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‎Nov 13, 2012
11:14 AM
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Dear espenmoe ;-), well, AS timeout is 120 seconds as standard. If your script takes longer so set it up (for example 1 hour, better more then less). property pathToScript : "" on idle if pathToScript is "" then set pathToScript to (choose file with prompt "Please choose the Javascriptfile") as text try --set timeout up to 1 hour with timeout of 3600 seconds tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" --<<<<<<<YOUR APP!!! do script pathToScript language javascript end tell end timeout on error e activate display dialog e giving up after 3 end try --run script every 15 minutes after finishing the current turn return 900 end idle The script you posted above should never have clicked any button cause there still 5.5 as target: if namesOfCurrProcesses contains "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" then --<<<<<<<YOUR APP!!! To say anything about the problems using system events it would be necessary to post the executed script, as it works on my machine without any problem. Good luck Hans
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‎Nov 13, 2012
02:46 AM
Hi, the ID-Part did not change, so it should work if worked before ... Shure that the target is a (the) Javascriptfile? (May be resafe the script and choose the file again ...) It worked on my machine this morning and as I#M on a PC for the rest of the day ... I can only check it this evening. But again: seems as if ' pathToScript' doesn't target a *.jsx-file. Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 12, 2012
11:51 PM
Hi espenmoe, gave it a custom-timeout, added the systemeventspart, and throwing errors when occur but giving up to not stopp the process ... property pathToScript : "" on idle if pathToScript is "" then set pathToScript to (choose file with prompt "Please choose the Javascriptfile") as text my clickAlertButton() with timeout of 850 seconds try tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" --<<<<<<<YOUR APP!!! do script pathToScript language javascript end tell on error e activate display dialog e giving up after 3 end try end timeout return 30 end idle on clickAlertButton() tell application "System Events" set namesOfCurrProcesses to name of every process if namesOfCurrProcesses contains "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" then --<<<<<<<YOUR APP!!! try tell process "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" --<<<<<<<YOUR APP!!! if accessibility description of window 1 is "alert" then click button "OK" of window 1 end if end tell on error e activate display dialog e giving up after 3 end try end if end tell end clickAlertButton Give it a try Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 12, 2012
11:11 PM
Hello Kevin, you may imitate the AS Alert-giving up in JS: try{ //... }catch (e){displayDialog(e)} function displayDialog(message){ var infoWindow = new Window("palette"); infoWindow.add("statictext", undefined, "Houston, we've got a problem: " + message); infoWindow.show(); $.sleep(2000); infoWindow.close(); } Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 12, 2012
01:57 PM
1 Upvote
Hi, you may tell system events to do this, but as it's possible to edit the source it's bit inconvinient. Guess this should work and could be added before invoking your targetscript: tell application "System Events" tell process "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" if accessibility description of window 1 is "alert" then try click button "OK" of window 1 end try end if end tell end tell Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 12, 2012
11:23 AM
1 Upvote
Hi, you shouldn't get Errors while compiling, but may be when running the *.jsx ... Let's try from the start again: property pathToScript : "" on idle if pathToScript is "" then set pathToScript to (choose file with prompt "Please choose the Javascriptfile") as text tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" do script pathToScript language javascript end tell return 900 end idle Please paste the above code to a new window of AppleScript-Editor.app. Then save as APP with option STAY OPEN (IMPORTANT!!!) to any place on your harddisk. double click the newly created app. You should be requested for the *.jsx-file once. Please choose it. Done! The targetScript should be launched every 900 seconds from now on. Hans-Gerd Claßen If running into errors: Please try to explain exactly ...
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‎Nov 12, 2012
07:28 AM
Hi, Kevin showed you the syntax to use AppleScript, sthg. like: --open in Scripteditor, save as Programm with option stay open! on idle tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5" --usage: do script pathToyourScript scriptinglanguage do script "Mac Red-Grafik 3:Users:claessen:Desktop:FunnyScript.jsx" language javascript --applescript language end tell return 900 end idle Shareware for doing sheduled tasks: hazel OSX BuiltIn LaunchD Hope it'll help Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 08, 2012
03:59 AM
In this case a simple try/catch should be enough #target Indesign try{ var pathToPredefinedFolder = Folder('~/Desktop/');//Folderobject app.place(pathToPredefinedFolder.openDlg ('Get some files', '', true)) //prompt, filter, multiselect }catch (e){} Hans-Gerd
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‎Nov 08, 2012
03:55 AM
Hi, for (i=0; i<=mytexts.length; i++) { for i = myTexts.length the script must error, cause javascript starts counting 0. Has to be 'i<mytexts.length' wrap your mainscript in a simple 'try{ mainscript}catch (e){optionally errorhandling here}' to avoid the script aborting. As remembered in the other but equal post: You'll only get the first used color of the paragraph, there may be more ... so it might not be the rigth approach to ask for 'paragraph.fillColor.name' Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 08, 2012
03:43 AM
Hi, ein sehr gutes deutschsprachiges Forum findest Du unter hilfdirselbst.ch. To preselect a Folder you can use the following script. Just change the folderpath to your needs save it to the scriptsfolder and give it a shortcut in ID. When finished the placegun should be loaded with the selected files ... #target Indesign var pathToPredefinedFolder = Folder('~/Desktop/');//Folderobject app.place(pathToPredefinedFolder.openDlg ('Get some files', '', true)) //prompt, filter, multiselect Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 07, 2012
11:33 PM
Hi, could just ran it with ID CS 5.5 under OSX 10.7.4. Did a few changes ... works here. You should think of adding some errorhandling! set OLDid to {"Maus", "Katze"} -- set up the data lists to be exchanged --find this set NEWid to {"Haus", "Hund"} -- replace with this set source_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select folder containing InDesign docs" tell application "Finder" to set item_list to (every item where name ends with "indd") of source_folder as alias list tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" activate --clear fields ... set find text preferences to nothing set change text preferences to nothing -- set find options set case sensitive of find change text options to false set include footnotes of find change text options to false set include hidden layers of find change text options to false set include locked layers for find of find change text options to false set include locked stories for find of find change text options to false set include master pages of find change text options to false set whole word of find change text options to false repeat with DocAlias in item_list --(loops thru ID docs) set doc to open DocAlias repeat with swap from 1 to count of OLDid -- swap is the list index set oldReference to item swap of OLDid -- Get an old ID... set newReference to item swap of NEWid -- Get the corresponding new ID... set find what of find text preferences to oldReference -- and load each string into the 'Find' set change to of change text preferences to newReference -- and 'Change to' boxes of the Find/Change dialog box tell document 1 change text -- and 'change text' swaps the 'find' text field with the 'Change to' text field in the Find/Change dialog box end tell end repeat -- Next 'find' string; next 'change to' string close doc saving yes end repeat set find text preferences to nothing set change text preferences to nothing end tell Please don't forget to set your findoptions! Hope it'll work Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 07, 2012
11:22 AM
whole script¿ Guess it's a last empty paragraph. Any errorhandling in your script? please post the whole script your using
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‎Nov 07, 2012
08:22 AM
give it a loop ... if (mytext.fillColor.name == "blue") { var tf = mytext.parentTextFrames; l = tf.length; while(l--){tf .itemLayer = mydoc.layers.item("blue layer");} } } ...
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‎Nov 06, 2012
11:22 PM
Hi, you've gone to far 😉 'content' is always the end of the road ... the pargraph itsself has got the property fillColor ... if (mytext.fillColor.name == "mySwatchName"){... But, what if the paragraph has more then one fillColor¿ You'll only get the first in use. If important for your work -> think about doing a search. Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 06, 2012
02:52 AM
A 'do shell script'-command in AppleScript will execute a bash-, ruby-, phytonscript ... without opening a terminalwindow. For example: do shell script "bash " & quoted form of posix path (MacPath to your Shellscript) or for Ruby do shell script "ruby" & quoted form of posix path (MacPath to your Rubyscript)
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‎Nov 06, 2012
02:18 AM
As far as I know ... A *.bat-file can run commandline commands of a windows- / Dos-System. On Unixbased Systems (MAC OSX) the equivalent should be a shell-script (*.sh or may be *.rb for Ruby ...) So: a *.bat-file won't run on a UnixSystem. I've got no experience with parrallels, but I guess *.bat-files can be executed on a Windows-Parrallels-Installation.
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‎Nov 06, 2012
01:54 AM
You want to execute a *.bat file on a mac? Sorry but I'm bit of confused ... Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 05, 2012
11:44 PM
2 Upvotes
Hi, let VB start the *.bat. this works for me: #target InDesign doTheBat('START "" "C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)\\Photoshop.exe"')//Start Photoshop, just a example function doTheBat ( _data ) { try { var _file = new File('~/myTmpBat.bat'); _file.open( 'w' ); _file.encoding = 'UTF-8'; _file.writeln ( _data ); _file.close(); //_file.execute(); myVBScript = "Set WshShell = CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")\r"; myVBScript += "WshShell.Run chr(34) & \"C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\myTmpBat.bat\" & Chr(34), 0\r"; myVBScript += "Set WshShell = Nothing\r"; myVBScript += "\r"; app.doScript(myVBScript, ScriptLanguage.VISUAL_BASIC); }catch (e){ alert(e); } } Good luck Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 03, 2012
01:24 PM
thx & tot ziens 😉
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‎Nov 03, 2012
05:28 AM
Fine that you've got a solution and sorry for quitting yout ID. Should have tested it more then once, it's been a quite old script and I just copy and pasted it ... just rewrote my old script a bit to run on ID CS 5.5 OSX 10.7.4 Should run over missing links of active Document, uses mdfind to find files with simular names as missing link name in the given directory, optionally reveals the file in finder and shows / selects currMissingLink in ID-file. if "ok" relinks the missing link (without quitting ID 😉 I hope). global myFolder set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5" set currDoc to active document set theMissingLinks to every link of currDoc whose status is link missing if theMissingLinks is not {} then set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where to search for the missing links?" --select a mounted volume, folder ... repeat with missingLink from 1 to count of theMissingLinks set currMissingLink to item missingLink of theMissingLinks set currFileName to name of currMissingLink set theResultList to my mdFind(currFileName) if theResultList is not {} then repeat with i from 1 to count of theResultList set theItem to (item i of theResultList) set currDialog to display dialog theItem with title "Relink this file?" buttons {"OK", "Cancel", "Show in Finder first"} if button returned of currDialog is "OK" then try relink currMissingLink to POSIX file theItem on error e display dialog e end try else if button returned of currDialog is "Show in Finder first" then show currMissingLink --select the missing link in ID my revealInFinder(theItem) --show the found file in finder activate set currDialog to display dialog theItem with title "Please switch to Finder to see the file. Relink the file shown in Finderwindow?" buttons {"OK", "Cancel", "Continue searching"} if button returned of currDialog is "OK" then try relink currMissingLink to POSIX file theItem on error e display dialog e end try end if end if end repeat end if end repeat end tell on mdFind(currFileName) set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return set PathToAllFiles to every text item of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin '" & quoted form of POSIX path of myFolder & "'" & space & " -name '" & currFileName & "'") set PathToAllFiles to my cleanList(currFileName, PathToAllFiles) end mdFind set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid on cleanList(fileName, listOfFilePaths) set myCleanList to {} set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/" repeat with p from 1 to count of listOfFilePaths set aName to (text item -1 of (item p of listOfFilePaths)) if aName is equal to fileName then set end of myCleanList to (item p of listOfFilePaths) end repeat return myCleanList end cleanList on revealInFinder(somePosixPath) tell application "Finder" set myAlias to (POSIX file somePosixPath) as alias activate reveal myAlias end tell end revealInFinder Hope it'll run Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 03, 2012
01:25 AM
Good morning, I guess your messing up some things (or I do 😉 ) ... Under preferences dictionionaries the properties of each language can be set. Doesn't matter for your documents what's actually chosen, but what matters are the properties that are set for each there ... So, if you want any user to start with "English: USA" you've got to set text defauls as mentioned in a post above. Path : '~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/Dictionaries/Adobe Custom Dictionary/anyLanguageFolder' can't be changed but entries can be exported. Add them to yourNew-udc-file. Add this file ... Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 02, 2012
07:49 AM
1 Upvote
try this, could just test it with ID CS3 and Mac OS 10.4.11 --startpoint here is a selected graphicframe (which of course should inlude the missing link) set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where to search for the missing link?" --select a mounted volume, folder ... set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":" tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3" set myGraphicFilePath to (file path of (item link of (item 1 of all graphics of (item 1 of selection))) as text) end tell set myGraphicName to text item -1 of myGraphicFilePath set myGraphicFilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of myGraphicFilePath set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return set PathToAllFiles to every text item of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin '" & quoted form of POSIX path of myFolder & "'" & space & " -name '" & myGraphicName & "'") set PathToAllFiles to my cleanList(myGraphicName, PathToAllFiles) repeat with i from 1 to count of PathToAllFiles set theItem to (item i of PathToAllFiles) if button returned of (display dialog theItem with title "Relink this file?" buttons {"OK", "Cancel", "Go on"}) is "OK" then tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3" relink (item link of (item 1 of all graphics of (item 1 of selection))) to POSIX file theItem end tell end if end repeat set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid on cleanList(fileName, listOfFilePaths) set myCleanList to {} set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/" repeat with p from 1 to count of listOfFilePaths set aName to (text item -1 of (item p of listOfFilePaths)) if aName is equal to fileName then set end of myCleanList to (item p of listOfFilePaths) end repeat return myCleanList end cleanList Hans-Gerd Classen
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‎Nov 02, 2012
07:29 AM
Hi, here we go: set customUserDictionary to (choose file without invisibles) as text --should be *.udc! tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4" set myLanguageWithVendors to item 1 of (languages with vendors whose name is "Englisch: USA") add dictionary path myLanguageWithVendors file path customUserDictionary end tell Hope it helps
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‎Nov 02, 2012
12:28 AM
Yes you can 😉 adding a path : app.languagesWithVendors.itemByName('English: USA').addDictionaryPath(File('~/Desktop/test.txt')); removing a path : app.languagesWithVendors.itemByName('English: USA').removeDictionaryPath(File('~/Desktop/test.txt')); get all paths: app.languagesWithVendors.itemByName('English: USA').dictionaryPaths //notice: it's a array of paths as one language can have several dictionaries Theres no need to script ID by AS, you can use JS as the support by adobecommunity is better, but it can easily be adapted If you've got problems in finding the rigth AS-Syntax -> call again! Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Nov 01, 2012
09:38 AM
Hi, it's a bit tricky here. If you want to change the default for the applied language of a document then use: app.activeDocument.textDefaults.appliedLanguage = 'Englisch: USA' //Have a look at the character window or create a new paragraphstyle and have look at the language ... Edit: Sorry you were looking for a AppleScript ... I'm not on a Mac at this moment, but should sth. like: tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4" tell active document to set applied language of text defaults to language "English: USA" end tell
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‎Nov 01, 2012
05:13 AM
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.INCHES var currPageItem = app.selection[0]; var currPageItemWidth = currPageItem.geometricBounds[3] - currPageItem.geometricBounds[1]; app.jpegExportPreferences.exportResolution = (200 / currPageItemWidth); currPageItem.exportFile(ExportFormat.jpg, File('~/Desktop/test.jpg'), false);
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‎Oct 31, 2012
07:23 AM
1 Upvote
ollah, var myBestObjectStyle = 'myBestObjectStyle'; var currDocPageItems = app.activeDocument.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); l = currDocPageItems.length; while(l--){ curPageItem = currDocPageItems ; if(curPageItem.appliedObjectStyle.name === myBestObjectStyle){exportToJPG(curPageItem);} } function exportToJPG(someFunnyPageItem){ someFunnyPageItem.select(); alert('fireYourExport here ...') ; } gives you the page item -> run the export from there ... Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Oct 30, 2012
03:07 AM
Hi, I don't know why you want to run AS via Terminal, perhaps it is not necessary ... keep this in mind. the 'starterScript' simply runs your Script via APP 'AppleSript Runner'. 'command osascript + the starterScript + your script as input for the starterscript' I guess you've got a display dialog outside of tellblock, which causes the Error. osascript can't target a process for this. Another approach could be to save your script as app and run it in Terminal via 'open pathToYourScript' Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Oct 30, 2012
12:52 AM
1 Upvote
Hi, try to run your script from a starterScript: --comment: guess my source is been macscripter here; don't know anymore ... --don't change anything in this script !! on run {sourcefile} tell application "AppleScript Runner" do script sourcefile end tell end run save as app execute your script with this terminalCommand: osascript pathToRunnerscript pathToYourscript Hope it'll work Hans-Gerd Claßen
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‎Oct 25, 2012
11:02 AM
Sorry, the variable 'source' changed during execution in th old script. Didn't have a close enough look ... Please replace: function setGrepStyle(){ var target = arguments[0].toString(); error = ""; basePStyle = theDoc.paragraphStyles.item(source); if (!basePStyle.isValid) error = 'Source style does not exist'; var target = theDoc.paragraphStyles.itemByName(target); if (!target.isValid) error += '\rTarget style does not exist'; if (error != ""){alert (error); exit()} gs = basePStyle.nestedGrepStyles; for (i = 0; i < gs.length; i++) target.nestedGrepStyles.add (gs.properties); } Works here, If this doesn't work on your machine i'll write a new part for adding the nestedGrepStyles ans ship off the doScript as it is not really needed ...
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