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Harbs.
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Harbs.
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‎Dec 20, 2022
05:32 AM
@ErinFWe used to be able to subscribe to specific forums by email as a first-class client. I had a number of filters which grouped forum discussions into folders on my computer. This was for *all* discussions whether or not I participated. If that works, I'd likely participate more than I currently do.
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‎Dec 15, 2022
10:19 AM
I wanted to respond with a laughing emoji, but I've never figured out these forums. I still remember fondly when we could particiapte by email... 😉
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‎Dec 15, 2022
10:11 AM
The shell script would need to be run in Rosetta too.
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‎Dec 15, 2022
07:07 AM
Is this on Apple Silicon?
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‎Dec 07, 2020
08:48 AM
Thanks. I can't find my old emails, but I'm pretty sure I had a similar exchange myself. I think he told me they were distant relatives.
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‎Dec 07, 2020
03:44 AM
It's possible I remember wrong, but I thought his given name was Theunis as well. IIRC, they were related. Either way, very sad news. 😞
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‎Dec 07, 2020
03:32 AM
1 Upvote
Oh. That's really sad! He was a very valued member of the community and I learned a tremendous amount from him. I'm not sure how many folks remember, but this is the second Theunis de Jong our community has lost. Both were brilliant people.
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‎Oct 22, 2019
04:28 AM
1 Upvote
Don't use $.sleep(). The documents are being queued to be closed, but they don't actually close until the script finishes running (due to weirdness in newer versions of InDesign). In your case, the sciprt never finishes because you have a sync script which sleeps between iterations. Use IDLE events instead of sleep, and the documents will be closed between invocations.
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‎Oct 22, 2019
02:42 AM
You can use PrintUI for this. https://marketinginflection.com/printui (Discaimer: I'm one of the cofounders of PrintUI.) It's not free, but it's much more offordable than buying for your own InDesign Server license. Harbs
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‎Oct 13, 2019
07:07 AM
2. Some things cause memory consumption of InDesign to go quite high. One common example is opening and closing a lot of documents. Depending on the circumstances, the memory might not be freed until the script finishes. For cases where this is a problem, you should use an async loop using IDLE events or CSEvents instead of a hard sync loop. That allows memory to be freed between iterations.
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‎Oct 13, 2019
07:05 AM
1. For code that's run a lot, load it into memory using a persistent engine and only redeclare functions when there's a reason to.
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‎Oct 13, 2019
07:04 AM
I figure a soft return would at least work, but apparently not. Not sure how to type multiple paragraphs. Here's my pointers:
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‎Oct 13, 2019
07:02 AM
1 Upvote
Ugh. These new forums post when you type a line return. How dumb is that?
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‎Oct 13, 2019
07:02 AM
From my experience, the size of the script is not the concern. I have quite a lot of code loaded into memory.
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‎Dec 17, 2018
01:44 AM
Mark, Whether right or wrong, I always enjoy your analysis. InCopy uses the same code base as InDesign (and plugins for one should usually compile for the other), but the applications should be disconnected.
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‎Dec 09, 2018
04:02 AM
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FWIW, I filed a bug report on some similar XML some weeks ago. Unfortunately, I have no access to that particular bug anymore, so I can't update it with a reference to this thread. The bug number is 4211924. Harbs
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‎Sep 03, 2018
05:47 AM
1 Upvote
Edge doesn't support mix-blend-modes. The real question is why browsers seem to use a different algorithm for some blend modes than Adobe apps. (Photoshop should have the same results as InDesign.) Blend modes - Wikipedia Compositing and Blending Level 1
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‎Jan 17, 2018
02:20 AM
You can't redeclare a const. If you are re-running the script in the same scope of the same engine, you'll need to declare it as a var rather than a const. You can also wrap the whole thing inside a function to keep the scope isolated. HTH, Harbs
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‎Aug 08, 2017
11:23 PM
ChristianKiefer wrote There are a lot of good tutorials how to create a Flex Mobile App with good performance... Yes. Use ActionScript item renderers as opposed to MXML and keep them as simple as possible. Use bitmap caching There are tricks to make really smooth scrolling. You can search the Apache Flex mailing lists for tips on that. Basically, if you pay attention to what you are doing you can get really performant apps. Another option is to try FlexJS which can target both HTML and AIR. HTH, Harbs
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‎Jul 25, 2017
10:56 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chris+Velevitch wrote I second the idea of generating web assembly output as it helps maintain our investment in our code bases. Web Assembly output is a topic that has come up on the Flex Dev list a few times. Here's an interesting discussion on the topic: Pony Mail!
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‎Jul 25, 2017
10:49 PM
dews wrote Now that Flash is out of the way this may free Adobe up to start a more aggressive marketing campaign. Perhaps a new name for AIR to get away from Flash completely? I hope the team at Adobe seriously considers this.
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‎Jul 25, 2017
10:43 PM
Here is a site with some great info on FlexJS. He also has an excellent extension to VS Code: https://nextgenactionscript.com/
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‎Jan 17, 2017
06:01 AM
For the record: I NEVER use labels in Javascript, and I only once saw it in use in respectable code.
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‎Jan 17, 2017
05:59 AM
I recommend reading up on functions because they WILL simplify things. Variables are pretty straight-forward. Just declare all your variables using var inside your functions and pass in any others as parameters or attach them to global objects. It's really not generally advisable (I strongly advise that you become comfortable with functions), but you can use goto in Javascript. Here's a discussion on the topic: How can I use goto in Javascript? - Stack Overflow HTH, Harbs
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‎Jan 17, 2017
05:10 AM
2 Upvotes
Functions are your friends. You do not want to be avoiding them.
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‎Jan 17, 2017
01:45 AM
A bit more: Indirect access would be something like this (once the library is loaded): var csxsEvent = new CSXSEvent(); csxsEvent.type = idSelectionChanged"; csxsEvent.data = "Selection changed!"; csxsEvent.dispatch(); This works because CSXEvent is defined as a C++ class in PlugPlug. If there would be methods in PlugPlug, you could do something like this for direct access: plugplugLibrary.doSomething() HTH, Harbs
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‎Jan 17, 2017
01:31 AM
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From the CEP for Developers docs: The above example assumes that you have loaded the PlugPlug External Object library. In InDesign CC 2014.1/CEP 5.2, this library can be loaded using the following: var plugplugLibrary = new ExternalObject("lib:\PlugPlugExternalObject"); In earlier versions of InDesign CC, you will have to load the PlugPlug External Object library as a file: //Where "file" is the File object containing the library: var plugplugLibrary = new ExternalObject("lib:" + file.fullName); Does that answer your question? Harbs
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‎Jan 11, 2017
02:42 PM
Try importing it manually, and copying the exact path to the script.
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‎Jan 11, 2017
01:17 PM
Sorry for the typos. It looks like you need colon notation on Mac for it to work. For example, the following works on my machine: app.languagesWithVendors.itemByName("English: USA").addDictionaryPath ("Macintosh HD:Users:harbs:Desktop:dictionary.udc");
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‎Jan 11, 2017
12:29 AM
Just to confirm: This is an HTML extension and not a Flash one. Right? Flash extensions are no longer supported.
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