search with RegExp RE: Now OT, I suppose. RE: Adobe pricing policies

[Tammy Van Boening]

Rick Quatro wrote a script for me years ago that unlocks text insets for
this very purpose, and then you can use the script to lock the insets again.
I am sure that he still has this solution in his arsenal of scripts. I still
use it after almost 10-11 years.  It works like a charm and I have never
encountered any issues with it.

 

TVB

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:56 PM
To: Mike
Cc: framers
Subject: Re: search with RegExp RE: Now OT, I suppose. RE: Adobe pricing
policies

 

By "included files" do you mean text insets?

If so .. I don't believe that a search will find anything in an inset
(certainly would be nice). Once way you can do that is to create a special
book that you use for authoring, which is different than the one you use to
create PDFs from. Add your insets to this "authoring" book, then you can do
a search across the book, and it'll find content in the insets.

Hmm .. it would be fairly simple to create an ExtendScript that temporarily
"unlocked" all insets in a document. You could do the unlock, search, then
lock it once you've located the inset. You'd want to be careful, but it
should work.

Cheers,

...scott



 

On 1/29/14 8:55 AM, Mike wrote:

My question was ignored many times during the webinar. Do the search
enhancements include finding matches in included files? Currently, the only
way I can search for strings in my books that single-source included files
is to generate a PDF and search in it.

 

 

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