A client wants a new typesetting project to look exactly like a hand set document. This often means in the Frame doc that the last item on the page will have a return, which forces the remainder of the item to the top of the next page. The item with the hard return ends where it ends, of course, but the client would really like it to be justified. Is there an easy way to do this other than opening the paragraph designer and adjusting the spread? I'm lazy and the guesswork eats up minutes.
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Force justify
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The obvious solution is to write a plug-in to do this for you automatically. We are currently developping a plug-in that could be easily modified to do this. If you are interested, I can ask my boss to allow me to build a special version out of our alpha version. For now, what our plug-in does is to take a paragraph and look at the last line, then decrease the spread of the paragraph if the last line length is less than a (configurable) percentage of the paragraph width. It does this repeatedly until the paragraph is one line shorter (so that the last line is then nearly full).
It has to modes : manual (click into a pargraph and process it) or automatic (process all paragraphs in a document.
The program could be modified to justify the last line of a paragraph.
It has to modes : manual (click into a pargraph and process it) or automatic (process all paragraphs in a document.
The program could be modified to justify the last line of a paragraph.
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Hello Nancy,
The plugin is not ready to sell. Some functionalities are in alpha version and others are not implemented yet. Currently, it allows to :
- increment or decrement spread of a paragraph or a selected text range by pressing one key. The increment is 0.1% it should be user configurable in the release version.
- reset the spread to 0.
- test the length of the last line of a paragraph and then, if the length is to small, reduce the spread of the whole paragraph to make one line short (thus making the last line nearly full).
- apply the above to all paragraph in a document.
- justify the last line of a paragraph.
- reverse the above, reseting the last line to normal state.
Alpha version will be available within a few days for those interested in testing the plugin (for Windows only). Tell me if you are interested.
Pierre-Yves
The plugin is not ready to sell. Some functionalities are in alpha version and others are not implemented yet. Currently, it allows to :
- increment or decrement spread of a paragraph or a selected text range by pressing one key. The increment is 0.1% it should be user configurable in the release version.
- reset the spread to 0.
- test the length of the last line of a paragraph and then, if the length is to small, reduce the spread of the whole paragraph to make one line short (thus making the last line nearly full).
- apply the above to all paragraph in a document.
- justify the last line of a paragraph.
- reverse the above, reseting the last line to normal state.
Alpha version will be available within a few days for those interested in testing the plugin (for Windows only). Tell me if you are interested.
Pierre-Yves
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I have setup a web page were you can download the plug-in. The adresse is
If you test the plug-in, do not forget to send me your feed-back.
Pierre-Yves
If you test the plug-in, do not forget to send me your feed-back.
Pierre-Yves
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