With CS4, some things have changed

I received errors(RPC_E_DISCONNECTED) on both Windows Vista and XP when scripting InDesign CS4 for Windows using C#.NET.

But the same program runs fine with InDesing CS3.

Any suggestions welcome !

Another thing: CS4 has new required variables in the packageForPrint() function so if you have a call to that function you might get an error (I did).

-Nissan

Just found that layoutAdjustmentPreference object is gone from the InDesign Server CS4 6.0 DOM. Still there in the desktop version so maybe it was re-classified as part of the UI. All my server scripts turn that off and it was throwing the error.

-Nissan

Hi,

there is a difference between CS3 and CS4 if you want to get the contents of the line of an XmlElement:

If you have myXmlElement in a line and you try to get the contents with

myXmlElement.lines[0].contents;

With CS3 you get the content of the whole line whereas with CS4 you get only the contents up to the XmlElement.

Can anyone confirm this ?

Thanks Stefan

This script produces different results in CS3 and CS4:

var myDoc = app.documents.add();
var myTF = myDoc.pages[0].textFrames.add({geometricBounds:myDoc.pages[0].bounds});
var myTable = myTF.parentStory.tables.add(LocationOptions.atEnd);
myTable.bodyRowCount = 7;
for (var j = myTable.bodyRowCount - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
    myTable.cells.item("0:" + j).contents = String(j);
}
var myArray = myTable.columns[0].cells.itemByRange(1, myTable.bodyRowCount -1).texts[0].contents;
alert(myArray)

In CS3, you get an alert that reads:

1,2,3,4,5,6

In CS4, you get just:

1

To get the same alert in CS4 you need to use this to construct myArray:

var myArray = myTable.columns[0].cells.itemByRange(1, myTable.bodyRowCount-1).cells.everyItem().contents;

Dave

Rem Given an instance of InDesign "myInDesign"...

myInDesign.WordRTFImportPreferences.PreserveGraphics = True

myInDesign.WordRTFImportPreferences.ConvertTablesTo = idUnformattedTable

Rem ...set other import preferences...

Rem Now do your place operation