Style Content Objects

[Doug Reigelsperger]

Style Content Objects

Could someone help me understand using Object Styles.

 

I read this:

From uCreate Print User Guide_v.6.6_r.1.34.pdf

 • Object Styles — when applied to a frame (whether a text

frame or a graphic frame), the Style Content Object can be

used to format frame attributes such as fill, stroke, corner

effects, etc.

Notes:

• Each Style Content Object value must be mapped to a matching

InDesign style, which has the exact same name.

• A Style Content Object may define an override color. This color

does not override the color of the text frame or the graphic

frame, only the color of its contents: text or graphic content

such as fill or stroke color.

 

 Then below that I read this:

 

Note: Table, Visibility and Style Content Objects are incompatible with XMPie’s

proprietary XLIM format. Documents containing them cannot be converted to XLIM.

To check if your Document is compatible with XLIM and remove incompatible

features, use the XLIM Preflight.

  

What is the point of having them at all?  Is there another version of uCreate that can use these. We have stripped down art work to no Gradients, No shadows No patterns or Style objects, no transparency. I am dealing with artwork which includes all of this.  Is there an upgrade we can get to have all of this functionality.

 

[George Marsh]

Doug 

XLIM is an optimised format for fast processing and quick print times, I think you can ignore if you need these features. 

What version of XMPie do you have?

[Doug Reigelsperger]

We have Version 6.6.2 build 7100. We are using it with the uStores, the uStores will not except anything other than the XLIM. Its very frustrating.  

[Tyrone]

I use Style++  here is an old walk through.

 

Using Style ++ to control the character style components

The most common way to specify the value for a Style ADOR is to simply specify the name of an InDesign style to be applied (for example: "Character Style 1"). However, you can also specify the value for a style ADOR using what XMPie refers to as "Style++". The format for Style++ is: "StyleName|FontParameter|StyleParameter|SizeParameter|ColorParameter" How styles are applied: The possible composite style value is parsed to extract the style name and any overrides. (The overrides are placed in an AttributeBossList.) * If there is no style name [None] is assumed. This is done for backward compatibility. (Note that [None] is a named UID based style.) * If the style name is "[No Base Style]", then no lookup is attempted for the style UID and no style is applied. For all others, the style is applied by first clearing local overrides, then applying the style. * Overrides are applied after the style (if any) Notes about Style++: * The entire Style++ call is placed inside a set of quotes ( " ). * The parameters within the "Style++" call are separated by the pipe ( | ) character. * If you happen to have a pipe or backslash character within the parameters, they must be escaped using a backslash ( \| or \\ ). * The font color can be either a named color (such as Black, Red, etc.) or an unnamed color. Unnamed colors are defined by custom CMYK values, where the first value defines the Cyan percentage, the second - Magenta, the third - Yellow and the fourth - Black. Custom CMYK values should be separated by commas and delimited by square brackets '[ ]'. For example: "| Times New Roman | Normal | 12 | [0.39,0.08,0.54,0.2]" * To differentiate between named and unnamed colors, unnamed colors are surrounded by the reserved square bracket "[ ]" characters and named colors are not. (Note: InDesign does not allow you to define a color that starts and ends with square brackets. InDesign also reserves several color names like "None", "black", etc. s that you can not name a color with one of those names. Even though reserved color names appear in the UI within square brackets, they are stored without the square brackets.) Examples of Style++: By specifying font attributes to be applied without specifying an InDesign style name, the InDesign style currently assigned to the paragraph will be used but its font attributes will be overridden with the ones you have specified. For example: - a named green color override applied to style [None]: "||||Green" - an unnamed green color override applied to style [None]: "||||[0.75,0.1,1,0]" By specifying the name of an InDesign style to be applied and one or more font attributes that will override those defined in that InDesign Style, the InDesign style attributes will be applied but its font attributes will be overridden with the ones you have specified. - a Times New Roman Normal 12 Black override applied to "Character Style 1 | Times New Roman | Normal | 12 | Black" - a named green color override applied to [No Base Style]: "[No Base Style]||||Green" - a Times override applied to [No Base Style]: "[No Base Style]|Times|||" - an italic Times override applied to [No Base Style]: "[No Base Style]|Times|Italic||" - a Times 12 override applied to MyCharacterStyle: "MyCharacterStyle|Times||12|" ~~~~~~ The parameters in the Style++ expression can be composed of plan variables. Let's say that you created plan variables with the following names: StyleName Font Style Size Color When using plan variables to supply the values for the parameters, the pipes need to be concatonated beween the variables so that the Style++ expression looks like this: @{StyleName}&"|"&@{Font}&"|"&@{Style}&"|"&@{Size}&"|"&@{Color}

 

 

Regards

 

 

Tyrone O’Brien

XMPie CrossMedia Consultant & Developer

 

 

P: 041 661 4187

E: tyr...@connect1to1.com.au

W: www.connect1to1.com.au

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[Guillaume Besnier]

It is not really a uStore limitation: StoreFlow is available in two separate levels:
* StoreFlow ( basically = uStore + uProduce { with XLIM-only } );
* StoreFlow Pro ( basically = uStore + uProduce { with XLIM *and* InDesign Server } ).
It is still possible to upgrade from StoreFlow to StoreFlow Pro.

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Date de réception : Vendredi, Mars 07, 2014 10:42PM
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[Doug Reigelsperger]

Is it possible to add the styles in uPlan and do it the way. Hard code if you will. Now I just need an example of that. "Choose you background color:" and user has a list of colors to choose from.

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[Doug Reigelsperger]

Thank you for your help

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[Doug Reigelsperger]

Who do I talk to about that. Any idea the cost? 

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Guillaume Besnier <guillaume....@gmail.com> wrote:

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