I assume, that the translator works in InCopy? As Bob told you, normally translators work in programs like Trados. Here the xml part in a idml-file is used as a exchange between InDesign and the translation program. However,  1. This can only happen, if the translator change this in InCopy. A workaround is, to work exactly with styles and when the document is back, have a look a the overrides and delete them. 2. There are different ways to export only those parts, that should be translated. Everything else will be greyed out. 3. There are scripts available, that delete empty files. Otherwise work with layers and export only content, that should be translated. 400 icmls sounds to not linking textframes? It seems that he did not use assignments and therefore no package too. ... View more

What is your saved query? "^.+?$" will find the whole para. Why not search directly for your para with the specific style? app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "test"; var res = app.activeDocument.findGrep(); Kai ... View more

Crossposting on indesignsecrets! Kas, I think we can step this loop for checking if a row is a footer row: main(); function main() {   var allTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();   for (var i = 0; i < allTables.length; i++) {     var curTable = allTables;     var numberOfFooterRows = curTable.footerRowCount;     var fRows = curTable.rows.itemByRange(-numberOfFooterRows, -1).getElements();     var firstFooterRow = fRows[0];     firstFooterRow.properties = {topEdgeStrokeColor: "CBOC Blue"};   } } Kai ... View more

Can someone provide a idml-file with that problem? I’m here with Willi and have the feeling, that I choose in the past another object style, but important: If the override is on a textframe, choose the graphics frame object style, then none, then the text frame object style. Nevertheless: It would be interesting to inspect such a file. And: Some properties can only be set with scripting, e.g. remove ideoSpaceBehavior, set a fillColor to 100 %, remove spanning-entries in the overview … Kai ... View more

Double posting: https://indesignsecrets.com/topic/indesign-to-excel#post-92213 ... View more

Uwe, what is the benefit of using pathPoints instead of geometricBounds? Thanks Kai ... View more

Why? I think, Loics example is pretty clear?! var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var oStye = (curDoc.objectStyles.itemByName("mySel").isValid) ? curDoc.objectStyles.itemByName("mySel") : curDoc.objectStyles.add({name: "mySel"}); oStye.properties = {   enableTextFrameAutoSizingOptions: true,   textFramePreferences: {     autoSizingType: AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_AND_WIDTH,     autoSizingReferencePoint: AutoSizingReferenceEnum.TOP_CENTER_POINT,     useNoLineBreaksForAutoSizing: true   } }; or var curDoc = app.activeDocument; if  (! curDoc.objectStyles.itemByName("mySel").isValid) {   var oStyle = curDoc.objectStyles.add({     name: "mySel",     enableTextFrameAutoSizingOptions: true,     textFramePreferences: {       autoSizingType: AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_AND_WIDTH,       autoSizingReferencePoint: AutoSizingReferenceEnum.TOP_CENTER_POINT,       useNoLineBreaksForAutoSizing: true     }   }); } ... View more

Change your if-statement to: if (myW.show () == 1) {   var pageRange = myDoc.pages.itemByRange(fpage.text, lpage.text).textFrames.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem();   app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;      app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = brans.text;    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "BB";      pageRange.changeGrep();   app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;    } Kai ... View more

Haha, if there is no property, a value alone cannot work. Shouldn’t write something before go to bed 😉 So, Ellis code ist right! The additional padding-property is working like "textframe inset" and put the line away from the paragraph. To the ideal situation: Either InDesign should honor a paragraph-rule in the output or someone should write his one CSS. I would never include a second CSS-file in the document. Instead I vote for a complete own CSS and don’t use the InDesign generated CSS, cause 90% of InDesigns generated Code is either superfluous or wrong. Kai ... View more

Hi, two things are needed: 1. two paragraph styles, if this are two paragraphs! Otherwise the two paragraphs could be exported as one para and separated with a shift return. 2. Search the two styles in the css and add. .myStyleAbove {   1px solid red; } .myStyleBelow {   1px solid red; } ... View more

It seems, that (?<!~b)~b doesn’t work in InDesign. Jean-Claude find out, that e.g. (?<!e)e won’t work too. bug or logical?? So my idea for the above task is: Find what: (?<=\S)\x20*\r(?!\s) Change to: one space ... View more

Or with GREP: Find what: (?<!~b)~b(?!~b) Change to: one space Realize that with Jareks and my version, there could be 2 spaces, since there could be a space before the return at the end of the line. So I would recommend a step 4 (Jareks example) or a step 2 (the grep version) Find what: \x20{2,} Change to: nothing Kai ... View more

Sadly it would be possible for 4, not 5 tables, with the spaning columns feature: Split 4 ... View more

Hi Patrick, I wrote in August a similiar script and provided it to the facebook-GREP-Community. No interface at the moment, but you can simply use multiple grep by adding a line after line 13. If nothing is selected, all tables in your document are changed. If one table is selected, only this table is honored. Maybe it is useful. Kai // Kai Rübsamen, www.ruebiarts.de app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, [], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "style cells based on content"); function main() { var tbl = getTable(); var styleRow = false; var styleColumn = false; changeTable("\\b[1-4]?\\d%", "cellStyle01"); changeTable("\\b[5]\\d%", "cellStyle02"); // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  FUNCTIONS  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - function getTable() {   if (app.documents.length == 0) {     alert ("Open a document!");     exit();   }   // die Auswahl speichern   var sel = app.selection;   var nSel = sel.length;   // ... und prüfen   if (nSel == 0) {     var res = confirm("Warning:\rDo you want to style all tables in your document?\nOtherwise select a table and start the script again!");     if (res) {       var curDoc = app.activeDocument;       return curDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();     }     else {       exit();     }   }   else if (nSel == 1) {     var curSel = sel[0];     // es darf entweder 'Table', 'Cell' oder ein Text innerhalb einer Tabelle ausgewählt sein     if (/Table|Cell/.test(curSel.constructor.name) == true || (curSel.hasOwnProperty("baseline") && curSel.parent.constructor.name == "Cell")) {       while (curSel.constructor.name != "Table") {         curSel = curSel.parent;       }       return curSel;     }     else {       alert("Hey, wrong selection!\rSelect a table.");       exit();     }   }   else {     // wenn mehr wie 1 ausgewählt ist     alert("Hey, wrong selection!\rSelect a table.");     exit();   } } // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - function changeTable(f, s) {   app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;   app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;   // In der Variablen 'tbl' steckt entweder eine Tabelle oder ein Array. Da eine einzelne   // Tabelle keine Eigenschaft 'length' hat, wird mit dem 'constructor' geprüft.   if (tbl.constructor.name ==  "Array") {     // eine Schleife durch alle Tabellen im Dokument     for (var j = 0; j < tbl.length; j++) {       // die aktuelle Tabelle durchsuchen       var curTable = tbl ;       applyStyle(curTable, s);     }   }   else if (tbl.constructor.name == "Table") {     // hier wird nur die jeweils ausgewählte Tabelle behandelt     applyStyle(tbl,s);   } } function applyStyle(curTable, s) {   var curDoc = app.activeDocument;   // alle Fundstellen in EINER Tabelle   var tableFound = curTable.findGrep();     for (var i = 0; i < tableFound.length; i++) {     var curFound = tableFound;     // die Zelle, in der sich die aktuelle Fundstelle befindet     var parCell = curFound.parent;     if (!(styleRow || styleColumn)) {       parCell.appliedCellStyle = curDoc.cellStyles.itemByName(s);       parCell.clearCellStyleOverrides(true);     }     else if (styleRow) {       // von der Zelle zur Zeile zu allen Zellen (man kann nur Zellen ein Format zuweisen)       var cellsInRow = parCell.parentRow.cells.everyItem();       // das Format zuweisen       cellsInRow.appliedCellStyle = curDoc.cellStyles.itemByName(s);       // sicherheitshalber Abweichungen löschen       cellsInRow.clearCellStyleOverrides(true);     }     else if (styleColumn) {       // von der Zelle zur Zeile zu allen Zellen (man kann nur Zellen ein Format zuweisen)       var cellsInCol = parCell.parentColumn.cells.everyItem();       // das Format zuweisen       cellsInCol.appliedCellStyle = curDoc.cellStyles.itemByName(s);       // sicherheitshalber Abweichungen löschen       cellsInCol.clearCellStyleOverrides(true);     }   } } app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; } // end main ... View more

I did not find the error in your code, but assume, that it will work, if you spent some clean up 😉 Not tested: var openDocs = app.documents; var nDocs = openDocs.length; if (confirm( "Do you want to export all open documents?", undefined, "Exporter")) {   for (var i = 0; i < nDocs; i++) {     var curDoc = openDocs;     var allPages = curDoc.pages;     try {       allPages[0].remove();       allPages[-1].remove();      }     catch(e) {}     var newDoc1 = new File( "~/Desktop/"+ curDoc.name.replace(/\.indd$/i,".idml"));     curDoc.exportFile(ExportFormat.INDESIGN_MARKUP, newDoc1);     var newDoc2 = new File("~/Desktop/"+ curDoc.name.replace(/\.indd$/i,".PDF"));     curDoc.exportFile( ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, newDoc2, false, "Jake pdf");         curDoc.undo();     curDoc.undo();   } } ... View more

1. Loop through all paras 2. Store the current para 3. Loop again in a inner loop through all paras and compare the content of the paras with the current para content 4. Maybe a bit finetunung: a) Check, if the index of the compared Para != the current para b) Create a new list, push a found and check if a found is already in the list c) include some counters to show you, how many founds you have Good luck. Edit: If you try to find only preceeded ones, then there is only one loop needed, as Loic described! If you try to find multiples on different places, you may need two loops. ... View more

Yes, this is possible! ... View more

The problem is, that those columns are not really empty, because of you xml-dots. So the easiest way is, to use try/catch for the fc-operation: try {     app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = f;      app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo  ="";        curPara.changeText(); } catch (e) {}; ... View more

Hopefully you understand, that a lot of people try to give you an entry to scripting . I would assume, that this version, works with both cases? var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var allTextFrames = curDoc.textFrames; var yValue = 11.5; var xValue = 20; var nTextFrames = allTextFrames.length-1; var i, curTextFrame, gB, y1, x1; for (i = nTextFrames; i >= 0; i--) {   curTextFrame = allTextFrames;   gB = curTextFrame.geometricBounds;   y1 = gB[0].toFixed(2);   x1 = gB[1].toFixed(2);     if (y1 == yValue && x1 != xValue) {     curTextFrame.remove();   }     else if (x1 == xValue && y1 != yValue) {       curTextFrame.remove();   } } ... View more

O.k., so let’s go one step backwards! The goal is to find textframes on a specific x or y position. So you need first: all text frames in your document. Since you cannot simply call textframes, you must call the containers as well. Als Loic said, it is always a good idea to store such things in a variable. var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var allTextFrames = curDoc.textFrames; While you can count your textframes, you can loop through every individual textframe with it’s index. And because you want to delete frames, it may a good idea to loop from the end. Since this so called index starts with '0' instead of '1', we need one loop less than the length of your textframes. var nTextFrames = allTextFrames.length-1; for (var i = nTextFrames; i >= 0; i--) {     var curTextFrame = allTextFrames;     // do something } ... View more

Loic, the question is, how to find x- and y-positions, not to compare the whole bounds 😉 Besides the wrong loop, the op use a comma in his value, instead of a point, so 11,5 should bei 11.5 ... View more

In this case there is no particular reason! Both will work. If I remove or duplicate things, I do it always backwards. ... View more

Hi Dimitra, here is the idea. If you have any problems with the script, you will surely get help 1. Collect all textframes in you document 2. Loop backwards through all your textframes 3. Compare the x OR y coordinates of the current object with your specified value 3 a. If you have no result, the values should maybe rounded before comparison 4. Delete the object best Kai ... View more