Re: Very small kerning script....

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Why does a) have a + sign and b) have some form of - sign?

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Hi Nukleas, Me again To import a word list from an excel file save the file in excel as a tab deliniated text file and instead of the lines myChanges = [ 'over-sized' , 'oversize', '`pussy cat' , 'pussy', // Pussy cat will stay Pussy cat because of the ` tag 'CAT' , 'CAT®', 'school teacher' , 'schoolteacher', 'high schoolteacher' , 'high school teacher', ';(never)\\-(?=\\S)' , '$1' // Because of the ; (semicolon) tag will be dealt with as a grep ]; Put var filePath= "c:/Word Change List.txt"; // change to correct file name and location var txtfFile=new File(filePath); txtfFile.open(); fileContent = txtfFile.read(); txtfFile.close(); var myArrayString=fileContent.replace(/'/g, "QtQeQn4").replace(/\t/g, "','").replace (/\n/g, "' , '"); myArrayString=myArrayString.slice(0,-3); eval ("var myChanges = ['"+myArrayString+"];"); $.writeln(myChanges); for (var c=0; c<myChanges.length-1; c++) myChanges =myChanges .replace(/QtQeQn4/g, "'") I also notice that in my script I have app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = 0; I meant to have app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = 1; Trevor P.s. Again the site is acting wacko, it's formatting my file snippet as a table

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Just a little correction to the Grep It should probably be app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[\\u\\l']+"; with the ' apostrophe added to the character class so you get grape's Trevor P.s. Thanks for the "Correct" markup

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Pleasure Don't forget to mark as correct.

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

so mark it as correct

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Em I fogot you wrote "Short of resorting to regex, is there away to return only the word?"

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

Sorry I take that back! you can use a grep. mySelection=app.selection[0].words[0]; myWord=[]; app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[\\u\\l]+"; myWord=mySelection.findGrep(); alert(myWord[0].contents);

Trevor: · ‎Aug 09, 2012

See http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2011/09/what-exactly-is-a-word In short no (AFAIK). Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 08, 2012

Arguably on the grep princaple of change as little as you can, the best school teacher grep would be (?<!(H|h)igh\p{Zs}(S|s)chool)(?<!(M|m)iddle\p{Zs}(S|s)chool)(?<!(E|e)lementary\p{Zs}(S|s)chool)\p{Zs}(?=(T|t)eacher) change to "" (nothing) This just removes the space without replacing any words and avoid problems like changing London High School Teachers List: to "London High School Teachers List:" i.e. the new grep won't remove the paragraph mark. There's a lot of pot holes out there! Regarding the scope of the search by the script it easily to modifiy the script by changeing myDoc to myScope and either make a quick dialog or escape the unwanted lines like this. myScope = app.documents[0]; // Search whole doc //myScope = app.selection[0]; // Search selected text //myScope =app.selection[0].parentStory; // Search Story Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 08, 2012

Hi again Nukleas, There's a few points that you wrote that I could debate about but I'll focus briefly on two of them. 1) For sure Greps are an essential part of indesign and without a thorough knowledge of them one is unknowing severely handicapped in the program. However the fact is (I think) that the average user knows diddlysquat about them. To me a greps used to be just a burp (greps is the Yiddish word for a burp) but comparably recently I learnt up the topic, read up Peter Karhels excellent book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596156015.do asked a couple of questions on the forum and now am quite a smarty-pants on the topic . To expect the average user to make a list of 100+ greps without messing up majorly is a bit unrealistic. To illustrate lets take the school teacher example Your Grep is grep {findWhat:"(?<![high|elementary|middle] )([S|s]chool) (teacher)"} {changeTo:"$1$2"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:true} This is not correct, you have combined a negative lookbehind with a [character class] with | or in it using words. There's a bunch of mistakes in that. The expression you wrote is the same as "(?<![adeghilmntry|] ) ([S|s]cool) (teacher)" There are no "|" or statements in a character classes and no limitation to the order or repetitiveness of the characters in them. In other words we wanted to achieve that the words school teacher will be joined unless preceded by the words high, elementary or middle but your greps going to not join "the school teacher" that's quite a nasty exception worse still in not going to join "the mad school teacher" it's not even going to join the "nutty school teacher" even though there's no "u" in the character class because of the "y" of nutty is in list. As long the last letter is in the character class it's going to return a true value (each character in it list is considered as separated by an or). The correct grep expression to use would be ((?<![Hh]igh\s)(?<![Mm]iddle\s)(?<![Ee]lementary\s))([S|s]chool)\s(teacher) change to $2$3 This means join any School or school teacher that are not preceded by any of the listed words. The use of the [Hh] etc. character classes here to deal with capitols in this case might well not be appropriate I put them in to demonstrate there "correct" usage. Maybe you used the square brackets because of a typepo but even if you changed them to () only the "high school teacher" is not going to be joined, the middle and elementary school teacher will get joined. Peters Grep book and Grep editor are musts for learning the topic. 2) It's probably going to take a fraction of the time to make a regular text list than to work out the correct Greps (deppending on the word list) Obviously if one wants ALL "over-" words joined except for those followed by "r" words it's best to use a grep. "To Grep or not to Grep? that is the question" the answer is it depends. I'm sure you learnt something from this post . Regards Trevor Message was edited by: ~ Trevor ~ For some weird reason the site is changing my grep expression and teacher is becoming tea cher . weird! Please consider that it says teacher.

Trevor: · ‎Aug 07, 2012

Hi Nukleas, nukleas wrote: There is the conflict of case sensitivity and some words you don't want to close up. A good example of this is in official titles (So you don't want to close up Over-All Program Goals 2012, but you are fine closing up over-all goals or over-stated nature. By adding a tag at the begining of words one wants to be stictly case sensertive one can deal with this By useing slice and toUpperCase() one can make sure that over-sized becomes oversized and Over-sized becomes Oversized. In the case that one only wants the upper case to be changed that would not need tagging i.e. in our example only CAT would become CAT®, cat would stay the same. To avoid Over-All being closed one also would not need to tag it because of the capitol A of All. One would only need to tag something like Over-all if one did not want it to become Overall but wanted over-all to become overall. nukleas wrote: Also, if whole word is turned on in the given regular text search example, over-size will not be converted to oversize. over-sized would be converted to oversize. True, over-size would not be converted to oversize unless over-size was included in the word list. False, over-sized would be converted to oversized and not oversize nukleas wrote: A decent grep example will close them all up and save for exceptions, such as if the companies want to keep over-reaching (you can have the search ignore over- followed by an r-word, for example) or not closing up over-the-counter. This is true that if you want all over- followed by non r-words to be closed up it's going to be easier by grep, see change in script bellow that allows for greps to be included in the array , again by use of a tag. nukleas wrote: This is also a concern copy editors have with closing up schoolteacher. In most cases it's fine, until you have a teacher that works at a high school. A high school teacher should probably not be written as high schoolteacher (although I'm sure some of them need to be to deal with some of today's youth.) and that's only really avoidable with a negative lookbehind. This can easily be dealt with by adding in the array after the entry of ' school teacher' , 'schoolteacher' 'high schoolteacher' , 'high school teacher' see script below Sorry for lecturing like an over-reacting high school teacher , Regards Trevor // Made by Trevor http://forums.adobe.com/message/4602248#4602248 app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null; app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = 0; app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = 1; myDoc = app.documents[0]; myChanges = [ 'over-sized' , 'oversize', '`pussy cat' , 'pussy', // Pussy cat will stay Pussy cat because of the ` tag 'CAT' , 'CAT®', 'school teacher' , 'schoolteacher', 'high schoolteacher' , 'high school teacher', ';(never)\\-(?=\\S)' , '$1' // Because of the ; (semicolon) tag will be dealt with as a grep ]; for (var c=0; c<myChanges.length;) { if (myChanges [0] != "`" && myChanges [0] != ";") { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = myChanges ; app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = myChanges[c+1]; myDoc.changeText(); capitalChangeFrom = myChanges [0].toUpperCase() + myChanges .slice(1,myChanges .length); capitalChangeTo = myChanges[c+1][0].toUpperCase() + myChanges[c+1].slice(1,myChanges[c+1].length); app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = capitalChangeFrom; app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = capitalChangeTo; myDoc.changeText(); } else if (myChanges [0] != ";") { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = myChanges .slice(1,myChanges .length); app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = myChanges[c+1]; myDoc.changeText(); } else { app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = myChanges .slice(1,myChanges .length); app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = myChanges[c+1]; myDoc.changeGrep(); } c+=2; }

Trevor: · ‎Aug 06, 2012

Hi Nukleas I know this is a bit of an old post I was searching for something and came across this post (I was not what I was looking for) Greps is not the way to go about this! A simple find change text is much more appropriate in this case. either set up an array like this and loop though it app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null; app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = 0; app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = 1; myChanges = [ 'over-sized' , 'oversize', 'pussy cat' , 'pussy', 'CAT' , 'CAT®', ]; for (var c=0; c<myChanges.length;) { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = myChanges ; app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = myChanges[c+1]; app.documents[0].changeText(1); c+=2; } or make a 2 column (change from, change to) excel file and get the script to make an array from the file. Regarding cases sensiteve words like CAT best to stick them in a seperate array and make app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = 1. One has to be particular to put the two word item before the one word subset i.e. pussy cat before cat otherwise pussy cat will become pussycat® Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 05, 2012

Hi Nick appliedLanguage:{name:"Hebrew", singleQuotes:"‘’", doubleQuotes:"“”", hyphenationVendor:"WinSoft Extended", spellingVendor:"", thesaurusVendor:"", dictionaryPaths:["C:\Users\Trevor\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 7.0-ME\en_GB\Dictionaries\MindSpell\he.udc"], icuLocaleName:"he_IL", spellingVendorList:["0x11a500kMSLHunSpellServiceName"], hyphenationVendorList:["WinSoft Extended"], label:""} Is an example of the properties of a selection of a file on my (windows) computer so I think you would want something like app.languagesWithVendors .dictionaryPaths=["C:\Users\Trevor\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 7.0-ME\en_GB\Dictionaries\MindSpell\he.udc"] But if you type the above line as written it wont work for obvious reasons Run this script for some help for (c=0; c<app.languagesWithVendors.length;c++) { try {$.writeln(c+") "+app.languagesWithVendors .name+" "+app.languagesWithVendors .dictionaryPaths)} catch (d) {$.writeln(c+"] "+app.languagesWithVendors .name+" "+d)} } you might have to use the addDictionaryPath() command see http://jongware.mit.edu/iccs6js_html/iccs6js/pc_LanguageWithVendors.html Please reply with what worked Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 05, 2012

Just making sure everyone got the script edit

Trevor: · ‎Aug 04, 2012

Eugene, Marijan, Everybody Nice Marijan, The below script can either be added to the end of your script or run independently. It allows one to jump to the overridden master page items and make a report of all of them. I think you should add a button to the SUI to remove the XML markups. Just one little note on experimenting I came across an overridden master page item that was not "spotted" by our scripts but was by my "Yellow" script above this was because somehow the item was returning null on the (myPageItems .overriddenMasterPageItem !=null) test but not null on the (myPageItems.overriddenMasterPageItem !=null) test. Weird! Unfortunately I deleted the file with this item and couldn't reproduce it. alert(app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().overriddenMasterPageItem) would demonstrate this by returning an extra comma for an item that is an overriddenMasterPageItem but is null. P.s. you forgot to set a target engine for your palette. Regards Trevor // see http://forums.adobe.com/message/4593688 #target "indesign" #targetengine "Trevor" report(); function report() { myOverriddendPageItems=[]; myOverriddendPageItem=[]; myOverriddendPages=[]; myDoc=app.documents[0]; for (p=0; p<myDoc.pages.length; p++) { myPageItems=myDoc.pages .pageItems; for (c=0; c<myPageItems.length; c++) { if (myPageItems .overriddenMasterPageItem !=null) { myPageItems .label="Overriden Master Page Item"; // delete this line if unwanted (if you have allocated script lables to the items) itemDetails="Page "+myPageItems .parentPage.name+" "+myPageItems +" "+myPageItems .index+"\r"; myOverriddendPageItems.push(itemDetails); myOverriddendPageItem.push(myPageItems ); myOverriddendPages.push(myPageItems .parentPage.id); } } } //var w = Window.find ("palette", "Overridden Master Page Items"); //if (w === null) { var w = new Window ("palette", "Overridden Master Page Items", undefined, {resizeable: false}); var myList = w.add ("listbox", undefined, myOverriddendPageItems, {multiselect: false, }); myList.maximumSize.height=500; var makeReport = w.add ("button", undefined, "Create Report Document"); myList.onChange = function () { //app.activeWindow.activePage=myDoc.pages.itemByID (myOverriddendPages[myList.selection.index]); myOverriddendPageItem[myList.selection.index].select(); } makeReport.onClick = function () { myReportDoc=app.documents.add(); setupNewDoc() } } w.show (); function setupNewDoc() { pageBounds=[]; pageBounds[0]=myReportDoc.pages.item(0).bounds; topMargin=myReportDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.top; leftMargin=myReportDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin=myReportDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.right; bottomMargin=myReportDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.bottom; frameBounds=[]; frameBounds[0]=[0,0,0,0] frameBounds[0][0]=topMargin+pageBounds[0][0]; frameBounds[0][2]=pageBounds[0][2]-bottomMargin; frameBounds[0][1]=leftMargin+pageBounds[0][1]; frameBounds[0][3]=pageBounds[0][3]-rightMargin; myTextFrame=myReportDoc.pages[0].textFrames.add({geometricBounds: frameBounds[0]}); myTextFrame.contents+=myList.items; while (myTextFrame.overflows) {addPage(myTextFrame) } function addPage(prevTextFrame) { myPage = myReportDoc.pages.add(); myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds: frameBounds[0]}); myTextFrame.previousTextFrame = prevTextFrame; } } } Message was edited by: ~ Trevor ~ Edited script to avoid problems in event of a large number of overridden master page items

Trevor: · ‎Aug 02, 2012

This will turn them all yellow myPageItems=app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem(); if (myPageItems.overriddenMasterPageItem !=null) myPageItems.fillColor="C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0" Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 01, 2012

I made another script that imports the headers straight from an excel file The file should be saved from excel as a prn file. Saving in this format seems to be the only way to deal with cells that contain quotes, apostrophes, commas etc. The script presumes that you have a single column list of headers. (Matt I know this is not needed by you any more) Trevor // Script 3 for automatic data import from prn excel file // http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042222?tstart=0 myDoc=app.documents[0]; if (myDoc.pages.length>1) app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Make Text Frames for Semi Manual Excel Data Entry"); function main() { var myprn = "c:/numberList.prn"; //path to the prn file myHeaders=parsePRN(myprn); pageBounds=[]; pageBounds[0]=myDoc.pages.item(0).bounds; pageBounds[1]=myDoc.pages.item(1).bounds; topMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.top; leftMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.right; leftMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.right; frameBounds=[]; frameBounds[0]=[0,0,0,0] frameBounds[1]=[0,0,0,0]; frameBounds[0][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[0][0]; // top y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[0][0]; // bottom y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[1][0]; // top y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[1][0]; // bottom y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[0][1]=leftMargin+pageBounds[0][1]; // left x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][3]=pageBounds[0][3]-rightMargin; // right x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][1]=pageBounds[1][1]+leftMargin2; // left x of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][3]=pageBounds[1][3]-rightMargin2; // right x of text frame of even pages change as needed tps=myDoc.paragraphStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Paragraph Style",justification: Justification.AWAY_FROM_BINDING_SIDE}); tos=myDoc.objectStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Object Style", appliedParagraphStyle: tps, enableParagraphStyle: 1}); oldTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(0).textFrames.add({geometricBounds: frameBounds[0], label: "Trevor's Text Frame", appliedObjectStyle: tos}); oldMaster=myDoc.pages.item(0).appliedMaster; oldTextFrame.parentStory.contents=myHeaders[0]; arrayCount=0; for (c=1; c<myDoc.pages.length; c++) { newTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(c).textFrames.add({label: "Trevor's Text Frame", geometricBounds: frameBounds[(c%2)], appliedObjectStyle: tos}); newMaster=myDoc.pages.item(c).appliedMaster; (oldMaster!=newMaster && arrayCount!=myHeaders.length-1) ? arrayCount++:0; newTextFrame.parentStory.contents=myHeaders[arrayCount]; } } function parsePRN(filePath){ // this function is based on a function written by Haakenlid http://forums.adobe.com/message/3666148#3666148 var prnfil; var result; prnfil=new File(filePath); prnfil.open(); fileContent = prnfil.read(); prnfil.close(); // eval("result=['"+fileContent.replace(/,/g, "','")+"'];"); myArrayString=fileContent.replace(/'/g, "QtQeQn4").replace(/\t/g, "','").replace (/\n/g, "' , '"); myArrayString=myArrayString.slice(0,-3); $.writeln(myArrayString); eval ("result=['"+myArrayString+"];"); for (var c=0; c<result.length-1; c++) result =result .replace(/QtQeQn4/g, "'"); return result; };

Trevor: · ‎Aug 01, 2012

No problem Matt, at least you made your deadline. Please mark the scripts as correct instead of helpful (I'm pretty sure there correct) Thanks Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Aug 01, 2012

Peter Maybe for version 12 you can put it on page 1

Trevor: · ‎Aug 01, 2012

Hi Matt I hope you did not have a heart attack from my $15, I wouldn't want Interpol onto me. Anyway here's 2 scripts the first one places threaded text frame on every page you can then place the excel data in the way described on the link above. The second script puts not threaded text frames on every page and places the contents of an array into the frames for each new section the next item in the array fill the frames until the next section and so on. To fill the array with the contents of the excel file, place the file in a new indesign document then useing ctrl f replacing tabs / returns for ", " the is a quote mark, coma, quote mark copy this new contents to the script instead of fred","Harry","Trevor at the begining of the script. Both scripts give the text frame an object style "Trevor's Object Style" with a paragraph syle "Trevor's Paragraph Style" Script 1 // Script 1 for semi-automatic data import // http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042222?tstart=0 myDoc=app.documents[0]; if (myDoc.pages.length>1) app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Make Text Frames for Semi Manual Excel Data Entry"); function main() { pageBounds=[]; pageBounds[0]=myDoc.pages.item(0).bounds; pageBounds[1]=myDoc.pages.item(1).bounds; topMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.top; leftMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.right; leftMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.right; frameBounds=[]; frameBounds[0]=[0,0,0,0] frameBounds[1]=[0,0,0,0]; frameBounds[0][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[0][0]; // top y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[0][0]; // bottom y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[1][0]; // top y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[1][0]; // bottom y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[0][1]=leftMargin+pageBounds[0][1]; // left x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][3]=pageBounds[0][3]-rightMargin; // right x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][1]=pageBounds[1][1]+leftMargin2; // left x of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][3]=pageBounds[1][3]-rightMargin2; // right x of text frame of even pages change as needed tps=myDoc.paragraphStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Paragraph Style",justification: Justification.AWAY_FROM_BINDING_SIDE}); tos=myDoc.objectStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Object Style", appliedParagraphStyle: tps, enableParagraphStyle: 1}); oldTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(0).textFrames.add({geometricBounds: frameBounds[0], label: "Trevor's Text Frame", appliedObjectStyle: tos}); for (c=1; c<myDoc.pages.length; c++) { newTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(c).textFrames.add({label: "Trevor's Text Frame", geometricBounds: frameBounds[(c%2)], previousTextFrame: oldTextFrame, appliedObjectStyle: tos}); oldTextFrame=newTextFrame; } } Script 2 // Script 2 for automatic data import // http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042222?tstart=0 myDoc=app.documents[0]; myHeaders=["fred","Harry","Trevor"]; if (myDoc.pages.length>1) app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Make Text Frames for Semi Manual Excel Data Entry"); function main() { pageBounds=[]; pageBounds[0]=myDoc.pages.item(0).bounds; pageBounds[1]=myDoc.pages.item(1).bounds; topMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.top; leftMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin=myDoc.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.right; leftMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.left; rightMargin2=myDoc.pages.item(1).marginPreferences.right; $.writeln(pageBounds[0]+"\r\r"+pageBounds[1]+"\r\r"+topMargin+"\r"+leftMargin+"\r"+rightMargin+"\r"+leftMargin2+"\r"+rightMargin2); frameBounds=[]; frameBounds[0]=[0,0,0,0] frameBounds[1]=[0,0,0,0]; frameBounds[0][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[0][0]; // top y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[0][0]; // bottom y of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][0]=topMargin-8+pageBounds[1][0]; // top y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][2]=topMargin+pageBounds[1][0]; // bottom y of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[0][1]=leftMargin+pageBounds[0][1]; // left x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[0][3]=pageBounds[0][3]-rightMargin; // right x of text frame of odd pages change as needed frameBounds[1][1]=pageBounds[1][1]+leftMargin2; // left x of text frame of even pages change as needed frameBounds[1][3]=pageBounds[1][3]-rightMargin2; // right x of text frame of even pages change as needed tps=myDoc.paragraphStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Paragraph Style",justification: Justification.AWAY_FROM_BINDING_SIDE}); tos=myDoc.objectStyles.add({name: "Trevor's Object Style", appliedParagraphStyle: tps, enableParagraphStyle: 1}); oldTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(0).textFrames.add({geometricBounds: frameBounds[0], label: "Trevor's Text Frame", appliedObjectStyle: tos}); oldMaster=myDoc.pages.item(0).appliedMaster; oldTextFrame.parentStory.contents=myHeaders[0]; arrayCount=0; for (c=1; c<myDoc.pages.length; c++) { newTextFrame=myDoc.pages.item(c).textFrames.add({label: "Trevor's Text Frame", geometricBounds: frameBounds[(c%2)], appliedObjectStyle: tos}); newMaster=myDoc.pages.item(c).appliedMaster; (oldMaster!=newMaster && arrayCount!=myHeaders.length-1) ? arrayCount++:0; newTextFrame.parentStory.contents=myHeaders[arrayCount]; } } I wouldn't say no to the $15 Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 31, 2012

I understand you mean that each section has a different master, if so that would spoil your fun considerably! I think it would be helpful to see a screen shot of a small part of the excel file you wish to import (change any parts you don't want people to see!!) I presume that you have no reference to the page numbers in that document if you were to add them in that would make the job easy but even if not if for each section you move on one item in the excel list then it doesn't sound to tough. Do you have basic scripting skills and are looking for guidance or are you looking for the script written for you? (Sounds like about $15 to me ) Don't expect any quick answer from me, I'm going out now, Bye

Trevor: · ‎Jul 30, 2012

DEPENDING on what exactly you want to do this link might well help. It is not through scripting but should get the job done very quickly. Will thread the list through the document page after page. i.e. page 1 will get heading 1 page 2 heading 2 etc. Just enter Return before each Item if it needs pushing off. If heading 2 is on page 5 press enter 4 times. Shouldn't take more than 30 minutes for 550 pages http://forums.adobe.com/message/3792615#3792615 Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 30, 2012

~ Trevor ~ wrote: But I found the REAL bug " for (c=0;c<langs.length;c++){" should become " for (c=0;c<langs.length-1;c++){" Quite a silly mistake The script works really quite nicely now Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Now I feel really silly, the "real" bug was not a bug and " for (c=0;c<langs.length;c++){" was correct. The -1 took off English: United States (don't know what's the difference between that and English: USA, as a Brit I never looked into it.) the -1 did make a difference, my computer was feeling moody and getting caught up with the splwow64.exe thread. Anyway It seems to have cheered up and now come to terms with the American independence.

Trevor: · ‎Jul 30, 2012

Peter Thanks for the explanation, very clear. Good to learn some good practices. Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 30, 2012

Hi Peter, I'm surprised by your answer, can't see why that should make a difference. On testing, it does seem to make a bit of a difference but it's hard to tell. But I found the REAL bug " for (c=0;c<langs.length;c++){" should become " for (c=0;c<langs.length-1;c++){" Quite a silly mistake The script works really quite nicely now (If one doesn't like the color of your favorite languages then experiment with the r g b formula) Regards Trevor myDoc=app.documents[0]; langs=myDoc.languages.everyItem().getElements(); con=[]; for (c=0;c<langs.length-1;c++){ app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.appliedLanguage=langs ; finds=new Array; finds=myDoc.findGrep(); if (finds.length>0){ cc=0 for (d=0;d<langs .name.length;d++) { cc+=langs .name.charCodeAt(d)*235; } r=cc % 255; g=(5*(13*cc-7*r)) % 255; b=(8*(9*cc-5*r-3*g) )% 255; con = (app.activeDocument.conditions.item(langs .name).isValid) ? app.activeDocument.conditions.item(langs .name) : app.activeDocument.conditions.add ({name: langs .name, indicatorColor: [r,g,b], indicatorMethod: ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT}); app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = [con ]; finds=myDoc.changeGrep(); } } app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null;

Trevor: · ‎Jul 29, 2012

ArchieOldie wrote: Oh, I'm an idiot. No, I did not have anything selected. Why, why, why is it so hard to follow directions? In my haste I forgot to re-read before the test. Yes, once I selected the text the script worked beautifully. Thank you so much for your help! Ok, I know my one line instruction "Select the text and then run the script" is a bit on the complicated side so I have added a catch for those in need of a nap. made a couple of other changes as well. #target indesign try { mySelection=app.selection[0]; app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; var oldnum; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d+"; myFinds= new Array; myFinds=mySelection.findGrep(); pagesToAdd=parseInt(prompt ("Ammount to add to page numbers ?", "1", "Ammount to add to page numbers ?")); fromPage=parseInt(prompt ("Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page ?", "1", "Add "+pagesToAdd+"Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page ?")); untilPage=parseInt(prompt ("Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page "+fromPage+" until page ?", app.documents[0].pages.length, "Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page "+fromPage+" until page ?")); app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Adjust index page numbers"); function main(){ myFinds=mySelection.findGrep(); for (c=0;c<myFinds.length;c++) { oldnum=1*myFinds .contents; if (oldnum >= fromPage && oldnum <=untilPage) { p=pagesToAdd+oldnum; q=p.toString(); app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=q; myFinds .changeGrep(); } } } } catch (noSelection) { alert("Did you realy wan't to adjust every number in your "+app.documents[0].pages.length +" page document!!!!\rMaybe you just wanted to change the index entries????\rHave a little nap and then select the text of the index and run the script again"); } I made quite an advanced version of this script that also cleans up the index entries, checks that their in the right order (changes 3,6,4, 55-34 to 3, 4, 6, 34-55) using appropriate separators and spacing and dealing with numbers that are part of the entry and not the page number. I.e "WWII 1939 - 1945 34, 66, 36" will change to "WWII 1939 - 1945 36, 38, 68" if we add 2 to the pages and not "WWII 1941 - 1947 36, 38, 68" But sorry not giving that one away as a freebie for now. Regards Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 29, 2012

The mindsteam version is a lot more proffesional (I have it) but this also makes your copy nice and pretty. myDoc=app.documents[0]; langs=myDoc.languages; con=[]; app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; for (c=0;c<langs.length;c++){ app.findGrepPreferences.appliedLanguage=langs ; finds=new Array; finds=myDoc.findGrep(); if (finds.length>0){ r=Math.floor((Math.random()*255)); g=Math.floor((Math.random()*255)); b=Math.floor((Math.random()*255)); con = (app.activeDocument.conditions.item(langs .name).isValid) ? app.activeDocument.conditions.item(langs .name) : app.activeDocument.conditions.add ({name: langs .name, indicatorColor: [r,g,b], indicatorMethod: ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT}); app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = [con ]; finds=myDoc.changeGrep(); } } app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; One can see that the : after the UK and French are Hebrew, That would be very hard to spot without this type of script After testing on a longer document I see the script is a bit on the slow side Oh well. I thought it might be nice to assign a constant color scheme to the language instead of a random one so if anybodies interested change the lines after if (finds.length>0){ to this if (finds.length>0){ cc=0 for (d=0;d<langs .name.length;d++) { cc+=langs .name.charCodeAt(d)*235; } r=cc % 255; g=(5*(13*cc-7*r)) % 255; b=(8*(9*cc-5*r-3*g) )% 255; Message was edited by: ~ Trevor ~

Trevor: · ‎Jul 29, 2012

Try this. Make a copy of your document and on the COPY run this script. myDoc=app.documents[0]; var myLanguage = /***For German InDesign, only:***/"Deutsch: Rechtschreibreform 2006"; //Perhaps use: "German (2006 reform)" // this line stolen from Uwe uc = (app.activeDocument.conditions.item("My Unique Condition That I'm Pretty Sure Does Not Come Up In The Document (23145871834gs to be extra safe)").isValid) ? app.activeDocument.conditions.item("My Unique Condition That I'm Pretty Sure Does Not Come Up In The Document (23145871834gs to be extra safe)") : app.activeDocument.conditions.add ({name: "My Unique Condition That I'm Pretty Sure Does Not Come Up In The Document (23145871834gs to be extra safe)", indicatorColor: UIColors.YELLOW, indicatorMethod: ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT}); app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.appliedLanguage= myLanguage ; app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = [uc]; finds=[]; finds=myDoc.changeGrep(); uc.visible=0; The German text will not be visible (you can make it visible by clicking on the conditional text panel) The text you are left with is all non-German. You might wan't to add the the find preferences; tables, footnotes, etc. There is a professional program Language Lamp that you might like if you do this stuff a lot. http://www.mindsteam.com/products/languagelamp/index.html The pro version which includes scripting and preflight is http://www.mindsteam.com/products/languagelamppro/index.html Good luck Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 19, 2012

Just wanted to add that I didn't see Hans script when I posted my above post. Not that it makes a difference. Trevor

Trevor: · ‎Jul 19, 2012

It's easy to script one needs to set up 3 object styles two for text frames that will include the top (23) and bottom (57) numbers and one for the middle line insert as an inline anchored object at the insertion point a text frame, for simplicity I'll call this the main text frame. In the main text frame insert the top and bottom number text frames and the line, i.e. 3 custom anchored objects. The top and bottom text frames should to the anchored setting like this and For the line object style set both the reference point to the middle Make sure to set up the paragraph styles properly All this can be done without scripting one setup you can just copy and paste the main text frame and change the numbers as needed. Of course scripting it with a keyboard shortcut would be much easier for you. Best to have 2 scripts 1 for inserting the main text frame so you can enter the numbers and another for after you have entered the number to adjust the geometricBounds (dimensions in this case) of the line top, bottom and main text frames according to the width of the numbers you entered. Trevor Note: in the top screenshot I was not careful on the size of the top and bottom text frames so the line comes to close to the 57. With a bit of care it would look good. Message was edited by: ~ Trevor ~

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