Comments on: Episode 45: The Magnificent Six (VIDEO)

By: oli

oli — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:05:06 +0000

Hi Michael

This podcast has nearly saved me so many hours.

I work with large documents coming from word. Some of the text that comes to me has to be put in red warning boxes.

I have set up to search for the relevent paragraph style and insert a red text object box as your example shows

BUT what I want to do is automate the placing of the relevent text into my red warning boxes. Currently What I would have to do is text the text and paste it into the newly inserted warning boxes

Any ideas
Oli/London

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:35:15 +0000

Hi, Michael
Episode 45 is just great. Thanks for that.
I wonder if it is possible to get the text and pictures to try this on my own. Of course I could use any text or pics but I just love this album story.

Many thanks for your podcast.

Elle / Denmark

By: Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:52:33 +0000

Sadly, the answer is no. Anchored Objects are always in front.

By: Uros

Uros — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:04:09 +0000

I would like to know if there is a way to anchor object that can go behind the text of a text frame. It seems that anchored object goes always to the front. For example if I have some custom vector shape that I would like to be around the title that is a part of a normal text within the text frame. I would like to be anchored to that title and behind it so I can actually see the text.

By: Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:34:11 +0000

Here are some links to other GREP resources:

Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta
GREP in InDesign CS3 by Peter Kahrel
The GREP reference files built into Bare Bones Software's BBEdit.

I was also asked if it's possible to actually see the file name during a multi-file Place operation. While this isn't part of the feature itself in InDesign, Anne-Marie Concepcion come up with a clever way to work around this limitation. Read Anne-Marie's post on InDesignSecrets.com. This episode was first posted on InDesignSecrets.com and received many more comments. Click here to view the original post and comments.