Re: Calling character styles in group
Thanks for your quick response. The spelling is correct, but your answer helped me find that the style I was calling for was actually not in the group. It looked liked it was because it was below the...
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"Save All Open As" possible?
Hi All, I am wanting to use data merge to create large numbers of individual ID documents but am so far not finding a way to do a Save As to all created documents without confirming their file name...
View ArticlebeforeSave "Cannot delete the target of an active script event" error
I have a beforeSave applescript (saved in "Applications:Adobe InDesign CS5.5:Scripts:Event Scripts") that used to work in CS3. Along with a list of other things it checks to see if a page needs a...
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Is this the only thing happening when you get the error? Or do you have an interaction you're overlooking between two different event scripts? Dave
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Re: Decrementing a date
Hi Dave,I understand now what you meant by dogged determination to interpret the wisdom in the Object Model Viewer. Whew! It isn’t telling me much. There is a similar lack of information provided for...
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Did you see message 17? it either does what you want or ought to show you the way. Note the caveat in message 18. Dave
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Hi Dave,Yes, message 17 is the script I am using and it works but doesn’t limit itself to the current selection. I have been looking for the syntax error you mentioned (closing parenthesis) but haven’t...
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Re: Decrementing a date
By the way, all the classes are in separate tables (text frames). I don’t know if this makes a difference but you mentioned in message 17 that it wouldn’t process selected tables but it processes ALL...
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Okay, so I made a serious mistake. I kept running an older script. DOH! I hate when that happens!! My script file is very full of experiments for this and it can get a little confusing sometimes. OMG!...
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something like (please check the code, can't test now): for (var i=0;i<app.documents.length; i++){app.documents[i].save("IdDoc"+i+".indd");}
View ArticleRe: beforeSave "Cannot delete the target of an active script event" error
Yes it's the only thing.
View Articlefinding cells containing numbers and applying a cellstyle.
i need to find every cell that has just a number in it and apply certain cell style, can anyone help me with a js code for this?
View ArticleRe: finding cells containing numbers and applying a cellstyle.
guh....just in the last month or so there were at least 3 threads on similat matters. here is a quick and dirty one for all the document function main() { var doc = app.activeDocument;...
View ArticleNot count parargraphs with no printable characters
This small script below returns the index number of a starting paragraph and the ending paragraph selected within the active Story. How do we not count paragraphs with no printable characters?...
View ArticleRe: Decrementing a date
In your original request, you had a source and a target, so the question is how to change the script to handle that? Off the top of my head, the easy way to do this is use two different searches....
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This is amazing! That does it perfectly!!!!Even if I have my cursor on the second instance, it still grabs the first instance, decrements it and changes the target. Bravo!!!! That’s exactly what I...
View ArticleRe: MapTagsToStyles
Thanks that worked. I was also being a slight idiot and using a document that I had removed some unused styles, instead of using my base document that had all the styles. It can't map to a style if it...
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Re: Can someone modify this page duplication and relinking script to handle 2...
Thank you so much for this simple addition! Works Wonders!!!
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