Select by Region

[(Pre)PressingMyLuck]

Funny, I had a similar thing earlier. Tried to create an action list to snag the text by size, then Move Page Content. Didn't do anything. I did make the change in ID and remerged, but it's slow around here and wanted to try it out. For all I know Move Page Content wasn't the correct action to try and shift it over.

Project was a variable envelope with an address block they wanted moved over some.

[DCurry]

You want Change Position, then you can either move it a relative distance or to an absolute position.

(BTW, welcome aboard!)

[Tracy]

Holy Cow! I put our actions side by side and figured out the Change Position
I was doing it all wrong!!! Thanks DCurry!!!!!!!!

[(Pre)PressingMyLuck]

Ahhhhhh yeah, that would explain why it just stared at me like that. Thanks for that!

Thanks for the welcome!

[Tracy]

Welcome from me too! 

[Tracy]

That's a game changer for me, I move a lot of the text in those tabs and there are sometimes
20-30 pages with the same move.
This book was over 600 pages.

[David]

....   This book was over 600 pages.

this is when I would ask for the source file if at all possible.....


or ask the creator to fix and re-submit, I know...  that's crazy talk.   


it's the heat down here, I'm starting to hallucinate. 

[Tracy]

the program is something we have never heard of Broadvision Inc.

[Tracy]

Does anyone know how to select by region like from the left corner
but not select what's in the region?
so I get these tab books with image dies, so after I get the proof file done
I have to delete the die out to make the print file, I'm talking hundreds of pages.
I've gotten use to it, and have actions setup for this job (bad file actions) 
but this one thing would be so helpful, sometimes I go through the pages so fast
deleting the die image, I feel like I'm going to have a seizure 
Click-Delete-next page, Click-Delete-next page,Click-Delete-next page,Click-Delete-next page 


The image when selected is the outermost thing you select so nothing is ever farther then the die image
if that makes sense.
so If I select by region and delete it deletes everything because everything is inside the region.
This is just a long shot, but thought I'd put it out there.

[(Pre)PressingMyLuck]

So you're wanting to select everything outside of that region? When you set up the action there's a dropdown called Select Objects objects. I think default is Inside Region or Overlapping Region. Change it to outside region. If you need to exclude tab headers also a Select Font and the AND operator at the end. You could also select the region right down the far side of the of the dielines (if rectangles) and select inside region or overlapping. Just don't grab the text headers on the tabs.

I think that's what you're talking about? Or maybe I'm just hungover more than I think.

[Tracy]

Thanks Ill try my Luck (see what I did there) 
It must be possible
I'm trying to delete the image die without deleting everything inside the die
why anybody goes through the trouble creating an image die is beyond me.
This is our tax payer dollar at work! 

I Know I got a book coming in just wanted to try something different this time
it could be a week from now but I will update and let you know what happens
Thanks man!

[(Pre)PressingMyLuck]

If there's anything inside the die except text centered on the tab I don't think that'll work. Might be able to use multiple AND statements to weed it out some more. If the die is a spot color (i make my dielines a custom spot color) you can select by that color and remove as well.

[Foozball]

The autistic part of my brain automatically presses Shift or ALT in Acrobat to NOT select the top layered item, and hit the one UNDER it ... or maybe I select the TOP layer then hold that button and click again ... try messing with that, it might help.

Sorry, I don't have any of those projects now, or I'd slow down and test it out ...


Adobe has a heap of those damn tricks programmed into all their software (CTRL-ZERO), and they all went into my head when I was a photoshop specialist, chased by a heap of FREE red-bull!

**EDIT, just realized this is an ENFOCUS thread, UGH! Ignore.**

[(Pre)PressingMyLuck]

It'd be easier if I could see one of the tabs. Sounds like there's a color bar or something on the tab as well as text, and she's trying not to delete the bar and text.

[DCurry]

If the die is an image, you can select only images in the region and delete them. 

Otherwise, as previously mentioned, you can select by color if the die is a spot.