Peru, Did you try out with my peice of code, i means lets keep the code simple and just try to write a file. You could also try trashing your preferences and then run the code. Manan ... View more

Hi Mark, My advise to you would be to get down and try writing the script you want to create. Javascript is not that daunting to learn to start scripting unless you get into something complex. So if you have a general idea of the Indesign object model its best you start writing code. And in the process try understanding the object model of Indesign, that will be required to enhance your skills and write complex scripts In my opinion one learns best by writing code, so happy scripting. Hope this helps you and get's you started. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Hello Peru, The code written by csm_phil should work, could you make sure that you have all the rights on the location where you are trying to create the log file and that the path you are using is correct. I mean we need to be sure first that the file is being created. You can use a simple script like var logFile = new File("~/Desktop/Report.log"); logFile.open("w"); logFile.writeln("Hello"); and see if it works or not, if not then what is the status, the file is created but not written or not created at all. You can try out by using a different path to save the log file. I am using MAC 10.6.8 and the above code works both for CS4 and CS5. Try this and let us know. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Hi Dennis, For the desktop version you can place the flattener preset at any location of your choice, and load it just like the joboptions file. Once the preset is loaded, Indesign load's it the next time automatically from the location you had created it in. The above mentioned paths are preferred to save the presets because one you will remember where the presets are placed and second this will allow you to backup the presets in case you trash your preferences(presets not manually saved are lost when you trash the preferences). Hope this helps you to fix the problem. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Dirk, Thanks for the valuable insight you and Norio gave on the problem at hand. But i would like to raise a point, i agree that observers are meant to work in response to a notification generated, but this does not mean that we can rule out the use of Command intercpetors altogether except for supressing the command. Dirk what you mentioned that interceptors are meant to suppress commands, then i would like to add that if this would only have been the point then the return vlaue from the interceptor methods would not have been kCmdNotHandled kCmdNotHandledSkipInterceptors kCmdHandled  //Only this return value is in effect supressing the command I mean sure we should go the observer and the responder way but should not rule out the interceptor altogether. Moreover getting the right protocol for the observer takes more debugging effort and even if we do get a protocol that notifies in our case we need to arrive at one that is not too generic for our case. I just gave a possibilty that we can even go the interceptor way, when Remi could not get the problem solved through responders and observers. Please correct me and guide me to a better understanding if i am wrong in using these concepts Thanks in advance. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Regarding using the name of the command, i have been using the GetClass method to get the name of the command. And this is not a wrong or a bad to do things, as you can see it being used at a lot of places even in the sdk's sample plugins. Secondly to arrive at the correct command to intercept for your purposes you need to debug the different commands. Any how the commands i mentioned in the previous answer are called only once during the operation i suppose you could try using them If you could specifically tell me what exactly you need to achieve, then maybe i could try some code at my end and give you a more correct answer. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Hi Remi, Sorry could not answer before, but it seems that you have figured to get your interceptor working. But i would to like to add a few points You can place your command interceptor in any boss class and use it, the typical scenario would be to place the interceptor in a startupshutdown class and then install it by calling the InstallSelf method of the cmd interceptor on startup. Inside the InstallSelf method you can query for the command processor and call the "InstallInterceptor" method. Similarly we uninstall it in the shutdown method. Regarding your second query regarding which command to intercept, you could look to intercept the following commands inside the "InterceptProcessCommand" method kResizeItemsCmdBoss kSetBoundingBoxCmdBoss Hope this serves your purpose. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Remi, There might be a difference between resizing a textbox or a imagebox you never can be sure that the same code would work for both of them. For trying to do this with responders you need to know the serviceid for which you need to add a responder which is difficult to get by debugging, since you had already tried with observers i asked you to go the interceptor way. For interception you can first look for the commands that are fired while resizing the block and then add an interceptor to those command's and write your code in the interceptor. This way your debugging effort would be reduced. Observers also would work well but getting a correct protocol that is not very generic requires more debugging effort. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

What specifically do you mean by block resizing, do you mean resizing of a text box please clarify. Any how you can try using interceptor's with some debugging you will most probably hit on the interceptor that is suitable for your need. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

I have been able to get this working, i used the kIncludeHiddenLayersCmdBoss and set it to false for "kTextSearchMode". After that on searching for text that's present on a hidden layer using the kFindTextCmdBoss results in ignoring the layer. You can verify it by checking the return value of GetFindChangeResult(), if the command is able to find the text it returns "IFindChangeService::kSuccess" but on selecting to ignore the hidden text the result is "IFindChangeService::kFoundCompleted". P.S. Make sure that you set to ignore the hidden layer for correct search mode i.e.(kTextSearchMode) Hope this helps Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

How are you launching IDS, and how are you trying to execute your script. This code works perfectly. I have tried this while sending my script to execute via SOAP interface and the script reported no errors. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

Ok, i thought the user was using a custom number format in which we could have only a single point and comma. I was not aware of the numbering system using . and , together. I suppose . here is used to seperate thousands and , as a decimal point. If this is the case then my code won't work as pointed out by you correctly. I apolozise for the misunderstanding. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

Laubender, My code had one glicth, also i had written it on the suppostion that the input no will have only one dot and one comma the question also intends this i think. So my corrected code would be var inputNo = "999.999,50" var PIndex = inputNo.indexOf(".") var Cindex = inputNo.indexOf(",") var len = inputNo.substring(PIndex + 1, Cindex).length; var lenAfterRounding = String(Math.round(inputNo.replace(",", ".").substring(PIndex + 1))).length; var roundOffNo; if(lenAfterRounding > len) roundOffNo = inputNo.substring(0, PIndex ) * 1 + 1; else roundOffNo = inputNo.substring(0, PIndex + 1) + Math.round(inputNo.replace(",", ".").substring(PIndex + 1)) In this snippet i have handled the situation when the input no is something like 999.999,50 where rounding off would also effect the number before the decimal. I have added 1 to the number before decimal in case the rounding of the number after decimal causes a carry over. Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

You could use the following script var inputNo = "€ 11.812,50" var PIndex = inputNo.indexOf(".") var roundOffNo = inputNo.substring(0, PIndex + 1) + Math.round(inputNo.replace(",", ".").substring(PIndex + 1)) where "inputNo" is your original number and "roundOffNo" is the result. Hope this solves your problem Manan Joshi - Efficient InDesign Solutions - MetaDesign Solutions http://metadesignsolutions.com/services/indesign-development.php ... View more

You could use [High Quality Print] pdfexportpreset to generate a good quality pdf. You can play around with different pdf export presets present in Indesign to see which one outputs the result that suits your requirement, or create a new preset. Hope this helps Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

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Hi John, If the suggestions solved your query, please mark the question as answered. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

The SDKFileDocumentChooser ShowDialog() method would also work. But i gave the code in accordance to the code posted by John, so that minimum changes need to be done in the existing code. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

You can use the "importXML" method to import XML file into Indesign, on importing the XML would be displayed in the structure pane. How the content of XML is placed on the document depends upon how you want it, you can do it either manually or automatically. As regards to HTML, i don't think there is a direct way to import it into Indesign, you would be requiring some intermediate tool to convert HTML to XML that can be imported and placed into Indesign. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

The "findPreferences" method does not exist on the app object in CS5 Instead of this you  can use "app.changeTextPreferences" for specifying the search parameter that will be used for searching and replacing in the "doc.changeText()" method. If you only want to search and not replace you can use "app.findTextPreferences" and "doc.findText()". Since you are searching for the paragraph style you need to use the text preferences for searching and replacing. The basic steps you could use for this operation would be 1. Clear the find/change text preferences. 2.  Set the find options 3.  Perform the search-and-replace operation Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

The extension you are trying to install is digitally signed. The failure of installation can occur due to the following reasons. 1. Either the package has changed since its packaging. 2. Either the signature is invalid. If you have acquired the extension from a third party, please verify that the contents of the package you are using are correct or that the package has not been altered with. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

You could use the Adobe Extension manager to place the scripts into the scripts folder and install them. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

You can use SOAP for executing your jsx. First start indesign server for working with SOAP, this can be done by using the command Indesignserver –port {portnumber}          //Give any port number through which SOAP communication will occur Make sure that the port is open, once this command excutes, you can check the display messages on the command prompt from where you fired this command to check that the server was started successfully for SOAP. Then launch a new command prompt window, move to the folder where server is installed and fire the command sampleclient -host {port where indesign server is running} "path of the jsx file you want to execute" ex: sampleclient -host localhost:12345 c:\abc.jsx Once this command is executed you can look for any responses in the command window from which the Indesign Server instance was launched. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

InDesign documents do not support font embedding, and fonts are not embedded in IDML. So there is no way you can send the fonts in the IDML file. But you could look into <Font> tag in the IDML to get the font used in the file, and then if the font is missing from the server installation place the font into the Fonts folder present in the Indesign Server installation location. Fonts placed in this folder are loaded by Indesign without requiring to restart it. So you could alter your workflow to send a zip which contains the IDML file and the fonts used in the document, then checking whether all the fonts used in the doc are present in the server, if they are not present then copy the fonts from the zip into the Indesign fonts folder. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

Could you please describe more clearly what you are trying to achieve so that i can help you out. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

My explanation was only to clarify that replacing the UseDefaultIID() with the IID won't change anything w.r.t the reference count imbalance problem, they both have the same effect. If there was a boss leak when using UseDefaultIID() then it won't get rectified by using the IID. Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more

Replacing the UseDefaultIID() with the IID in the InterfacePtr constructor does not solve the boss leak problem. Both these forms increment the reference count by 1, If you are trying to get the reference pointer from a source that automatically increments the reference count then you end up incrementing reference count by 2 and decrementing it only by 1(when interfacePtr goes out of scope). InterfacePtr<const IAttrReport> iAttr(iComposeScanner->QueryAttributeAt(startIndex, endIndex, AttrClassID), UseDefaultIID);               //Boss Leak InterfacePtr<const IAttrReport> iAttr(iComposeScanner->QueryAttributeAt(startIndex, endIndex, AttrClassID), IID_IATTRREPORT);      //Boss Leak Both the above statements will result in boss leak as the "QueryAttributeAt" method returns the reference incremented interface pointer Using the statement as below would resolve the boss leak problem. InterfacePtr<const IAttrReport> iAttr(iComposeScanner->QueryAttributeAt(startIndex, endIndex, AttrClassID));          //No boss leak Manan Joshi www.metadesignsolutions.com ... View more