Clarify Select All
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:08 pm
I am trying to understand something very simple – forgive my lack of knowledge. I make action lists fairly often. To select certain items, I usually just use Select All, then follow that up with the selection that I want. With the understanding that this selects everything, then out of that makes the target selection and in effect deselects anything else.
This has seemed to work. But as I go through and analyze some of the Action Lists in the Standard category, made by the experts at Enfocus, they use a different approach. They do line item selections of text, line art, images and shadings, using the OR operators, then follow that up with the target selection, with the AND operator. I follow the logic. For example, you want everything outside the media box selected. You select anything that is either text, or line art, or images, or shadings. Then out of that, the additional condition of being outside the media box.
My question is: what is the difference between this approach and Select All? With these various selections listed one by one, it seems like every possible category of artwork is included, which makes me wonder how this is different from just selecting everything. You can refer to the screen shots to see what I mean. Thanks in advance.
This has seemed to work. But as I go through and analyze some of the Action Lists in the Standard category, made by the experts at Enfocus, they use a different approach. They do line item selections of text, line art, images and shadings, using the OR operators, then follow that up with the target selection, with the AND operator. I follow the logic. For example, you want everything outside the media box selected. You select anything that is either text, or line art, or images, or shadings. Then out of that, the additional condition of being outside the media box.
My question is: what is the difference between this approach and Select All? With these various selections listed one by one, it seems like every possible category of artwork is included, which makes me wonder how this is different from just selecting everything. You can refer to the screen shots to see what I mean. Thanks in advance.