Now that I think about it, it really couldn't have been a collection... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

variable = doc.textVariables.item("Chapter Number"); xmlelement.insertionPoints.lastItem.textVariableInstances.add (variable); -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Ah. I didn't realize it was an array. I thought parentTextFrames was a collection... Yes. With Arrays it makes a lot of sense... Thanks. -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

No, it won't fail. If the text is overset, the parentTextFrames[0] is undefined. It will not fail. I was rather surprised myself when I first noticed this, but it's very handy... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Well, it depends whether you want the page of the last text frame or not. This is what I usually want, but I assumed you had wanted to return null for overset text (as it doesn't have a page). I seem to recall discussing this point... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

A text variable... (or am I missing the question) -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Best of luck, Steven! -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but this might be it... file.open("r"); string = file.read(); file.close(); -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Thomas_Silkjaer@adobeforums.com wrote: > but since my script is doing a lot of selections etc... If you are using selections in your script, chances are, there's better ways to accomplish what you're doing... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

You want to run your script in a doScript and pass a text reference to that? If so, you should probably read this: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b7fbaf -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Not sure what you're asking... textFrame.parentStory.contents=myText? -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Hi Bob, Congrats on your new job! Best of luck! -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

I rely on the fact that the first is No Style and the second is Basic in a lot of my stuff. Nothing has broken yet... ;) -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

I think the performance just picked up a bit... ... View more

VB? -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

FWIW, I came across a similar crash some time ago on a certain file when iterating through character properties. I never got to the bottom of it (although I didn't spend a lot of time trying...). -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

I don't think so, but out of curiosity; why do you care if it's two pages or one spread? -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Peter's book is a great place to start with javascript in InDesign. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528171/ -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

You can't. You need to recreate the thread after you override. -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

if(sel.textColumns[0]==myTextColumn){doYourStuff()} -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

What I've found, is that if I close Firefox with open tabs and have it save my tabs, I stay logged in when I open it again. If there's no tabs open and/or I just close without saving tabs, I get logged out. ... View more

>Dave, correct me if I'm wrong... but the rating system this software uses is that the original poster is allowed one correct and two good answers. No one else has a voice at all. I took a quick look at the docs you linked to, and it looks to me that the number of ratings is customizable. ... View more

Why can't ratings (or thank yous, or whatever it might be called) be linked to the person who issued them? When someone is banned from the system, all his data can be removed -- including the ratings (good or bad) which he provided. ... View more

As I've said here, Harbs, "The Big Picture" #200, 5 Mar 2009 5:36 am I think the only sensible way for marking answers would be for anyone to be able to mark any post as helpful. ... View more

What I don't understand about rating answers (whether or not they should exist), is why is it the "privilege" of the original poster to decide whether a post is helpful or not? Very often, a thread can have many people all experiencing the same problem. Someone might find a useful answer in a post without even posting anything themselves. If there will be an option for marking an answer helpful, it should be possible for anyone to mark a post helpful, and it should not be limited to a certain number of answers. There could easily be 5 or 10 useful posts in a single thread. There can simply be a number next to a post indicating how many people found a post useful. I see three purposes for the ability to mark a post useful. 1) It's an easy way to find relevant posts amongst a lot of fluff, or friendly (or not so friendly) banter. 2) I think it's an easy way to say "thank you" to someone for posting something helpful without cluttering the forums with extra posts. 3) It could help narrow down results in the search engine. ... View more

Just a quick illustration of how useful APID is: My wife still uses CS2 at work. We have a Riso digital duplicator which we use for printing booklets, invitations, etc. When printing from InDesign to the Riso machine, color management must be off or the blacks get printed as dark gray (about 95% line screen). Well, I tried to help out by printing a booklet, and like usual, I messed up and forgot to turn off color management. (I'm really good at messing things up!) ;) I decided to put an end to this problem, and create a solution which would always cause InDesign to send to this printer (only) with color management turned off. It took me a total of maybe 15 minutes... // DontManageColorForRiso.jsx // This script should be in the same folder as the document DontManageColorForRisoSourceCS4.indd // It is automatically called by the DontManageColorForRisoController page item. //events: docPrintConfigured,docPrinted // Header - matches anonymous function trailer at bottom (function(thePlugin) { main(); function main(){ var theEventCode = thePlugin.eventCode; var doc = GetDocFromPageItem(thePlugin); switch(theEventCode){ case "docPrintConfigured":TurnOffColorManagement(doc);break; case "docPrinted":app.colorSettings.enableColorManagement=true;break; } } function TurnOffColorManagement(doc){ var printer = doc.printPreferences.printer; if(printer.constructor.name!="String"){return} printer=printer.toLowerCase(); if(printer.match(/riso/)){ app.colorSettings.enableColorManagement=false; } } function GetDocFromPageItem (pageItem){ var guid = app.callExtension(0x90B6C,10014,pageItem); return app.callExtension(0x90B6C,10009,guid); } // Trailer - matches anonymous function header at top } )(theItem); -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Hmm. Sounds like you're right in VB. In JS though, this throws an error on the first line, but alerts the object on the second: try{alert(app.documents[0].allPageItems.item(1))}catch(e){alert(e)} try{alert(app.documents[0].pageItems.item(1))}catch(e){alert(e)} Interesting... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Robert Tkaczyk wrote: > yes > ??? I read that as: allPageItems is returned as an array (as it is in JS). You can't use itemByID on an array. pageItems is a collection. -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Robert Tkaczyk wrote: > myDoc.AllPageItems.ItemByID(1321) > Robin, Are you saying allPageItems is a collection in VB? -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more