"How did the file get open if you didn't know where it is?"   We had an emergency at the castle where one teammate had used something on his PC called "search". He was editing 17 documents for a week straight. He passed out right there. I had to push aside his chair and bravely pick up his edits in mid-Bezier.   Very traumatic because I had to find out where each of his documents had came from. Turns out all of them were opened from the brain folder called Ab-something ("Abnormal" it appears) and so the creature had to be destroyed. ... View more

I just found if I go to Package..., the current path appears in the Saved Location and can be copied. Then I move to Explorer and make a new Explorer window, then paste this path into the pathbar to see the enclosing folder.    This is all we get in 2020? ... View more

Sadly I am also unable to properly target CS6 from ExtendScript. What happened to this scripting app? It's throwing up all over the place, launching CS5 when I already have the doc open in CS6. It's a real pain that there's no script debugging apparent in CS6 with ExtendScript. Perhaps they removed that feature to force the  Creative Cloud upgrade, where it's miraculously restored! Eh. Any clues why ExtendScript will not edit CS6 scripts? That seems like the entire reason for this application, but it's not working. ... View more

I got a message from another user who had modified my script to ask the user how much to add, and then did it. I thought it had been sent to the rest of the group too, but I don't see it and I think I deleted the message. I'll try my other computer to see if the script is still around, or hopefully they can repost it to the forum. Darryl ... View more

Hello Larina. Did you ever find a solution to finding certificates for all users with an LDAP server? I am also interested in getting this set up for our company. Best Regards Darryl ... View more

I wrote a Javascript that will resize the artboard in Illustrator CS4. /********************************************************** FitArtboardToArt.jsx DESCRIPTION In Adobe Illustrator CS4, fit the artboard to the visible bounds of a document. NOTE: The script leaves behind some artifacts in the document window but is correct. Darryl Zurn, 2009-11-25 daz-scripting@zzzurn.com **********************************************************/ if (app.documents.length > 0) {      var docRef = app.activeDocument;      if (docRef.artboards.length > 1)      {           alert('Need exactly one artboard');           quit;           }      // Found 1 artboard            var myVisibleBounds = docRef.pageItems[0].visibleBounds;            // The VisibleBounds rect is in this order: left, right, top, bottom      // so use variables to show which side we are using      var myLeft = 0;   var myRight = 1;   var myTop = 2;   var myBottom = 3;      for ( var i = 1; i < docRef.pageItems.length ; i += 1 )      {           // We want the ultimate maximum bounds, so select the minimum left and bottom, and max right and top of our rect.           myVisibleBounds[myLeft  ] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myLeft  ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myLeft  ] );           myVisibleBounds[myRight ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myRight ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myRight ] );           myVisibleBounds[myTop   ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myTop   ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myTop   ] );           myVisibleBounds[myBottom] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myBottom], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myBottom] );           }      // We have our maximum bounds, so use it to set the document's (only) artboard      docRef.artboards[0].artboardRect = myVisibleBounds; } else {      alert('Open a document before running this script', 'Error running FitArtboardToArt.jsx'); } ... View more

InDesign shortcuts are in a file that you can copy to your users' hard disks in the right spot. This would overwrite their existing shortcuts so it might be of limited use. You can also add and COLOR the corresponding menu using menu sets. You can also make an entire "workspace" file which I believe can incorporate all those things at once. As Peter said, installing these files on 100+ hard disks would NOT be scriptable through InDesign. [edit: NOT] However you could likely write a Windows BAT file or an AppleScript to put the desired master ".indk" or XML files in the right spot: ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0/InDesign Shortcut Sets/John's Colorsetting shortcut.indk First start with a clean slate, then add the shortcut(s) normally in ID. Then copy the resulting file to another user's computer and see if the setting shows up correctly. Hope this helps until Adobe adds it to the scripting model ;) Darryl ... View more

Another reason to avoid "with" statements is that you can't be sure which variable is ultimately being referenced. Doug Crockford has lots of other "best practices" for JavaScript which make sense to me and that I've tried to follow. I run all my JavaScript through www.jslint.com http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/04/11/with-statement-considered-harmful/ Quote: JavaScripts with statement was intended to provide a shorthand for writing recurring accesses to objects. So instead of writing > ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla.bing = true; > ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla.bang = true; You can write > with (ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla) { > bing = true; > bang = true; > } That looks a lot nicer. Except for one thing. There is no way that you can tell by looking at the code which bing and bang will get modifed. Will ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla be modified? Or will the global variables bing and bang get clobbered? It is impossible to know for sure. ... View more

If you provide a way of downloading your 1,000-line script, perhaps someone will be happy to test it on a Mac for you. Also if you provide sample text/document that will run it through its paces. I'm using JavaScript for all my InDesign scripting, specifically because my scripts then work on both Macs and PCs. And IMHO it's much easier to write than Applescript! [edit: provide instead of post] ... View more

You will have to be more specific what you want to select. Text in a frame? A particular 1-point black-filled path? Everything? Only select locked stray points? Graphics? And then what do you want to do with it? ... View more

Thanks for the updated version of the FindChangeByList.jsx script. I'm using it to re-map Greek Type 1 characters from a proprietary font to their correct Unicode characters in Myriad Pro. However, I had a problem with one particular glyph that I wasn't able to use (it's in the "fi" ligature spot so the glyph is tough to get to). Here's the rule I got to work. I had to use "glyphID" instead of the "findWhat"/"changeWhat" pair, and make sure to use the GID of the glyph instead of the Unicode value. I could have saved a lot of time if the sample file included a glyph line, so here's what I found to work for my fonts. (And yes, the font is named "Phili Bold Obl".) Imagine tabs instead of CR for readability: glyph {glyphID:200, appliedFont:"Phili Bold Obl", fontStyle:"Regular"} {glyphID:599, appliedFont:"Myriad Pro", fontStyle:"Bold Italic"} {caseSensitive:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Darryl Zurn ... View more

Thanks to Jongware for making this available. I never knew if I was missing the Javascript reference PDF for CS3 or if it was never made. Good to find out that this ZIP archive has the necessary information for this. I appreciate it, thanks for the great work. Moderators, please consider making this a permanent post! ... View more

Wouldn't it be cleaner to have an "s_t.superior" ligature? Then it's just sub [one one.small one.osf] s' t' by s_t.superior ... View more

I have been sorely tempted to update my company's custom fonts to OpenType from Type 1 format. However Thomas had an excellent point, that not all our *vendors* might be updated at the same time. So they might have our old Type 1 font loaded and open a doc with my new bling-bling OpenType font. They won't get any Font Missing error since the old Type 1 is taking up that niche in our font ecology. So I am resigned to renaming the font, and the users will do a font substitution if they want to use the OpenType version. ... View more