Hi Dan,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my forum question yesterday. I
apologize for the typing error. I can see how that would be confusing. I
am working with a variable TEXT frame.
It would be great if someone is able to help me solve the larger issue
so I will post it in detail now, hopefully in a way that is easy to
understand. But just so that you know your response yesterday even
though you did not know the larger issue was definitely appreciated
because I was still able to learn from it. :)
I have a business card template the has a variable text frame that
contains a paragraph of contact information that will be made up of
variable text fields (ex. name, titles, address, phone, etc.) The
paragraph that the contact information exists in is left justified. But,
the left justified edge needs to occur at and angle. A few months ago
someone from the forum was so nice and supplied me with syntax that
allowed for this by creating stacking tabs. Below I have pasted the
syntax for the rule I am using. This rule works exactly as I need it to
when all of the variable fields contain something. The problem is that
most of the variable text fields are optional. If someone decides that
they are not going to use say the fax, address3, and address4 the left
edge is still an angle and everything compresses up. But because there
are less lines resulting in fewer tabs all of the text shifts to the left.
Right now this rule is working in a way that it counts the number of
lines in the paragraph, the last line (or bottom line) does not tab,
each line above it tabs over one additional time. I guess what I need is
a rule that will make it so that the first line (or top line) in the
paragraph regardless of which variable fields ends up existing on that
line after optional fields are accounted for and the compression has
taken place always starts with 14 tabs, the next line down regardless of
which field ends up on it always starts 13 tabs over, etc.... I hope
this explanation is clear. Please let me know if I left any questions
unanswered. Any additional help you can provide would be appreciated.
Thanks so much!
var name;
var title1;
var title2;
var group;
var add1;
var add2;
var add3;
var add4;
var tel;
var phone2;
var fax;
var phone4;
var email;
var altweb
var l = 0;
var s = "";
var c = 0;
if (Field("AltWebAddress") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
altweb = s + Field("AltWebAddress") + "<br>";
}
else altweb = "";
if (Field("Email") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
email = s + Field("Email") + "<br>";
}
else email = "";
if (Rule("Phone4_RULE") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
phone4 = s + Rule("Phone4_RULE") + "<br>";
}
else phone4 = "";
if (Rule("Fax_RULE") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
fax = s + Rule("Fax_RULE") + "<br>";
}
else fax = "";
if (Rule("Phone2_RULE") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
phone2 = s + Rule("Phone2_RULE") + "<br>";
}
else phone2 = "";
if (Rule("Phone_RULE") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
tel = s + Rule("Phone_RULE") + "<br>";
}
else tel = "";
if (Rule("AddressLine4_RULE") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
add4 = s + Rule("AddressLine4_RULE") + "<br>";
}
else add4 = "";
if (Field("Address3") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
add3 = s + Field("Address3") + "<br>";
}
else add3 = "";
if (Field("Address2") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
add2 = s + Field("Address2") + "<br>";
}
else add2 = "";
if (Field("Address1") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
add1 = s + Field("Address1") + "<br>";
}
else add1 = "";
if (Field("GroupName") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
group = s + Field("GroupName") + "<br>" + "<br>";
}
else group = "";
if (Field("TitleLine2") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
title2 = s + Field("TitleLine2") + "<br>";
}
else title2 = "";
if (Field("TitleLine1") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
title1 = s + Field("TitleLine1") + "<br>";
}
else title1 = "";
if (Field("Name") != "")
{
s = "";
for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {
s += "<T>";
}
l++;
name = s + Field("Name") + "<br>";
}
else name = "";
return '<f name="HelveticaNeueLT Std Bold Ital"><z
newsize="8.5"><leading newsize = "100">' + name +
'<f Name="HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Ital"><z newsize="6.5"><leading
newsize = "85">' + title1 + title2 + group +
'<f Name="HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Ital"><z newsize="6.5"><leading
newsize = "80">' + add1 + add2 + add3 + add4 + tel + phone2 + fax +
phone4 + email + altweb;
Nicola DosSantos
Ambit Press / Minuteman Press of Cambridge
Five Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617.876.3688
Fax: 617.876.3896
www.ambitpress.com
Please send all jobs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Korn wrote:
Hi Nicola,
It would help to have an idea of the larger issue you're trying to solve
with this multi-frame layout, because there might be a simpler way to
accomplish it. I'm also a bit confused as to whether you're talking
about text or graphic frames. (You wrote "graphic" in the subject but
in the message you said, "I have a template that has several variable
text frames".) Anyway, I'm assuming you mean text frames.
etc.......
Actually, that same syntax would work for a text rule, if you're
returning a text resource.
Dan
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