Only you know which one you want. How do you intend to communicate that to the script? Or perhaps I should ask: which character goes with which image? You can use a search to find them all and then cycle through them with a for-loop to replace each individually. How much help do you need? Have you written scripts yourself or are you looking for someone to write one for you? Dave ... View more

Have you looked at the ESTK Object Model Viewer for help on the various properties and methods you're using? I'm surprised that your script gets past: myImage = myFolder.item because folders don't have an item property. But indeed, I've reproduced your result. Your problem is not that newLayer doesn't exist -- it does, although the "+1" parameter to the add method makes no sense. Your problem is that myImage is not defined because myFolder.item doesn't work. To walk through the files in a folder you need to use getFiles() to get an array of files and then cycle through that. It's also worth noting that a Folder object doesn't have a length property, so your test for an empty folder isn't working. myFolder.length is undefined, which isn't equal to 0, so that's how you're getting past there. The Object Model Viewer can be found on ESTK's Help menu. Dave ... View more

Here's the script I use. Notice the complications getting the live area when other than rulers per spread is employed. The script automatically selects the final selection point in the story and moves to that page in the active window. //DESCRIPTION: Autoflow selected overset story (function(){           if (app.documents.length > 0                               && app.selection.length == 1                               && app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty("parentStory")                               && app.selection[0].parentStory.overflows) {                     app.doScript(fixOverset, undefined, app.selection[0].parentStory, UndoModes.entireScript, "Fix Overset");           } else {                     alert("There must be a selection that identifies the overset story.");           }           function fixOverset(story) {                     while (story.overflows) {                               var aDoc = story.parent;                               var lastTF = story.textContainers.pop();                               var lastPage = lastTF.parentPage;                               if (lastPage instanceof Page == false) {                                         alert("Story ends on pasteboard; no action taken.");                                         return;                               }                               var master = lastPage.appliedMaster;                               var newPage = aDoc.pages.add(LocationOptions.after, lastPage);                               newPage.appliedMaster = master; // may not be necessary                               var liveArea = getLiveBounds(newPage);                               var newTF = newPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds : liveArea, layer : lastTF.itemLayer});                               newTF.previousTextFrame = lastTF;                               if (newTF.insertionPoints.length == 0                                                   && lastTF.insertionPoints.length == 0) {                                         // allows for paragraph style with startParagraph on specific page side                                         alert("Story is permanently overset.");                                         return;                               }                     }                     selectIt(story.insertionPoints[-1]);           }           function getLiveBounds(page) {                     var rO = page.parent.parent.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin;                     var bounds = page.bounds;                     if (rO == RulerOrigin.spreadOrigin) return returnBounds(page, bounds);                     var width = bounds[3] - bounds[1];                     if (rO == RulerOrigin.spineOrigin &&                                         (page.side == PageSideOptions.leftHand ||                                                   (page.side == PageSideOptions.rightHand &&                                                             page.parent.pages.length > 1)) ||                               (rO == RulerOrigin.pageOrigin &&                                         page.side == PageSideOptions.rightHand &&                                                   page.parent.pages.length > 1)) {                                         bounds[1] = bounds[1] - width;                                         bounds[3] = bounds[3] - width;                     }                     return returnBounds(page, bounds);                     function returnBounds(page, bounds) {                               return [                                         page.marginPreferences.top,                                         page.side == PageSideOptions.leftHand ?                                                   bounds[1] + page.marginPreferences.right :                                                   bounds[1] + page.marginPreferences.left,                                         bounds[2] - page.marginPreferences.bottom,                                         page.side == PageSideOptions.leftHand ?                                                   bounds[3] - page.marginPreferences.left :                                                   bounds[3] - page.marginPreferences.right                               ] ;                     }           }            function selectIt(theObj) {                     var myZoom = app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage;                     app.select(theObj);                     app.activeWindow.zoom(ZoomOptions.fitPage);                     app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = myZoom;            } }()) ... View more

From: myStory.storyType you can determine that a story is a TOC, but how do you get from there to the TOC Style that was used to create said TOC? This was the question that was bugging me back in CS3 days and I see no improvement in the CC object model. Stories don't have an associatedTOCStyle property. But maybe you can get at this by lateral thinking. If a story was created as a TOC then it has certain paragraph styles in it. If the TOC Styles are designed to have unique paragraph styles that identify the TOC Style, then you're home and dry. For example, you could have a ParagraphStyleGroup for each TOC Style and the name of that group could be the same as the name of the corresponding TOC Style. Of course, this assumes you have control over the template for the project so that this relationship can be relied on. But given that, you can start with a text selection. Check the applied paragraph style, look at the name of its parent and bingo: there's the name of the TOC Style. I'm not sure if this helps in your situation. Dave ... View more

I'm having trouble understanding just what you're trying to do -- are you trying to "read" a value that the user chooses from a standard UI dialog? You can't do that. It's been a while since I've tried any TOC work, but I recall it used to be difficult to work out which TOC Style went with which TOC. Things might have improved since CS3 days. Can you say a little bit more about the process you're trying to serve here? Dave ... View more

When people have this kind of disagreement, it usually means they're talking about different things. So, to be clear: In the UI, the equivalent of your: app.DisplayPerformancePreferences.DefaultDisplaySettings =  idViewDisplaySettings.idHighQuality Is to go to InDesign/Preferences/Display Performance/Options and choose High Quality. This affects only future windows and not current ones. However, the UI also allows you, with a layout window at front to go to: View/Display Performance/High Quality Display. And this works on the current window. This is the equivalent of the scripting action: app.ActiveWindow.ViewDisplaySetting =  idViewDisplaySettings.idHighQuality Does that clear up the difference of opinion? Dave PS: I realize that as a Mac user I've used the Mac path to InDesign Preferences. I believe this is slightly different on Windows. ... View more

Hate to be contrary, but it doesn't work in the UI if you're expecting it to affect existing windows. It never has and is one of the most confusing aspects of InDesign preferences. The solution, for an existing layout window is to set the viewDisplaySetting property of that window. Dave ... View more

Everything works just fine when all is visible. The issue is that when text is invisible it is replaced by a marker that counts as a character as far as JS is concerned and which is selected if in the UI you click after the space and then do Command-Shift-Up-Arrow to select to the start of the paragraph (which I now realize is what I did). Dave ... View more

In attempting to provide a helpful response, I have myself run into an issue. I constructed a very simple example with the following text (Using InDesign CC 9.2.1.101): Hello Bonjour This is a message. I created (using the UI) two conditions named English and French. I applied English to "Hello " and French to "Bonjour ". I then set English invisible and selected the word "Bonjour " (including the trailing space. Now, using ESTK JavaScript Console I tried: app.selection[0].appliedConditions[0].name it returned: Error: undefined is not an object But if I try: app.selection[0].parentStory.textStyleRanges[1].appliedConditions[0].name it returns: Result: French Apparently, app.selection[0].parentStory.textStyleRanges[0] is the hidden English text. So, this is a puzzle. -------------------------- And before I could post this, I realized what was happening: the selection includes the hidden English text. Wow, that's something to watch out for when working with conditions. If the selection you make in text is hard up against a hidden condition, that hidden text is incorporated into the selection yet it doesn't actually exist. But this doesn't affect non-condition related properties. For example pointSize returns the correct value. app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].appliedConditions[0].name fails. As does app.selection[0].characters[0].appliedConditions[0].name. But app.selection[0].characters[1].appliedConditions[0].name correctly returns French. And now the real reason becomes clear: the first character is some kind of marker that invisibly indicates that there is hidden text at that location. But it appears to be a marker for which you cannot search. Hmm. I'm not sure whether I'm helping here! My original thought was that to address the question a script could note the state of the condition of interest, turn it on, analyze the affected text and then if necessary turn it off again. Dave ... View more

I'm with Peter, I don't believe you can find out the GID of a character with a script (except by doing it the hard way, which I'll explain after I show you a script I just wrote). But if you are interested in changing characters with particular GIDs, then you can indeed do it along these lines: //DESCRIPTION: Find/Change by Glyph ID Example (function(){           if (app.documents.length > 0) {                     setupFindGlyph(84, 86);                     app.documents[0].changeGlyph();           }           function setupFindGlyph(fmGID, toGID) {                     // this is a simple demo function; it could do more                     app.findChangeGlyphOptions = null;                     app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = "Minion Pro";                     app.findGlyphPreferences.fontStyle = "Regular";                     app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = fmGID;                     app.changeGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = "Minion Pro";                     app.changeGlyphPreferences.fontStyle = "Regular";                     app.changeGlyphPreferences.glyphID = toGID;           } }()) Obviously, to be truly useful, you'd need to pass the font and style into the setup function rather than hard-code them as I've done here. This particular script changes all the "s" characters in Minion Pro Regular to the character "u". To find the GID of a character of interest, use the Glyphs Panel. The tooltip associated with each character in the panel includes the GID. Note: if you try to run this script with the FindGlyph panel open, either nothing will happen or InDesign will crash. So what did I mean by "the hard way"? Well, you could set up a text frame with a character of interest in it and then use a variant of this script to FindGlyph cycling through all legal values until you get a hit. Ugly, but possible. Dave ... View more

Thanks Marc and Sumgarg for helping Sandee. I've been in hospital for three weeks and am only now able to starting thinking again. Dave ... View more

I just fixed a stupid typo. Make sure you have the latest. PS: I am the other guy -- I'm acknowledging my own stupidity, not calling someone else names. My computers insist on my having two different personalities here depending on which one I use. ... View more

A solution that requires the application frame to be activated all the time is not acceptable. But what if I only activate it in order to quit? Now there's a thought worth exploring. Be still my beating heart, it works. Dave ... View more

Good job. Thanks for reporting back. ... View more

I'm no AppleScripter, but it seems to me that if you go to the trouble of setting up a variable I to walk through the documents you should use it. I'd say it's bad form to use "myFiles" as the name for a variable that holds a reference to a single document. Someone might need to backstop my code, but you should be able to use: repeat with myDoc in documents tell myDoc Dave ... View more

If this doesn't help, I'll look more deeply this evening: The first part of a a?b:c statement must be logical. But dy is a number. Dave ... View more

Yep, for me too. It is increasely difficult to maintain the discipline to avoid being sarcastic in my crash reports. ... View more

Assuming you're using a relatively recent version of InDesign, check the parentPage property of your text frames. If it is null then your text frame is on the pasteboard, if not, then check its parent. If that's a MasterSpread, your text frame is on a master. Dave ... View more

Is this the only thing happening when you get the error? Or do you have an interaction you're overlooking between two different event scripts? Dave ... View more

While most file managers are not fussy about the cases used in File names, JavaScript is: could it be that your problem is caused by the difference between "var" and "Var"? Just guessing. Dave ... View more

Here's a way to put a conditional into the middle of that kind of statement: myString = "Document has " + myStyles.length + " style" + (myStyles.length == 1 ? "" : "s") + ... Dave ... View more

Ah, I finally see the cause of your confusion: All cross references are hyperlinks. But: all hyperlinks are not cross references. What you need to do is look at each hyperlink, determine if it is a cross reference and if it is of the kind you're interested in, and if so, change it in the way you want. That's an outline of how your script should operate. Dave ... View more

cross references do have sources. cross reference formats don't. Dave ... View more

Ice cream trucks have names and so do ice creams, but ice creams do not have front-left tires. The reason your script fails is because a crossReferenceFormat does not have a source property and so you cannot set the appliedFormat of that source because it doesn't exist. You're trying to set the pressure of the front-left tire of an ice cream. That's all I have time for this morning -- have to do my own work. Dave ... View more

Thanks Jeff -- that certainly describes my scenario. Dave ... View more

I don't want to appear picky, but scripting is a very picky business. What your script does is rename a paragraph style, not reassign it. The object style suggests that you can do the same with a cross reference format using essentially the same code but with "crossReferenceFormats" instead of paragraphStyles. Bear in mind, I'm reading the object model (using ESTK's Help menu feature 'Object Model Viewer') and drawing conclusions from what I see -- I'm not writing scripts and trying them out because right now I'm up to my eyes in a script of my own. Dave ... View more

CrossReferenceFormats have been part of the object model since CS4. Dave ... View more