Create package in indesign CS using javascript

[_cubas_]

Hi.
Can I make a javascript script to make a package automatic.
I made this script but it's don't work.

with (myDocument.package){
to = pathToMyFile;
}

[Jongware]

No wonder, you made more than a few errors in the first line alone. ;-)

First of all, it's not "package" (that appears to be a reserved JS word -- you learn something useful every day), it's "packageForPrint". Next, that is a function; you can't use "with" with functions, only with properties. Next, you forgot a lot of required parameters.

Putting it all together as it should be gives me this line

>app.activeDocument.packageForPrint("c:\\",true,true,true,true,true,true);

which works on my system. The sequence of true's can even be amended with two more parameters, a version comment string and a Force Save flag, but at this point you should check the JS help for its correct syntax and the meaning of all these trues.

(A later thought: you write
>I made this script

while the 3 lines hardly qualify as a complete script. Maybe you should know that "myDocument" and "pathToMyFile" can also throw an error, as these variables are undefined and you have to give them a reasonable value first. That's why I used "app.activeDocument".
Of course, if this is a mere snippet of a complete script, it's no problem, but you should have mentioned that.)

[Kasyan Servetsky]

Hi cubas,

I don't have CS version any more, but this works in CS3:

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select path to files");
myDocument.packageForPrint(myFolder, false, true, false, true, true, false);

As far as I remember, there is a mistake in CS scripting reference: it says package instead of packageForPrint. So try the following syntax:
myDocument.packageForPrint(to Folder/alias/path, copyingFonts,copyingLinkedGraphics, copyingProfiles, updatingGraphics, includingHiddenLayers, ignorePreflightErrors,creatingReport);

Kasyan

[_cubas_]

Hi,
I tested the script above and don't work in indesign cs1 maybe, this function don't work in this indesign version. Can I use other javascript function in indesign cs1 to make a package?

Thanks

Carlos

[Kasyan Servetsky]

The parameters for the packageForPrint method are different for CS1 and CS3. CS3 has 7 required and 2 optional parameters and cs1 has 8 required parameters - so you should set them all. I gave you an example for CS3 and a list of parameters for CS1 (taken from ID CS scripting reference) that you should choose yourself:
1)the folder, into which you want to package the document.
2) Do you want to copy fonts?
3) Do you want to copy linked graphics?
and so on – the same parameters as in the user inteface.

All parameters except the first are boolean, so you should set them totrue or false.

For CS1 you should set all 8 parameters, e.g.

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select a folder");
myDocument.packageForPrint(myFolder, false, true, false, true, false, true, false);

But I can't check this code myself - don't have CS1 anymore.

Kasyan

[_cubas_]

Thanks Kasyan .
This script worked very well.

Carlos Cubas

[_Richard_Holstein_]

Great! now instead of having a dialog to point to a folder to receive the package; how about a dialog that would create a new folder with the file's name in place that I would just need to alter a bit.
That would be real nice.

Thanks,
Richard