How do I automate looping through links in a directory?
My organization is trying to automate iterating through images in a directory and exporting each iteration as a PDF. I have been doing some research on creating a JS but am in need of assistance....
View ArticleTrack Changes
I'm looking at trying to produce a basic track changes report for a document.I have had a quick look at the track changes section of the scripting user guide, and while i appeart to get all sorts of...
View ArticleRe: How do I create a series of text frames using values from Excel list?
I had to do a bit of tweaking, but you have saved me hours of tedious work. It works perfectly and easily. I just have to copy the cells from the Excel file to a text file (which did, indeed, create...
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Re: How do I create a series of text frames using values from Excel list?
jonnelson2011 wrote: .. The only thing is that I have to still manually change the fill color, alignment, justification, etc. but those are small matters compared to what has been accomplished here....
View ArticleRe: JS: app.modalState?
This seems like a bug to me. Peter, are you logging it as such?
View ArticleIndesign cs4 update error
Hi, We are working in Indesign cs4..i am getting error while updating the xml in Indesign cs4.but it is working fine in Indesign cs5.5 and cs6...i have added my script below, function ReLink(){myDoc =...
View ArticleRe: How to select text of child element of graphic...
Do you want all "alt-graphics" under all "inline-graphic" elements in the whole XML structure? Try to experiment with the query allImageParaXmlElements =...
View ArticleRe: How do I create a series of text frames using values from Excel list?
I agree with Jongware, it's not that hard, and also there are more than one way to skin a kat:I don't think I would assign the remaining properties "individually" from the script... I'd rather make an...
View ArticlePage Number of a Search Result
Hi, Can someone please help me with a problem that has got me pulling my hair out at the moment. I've Googled extensively, and had no joy. My Indesign Scripting experience is fairly low, but I spend a...
View ArticleRe: Page Number of a Search Result
The number of the page on which some text sits is the name of the text's parent text frame's parent page (if you see what I mean): var found_words = my_document.findText();$.writeln...
View ArticleRe: Page Number of a Search Result
Thats perfect, thanks Peter. For some reason my counter isn't working properly to get the correct page number for each line, but I should be able to nail that one myself.
View Articlewindow.bounds gives weird results
I run without Application Frame and without Application Bar. I see no point to the former and the latter is just a shocking waste of space. For years, I've been using a handful of scripts to manage my...
View ArticleRe: window.bounds gives weird results
Tried an experiment: switched the monitor to 1680 x 1050. Got these results: app.windows[0].bounds = [22,32,700,563]Result: 22,32,700,563app.windows[0].boundsResult: 350,32,1028,563 So now the y values...
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Re: Page Number of a Search Result
@Gavin – instead of the name property (which value might not be unique ! ), you could use the zero-based documentOffset property together with parentPage… $.writeln...
View ArticleCan't get text paths if there are groups
tellmyDocument setmyPitemsto (everytext pathofeverypage itemofeverypage) whosecontents = "" repeatwithPiteminmyPitems display dialog "got it"...
View ArticleRe: Can't get text paths if there are groups
I decided to just ungroup everything, but for anyone reading this later, this doesn't really work - it deletes the second item of linked text paths, but doesn't consider the contents of the first text...
View ArticleRe: Can't get text paths if there are groups
This is pretty sad... I'm at this for hours and can't figure it out, I post here and voila progress! For anyone else with this issue, you may need to first remove all <FEFF> characters. Still...
View ArticleNeed alert for safety Margin
HI All, Could anyone please provide solution for the safety margin alert. If any page items near to page width or page height then alert will show or report to produce. [safety margin range = 24...
View ArticleRe: Need alert for safety Margin
Hi Beginner, You can get the result by comparing the geometricBounds with your myPageWidth and myPageHeight myGMB = myPgItems[0].geometricBounds;if(myGMB[0]<=0 || myGMB[1]<=0 ||...
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