Unzip file in ExtendScript

[gabrielg28279016]

How to unzip file in InDesign ExtendScript? I tried to use jszip (a JavaScript lib) but I got some compile errors. I need to unzip a zip file and read all documents.

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Try the following api

app.unpackageUCF("path to zip","destination folder")

Works for me for a simple zip created on a MAC, not sure if it would be able to do it for zip's created using some third party softwares using different compression algorithms.

-Manan

[Peter Kahrel]

The parameters for unpackageUCF are a file object and a folder object, not strings.

P.

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Peter Kahrel,

I did test the code on CC2014 with strings and it did work fine, anyhow using a file and folder object would not harm

-Manan

[jazzyman02]

Hi Peter!

I tested app.unpackageUCF.

If both the folder name and file name are English, it works perfectly.

However, if the one of file name is Korean, the name of the extracted file was broken.

What should we do in this case?

[Manan Joshi]

Go through the discussion in the following thread as well, it has some alternative approaches as well.

ZIP-package from indesign (by script)

-Manan

[gabrielg28279016]

Thank you, it works, but as Peter said I needed to pass File and Folder as parameters.