With CS3, some things have changed

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Let's use this topic to record changes that are likely to affect a working script. As I did in the CS2 comparable topic, I'll add an index here in the topic title when the list is long enough (and I have the time).

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Mark,

You would get a better response, I suspect, if you:

1. Posted in a new thread. This one was supposed to be for people converting from CS2 -- there's a similar one for people going from CS to CS2. We don't go back to 1.5, though.

2. Provide some details about your script. Have you tried it on CS3? What happens.

But answer those questions as part of your new topic, please, not here.

Dave

[Harbs.]

cornerEffect became cornerOption.

(You can't help but wonder why they make changes like this)

Harbs

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Perhaps because transparency became effects in the UI?

Dave

[_Olav_Kvern_]

Harbs wrote: "(You can't help but wonder why they make changes like this)"

We can't win. If we leave something named as it was when the UI changes (e.g., "oval" when the UI changed to say "ellipse"), people get upset. If we change something to match the UI (e.g., "effect" to "option"), we upset people.

The UI designers are always changing the names of things--I assume it's to make the interface better or more consistent. We try to match their terms whenever possible.

Thanks,

Ole

[Harbs.]

I'm not *really* complaining. I suppose for new scripters it's nice to
have the terms matching the interface, but I'm trying to write scripts
which work in CS, CS2, and CS3. I really don't care what the exact
terminology of what these things are, but to have them work in all
versions of CS, I have to do a lot of if (app.version...). The less I
have to do this, the happier I am.

I appreciate all the hard work. And you can't make everyone happy all
the time... ;-)

Harbs

[_Olav_Kvern_]

Hi Harbs,

Does script versioning make your life any easier?

Thanks,

Ole

[Harbs.]

Sometimes. Maybe I should use it more often, but especially with CS3,
there are a lot of situations where versioning doesn't work. (Styles to
name one...)

Harbs

[_Jarema_]

Hi to everyone

does anyone know where to find this:
ShadowBlendMode, ShadowBlurRadius, ShadowColor, ShadowMode, ShadowNoise, ShadowOpacity, ShadowSpread, ShadowXOffset, ShadowYOffset in CS3?

I know it is the question but the answer will show changes between CS2 and CS3 - thx

regards

[_DaveSaunders_]

They've got snappier names in CS3 but they're harder to find:

Obj.transparencySettings.dropShadowSetting.angle; .blendMode, etc.

I don't see a blurRadius, but maybe it has a different name.

Dave

[Harbs.]

> I don't see a blurRadius, but maybe it has a different name.
>
It's called "size"...

Harbs

[_DaveSaunders_]

Here are a couple of examples from a script I wrote last week of placing a library asset. The first is placed on (the active page of) a document:

>myAsset.placeAsset(myDoc);

In this second example, the asset is anchored at an insertion point:

>myAsset.placeAsset(myStory.insertionPoints[myIndex]);

In CS2, you had to select an insertionPoint to place as an anchored item.

Dave

[_anne-laure_jallon_]

Hello,

I'm working in VB.
Has anyone tried to convert rows from table into header row?
It works fine with footer, but doesn't want to convert a row to header.

Is this a bug? will it soon be fixed?

Thanks
Anne Laure

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[_Dave_Saunders_]

If you use this code to resize a group in CS2:

myGroup = app.selection[0];

myBounds = myGroup.visibleBounds;

myBounds[2] = myBounds[0] + 1;

myGroup.visibleBounds = myBounds;

the strokes in the group are scaled (irrespective of the Transform Content setting). But in CS3, the strokes are simply moved to fit within the same bounds.

I happened upon this because I wanted the CS3 behavior, but I'm writing a script for a client still using CS2. So, I'm going to have to instead move the elements inside the group to get them where I want them to be.

Dave

[_Brett_Elliott_]

Possibly a silly question here but my CS2 scripts don't work in CS3 at all (just upgraded yesterday) even when there are examples of similar scripts in the CS3 Guide.

For example:

myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPage = myDoc.pages.item(0);

The above script works in CS2 but it gives the error "undefined is not an object" in CS3. There are examples of similar scripts in the CS3 Guide but they don't work either and give the same error when I cut and paste into ExtendScript Toolkit 2. Does anyone have any advice what I should do?

[_Dave_Saunders_]

You're running from ESTK 2? Did you remember to target InDesign?

Dave

[_Brett_Elliott_]

That was the issue Dave (I thought I had done this but I didn't).

Now I can start debuging these scripts, I hope...

[_Brett_Elliott_]

I'm starting to 'rebuild' some of my scripts to work with CS3 and have run into a few issues. I have solved a couple but I cannot find anything on the following:

for (i = myDataTable.rows.length-1; i >= 0; i--){
elecType = electionType.rows.cells[1].texts[0].contents;
if (elecType == "Postal"){
myTable.rows.cells[0].texts[0].contents = municipalityName.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells[1].texts[0].contents = electionType.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells[2].texts[0].contents = wardNumber.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells[3].texts[0].contents = wardName.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells[4].texts[0].contents = positions.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells[5].texts[0].contents = candidates.cells.texts[0].contents;
myTable.rows.cells.everyItem().texts[0].applyStyle(myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("Normal"), false);}

Apart from this taking forever to run, the last line returns the error "is not a function".

Is there a better way to apply a style to certain cells throughout a table based on a corresponding cell value?

[Peter Kahrel]

>the last line returns the error "is not a function".

You now have to say applyParagraphStyle (...) or applyCharacterStyle (...).

>Is there a better way to apply a style to certain cells throughout a table ...?

Don't think so. But comparable script I use to apply styles to tables are quick enough for me. Have you tried saving the document on itself (the equivalent of "Save As" in the UI) to delete the undo history? That could speed up any script. Another issue is the size of the table: if it's very large, the script will take some time.

Peter

[_Brett_Elliott_]

Thanks Peter,

The table is pretty large (about 350 rows by 10 columns). In CS2 the entire script takes about 2 minutes to run which is fine because it's not a script I will be running too often. However in CS3 it takes about 2 minutes to let me know there was an error with the first function. But hopefully when I work out the changes required to update to CS3 it won't take any longer than the CS2 version, plus I now have a Core 2 Duo 2.3ghz instead of the P4 3ghz so I'm hoping this might speed things up a tad.

[_Brett_Elliott_]

Hi guys,

I am having some issues with text overflows within a group. I wrote the following script in CS2 and it worked well but I get an undefined error in CS3.

// Grouped Overset Text
function resizeOverset(){
myStories = myDoc.stories;
for (var j = myStories.length - 1; j >= 0; j--){
while (myStories.overflows == true){
myFrame = myStories.texts[0].parentTextFrames[0];
myTextFrameSize = myFrame.geometricBounds; // error on this line
myTextFrameSize[2]=myTextFrameSize[2]+5;
myFrame.geometricBounds=myTextFrameSize;
}}}

I can get around this by ungrouping but I need to keep the groups.

// Ungrouped Overset Text
function resizeOverset(){
for (i=app.activeDocument.groups.length-1;i>=0;i--){
app.activeDocument.groups.ungroup();
}
myStories = myDoc.stories;
for (var j = myStories.length - 1; j >= 0; j--){
while (myFrames.overflows == true){
var myTextFrame = myFrames;
myTextFrameSize = myTextFrame.geometricBounds;
myTextFrameSize[2]=myTextFrameSize[2]+5;
myTextFrame.geometricBounds=myTextFrameSize;
}}}

Can I resize the geometricBounds while the textFrames are grouped in CS3?

[Kasyan Servetsky]

Hi Brett,
Your 1st function – Grouped Overset Text – works for me in CS3. But I’d do it like this:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

resizeOverset();



function resizeOverset(){

   myStories = myDoc.stories;

   for (var j = myStories.length - 1; j >= 0; j--){

      if (myStories.overflows == true){

         // fit to content the last text frame in the thread

         myLastFrame = myStories.texts[0].parentTextFrames[myStories.texts[0].parentTextFrames.length - 1];

         myLastFrame.fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

      }

   }

}

Kasyan

[_Brett_Elliott_]

Thanks Kaysan, that works a treat and it's fast too.

[Harbs.]

flipItem()

In CS3 it's missing the transformingContent parameter. 😞 (Why, oh why is it missing...) I couldn't think of any simple and straightforward way to flip just the frame without the content.

Other than checking for every kind of possible content, and doing a double flip, this function was all I could come up with to replace the functionality:

(Please let me know if I missed something obvious!)

function FlipFrameWithContent(frame,flipDirection,anchorPoint,applyToContent){

  if(applyToContent){

    frame.flipItem(flipDirection,anchorPoint);

    }

  else{

    var newFrame = frame.duplicate();

    newFrame.flipItem(flipDirection,anchorPoint);

    for(var i=0;i<frame.paths.length;i++){

      frame.paths.entirePath=newFrame.paths.entirePath;

      }

    newFrame.remove();

    }

  }

[_Angela_Snyder_]

This is one from Ole from a while back. Anyone have a minute to tweak this for CS3?

Many thanks!!

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
set myStyles to every paragraph style of document 1
set find preferences to nothing
set change preferences to nothing
set myStyles to rest of myStyles -- dump "No Style"
repeat with myStyle in myStyles
search document 1 for "" replacing with "" with find attributes {applied paragraph style:myStyle} with change attributes {applied paragraph style:myStyle}
end repeat
end tell