[JS][CS3] Script to edit script

[Roy Marshall]

HI

I have made a script that passes values into another script and re-saves the new script.  This works fine, but I really need to save as a binary version.

Is this possible?

Cheers

Roy

[Harbs. · Accepted solution]

I don't think so.

I would use a different strategy. Write the values to a separate file

and read those in your script.

Harbs

[Roy Marshall]

Ah yes, didn't think of that.  That would work fine.

Thanks Harbs!

[Marc Autret]

Harbs is right, but if your need is to update some litteral or numeric values in a jsxbin where you have preformatted fields, it is possible to directly encode and re-inject the data within, using elaborately the File.seek and File.write methods with your encoder. You'll find a few clues about this technique here: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/11/can-indesign-script-rewrite-itself

[Harbs.]

I forgot about that post of yours. Really cool stuff!

The fact of the matter is, I think writing small text files is a lot

easier that messing with the script code. You can also use

app.insertLabel very effectively.

Harbs

[Marc Autret]

Yep! For most projects jsxbin injection is expensively complex and there is no reason to use it. Actually I only use this technique to watermark a script on the fly from PHP.

@+

Marc