>Shouldn't that be >app.activeDocument.masterSpreads.item('A-Master').pages(1).search ("^#", false, false, "^#") Of course not! It should be app.activeDocument.masterSpreads.item('A-Master').pages.item(1).search ("^#", false, false, "^#") That's the right-hand page, by the way, if you have two-sided masters. To search the left-hand page, use pages.item(0). Peter ... View more

Shouldn't that be app.activeDocument.masterSpreads.item('A-Master').pages(1).search ("^#", false, false, "^#") Peter ... View more

Simon, I can't reproduce this. If you send me one of your troublesome files I'll take a look (click my name in this message to see my email address). Peter ... View more

myTable = app.selection[0].parent.parent; CC = myTable.cells.length; Tt = 100 / CC; for (i = 0; i < CC; i++) { myTable.cells.fillColor = "Red"; myTable.cells.fillTint = 100 - Tt * i } Peter ... View more

Ah, yes, VB doesn't have everyItem(0. In that case you should set each column individually: colwidth = fw / col.length for (i = 0; i < col.length; i++) col.width = colwidth; Peter ... View more

It could be the case that there is some local formatting. After you use the script, try removing local formatting (Alt/Opt+click on the stylename in the UI). If that works, and if it's possible to remove local formatting, you can script that as well. First let's see if removing local formatting makes a difference. Peter ... View more

Place the cursor somewhere in the table to be resized and run the following script. It checks only if the cursor is in a table, nothing else -- it's very basic. Peter #target indesign sel = app.selection[0]; if ( (sel.constructor.name != 'InsertionPoint') && sel.parent.constructor.name != 'Cell') exit(); fw = framewidth (sel); col = sel.parent.parent.columns; col.everyItem().width = fw / col.length; function framewidth (s) { var gb = s.parentTextFrames[0].geometricBounds return gb[3]-gb[1] } ... View more

This gives you the graphic's page number: g.parent.parent.name Peter ... View more

Sure. But checking a string is easier than checking an array. Peter ... View more

This one is very basic: doc = app.activeDocument; applied_master_names = "|"; for (i = 0; i < doc.pages.length; i++) applied_master_names += doc.pages.appliedMaster.name + "|"; masters = doc.masterSpreads; for (i = masters.length-1; i >= 0; i--) if (applied_master_names.indexOf ("|"+masters.name+"|") < 0) masters.remove(); The first loop goes through all pages, collecting the names of the applied master frames. It creates a string with all these names separated by |. The second loop goes through the master spreads: if the name of a master does not occur in the string with applied master names, the master spread is deleted. The script is basic and will probably run slowly on long documents, but it could be optimised in several places. Peter ... View more

What you need to do is to blank the fields for point size etc.: with (app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item ('bibref')) { appliedFont = NothingEnum.nothing; fontStyle = NothingEnum.nothing; pointSize = NothingEnum.nothing; } Peter ... View more

>now question: how to determine the first and last selected object in CS3? Unfortunately, you can no longer do that in CS3. I don't know of any workarounds. Peter ... View more

X, /g is a switch in JavaScript GREP, but the OP wanted scripted Indesign. In fact InDesign's UI (and scripted GREPs) default to /g. Peter ... View more

jxswm, Your GREPs don't find 1.2090 Peter ... View more

You've not found yourself the easiest of tasks! You need GREP find/replace, not text. Do you have any experience with GREP? It's worth investigating, it's a powerful feature. The script below handles bold. For clarity, it doesn't do any error checking: it assumes that there's a document with text in it and that the document contains a character style called 'bold'. // talk to Indesign, nobody else #target indesign // reset the Find/Change dialog app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; // find everything between <b> and (including these codes) app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '<b>.+?</b>'; // add 'bold' style app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'bold'; // make the changes app.activeDocument.changeGrep(); // now delete the <b> and </b> codes app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '</?b>'; app.changeGrep(); You can adapt it easily to handle other codes, and at a later stage you could generalise it so that you needn't repeat whole bunches of code. Good luck with your first forays. Again, it's not the easiest of tasks, but it's worth getting to grips with. Peter ... View more

So much for reflection. Step one didn't do anything because it works only for numbers at the end of a paragraph ($). What is required is "at word boundary" (\b). Here's the correct expression: Find: \.0+\b change to: (nothing) >this is harder than I thought it would be It often works out like that. In your case, the complication is that sometimes the decimal separator should be deleted, sometimes not. Peter ... View more

On reflection, the first step should be this: find: \.0+$ change to: (nothing) To ensure that numbers such as 4.0300 and 5.0002 are dealt with correctly. Peter ... View more

It's probably easiest to do this in two steps. First: find: \.0+ change to: (nothing) to delete dots followed by zeroes (1.0000). Then the other cases: find: (\.[\d]+?)0+\b change to: $1 This way, you still understand the expressions an hour later. Peter ... View more

See http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert_cs2.html Peter ... View more

... but then you need to know the type of image, which could be epss, images, picts, pdfs, or wmfs (maybe some more). It's safer to avoid that and use "graphics" instead: try { alert (File (app.selection[0].graphics[0].itemLink.filePath).name) } catch (_) { alert ("Selection doesn't contain any images.") } Peter ... View more

For EPS and AI, use epss[0] instead of images[0] Peter ... View more

This groups all text frames on the first page of a document: doc = app.activeDocument; doc.pages[0].groups.add (doc.pages[0].textFrames); Peter ... View more

A bit of rummaging around in the OMV (or any equivalent) shows that pdfPlacePreferences is a property of the application. Add therefore this line to your script: app.pdfPlacePreferences.transparentBackground = true; Peter ... View more

Have a loom at the pdfPlacePreference properties. I've never used them, but it looks as if that's what you need. Peter ... View more

You create a new image object, but you also need to use the add() method somewhere to add it to the document. But you can't add() images like that. Instead, add a rectangle (as a container for the image), then place the image in it. Something like this: r = app.activeDocument.pages[0].rectangles.add(); r.geometricBounds = ["4p8", "10p4", "6p0", "21p4"]; r.place (File ("~/Desktop/Master/images/LOGO.pdf"), false); Peter ... View more

You live and learn : ) Peter ... View more

I'm not particularly good at this sort of thing, but the reference says that xmlImportMaps.add() takes two parameters, a markup tag and the mapped style. Take a look at p. 114 of this document: http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy/scripting/pdfs/InCopy_CS3_Scripting_Guide_JS.pdf which is for CS3, but what you want to do has not changed much I don't think. Peter ... View more

This and many other things are described in some of Adobe's documentation at http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html Peter ... View more

Ah, that's what's wrong with it. Back to Jongware. Peter ... View more

Ugh. "minwidth" should indeed be "minWidth": I consult3ed some code I have and the values I used with "minwidth" happened to be the default, so I never realised that JS ignored the values I gave it. It has been less than helpful in not producing an error. And Dave is right: minWidth works only as a specified value in textEditboxes. Peter ... View more