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Script that will show the character count of all carriage resturns
I have found a bug when exporting an indd to idml. If a a carriage return falls in a character count that is a multiple of 8000 + 1 it is converted to a paragraph separator (u2029). I am in the process...
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@Blujely – to see that right: if character \n is at position 8001 (or a multiple of that) in, and here I'm not sure what you exactly mean: 1. The actual Story in an InDesign file? 2. The...
View ArticleRe: Why doesn't the #target directive work in InDesign CC scripting?
After CS6 InDesign was completely converted to 64-bit application.However for windows platform 32-bit version was still supported. Hence for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit both type of versions were part of...
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Re: math / array / matrix-question
Good morning, splitted the sourcearray to its 'cols' and 'rows' to compare each with the resultarrays. Solved Hans
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The script uses a beforeQuit event handler to copy InDesign libraries from one folder to another. Some of the libraries are large and the process takes a while. I would like to display a progress bar...
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@Laubender Thank you for responding. I was referring to what you said in number 1 above. It is the character count from the beginning of any story. I have actually tested it on two different stories in...
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Okay I have the DOMVersion it is 8.0
View ArticleRe: cleaning up text frames
I think I might try something simpler next time... climbing Mt Everest perhaps. have made a testfile that I am sure covers any instance where a clear box should stay/be deleted:...
View ArticleRe: math / array / matrix-question
Hi Hans, Just a quick note although your question is solved. Provided that your matrix is 5×5 you could easily map any element to a single character in the set { A, B..., Z } (for example). Then your...
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@Blujely – The DOMVersion number refers to the InDesign version number (in your case v8, InDesign CS6 or its CC equivalent). A quick test in my InDesign CS5.5 v7.5.3 on Mac OSX 10.6.8 in this regard...
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@Blujely – about your initial question about showing a specific character at an n-th position in a story, you could use a simple GREP search in InDesign and restrict that search to a specific story...
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Sorry. That GREP cannot work or is leading to false assumptions…Because "\n" seems to be not in the class of "." in GREP speak. I'll try a different approach that includes all white space in the search...
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That GREP could work for every 10th position: (?<=[\s\w]{9})\n Or every 8001th position: (?<=[\s\w]{8000})\n Uwe
View ArticleIDCS6 MACOSX JS: Data Merging many txt files one after another
Hello everybody. I have a situation where I have to data-merge many text files to the one actual indesign "base" file. The formats of the databases are all the same, the point of difference is a code...
View ArticleRe: Help, please, with a beforeQuit script
Hi Robert You can use vb and applescriptTo display a simple alert that won't close on the application quite is quite simple.Note the use of the 3 quote marks.A progress bar is more complicated....
View ArticleRe: Place image into table cell based on text value
Hi Kevin, Try this... var doc = app.activeDocument; cells = doc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getEleme nts();for (var i=0; i<cells.length; i++){ cell =...
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Don't work in InDesignCC addEventListener: var w =new Window ("dialog");var b = w.add ("listbox", undefined, "Qwerty");b.addEventListener("click", function (k){ alert("detail: "+k.detail+'\r'+"X: "+...
View ArticleHow to apply a Character Style that's already been made in a template document?
First of all I'd like to thank everyone that helps. I'm a complete beginner at scripting and appreciate all your help. I'm basically using GREP expressions to find patterns in a document and apply a...
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app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle="A";
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