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Hi @Moiz5FB2 I had a look at your script so far and I have re-written it the way I would like it. This can be just for your learning, it doesn't mean you must do it this way—there are many correct ways—but just that I prefer this approach.
Here are some notes to help:
1. The script starts by collecting all the footnotes matching the target text at the start using findGrep and stores the contents and a reference to the footnote marker in the main story.
It stores a {contents: 'my footnote s
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i guessed that too and tried with english footnote text and it did not work.
By @Moiz5FB2
What exactly have you tried?
My idea is to use InDesign's F&C - and either type text in the "Find What:" field and then run script (*) that will work with findText() or findGREP() - or save the Query:
and then load it in the script - at the beginning.
(*) could work like this:
Hi @Moiz5FB2 I had a look at your script so far and I have re-written it the way I would like it. This can be just for your learning, it doesn't mean you must do it this way—there are many correct ways—but just that I prefer this approach.
Here are some notes to help:
1. The script starts by collecting all the footnotes matching the target text at the start using findGrep and stores the contents and a reference to the footnote marker in the main story.
It stores a {contents: 'my footnote string here', marker: FOOTNOTE_SYMBOL} object in an array, organised by in the footnoteDetailsByPage object accessed by the page's document offset. This is the most complex part I think if you haven't stored properties in plain Objects before. For example we can access it like this:
var secondFootnoteMarkerOnPageOne = footnoteDetailsByPage[0][1].marker;
var sixthFootnoteContentsOnPageThree = footnoteDetailsByPage[2][5].contents;
var countOfFootnotesProcessedOnPageFive = footnoteDetailsByPage[4].length;This is what it looks like in the debugger, after running your sample document with my boxes added:
2. After collecting the info in footnoteDetailsByPage, we start a new loop, going over every page stored in footnoteDetailsByPage and then looping over every element of the array stored there. We go forwards so the indexing will be easier.
3. I've wrapped whole script in the app.doScript call.
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Process Footnotes');This is very important for a script like this, because it means that you can undo the whole script's work in one go.
4. To see more of what is happening, I collect "results" and show them at the end.
I hope that can be useful to you.
- Mark
function main() {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
// set up the find grep
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
// find footnote texts starting with "footnote:"
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '^~F\\s*Øاشية:';
var footnoteTexts = doc.findGrep();
if (!footnoteTexts)
return alert('Could not find any footnotes.');
// we will store all the contents here, organised by page index
var footnoteDetailsByPage = {};
// collect details for each matched footnote, then remove it
for (var i = footnoteTexts.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
var footnote = footnoteTexts[i].parent,
page = footnote.characters[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;
if (!footnoteDetailsByPage[page.documentOffset])
// initialize with a new array
footnoteDetailsByPage[page.documentOffset] = [];
// add details about this footnote
footnoteDetailsByPage[page.documentOffset].unshift({
// remove hidden LTR/RTL markers and trim whitespace
contents: footnote.contents.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|[\u200E\u200F\u202A-\u202E\uFEFF]/g, ""),
// we need this for later
marker: footnote.storyOffset.parentStory.characters[footnote.storyOffset.index],
});
// remove the footnote
footnoteTexts[i].remove();
}
var results = [];
// process each page
for (var pageOffset in footnoteDetailsByPage) {
if (!footnoteDetailsByPage.hasOwnProperty(pageOffset))
continue;
var page = doc.pages[pageOffset];
var footnoteDetailsForThisPage = footnoteDetailsByPage[pageOffset];
var contents = [];
for (var i = 0; i < footnoteDetailsForThisPage.length; i++) {
var footnoteDetail = footnoteDetailsForThisPage[i];
// replace the footnote marker with the current index
footnoteDetail.marker.contents = String(i + 1);
// add the contents to this page's contents list
contents.push((i + 1) + '- ' + footnoteDetail.contents);
}
// create a text frame on the page, with contents from each processed footnote
var tf = page.textFrames.add({
geometricBounds: [20, 20, 100, 100], // Adjust as needed
contents: contents.join('\r'),
});
results.push('Page ' + page.name + ': matched ' + contents.length + ' footnotes.')
}
alert("Finished processing footnotes.\n" + results.join('\n'));
};
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Process Footnotes');Edit: added image for clarity.
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