styles from being edited?
I want my document's styles not be editable (paragraph, character and object styles).
Can I lock these somehow, or link the styles to another document which is out of reach of employee?
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Punctuation space after number in footnotes
I'm working on a journal in which there is a lot of footnotes. (17 articles, aprox 30 pages each with at least 30 footnotes).
I use superscript nested style to make the number of every footnote in ...
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How can I use character styles in my table?
[character styles only visible[]1 when just type in one cell highlighted][2cell styles panel only[]2I would like to highlight an entire column or row and apply a Character style to that row or column ...
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Illustrator: How to quickly reset text styling?
Upon placing a new text object, Illustrator uses whatever styling was used on the last text object you had selected. This can be annoying in some cases. For example, I've made some extreme changes to ...
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InDesign CC dynamically apply colour to text from master page
I have a timeline on a master page, then pages for most of the items on the timeline. I want to set a character style to the item on the timeline related to the current page. The content, position, ...
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Photoshop CC Text Overrides Block Character Styles From Working
This is more of a description of a problem I'm having and not so much of a question. When I make a paragraph and format it to be the right size font and color, I can't highlight text and click on a ...
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Creating tabs/spaces in-line between Character & Paragraph Styles?
so I'm typesetting a play for an assignment and cannot for the life of me figure out how I can get a tab space between the character's name and their following dialogue whilst maintaining Character/...
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Importing markdown content in InDesign?
Okay, I have a markdown file (.md) that has all my book's content. I want to style and arrange this content in InDesign. Then I want to export this styled content to a PDF for reading.
The way I was ...
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Why is Arial Bold condensing in my Illustrator CC?
After an update, Arial Bold is displaying condensed while all other varieties of Arial are working as expected. Any ideas on why this would be happening?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Placing (or pasting) text from an RTF file does not preserve local style overrides (italic, bold, etc.)
I'm putting together an InDesign document (CC 2015.4, Mac) and am using RTF files to manage and maintain the textual content. However, when I place text from an RTF file created using TextEdit, my ...
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In InDesign CS6, how do I get single words in italics into the header by using running headers and character styles
First, I want to apologize if this question has been asked before, but since I am no native speaker I don't even know what words exactly I have to ask for. Maybe then you can help me by posting the ...
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Why is an ellipsis represented by one single character rather than a sequence of kerned dots?
An Ellipsis (Unicode character U+2026 and HTML symbol …) is a
series of dots – typically three – that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence …
as Wikipedia states ...
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POWERPOINT - customize page numbering? [closed]
I was wondering if there's a way to number pages in Powerpoint using this style : "01, 02, 03..." instead of "1, 2, 3..."
Thanks a lot
Mey
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inDesign Table of Contents auto grabbing character style
I'm just learning the Table of Contents feature in inDesign, and have learned a lot from tutorials but can't figure this one out.
When I create a TOC or update the current TOC, it always defaults to ...
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Copy-and-paste Sketch artboard into different Sketch document without overwriting symbols in different artboards
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I have a Sketch file within which there are multiple artboards. Each artboard details a screen of a web app UI I’m designing. There are many symbols/styles used across the artboards.
I ...
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Regex to convert custom tags InDesign GREP
Consider the following text:
This is a test text with b custom tags /b to apply a b bold /b character style.
In the above text, I have used b and /b as custom tags to designate a section I need to ...
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Indesign script to automate GREP Find/Replace
This question follows on from my previous question on the subject of GREP and find/replace functionality of InDesign. To summarize the situation, my InDesign document has 3 character styles applied to ...
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Indesign script to add HTML tags based on character styles
I have an InDesign document with text styled as one of the following custom character styles throughout the document:
character-bold
character-italic
character-bolditalic
[none]
I am trying to write ...
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InDesign Paragraph Styles, Object Styles & GREP
New to the forum, so apologies if this has possible been covered before.
I work in catalogue creation and we've recently transferred over to InDesign
I'm trying to recreate our price lozenges in ...
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How to solve a GREP to use on my TOC
I'm really hard to get grep usage.. any tips on how I can achieve a character style using grep for this example (img):
Basically the structure is this:
(start)paragraph(shift+enter) [characters I ...
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In InDesign, how to get rid of the First Line Left Indent after a "mid-sentence" Frame Break?
I am laying out my grandpa's life story in InDesign. The left page of a spread will have a scanned image of his hand-written story while the right page will have the typed version.
Because I would ...
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