CS4 - script to set Zoom Level?

The correct filepath was C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 6.0\en_GB\Scripts\Scripts Panel (!)
Anyway,
>app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = 130;

works. Thanks to both of you!

Oh! That's what Jongware told you. Well. That's the way to do it. Trying to remember the filepath is murder.

Dave

To find the location in CS4, open the Scripts Panel and then right-click on the User folder. Choose Reveal in Finder (or whatever it's called on Windows) and there is the folder to hold your scripts. They need to be inside the Scripts Panel folder.

Dave

It's a single liner, yes. Copy it into a plain text file and save this as "zoom.jsx" (you got that right, so far) into the correct folder. Now, where that is ... I don't know the location of scripts in CS4, but you can click-right onto the "User" folder in the Scripts panel and select "Open in Explorer|Open in Finder". Then put the script in the folder "User" you see there.

(Anyone with CS4, don't hesitate to step in, although this really should work now!)

And that first line worked fine for me in plain old CS, the 2nd did nothing -- not even an error. Oh well.

I tried both, but they won't even show up in the Scripts panel. I saved as .jsx in both C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Adobe Scripts and C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Scripts.

Is this single line all there is to it? Remember I'm new to scripting. Thanks.

Try

>app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = 130;

or -- only if that doesn't work --

>app.activeDocument.windows[0].zoomPercentage = 130;

It will fail miserably if you try this on a Story window. That can be worked around, but it's easier to just don't do that.

You can set a hotkey to the script in the Keyboard Shortcut Editor (if that's still there in CS4).