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[CS4][AS] Detect problems when opening document

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
March 24, 2010
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Hi,

Can anyone please help me?

I'm trying to write a applescript that opens a indesign file, prints the document, and closes the file again.

Everything works fine but when a file is opend, and there are some missing plugings, assignments, fonts, images, .... the script stops.

How can I detect if a error appears when opening a file? The file then has to be ignored...

How can I detect if anything is missing before printing the file?

Thanks

the script:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"

set myDocument to open inInputFile

print active document using "HighresPreset" without print dialog

close active document saving no

end tell

Scripting

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augur165

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You can ignore Dialogues altogether.

http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/reference/ASLR_control_statements.html

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Anonymous

Hello,

You can use:

try

set myDocument to open inInputFile

on error

display dialog "ERROR: can't open file."

return

end try

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L__Guy_O_Rojo

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Hi:

Sometimes you may want your script to proceed even if there are errors opening it. In that case, you can use the Preferences Suite -> Script Preference for user interaction level:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"

tell script preferences

return user interaction level -- see what it's set to currently

--set user interaction level to never interact -- change it

end tell

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JohnDevlonAuthor

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Hi,

Many thanks for your feedback. Setting the interaction level to "interact with alerts" was helpfull.

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