You can't anchor one text frame with another. Anchors appear in text (which generally means its inside a text frame). Ah, but now I'm thoroughly confused because the article you pointed to doesn't have anything to do with anchoring. So what are you trying to do? Are the frames on the pages threaded? You can't anchor a threaded frame to another story -- only stand-alone frames can be anchored. Are you trying to write a script to create new text frames to be anchored to an existing story? Or are you trying to work with frames that already exist? Dave ... View more

A script does not have to make a selection to operate on objects, and indeed, you can't select beyond either the current spread or current text range. Selecting is what you have to do to use the user interface but a script can operate on any objects you can address ... as you seem to understand from the snippet of code you provided. app.activeDocument.pages.item(0).allPageItems should have given you an array of all the page items on the first page of the active document, but because it's an array you have to loop through the items working on each one: myItems = app.activeDocument.pages[0].allPageItems; for (var j = myItems.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {    processItem(myItems ); } where processItem is a function that does whatever you want to do to each item. Dave ... View more

Do you just want the underlined text to appear in a PDF, all clumped together? Or spread out so it appears in the same position on the pages as it is in the indd document? What about graphics? Do you want them suppressed too? I'd tackle this by copying the text to another document and then exporting that. But the specifics would depend on exactly what you're trying to do. Dave ... View more

What does "adjust to a text frame mean" Your picture suggests you want to adjust the height to match that of the text frame -- is that correct? To do that, you need to adjust each row; if you simply change the height of the table itself, the rows will indeed be adjusted to be of equal height. So, to achieve your goal, you need to calculate the position of the current bottom of the table, subtract that from the height of the frame and then divide by the number of rows to get an increment for each row. Dave ... View more

Let's just clarify that Trevor's examples work only if the active document has layers with the exact names he's using in his sample code. Dave ... View more

Yes, I believe this is an InDesign Server bug. It might not be just Server. A faint bell of recognition is ringing in my head that this has been an issue for years. That's why I was able to suggest the workaround the moment you mentioned SmallCaps. Dave ... View more

I have appointments for the rest of the morning so I won't be able to help until this afternoon at the earliest (I'm in New Jersey). Dave ... View more

Could you select a paragraph that includes a character to which you have applied this character style you created, export that to tagged text and then post that tagged text here? Thanks, Dave ... View more

Yes, you can do what you want. But your sample has a couple of problems: Because you joined all the paragraph styles together into a single string, you can use its length to control the for loop. The length of a string is the number of characters in the string. You only need to create the file once, so do it before the for-loop. You need to enclose the content of the for-loop in braces. I have the impression you want to work this out for your self rather than just have someone write a script for you, so here's how I'd go about it: I'd make use of JavaScript's toSource() feature to get the values into a string for writing to the file. But, myParagraphStyle.toSource() produces too much information. So, I'd create a new object with just the properties of interest and populate that from each paragraph style then use toSource to write that to the file. Hope this helps. Dave ... View more

In that case, you might be able to work around this fairly painlessly. If you're using local formatting, you'll need to convert all instances to a character style. Having done that, or if you started with a character style anyway, you can redefine the character style to do your own simulation using All-Caps and scaling percentages for both Horizontal and Vertical. That way, the documents will still look exactly the same (assuming you use the same scaling percentage as is set in preferences) but don't call for those simulated Small Caps which seem to break InDesign Server. Dave ... View more

Did you make a character style with that name? That is far and away the easiest and most reliable way to achieve the aim and it also has the benefit of being the most flexible. Dave ... View more

Here you go. You'll have to create the character style in your document, and I've assumed that it is not inside a CharacterStyleGroup. //DESCRIPTION: Replace Anchored Images with Styled Text (function(){           if (app.documents.length > 0) {                     var anchArray = [                               // edit names; add new pairs as needed                               {'name' : "parking.eps", 'char' : "§"},                               {'name' : "swimmingpool.eps", 'char' : "#"},                               {'name' : "o-fc1_setup.pdf", 'char' : "∏"} // my test case                     ]                     replaceAnchors(app.documents[0], anchArray);           }           function replaceAnchors(aDoc, anchArray) {                     var links = aDoc.links.everyItem().getElements();                     for (var j = links.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {                               var anchor = getAnchor(links );                               if (anchor == null) continue; // link not anchored                               var aChar = getCharacter(links .name, anchArray);                               if (aChar != null) {                                         anchor.contents = aChar;                                         anchor.appliedCharacterStyle = "StyleKYB"                               }                     }           }           function getCharacter(linkName, anchArray) {                     for (var j = anchArray.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {                               if (linkName == anchArray .name) {                                         return anchArray ['char'];                               }                     }                     return null;           }           function getAnchor(link) {                     var theChar = link.parent.parent.parent;                     if (theChar instanceof Character) {                               return theChar;                     }                     return null; // not anchored           } }()) I'd appreciate you indicating that I have correctly answered your question. Thanks, Dave ... View more

While this could indeed be done by the script through local formatting (although I wouldn't be able to test it because I don't have the font), you might consider setting up a character style to apply the required parameters, then the script could apply that or you could even apply it using a GREP style (assuming you have no other instances of the characters in question). Dave ... View more

Yes. Which font? What size? Or do you want the script to get the size of the anchored frame and match that automatically? The mechanics of this would be to set the font and size in the replace Anchors function immediately after setting the contents to the designated character. Dave ... View more

Could be. Are they designed smallCaps or simulated? Dave ... View more

I had a similar circumstance recently where I was updating running heads in a long document and then handing the document off to another process which was exporting a PDF. We realized that the running heads weren't all being updated every time, and it looked as though the PDF export was being triggered before the updates had been completed. So, before the hand-off, I built-in a delay using $.sleep(n) where n was something like 1 millisecond for every page in the document. You might try something like that. No guarantees of course. Dave ... View more

I started a new topic which you may have seen, but just in case, this seems to work (I was wrong about there not being a window to work with): #target indesign #targetengine 'dave' (function(){           var myEventListener = app.eventListeners.add("afterOpen", testFunction, false);           function testFunction() {                     app.layoutWindows[0].bounds = [50, 32, 1143, 944];           } }()) Dave ... View more

What do you know, this works: #target indesign #targetengine 'dave' (function(){           var myEventListener = app.eventListeners.add("afterOpen", testFunction, false);           function testFunction() {                     app.layoutWindows[0].bounds = [50, 32, 1143, 944];           } }()) Dave ... View more

Thanks for the compliment. re: var myDoc = app.documents[0]; The first statement of the ResizeWindow function is precisely that. I'll try some experiments to see if I can get a handle on this, but don't hold your breath! Dave ... View more

These are the worst kind of problems because it's fairly clear that it is a system issue rather than a script issue. Where are your fonts located? Is there any correlation between the fonts that cause the problem and whether they're local to InDesign Server or to the documents (e.g., in Document Fonts folders)? Is it possible that under some circumstances, InDesign Server is closing the document before the printing has completed and this is causing a false font error report? I am grasping at any straws that come to mind here. Dave ... View more

I've written so few event-handling scripts that I'm not much use here, but I suspect that your problem could well be that afterOpen happens after the document opens but before the window is drawn. Dave ... View more

OK, that worked. Hurix, Can you say a little more: which scripting language do you use? How experienced are you? When you say "How to extract ParagraphStyle name" what do you mean? Extract from where? I'm guessing the selected text. Where do you want Sample.txt to be? On your desktop? In the same folder as your document? What if the document is unsaved? Dave ... View more

How often do you restart the server under normal conditions? Or do you just leave it running until you have a problem? I ask because this sounds like the server getting its knickers in a twist over a period of time. Dave ... View more

I think Startup is too early for this script to do anything. There's no window for it to operate on at that point. You might be able to make it responsive to an onOpen event, although even that might be too early because the window comes after the event. I've never felt the urge to do this kind of thing because I actually use a pair of instances of this script each with a shortcut to toggle between full and half screen. I even have another instance that will push the document on to my second monitor, so having any of them operate automatically is of marginal value. Dave ... View more

This script does the job. You'll need to update the anchArray to fit your actual needs. You'll see that I added a test case so I could test the script. //DESCRIPTION: Replace Anchored Images with Text (function(){           if (app.documents.length > 0) {                     var anchArray = [                               // edit names; add new pairs as needed                               {'name' : "parking.eps", 'char' : "§"},                               {'name' : "swimmingpool.eps", 'char' : "#"},                               {'name' : "o-fc1_setup.pdf", 'char' : "∏"} // my test case                     ]                     replaceAnchors(app.documents[0], anchArray);           }           function replaceAnchors(aDoc, anchArray) {                     var links = aDoc.links.everyItem().getElements();                     for (var j = links.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {                               var anchor = getAnchor(links );                               if (anchor == null) continue; // link not anchored                               var aChar = getCharacter(links .name, anchArray);                               if (aChar != null) {                                         anchor.contents = aChar;                               }                     }           }           function getCharacter(linkName, anchArray) {                     for (var j = anchArray.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {                               if (linkName == anchArray .name) {                                         return anchArray ['char'];                               }                     }                     return null;           }           function getAnchor(link) {                     var theChar = link.parent.parent.parent;                     if (theChar instanceof Character) {                               return theChar;                     }                     return null; // not anchored           } }()) Dave ... View more

The script most certainly does work. It just doesn't do what you wanted it to because until now you haven't said what you wanted. And even now I'm thoroughly confused because you said earlier that you had a number of images you wanted to replace, but now you have just one. Where is it? Do you know exactly where in the document? Or do you have to search for it? Does the image appear just once? Or is it in the document many times? Is it linked? Because if so, that's the best way to find it, via the document's links collection. Dave ... View more

You should look for all of them and then cycle through them with a for loop. Here's one way of tackling it that works because anchored pageItems are returned as the pageItems collection of text, so assuming that the anchors you care about are within the selection, this will work: //DESCRIPTION: Replace anchored items in selected text with characters (function(){           if (app.documents.length > 0                               && app.selection.length == 1                               && app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty("baseline")) {                     replaceAnchors(app.selection[0]);           }           function replaceAnchors(someText) {                     var pageItems = someText.pageItems;                     for (var j = pageItems.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {                               var myChar = pageItems .parent;                               myChar.contents = String.fromCharCode(65 + j);                     }           } }()) Dave ... View more