sorry to resurrect this rather old post. i've been using jongware's scripting label solution (which i'd marked as helpful) but have just upgraded to cs5.5 and am now getting the error: line 35 happens to be the line which (i think) tells the script to assign whatever was put in the textarea to go to the script label doc.textFrames.item("customername").contents = custNameEd.editContents; i have resaved my templates as cs5.5 files and this has not resolved the issue. is there something about 5.5's DOM that i'm unaware of which changed here? ... View more

1) get this script: http://indesignsecrets.com/downloads/MultiPageImporter2.5-CS5.zip (it's the latest version of the script that the OP is talking about); 2) read this page to find out how to install scripts into indesign: http://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-install-scripts-in-indesign.php as a regular user of this script i can say that it will do what the OP wants. ... View more

check this thread, i think siva prasath has answered this (it is the last post in the thread) http://forums.adobe.com/message/4059167 it deletes unused swatches and gradients without any ramifications. to make it more useful, try adding this line to the start of the script: app.menuActions.item("$ID/Add All Unnamed Colors").invoke(); as this will add any unnamed colours to the list of swatches, and then siva's script will remove all of the unused swatches/gradients. ... View more

@JET that's good... provided the database is relatively small. are there any solutions for something a little more industrial... such as records in the thousands or tens-hundreds of thousands? not trying to be an antagonist, but I really do deal with databases this size, and at the moment use adobe indesign's Data Merge feature to handle merges like this. However, indesign can't warp or distort live text, so to use these effects, making variable graphics in illustrator is a workaround. there are plugins like XMPie and DirectSmile, but i want to do as much as i can with the off-the-shelf creative suite as i can. ... View more

this will certainly have a use in my office where i'm on CS3; a colleague has CS4; another colleague has CS5; and soon a different colleague will have 5.5. now when i receive a file i can't open (with no PDF supplied either) i'll know who i have to kick off of which machine! assuming it works in CS3... haven't tested that yet ... View more

@ OP OR, could use Scott Zanelli's PEU (Page Exporter Utility) to make single page PDFs directly from indesign (eliminating step 2) and then go to bridge and carry on ariel's suggestion. scott's script can be found at: http://indesignsecrets.com/page-exporter-utility-peu-5-script-updated-for-cs3.php @ Jongware a scripted solution would be AWESOME though!!! ... View more

i know of one which only gets rid of invisible layers which can be found at: http://objectmix.com/adobe-indesign/239660-how-delete-invisible-layers-inindesign-cs2-file-using-javascript.html alternatively, google the script "inwash.jsx" by vitaly batushev in terms of finding out if a linked image is CMYK, RGB, LAB etc, this can be done from the links panel itself from CS4 and up. If you can't see it at the moment, go to the panel options within the links panel and select  the following: this is only really useful for rasters such as tiffs, jpgs etc. it won't advise if a PDF contains RGB, CMYK etc for example. i know it's not what the OP was hoping for, but hope it helps ... View more

not sure myself, but have you checked this thread? http://forums.adobe.com/message/3306350 ... View more

@Peter Yes i was suggesting merge twice, but it's to demonstrate that DM can do it, but not necessarily should. I do think your "third/third/third" method using multipageimporter2.5.jsx is probably the easiest though and what i'd also suggest to the OP. Put simply though there is no way "out of the box" to do a cut and stack style imposition using datamerge without some workarounds, each with their own pros and cons. ... View more

this sounds like a complicated way to do a cut and stack imposition. by "cut and stack" I mean that once the merge is printed, it should require one set of cuts to have the stacks in the correct collation order. For example, the "top" stack would be 1-50, the "middle" stack would be 51-100, and the "bottom" stack would be 101-150. I've written a post on my own blog which might explain it a bit better. go to http://colecandoo.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/using-data-merge-to-impose-it-can-do-it-but/ and go to part 4) cut and stack impositions. I've put a link on there with a video posted by another indesigner showing how to do this in case my explanation is difficult. that is if the cut and stack imposition is done in indesign. it's unclear whether the OP is printing within the office, or whether the OP is sending the artwork out to a commercial printer to print. if the latter is the case, i'd prepare 1-up files and let the printer impose the artwork using imposition software that any printer worth their salt should have. ... View more

sidebars like this? not sure that a script would be required for this... the side tabs were put into the design on a master page. what does the script need to do? can the OP perhaps elaborate a little more on what is requested from such a script? ... View more

can't help you with the script you have, but have seen an alternative script which may help. written by martin fischer. go to: http://indesign.hilfdirselbst.ch/tabellen/allen-tabellen-eines-dokuments-ein-tabellenformat-zuweisen.html ... View more

i don't know how the catalog was created to start with. if the catalog is created by placing lots of text from word or the like and pictures need to be added afterwards, this could be a frustrating experience. if the catalog is about to be created, i'd recommend using: * indesign's data merge feature (see this link: http://www.theindesigner.com/blog/episode-43-data-merge-video) * a third party plug-in for indesign such as emcatalog; or * indesign's support for XML. there are plenty of videos on youtube and the like for indesign's data merge; slightly less for indesign plus XML; and i know very little about the third party plugins to build catalogs as i don't actually use any - only what's available within the off-the-shelf version of indesign. ultimately, data merge is great for making catalogs where each entry is roughly the same size and shape. XML is better when a catalog is more like a line listing, such as a phone book, parts listing, or any text which becomes one massive text thread over many pages. both ways above have ways of bringing in pictures so long as they are linked appropriately. too detailed to go into but as i say, there are dozens of videos out there which may yield some answers. has this been helpful or have i missed the mark? ... View more

are the label numbers consecutive and logical; or are they all over the show and more than numbers? there is a cheat's way to do something similar using acrobat and bridge. take a large PDF and go to the extract pages feature in acrobat. go from page 1 to the last page and make sure that "extract as individual pages" is turned on. a new dialog appears asking where to save this - choose a directory where to save the files to. once done, close out of acrobat. if indesign's data merge feature allowed exporting to specific page lengths, this would be possible to do directly in indesign; (and the dialog is there to do it) but it doesn't work. i've reported this as a bug and encourage others to do so. ANYWAY... next, in bridge, navigate to the folder which the single page files have been exported to. from here, go to tools options and go batch rename. from here, it is possible to completely rename or add to filenames, including sequence numbers. this is all i can think of i'm afraid. ... View more

marc autret did something before he made indexmatic 2 called index brutal which is what i think you're after. he does have it in his "temporary archives" on his website: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/10/indiscripts-temporary-archives but he adds a disclaimer that there were some bugs, but use it at your own peril. ... View more

marc autret has a bit on jsxbin here on his website: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/04/binary-javascript-embedment-cs4-cs5 however, that only stops the code from being seen in readable javascript, instead it is seen as indecipherable code. so in this sense it stops the script being read to determine what is actually going on. but it doesn't stop someone copying the actual script.jsxbin and then distributing it through any media. what the OP is effectively talking about is Digital Rights Management (DRM) for the javascripts, but this is beyond my understanding. ... View more

agree with peter's post - i can't fault your PDF to behave like it was in your earlier posts. if i'd have received your PDF at my work, it'd be fine (apart from the fact that there is a black keyline on the page border - naughty!). is there a step that we're not being told about here? ... View more

I've tried to replicate the fault here and the only way i can come close to doing this is: creating a new WEB document (rather than print document) and then preparing PDFs. Can't imagine something like this being overlooked, but that's the only way. Is the OP able to package up the file using the package option from the file menu, and zip those files (plus a PDF made using the indesign file) and upload it somewhere... maybe using yousendit or something and then posting that yousendit link? We'd need to see what's being done because there's no way that artwork with vectors as taken in the OP's screengrab should produce a 5mb PDF. ... View more

or the OP should try ariel's script above... just tested in CS5 (mac) and it works there. ... View more

user Harbs has answered this question in an earlier thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2988802 EDIT: or Jongware's answer in this earlier thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3725137 admittedly, searching on the forum's indesign scripting site sucks. user John Hawkinson suggested a better way of searching it. to quote him directly: Use google instead, you can specify site:forums.adobe.com +"indesign scripting" ... View more

@Haakenlid that is FANTASTIC. thank you for that - it works as hoped!!! it's okay that it won't move elements on the master page. at the stage i receive the files the artwork is finished art so overriding master pages will be okay to do. @John Hawkinson alright, i'll use the ESTK. i'm used to writing HTML-based javascripts in plain text editors. thank you everyone for your help with this issue. colin ... View more

@ John thank you very much for your help so far, it has been invaluable. rather than use the ESTK, i've been using textwrangler to modify the existing javascript. i thought i'd come up with an answer and had replaced line 134 (as well as the other line) with the following:             myAdjustPage(myPage, ((((myEndPageName/4)-1)-(Math.floor(((myPage-(myEndPageName/2)-0.5)/2))))*(myEvenX/((myEndPageName/4)-1))), myEvenY); but then i get the following error. the formula that i came up with for line 134 was based on a creep calculator which a poster on a separate forum made available to its users. i've attached a link to it here. ideally, i'd like to have this script in my "toolbox" in case of the rare event that a job like the one in my opening post comes up again, but as I said in my reply to Jongware, just setting the nudge to the creep increment and going page by page will work as well. many thanks, colin ... View more

@ John Hawkinson your suggestion is SOOOOOO close... but still trying to iron it out. by adjusting line 134 to be myAdjustPage(myPage, myEvenX*myPageValue, 0); and line 138 to be myAdjustPage(myPage, myOddX*myPageValue, 0); the pages do move incrementally... but not how i'd hoped. I'm still keeping the myEvenX and myOddX so that I can type the creep figure into the UI. instead of pages 1 & 2 staying where they were and pages 3 & 4 moving the one incremental value as input in the UI, what happens is page 1 stays where it is, but page 2 moves in by one increment, page 3 moves in by two increments, page 4 by three increments etc... What am I missing here? I have been adjusting these lines in the script since and am getting interesting results, but not the results that I need as illustrated in the last paragraph. as I said in my earlier post, i've devised a javascript to calculate the creep increments, but haven't been able to upload the file anywhere. I can however cut and paste the "engine" of it here: var leaves = (form.pages.value * 1) / 4 var creepdecimal = leaves * (form.thickness.value * 1) var leavestomove = leaves - 1 var movedecimal = creepdecimal / leavestomove   form.creep.value = creepdecimal.toFixed(3)   form.move.value = movedecimal.toFixed(3) so the actual HTML calculator simply asks for the amount of pages (with an extra javascript to ensure only amounts divisble by four are entered) and the thickness. Once submitted, the calculator returns the overall creep value and then the page increment value. apart from that, it'll be a winner... at least until the centre spread. I did originally think "I'm not too worried about making the script so it magically works on reverse from the centre of the book, i can just tell the script to run from pages 1-X and then run the script again from X-End using reversed values" but i can't do that because the pages after the centre of the book wouldn't have gone anywhere, and simply running the same script again with reversed values wouldn't work. ... View more

@ Haakenlid the adjustlayout.jsx script will move selected pages the same amount. the creep script i have in mind will move pages in increments. for example, a 32pp saddle stitch book with a total creep value of 1.12mm will need an incremental move of .16mm every two pages. in other words, pages 1 & 2 won't move, but pages 3&4 will move .16mm towards the spine, then pages 5&6 will move .32mm towards the spine, then pages 7&8 will move .48mm towards the spine etc until the centre spread, and then the increments work in reverse. @ Jongware completely agree. It isn't a script i'd encourage designers to use, but rather it would be for prepress operators like myself in the very rare circumstances that I outlined in my opening post. I've devised an HTML-based javascript calculator to work out the total creep value and increment per leaf value based on page count and paper thickness, but my knowledge of javascript is elementary so making a script to apply the increments is something which has stumped me. the only script which is similar is adjustlayout.jsx but as mentioned, that will move selected paged the same amount rather than incrementally until the centre spread. I suppose the "poor man" solution of setting indesign's nudge to be the increment, and then going through page by page moving the artwork manually works too oh well... ... View more