Now for the obvious follow-up question: How does one wrap text in a code block via email? ... View more

Now I'm trying a test from email... Okay. I guess an edit would help there for all the lurkers... It looks to me that italic text comes through in email encased in plus signs (i.e. italic text). I guess the forum software interprets a bracketed i as a symbol to start italic -- and converts it to a plus sign. This is a very bad assumption -- especially on a scripting forum! This needs to be fixed... Now, fr some bracketed "i"s... + test + + + Harbs ... View more

Okay. I guess an edit would help there for all the lurkers... It looks to me that italic text comes through in email encased in plus signs (i.e. +italic text+). I guess the forum software interprets a bracketed i as a symbol to start italic -- and converts it to a plus sign. This is a very bad assumption -- especially on a scripting forum! This needs to be fixed... Harbs ... View more

Just make sure the zeroPoint is set to , and the rulerOrigin is page. I like to work with spread origin, in which case, you'd pass a spread instead of a page... Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/indesign-downloads/active-page-item-developer/ APID has a function for clearing the undo stack. I don't think there's a way to disable it completely -- not even with C++. Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

You can work out whether or not a spread is rotated by looking at the page.bounds, Oh, no!!! I never realized that bounds were effected by page rotation. That's bad, bad, bad!!! This will mess up just about every script under the sun which deals with bounds of any kind! We  need this changed... It is just a rotated view after all, so why are the bounds effected? Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

For some reason I get an error HarbsUI is undefined. Yes. That was just a snippet... You could use it as is, but you need to define HarbsUI as an object first: HarbsUI = {} Harbs http://www.in-tools.com "Automated Publishing for the Rest of Us!" ... View more

LOL! Harbs ... View more

Harbs, why the + signs? They shouldn't be there, should they? No they shouldn't. I have no idea where they came from. I replied via email. I just checked my sent email and the plus signs were not there... Don't you just love these new forums? The web interface keeps logging me out and email is almost not usable! Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

You really shouldn't upload fonts for general download... Your problem is that you are missing a lot of extra equal signs. For example: if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles+.appliedFont = "Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light") should be: if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles+.appliedFont == "Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light") Also, I'm not sure that you are always going to get a string. It might be a font object. If that's the case you are going to need: if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles+.appliedFont == app.fonts.item("Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light") (Or something like that...) BTW, It'll be much quicker if you get a reference to your doc and font and work from there: var doc = app.activeDocument; ... var font = doc.paragraphStyles+.appliedFont; .... Harbs http://www.in-tools.com "Automated Publishing for the Rest of Us!" ... View more

Here's what I use for dropdowns and accompanying static text: HarbsUI.DropdownGroup = function(container,dropdownLabel,dropdownList,selectedIndex,labelWidth,ddWidth,height){      var group = container.add('group');      container.spacing=0;      group.spacing=0;      group.orientation = 'row';      group.alignChildren = 'top';      if(height){group.maximumSize.height = height}      group.margins=0;      group.group = group.add('group');      group.group.orientation = 'column';      group.group.alignChildren = 'right';      group.group.margins = 0;      group.group.spacing=0;      if(labelWidth){group.group.preferredSize.width = labelWidth}      group.label = group.group.add('statictext',undefined,dropdownLabel);      group.label.margins = 0;      group.dropdown = group.add('dropdownlist',undefined,undefined,{items:dropdownList});      group.dropdown.margins = 0;      if(selectedIndex != undefined){           group.dropdown.selection = selectedIndex;      }      if(ddWidth){group.dropdown.preferredSize.width = ddWidth;}      group.dropdown.name = group.label;      return group.dropdown; } And to use it you just do something like this: hdrStyleDD = new HarbsUI.DropdownGroup(myColumn,myLabel,myStringList,listIdx,80,100,24); ... View more

The simplest way to go about this is to check a script label every once in a while. Something like this: if (app.extractLabel("hakkimsPrivateLabel")=="exit"){      AbortMyScript() } And then whenever you want to set the script to abort you simply set app.insertLabel("hakkimsPrivateLabel","exit"); Harbs ... View more

InDesign does not have multi-threading. Period. I assume that once multi-threading is implemented in InDesign, we will (might?) have access to such via scripting as well. But you will have to wait for at least CS5 or CS6 (CS10? CS15?...) until that happens... Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

You go about it the other way: sel = app.selection; for(var i=0;i<sel.length;i++){ DoYourStuff(sel+); } Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

[Jongware] wrote: Harbs, that gives width and height. Yeah. That's what happens when you respond without thinking... ... View more

Fred, I have a fuuny feeling that your crashes are related to your long search times... I think you've got to work out a better way of processign your text files. ... View more

y= bounds[2]-bound[0]; x=nounds[3]-bounds[1]; ... View more

Great to hear! ... View more

If you're dealing with frames which might have been rotated, you're probably going to want to use visibleBounds. ... View more

I'd vote to drop all the garbage in the beginning of the post. (Like I mentioned a few times in the testing forum...) All I really want to see is what was written... Also, a clearer indication of what/who it's a response to would be nice. And of course droping all the extra garbage in the subject... ... View more

I really did not understand the request, so I don't know if this is what you mean, but... http://indesignsecrets.com/significant-limitation-in-nested-styles-variables-and-section-markers.php Take a look at my comment on March 2 which has a link to a couple of scripts. They might do what you want. Here's a direct link to download the scripts: http://in-tools.com/indesign/scripts/freeware/SectionMarkerScripts.zip -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

BBEdit and TextMate both support custom variables, although I'm not sure to what extent you can get them to support properties of custom variables. (I think you probably can do it with with TextMate, but I'm still groping my way around the program...) -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Hi Steven, To run a binary script at startup, you need a non-binary script to create the scripting engine and load the binary files. Check out the loader scripts for the XHTML exports... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Ariel_Walden@adobeforums.com wrote: > Alright. (By the way, how was the shlach manos? ;-) > > Great. Thanks! Nice card by the way. ;) I recently started taking to writing my code in BBEdit. The autocomplete there and in TextMate are great. I'm currently in the process of trying to decide between BBEdit and TextMate for writing code. Both are WAY better than the ESTK. I might just end up using both of them, as they each have their own strengths. Some of the options in TextMate simply boggle the mind. I think there should be some way to create an ExtendScript bundle for TextMate, which should give some incredible features. Maybe I'll look into this some day when I have time... These are both Mac programs. I don't know what there is comparable on the Windows side of things... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Autocomplete in ESTK CS4 is a bit iffy... It worked better in the last version. -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

They probably had a / somewhere in the file. A layer name possibly? -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more

Sorry about that. This should work... chapNumVariable = doc.textVariables.item("Chapter Number"); textVariable = xmlelement.insertionPoints.lastItem.textVariableInstances.add (); textVariable.associatedTextVariable = chapNumVariable; You can also create the associated text variable as a property when you create it... -- Harbs http://www.in-tools.com ... View more