Hello everybody
I am new to the InDesign world and my experience with In Design has been 5 days. I am trying to create an index based on the content in the InDesign file. I had been scouring the net to find a solution . I was able to find as script from Peter Kahrel, Build an index from text markers. This worked great where I was able to identify words that I wanted to be indexed . It would read those entries and then remove the tags . But I didn't see it generate the index, was wondering if anybody could help me out. The InDesign file just has a text area with the following text on one page. I am not sure why its not adding the contents in the <ix> tag to a seperate index page . Can anybody help me out ? I am trying to do all of this via javascript , my constraint is all of this all has to be generated via code .
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This is the code ,I took and tweaked a little
index.jsx
/*-----------------------------------------------------------
Build an index from text markers.
Text markers must look like this (where # is an optional (sub)topic separator):<ix>dog#collie#border collie</ix>dog
or this:
<ix>dog</ix>
That is, the markers either wrap the word to be indexed
(as in the second example; set "wrapped", below, to "true")
or they don't, as in the first example (set "wrapped" to "false".
Peter Kahrel -- www.kahrel.plus.com
-----------------------------------------------------------*/
#target indesign;
//============================================================
var fileName = "c:/indesignTemplate/a.indd";
var index_listing=[{}];
wrapped = true;
var doc =openDocument(fileName);
rebuild_index (doc, wrapped);
//============================================================
function openDocument(fileName){
alert("opening Document:" + fileName); curFile = File (fileName ); // check if the file exists if (!curFile.exists) { alert ( "no template!" ); exit(); } // open the file app.open( curFile); // set the document active return app.activeDocument;
}
function rebuild_index (doc, wrapped)
{ // "ip" is the insertion point index where page references // are placed; see the try clause var ip = (wrapped == true) ? 4 : -1; /* if (wrapped == true) var ip = 4; else var ip = -1; */ var markers = pagerefs (doc); if (markers.length > 0){ if (doc.indexes.length == 0) doc.indexes.add (); else doc.indexes[0].topics.everyItem().remove(); var index = doc.indexes[0]; //mess = create_message (30, 'Building index...') for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++){ try{ var new_topic = create_topic (index, markers[i].contents); new_topic.pageReferences.add ( markers[i].insertionPoints[ip], PageReferenceType.currentPage); } catch (_){} } if (wrapped == true) delete_marker (doc, '</?ix>'); else delete_marker (doc, '<ix>.+?</ix>'); } }
function pagerefs (doc)
{ app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '<ix>.+?</ix>'; return doc.findGrep (true); }
// Create topic and any subtopics
function create_topic (doc_index, str)
{ var array = str.replace (/<\/?ix>/g, '').split ('#'); mess.text = array[0]; var new_top = doc_index.topics.add (array[0]); for (var k = 1; k < array.length; k++) new_top = new_top.topics.add (array[k]); return new_top; }
function find_grep (doc, f)
{ app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f; return doc.findGrep (); }
function delete_marker (doc, m)
{ app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = m; app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ''; doc.changeGrep (); }
Cheers
~InDesignNoob~