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Group Objects
Hi All, Is there a way to select group item based on placed image name? I have a document containing numbers of boxes that I need to select and export.There are three frames. 1 text frame and 2 graphic...
View ArticleFind/Change By List help
Hi all, New to scripts here using InDesign CS6. I need some help on how to set up the find/change by list script in InDesign. I searched the forums but I don't quite grasp if I need my list saved as a...
View ArticleHow to asign a character style to conditional text?
I am using an script posted here by Mr JarekFind/Change By List help where a list of words is highlighted and defined as conditional text.I need to apply a character style instead of a highlight...
View ArticleHow can I add a character globally to empty cells in an InDesign table?
I have a document with 190 tables, each with many empty cells. Client now wants m-dashes in the empty cells. Is it possible to do this in an automated fashion, without having to go cell-by-cell?
View ArticleVectorize paths in InDesign
Looking for a script to vectorize paths in InDesign. Or someone to show me where is the InDesign's vectorize command (for paths, not types)…
View ArticleIndesign Grep style question
Hello, I have a question about Indesign. I want to make the text after a certain character like a hair space for instance bold. This must be set in a paragraph style. I think this can be done with GREP...
View ArticleFind and move text to existing anchored frame
I have a large text story spanning across many pages. It contains a number of paragraphs that have the following content: [anchor character for an existing, but empty anchored text frame][leading text...
View ArticleWhich .dll contains the Splash Screen?
Hey gang, Do any of you know which .dll file within Adobe InDesign CS6 contains the startup splash png image file? Best, Mike Witherell, ACE
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How to remove the XML attribute value in Indesign file by javascript
Hi all, How to remove the XML attribute value in Indesign file.
View Articleresizing layout, i.e. 210x290 ->200x280
Hi all, Perhaps someone faced such problem, how to resize layout (many docs) by script including content? In such case there is some additional problems, as locked objects (I assume script must...
View Articlegenerating package from indesign with out link folder. all the links are...
Hi,* i unable to del the link folder * i cannot move the linkfiles to the root dir (ex: where the indesign file located) * can u any provided example of making zip using indesign script for...
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Interchange XML element from content part
Hi, I am doing xml validation in Indesign file. But 'xref' element should be Empty as per DTD declaration. So I did interchange of my text from <xref> element. FYI: Is this possible by script
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Bullet and Number - Tab Position
Hi, I need to get the value Tab Position of Bullet and Numbering Options of Paragraph Style. If i use the below code its returning the tab position of Tabs Options. But i need to get the tab...
View Articleindesign Javascript, find xml tag from cursor position
Hi All, I have a single textframe with multiple xml tags within formated by paragraph and character styles.I want to access the xml tag attribute of the xmltag, related to my first 5 characters....How...
View Articlecreate hyperlink for all images
Hello everyone,I am new to scripting, but I am assuming my current task needs some scripting.I have a catalog laid out in InDesign. It is about 250 pages and each page has about 10 image so there are...
View ArticleSplit manuscript into text frames at chapter headings?
Dear all, I currently working on a script to automatically import a manuscript from a Word file, and then properly format it for PDF and EPUB. Currently, the manuscript is being placed into one...
View ArticleExtendScript Timeout Error
I have a client that has an ExtendScript script that works fine in the ExtendScript Toolkit. It reads a control file and for each book listed, opens it and saves it as PDF. When she runs it as a start...
View ArticleOnly want Bold and Italic Words
Hi I am using this code var doc =app.activeDocument; var par=doc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(); var reportFilePath =...
View ArticleExport SVG in Indesign CS5?
hi, i know that adobe canceled svg support for indesign at cs3. but it's really important that i find a way to export svg by scripting. has someone a tip? plugins for this are no solution. thanks in...
View Articlemore efficient right aligned page numbers in TOC
In order to right align the page numbers in a table of contents, after generating the TOC, I need to manually insert a tab character to the left of each automatically generated page number.I'm looking...
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