More Find/Change Issues !!

Hi Seth,

re: FindChangeByList

Which dialog are you looking for? Also, which platform (Mac OS/Windows) are you using?

re: ReadPMTags

It's just like PageMaker tags, which don't include character styles or object styles. It does have two features that the original PM tags didn't include--<i> for italic and <b> for bold.

Take the ReadPMTags function from the script, though, and you'll have a good place to start.

Thanks,

Ole

Thanks for the help in finding the scripts.

I still can't get a dialog to come up for the find/change script unless I edit the directory path in line 119 by deleting the first "/". then it errors and says that the "find" text entry is invalid. Clues?

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also
will the "ReadPMTags.jsx" script allow you to apply character, paragraph, and object styles to the remaining text, or will the text have to be assigned 1 paragraph style?

Thanks

Hi Seth,

re: "Supposedly their is a "new" FindChangeByList.jsx somewhere that works, but I am unable to find it. the scripting/index page on adobe's website is useless, and provides no help what so ever. no links either."

I just looked, and everything is still working. Go to:

http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html

Then click the Scripting Resources tab.

Here are the direct links that might be helpful--first, updated sample scripts:

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/downloads/indesign_cs3_sample_scripts.zip

Second, the scripts that go with the Scripting Guide:

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/downloads/indesign_cs3_guide_scripts.zip

In the latter, you should take a look at the ReadPMTags.jsx script (it's in the Text folder inside the JavaScript folder of the uncompressed archive). You can take the function (of the same name) from that script and modify it to do exactly what you want.

Also, if you don't see links or information at that page--which browser are you using?

Thanks,

Ole