I apologize, ctgizmo! I'm sorry. I just took for granted that it's was not an Adobe site, since it didn't end with adobe.com, and there were also some comment about cracks for the trials in the comments section. ... View more

Hi To begin with Ctgizmo's suggestion to download a trial version from a site which I guess is not associated with Adobe in any way, should not be recommended. Please remove that link. The real problem is likely that the CC installer is using too long path names when extracting the files, and since the user name is part of the path, the installation will fail for users with long names. In this log file: "C:\Users\myusernamexxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\AdobeDownload\DLM_Native.log", I get the following error when I try to install InDesign CC 2014: "Extracted path exceeds max path limit!" The whole line reads: 09/10/14 17:32:25:161 | [ERROR] | {2E74404B-3094-4EAD-8E21-9CBCD77422E9} |  |  |  |  |  | 3860 | Extracted path exceeds max path limit! My user name is my full name, so obviously 15 characters is too long. The maximum path length for Windows 7 is 260 characters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx I've got full administrator permissions etc. on this machine, so there is no other problem than this. It's the path lengths... Here I just found another message thread about this error: Application Manager gives back error (EX11) I hope this will be fixed soon, so that I can install InDesign CC 2014 under my own user name. Please write here about progress on the matter. Thanks, Andreas ... View more

That was a great explanation! Thank you Marc. My script is showing a ScriptUI interface, and the selectionChanged event from InDesign causes a static label in my ScriptUI interface to chance its text, depending on whether there are selections or not in the document. And I thought it was strange that the handler could run, but with your explanation and another test it's not strange at all 🙂 The ScriptUI window is just hidden when you close it... I can even set visible = true to show it again, from an external InDesign event. Can the script be removed, so that the code can no longer react to anything? (It's probably better just to remove the event handler, but I'm curious). ... View more

So... The handler function can interact with my script as if it were a part of it (has this something to do with the targeted engine?), and still its code is stuck in the app object from the point in time when the eventListener was added until the InDesign application is restarted or the handler function is explicitly removed from app.eventListeners. Until then, the handler code will run, even if the script is no longer running, and if the handler code depends on other variables (outside the handler function) in the script, there will be errors unless you handle them. Is this an adequate description? [Edit:] Trying it out, obviously I get no errors, even after the window is closed. Is the script running anyway, in some sense? If I were to try and remove the event listener when my script window is closed, is there a suitable place to do that? ... View more

Hi Marc! I notice that I used the word "startup" in my messages, which might have added some confusion. I'm not referring to a startup script, just to the starting point of a normal script that a user starts by double clicking it in the Indesign scripts panel. While my script interface is showing, the listener and its registered handler has to react to every (select) event from the open InDesign document (there is a text change in a statictext, depending on selections). When my script interface (window) is closed, I no longer care about the event handlers that I registered. Aside from this confusion I take it that the same event, afterSelectionChanged in my case, might be registered to raise a call to another function in another engine, which I would remove by calling app.eventListeners.everyItem().remove(), right? The #targetengine directive does not set a scope in any way, that prevents my script code from removing eventlisteners created by other scripts (including startup scripts) with other engine names set? Thanks, Andreas ... View more

Thanks Uwe – those are good advice to remove specific handlers. But would my eventlisteners only exist in the scope of my targeted engine name (using #targetengine at the top of my script)? If that is the case, would it not be a simpler and better idea just to remove all event listeners at startup in my script, without checking for any specific listener event types or handler functions? Or could other code create eventlisteners that I might accidentally remove? (Do they need to target the same engine for me to see them?) The other concern I have is the last sentence in my original message. The handler functions keep getting executed after I have shut down my ScriptUI window. Is there some generic deallocation or cleanup I could do to remove everything I created in "my" engine? (Since the event in my script just changes a part in the user interface it's no meaning in running it when the interface is not there.) ... View more

The original VB6 application was 32 bit. I doubt you could produce 64 bit applications using Visual Basic 6. But that might very well be the explanation to why it did not work in a 64 bit environment. ... View more

Hi! Sorry for not answering sooner! Well, it seems I had to rewrite the application in Visual Studio C#. (Looking in the code) I used this declaration for the application object (Photoshop): private dynamic appRef; and this code to set it to an instance of Photoshop: appRef = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Photoshop.Application")); Documents are opened like this: docRef = appRef.Open(FullFilePath, null, null); Best regards, Andreas ... View more

_edny, if I understand your question correctly, I believe that the suggestion from milligramme might work perfectly for you. You can actually replace a word with the same word as an inline textbox, by using the simple method that milligramme refers to. Very interesting and useful (I didn't know of this). Look here: Put the word that you'd like to get inside a textframe (to be able to set object style on)  in a separate textbox. In my example it's the textbox containing the word "Adobe" in a object styled textbox below the larger text: Copy the "Adobe" textbox. Open Find/Change. Set change to ^c And pressing Change all. You will end up with this: And you can adjust the object style on all of the Adobe occurrances at once... changing the frame or whatever you'd like. ... View more

Milligramme: How do you change parts of a text into inline objects using Find/Replace? Could you explain in more detail? ... View more

Hi, The socket object has no cryptographic protocol implementation. Using an external script (applescript or vbscript, depending on operating system) for communication is one way around this problem. I don't say it's a good way, but it would give access to objects such as MSXML2.XMLHTTP (a windows component) with https support. Andreas ... View more

First one correction: The double click event of the treeview does work. It's just an error in my code. Change Window1.Treeview1.onExpand = nodeDoubleClickHandler; into Window1.Treeview1.onDoubleClick = nodeDoubleClickHandler; But the main problem remains, building the tree "on the run" (i.e. adding subnodes when expanding the parent node). I'm adding some more information and sample code below. Perhaps someone else can figure out some kind of workaround. Just adding a "dummy node" under every node that should be expandable, is a simple solution just to show the expansion symbols to the left of the root nodes. The expand event is triggered when opening a node on the root level, but adding new nodes, inside the "expand handler" function, does not work... Well, the nodes might be added, but the treeview seems to redraw automatically and collapse the "item" node (the one that was expanded), so that the new nodes are immedieately hidden from view. #targetengine 'testengine1' var Window1 = new Window('window','My window'); buildWindow(Window1); Window1.show(); var nodeDoubleClickHandler = function(){     if (this.selection) alert(this.selection.text); // The name of the selected node. } var nodeExpandHandler = function(item){     var newName = String.fromCharCode(item.text.charCodeAt(0) + 1) ;  // Generate name ("B" node will be added under the "A" level node, for example)     item.add("node", newName); // Add the new node as a subnode to the item being expanded. } function buildWindow(win){     win.Treeview1 = Window1.add("treeview");     win.Treeview1.preferredSize.height = 300;     win.Treeview1.preferredSize.width = 300;     win.Treeview1.Node2 = Window1.Treeview1.add("node","A");     win.Treeview1.Node2SubDummy = Window1.Treeview1.Node2.add("node","Dummy for CC to show an expand symbol");     win.Treeview1.onExpand = nodeExpandHandler; } Results, in CS6 to the left and CC to the right: The "A" node just keeps collapsing in CC. Suggestions? ... View more

Yes, that works ( * = from zero to any number of spaces ). Thanks! Meaning that at least some regexp expressions work (*), but not the questionmark for "zero or one". Perhaps the ESTK has its own irregular regular expressions. ... View more

Good point, Uwe! ... View more

Jarek's script works fine for me. A very good demonstration. You just need to create a test doument and add a single table to it. (It will not work on any given document.) This forum is a place to share and learn, and to get tips on how to make scripts. Often you will not get complete solutions. Here is an alternate suggestion: you could create a paragraph style with the tabs set as Jarek describes. Define the alignment character on the tabs tab of the paragraph style dialogue. Then, in your script, just assign that paragraph style to the selection of your document. There is another thing that is relevant to add: you need to have the the cell contents LEFT aligned. Any other alignment will ruin the "Align to decimal" setting! On the image below, the text is RIGHT aligned. That is why my text is not paying attention to the Align to decimal setting (that is also assigned). ... View more

How do you move (reorder) the texts in your current script? ... View more

Wouldn't you (or your developer) rather like to learn scripting... since you found your way here 🙂 ? Just looping through the pages of an open document, and gathering the coordinates of all graphics is not that hard to do, but you might want to build more functionality into it, like looping through all documents in a folder, or writing the results to a file (instead of copying it from the output window of ExtendScript Toolkit), or other things... I'll give you a pice of code that you might be able to start with, that puts together a string, line by line, with the page number and the values of the top left coordinates of the graphics (TAB separated, just change "\t" to to ";" if you want it as a csv): getGraphicsCoordinates(); // Returns a semicolon separated string of page names and graphics coordinates function getGraphicsCoordinates(){     var ln = '';     // loop through all pages in the current document     var pgLength = app.activeDocument.pages.count();     for (var i = 0; i < pgLength; i++){         var pg = app.activeDocument.pages;         pagePart = pg.name + '\t'; // Get the page name (or number) to the string.         // Loop through all graphics in the current page         var gr = pg.allGraphics;            for (var j = 0; j < gr.length; j++){             var geo = gr[0].geometricBounds;             ln += pagePart;             ln += geo[0].toString() + '\t'; // The top coordinate is stored in geometricBounds 0             ln += geo[1].toString() + '\n'; // The left coordinate is stored in geometricBounds 0         }     }     return ln; } ... View more

I didn't think of checking the individual characters and using "0xFEFF" to leave the xml elements alone. I was up on the xmlElement level looking for a solution. This seems to work just fine. It removes all text from the root element, and leaves the children of the root untouched, just as I wanted. No child elements should be removed, so your concern about distinguishing child elements with xml contents from other (empty?) child elements was probably due to a misunderstanding, or to my question being vague. Thanks! ... View more

All your examples except the first one work for me, you just have to know that it's arrays that you are dealing with when you check the results from your evaluateXPathExpression calls. A single slash character "/" should be the root node of the document. But I guess it's almost as a meta level, superior to the "document"-reference set to the variable docElement, in your example. Meaning that "/document" will work, but not "/endnote". I'm not 100% sure, but the "/" might never be able to find anything else but the element that evaluateXPathExpression is "run from". var endnotes = docElement.evaluateXPathExpression("/endnote"); $.writeln(endnotes); // returns nothing (since there are no endnote root elements). // Returns three "endnote" XMLElements from any level under docElement var endnotes1 = docElement.evaluateXPathExpression("//endnote"); $.writeln(endnotes1); // Three elements $.writeln(endnotes1.length); // Returns three "endnote" XMLElements from the level directly  under docElement var endnotes2 = docElement.evaluateXPathExpression("endnote"); $.writeln(endnotes2); $.writeln(endnotes2.length); $.writeln(endnotes2[0].markupTag.name); // Writes out the name of the first element returned //The last example returned an array with length = 1, and checking its name returned "document": self[0].markupTag.name Result: document Message was edited by: Andreas Jansson. Changes in the text about the slash character. It does not go to the top of the whole XML document in InDesign, it just acts as a container of docElement (in the example) and nothing else. In the example it happens to be the same as the document root. ... View more

You write that you use "HTTPRequest". Then it's perhaps not extendscript? Or is it an object from Bridge that you use? Or Flash? Or calling a vbscript? Anyway, I wrote my answer (below) before noticing that you might not use the socket object at all. Keep that in mind, when you read the answer: Most likely so. It was once registered as a bug, and as I interpreted the answer from Adobe  earlier this year (spring 2013), they could repeat the bug, but now that I asked for a status update yesterday (due to your question and my newly awakened interest in it), I got an answer from Adobe stating that there was no bug, and that the error is in the web server. Here my view on it: We created a test webservice method that returns "IöIöIöIöIöIöIö" (the "ö" to include a character that is encoded as more than one byte using UTF-8) The web server method always returns the exact same string, and using the "binary" setting on the socket object we also get the exact same result on every call. I don't see how this could it be a problem with the web server... This is the source code of the test web service call: <WebMethod(Description:="Returns the same characters Iö repeated 5000 times (10000 characters)> _ Public Function Get10000() As String     Return (String.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat("Iö", 5000))) End Function http://webservicetest.combinations.se.preview.binero.se/wstest.asmx/Get10000 The method returns 10.000 characters. We have also checked that the result from the webservice method is intact when comes back to the calling computer, using a program called Fiddler (http://fiddler2.com/). We used Fiddler as a "proxy", letting the Adobe socket object make its call through Fiddler to the webservice. Fiddler showed an unbroken sequence of "IöIöIö..." (all 10000 characters) in the result, while the string that came out from the Adobe socket object has "hickups", with blocks of characters missing. Calls using Adobe socket with the utf8 setting results in different lengths due to chunks of the result missing. In the IöIöIöIöIö...-sequence this can be seen when the same letter comes twice in a row. The intervals where the error occurs seems to be evenly distributed, with an offset of 683 for the occurrance of "öö", but its not always the same from time to time. Sample result from out test script: Double character öö at position :1756 (+1756) Double character öö at position :2439 (+683) Double character öö at position :3122 (+683) Double character öö at position :3805 (+683) Double character öö at position :4488 (+683) Double character öö at position :5171 (+683) Double character öö at position :5854 (+683) Double character öö at position :6537 (+683) Double character öö at position :7220 (+683) Double character öö at position :7903 (+683) If someone else would like to replicate the errors, feel free to use our test code: webservicetest.combinations.se.preview.binero.se/AdobeUtf8test.zip ... View more

Girsute, you should remove the initial "/" from this line: var endnotes = root.evaluateXPathExpression("/endnote"); The XPath expression already starts from the root. ... View more

[I'm not sure... but some of these questions might be better off in individual threads] Answer to Pooja: I would assume that your structure looks like this: <root>   <ref>   <ref>   <ref> When you set the rootElement variable in your code, you get a reference to the 'root' element. If you go on from that element (to get the next level of items, under the root) you should not include the name "root". This would work: var rootElement = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.item('root'); var items = rootElement.xmlElements.item('ref'); items.getElements().length;  // returns "2" with the XML as above To get all "ref" elements under the root, no matter their level (that is if you have "refs" on deeper levels then the one direcly under root), you could use an xpath expression like this, which will return an array: var rootElement = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.item('root'); var items = rootElement.evaluateXPathExpression('//ref'); ... View more

But removing all child elements wouldn't that kind of... remove all child elements..? As I wrote in the question "there can exist hundreds of tagged elements under the root, that must not be removed. The only thing that is to be removed is the text that is showing inside the Root element," ... View more

Yes, sorry, you are right, my mistake. Could you check whether the time for  linking is low at first, and then increasing in sample 1, and if the time to relink is long, from the beginning, in sample 2? And / or time the override calls, to get to know what part of the code that is the problem. ... View more

You have 1 extra loop in example number 2 (looping 50 times). But inside that loop you still do the same loop that you have got in example number 1. Where is framesTotal set? And what is the value of it? ... View more

If framesTotal is high, I would say that is the cause. The second loop in example 1 will run 50 * framesTotal in example 2. ... View more