insert your cursor in my Caption text and run below code: alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].parent.markupTag.name +", " + app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name) Shonky ... View more

alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name) Shonky ... View more

confirm is just becuase user have choice of copy result or not. Shonky ... View more

Shonkyin wrote: app.select(tf.texts) app.copy(); Oh! I misunderstood you completely! Very clever, yes. Somehow I'd prefer to avoid that, because it's non-intuitive for my users, but it's certainly a good trick. I know that you finished your new ealert but here is code without inserting and removing text frame. var hello = 'Hello World!' result  = confirm (hello + '\r\r\r Copy result...') if (result == 1) { var myAppleScript = "tell application \"Finder\"\rset the clipboard to \"" + hello +"\"\rend tell"; app.doScript(myAppleScript, ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage); } Shonky ... View more

Below script works if your tag name and your style name match Example: your tag name <tag_bold> ..... </tag_bold> and your character style name "tag_bold". repl_charastyles ("tag_bold") repl_charastyles ("tag_italic") repl_charastyles ("tag_underline_bold") function repl_charastyles (charstyles) { app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '<' + charstyles + '>' + '(.+?)</' + charstyles + '>'; app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = '$1'; app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = charstyles; app.activeDocument.changeGrep(); app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; } I hope it will help you. Shonky ... View more

confirm() working on OSX. I am also using OSX. Use below code: var hello = 'Hello World' result  = confirm (hello + '\r\r\r Copy result...') if (result == 1) {    var tf = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add (       {       geometricBounds: [0,0,100,100],       contents: hello}       ); app.select(tf.texts) app.copy(); tf.remove() } Shonky ... View more

Hi Kim, You can assign right tab in your paragraph style. See attachment. Or if you want through script then select your text and run below code app.selection[0].paragraphs.everyItem().tabStops.everyItem().remove(); app.selection[0].paragraphs.everyItem().tabStops.add ({position:50, alignment: TabStopAlignment.rightAlign}) app.selection[0].paragraphs.everyItem().tabStops.add ({position:100, alignment: TabStopAlignment.rightAlign}) Change tab position as you want in you document. Shonky ... View more

Hi dps, First make list of your tag names and run replacement for each tag. my_replace ("tag_bold") function my_replace (bold) { app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '<' + bold + '>' + '(.+?)</' + bold + '>'; app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = '$1'; app.changeGrepPreferences.fontStyle = 'Bold'; app.activeDocument.changeGrep(); app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; } Shonky ... View more

Hi, You can also use confirm(). See attached screen shot. copy your text on click Yes and continued your script, if click on No then continued without copy text. Shonky ... View more

I think you need check each cell, for example alert(app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].tables[0].rows[2].cells[0].columnSpan) Shonky ... View more

Hi Danny, First of all i want say that all credit goes to Kasyan, because he done all the script and i have just added few code. And regarding syntax, Jongware already explain each and everything in very beautiful way. I am agree with Jongware that Grep is smarter way to do this. Now you have choice in your script 'Grep' and 'substr()'. Thanks Jongware for explaining each and everything. Me and many other learning from you and other scripting GURU's. Shonky ... View more

replace your text in findWhat Like below  var myText = app.selection[0].texts[0]; app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "partially"; var myFound = myText.findGrep(); for(var Len = 0; Len < myFound.length; Len++) {     myFound[Len].select();     alert(myFound[Len].contents) } Shonky ... View more

Hi Gopal, This is working for me if (app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].overflows == true)  {      var pe = app.activeDocument.pages.add();     pe.masterPageItems[0].override(pe)     app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].nextTextFrame = pe.textFrames[0]; } else  {     alert ("Not Overflows"); } Shonky ... View more

Jongware, after seeing your code i say WOW! then i tried this: app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().tables.everyItem().convertToText("\t","\r"); its your code but in a single line.... Shonky ... View more

Check this one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1951975#1951975 Shonky ... View more

Hi Gijs, If you want trigger direct on missing closing quotes text then use below grep: “[^”]+?“ below is for missing opening quotes ”[^“]+?” Just two search in your document but remember it will work with Typographer's quotes only. Hope it will help you. Shonky ... View more

Hi Yulia, Not sure but try this: app.activate(); Shonky ... View more

Hi Dmitry, I have not found any code which can directly access x coordinate of table. Below is javascript code. It will give you x coordinate value and give you idea for creating VB code. var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var old_hori_measu = myDoc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits; var old_hori_measu = myDoc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits; myDoc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points; myDoc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points; var mytable =  myDoc.textFrames[0].tables app.select(mytable[0].cells[0]) var old_align = app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].justification app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].justification = Justification.LEFT_ALIGN var mytablexoffset = app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].horizontalOffset - mytable[1].leftBorderStrokeWeight/2 - mytable[1].cells[0].leftInset app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].justification = old_align app.select(null) alert (mytablexoffset+"pt") myDoc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = old_hori_measu; myDoc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = old_hori_measu; Here is many script gurus and maybe someone have good idea for this. Shonky ... View more

Hi Kasyan, You are absolutely right and your attached script is good example of docLoad event. I read afterOpen event in Indesign Javascript Reference Guide but not used it. This event not work how they write in reference guide, after/before working same. Thanks for your information. Shonky ... View more

Yulia, yes this is possible with EventListener. Please find attached file for example. Cheers, Shonky ... View more

And here is your code: var myDocument=app.activeDocument; var process = app.preflightProcesses.add(myDocument, app.preflightProfiles.item('TestProfile')); process.waitForProcess(); results = process.processResults; if (results != 'None') {     //Export the file to PDF     //The “true” value selects to open the file after export.     process.saveReport(File("~/Desktop/preflight.pdf"), true); } I hope it will help you. Shonky ... View more

Hi Peter, You can generate the report if error found. Please see below code: var myDocument=app.activeDocument; var profile = app.preflightProfiles.add(); profile.name = "Test"; profile.description = "Test description"; const RULE_NAME = "ADBE_PageSizeOrientation"; var rule = profile.preflightProfileRules.add(RULE_NAME); //Requires the page size to be 8.5 in x 11in (Letter Size) // //enters a value for tolerance rule.ruleDataObjects.add("tolerance", RuleDataType.realDataType, 0.01); //Sets the width  to the point equivalent of 8.5 inches rule.ruleDataObjects.add("width", RuleDataType.realDataType, 612); // Sets the width  to the point equivalent of 11 inches rule.ruleDataObjects.add("height", RuleDataType.realDataType, 792); //true = ignore orientation is checked rule.ruleDataObjects.add("ignore_orientation", RuleDataType.booleanDataType, true); //set the rule to return an error rule.flag = PreflightRuleFlag.returnAsError; //Process the doc with the rule var process = app.preflightProcesses.add(myDocument, profile); process.waitForProcess(); results = process.processResults; //If Errors were found if (results != 'None') {     //Export the file to PDF     //The “true” value selects to open the file after export.     process.saveReport(File("~/Desktop/preflight.pdf"), true); } Shonky ... View more

Hi Kasyan, Please check your yahoo mail. Shonky ... View more

Hi Stan, Use below code var doc = app.activeDocument; var lk = doc.links; for(i=lk.length-1; i>=0;i--) { lkname =lk.name; if(lkname.indexOf(".tif")>=0) { var lkname0 = lkname.split(".tif")[0]; lkfolder = File(lk.filePath).parent; myFile = File(lkfolder+"/"+lkname0+".jpg"); if (myFile.exists) { lk.relink(File(lkfolder+"/"+lkname0+".jpg")); }} } It works with Indesign CS4 Kasyan i have tried with your script it showing error and only relinking one image. I am using CS4. Shonky ... View more