Re: Organizing scripts

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 07, 2025

There is no 3rd party tool for organising. You can create folders inside these folders and they should be visible in the scripts panel. Another this is that you can keep your scripts in folders anywhere in your computer and paste the shourtcut to these folders inside the folder you mentioned above. What I do is create a folder called Scripts, inside I create subfolders for categorising the scripts and paste the shortcut to the Scripts folder into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2025\Scripts\Community\Scripts Panel. Now if i add a new script file into any of the folders or a new folder it will be automatically visible in the scripts panel -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 06, 2025

Yes that makes sense. If the operation that you want to do is apply style on the found string then grep style would work fine. -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 06, 2025

You did not need the getTables method as you already had the table collection in tbs variable. The getTables method returns back a table based on different input sent to it. Now you were always sending selection as input to the function and the selection is never changing so the function will keep on returning the same table everytime. Same input == Same output -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 06, 2025

Use the following grep in find what (?<=:) [^.\r]+\. And in the change format select the character style you want to apply -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 06, 2025

You have moved past the original error and that indeed was due to the path format. What @Dirk Becker mentioned is needed for scripts that need to persist after the execution of the script is over, like event handlers, script UI etc. Try that and it should work for you -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 06, 2025

If I am understanding your requirements correct the following code would work var doc = app.activeDocument; var tbs = doc.selection[0].tables; //var tbs = getTable(doc.selection); alert(tbs); //alert(sel.tables); if (tbs.length > 0) { for (var i = 0; i < tbs.length; i++) { tabFitToTextFrame(tbs[i]); } } function tabFitToTextFrame(myTable) { parentWidth = myTable.parent.geometricBounds[3] - myTable.parent.geometricBounds[1]; factor = parentWidth / myTable.width; for (col = 0; col < myTable.columns.length; col++) myTable.columns[col].width *= factor; } -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 05, 2025

2025 version moved away from HFS paths. So you may need to change the path to jsx into a Posix path and it shall work. See https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/kb/user-dictionaries-missing-hfs-path-dropped.html Also, why do you use Applescript calling up JSX. Why not do all stuff in the JSX? -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 05, 2025

JSX is the script that is automating your workflow. However, that setup needs that the computer has Illustrator installed and then the JSX script is executed by this installed app. What I understood from your post is that you are looking for an API that would take your JSX and execute if remotely on some machine and deliver you the results, you won't be needed to install Illustrator on your machine. That is not possible and no such API exists for Illustrator. If I have misunderstood your use case please provide more details -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

No there is no remote version of Illustrator like InDesign Server. So this is not an option -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

I suppose you will have to cancel the current plan and then subscribe to the new plan. The following article may help https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/change-plan.html -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

@erinferinferinf can you share some insights on the above? -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

@SuzzyFlamingo did the above work? -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

@SuzzyFlamingo did the above help your use case? -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

Afaik the support for accessing files placed on network drives is patchy at best. You will have such issues. The better workflow is to copy the file to the local drive. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/crash-lost-network-connection.html -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

Yes, you can there is no dependence of InDesign on any version of Acrobat. These are independent applications. -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 04, 2025

Try the following. You can run this after your previous script for (var i = 0; i < app.documents[0].textFrames.length; i++){ var tf = app.documents[0].textFrames[i] if (tf.overflows) { tf.textFramePreferences.autoSizingReferencePoint = AutoSizingReferenceEnum.TOP_LEFT_POINT; tf.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_ONLY; } } This will try to resolve the overset in any frame on the active document by setting the autogrow to grow vertically -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 03, 2025

Hi @SuzzyFlamingo, This script does something more that resolving ovreset. It wants a selection to a textframe that is threaded. Then it takes the first word of the second frame in the thread. Appends this word with some static text and the frames page name. Then it creates a new textframe and puts the the content mentioned above in the newly created frame. It also sets the autosizing options of this new frame to resolve oversets. Do you want all this to be done as per you changed needs or just want a script that resolves overset by setting the autosizing options of any frame that has an overset? -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 02, 2025

I am adding a flyout menu to my CEP extension that is targetted to InDesign. The menu is added fine, i add the eventhandler to com.adobe.csxs.events.flyoutMenuClicked even as well. However, inside the event handler the data object that is supposed to contain the menuID and menuName has a strange string which seems like a JSON but is an invalid JSON. My code is as following const flyoutMenu = ` <Menu> <MenuItem Id="option1" Label="Autolayout" Enabled="true" Checked="false"/> </Menu> `; csi.setPanelFlyoutMenu(flyoutMenu); csi.addEventListener("com.adobe.csxs.events.flyoutMenuClicked", function(event) { const clickedMenuId = event.data.menuId; switch (clickedMenuId) { case "option1": alert("Autolayout selected"); break; } }); When I check event.data in the console I get the following "${"menuName"=2"Autolayout","menuId"=2"option1"}" Notice the $, =2 I am not sure wh

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 02, 2025

I tried doing it via Grep searc/replace directly. I also added a grep style to "sty2" to apply a character style named Bold to the last word. See the screenshots below. If this works for you we won't need the script -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 02, 2025

Can be done, do you want to do this via script or via the UI interface? I have a few questions. What would be the final text? "I love to eat" && txt1 Do you mean that we use && and then the text that was searched intially? So would that mean applying the bold character style to the intial search string, i.e. txt1 -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Sep 01, 2025

Hi @SuzzyFlamingo, You should contact the script developer. They converted it to binary due to sole purpose that they did not want anyone to look at the code and modify it. Trying to decompile it won't be the correct thing to do. If there is some pre or post processing to be done for the script executes, let us know we may be able to handle it. -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 30, 2025

First up let us know what you are trying to achieve. You say something about function call sequences. However, we have no clue what is the correct behaviour according to you and what is that you want to happen. Explain the problem statement you are solving, provide the code you have written and tell clearly what in that code does not work as per your needs. Without proper details we won't be able to provide any ideas -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 30, 2025

As per the system requirment the latest is surely not compatible with Big Sur. However, the earlier version 19 is supported. You will have to install the version 19. Follow the steps to install it https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/apps/download-install-apps/creative-cloud-apps/install-previous-versions-creative-cloud-apps.html -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

There are two methods that can open the PDF after export. IPDFExportPrefs::SetPDFExLaunchAcrobat IPDFPostProcessPrefs::SetViewAfterExport -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

Font used could also be an issue. Try using another font that has glyphs needed for Hebrew -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

What exact SDK did you use? Was it C++ or Javascript that you wrote your code in? How did you submit your request to Firefly? If you have access to Firefly services you must have got your credentials and starter document on how to use it. Did you do anything to get registered? Please provide more context. -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

You can set the measurement unit used by the script, with something like the following app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.POINTS https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#ScriptPreference.html%23d1e337535 -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

The first thing that I can think of is that the XML structure should be the same as the structure(seen in the structure pane) in the InDesign document. I would suggest start from creating small samples import things see how they work and build upon that. If you get stuck on something then comeback with a specific question. -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 22, 2025

Something like the following would work var sel = app.selection[0] if (sel.constructor.name != "TextFrame") { alert("Selection is not a textframe") exit() } if(sel.nextTextFrame == null && sel.previousTextFrame == null) alert("You selected the one and only frame") if(sel.nextTextFrame != null && sel.previousTextFrame == null) alert("You selected the first frame") if(sel.nextTextFrame != null && sel.previousTextFrame != null) alert("You selected the frame in the middle") if(sel.nextTextFrame == null && sel.previousTextFrame != null) alert("You selected the last frame") -Manan

Manan Joshi · ‎Aug 12, 2025

@dublove it is very difficult to work with incomplete information. You should give us code snippets and screenshots that we can work with. Atleast try to abstract the problem so that someone can help you. You keep adding information like this came from JSON, it is abbreviated etc which does not make things better. Anyhow I and @brian_p_dts have given you some points on which methods/attributes might be of interest to you. Please try those and let us know if that does not work, with a sample code that you tested. Atleast we should have a piece of code that is able to get to the point where we are trying to set properties. -Manan

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