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Mahesh_JW
Mahesh_JW
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August 18, 2010
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How to decompile jsxbin to jsx

  • August 18, 2010
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Hi All,

I have a jsxbin script. I want to edit the script, so i need to decompile the script to jsx. How can it possible.

Thanks in Advance,

Mahesh

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Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
April 21, 2023

> The person who wrote the code no longer works for the company and I need to decompile and edit. 

 

There's a lesson for you (and anyone in the same boat): when you commission a script, while the script is being developed you work with compiled scripts. After the final payment you should get the source code. You should arrange this before work starts.

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    anitam1405587
    Known Participant
    June 15, 2023

    To be clear, I am only a worker bee within a company who has been given a task. The person who developed the code was also a long-term full-time employee who moved on. Now I'm stuck trying to problem solve after his departure.

    I find it hard to believe others haven't found themselves in a similar situation.

     

    Regardless, I managed to find the source files...FINALLY. 

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    anitam1405587
    Known Participant
    April 20, 2023

    I know you wrote this a long time ago, but I'm in the same boat as you.

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    Laubender
    Community Expert
    April 20, 2023

    Hi @anitam1405587 ,

    the answer is still the same.

    Hand the job over to someone who can write a new script from scratch.

    This time not saved as *.jsxbin file, but in plain, readable code.

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( Adobe Community Expert )

      Jongware
      Jongware
      Community Expert
      August 18, 2010

      You obviously didn't write it yourself then.

      Ask the one you got the script from.

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        anitam1405587
        Known Participant
        April 20, 2023

        An answer like this really isn't helpful. I happen to be in the same boat as the person who initially asked the question. I realize this is a very old thread, but in my case. The person who wrote the code no longer works for the company and I need to decompile and edit. There are situations where this is necessary and one cannot go back to the person who wrote the script initially.

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        anitam1405587
        Known Participant
        April 21, 2023

        Hi @anitam1405587,

        It may not be the right answer to you but this is the only answer. Technically speaking everything can be reverse engineered with varying degree of success. However, this is not a forum to discuss such things and to add to it the major portion of people responding to this thread are themselves InDesign scripters, and jsxbin format is a protection for our creations. We are not going to actively help in sabotaging a thing that is designed to protect us.

        -Manan


        Look, I get your point about this, it's not as if I'm not sympathetic. I'll go to GitHub, they'll help.
        tomaxxi
        tomaxxi
        Inspiring
        August 18, 2010

        Hey!

        There is NO way to decompile jsxbin.

        --

        tomaxxi

        http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

          Harbs.
          Harbs.
          Brainiac
          August 18, 2010

          It's not.

          The whole idea behind jsxbin, is to protect it from being viewed and edited...

          Harbs

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