How do I execute/add a 3rd party extension into a script?

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March 18, 2015
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I was wondering if someone could help me run a copyfit extension by MPS at the end of my findchangebylist script? I'm using InDesign CS4/CS6 running on Windows. I'm using the sample script that came with InDesign. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

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Rnichols27Author

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Using this block I can open the panel for the plug in. That is Step 1 from my previous post. Can anyone help with getting it to walk through the button clicks?

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Rnichols27Author

Participant

No. I need to know how to get a script to run MPS CopyFit tool. I can get a script to open the panel for the tool. I need it to actually run the tool itself. Right now we have to click the button and the following dialog boxes.

step 1

step 2

step 3

Not sure if that helps at all. I know it seems trivial but we make close to 100 files a day, everyday and it would be nice to have this included in our find/replace script. This way our files would be "cleaned" and ready to print with minimal room for human error. Skipped steps hurt us big time. Trying to make it as simple as possible by having one script take care of most of our problems all at once. Thanks again for any and all help.

TᴀW

Legend

The answer depends on whether the people who made CopyFit made it

scriptable.

If it is scriptable, then you would need to write a script for it, which

you could then tag on to your find/change script as I showed above.

I have no experience with that particular plugin.

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Loic.Aigon

Legend

What about invoking the menuItem if the plugin added an entry ?

Loic

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Rnichols27Author

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To be a little more clear. The findreplacebylist script works fine. I would just like to have it run a copyfit extension after it does all of the listed find/replace commands.