[CS5][JS] Bookmark name problem (Bug?)

[JohnDevlon]

Hi,

Can anyone please help me?

I'm trying to create a bookmark from a text selection. When running the script from indesign, in 80% of the tests, the name will not change to the selected text. In 20% of the cases it does change the name. I can't find any reason why. There is no pattern. No error occurs when running the script. When encapsulation the script in a try/catch, no exception is thrown.

When running the script from extendscript toolkit it ALWAYS works. It's driving me nuts.

The code:

                                var myText = app.selection[0].contents;

                                var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

                                var currPage = app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;

                                var curBookmark = myDoc.bookmarks.add(currPage);

                                curBookmark.label = myText;

                                curBookmark.name = myText;

Any help would be great.

John

[Peter Kahrel]

I remember that at some stage (CS4, I believe) you had to hide the Bookmarks panel before adding bookmarks (app.panels.item ('Bookmarks').visible = false;). I don't know if that'll help you but you'll find out soon enough.

Peter

[Laubender]

@Peter:

it's all the same with CS5. Same bug as in CS4 and CS3.

Hiding the panel, adding the bookmark, showing the panel.
That's the way it works.

@All:

What is really unfortunate with bookmarks:
If you have a couple of bookmarks and ask for myDoc.bookmarks.length you only get the ones at level 0.
You have to loop over bookmarks in bookmarks etc. to get them all. I'm missing a allBookmarks property 😉

And when we're at it: is it possible to indent a bookmark scriptwise? The property is read-only, but who knows?

Plus: beware of all kind of spaces inside the text you use for the name property.
See example here of a RegEx to eliminate the problem:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1106334#1106334

In your code use:

curBookmark.name = myText.replace (/\s+/g, " ");

Otherwise you could end up with something like that:

Uwe

[John Hawkinson]

Can you loop and keep trying until it works?

[Manu Brochard]

Hi,

I recently had the same problem. I tried your solution and it seems to work.
For my part, I used another option in two steps :
1 - create all bookmarks and put their names in a label ;
2 - scan all bookmarks to set their names with thier label values if necessary.

Your solution is better. Thanks.

--
Manu

[Jongware]

CS5, eh? This 3-yr-old post described the same problem for CS3 ...

[John Hawkinson]

But did you file a bug? If not., well...