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Map Styles
Edit Custom Style Mapping
Place Options
Browse
Collect All Threaded Frames
Load Conveyor
panel.
Map paragraph, character, table, or cell styles, between the original and placed items. By default, style names are used for mapping.
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Define custom style mapping between the original and placed items. Map the styles to automatically replace
original styles in the placed item.
Specify the Conveyor options while placing items.
Remove items from the conveyor after you place them
Place the current item multiple times. The item remains loaded in the place gun.
Place the item and move to the next item. The item is however kept in the conveyor.
Navigate through the items in the Content Conveyor.
Enable this option to collect all threaded frames. The story and all frames are collected. If this option is disabled,
the story is collected in a single frame.
Use
to load the conveyor with items.
Selection: Use this option to load all selected items
Pages: Use this option to load all items on the specified pages
All: Use this option to load items from all pages and pasteboard
Enable Create Single set to group all the items in a single set.
You can collect individual page items, or collect related items as "sets." In some cases InDesign automatically creates sets to preserve the
relational integrity of the page items.
The following are a few method of collecting items as sets, some manual and some automatic:
Marquee select a number of items
Use the Load Conveyor option and then select range of pages or all document content or selected items and items will be accordingly
collected in a set.
Collect an item that has related content such as a part of an interactive button that has other items and states associated with it, it will collect
all related items in a set (this set will always drop in one gesture)
Collect a text box with threaded text spanning into other objects and ’collect All Threaded Text Frames’ checkbox is checked on the
conveyor, it will pick all threaded text boxes into a set.
Place and link
1. Select a page item by either selecting the frame or place the insertion cursor in the text. You can also select multiple items by using
Shift+Click.
2. Choose Edit > Place and Link. The cursor is loaded with the items, and the items display in the Content Conveyor.
3. Click on a page or draw a frame to place the linked item.
Specify link options
1. In the Links panel, select the linked item.
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