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Negative Lookahead – GREP for Designers

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

This is the second in a series of blog-posts about GREP, written after speaking at the Perth InDesign User Group. My speaker notes are also available: What is GREP? (2.4Mb PDF download). In the previous post GREP was introduced, and we took a look at the Positive Lookahead. In this post we’ll review the Negative […]

Positive Lookahead – GREP for Designers

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

During a recent ‘Demystifying GREP’ presentation I gave for the InDesign User Group in Perth, I found myself almost physically jumping into a sentence when explaining the concept of Positive Lookahead. I’ve made my speaker notes available: What is GREP? (2.4Mb PDF download). I promised the group I’d write up some posts on lookaheads and […]

New InDesign Extension – Find/Change Attribute...

Adobe InDesign Scripts & Plug-ins

The Find/Change Attributes extension allows you to load formatting attributes from selected text into InDesign’s Find/Change dialog box. That’s a handy feature to have for a range of production scenarios, but for me in particular it’s something I use a lot when cleaning up supplied InDesign files prior to EPUB conversion.