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Anonymous
July 17, 2009
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[JS CS3] Crash by using FindChange-Script

  • July 17, 2009
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This is a very unusual and mysterious problem:

I've a document within 10 stories (my chapters) und I want to replace all quotation marks by using the FindChange-Script ...

text    {findWhat:"^{"}    {changeTo:"<00BB>"}

When I execute the script about each separate story the script works fine. But when I execute the script about the whole document a progress bar with the text "Replacing text" is started. And by reaching the end InDesign crashes with the information "unknown software exception (0xc000000d)".

I already tried the same script on a different computer and by copying all stories in one. Nothing works!?

So it seems that the script crashes because of the size of the document!?

Did anyone know this kind of problem? ... I don't get it!???

H.

PS: Replacing all quotation marks by the InDesign-Search+Replace works fine too.

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Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan Servetsky
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July 17, 2009

Version of the script for CS4 works well on CS3 — I tested the line you had posted on CS3 for Mac.

Kasyan

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Anonymous
July 20, 2009

It works fine by me as well. But when I got a "critical" size of text (e.g. 230 pages of my book) the script crashes InDesign.

:/

H.

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Anonymous
July 20, 2009

Hi Huksy,

If the script works with smaller documents, then the problem is probably not with the script. It's more likely one of the following:

a. Your hard drive is running out of space or is badly fragmented, or

b. You have some other problem, such as a corrupt font or a permissions problem, or

c. The large number of undo actions is causing the script to run so slowly that the application appears to have crashed

If you think it might be the last item, then we can try running the script using the doScript method.

Thanks,

Ole

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