Your problem is that your InDesign has been set to "never interact" with users. In this state, when the sample script tries to put up a dialog it is immediately dismissed and the script is led to believe that the user clicked Cancel. To solve this problem add the following statement to each script on a line immediately before the line that includes the dialog show call -- just open the scripts in ESTK and use Find to locate the call to show. app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll; Dave ... View more

You need to contact the InMath people. The last time I had anything to do with InMath they were working on scriptability, but I didn't ever hear that they had accomplished it. Dave ... View more

Well what do you know! app.pageItemDefaults! That's what I was looking for earlier when I gave up and offered the lame object styles suggestions. Thanks Jongware and plug_in_guy Dave ... View more

There is nothing the script can do to change the size that InDesign uses to open a window. What the script does is put you one keystroke away from getting the window to be the size you want it. That's what it does. That's all that it does. You just have to set up the defaults (as you did) and then run the script each time you create a new window. Once you save a document and reopen it, it will open at the new size, but new windows will be at whatever size InDesign decides to make them. Dave ... View more

Take a deep breath. Open a document. Manually adjust the window to the size you want to be your default. Run the script. The script will ask you if you want the new size to be your default. Say yes (or OK or whatever the choice is). Now, whenever you run the script it will make the front InDesign window that size. Dave ... View more

Yes, the Windows folder should be inside the Scripts Panel folder. When you go to Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts you need to look for the Scripts section and then give the script a shortcut. If you have all the pre-installed scripts still in your Scripts panel you'll have to scroll down a long way to find it. The script does nothing until you run it. The use of a shortcut is optional but if you don't have one it takes just as long to find the script in the panel as it does to fix the window manually. Dave ... View more

I think the best you can do is set those values in the Basic Graphics Frame object style. But I'm not sure that quite achieves your objective. Dave ... View more

In that case, here again is the script I use: //DESCRIPTION: Resets active window size or uses front window to set default size. // Check for WindowDefault.txt; if present use it to set front window // if not, use front window to set it after checking with user. myPath = app.activeScript; myParts = myPath.toString().split("/"); myParts[(myParts.length - 1)] =  "WindowDefault" + app.version.slice(0,1) + ".txt"; myNewPath = myParts.join("/"); mySettingsFile = File(myNewPath); // Before proceeding, check that there is a front window // If not, offer user the chance to delete the current settings if (app.windows.length < 1) { beep(); if (confirm("No window is open; would you like to delete the settings file?")) {   // User said yes; check that it exists   if(mySettingsFile.exists) {    mySettingsFile.remove();   } } } else { if (mySettingsFile.open("r")) {   savedBounds = mySettingsFile.read();   mySettingsFile.close();   myBounds = savedBounds.split(",");   for (i = 0; i<myBounds.length; i++) {    myBounds = Number(myBounds);   }   app.windows[0].bounds = myBounds; } else {   beep();   if (confirm("Settings file is missing. Use current front window to set default?")) {    // User said: go to it.    new File(mySettingsFile);    mySettingsFile.open("w");    mySettingsFile.write(app.windows[0].bounds);    mySettingsFile.close();   } } } Instructions: 1. Copy and paste the script into a new ExtendScript Toolkit document. To find ExtendScript Toolkit, look in Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/ExtendScript Toolkit CS4/ Fire it up and it will present you with an empty document 2. Save the script to the Desktop (temporarily) with the name "Reset Window Position.jsx". 3. Fire up InDesign CS4. 4. Open the Scripts panel. If it is not active, use Window/Automation to activate it 5. Right-click the folder named User and choose Reveal in Finder. 6. Create a folder inside that folder named "Windows" 7. Drag the script into that folder. 8. Use Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts and assign the shortcut Ctrl-W to this script (or any shortcut of your choice). 9. Make sure that Application Frame is not active (also on the Window menu). 10. Open a document and get its window the way you want it. 11. Run the script for the first time. It will ask if you want to use the front window to set your preference. Say yes. That's it. Now, you can resize your front window by using the shortcut at any time. To change the preferences, you can open the text file it creates in that same Windows folder and twiddle with the numbers. Or, you can run the script with no document open to delete the preferences (it asks you first) and then repeat steps 10 and 11. Dave ... View more

My windows scripts don't work in Windows ;-( because in Windows you can't turn off the Application Frame and with that on, the script can't change the positioning of the windows. So, before we go any further, can you confirm that you are a Mac user? Dave ... View more

Look under Resources on this page: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/ The tutorial and guides have many examples of setting preferences. Dave ... View more

You have to script each one individually. I've made a small number of attempts to do this but usually became hopelessly bored by about the 10th or so item. There's a small number of prefs that can't be set by script, most notably and deliberately the preference that allows attaching scripts. Dave ... View more

I assume that you have two story elements and you want to move one before the other. So, you'd write: myStoryElB.move(LocationOptions.before, myStoryElA); This would move story element B ahead of story element A in the structure panel, taking all its children elements with it. Dave ... View more

Tom, Assuming I'm understanding what you want to do, you're looking to: 1. Tag text. 2. Organize the xml structure to match the order of the stories in your document. The way to do the latter is to use the move method for xmlElements. This is not something I've done much so I'm not sure of the full implications, but as long as you move story tags around relative to each other, this will not affect the layout of the document, just the structure of the xml representation. Dave ... View more

Here's some code I wrote recently to find a folder named "Snippets" starting from the location of a document. It first looks in the same folder and then its parent and on up until it reaches the top of the file hierarchy: //DESCRIPTION: Search for Snippets folder from Document location (function() {     if (app.documents.length > 0) {         var myFolder = locateRelatedFolder(app.documents[0].filePath, "Snippets");         if (myFolder == null) {             alert("Unable to locate Snippets folder");             return;         } else {             alert("Snippets folder is: " + myFolder);         }     }     function locateRelatedFolder(folder, name) {         while (folder != null) {             var relatedFolder = Folder(folder + "/" + name);             if (relatedFolder.exists) return relatedFolder;             folder = folder.parent;         }     } // end locateRelatedFolder }()) I've enclosed the code in an anonymous function. Don't let that put you off. You could just delete the first line after the description and the last line. Dave ... View more

The act of tagging inserts to "characters" into the text. That's what's happening when you iterate forwards. Since this is the only thing going on in your script you could convert the references on the fly. You'd have to keep track of whether or not you had changed stories to know how many characters the reference is off by. Alternatively (and perhaps more easily) you could iterate backwards and then reverse the order of the XML elements by moving them. Dave ... View more

I believe you'll need to use invoke to invoke the command that opens the dialog. But I don't think you can click OK from a script. Dave ... View more

egr, The normal way to come to the attention of the InDesign Scripting forum folk is to post a message in that forum. Coming over here and complaining about that forum without every posting in said forum makes it highly unlikely that anyone from the Scripting forum will even find your message let alone respond to it. I just happened upon it completely by accident. Except for question 3, your comments are about the forums in general. I have no particular answer to question 3 other than to observe that if each forum had the kind of controls you'd like to see in that specific forum, it would take a lot of resources and not provide a lot of benefit. Most people take it upon themselves to include some kind of indication of what they're talking about. If you do find a forum that is better for InDesign Scripting than the one here, please share the information with our membership. I'm sure they'd like to know. However, I doubt you'll find a more knowledgeable, more helpful crowd than those in our scripting forum. But you'll never find out if you never post a message there. Dave ... View more

Does: myHyperlink.showDestination(); do what you want? I don't know that you can from JavaScript "close" such a link though, once opened. Dave ... View more

That should be: app.activeDocument.recompose(); As for the rest of your question, there's no way to even begin to guess without seeing the code of your function. Dave ... View more

What you're seeing is the way the character is designed. It is designed to extrude beyond its bounding box and so it extrudes beyond the fitted frame. The only way to get the actual extents of the character's glyph is to convert it (or a copy of it) to outlines and then get the geometric or visible bounds of that. Dave ... View more

By the way, move only takes two arguments. I'm not sure what you expect that true argument to do. It is ignored I believe. Dave ... View more

Could it be that the anchord object in question won't move because you have it set to keep within margins which is preventing the move you're requesting? I've certainly run into that. I've also run into the situation where the object model thinks the anchored object is in one place when it is actually in another because of that same keep within margins option. In this case, a move will apparently not work because the move is invisible, it being completely outside of the margins -- although that only applies to relative moves, I think. Dave ... View more

Amit, I suspect that the reason nobody has answered you is: 1. You assume that we can discern what "the expected result" is. 2. You've not provided enough code to make it possible to just run the script. 3. You require us to first run it in CS3 to see what is supposed to happen so we can then run it in CS4 to find out what doesn't happen. Dave ... View more

Jongware, Thanks for looking into that. I thought that might work but didn't have the energy to check it out. I believe that with either solution, InDesign will simply override the keep rather than go into a permanently overset state, so neither solution is guaranteed to work under all conditions. Dave ... View more

Hi John, There's two different ways you can build dialogs in InDesign. You can do what you're doing, which is using the legacy InDesign Dialog object or you can use ScriptUI. While ScriptUI was first available with Bridge, since InDesign CS3 it is also available within InDesign. Dave ... View more

Have you tried: Row.keepWithNextRow = true for all rows in each table? [I don't think you can use everyItem() for this if your table has header and/or footer rows.] Dave ... View more

I don't think this is a scripting question, is it? Are you asking for product help? Or proposing a new feature? Either way, you're in the wrong forum. Go up a level and pick either the InDesign General Discussion forum or the Feature Requests forum. Dave ... View more

Here you go: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1109721#1109721 Dave ... View more