I have used Jongware's InDesign JavaScript help files and have really found them essential. I am grateful for his efforts to make these available. I am primarily a FrameMaker user and Adobe is going to provide ExtendScript support for the next version of FrameMaker. The FrameMaker object model is shown in the ExtendScript Toolkit CS5 Object Model Viewer. I would like to do something similar to what Jongware did in extracting the data to a series of HTML files. I am having difficulty figuring out where this data is stored. I can't find an XML file that contains the data. I am mainly posting this here because I haven't been able to contact Jongware directly. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick ... View more

Hi All, I have a table where I am trying to see if a particular column is empty, meaning the it does contain any text or anchored frames. I am thinking the best approach is to check each cell in the column, but if there is a shorthand way of doing it, I would appreciate any pointers. Thank you very much. Rick ... View more

Hello All, I have a some square-bracked text in my document. Inside each set of square brackets is the name of an EPS file that I want to insert inline at that location. So, for example: This is a test for inline images.[Image1.eps] This is where the image will go. Insert [Image2.eps] I am using this to locate the "tags": var oDoc = app.activeDocument; app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\[([\\w]+\\.eps)\\]"; app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ""; var oText = oDoc.findGrep(true); Now that I have an array of text objects in oText, I need to know how to get the location at the end of each one, so I can place the image after the "]" character. After I place the images, I will delete the bracketed text. So, my basic question is, given an item in oText, how do I get the location at the end of it? Thank you very much. Rick Quatro ... View more

I am trying to update some of my plugins for FrameMaker 9. I am deeply disappointed in the FDK 9 documentation. While there is an FDK 9 supplement ("What's New in FDK") that mentions the new functions, objects, and notifications, there is no documentation on how to use them. In fact, the Programmer's Reference is still for FDK 7.0. To me, this is totally unacceptable for a company like Adobe. Is there any documentation anywhere that documents the new FDK 9 features? Thank you very much. Rick Quatro rick at frameexpert dot com 585-659-8267 ... View more

Hello All, I have a chunk of VBScript that I am using inside of an InDesign JavaScript script. It works on my machine, but on another machine, the VBScript portion throws some errors. It there a Windows setting that is required to allow VBScript to run from JavaScript? The other machine is being used remotely, so I am having difficulties troubleshooting this. Here is the function containing the VBScript code. I am using CS4 on Windows XP. Rick Quatro 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert dot com function GetPdfPageCount(oFile) { var sFile = oFile.fsName.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\"); var aFile = [sFile]; // An array of arguments. if(File.fs == "Windows") {   var sGetPdfPageCount = "Dim AcroApp, AVDoc, PDDoc, iPages\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "Set AcroApp = CreateObject(\"AcroExch.App\")\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "Set PDDoc = CreateObject(\"AcroExch.PDDoc\")\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "If PDDoc.Open(arguments(0)) Then\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "  iNumPages = PDDoc.GetNumPages()\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "  Set oInDesign = CreateObject(\"InDesign.Application\")\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "  oInDesign.ScriptArgs.SetValue \"ScriptArgumentA\", CStr(iNumPages)\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "  PDDoc.Close()\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "End If\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "Set AcroApp = Nothing\r";   sGetPdfPageCount += "Set PDDoc = Nothing\r";   app.doScript(sGetPdfPageCount, ScriptLanguage.visualBasic,aFile);   return Number(app.scriptArgs.getValue("ScriptArgumentA")); } } ... View more

I have several scripts that I have written and tested with ExtendScript Toolkit. When my users run the scripts, they access them from the Scripts palette. With a couple of the scripts, the users say that ExtendScript sometimes launches. These scripts have Try/Catch blocks in certain locations. If my script throws an error in one of these blocks, does ExtendScript automatically launch? I am having difficulty duplicating the problem here. A related question: Is there any way to suppress the launching of ExtendScript when an error occurs? Thank you very much. Rick Quatro rick at frameexpert dot com 585-659-8267 ... View more