How move document (viewport) to X,Y
Hi all, I'm making script which will have similar behavior to original Find Text script. I stuck on part where I have X,Y coordinates from item where I need move document - I mean make this area...
View ArticlePlease provide the Story Splitter script by Adi Ravid?
Hi, I'm working on a complex book and need to split threaded stories at lots of places. I know I can do it manually through the Story Editor but have really set my eyes on the Story Splitter script...
View ArticleIndesign Scripting Courses
Hi All, Does anyone know of any Indesign Scripting Courses in the London area? Thanks
View ArticleIssue with rename folder call by scriptMenuActions on Windows
Hi, The script renameFolder.jsx works fine from ESTK and double-clic from Script panel (MacOS- Windows 7 - InDesign CC 2014) //renameFolder.jsx var myFile=File.openDialog("Choose the...
View ArticleHow do I loop through selected links?
Hi!I'm looking for clues on how to run a script on selected links (selected in the Links window).Like this sample script that runs an alert when links are missing: var aDoc = app.activeDocument;...
View ArticleHow do I return the page width and height as a text variable?
Hi I'm trying to create a media box for use in job to return information in the slug area. I have a script that will return the username of the computer as a text variable but I would also like to...
View ArticleNew CS4 features
At Dave's suggestion, I'm starting a thread for discussing new scriptingfeatures is CS4. I'd divide new features into three categories: 1)improvements/additions to the InDesign DOM, 2) improvements to...
View ArticleWith CS3, some things have changed
Let's use this topic to record changes that are likely to affect a working script. As I did in the CS2 comparable topic, I'll add an index here in the topic title when the list is long enough (and I...
View Article[AS] How to test the presence of at least one table?
Hello everyone, I would like to test for the presence of at least one table in a document before starting a process (on edge strokes). I found this, but I do not know if this is really effective:...
View ArticleHow do I execute/add a 3rd party extension into a script?
I was wondering if someone could help me run a copyfit extension by MPS at the end of my findchangebylist script? I'm using InDesign CS4/CS6 running on Windows. I'm using the sample script that came...
View Articleapply text wrap
I need to apply text wrap for select grouped object top and bottom side only (2p)how to do this via scripting
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ScriptUI : drawString() alignment
I'm trying to make some ScriptUI title, made of a short line (stroked path), followed by a text using drawString(), and then another stroked path.The whole thing should look like, roughly, the bright...
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 Articlescript for running multiple find/change queries
Working on a large ID book document (*.indb), I have saved several dozens of Find/Change Queries (named "col01", "col02" etc.) that I run on "All documents". For a particular reason I have to run these...
View ArticleWith CS4, some things have changed
This topic is not about new features but changes, primarily in the object model, that will affect scripts that run perfectly well under CS3.Bear in mind that as before, you can create a folder for...
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How to remove stroke from cells?
Hi!I have 60 pages worth of tables. I want to remove black strokes appearing on the bottom of some orange filled cells. I use 5 cell styles. One is "no fill, stroke", and other four have "fill...
View ArticleTextual compare the documents
Hi All,We have the option to compare two indesing documents? I need the textual compare, not the visual. Thanks,Selvam. V
View ArticleVisual Basic: vbs extension required in ID
Is there some setting that will make ExtendScript see scripts with the VBS file extensions required for InDesign as Visual Basic files? InDesign requires Visual Basic scripts to have a VBS extension,...
View ArticleNeed Script to Break Link to Character Styles
We need a script that will break the links to Character Styles but retain the formatting. We work with multiple documents that may include styles with the same name, but where someone may have edited a...
View ArticleEscaping the open & closed parenthesis characters
I am close to finishing a script that would find -- at the end of a graf -- some text in parenthesis and dump it at the top of the graf. However, in the event there is text in parenthesis in the middle...
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