[CS2][JS] Map tags to styles

[_Tim_Melis_]

Hi

I would like to map styles to tags and map tags to styles using a predefined file....

I've tried using ...

var thepath="/Volumes/test/Mapping.indd";
var myImportfile=new File(thepath);

app.activeDocument.xmlImportMaps.add(myImportfile);
app.activeDocument.xmlExportMaps.add(myImportfile);

... but it raises an error... missing parameter...

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanx

Tim

[Peter Kahrel]

This and many other things are described in some of Adobe's documentation at http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html

Peter

[_Tim_Melis_]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the info...

In the syntax reference I found the missing property ... reading the reference I realized that maybee I'm using the wrong object or methode... But I've searched almost an hour for the correct object and methode and I didn't find anyone that can be used to load the Tags To Styles mapping from an other indesign file...

Do you have an idea ?

Thanx

Tim

[Peter Kahrel]

I'm not particularly good at this sort of thing, but the reference says that xmlImportMaps.add() takes two parameters, a markup tag and the mapped style. Take a look at p. 114 of this document:

http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy/scripting/pdfs/InCopy_CS3_Scripting_Guide_JS.pdf

which is for CS3, but what you want to do has not changed much I don't think.

Peter

[_Eric_J_Reyes_]

The incopy scripting guide pdf doesn't seem to be downloading.
Does anyone have a copy they could post elsewhere?

[_Olav_Kvern_]

Hi Eric,

I just checked the link, and it's working fine. Try again?

Also, I'd missed this thread earlier--what Tim is asking about (loading a tag to style mapping from a file) can't be done directly in the user interface (as far as I can tell), so it can't be done directly from scripting. Instead, you'd have to open the file containing the tag to style mapping, then transfer the mapping one import/export map at a time to the target file.

Thanks,

Ole