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When you say "action" do you mean some menu item's associated action? I've recently posted the following snippet in a different thread: (function(){ var m = app.menus.itemByName("$ID/Main").submenus.itemByName("$ID/&File"); $.writeln(m.menuItems.everyItem().name); var mi = m.menuItems.itemByName("$ID/File Information..."); var a = mi.associatedMenuAction; a.invoke(); })(); Somewhere deep in the examples there is a script that dumps all menu and action names. Btw, the $.writeln output of above goes into the "JavaScript Console" panel of ESTK! Another, desparate move would be to fire off system events using OS specific scripting, this way move the mouse, click and press keys. Dirk ... View more

Composition style is an intermediate state produced by the composer. For each property there, at any valid location (e.g. text index or range), the composer finds the matching attribute and copies the value. To change a value, you have to apply an attribute. E.g. tabs reside within kTextAttrTabsBoss. To apply an attribute to the selection, see ITextAttributeSuite. If you have the text model, see ITextAttrUtils. ... View more

From memory, it's been a while and not in my source: Grab an IScriptManager from service registry. Set up a RequestContext for it. Use Utils<IScriptUtils>()->QueryScriptRequestHandler() to obtain the IScriptRequestHandler. Let the IScriptManager construct a script event, fill it in the same way as you would receive it in an own script provider. The IScriptRequestHandler dispatches the event to the responsible script provider. Dirk ... View more

A similar case was type on path, at least a few major versions ago. The public API offers one command while internally TOP used a different one with missing interfaces. Guess which one did not work. I worked around via scripting, you could also talk to the responsible script provider 😉 Dirk ... View more

We already discussed that the JS functions defined by scripts are not included. Therefor my suggested trick had nothing to do with ePub, it was about invoking menu actions from within JS. As you now bring up InDesign Server: IDS has no UI and therefor no menu actions, so you either keep it just as license and let InDesign Desktop do the work, or it is really time to file a support case, especially as you're still targeting to CS3! Now getting off topic: In the OMV you only see the object model equivalent to the VersionedScriptElementInfo resources that describe your (and all the others) script providers. If in that resource you use the kCoreScriptManagerBoss, your script provider will work in all languages. If it does not show, your plugin might not be recognized by IDS - maybe you forgot to enable IDS in the plugin info? If I had to implement something similar to your method, I'd change at least these points: the method should be parentend by the addressed spread rather than the application words within method and property names should be lowercase (except acronyms) and separated by spaces. ScriptInfo will reformat (capitalize) those according to language specific rules. If you really have a native implementation backing that export as epub functionality, I'd forget about script providers and turn the export into a true export provider. Otherwise it does not make sense to run a script that invokes a plugin that invokes another script, just do it from the top level script. Dirk ... View more

Trivial case: The first is the getter to retrieve your object from its parent. Solution: dispatch on the given scriptID. If you got that covered, you could still be targeting multiple objects. // this will iterate all items app.whateverCollection.everyItem().doSomething(); Dirk ... View more

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Thanks for the example. Please see http://forums.adobe.com/message/2424384 for alternatives to $.sleep() ... Dirk ... View more

Ah, I always forget that Socket also has its own .encoding variable. Just make sure it is set correctly. Dirk ... View more

The second wrapper should not be required if your web site is supposed to deliver UTF8. Instead you'd add a conversion step within ExtendScript. E.g. use one of the JS UTF8 decoders from the web, or write the raw bytes out into a file then adjust the File.encoding variable for re-reading. File.encoding is described in JavaScript Tools Guide, see the ESTK help menu. Dirk ... View more

I do not know PHP, but I think there is something wrong at that side. Apparently setting the HTTP header to utf-8 plus wishful thinking does not change the applied output encoding of PHP. Besides, if you do not deliver HTML you should also use the correct MIME type text/plain. Motörhead is 9 characters. Your reported content length is also 9 bytes, while the ö Umlaut should be encoded into at least 2 bytes. Try the snippet below, an alternative is to ensure that your PHP source document is already utf-8 encoded. <?php header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"); echo utf8_encode("Motörhead"); ?> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php http://linux.die.net/man/1/hexdump Dirk ... View more

Probably your "unedited" images do not have XMP metadata. You can verify that if you open the images with a plain text editor. In the edited version you will find that enormous XMP / XML section, the XMP should be missing within the unedited image. InDesign relies on XMP and does not consider IPTC or EXIF metadata, while the roundtrip thru PS will copy the information into a new XMP section. There is no direct way to access the IPTC or EXIF by script or even by plugin (as far as I know - I once wrote my own image parsers for a plugin, but that is not scriptable). Eventually you could start Bridge and use methods from there, but I never tried that. Dirk ... View more

Rather than using the numeric index, you can also leave that to AppleScript. tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"      repeat with doc in documents           tell doc                set theName to name -- of doc                display dialog theName           end tell      end repeat end tell ... View more

There is a "reference converter" mechanism to take care of that. I don't know any reason why it should not work, but you can easily verify it yourself. Dirk ... View more

You can do this: - determine character metrics from the font(s) - eventually add kerning tables. - eventually allow for hyphenation - but classified ads are anyway full of abbreviations. - in your app, "compose" your lines to fit the width. - count them. - when you dump the whole thing into InDesign Server, tweak the text so it matches your billed reference. Of course that way you lose the ability to render previews, and quality might also differ from InDesign's original, but you can't have it all. Dirk ... View more

rapidDlg = new Window('window',"btn test", undefined); rapidDlg.btn = rapidDlg.add('button',undefined,'is shift pressed ?'); rapidDlg.btn.addEventListener( "mousedown",function (myEvent) { myEvent.target.text = myEvent.shiftKey ? "Yes" : "No"; }); rapidDlg.show(); Dirk ... View more

In the binary, check $.engineName . Only if it is not "main" do your thing. Dirk ... View more

Are you also beginning with C# ? Then please reconsider, and follow tried paths with JavaScript - plenty more support around here. You could at least write a draft of your program, and only if it works move it to C#. To get further on your issue, I'd follow the idea outlined here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173183(VS.80).aspx If that does not work, I'm sorry - last time I used C# is years ago, and targeting some pocket PC. No InDesign involved. Dirk ... View more

No. Of course I should have looked twice, the relevant source has been changed since CS3. With namespaces removed, the code looked like this: getScriptsFolderPath = function() { try { var script = app.activeScript; } catch(e) { // we are running from the ESTK var script = File(e.fileName); } return script.path + '/../'; } loadScript = function(filename) { var file = File(getScriptsFolderPath() + filename ); var script = undefined; if (file.exists) { file.open(); script = file.read(); file.close(); } // we return the script rather than calling eval() right here // because the results of eval() are only valid within the // scope of the function that calls eval() return script; } // load the script script = loadScript('XHTMLExportMenuItem.jsxbin'); if( script != undefined) { // execute it eval(XHTMLExportMenuItemLoader.script); } ... View more

You could use eval() the same way as the jsxbin loader of the XHTML Export. Dirk ... View more

This works for me. You have to tell the parent ( document ) rather than specify it in properties The field must have the appropriate type - controlled by the "@" in the name Do not run this script twice, though. It will crash InDesign probably because the image is already taken. a b @img 1 2 Desktop:datamerge:Bild.png tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3" tell active document set myPI to parent of item 1 of all graphics set fld to first data merge field of data merge properties whose field type is image field set myImagePlaceholder to make new data merge image placeholder with properties {field:fld, placeholder page item:myPI} get properties of fld end tell end tell ... View more

I could be wrong with that because I never used that feature, and it is a while since I looked at XML rules. But anyway: The xml rules processor should support multiple xpaths / rules in one big swoop. You could store some intermediate results when it hits the first, recover and continue on the second hit and eventually clean up in the error case when either of them is missing. I think there are also ways to navigate up and down on different xpath axes so you could even get along with one expression, but when I tried the last time support of such advanced xpath features was "limited". Especially as you're talking about CS3. Dirk ... View more

You need to store the previous handler (probably a kDocFileHandlerBoss), and call it later on so it does the actual work for you. Besides other plugins also need their chance to see and reject the same notifications. If you still don't arrive at your handler, please verify from somewhere (menu?) later on, that nobody else has replaced your docFileHandler in that ClassIDData. Hmm, could even be the original kDocFileHandlerBoss if it also is installed by a responder ... Forget my comment about ImplementationAlias, that ClassIDData is not persistent. It's been definitely too long that I did anything with a DocFileHandler. Dirk ... View more

How do you activate your DocFileHandler? You're supposed to do this: In your new document responder, get the kDocBoss. On that boss, copy the old value from IID_ICLASSIDDATA into your private IID_MY_CHAINED_CLASSIDDATA. Use an ImplementationAlias. Then install your kTabFlowDocFileHandlerBoss into the original IID_ICLASSIDDATA. Only then your handler may be called. In your implementation of IID_IDOCFILEHANDLER, CreateObject(originalClassID) and chain-call the previous IID_IDOCFILEHANDLER. Finally, hope that all other plugin developers apply the same chaining, rather than CreateObject() InDesign's original handler boss. Dirk ... View more

As a rule of thumb, never AddIn an InDesign IID to an InDesign Boss. Use your own IID instead of IID_IDOCUMENTUTILS. Dirk ... View more

You may also want to simplify your code: #target "InDesign" app.activeDocument.rectangles.everyItem().remove(); Dirk ... View more