Open all indd files from a folder and create a text box in each file.

Question

var sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog("select a folder");

var myFiles = sourceFolder.getFiles("*indd");

for(i=0; i<myFiles.length; i++)

{

app.open(myFiles[i]);

app.activeDocument.pages[0].textFrames.add(); // can we another variable instead of activeDocument something like app.myFiles[i].pages[0].textFrames.add();

}

m1b · Accepted Answer

Hi @virender_CTS, you probably have enough answers to go on, but you didn't mention what your scripting experience was, so maybe you need some more targetted help. See comments in code below.

- Mark

var sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog("select a folder");
// check if sourceFolder isn't null/undefined/zero
// it will be null if user cancelled select dialog
if (sourceFolder) {
    var myFiles = sourceFolder.getFiles("*indd");
    for (i = 0; i < myFiles.length; i++) {
        // store the opened document in variable
        var doc = app.open(myFiles[i]);
        // example of another variable that uses doc
        var width = doc.pages[0].bounds[3];
        // like Uwe's post
        doc.pages[0].textFrames.add(
            {
                geometricBounds: ["-10mm", "0mm", "-3mm", width],
                contents: "This text is off the page."
            }
        );
    }
}

Kasyan Servetsky · Answer

You can write a one-line script and run it from the Batch processor.

Instead of the active document, you can use g.doc which is the global variable (available in both scripts) for the current document opened by BP.

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