For Hebrew and MANY other character sets you need to export to Unicode.
You can do this by setting the export preferences. You can see I've done this in the "Switch" for the 2 text formats.
Rtf should be working without change.
//ExportAllStories.jsx
//An InDesign JavaScript
/*
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ "ExportAllStories.jsx" 3.0.0 15 December 2009
Adjusted by Trevor to allow for Unicode
*/
//Exports all stories in an InDesign document in a specified text format.
//
//For more on InDesign/InCopy scripting see the documentation included in the Scripting SDK
//available at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/sdk.html
//or visit the InDesign Scripting User to User forum at http://www.adobeforums.com
//
main();
function main() {
//Make certain that user interaction (display of dialogs, etc.) is turned on.
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
if (app.documents.length != 0) {
if (app.activeDocument.stories.length != 0) {
myDisplayDialog();
} else {
alert("The document does not contain any text. Please open a document containing text and try again.");
}
} else {
alert("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again.");
}
}
function myDisplayDialog() {
with(myDialog = app.dialogs.add({ name: "ExportAllStories" })) {
//Add a dialog column.
myDialogColumn = dialogColumns.add()
with(myDialogColumn) {
with(borderPanels.add()) {
staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "Export as:" });
with(myExportFormatButtons = radiobuttonGroups.add()) {
radiobuttonControls.add({ staticLabel: "Text Only", checkedState: true });
radiobuttonControls.add({ staticLabel: "RTF" });
radiobuttonControls.add({ staticLabel: "InDesign Tagged Text" });
}
}
}
myReturn = myDialog.show();
if (myReturn == true) {
//Get the values from the dialog box.
myExportFormat = myExportFormatButtons.selectedButton;
myDialog.destroy;
myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Choose a Folder");
if ((myFolder != null) && (app.activeDocument.stories.length != 0)) {
myExportAllStories(myExportFormat, myFolder);
}
} else {
myDialog.destroy();
}
}
}
//myExportStories function takes care of exporting the stories.
//myExportFormat is a number from 0-2, where 0 = text only, 1 = rtf, and 3 = tagged text.
//myFolder is a reference to the folder in which you want to save your files.
function myExportAllStories(myExportFormat, myFolder) {
var exportPreference;
for (myCounter = 0; myCounter < app.activeDocument.stories.length; myCounter++) {
myStory = app.activeDocument.stories.item(myCounter);
myID = myStory.id;
switch (myExportFormat) {
case 0:
myFormat = ExportFormat.textType;
myExtension = ".txt"
exportPreference = app.textExportPreferences.properties; // Store old preference value
app.textExportPreferences.characterSet = TextExportCharacterSet.UTF8; // Export to UNICODE
break;
case 1:
myFormat = ExportFormat.RTF;
myExtension = ".rtf"
break;
case 2:
myFormat = ExportFormat.taggedText;
myExtension = ".txt"
exportPreference = app.taggedTextExportPreferences.properties; // Store old preference value
app.taggedTextExportPreferences.characterSet = TagTextExportCharacterSet.UNICODE; // Export to UNICODE
break;
}
myFileName = "StoryID" + myID + myExtension;
myFilePath = myFolder + "/" + myFileName;
myFile = new File(myFilePath);
myStory.exportFile(myFormat, myFile);
switch (myExportFormat) { // Reset to old preference value
case 0:
app.textExportPreferences.properties = exportPreference;
break;
case 2:
app.taggedTextExportPreferences.properties = exportPreference;
break;
}
}
}
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