We'll see what she says. ... View more

What Harper Marie probably wants is to turn this sequence: cat 2, 4 dog 1, 3, 5 into this: dog 1 cat 2 dog 3 cat 4 dog 5 Peter ... View more

>those pop-ups are a bit annoying aren't they. Understatement of the year. Peter ... View more

Fred, Your script moves one page number to the beginning of the paragraph. What about the others? Peter ... View more

Ah -- Bob, you think Goldbridge wants to store the PNGs in the jsx file? In that case, why not save the script as jsxbin? Peter ... View more

Did this not work: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbf275d.3c065b3a/3 ? Peter ... View more

I've no idea. Peter ... View more

Ah, yes, that should be 0. ... View more

You get two errors: one for the use of "vat" instead of "var", and when you fix that, you get an error because you need to remove the notes starting at the end of the document. Use >for(var fn = ftcnt-1; fn >= 0; fn--) Peter ... View more

>how can i do that using ur code" Nice one, jong. ... View more

app.open (File ('/d/test.indd')); app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null; app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = 'Brett'; app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = 'Peter'; app.activeDocument.changeText(); app.activeDocument.save(); app.activeDocument.close(); Then there are several options (for case-sensitivity, whole-word only, etc.) -- see the documentation. Peter ... View more

Which InDesign version? Peter ... View more

Try this: if(myDoc.characterStyles.item ("cstyle") == null) myDoc.characterStyles.add({name:"cstyle"}); var myCharStyle = myDoc.characterStyles.item ("cstyle"); "cstyle" is the name you see in the char. style panel, myCharStyle is a variable -- these are not the same thing. Peter ... View more

Andreas, move() takes either (a layer, page or spread) or an array of values as parameter. To move a frame to the next page, you need something like this: current_page = newFrame.parent.documentOffset; newFrame.move (app.activeDocument.pages[current_page+1]); Peter ... View more

I use a message window (a palette) to display what a script is up to when it is running. A script that processes a bunch of files could display each file name in succession: // create a message window mess = create_mess (30, 'Example'); docs = // get a bunch of documents for (i = 0; i < docs.length; i++) { app.open (docs); // show the current file's name in the message window mess.text = app.activeDocument.name; ... ... app.activeDocument.close() } function create_mess (le, title) { dlg = new Window('palette', title); dlg.alignChildren = ['left', 'top']; var txt = dlg.add('statictext', undefined, ''); txt.characters = le; dlg.show(); return txt } ... View more

>How about toggling their visible property? Right -- hadn't thought about that. Bit of a rash overgeneralisation that the UI isn't available to scripts, which obviously is nonsense given that you can add and remove menu items and toggle panels. Peter ... View more

Sandee, Scripts can't open and close panels in the UI. But you can use the Esc key to close the Tab panel. Peter ... View more

>While I have you on the hook I'm going to lazy again Wriggling on that hook, in terrible pain, all I can think of is to say, Check the properties of "Link". I know there's a property that gives you the file path, just can't remember what its name is. Peter ... View more

>Hmm, I ask because Graphics(1).ActualPpi and .EffectivePpi DO work, at least in CS3 for Windows. I thought I had tried that, but maybe it wasn't an EPS. So when you do Graphics(1).ActualPpi and the graphics is an EPS, it will work. >How about the color space? The InD info panel shows colorspace for Photoshop EPS files. Any idea if THAT is available in the scripting. Check the library, should be in there. Peter ... View more

>How can I let the window stay on my screen long time? I guess that the window will stay on screen as long as the script is running -- just like a palette. >I can't use palettes type with JS in indesign. Why not? Peter ... View more

"books" is a property of the app, so to create a new book, you do app.books.add(...). But bookContents is a property of a book, not of the app. Robin said as much in his post, which you chose to ignore. Peter ... View more

It does work, but it the window is displayed for the duration of the script. And as your script is pretty short, the window isn't going to stay on your screen very long. In this respect it "window"-type windows behave like palettes. Peter ... View more

"Graphics" is a generic term for any graphic contents. There are four specific formats: eps, pdf, pict, and wmf. When you select a frame that has an EPS in it, and you say InD.Selection(1).Graphics.Count(), you get 1 back because your frame contains a graphic. And when you do InD.Selection(1).EPSs.Count() you also get 1 back, because the graphic is an EPS. The generic graphic property "Graphic" has fewer properties than any of the specific formats. That's why ....EPSs(1).ActualPpi works and Graphics(1).ActualPpi does not. Peter ... View more

Ken, You need this: >InD.Selection(1).EPSs(1).ActualPpi (capitalisation is probably noy entirely correct here.) Peter ... View more

Keith, You need this format: app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("[Basic Paragraph]") For those two styles. Peter ... View more

>Note this code as not been tested at all. Works great! Peter ... View more

There's an example on p. 68 of the guide under the heading "Displaying icons". Allowed file formats for the icons are listed there as well. Anyway, here is an example: w = new Window ('dialog'); bb = w.add ('iconbutton', undefined, '/d/icons/example.png'); w.show(); Peter ... View more

A forum search on "treeview" leads you to a thread with some info that might be useful. For Iconbuttons see the scriptUI documentation (in the ESTK go to Help > SDK > Javascript toolsguide CS3). Peter ... View more

You can try the converter/exporter at http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesignscripts.html Peter ... View more

Just add a line >app.changePreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "test"; somewhere before the last line. That should do it, I think. Peter ... View more