Re: Change scripts to run through multiple documents in a book, rather than...
Hi Soteriologist You can loop through the documents in a book like you can with every collection. When you loop trough the book you can open as many ducuments as you like and then close the document...
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That's perfect, and is exactly what I needed. Thank you!
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Re: Change scripts to run through multiple documents in a book, rather than...
@Soteriologist – depending on your needs and conditions of the documents inside the book, you'll need a more robust function. Some question one could ask: 1. Is the document available (= can the book...
View ArticleRe: ANN: automatic dialog after background export (exportPop.jsx)
Hi, Davey: Sorry for the delay, I didn't mean to let this sit for so long. Anyhow, the debugging tells us that InDesign is doing two different exports of different type: Sangam Clipboard RTF Export...
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Hi JohnThanks again for your help! - Greatly appreciated. Your added code to filter out the exporting worked great.Regarding the issue in general, I dont have more than one InDeisgn on my computer, so...
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Glad it worked for you.Regarding the issue in general, I dont have more than one InDeisgn on my computer, so how can it be running 2? I checked the "Activity Monitor" and it only shows one.As I said:...
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@ cdflash@ Laubender very impressive!thank you both for your valuable input and... sharing.the thread is pretty old and was marked as answered years ago, so I just marked as helpful some of "key...
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Thanks a lot John.I understand what your suspection is nowI also understand the crash problem - I guess I just never saw it before. I would like to troubleshoot this issueDo you have any tips in how to...
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A new user account is always a good suggestion. I had also suggested exiting all open applications.
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Sorry, I had forgotten to mention that I had tried thatI closed all apps and opened indi - not corrected.I restarted the computer and didnt open anything except indi - also didnt help. Thats why I...
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Help with Combine Docs script
Hi,I am writing a script that combines a list of docs into 1 doc.The script starts with a dialog with a list of all open docs.The user chooses the files he wants to combine.The script reads the list...
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Hi JohnI tried in a new user and the problem did not occurSo, as you correctly suspected, it is a 3rd party interference... or maybe an InDesign setting... If anyone has any clue what can cause this, I...
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@Winterm – just a small thing.I found it valuable to write my GREPs this way: app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = /\A\s+\Z/.source; Don't know, if I saw it the first time with a script by John Hawkinson...
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@Davey – are you sure? A spread with 18 pages?That (really! I'm not kidding!) would be absolutely fantastic:breaking the max. number of pages per spread limit! Does it work to export an IDML and retain...
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Re: Help with Combine Docs script
Hi Uwe - Thanks for making my problem into an excitement! Regarding the "are you sure: question: Regarding the rest:When I exported to IDML it changes to 19 spreads, but all the text boxes stayed ont...
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Hi, @Uwe, @Davey, It looks like page.duplicate() works over this limit...! @DaveyYou need to control adding spreads while duplicating pages...There are also some facingPages and allowPageShuffle...
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Hi JarekThanks a lot - your function worked great, except that the first page ended up on the left side of the 'spread' as if it were a right bound document! - Is that yhy you wrote basically? After a...
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Hi, myDavey, try the following code, always keep the original spread, not change: function combine() { var docsSpreads = []; var pgCount; var newDoc = app.documents.add();...
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@XH.XHYour code worked to a certain extentIt brought in all pages no matter what the size wasHowever, after that it is impossible to bring them together with "facing pages" option.They always remain on...
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Davey wrote:When I exported to IDML it changes to 19 spreads, but all the text boxes stayed ont he loooong 1st spread. @Davey – that's too bad. But the prospect that we can do it with page.duplicate()...
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