Re: Getting the computers username in to a text box in indesign
When our IT departemnt set up the macs in our office they just named them all macuser. The users have just modified the account names to theirs but the host folder is still called macuser and that's...
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I've since modded poster 8's script so that instead of using one predefined paragraph style a la var source = 'GREPSourceStyle'; I've used Ariel's function for selecting a Paragraph Style that creates...
View ArticleIndex / Bookmarks / Script
Hello! I am creating a catalog in indesign and I have created my index for the entire thing. I was wondering if it would be possible to create bookmarksbased on the index. because everything in the...
View ArticleRe: Place all pages from InDesign Book into 1 document
Hello Eugene, you can try this Script. It also places InDesign files. The question is whether the files are located in one folder and which names the files have (->order of their placement). Roland
View ArticleRe: Index / Bookmarks / Script
Hi Shelby, I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but if what you need is to covert all the page numbers in your index to live links, check out my LiveIndex script here:...
View ArticleRe: Getting the computers username in to a text box in indesign
Hi, You could check other variables like:$.getenv("USERPROFILE") //last part of a path$.getenv("HOMEPATH") //last part of a path$.getenv("COMPUTERNAME") Notice it works on Windows. Those...
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Thank you for your response Ariel. I actually have the links working when it pdfs, that you can click on the page number and it will take you there..... What I am trying to figure out is if there is a...
View ArticleRe: Index / Bookmarks / Script
I see. So you want a single bookmark per index entry? What if the index entry contains several page numbers? You would want multiple bookmarks per entry?
View ArticleRe: When one ScriptUI palette opens another
Didn't exactly set off a debate over best practices. Oh well. I realized today that the if statement should be: if (typeof ntWindowShowing=="undefined") otherwise the script throws an error after a...
View ArticleEdit code for change drive letters in paths for links, to also work with...
I have the following code that looks through my links and changes all of the drive letters to the new locations where they exist. So if something stays in the same folder structure, but moves to a new...
View ArticleRe: Option to have a header row when converting text to a table?
sorry i miss one curlly bresh now try this var table = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements() ; for (var t =0; table.length>t; t++){ for (var r=0;...
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Beginers question - where to find Links.* options?
Hello! And again me I try again to script and have dificulties to find how to accsess such things like Actual PPi, Scale etc. I need to get that information to be able to rescale images with PS.So far...
View ArticleRe: Place all pages from InDesign Book into 1 document
Yes all the files are in the one location. But sometimes adverts are stored in separate folders. But that can change. I was hoping the script could read the order within the book file though? Then it...
View ArticleRe: Beginers question - where to find Links.* options?
@SeniorSSS – these properties are not part of the Links objects, but are (partially, e.g. there is no "dimesions" property) properties of the images that are placed. You can get access to the placed...
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Thanks a lot! Very helpfull information and links. Lot of stuff to understand but doable now. Thanks again!
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Re: Index / Bookmarks / Script
^ picture of what my index looks like after I created it in indesign and have it in my file. ^ what I want my bookmarks to look like when you open the PDF in acrobat. - exact replica of my index. So...
View ArticleRe: Index / Bookmarks / Script
Creating these bookmarks is not the problem, but where should they link to? The very first one links to nothing. That is not an option, with bookmarks, and this can't be fixed or worked around. All...
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I was just showing an example of how I wanted the bookmarks to mock the index. I tried to create bookmarks using the Table of Contents feature but because we have a product name listed more than one...
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Or at least point me to documentation on referencing the font links collection? I find it hard to find any schema/documentation on the InDesign framework.
View ArticleRe: Edit code for change drive letters in paths for links, to also work with...
Hi, There is nothing like links to fonts!Just take care of installing your fonts in your Operating System, so InDesign and any other application can use them. If InDesign is telling you about "missing...
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