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Vamitul
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‎May 11, 2016
12:03 PM
Hi guys, As it was previously mentioned, transformation matrices are additive. However, I point you to the documentation for the transform method: undefined transform (in:CoordinateSpaces, from:Varies, withMatrix:Varies, replacingCurrent:Varies, [consideringRulerUnits:Boolean=Boolean]) The interesting parameter, in regards to this discussion is "replacingCurrent": Transform components to consider; providing this optional parameter causes the target's existing transform components to be replaced with new values. Without this parameter, the given matrix is concatenated onto the target's existing transform combining the effect of the two. Can accept: MatrixContent enumerator, Array of MatrixContent enumerators or Long Integer. (Optional)
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‎May 04, 2016
01:18 AM
Indeed adding/removing text will change the index of the following insertion points. There are 3 ways to work around it. The first one you already found, that is to search again. A better approach is to actually keep track of the changes you made: if you add 4 characters after insertionPoint 40, all subsequent IP's will shift by 4. It is a bit more complicated implement, but in the end it should work faster than doing another search. The simplest and best way to go about this is to change your text starting from back to front. This way you don't care that the IP's drift. However, this means you cannot first sort the found results according to some arbitrary criteria.
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‎May 03, 2016
06:32 AM
5 Upvotes
It's generally better to check for the method availability especially for methods that could be possibly added natively in the future Loic, your optimism is admirable!
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‎Apr 30, 2016
11:26 AM
1 Upvote
Hi Harishbisht, Assuming inddObject is a typefi float: inddObject.typefiSettings.element.anchor would return a TypefiElementAnchor. then myAnchor.pageItem would return a GraphicLine that is the anchor's in-page representation, so the parent of that Graphic line is a character. In one very long line: var parent=inddObject.typefiSettings.element.anchor.pageItem.parent.parent; if (parent.constructor.name=='Cell'){ alert('Anchor in cell') } Like Uwe said, these kinds of questions are better suited for the Typefi Support Portal.
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‎Apr 28, 2016
06:49 AM
It "skips" because the yellow part is an anchored textframe, and it contains other anchored textframes. Probably the simplest way would be to a grep search for the character (or paragraph style) applied to the numbers inside the "ferrous" (WT is that??) object. But as a different question, do you actually need those numbers inside a separate anchored frame? Wouldn't just a character style work?
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‎Apr 25, 2016
11:44 AM
Uwe, it is working correctly on OSX, but unexpected: when you enable the application frame Indesign literally only has one window, the application frame.
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‎Apr 25, 2016
02:27 AM
2 Upvotes
app.activeWindow.bounds will give you the coordinates of the front-most window in Indesign. $.screens will give you information about the displays. You can use these two properties to infer the position of indesign.
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‎Apr 19, 2016
04:32 AM
1 Upvote
Hi Arasu, One approach is to use the doc.paragraphStyles doc.paragraphStyles will return a collection of paragraph styles, so you can do fun things like: var listOfNames=doc.paragraphStyles.everyItem().name.join('\n') It does have one major disadvantage however: it will only return the root paragraph styles, and not the ones inside style groups. The other approach is to use the doc.allParagraphStyles. This will return all the paragraph styles in the document, regardless of their nesting, but has the disadvantage of being a plain array, so to do anything with it you will need to iterate through it (and since ExtendScript is based on JavaScript 1.5 you can't even use array.forEach). The best approach depends on what exactly you need.
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‎Apr 14, 2016
10:21 AM
myGroup=[] myGroup.push(obj1); myGroup.push(obj2); myInddGroup=currentPage.groups.add(myGroup); app.select(myInddGroup) ___edit__ Take note that using things like copy() and paste() is quite a bad way to do a script. Better would be something like: myInddGroup.anchoredObjectSettings.insertAnchoredObject(insertionPoint, AnchorPosition.INLINE_POSITION);
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‎Apr 12, 2016
08:41 AM
You do realise that with that code, you will get an alert for each bit of text that is under 6 pt. I'd rather do something like: var mytext = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().pointSize; mytext.sort(); while (mytext[0]===undefined){ //for some reason, we do get undefined values in some cases mytext.shift(); } if (mytext[0]<6){ alert('Bla bla blah. Text below 6pt'); }
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‎Apr 11, 2016
11:10 PM
Sorry, I don't have CS3, i don't remember the CS3 DOM, haven't scripted CS3 since CS4 came out.
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‎Apr 11, 2016
11:23 AM
1 Upvote
Sorry, i'm tried and did not think things through. You cannot use findGrep() to search for text that is smaller than 6pt. You could try something like: doc.stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().pointSize That would return a fairly large array with all the text sizes in your stories (tables, footnotes not included). Then you can either iterate through it, or you can filter it, or just sort it and test for the first element.
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‎Apr 11, 2016
05:47 AM
1 Upvote
Yes, it looks like a weirdness in ExtendScript. Using myArray.reverse().sort(blah blah) should do the trick.
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‎Apr 11, 2016
03:16 AM
tpk1983, the scriptPreferences.version is used to make old scripts run into newer indesign versions. Runew needs it the other way around, and for that the script needs to be rewriten not to use things like parentPage that is not available in cs3.
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‎Apr 07, 2016
06:02 AM
It should, but my knowledge of AS is very limited. Try it and see what happens.
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‎Apr 07, 2016
05:38 AM
1 Upvote
The key difference between Loic's javascript solution and your as solution is the use of the persistent target engine. Since applescript does not have that ability, at the time the event actually fires, the MessageStatus function is no longer available.
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‎Apr 05, 2016
12:35 AM
Hi Uwe, In my experience, these types of crashes happen not because of the find/change method, but because indesign fails to compute/recompose a proper position for the new anchored setting. A simplified case would be when applying the new settings would cause the anchored object to leave the pasteboard. Of course that is just the most straightforward of the cases, other ones that should not cause crashes, yet they do involve textwrap settings (the new position pushes a different anchored object off the page etc), split-span columns applied to paragraphs, tables, footnotes etc.
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‎Mar 31, 2016
10:15 AM
First of all, this is a public forum, not your personal notepad! Second, how does your client feel about you posting details about his workflow on a public forum? Third... THIS IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL NOTEPAD!
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‎Mar 29, 2016
11:49 AM
1 Upvote
Obi-wan Kenobi‌ the (function(){}()) pattern is called and self-executing anonymous function. Because javascript has function-based scope, it is used to isolate the variables in the script as not to pollute the global namespace. While in this, and many other simple scripts is not really needed, since the engine in which the script runs is not persistent, it does not hurt and it's a good habit to get into for when you start to write much larger scripts. There are quite a few resources about this online, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14322708/what-is-self-executing-anonymous-function-or-what-is-this-code-doing The try-catch here is very useful here: consider what happens if a document has no tables: app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem() returns and empty specifier, that has no "cells" object, so you would get an error. Or, taking things to a bit more extreme, what if there is no document opened? I agree it's not the nicest, most elegant or expressive way of doing it, but it works in a pinch (to be read as: don't do as i do).
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‎Mar 29, 2016
05:49 AM
2 Upvotes
sorry, mistyped a bracket there:
(function() {
try {
var cells = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements();
for (var i = 0; i < cells.length; i++) {
var l = cells.leftInset;
cells.leftInset = cells.rightInset;
cells.rightInset = l;
}
} catch (e) {
}
}())
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‎Mar 29, 2016
05:36 AM
1 Upvote
(function(){
try {
var cells=app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements();
for (var i=0; i<cells.length;i++){
var l=cells.leftInset;
cells.leftInset=cells.rightInset;
cells.rightInset=l;
}catch(e){
}
}
}())
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‎Mar 29, 2016
04:31 AM
If it crashes by find-change, it's quite likely it will crash via scripting also. What have you tried so far?
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‎Mar 24, 2016
12:55 AM
1 Upvote
to add a rectangle: var rect=doc.rectangles.add(); to place a picture inside it: rect.place(FIle(image.path));
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‎Mar 23, 2016
03:04 PM
2 Upvotes
No it's not. Your original code adds conditions named from "Temp_01" to "Temp_10" Your "for" code adds conditions named from "Temp_00" to "Temp_09" To fix that you can either change your loop to start from 1 and end after 10: for (var i=1; i<=10; i++) or change the way you name the conditions: myCondition = app.activeDocument.conditions.item("Temp_0" + (i+1)) of course either of those still leaves you with one big problem: the tenth condition will not be named "Temp_10" but "Temp_010". There are quite a lot of ways to fix that, but i'll leave you to discover them (stackoverflow is your friend) since it's after midnight here and i do need my beauty sleep May the force blah blah..
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‎Mar 23, 2016
02:41 PM
well now.. try it and see what happens. (look at the names of the conditions too). A fast way to get a bit up to speed with javascript in general is JavaScript Tutorial It won't teach you very good javascript, but good enough to get the basics, and from there there are tons and tons of tutorials and books and resources.
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‎Mar 23, 2016
02:11 PM
Obi-wan, welcome to the dark side (of scripting, that is). First thing to learn: for - JavaScript | MDN
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