Add Kerning after Dropcaps

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6 total messages Started by Marco Lugli Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:56

#365

Author: Marco Lugli
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:56

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Hello all,
working with InDesign CS3, I have a document with a number of text frames and every text frame has got a paragraph inside itself. Every paragraph, starts with a one character long dropcap. My aim, would be to add the same metric kerning value after every dropcap instance in each text field.
Any ideas?
Thanks all
Marco

Re: Add Kerning after Dropcaps

#373

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:24

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Something like this sets the kerning between the first and second characters in every text frame in the active document to 20.

myTextframes = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements(); 
for (i = 0; i < myTextframes.length; i++) 
  myTextframes[i].insertionPoints[1].kerningValue = 20;

It doesn't check or catch any errors.

Peter

Re: Add Kerning after Dropcaps

#375

Author: Marco Lugli
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:35

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Hello Peter,
is it possible to limit this action only to texts with a specific paragraph style applied? I ask you this couse I've also got a series of other text frames which doesn't require this modification.
Thanks,
Marco

Re: Add Kerning after Dropcaps

#377

Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:47

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Why not build the kerning into the drop-cap character style (you'd have to use tracking but when applied like this it has the same effect) called up by the paragraph style? Then you don't need a script.

Dave

Re: Add Kerning after Dropcaps

#380

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:34

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      Why not build the kerning into the drop-cap character style ...




Of course...

Peter

Re: Add Kerning after Dropcaps

#384

Author: Marco Lugli
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:55

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Thank you Dave and Peter,
unfortunately, using tracking instead of kerning, I obtain an increasing of space on both sides of the drop-cap character, while I want it only on the right side - Anyhow, thanks for the suggestions.
Marco

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