Re: Automate manual work with Tables
Having been burned badly in the past copying tables between documents, I'm reluctant to guide you down that path -- although in the description you posted in the opening message you never seem to be...
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Thanks again Dave for responding. You bring up a good point about needing to create a month/day boundary handler. I have been playing with your scripting suggestions and I think the biggest problem I'm...
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Thanks Jongware. This was very helpful. I got errors with your scripting solution from that thread but it gave me the basic structure for the script that I was looking for. I've done a lot of...
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Here's some code that shows one way to do it: var myDoc = app.documents[0]; var myStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("StyleName"); setupFindGrep("~v \\d+","");...
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Thanks very much for this Dave. I’m learning a lot with this. Unfortunately, it gave me an error with this at line 12: Source: myFind[j].characters.itemByRange(startIndex,endIndex).texts[0].content...
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No, my script (which works, I tested it) is searching for a text variable followed by a number. It looks like you retyped the script because the line quoted in the error message is not right. You have...
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Yeah, that was just a typo I made in the Error message when trying to transcribe it. It wasn’t in the script I ran. Here’s the actual error (copied &...
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Ah, I realized that I had tested it with only one instance. Putting a second instance in the story gives me the same error. I'll look deeper. Dave
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I've found the bug. That line should read: myFinds[j].parentStory.characters.itemByRange(startIndex, endIndex).texts[0].contents = decString; That's the danger of working with minimal test documents....
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Now I get: -----------------------------------------------JavaScript Error!Error Number: 45Error String: Object is invalidEngine: mainFile: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CC/Scripts/Scripts...
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Thank u so much..Its working.
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Thanks Dave for the helpful answer. After reading your reply i figured out that this is what I actually needed.I had no clue how to convert table to text and store that resulting text in a variable for...
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Ruq, to use the grep, first set the preferences usingapp.findGrepPreferences andapp.changeGrepPreferences Then myText.changeGrep() or myText.findGrep(). both methods return an array of found...
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Do you need to do it in a script? if not, a simple find/change will do the trick (in the find format dialog you gave a category called "conditions". select the one nedded and replace with nothing). if...
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Thanks. I will surely check that out. If possible please shed some light on how to switch documents via scripting. Normal scenerio is that I have 2 docs open.doc1 is source doc2 is destination.I need...
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Onnozel wrote The background of the text is YELLOW. so I don't think he knows what the names of these conditions are. This will remove the text in any condition with 'background is YELLOW':...
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Hi Trevor, You gave me the best method, its working fabulous, also I learned form you Thank you very much David
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While temptation to use "parentStory" in that statement causing us the problem is almost irresistible, it is actually better to use just "parent". If the found text is in a story then the two are...
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Hi, Can anyone help me on the below request. Is it possible to capture document change event through Javascript. For example, If i delete a word, then the event should be triggered and alert should...
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