applescript resize group
How I can to resize grouped object using absolute dimensions?I tried that but I'm newbie into Applescript tellactive document tellgroup items "<gruppo>" oflayer 1 ofpage 1 setabsolute...
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[JS CS6] Align left side of frame to left page margin
Hi All, I am trying to align a few text frames in my Indesign CS6 document to the left page margin. It is similar to the solution in this thread but I do not want the frame to expand to fill the entire...
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Looking for someone to script a Day Planner to a specific size and style.
Hi,Looking for someone to script a year long Day Planner in Indesign CC. I've tried one or two scripts available out there but none seem to be able to accomplish what I need.I would envisage the...
View Articlecharacter style report
Hi All, Can anyone help me over here, I have to find a character style in a file and I have to get it's contents as a text report in my desktop. Thanks, Hari.
View ArticlePagewise export of all text
Hi, How to export all text as .txt or .rtf based on pagewise? Regards
View ArticleRemove style groups
Hi! I have about 400 Indesign documents that all have 29 paragraph style gruops that I no longer need. Is there a way to remove these, along with their content, with a script? All style groups have a...
View Articlecleaning up text frames
hello all you smart guys. I get a big complex files from another designers every month for further processing. Among other not-so-good habits, they usually do not use layers.To make layout a bit more...
View ArticleXML tagged content flows in as one paragraph
Hi gang, I am working on a small XML to InDesign project. I set up the document. It has paragraph and character styles. It has XML tags. It has tags mapped to styles. I built a model example of text...
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Auto update files that have "different layers than the imported version" ?
Hello all, Is there a way to auto update all links that have modified layer options? I have a lot of illustrator files which have a lot of layers in them, I import each file into indesign and use...
View Article[JS CS3/4] ScriptUI How to color a button ?
Is it a way to get a colored button in the ScriptUI DOM ? I tried dlg.button1.graphics.backgroundColor = dlg.button1.graphics.newBrush(dlg.button1.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR,[0.7,0.7,0.7],1); But...
View Article[ESTK] somehow is puzzling: Throwing strange errors on some properties
Hello together! Yesterday I had some odd results by using the ESTK on a selection of a TextBox form field object. Namely reading out values for the following properties: fontSizerequiredscrollable...
View ArticleJS: Export as rtf based on TextFrame geometric bounds
Hi All, We have the script to export text as RTF from InDesign based on pagewise. But the order of textframes texts are confused. Now we want to enhance the script to export text based on pagewise and...
View ArticleGetting data from SQL database
Hi I am stil trying to get some basic information stored in a database table on my SQL Server. I can do this by embedding an Applescript do carry out the shell command 'curl' as below:...
View ArticleParagraph number of GREP search result
Dear all, I'm trying to apply paragraph styles to various elements in my document, but rather than statically referring to the paragraphs in question (whose position might be subject to change in the...
View ArticleCreate separate indesign documents for each page of a document
I am converting a print indesign file for use with dps. The problem is DPS wants individual files for each page. Is there a script to take each page and save as an indesign file?
View ArticleCommon Extensibility Platform CEP Is this the correct forum?
Hi all is this the correct forum to discuss writing Plugins for ID?BTW: Is it an extension or a plugin? RegardsRomano
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JS/ScriptUI: placeholder madness
I created this yummy text box entry placeholder for CS4 on my Mac: but for some reason this fails to draw correctly on Windows! If the edit box is active and the cursor is in it, the text is not drawn...
View ArticlePlacing library item into page
This script for placing library item into page and applying object style to the item. In line 16, script shows that "assets" property does not support. Please resolve this. if...
View ArticleConnect database using ext javascript or applescipt in indesign
Hi,I need to connect oracle database using extended javascript or apple script in indesign. Can somebody help by giving any suggestion. Or is there any possibility to connect database using the two...
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Width Resize
Hi All, Please help for my Very Urgent Request.... I need to change the width of the image into 85 mm. I dont know why the below coding is not working for me Trying Code 1:...
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