if (reply!==1){ docEvent.preventDefault()} ... View more

This is what you are looking for: InDesign ExtendScript API (12.0) (app.activeDocument.textVariables[0].associatedInstances[0].resultText) ... View more

Uwe, I'm not familiar with Scott Zanellis' script, but I do know all the issues I've encountered in my own scripts when trying to determine the page count of a pdf file (after a lot of frustration, i've given up and used the same method as the sample script - import pdf pages until they repeat). That is because the PDF standard is fairly lax and with a lot of fallbacks, and different vendors implement different ways of representing the structure of the document (Corel being the worst example I encountered, followed by MS Office's pdf export engine). In this particular case, however: 1. we know that the source pdfs come from InDesign, so they are quite close to the standard. 2. The definition of the Page object and the Page Boxes objects is one of the few things in the standard that leaves little room for "creative interpretation". ... View more

After having a quick look through the PDF specs and documentation (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf ), post-editing the boxes does not seem so difficult: you need to find the page tree (something like <</Count 1/Kids[13 0 R]/Type/Pages>> where each part of the Kids array is a reference to a page dict). Using that dict reference you can then find the actual page object that looks like: 13 0 obj <</ArtBox[0.0 15.0518 396.975 367.209]/BleedBox[0.0 0.0 453.54 380.0]/Contents 233 0 R/CropBox[0.0 0.0 453.54 380.0]/Group 234 0 R/LastModified(D:20160205132408+02'00')/MediaBox[0.0 0.0 453.54 380.0]/Parent 3 0 R/PieceInfo<</Illustrator 235 0 R>>/Resources<</ExtGState<</GS0 236 0 R/GS1 237 0 R/GS10 238 0 R/GS2 239 0 R/GS3 240 0 R/GS4 241 0 R/GS5 242 0 R/GS6 243 0 R/GS7 244 0 R/GS8 245 0 R/GS9 246 0 R>>/Font<</C2_0 226 0 R/TT0 225 0 R/TT1 227 0 R>>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/Properties<</MC0 228 0 R/MC1 229 0 R/MC2 230 0 R/MC3 231 0 R>>/Shading<</Sh0 247 0 R/Sh1 248 0 R/Sh2 249 0 R>>/XObject<</Fm0 250 0 R/Fm1 251 0 R/Fm10 252 0 R/Fm11 253 0 R/Fm12 254 0 R/Fm13 255 0 R/Fm14 256 0 R/Fm15 257 0 R/Fm16 258 0 R/Fm17 259 0 R/Fm2 260 0 R/Fm3 261 0 R/Fm4 262 0 R/Fm5 263 0 R/Fm6 264 0 R/Fm7 265 0 R/Fm8 266 0 R/Fm9 267 0 R>>>>/Thumb 268 0 R/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 453.54 380.0]/Type/Page>> endobj and there, as you can see you have all the boxes info, that you can modify to your hearts desire. ... View more

So the question amounts to, could we hack PDF's inner data in a way that restores actual values for page size, bleed, slug etc? Sure. But it requires writing a jsx PDF parser. Not quite impossible, particularly that there are a number of JS based parsers on GitHub, but I never had the energy and the need to go into it in more detail. You, on the other hand, I can't think of anyone better suited to build such a thing ... View more

Marc, the PDF only looks ok, but the Trim Box for the first page is messed up. More info on the various PDF Boxes: The PDF page boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox, ArtBox Just please don't ask me how to view the page boxes in this "new and improved" Acrobat Pro, because i can't find it. ... View more

The theory behind this is quite intriguing. And, to one-up it: for the fake footnote reference number (the one in the anchored frame) you can set up a numbered paragraph style with a global list. Then, instead of inserting the actual footnote number, you can just add a 0-width space. for the crossreference, instead of using the <fullPara> format, use <paraNumber> and suddenly you have dynamic numbered paragraphs that don't require any script. At the end of the day I still feel it is a overly complex setup, so unless you have to update the numbers many times over, just changing them by hand would be faster. ... View more

If you are "loosing resolution" you are doing the pdf export wrong. Check out http://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign12/#PDFExportPreference.html ... View more

Place the content in it without holding Shift key. The idea here is that, being a primary text frame, it will autoflow. ... View more

Do explain more, please. How do you control the numbering? ... View more

Indeed the list always restarts in each footnote. I was so convinced that would work that I did not actually tested . I can get the effect Obi-wan created (and more) via scripting, but I'm honestly at lost on how it can be achieved without: ... View more

Sorry: Apply a numbered list to the footnote paragraph, and a "hidden" (no fill, 0.1pt) character style to the footnote marker. ... View more

You could via a single script: 1) export the cover 2) export the body 3) create a new document 4) import the cover in the new document 5) import the body in the new document 6) export the new document as "final" pdf. ... View more

Numbered lists. ... View more

The slug is a document-global setting. One thing you can do is export two PDFs (one for the cover, including the slug area and one for the body, without slug) and combine them afterwards. Another would be to make your cover page bigger as to "fake" the slug area, and export the pdf, but this will mess up the pdf page/trim etc boxes. ... View more

That is what i said. There is no way to get what you want. You can find all instances of ahmet, regardless of it's case, but you can only replace them with "mehmet" lower case (or however you typed it in the "Change to" field. Consider this example: the before text in indesign is:  AhMet ahmet aHMet you are searching for "ahmet" case insensitive. "Ahmet" has 5 characters, and it will be found in the source text 3 times. you try to replace "ahmet" with "Mahmud", which has 6 characters. Which of the letters form each match should be capitalised? ... View more

To ignore case when using find grep you can specify the (?i) flag. Unfortunately, the change will not respect the original case. Eg: find: (?i)ahmet will match Ahmet, ahmet, AhMeT etc. but find: (?i)ahmet change: mehmet will change everything to lowercase. ... View more

Hi Darren, Typefi is the world's most recommended publishing platform, and recently just won the 54th Australian Export Awards, so I would say you should definitely try and get in touch: sales@typefi.com and Typefi: DO MORE ... View more

Please use NOTEPAD or similar text editor. save the file as .jsx ... View more

I managed to get it to work in Desktop by turning off and on the preflight o_0. working with Smart Text Reflow ... View more

Internally both JS and COM use the same hooks, so you should get the same results. Can you post your code? ... View more

Via plain JS, no, but the C++ SDK provides some examples on how to do it. ... View more

After each 1000 paragraphs processed do a myDoc.save(myDoc.fullName). That will clear indesign's undo stack and result in a nice performance boost. ... View more

You are close enough. Just need to remember that in JS strings are immutable, so string.substring returns a new string, does not change the original one. so.. prefix.text=prefix.text.substring(0,9); //??? ... View more

About converting collections to arrays: It actually makes a lot of difference and it can significantly speed up the script. Iterating through a collection will make a request to the DOM for each member of the collection, in order to resolve the specifier. Using the everyItem().getElements() to convert to an array will only touch the DOM once, and return an array of actual honest indesign objects, not specifiers, which results in a huge speed increase. To illustrate, use the following code: (function(){ var d=app.documents.add(); for (var i=0; i<100; i++){   d.pages.add(); } $.hiresTimer; var p=d.pages; for (var i=0; i<p.length;i++){   $.write(p.name); } $.writeln('\r'+$.hiresTimer); var p=d.pages.everyItem().getElements(); for (var i=0; i<p.length;i++){   $.write(p.name); } $.writeln('\r'+$.hiresTimer); }()); ... View more

About Loic's second point: The theory is that you are caching the array's length so instead of accessing the length property each step in the loop you only access it once, thus speeding up the script. However, that's the theory, in practice I never noticed any difference and I assume the ExtendScript engine does do some optimisations to the loops. So I just use the for (var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) format. Loic.Aigon​, do you have some data to show that it does make any difference? ... View more