Obviously quick and efficient. Well done Gerald. I am a little bit concerned by the grouping theory. It could be helpful for handling the objects in a second time. But Tomas if it is ok for you, it's cool ! Anyway, even if you want to redistribute objects, you can come back to a genuine document and relaunch gerald's script. Tomas, do you consider your need as completed or is it anything we could do more ? ... View more

Hi sorry for the delay ;-) I have family at home and can't spend as much time I would like on it. I have a matter with the grouping behaviour that I try to fix. The thing is that so far if a link point to a graphic frame that is a part of a group, the script fails. So I have to handle both situations, grouped and ungrouped images. In the worst case I can send you a version that won't group anything so, it will probably work for most cases but it can't be less convenient if you want to move these items later for example. Or I can tell the script to ignore frames that are part of a group. But it can't be satisfying for you. Up to you but if you can't wait for me for a while, I would like to solve this group matter. Or if you are in a hurry I can send you a "unstable" version that will go correctly with ungrouped images but fail with groups. Loic ... View more

why the hell would you like to do that ? ... View more

I am still working on it but I am facing a weird trouble. Keep you in touch ... View more

Ok Dave, in fact I realized a few minutes later that you talked about b all pageItems and so my question was meanless. :-) ... View more

Ok thomas, I won't probably be able to correct it before monday. But I will as soon as possible. In indesign, once you launched the script, do you "see" the buttons in normal mode ? The groups may contain the graphic frame, the label frame and the button. Keep in touch. Loic ... View more

Hi Dave, i Iterate over it, ignoring text frames. Doing so, we may miss graphic anchored objects into textframes that may contain nothing. Don't you think ? Loic ... View more

Try this : app.selection[0].contents="\u000D" //Unicode character for carriage return ... View more

Working on it, let's keep in touch ... View more

Hi, are you sure ? I mean you should use b app .selection[0] And here whatever the textframe size is, I am still able to access to app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0]; Even if the text overflows due to the minimal size. But maybe i misunderstood you. Loic ... View more

So far, carriage returns isn't defined by "\r" ? ... View more

try var xxx= new Array(); ... View more

Yes you can do this with exists method. if(File(picture.filePath).exists==true) ... Loic ... View more

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Here is one script I wrote for you, let me know if it's what you are asking for. Loic http://dl.free.fr/pn2k68INh ... View more

Hi, you can definitely do this by script.<br />Weird that you can't manually fit the pictures clicking on the fitt options. It should produce a effect even if it's not the one you want. <br />if(app.documents.length > 0)<br />{<br /> var ad = app.activeDocument;<br /> if(ad.links.length > 0 )<br /> {<br /> var lk = ad.links;<br /> var lklg = ad.links.length;<br /> var lkcount = 0;<br /><br /> // loop passing through every links in the document;<br /> for(i=0; i<lklg; i++)<br /> {<br /> // Fit content to frame proportionnaly.<br /> ad.links.parent.fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY);<br /><br /> // Fit frame to content's new dimenions.<br /> ad.links.parent.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);<br /><br /> lkcount += 1; <br /> }<br /> alert(lkcount + " pictures processed");<br /> }<br />}<br />You just have to suit it to your needs. ... View more

Look on this place, for the break columns to text frames topic. A guy wrote a script using this opportunity. Loic ... View more

hi Lee, Now I got the full idea. thanks for sending the files. My thought is : Aren't you making the things harder than they need ? Or maybe you are too consciencious :-) Looking to the final table and your fear about adding a row, I would say what about getting rid of the table ? I mean, why not simulate a table that would be a compilation of textFrames. Adding one, would be a short and easy work for recompositing the whole "table". The interest is that labelling the textFrames, you can adress the changes maybe more directly than finding and search the texts throough the character styles. So you have a labeled course title textframe that you can easily change with the input. var coursetitleTf = app.documents.item("doc.indd").pages[2].textFrames.item("coursetitleTf"); // X is the data from the dialog coursetitleTf.contents = X; (It 's a short explanation but I am sure you will have understood what I am talking about). So at the end, if you havr to recompose your "table" adding a pseudo row, it won't affect the way you speak to other rows cause labels will be preserved. That's my idea and probably how I will do. Hope it helps, keep me in touch when you got your solution. Loic ... View more

Hi I looked at your script and the few answers it gave to me the more answers it brought too :-) What is your main idea ? So far what I understood, is that you have this kind of tables and want to easily edit them through a dialog. Is that it ? Sorry to ask you these questions that may appear so clear for you but when it could be helpful and useful to really help you. Loic http://dl.free.fr/cMfRWk3dC/table.pdf ... View more

Because when I deactivate this part - InDesign does not crash! Well, at first glance, you don't define the oneResult array or maybe you did and did not paste here. You can use a try/catch method. It may somehow bring you more info on the problem you are facing. Could you please paste the whole script so we can test it by our own. try //try litteraly written :-) { //something } catch(e) { alert(e); } ... View more

Hi, Is it fixable ? I don't know if you don't tell me what the error is :-) Loic ... View more

Something that work on PC should work on mac & the only reason it fails may have only one reason : It is the way to talk to folders. on PC file paths will be like "c:/xxx/yyyy/zzz" or "/c/xxx/yyy/zzz" when it's more like ":Macintosh HD:Users:John Doe:xxx:yyy:zzz" So I will check for file and folder paths as a priority degug way. Loic ... View more

I don't think you can get that, I would be curious. Another way, if i got the idea, may be to use a progress bar. Script UI allow that if I am not wrong. Loic ... View more

Have a try with : var styletofind = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("File name"); var styletochange = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("Document No"); app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletofind; app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletochange; oneDoc.changeText(); ... View more

Hi I wrote this piec of script for you, hope it helps http://dl.free.fr/guSK9zreA/Mirror_Guides_ok.jsx First select a bunch or guides (vertical ones so far), then apply. It could become a very interesting script offering possibility to choose the reference axis coordinate or spine, or left guide or right guide but it's late & i am tired ! Bye Loic ... View more

Looking to CS2 & CS3 rererences, the way to define Metadatapreferences is the same. MetadataPreference.setProperty (namespace:string, path:string, value:string) so it's quite weird. Here is a example written by Olav, Maybe you can watch for info in it : //MetadataExample.jsx //An InDesign CS2 JavaScript //Adds metadata to an example document. var myDocument = app.documents.add(); with (myDocument.metadataPreferences){ author = "Olav Martin Kvern"; copyrightInfoURL = "http://www.adobe.com"; copyrightNotice = "This document is copyrighted."; copyrightStatus = CopyrightStatus.yes; description = "Example of xmp metadata scripting in InDesign CS"; documentTitle = "XMP Example"; jobName = "XMP_Example_2003"; keywords = ["animal", "mineral", "vegetable"]; //The metadata preferences object also includes the read-only //creator, format, creationDate, modificationDate, and serverURL //properties that are automatically entered and maintained by InDesign. //Create a custom XMP container, "email" var myNewContainer = createContainerItem("http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/", "email"); setProperty("http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/", "email/*[1]", "okvern@adobe.com"); } Loic ... View more

Hi, don't know VB but in JS you create a group first then add object to the group. Maybe that's the same for VB ? Hope it helps. ... View more

Hi John, The script is on the way ! You if con,dition may be simplier : if(myTextEditField.editContents == "") //entry is "" { alert("Please enter some text into the contents field."); validate(); } else if(myResult == true) //user entered datas { //action here } else //implies user clicked cancel { myDialog.destroy(); } ... View more

I used to import a spot color like this : app.activeDocument.importAdobeSwatchbookSpotColor("PANTONE "+137+" C"); Hope it helps. Loic ... View more

function mydialog() { var mydialog = app.dialogs.add(); //your dialog creation script if(mydialog.show()!= null) { if(myTextEditField.editContents == "") { mydialog(); } else { // doSomethingHere(); } } } function doSomethingHere() { //do something; } mydialog(); ... View more