Indesign Dialog user interface - help with script

[Guest]

Hi , I am very new to apple script and found this web site forum here , maybe I can get help:)

I am trying to write a script in apple script to pop up a dialog that would as user where to save that file he/she is working on

here is my example non working script

tell document 1

set myName to name

set myFirstColumnWidth to 150

set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:"Print"}

tell myDialog

tell (make dialog column)

--First Panel Border start

tell (make border panel)

tell (make dialog column)

--Options for a text size

set myTextSizeList to {"Folder1", "Folder2", "Folder3"}

tell (make dialog row)

tell (make dialog column)

make static text with properties {static label:"Book Title:", min width:myFirstColumnWidth}

end tell

tell (make dialog column)

set myTextSizeDropdown to make dropdown with properties {string list:myTextSizeList, selected index:5, min width:200}

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

set myResult to show myDialog

if myResult is true then

if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 0 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF1:" & myName

else if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 1 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF2:" & myName

else if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 2 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF3" & myName

end if

end if

end tell

end tell

also any possibility to do save a copy in applescript ? that would be even better. Any help is very much appreciated.

thank you

Dawid

[sstanleyau]

Your problem is that you're trying to make the dialog at the document rather than application level. Try this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"

tell document 1

set myName to name

end tell

set myFirstColumnWidth to 150

set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:"Print"}

tell myDialog

tell (make dialog column)

--First Panel Border start

tell (make border panel)

tell (make dialog column)

--Options for a text size

set myTextSizeList to {"Folder1", "Folder2", "Folder3"}

tell (make dialog row)

tell (make dialog column)

make static text with properties {static label:"Book Title:", min width:myFirstColumnWidth}

end tell

tell (make dialog column)

set myTextSizeDropdown to make dropdown with properties {string list:myTextSizeList, selected index:5, min width:200}

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

set myResult to show myDialog

if myResult is true then

tell document 1

if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 0 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF1:" & myName

else if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 1 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF2:" & myName

else if selected index of myTextSizeDropdown is 2 then

save to "Server:Server Space:PDF3" & myName

end if

end tell

end if

destroy myDialog

end tell

You can't do a copy save directly; you'd need to do a save, close the document, and reopen the original.

[Guest]

Yes that worked! Thank you very much.

since I can not use save copy with applescript, how would I write a script to save original in current location (it already has a name and location) then do the above script (save as)

close

and here is what I don't know: "open that original again" ?

thank you

[sstanleyau]

Roughly:

set fullPath to full name of document 1

save document 1 to fullPath

-- do your save as here

close document 1 saving no

open fullPath