Ignore pasteboard contents

[Sudha_K]

Hi,

   When I find the contents from InDesign document, it gives the content from pasteboard also.  But I need to get the content from only pages.  How can i get the page contents alone. 

  Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,

Sudha K

[Vamitul]

something like:
doc.pages.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().getElements() might work.

[Sudha_K]

Hi,

  Thanks.  It will return all page items. I am finding contents using paragraphs style in multiple documents. Can i use pages items loop? it does not affect the progress of the process?

[Laubender]

Hi Sudha,

depending on the strategy how you are doing your Search/Replace, you can do the following:

1. Lock all page items in the document

2. Unlock all page items on the pages of the document

3. Do a TEXT Search/Replace or a GREP Search/Replace

4. Unlock all page items in the document

//1.Lock all page items in the document
app.documents[0].pageItems.everyItem().locked = true;

//2. Unlock all page items on the pages of the document
app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().locked = false;

//3.Put in here your Search/Replace function with GREP Search/Replace functionality:
myFancySearchReplaceFunction();

//4. Unlock all page items in the document
app.documents[0].pageItems.everyItem().locked = false;

function myFancySearchReplaceFunction(){
//Put in here your code
//This is just a dummy function
};

This code is for one single document.

You could do it for all documents open using a loop. Or try to expand the scope of your search/replace function (you did not provide the code) to all open documents and instead of documents[0] you could use the app.documents.everyItem() approach. Or you could open all documents of a specific folder one after another, do the search/replace, save and close the doc and then start with the next one using a loop.

Uwe

[Sudha_K]

Thank you.... Will it ignore pasteboard contents?

Need any check for any objects are locked in pages??

        var  found = 0;

        app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

        app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;

      app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = style;

      found = app.activeDocument.findText();

       app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

       app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

Also wat abt these options??

         app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;

        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;

- Sudha K

[Laubender]

I'd say, just try it in a test document with some text frames on the pasteboard and some text frames on the pages.

Uwe

[Sudha_K]

Ok thank you...

[Sudha_K]

I tested this code. It returns text from locked pageitems when using findtext  preferences.   So i could not able to ignore pasteboard items text.

- Sudha K

[Sudha_K]

Found the cleanup pasteboard script from the below site.

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/09/clean-up-your-pasteboard

Its working fine for InDesign CS4 but not for CS6.

- Sudha K

[Sajeev Sridharan · Accepted solution]

To ignore pasteboard content try this:

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "sajeev";
found = app.activeDocument.findText();
for(var i=0; i<found.length; i++)
{
    if(found.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage != null)
    {
        found.select();
        alert("Your further code process goes here...")
    }
}
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing

To clean-up paste board content (Developed by Marc Autret):

removePasteboardItems(app.documents.length && app.activeDocument);
function removePasteboardItems(/*?Document*/doc)  
{  
    if( !doc ) return;  
      var items = doc.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(),  
        t = null;  
      while( t=items.pop() ) t.parentPage || removeItem(t);  
      t = items = null;  
}  

function removeItem(/*PageItem*/item)  
{  
    try {  
        item.locked = false;  
        item.remove();  
        }  
    catch(_){}  
}  

[Sudha_K]

Hi,

Thank you... Its working for me...

- Sudha K