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‎Sep 30, 2009
06:06 AM
Harbs. wrote: Marc, Will that work for a span of paragraphs? (I would not have thought so.) Harbs No, it won't --you're right. The grep-styles approach can only be used for 1-paragraph textframes, I agree it's restrictive 😉 @+ Marc
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‎Sep 30, 2009
05:31 AM
Shyam P wrote: [...] I have writtern a script which reduce the font size by 2 pts in certain text frame when charcters are more than 100. [...] Hi Shyam, Why don't you use Grep Styles to do the same? As demonstrated here (http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/06/grep-style-gradual-stretch), you could use a pattern like ^.{101,} to apply automatically a size-reduced character style when the text frame contains more than 100 characters. Assuming you appeal to paragraph styles, of course. @+ Marc
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‎Sep 28, 2009
12:24 PM
Hi, If set to 'window' or 'palette' type, a ScriptUI Window can't receive 'Tab' key events on WinXP. Is this the same with other OS? Is there a workaround? Thanks, Marc
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‎Sep 21, 2009
05:17 AM
Maybe the anchored object cannot move no more beyond a specific position (and reaches this position before the loop-end condition satisfied). For instance, if you have anchoredObjectSetting.pinPosition set to true and moves iteratively the object along the y-axis, you will reach a point where move(undefined, [0, -2]) has no more effect, resulting in invariant geometricBounds. Maybe... @+ Marc
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‎Sep 18, 2009
10:10 PM
2 Upvotes
Hi Dave, Yep, the groups.add() method sounds like a mirage when you call it from a group. You can only extend a group by creating a page item at the group level, targeting the appropriate sub-collection: myGroup.textFrames.add(); But how to add in myGroup an existing TextFrame, or to inject in it a subgroup of various page items? In some respects, the Group object behaves as a fake container. For instance, you may have notice that if myGroup contains two objects of different types (a Rectangle R and a TextFrame T), then you will have both R.index == 0 and T.index == 0 ! Because, in fact, the index of an object in a group is not the index in the group container, but the index in the corresponding collection in the group container. So R.index is the R-index in myGroup.rectangles (0), and T.index is the T-index in myGroup.textFrames (0). Anyway, since Group.groups.add doesn't work, let's create this tool. Here's my first try (the method includes the possibility to add a single PageItem rather than a subgroup): Group.prototype.addItems = function(/*PageItem[] | PageItem*/ newItems) //---------------------------- // Emulates Group.groups.add(items) or Group.add(existing_item) // <newItems> == Array of 2+ PageItem -> create a <newItems> subgroup in <this> // <newItems> == single PageItem -> add the PageItem in <this> // Returns the added subgroup or item (the whole group hierarchy is preserved) // [this method fails if <this> is anchored/embedded in a story] { var nodes=[], gs=[], g=this, node; var makeNode = function(id,g) { var elems = g.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); if (id === null) // placeholder for newItems return {index: elems.length, items:elems.concat(0)}; for(var i=elems.length-1 ; i>=0 ; i--) // need to find the actual index in the group if (elems.id == id) break; return {index: i, items:elems}; } for( var id=null ; g.constructor == Group ; id=g.id, g=g.parent ) { gs.push(g.getElements()[0]); nodes.push(makeNode(id,g)); } var add = (function() { var host = g; return function(items){return host.groups.add(items);}; })(); var r = (typeof newItems == 'array' ) ? add(newItems) : newItems; while( g=gs.pop() ) g.ungroup(); for( g=r ; node=nodes.shift() ; ) { node.items[node.index] = g; g = add(node.items); } return r; } Sample usages: var subGroup = myGroup.addItems(myNewTFs); or myGroup.addItems(mySingleTextFrame); Hope it will help my fellow scripters... @+ Marc
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‎Sep 18, 2009
02:55 PM
Hey, Jong! Did you really parse a PDF internally from InDesign JS? Marvelous! (Well, it's true that we can javascript directly from Acrobat... but Acrobat JS is so boring. I love the idea that InDesign could inject in a PDF file various settings or widgets behaviors that the InDesign UI cannot control for now...) Thank you for opening promising prospects ! @+ Marc
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‎Sep 18, 2009
10:06 AM
Hi Peter, Thanks for your comments and suggestions. So we always need to use ungroup() to extend an existing group? In truth, that's the method my script invokes for the moment, but I don't regard this workaround as a robust solution, because there are recursion issues: if you want to add an object in the group G, then you have to ungroup G and to rebuild the result from the parent. But the parent is not necessary a top-level object (Page/Spread/Document). The group G could be embedded in another group (or page item!), which could be embedded in another one... Thus, we need to ungroup recursively the whole hierarchy until we reach a Page/Spread parent, and to rebuild the same structure so to add finally the new object in the last group. For each step, the procedure needs to store the corresponding page items datas for callback, including the groups we are temporarily destroying! What I see is that we cannot use the Groups.add() method from any page item, despite that the page item owns a groups property, which is the case of the Group object. The DOM and the documentation are pretty misleading about this. Basically, the Groups.add() method is prototyped to accept for the first argument an array of PageItem, and that's the way I use it in the instruction: hostGroup.groups.add( [obj1, obj2] ) IMHO, the code above should work, unless the DOM restricts explicitly the usage of Groups.add() for top-level parents. Assuming we have a few page items selected on the active page, there is no problem with the code below: var objs = app.selection; // or any page items array var host = app.activeWindow.activePage; // create a group on the page: var newGroup = host.groups.add(objs); But, if the host is a Group object, the last line fails... The conclusion is that --apparently-- every group that a script needs to create must be created from a top container (Page/Spread/Document). If you want to build a subgroup G2 inside an existing group G1, you must first destroy G1 (ungroup), then create G2 (on the page), then rebuild G1 (on the page) with G2 and the other elements. All of this supposes that G2 is a top-level object, else, welcome to recursion! Tricky, isn't it? @+ Marc
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‎Sep 17, 2009
06:01 PM
I need to group 2 page-items --say obj1 and obj2-- and to add the result in an existing group --say hostGroup. Does anybody know why this code doesn't work : hostGroup.groups.add([obj1,obj2]); Thanks, Marc
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‎Sep 17, 2009
08:56 AM
M.Jay.Victor wrote: As long as his titles dont use several returns In this case, he could set the title style to : keep with next 1 line + keep all lines together, couldn't he? @+ Marc
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‎Sep 16, 2009
06:52 AM
1 Upvote
The less I use variables, the more I'm happy @+ Marc
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‎Sep 16, 2009
06:34 AM
(Not sure I've understood the goal.) Maybe you need something like this: var tfs = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements(), tf; while( tf=tfs.pop() ) if ( tf.footnotes.length ) tf.textFramePreferences.verticalJustification = VerticalJustification.TOP_ALIGN; @+ Marc
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‎Sep 15, 2009
08:42 AM
I think you need to escape the backslashes: { findWhat : "_[A-Za-z0-9,;\\-\\?\\(&!\\):'. ]+_" } Just a question, why not using this: { findWhat : "_[^_]+_" } @+ Marc
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‎Sep 15, 2009
08:30 AM
4 Upvotes
I don't know if it could help, but this solution works for me (ID CS4): Document.prototype.changeMissingFontsBy = function(/*str|Font*/fontOrFontName) { var asFont = function(/*var*/f) { if (!f) return null; if (typeof f == 'string') f = app.fonts.item(f); if (f.constructor != Font) return null; return(f); }; var missing = function(/*Font*/f) {return ( f.status != FontStatus.INSTALLED );} var substFont = asFont(fontOrFontName); if ((!substFont) || missing(substFont)) { alert( "["+ fontOrFontName + "] is not installed!" ); return; } var changeMissingFont = function(obj) { // <obj> : any object with appliedFont prop var f = asFont(obj.appliedFont); if ((!f) || (!missing(f))) return; try{obj.appliedFont = substFont;} catch(ex){} }; var scope = this.allCharacterStyles .concat(this.allParagraphStyles) .concat(this.stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements()); var s; while ( s=scope.shift() ) changeMissingFont(s); } // test app.activeDocument.changeMissingFontsBy("Times New Roman"); @+ Marc
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‎Sep 15, 2009
05:11 AM
Use FindChangeByList.jsx (with 'grep' findType). @+ Marc
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‎Sep 14, 2009
12:02 AM
Yes. You need to create the dialog with the (ScriptUI) Window class. Then you can use the Scrollbar widget. (Read more in the JavaScript Tools Guide: "User Interface Tools") @+ Marc
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‎Sep 12, 2009
06:03 AM
The last line must be rather: app.activeDocument.changeObject(); @+ Marc
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‎Sep 10, 2009
04:42 AM
In the FindChangeByList script, you could customize the function myFindFile(myFilePath) {...} as to search the FindChangeList text file in the document location rather than the script location. That's an example. The question is: given a document, where will you have the corresponding FindChangeList? @+ Marc
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‎Sep 08, 2009
02:12 AM
dugiedugie wrote: Oh, I just figured, that the function works but not when using new line/ hard line breaks. So my final question is: How can I presever this - it seems like the field is not transporting the content with special charakters thus the xmp descriptions allows hard and soft line breaks. Can someone help? OK, the problem comes from the CreateBridgeTalkMessage function, which writes dynamically a code fragment and injects the caption contents in it. So, the newline characters are not interpreted correctly. Actually, there are many other potential issues with such a function! Temporarily, you could try to patch ReplaceReturnWithSpace with this: function ReplaceReturnWithSpace(myString) { myString = myString.replace( /\n/g , "\\n" ); myString = myString.replace( /\r/g , "\\r" ); return myString; } Not sure it will work --cannot test a CS3 scripting configuration. @+ Marc
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‎Sep 07, 2009
02:13 PM
dugiedugie wrote: Hi Marc, oh - that is very sad. At the moment I'm stuck with CS3. I'll keep your script till CS4 is at work. So maybe a workaround of that function from my old script might solve and fix my worflow for the time till I'm back from holidays: function ReplaceReturnWithSpace(myString) { myString = myString.replace( /\n/g , " " ); myString = myString.replace( /\r/g , " " ); return myString; } I've tried to alternate versions like this function ReplaceReturnWithSpace(myString) { myString = myString.replace( /\n/g , /\n/g ); myString = myString.replace( /\r/g , /\r/g ); return myString; } But that does not work at all. The scripts works pretty good with bridge - maybe with this function not replacing new lines and hard line breaks would make my day. Can you help? If you just want to keep the XMP description 'as-it' from the caption text frames, the ReplaceReturnWithSpace function of the old script need to be neutralized. Then, the patch is very very simple: function ReplaceReturnWithSpace(myString) { return myString; } @+ Marc
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‎Sep 07, 2009
09:23 AM
Hi dugiedugie, The script I've written was intended for ID CS4 --sorry for this frustrating mistake!-- wich provides scripting access to XMPMetaData (via the XMPScript library). But apparently, the XMPScript lib wasn't existing in CS3 JavaScript package. Thus, the automatic load in the line: ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript') can't succeed. The modification you made in the code throws a syntax error because the path that you try to pass to the ExternalObject contructor is not embedded in string quotes: ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject(lib:/Applications/Adobe\ InDesign\ CS3/Adobe\ InDesign\ CS3.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeXMP.framework); You rather need to write something like: ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS3/Adobe InDesign CS3.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeXMP.framework"); Anyway, I'm not sure that the AdobeXMP.framework would be equivalent to XMPScript.
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‎Sep 03, 2009
07:20 PM
If I may make an observation, the XMPScript API is separate from the Bridge DOM, so your script could avoid to invoke Bridge. InDesign is able to load the required library -- new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript') -- and to process directly the XMP data. Then, we can really simplify the code. Try this: TextFrame.prototype.getCaption = function() // Here you can customize the caption written in XMP { // old behavior : // return this.contents.replace( /[\n\r]/g , " " ); // contents as it (keeping newlines) : return this.contents; } Document.prototype.getScope = function() { // return the array of {txf,img} objects to process var scope = [], pages = this.pages; for ( var pg, p = pages.length-1 ; p >= 0 ; p-- ) { pg = pages ; if ( pg.textFrames.length != 1 ) continue; if ( pg.rectangles.length != 1 ) continue; if ( pg.rectangles[0].images.length != 1 ) continue; scope.push({txf: pg.textFrames[0],img: pg.rectangles[0].images[0]}); } return(scope); } Application.prototype.main = function() { if ( this.documents.length<=0 ) {alert("Think to open a document!");return;} var scope, sel = this.selection; switch(sel.length) { case 0 : scope = this.activeDocument.getScope(); break; case 2 : scope = ( function() { var t = (sel[0].constructor == TextFrame) ? 0 : ( (sel[1].constructor == TextFrame) ? 1 : false ); if (t===false) return(null); if ( sel[1-t].images.length != 1 ) return(null); return [{txf: sel , img: sel[1-t].images[0]}]; } )(); if (scope) break; default : alert("One image and one textframe should be selected."); return; } if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) { try {ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');} catch(ex) {alert("Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library"); return;} }; var txfImg, iLink, iFile, xmpFile, xmp; var err=0, cpt=0; while (txfImg=scope.pop()) { iLink = txfImg.img.itemLink; try {iFile = new File(iLink.filePath);} catch(ex) {err++;continue;} xmpFile = new XMPFile(iFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE); xmp = xmpFile.getXMP(); xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Description"); xmp.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Description", txfImg.txf.getCaption()); if (xmpFile.canPutXMP(xmp)) { xmpFile.putXMP(xmp); cpt++;} else err++; xmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY); if (iLink.status == LinkStatus.linkOutOfDate) iLink.update(); } alert(''+cpt+" image descriptions updated -- "+err+" errors."); try{this.activeDocument.save();} catch(ex){} } app.main();
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‎Sep 03, 2009
01:53 PM
stevieun wrote: (...) Do you know any more about producing an overhang without various styles. By this I mean one style for the ), one for % and one for p. Also, there is a style for the hash. I have tried incorporating all of these styles into one, but it doesn't work. (...) GREP-Styles could be a promising path: * First, create a character style for each character you need to customize: RIGHT_PARENTHESIS, PERCENT_SIGN . . . * Then, in your main paragraph style, add the corresponding GREP-Style rules, one to apply the RIGHT_PARENTHESIS style to the pattern \), another for % , et c. @+ Marc
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‎Sep 02, 2009
05:07 PM
Find: [%)p] Replace: $0~h~j# @+ Marc
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‎Sep 01, 2009
08:16 AM
It's not a bug. Every text container uses at least 1 line, because it contains at least 1 insertion point. Interestingly, an empty cell contains one line . . . and zero paragraph! You may also observe that the single line of an empty container has no character: myEmptyCell.lines[0].characters.length == 0 (but you have: myEmptyCell.lines[0].insertionPoints.length == 1 ) @+ Marc
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‎Sep 01, 2009
07:55 AM
Anyway, invoking allPageItems is useless (performance costing) when you want to test first-level page items. So, here is a possible fix for your script: var pItems = app.activeDocument.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); var exclusiveSpreadItems = []; for ( var p, i = pItems.length-1 ; i>=0 ; i-- ) { p = pItems.parent.constructor; if ( p == Spread || p == MasterSpread ) exclusiveSpreadItems.push(pItems); } alert(exclusiveSpreadItems); @+ Marc
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‎Sep 01, 2009
07:14 AM
Some remarks and suggestions: - why don't you use the <item>.parent.constructor property to determine if the thing you're checking is specifically a Spread item ? Traversing mySpread.allPageItems, you just need to find the element(s) which satisfy (<item>.parent.constructor == Spread) [or MasterSpread] - in your code, you build two arrays (spreadItems and pageItems) from scratch, but why? oSpread.allPageItems and oPage.allPageItems will return exactly the same things: the allPageItems prop returns an Array object [contrary to the pageItems one, which returns a PageItems collection]. - the ( spreadItems[spreadItem] == pageItems[pageItem] ) test does not work because the == operator does not work on Objects. (I mean, on Object instances) I suggest you to try rather id comparison: ( myObjRef1.id == myObjRef2.id ) @+ Marc
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‎Aug 31, 2009
07:41 AM
[Jongware] wrote: (...) Actually, I was assuming this would be the index of the page in the document? I never thought a Page parent could be a Spread (and yes, the OMV tells me it is a Spread). (...) Long ago, I made diagrams to understand this kind of relationships: This needs to be updated, but it remains useful as an overview.
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‎Aug 31, 2009
05:57 AM
[Jongware] wrote: (..) The ?..: operator is shorthand for a full if .. then .. else expression (...) Hey, Jong, I knew that 😉 I only suggested to replace your condition (Page.index & 1) simply by (Page.index), since the index is supposed to be 0 or 1. (That's the index of the page in its spread, right?) Then, my code should work: var sign = (obj.parent.index) ? 1 : -1; JS will evaluate the condition to true if index=1, to false if index=0. So, the binary "AND 1" operation seems useless in this specific situation. Did I miss something? @+ Marc
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‎Aug 31, 2009
04:10 AM
[Jongware] wrote: (...) sign = (obj.parent.index) & 1 ? 1 : -1; (...) Wow! That's a pretty elegant approach. In this case, what about : sign = (obj.parent.index) ? 1 : -1; (not tested) Anyway, I think Harbs does the right thing in using the Page.side property. Technically, it is probably the best way. @+ Marc
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