[JS] Open document without showing window

[winterm]

Hi there, wise scripters,

Win7 64-bit, CS6, ID8.0.2

I need to open indd doc, process some code, close file. Everything works fine.

However, the 'open' method has a parameter [showingWindow], right?

To speed things up a bit, I try to turn off displaying document's window by using the 'false' argument while opening the file, like this:

var file = File.openDialog(); 

app.open(file, false);

... and can't get it to work. File just won't open then.

Found a few posts where people say it's working just fine for them.

What I am missing / doing wrong?

Thank You!

P.S. Funny thing is, a couple of years ago, playing with 'save', 'save as', and 'save a copy' options, I had achieved this effect unintentionally, in some quite different way I can't recall now...

[Chinnadk]

var file = File.openDialog();

app.open(file, false);

These lines are working fine for me.

Check the target application in ExtendScript it should be 'Adobe Indesign CS6'

[winterm]

Hi,

Well, I see now, my problem is a bit different...

This is initial basic working code sample:

var file = File.openDialog();
app.open(file);
app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = PageRange.ALL_PAGES;
app.pdfExportPreferences.viewPDF = false;
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File("C:/Folder/Test.pdf"), false, "myPDFpreset");
app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.NO);
alert("Done");

Now I realized I can't simply add 'false' argument to app.open(file, false) - script throws an error 'No documents are open'.

And this works as expected (not showing window):

var file = File.openDialog();
var myDoc = app.open(file, false);
app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = PageRange.ALL_PAGES;
app.pdfExportPreferences.viewPDF = false;
myDoc.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File("C:/Folder/Test.pdf"), false, "myPDFpreset");
myDoc.close(SaveOptions.NO);
alert("Done");

So I would need to modify the main code - that's too bad... I was hoping to use this in a much more complex script, with a lot of lines, doing a big bunch of things...

However, thank You for your response and have a nice party tonight