InDesign Preference Settings

Hi Jarek Jongware,

Regarding the suggestion for the capitalization and plurals of the words I was really talking about the preferences suite.  This was the suite that had caused me more problems when I started scripting.  I clicked onto the plural use of and capitalization of objects like rectangles and can see a logic (all be it a bit of a pain in the neck) of having a singular capitalized form Rectangle for the the [object Rectangle], after all a rectangle's constructor.name is Rectangle and not

rectangles and the use of the plural form for a collection of rectangles (or rectangle objects).  I did struggle a bit more with the preferences which have no visible singular working form, there are [object Preferences] but not [object Preference].

All sounds pretty simple that I shouldn't have had any trouble with it but seeing as both and Uwe and I did somewhat struggle with the issue and that we probably are not too much thicker than the average bloke on the street and given the convenience of  of having a copyable title up the top for simple copy paste purposes I don't think it's a completely invalid "feature request".

All said you are 100% the boss on this topic and the chm Object Reference is probably the most useful and used scripting resource out there.

Thanks.

Hi Jarek Uwe,

I guess you must of had some German in your script titles or somewhere else in the file which caused it to be a 0 byte file.

Please can you try the below which has encoding, lineFeed and BOM added to it. I'm sure that will work but would like to hear some confirmation.

Regards,

Jarek Trevor

P.s. Hi Jarek

var topics = [],
      properties = [],
      z = 0, t, p, c;
for (t in app) topics[z++] = t;
z--;
for (n = 0; n < z; n++) {
    y = 0;
    properties = [];
    try {
        properties[0] = "********************   " + topics + "   *************************\r"
        for (p in app[topics]) {
        try {c = app[topics]
} catch (e) {c = "?";};
        properties[++y] = "app." + topics + "." + p + "\t=\t" + c;
        }
    properties = properties.join("\r");
    }
    catch (e) {};
}
temp = new File (Folder (Folder.temp) + "/" + app.name + " Properties and Preferences " + ("" + new Date).replace(/:/g,"\xB7").replace(/\s\S+$/,"")+ ".txt");
temp.encoding = "UTF-8";
temp.lineFeed = ($.os[0]=="M") ? "Macintosh" :" Windows";
temp.open('w');
temp.write("\uFEFF************* " + app.name + " Properties and Preferences *************\r\r");
temp.write("********************   Contents   *************************\r\rapp." + topics.join("\rapp.") + "\r\r\r" + properties.join("\r\r"));
temp.close();
$.sleep(300);
temp.execute(true);