@Peter: Thank you for commenting! And, of course, your roundPrice() function. @Jaime: it could have been another white space character like an En Dash, a Tab or something: \s does find them all. So try it out and let us know how it works… Uwe ... View more

Manan, thank you for your new code. However, if I take your example of: var inputNo = "999.999,50"; I will get a result by: $.writeln(roundOffNo); in the console of the ESTK of: 1000 and not of 1.000.000 Everything goes right for numbers in the range of 0,00 to 999,49. Uwe ... View more

Lindsay, myTable.rows.everyItem().cells.item(-1).contents; will give you an array which you can loop through. myTable.columns[-1].contents gives you the same array. See the following script: //a table is selected: var _table = app.selection[0]; //The following checks will be incremented by 1 every time the loop goes through. //If the checks number is equal the number of cells we loop through, //the first column of the table will be filled by a specified color: //Default is 0: var _check3 = 0; var _check4 = 0; //Our array we need to check: var _contentsArray = _table.columns[-1].contents; //regEx matches a certain number followed by 5 arbitrary numbers //the .source-trick is by John Hawkinson; no need for extra escaping backslashes: for(var n=0;n<_contentsArray.length;n++){     if(_contentsArray .match(/3\d{5}/.source)){++_check3};     if(_contentsArray .match(/4\d{5}/.source)){++_check4};     }; if(_check3 === _contentsArray.length){_table.columns[0].fillColor = "Magenta"}; if(_check4 === _contentsArray.length){_table.columns[0].fillColor = "Blue"}; Oh, and btw you can use the following feature of the forum software to highlight your code: >> Syntax Highlighting > Java Uwe ... View more

Manan, I wonder what will happen to a input like: € 999.999,50 ? We would get € 1000.000 instead of € 1.000.000 . So I would suggest a function that first strips out every dot and after rounding adds the sufficient number of dots like that: function _roundPrice(foundString){     var _Array = new Array();     //Strip every dot from the string:     var _string = foundString.replace(/\./g,"").replace(/,/g,".");     //Strip the € sign from the array and round the number:     var _newString = Math.round(_string.replace(/€\s/,"")).toString();         //Push every single character to the array:     for(var n=0;n<_newString.length;n++){         _Array.push(_newString.charAt(n));         };         //Insert dots every 3 characters from end:     for(var n=_Array.length-4;n>=0;n=n-3){         _Array = _Array +".";         };         //Add the € sign plus a blank:     return "€ "+_Array.join("");     }; Now, as we have that function we need a method to search/replace the prices in the document. If the prices strictly are formatted with a character style one can do it with the following code (given the applied character style is named "Price"): var _d=app.activeDocument; //Reset the Text search input field: app.changeTextPreferences = app.findTextPreferences = null; //Find all text applied with the character style named "Price": app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Price"; //Built array of the found texts: var _foundText = _d.findText(); //IMPORTANT: Loop from back to forth: for(var n=_foundText.length-1;n>=0;n--){     //Set the contents of the found texts to the returned strings of the function _roundPrice:     _foundText .contents =  _roundPrice(_foundText .contents);     }; //Reset the Text search input field: app.changeTextPreferences = app.findTextPreferences = null; BUT SEE THIS WARNING: if a single white space around the price is erroneously formatted with "Price" the function will not work right. Another method could be a GREP search, though I'm not sure exactly what the right expression will be to get all possible instances of the prices like: € 1.000.000.000,56 (multiple dots) € 197,56 (no dots at all) One expression would be: €\\s+\\d+\\.?\\d+\\.?\\d+,?\\d+ which neglects cases without dots and is limited to maximum two dots: var _d=app.activeDocument; app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "€\\s+\\d+\\.?\\d+\\.?\\d+,?\\d+"; var _foundText = _d.findGrep(); for(var n=_foundText.length-1;n>=0;n--){     _foundText .contents =  _roundPrice(_foundText .contents);     }; app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null; So, maybe it's up to the original poster to come up with a better expression or doing two search/replace scripts with a slightly altered GREP. Uwe ... View more

Harbs, the documentation of the object model shows that: appliedParagraphStyle The paragraph style applied to the text. Can also accept: String. For styles in groups I think we have to loop through allParagraphStyles and check for the name property: //The first 2 we need not to loop: for (var n=2;n<app.documents[0].allParagraphStyles.length;n++){     if(app.documents[0].allParagraphStyles .name == "Teaser"){         app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.itemByID(app.documents[0].allParagraphStyles .id);         };     }; Of course we also have to check if there is more than one paragraph style named "Teaser" and let the user decide which one to apply. Uwe Edit: your function is more elegant… Message was edited by: Laubender ... View more

Harbs, hm, just tested and it does work… (InDesign CS5.5 7.5.1) All the same with: app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.itemByName("Teaser"); Uwe ... View more

Harbs, thank you for your comment. So it's sufficent to use: app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle = "Teaser"; for formatting the whole selection, be it a single insertion point, a line of text, one or a bunch of paragraphs, even the whole story. No loop required. In the case that the user wants to format a single paragraph and we cannot be sure that he selects only one, only then we need an if-statement and deal with the situation in a different way. Uwe ... View more

Hello, Jörg! First of all your script indicates that you are not working with a selection that is part of one paragraph, but with the whole story of your selection ("Textabschnitt" in german) which can consists of a multitude of paragraphs! To apply a paragraph style to your selection only try the following: //if selection is part of exactly ONE paragraph: if(app.selection[0].paragraphs.length === 1){     app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle = "Teaser";     }; //if selection is part of MORE than one paragraph: if(app.selection[0].paragraphs.length > 1){     for(var n=0;n<app.selection[0].paragraphs.length-1;n++){         app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle = "Teaser";               };     }; Uwe ... View more

Eugene, do the color to greyscale convertion in Acrobat. What you need is a reliable greyscale ICC profile (ask your friendly printer). You can do the transformation in Acrobat Pro under: "Advanced / Print Production / Convert Colors…" Be forewarned, since this is an automatic process image quality will be inferior in comparision with converting in PhotoShop where you can use various  methods on individual basis to maintain quality of tonal range. Uwe ... View more

Ihanneman, why not expanding the time-out of your server? Uwe ... View more

Hi, Roy! Do the application labels persist after doing a dot update? About your question: I don't know a way to trace the labels, which does not imply there is no way to do so. Regarding labels on document level you can trace, modify, add or delete them in an IDML file. Uwe ... View more

Can you show us some code in regard of the anchoring properties of your script? (Please use the "Insert / Syntax Highlighting / Java"-Feature of the forum software; click the blue double arrow.) Uwe ... View more

Ihanneman, if you use Acrobat 9 Pro you easily can combine all your PDFs into one file. Go to: File / Combine / Merge Files into a Single PDF If you use Acrobat X Pro go to: File / Create / Combine Files into a Single PDF From then on it's quite self-explanatory… Uwe ... View more

Ken, I'm not into VB scripting, but in ExtendScript (JavaScript) instead of using cut & paste I will move the text to insertion point [0] of your anchored text frame. No selection needed for that. Uwe ... View more

It replaced 10-11 with 10,11 Petteri, nothing weird here: 10-11 means, that the whole spread belongs to a single section. Now, after adding a new section at page 11, InDesign indicates with the comma between the page numbers that the spread belongs to two sections. A second indicator is the tiny triangle at top of page 11. See also the following screen shot where one spread contains 4 pages and is part of three sections: Uwe Message was edited by: Laubender ... View more

Hi, mlavie! You could convert your line of text temporarily to oulines and work with the visible bounds of that object. Here some sample code in JavaScript (ExtendScript) not in ActionScript: //Duplicates the line to outlines: var myTempObject = myLine.createOutlines(false); //The result is an array holding that object with a length of 1. //Now you can work with the visible bounds: var VB = myTempObject[0].visibleBounds; //Store the width of the object: var myLength = VB[3] - VB[1]; //Or work with x2 of the visible bounds: var x2 = VB[3]; //Get rid of the temp object: myTempObject.remove(); That will work with lines that are set horizontally… You really do need ActionScript? Uwe ... View more

Manan, another idea: you could duplicate the text frame and move it to a brand new InDesign file with the page bounds set to the size of your text frame. Export it from there. Uwe ... View more

@Peter, a pre-sorted array, yes. But it's so close to perfectly working with double entries. Just post-processing the resuling temp array. function page_ranges (array, obj)     {     var temp = [];     var range = false; //ADD-ON:     //Sort input array:     array.sort(function(x,y){return x-y;});     for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)         {         temp.push (array);         while (array[i+1] - array <= obj.tolerance)             {i++; range = true}         if (range)             temp[temp.length-1] += obj.dash + array;         range = false;         } //ADD-ON:      for(var n=0;n<temp.length;n++){         var f = temp .toString().split(obj.dash);         if(f[0]===f[1]){             temp =f[0];             };     };         return temp;     } // page_ranges Uwe ... View more

@Marc, yes, I saw that as I tested your function as well. Thank you for your effort … It's tough for me to exactly understand what's going on in your function elegant as it is. Uwe ... View more

@Peter & Harbs: I suppose the page_ranges function takes only arrays of well prepared numbers: sorted and single standing doubles eliminated when using tolerance 0. See the following tests I did: //TESTS: var a = [1,1,10,10,11,11,11,11,11,14,15,16,222,222,223,289]; $.writeln("Tolerance: 0\t" + page_ranges (a, {tolerance: 0, dash: "-"})); //Returns: 1-1,10-10,11-11,14,15,16,222-222,223,289 $.writeln("Tolerance: 1\t" + page_ranges (a, {tolerance: 1, dash: "-"})); //Returns: 1-1,10-11,14-16,222-223,289 $.writeln("Tolerance: 3\t" + page_ranges (a, {tolerance: 3, dash: "-"})); //Returns: 1-1,10-16,222-223,289 function page_ranges (array, obj) {     obj = obj || {};     var temp = [];     var range = false;     var tolerance = obj.tolerance || 0;     var dash = obj.dash || "-";     for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)     {         temp.push (array);         while (array[i+1] - array <= tolerance)             {i++; range = true}         if (range){             temp[temp.length-1] += dash + array;         }         range = false;     }     return temp; } Seems array[0] should get a special treatment when it's contents is not part of a range and it is doubled… Uwe ... View more

Even better doing a PDF-Export with all guides and render that in PhotoShop. If that was your intention: showing the guide lines? Uwe ... View more

@Cris, just tested Kasyans script. It works fine in InDesign CS5 (7.0.4) together with PhotoShop CS5 Extended (12.0.2) under Mac OS X 10.5.8. It's not very fast, so if you test against an InDesign document with a lot of images, be patient. Comment on using an automated process to convert to "grayscale": you will get better results if you do the conversion image by image individually in PhotoShop. First use "Image/Corrections/BlackAndWhite" (I use a german PhotoShop, so this might not be the correct menu names) in RGB mode to prepare the image, then convert to grayscale mode. Uwe ... View more

@Johan: Sorry, I cannot help with VB Script, but in JavaScript you can set the properties with: app.selection[0].transparencySettings.featherSettings.mode =  FeatherMode.NONE; app.selection[0].transparencySettings.featherSettings.width =  0; app.selection[0].transparencySettings.featherSettings.cornerType =  FeatherCornerType.DIFFUSION; app.selection[0].transparencySettings.featherSettings.noise =  0; app.selection[0].transparencySettings.featherSettings.chokeAmount =  0; Note: you cannot set cornerType to "NONE". By default the property is set to "DIFFUSION". Uwe ... View more

@Peter: it's all the same with CS5. Same bug as in CS4 and CS3. Hiding the panel, adding the bookmark, showing the panel. That's the way it works. @All: What is really unfortunate with bookmarks: If you have a couple of bookmarks and ask for myDoc.bookmarks.length you only get the ones at level 0. You have to loop over bookmarks in bookmarks etc. to get them all. I'm missing a allBookmarks property 😉 And when we're at it: is it possible to indent a bookmark scriptwise? The property is read-only, but who knows? Plus: beware of all kind of spaces inside the text you use for the name property. See example here of a RegEx to eliminate the problem: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1106334#1106334 In your code use: curBookmark.name = myText.replace (/\s+/g, " "); Otherwise you could end up with something like that: Uwe ... View more

You are right. It's still not working… ESTK 3.5.1.59 (ExtendScript 4.1.25 Script UI 5.1.41) together with InDesign CS5 (7.0.4) ESTK 3.5.1.59 (ExtendScript 4.1.25 Script UI 5.1.41) together with InDesign CS5.5 (7.5.0) ESTK 3.6.0.2 (ExtendScript 4.1.28 Script UI 5.1.43) together with InDesign CS5.5 (7.5.0) I will continue to develop this particular script in CS4. No need to use CS5. It's all about cells manipulation in a table… Uwe Message was edited by: Laubender ... View more

Andreas, met the same bug during developing a script with ESTK v 3.5.1.59 (CS5) using insertLabel() and extractLabel(). After restarting both ESTK and InDesign CS5 (7.0.4), everything was o.k. again. Empty text frames and empty cells showed: <![CDATA[ ]]> as selection's contents. An if(myCell.contents == "") let ESTK loop endlessly. Glad it's over. At least for a while 😉 Uwe P.S. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8 Message was edited by: Uwe Laubender ... View more

csm_phil, did you test your script with a rather complex document? With rather complex I think of paragraph styles based on each other, same paragraph names in different subfolders, character styles, GREP styles, object styles, cell styles, list styles … To break all the links to the styles, it might be important to keep a distinct order. Try to remove the styles in the following order: (( 0. Cell styles (sometimes it was inevitable for me to delete cell styles to perform the task without a script, but I did not research or recall the exact conditions )) 1. Character Styles 2. Paragraph Styles Hope that helps, Uwe ... View more