... and the outcome is the same with indd x2 ... I tested it on my notebook — windows 10, InDesign 19.5 (too old for 20) — and it works properly. Try the previous version 4.8. Does the problem occur with it? Do you get an error message in the Batch processor 5.0.txt? If an error occurs, it is created on the desktop even when the logging is off. Try to turn logging on. It lists file names. Do they have doubled extensions? Could you send me a file for testing? Maybe something is wrong with the files. In my experience, it sometimes happens when a 3rd party plug-in is used. Try to export a file to IDML and back to INDD and test the script against it. Do you have ESTK / VS Code installed?     ... View more

Here I updated my script. Now, it's a single script that should be installed in the start-up folder. It should work in non-English versions (locales) of InDesign. I tested it in version 2024/5 on Mac & Windows and it works for me. ... View more

I ran 'single script' and checked 'Save documents on closing', now the new documents with '.indd' on the filenames (I have already got the same as file extension). And the original files are staying the same (previous versions). Is it a way to save over the orginal files by not adding '.indd'? I will use the Backups checkbox option for keeping the original documents, so changing the filenames will ad another step for me to rename. This shouldn't and doesn't happen on my side. Could you take a screenshot of the settings you used? What is your InDesign version? Which platform: Mac/Windows? Are you working locally or on the network? If the latter, are you able to save it manually? Also, if I want to make the metadata author name to 'Company name', how do I tweak the existing code you wrote above? There are a few product lines' documents and they will have different company names on the 'author' metadata, I will need to alter the 'author' for each product and save them under different jsx files. From your original post, looking at your example, I guessed that you want to get the author from the file name: everything from the beginning to the 1st underscore. Here I prepared a new script with an arguments file (author.txt). See the screenshot to get the idea, and read the script description for details.             ... View more

This can be done with the Batch resave PageMaker files script. If converted files lack fonts, you can replace them with this script. Your example file only uses Arial, so I had to make a few manual tweaks to fit the text. The image is embedded, so there is no problem with it. ... View more

Here's a new version (5.0) of my batch processor script (on DropBox). I had no time to post it on my site yet. It supports UXP scripts and IDML files. Let me know if you're able to download it now. ... View more

Hi MishoStoev,   The latest version of the script and 'step-by-step' sample files are posted on my site: see the link above. To create a shape (text frame) just choose a font, type 25, and convert it to outlines. Finally, edit the shape: set the text inset, move nodes with the white arrow, etc. It should work with Cyrillic: make sure to save the list of names as plain text (Unicode) e.g. in Notepad/TextEdit. To get the best possible result, you will have to experiment with settings in InDesign, such as font size and leading, and probably fine-tune it manually after running the script. I can't help you with this because I'm busy with my daily work.   Hope it helps! — Kasyan ... View more

Something like this: main(); function main() { var doc = app.activeDocument; var fileName = doc.name; var author = ""; // get author - everything up to the 1st underscore if (fileName.match(/_/) != null) { author = fileName.split("_")[0]; } fileName = fileName.replace(/\.indd$/, ""); // remove extention fileName = fileName.replace(/_/g, " ") // replace underscores with spaces var metaData = doc.metadataPreferences; metaData.documentTitle = fileName; metaData.author = author; } You can try it with my Batch processor to process 100+ documents.   ... View more

Here's the code (a start up script) that creates a menu item in the Links panel to trigger the script located in the app's scripts panel folder:   #targetengine "kasyan" var myScript1 = new File(app.filePath + "/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Remove all instances of the same link 1.0.jsx"); var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Remove all instances of the link"); var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false); try{ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("Links Panel Menu"); myScriptMenu.title; if (myScriptMenu.isValid && myScript1.exists) { var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1); } } catch (myError){}   There's more space for improvement but that's where I've got so far. P.S. This version works only in English locale. ... View more

Currently, I'm not sure if it's possible to add a menu item to a panel, but I know it's possible in the main and context menu. For example, assumingly the 'Remove all instances of the same link' script installed in the app's scripts panel folder, the following script (to be installed in the startup scripts folder) would create the Scripts > Remove all instances of the link menu like this:   #targetengine "kasyan" var myScript1 = new File(app.filePath + "/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Remove all instances of the same link 1.0.jsx"); var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Remove all instances of the link"); var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false); try{ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item("Scripts"); myScriptMenu.title; } catch (myError){ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add("Scripts"); } var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1);  Of course, more menu items pointing to other scripts can be added using the first one as an example.    — Kasyan ... View more

Hi Mike, It's possible to do — make a script acting as a menu item — but I'm too busy with my daily work to get down to this at the moment. — Kasyan ... View more

It is created by the Record Find Change script. ... View more

Off the top of my head, if the language setting is applied properly in the text, you can use the appliedLanguage property in the script by defining it in the findChangeStrings.txt file.   ... View more

You can do this by the 'Remove all instances of the same link' script. ... View more

To move the layers to the bottom, use the move command, like so: main(); function main() { var doc = app.activeDocument; var layerEPub = doc.layers.add({name:"EPub"}); layerEPub.move(LocationOptions.AT_END); var layerTOC = doc.layers.add({name:"TOC"}); layerTOC.move(LocationOptions.AT_END); } ... View more

Try this script. ... View more

Yes, JPEGs are OK for printing but make sure to save them with Maximum quality: 12. ... View more

Check out the Numbering script by Jared Katz. ... View more

Unfortunately, I have no more examples and no IDS anymore. ... View more

Here is an example: http://kasyan.ho.ua/tips/indesign_script/code_examples/indesign_server/gradient/gradient.html ... View more

I guess that EasyCatalog inserts some special characters so the text (file name) looks visually identical but is different under the hood. I have encountered such problems many times and wrote a couple of functions that helped me solve them on the fly. — Kas ... View more

I also encountered this error: here are the details. ... View more

I suggest a much simpler solution. I used it in this script. When the user clicks the About button, the corresponding URL address is opened in the default browser. function JumpToLink() { var tmpFolder = new Folder(Folder.temp.absoluteURI + "/Kasyan"); tmpFolder.create(); var linkJumper = File(tmpFolder.absoluteURI + "/" + tmpFileName + "temp.html"); if (!linkJumper.exists) { linkJumper.open("w"); var linkBody = '<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/text/find_text_in_location/find_text_in_location.html"></head><body> <p></body></html>' linkJumper.write(linkBody); linkJumper.close(); } linkJumper.execute(); }   A temporary HTML file is created in a  temporary folder and triggered by the execute() command in the default app (e.g. Fireworks on my computer). — Kas ... View more

1) Nobody knows — even Adobe. 2) An UXP guru — Davide Barranca — writes in his book:  "Compared to CEP, the most notable change is that UXP has lost Node.js support. You can still import pm modules in your projects, but there is no mixed-context anymore, nor default packages such as fs, path, etc." "You should have Node.js installed; even if UXP doesn't include it in the runtime, we'll use Node to automate the development environment." ... View more

@Robert at ID-Tasker  That's much easier than getting data from Excel via inter-application communication, but I don't have time for this: too busy with my daily work. Scripting is just a hobby for me. — Kas ... View more

Hi Practically237417547x6s,   I am trying to adapt it to work with google spreadsheets on a mac, and im notnhabing succeas. Any pointers? If you want to reference the contents of Google Sheets in InDesign, use Google Apps Script (GAS). Take the following steps. Build a Web API with GAS, Access the GAS Web API from InDesign using curl command, Read the contents of the sheet with GAS, Return the result to InDesign.   This is the answer to a similar question I found on this forum: the post is unavailable anymore. However, I didn't try to implement this. If someone could post an example code and show how to do this, I would be very grateful. A few years ago I played a little with Google scripting -- just scratched the surface -- but stopped because it had insuperable limitations for me.   Alternatively, I suggest you export Google Sheets to Excel to use them with my script (File > Download > Microsoft Excel).   — Kasyan ... View more