have  a look: InDesign ExtendScript API (13.0) ... View more

have a look for the event after_new: Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Document place it in the startupscripts #targetengine "session" app.eventListeners.add("afterNew", afterNewFunction, false); function afterNewFunction(){     //your stuff     } ... View more

yourtable.cells.everyItem().tables ... if you mean to avoid iterating by 'browse'. everyItem returns a collection ... ... View more

thx for sharing Peter! great stuff ... View more

app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = mystyle ;  this refers to a String rather than a paragraphstyle             var myTextFrame = app.selection[0].textFrames[0];  does not take care of the searchresults, should be fnd.parentTextFrames[0];//assuming only one textFrame per caption ... View more

Hi, did you try passive mode ? yourSocket.write('PASV\r\n') response (yourSocket.readln();) should include '227' ... View more

well, if you want to check if a objcet has got a property just check if it is true ... if(newHeights.hasOwnProperty('linkname'))... Your attempt: linkname in newHeights is a setup for a loop ... There'll be many other possibilities .... ... View more

download the file, then place it ... vbs, appleScript and still Rorohiko: Using State Machines: Web Access From Adobe InDesign CS3 ExtendScript - click to listen to podcast Hans ... View more

This should should give you a start. It'll add the active documents name to the field instructions of the img when executed. Tested once. No errorhandling. currDoc = app.activeDocument; docName = currDoc.name; docGraphics = currDoc.allGraphics; for(var g = 0; g < docGraphics.length; g++){     currGraphic = docGraphics ;         currGraphicFilePath = currGraphic.itemLink.filePath;         fileObject = File(currGraphicFilePath); writeDocNameToMeta(fileObject, docName);     } function writeDocNameToMeta(fileObject, docName){ if(loadXMPLibrary()){         var myFile = fileObject;         xmpFile = new XMPFile(myFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);         var myXmp = xmpFile.getXMP();               var myStatus = myXmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP,"Instructions");    myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP, "Instructions");    myXmp.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP, "Instructions", docName);         if (xmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) {          xmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);    }               xmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);         unloadXMPLibrary();     } }     function loadXMPLibrary(){         if ( !ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript ){             try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');}             catch (e){alert('Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library!'); return false;}         }         return true;     } function unloadXMPLibrary(){         if( ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript ){             try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript.unload(); ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = undefined;}             catch (e){alert('Unable to unload the AdobeXMPScript library!');}         }     } Hans-Gerd Claßen ... View more

Hi, sorry for the late reply. works like a charm Perhaps, some day I'll even understand how ... 😉 Hans ... View more

Good morning, splitted the sourcearray to its 'cols' and 'rows' to compare each with the resultarrays. Solved Hans ... View more

simple example: #target indesign var destFolderPath = Folder.selectDialog('DestFolder').absoluteURI + '/' var currDoc = app.activeDocument;//already prepared document (csv connected) is open and frontmost currDoc.dataMergeOptions.createNewDocument = true;     var maxRange =  currDoc.dataMergeProperties.dataMergePreferences.recordRange.split('-')[1];//count of recordRanges //one file for each record for(var  i = 0; i < maxRange; i++) { with(currDoc.dataMergeProperties.dataMergePreferences) { recordSelection = RecordSelection.ONE_RECORD; recordNumber = i+1; } currDoc.dataMergeProperties.mergeRecords(); app.activeDocument.save(File(destFolderPath +(i+1) + '.indd')); app.activeDocument.close(); } ... View more

What about working with smaller sections: Create 2-pages-indd-docs by DataMerge (DataMerge is scriptable too) x 600, add hyperlinks six hundred times and export to pdf six hundred times ... (could all be done using one script once) Hans-Gerd Claßen ... View more

app.activeDocument.links.everyItem().unlink() now they're all embeded ... ... View more

Good morning, as you can read (;-)) in the AS-Excel-Reference you've posted (4th post)  there's no open command for html-files. Commands offered: open; open FileMaker file; open links; open text file; open workbook || (excel 2004) So I guess a html-file has to be parsed to a delimited text file first ... Hans ... View more

what does your xml look like? ... View more

Hi, sure this could be done by script. But without sample indd.doc and xml-file nearly impossible. You should hire someone to code this if you haven't the approach to start coding yourself and get additional help here. Great evening Hans-Gerd Claßen ... View more

Hi, it's been built for lion, ID 5.5. Mdfind-command seems to be ok. perhaps it's a copy paste problem. try the link https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11350320/mdFind_Relink.scpt.zip ... View more

Hi, if working with a database and documents built dynamically a good old cfg-file may be the choice ... ... View more

a, sorry I used format 'Excel7 file format' which seems to be common Script 3, German *************************************** Start Time:     1377149578529 Local Time:     Thu Aug 22 2013 07:32:58 GMT+0200 Server Time:     Thu, 22 Aug 2013 05:32:57 GMT End Time:     1377149578529 Total Time:     0 seconds *************************************** ... View more

Good evening , lion | excel 2011 excel freezes with autofit-command. without it'll runs with above changes for the file reference. Here the save options for workbooks in excell 2011: save workbook as v : Saves changes into a different file. save workbook as workbook [filename text] : A string that indicates the name of the file to be saved. You can include a full path. If you don't, Microsoft Excel saves the file in the current folder. [file format CSV file format/‌CSV Mac file format/‌CSV MSDos file format/‌CSV Windows file format/‌DBF3 file format/‌DBF4 file format/‌DIF file format/‌Excel2 file format/‌Excel 2 east asian file format/‌Excel3 file format/‌Excel4 file format/‌Excel5 file format/‌Excel7 file format/‌Excel 4 workbook file format/‌international add in file format/‌international macro file format/‌workbook normal file format/‌SYLK file format/‌current platform text file format/‌text Mac file format/‌text MSDos file format/‌text printer file format/‌text windows file format/‌HTML file format/‌XML spreadsheet file format/‌PDF file format/‌Excel binary file format/‌Excel XML file format/‌macro enabled XML file format/‌macro enabled template file format/‌template file format/‌add in file format/‌Excel98to2004 file format/‌Excel98to2004 template file format/‌Excel98to2004 add in file format] : Specifies the file format to use when you save the file. [password text] : A case-sensitive string, no more than 15 characters, that indicates the protection password to be given to the file. [write reservation password text] : A string that indicates the write-reservation password for this file. If a file is saved with the password and the password isn't supplied when the file is opened, the file is opened as read-only. [read only recommended boolean] : Set to true to display a message when the file is opened, recommending that the file be opened as read-only. [create backup boolean] : Set to true to create a backup file. [access mode exclusive/‌no change/‌shared] : Specifies the access mode for the new file. [conflict resolution local session changes/‌other session changes/‌user resolution] : Specifies who conflict resolutions will be handled. [add to most recently used list boolean] : Set to true to add this workbook to the list of recently used files. The default value is false. [overwrite boolean] : Set to true to automatically overwrite an existing file. _____ You may at least add a overwrite true at the end of the save command Cheers Hans ... View more

your codeline should work as long as you've got a single page item (attention: you can't access the page item by name if it is part of a group) named 'Bee' and the graphic includes a layer 'Orange' ... View more

Hi, name in layers palette is always a reference to a page item. Assuming only one image / graphic in it you can access it by var test =  app.activeDocument.pageItems.itemByName("Bee").graphics[0]; ... View more

Second script, mac osx 10.4.11 (still alive ;-)), excel 2004 whole script works here with  few changes:    var myAppleScript1 = 'tell application "Microsoft Excel"\r'                              + 'open text file filename (POSIX file "' + macFileName + '" as text) data type delimited tab true\r'                              + 'tell active sheet\r'                              + 'autofit columns\r'                              + 'end tell\r'                              + 'tell active workbook\r'                              + 'save workbook as  filename (POSIX file "' + macXlsFileName + '" as text) file format Excel 9795 file format\r'                              + 'end tell\r'                              + 'end tell\r' ; Part of the library excel 2004 for "save workbook as" save workbook as workbook [filename Unicode text] : A string that indicates the name of the file to be saved. You can include a full path. If you don't, Microsoft Excel saves the file in the current folder. [file format add in file format/CSV file format/CSV Mac file format/CSV MSDos file format/CSV Windows file format/DBF2 file format/DBF3 file format/DBF4 file format/DIF file format/Excel2 file format/Excel 2 east asian file format/Excel3 file format/Excel4 file format/Excel5 file format/Excel7 file format/Excel 9795 file format/Excel 4 workbook file format/international add in file format/international macro file format/workbook normal file format/SYLK file format/template file format/current platform text file format/text Mac file format/text MSDos file format/text printer file format/text windows file format/WJ2WD1 file format/Works1 file format/Works 1 all file format/Works 1 fmt file format/Works3 file format/Works4 file format/Works 3 fm 3 file format/works file format/works 2 east asian file format/WQ1 file format/WJ3 file format/WJ3FJ3 file format/HTML file format/XML spreadsheet file format] : Specifies the file format to use when you save the file. [password Unicode text] : A case-sensitive string, no more than 15 characters, that indicates the protection password to be given to the file. [write reservation password Unicode text] : A string that indicates the write-reservation password for this file. If a file is saved with the password and the password isn't supplied when the file is opened, the file is opened as read-only. [read only recommended boolean] : Set to true to display a message when the file is opened, recommending that the file be opened as read-only. [create backup boolean] : Set to true to create a backup file. [access mode exclusive/no change/shared] : Sepcifies the access mode for the new file. [conflict resolution local session changes/other session changes/user resolution] : Specifies who conflict resolutions will be handled. [add to most recently used list boolean] : Set to true to add this workbook to the list of recently used files. The default value is false. I'll give it a test on lion / excel 2011 in the evening. One last tipp: applescript-forum on hilfdirselbst.ch. English won't be a problem. It's supervised by Hans Haesler, AppleScript & ExtendScript guy ... View more

Sorry I'm in hurry and take a closer look this evening. first script: those changes, just misstypes: if (($.os.match(/Mac/i)))     {         var rangeContents = '{{"My Text File opened in excel"},{"This is cell A:2", "This is cell B:2", "This is cell C:2"}, {"This is cell A:3", "This is cell B:3", "This is cell C:3"}, {"Thanks a million"}}';        second script: the filerefrence has got to be changed a bit: + 'open text file POSIX file filename  "' + macFileName + '" as text data type delimited tab true\r' had a saving crash in excel then, but haven't got the time now ... ... View more

well, i can only test with excel 2004 at the moment, but as the only thing you want to do is opening that file it should be the same. Tested a tabdelimitted-textfile. tell application "Microsoft Excel" open alias "some:mac:path" end tell I own Excell 2011 mac and may test any code ... if you want Hans ... View more