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"How did the file get open if you didn't know where it is?"   We had an emergency at the castle where one teammate had used something on his PC called "search". He was editing 17 documents for a week straight. He passed out right there. I had to push aside his chair and bravely pick up his edits in mid-Bezier.   Very traumatic because I had to find out where each of his documents had came from. Turns out all of them were opened from the brain folder called Ab-something ("Abnormal" it appears) and so the creature had to be destroyed. ... View more

Probably a bit late to be of help to ib_ama but to anyone encoutering the same problem: "If I then switch back to Extendscript the link is grey not green." For me the solution turned out to be restarting AE as administrator. At least that solved the grey/green link issue for me. FYI I was trying to install a pseudo effect in After Effects. Regards ... View more

Alternatively, export your entire address book as FDF and have everyone import it. IT admins often create a custom addressbook.acrodata file and install it with the product across the organization. ... View more

InDesign shortcuts are in a file that you can copy to your users' hard disks in the right spot. This would overwrite their existing shortcuts so it might be of limited use. You can also add and COLOR the corresponding menu using menu sets. You can also make an entire "workspace" file which I believe can incorporate all those things at once. As Peter said, installing these files on 100+ hard disks would NOT be scriptable through InDesign. [edit: NOT] However you could likely write a Windows BAT file or an AppleScript to put the desired master ".indk" or XML files in the right spot: ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0/InDesign Shortcut Sets/John's Colorsetting shortcut.indk First start with a clean slate, then add the shortcut(s) normally in ID. Then copy the resulting file to another user's computer and see if the setting shows up correctly. Hope this helps until Adobe adds it to the scripting model ;) Darryl ... View more

If I might pipe in here, With statements are also dangerous in VB. I had a program that kept crashing with no apparant reason, until I changed one large block of a With statement to a regular object reference, and then the program ran just fine. Maybe it's better to assign a variable to an object, and then use that instead? So instead of using: > with (ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla) { bing = true; bang = true; } for this: > ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla.bing = true; use: > var myVar = ooo.eee.oo.ah_ah.ting.tang.walla.walla; > myVar.bing=true; This will also eliminate any confusions about whether bing is a property or a global variable. ... View more

hey shivlee how did you get a copy of it? do you have a mac? thanx ... View more

Making most objects selected is simply a matter of setting its .selected property to true: myObject.selected=true; Trickier is telling the script which object to select. Open the AI Javascript Reference, do a search for ".selected =", and you will find numerous examples. JET ... View more

Specifically, here's something I can't figure out: how to find text, the replace with nothing (delete it). I'm converting PM tags in imported Word document files. I want to set the paragraph style for the paragraph a tag is found in, then delete the tag, so that: <A>Heading Level A Text becomes Heading Level A Text   [with paragraph style A applied] With this setting the style is applied, but the tag is not stripped, rather left alone (tabs replaced with line endings here): text {findWhat:"<A>"} {changeTo:"", appliedParagraphStyle:"A"} I tried entering a second line with the third field {changeTo:""} , that is, without attributes, but I got the same result. I also copied the line and modified it for other tags (to at least get the styles applied), but none of the finds work after the first one. Is there something that needs to be done to set a find to start over (top of the file)? And what will happen when a find has no results? Does it ignore the change, then move to the next line? I thought that might be what's stopping the script with additional lines, but the second line should have found several instances of the find criteria. Why don't I convert the PM tags to ID tags in the document first? you may ask. The problem there is I have to save the document as text only in order to import it, so I'd lose any character formatting like italics. I found out Word 2007 will search for formatted text, then insert text (such as an ID characterstyle tag) before and after it, so I can try getting characterstyle tags around formatting, but I'd rather minimize the prep work in Word. ... View more

thanks thats a very fair explanation hopefully, we all will get a new update (via Adobe Updater) of the scripting model soon (thumbs up Olav) with ALL the items FULLY HYPERLINKED by default, so somebody like you guys can generate new HTML with all the entries FULLY HYPERLINKED... indesigncs3jshelp.zip is BY NOW THE BEST MODEL DICTIONARY, or is it ? isnt there any proprietary of 3rd party viewer to load the scripting model and give us some more features ? like FIND with results, or other... ... View more

The other consideration is that this is very anglo-centric. What about ordinals for other languages? Adobe started going down that path, and that's why we decided to stop doing our ordinals as contextual. It was just crazy to try to anticipate every relevant language, and there's no reason users should be hobbled to only use the languages we think about. Regards, T ... View more

I have been sorely tempted to update my company's custom fonts to OpenType from Type 1 format. However Thomas had an excellent point, that not all our *vendors* might be updated at the same time. So they might have our old Type 1 font loaded and open a doc with my new bling-bling OpenType font. They won't get any Font Missing error since the old Type 1 is taking up that niche in our font ecology. So I am resigned to renaming the font, and the users will do a font substitution if they want to use the OpenType version. ... View more