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rotating text box
i'm trying to do this with script:i also write this two lines:app.selection[0].rotationAngle = 25; app.selection[0].absoluteRotationAngle = -25;but it doesn't help.would you give me a clue?thanks a bunch.
View ArticleHow can I get an "Overflows" frame property in IDML?
I am using InDesign CS5. In scripting, I can get the "Overflows" property to see if a given text frame requires overflowing. I could not find any similar property in IDML. Is there any way to determine...
View ArticleConverting all hyperlinks to footnotes or endnotes
Hi everyone, I figured there would already be a script out there that would accomplish this, but can anyone point me in the right direction on converting all hyperlinks in a document into either...
View ArticleInDesign CC 2019 (14.0.2) on macOS Extendscript bug
Where do we report bugs? Code below works fine on Windows and CC 2018 on Mac. But CC 2019 Mac it hangs the app once clicking the OK button in window 2. I've tried three different Macs including Mojave...
View ArticlePass variable from JSX to VBS
Hello, With ExtendScript I'm attempting to pass arguments to a VBS script from inside of a JSX script. I see that the arguments can be passed but I'm not sure how to retrieve those from inside of the...
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Add Export Tagging
Hi,Can any one help, how to add export tag using scriptI have paragraph styles "H1" here i want to add "H1" tag as a EPUB and HTML Tag field. Before Script After Run the script should be HTML tag added
View ArticleBatch update Paragraph Styles across multiple tempates
Is there such a script, extension or plugin?
View Articlefit frame to content
does anyone have a .jsx script to "fit frame to content" for text and graphic boxes on all pages?
View ArticleMenu customization
I noticed that custom menu created by scripts are visible in Edit -> Menu. But I only see menu, not menuactions.It's a InDesign limit or I'm doing something wrong? this is my test script;...
View ArticleCompare InDesign Files
Hi, I want to compare InDesign files. Is there any method to compare 2 InDesign Files in application or code? Need to compare texts, objects and designs and generate report if have any...
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Convert specific text Variable to text through all pages
Hi, i want to convert every text variable named "Header" to text.But when i run this code, it converts all text variables to text.var myDoc = app.activeDocument; for (i = 0, l =...
View ArticlePreserve Local Formatting script and CS4
Unfortunately, Dave Saunders' amazing PreserveLocalFormatting.jsx script (that changes local formatting to character styles) doesn't work under InDesign CS4. I've tried running it both as-is and in the...
View ArticleInDesign can't resave file link because of Japanese character in file name?
So this is my code to do a bridge talk from InDesign to AI to change color of every item to gray ( i get edit from earlier Kasyan disscussion in this forum)Code has a problem. It's can't resave the...
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Find the first footnote of each page! …
Hi all ( again! ;-) ), All is in this topic title! What I've already written: var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var myTFrame = myDoc.pages[0].textFrames.everyItem().getElements(); var myCondition =...
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add Page Break before Group Paragraph Style with two dimensions
Hello!Please, I have a Group Paragraph Style, inside many paragraph styles like this: And I want to add a Page Break before of all the paragraph Styles inside of the Group ARTICLE.For example, here is...
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Resize PageItem Loop
Hi, I'm trying to resize pageItems by looping through and adjusting the width of pageItems (which is in mm). I think that resizing must be in points, but that'll be easy for me to figure out later.I...
View ArticleText Frame event listener
Hi,I want to create a listener for a text frame, to evaluate the value when it changes (from a data merge) and use it to show/hide layers in the document. Possible? I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Using Soap calls
Hi, Does anyone have any experience in sending SOAP calls in a Indesign Javascript?Sending files using SOAP? Does the Indesign scripting framework supports web requests? Or on Os X, can we use default...
View ArticleExport Each Alternate Layout to Separate PDF?
Hi everyone, I really like the Alternate Layout functionality of ID CC, but find it tedious when I have to export each layout to a separate pdf. Is there an existing way to do this in a batch, or a...
View Articleset width
Hi all friends, How can i set only the width of a textframe, here is a code that sets both Width & Height: function setWidthHeight(/*PageItem*/o, /*str*/w, /*str*/h,...
View ArticleKeyboard Shortcuts for Master Page Assignment?
I have a 150-page document that has 10 different master page types. Is there a way to use keyboard shortcuts to assign master pages to a page in the document. Example: I am on page 1 of the document. I...
View Articleto automate adding element and its attributes
hi all,i want to know when user applying "bold" style in indesign menually i wanted to automate that if he apply bold then in xml structure it would automatically get added tag and attribute...
View ArticleUITools.DIRECT_SELECTION_TOOL -- server support
I want to resize the polygon object based on their bottom clipping path. How to do this indesign server using UI tool. Any alternate for UI tool in indesign server ?
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table unit aligment
I have an indesign file along with number and text columns tables. I wanted to align the numbers. The column text has associated with xml elements, When I check the column string its shows data type as...
View ArticlePosition of an library asset on the page – how to get it?
First of all, I would like to thank very much all the participants in the previous thread that I started a few days ago. I wasn't sure where to write the answer with thanks, so unfortunately I didn't...
View ArticleIDML to JSON
Dear All, I need to extract IDML file as JSON. Is there is any lib available for that ? Is any support lib available for parsing IDML file in java or .NET? Is any direct method for extract json file....
View Articleauto increase paragraph indent
Hi, i tried to increase left indent until all of my paragraphs remains single lined.i wrote this code but it doesn't work:var li = app.selection[0].leftIndent ; var lin =...
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Move numbers to First Line
Hi All, I want to move the numbers of a paragraph to the first line. Select the numbers from the end of the line. Cut the numbers and Paste it to the first line. Here's what I want to do:...
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Script for Indesign Middle Eastern version for changing digit type to either...
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could advise of a Javascript for the Middle Eastern version of Indesign for changing the digit type in every Paragraph style in a document to either Arabic or Hindi...
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Toolkit debug issue
Hi, Unable to debug the code for InDesign CC 2019. when i try its throwing the below error. How to fix this and debug the code.
View ArticleCan I cancel checkOut
Good morning, I'm working with some files with InCopy links. Right now, I check out the links, do some stuff and check them back in. Then close without saving. The problem is that the next time I open...
View ArticleCurrent testing framework for ExtendScript
I'm working on a new CEP project (based on my bootstrap repo). I wanted to get a full testing harness in place to test my ExtendScript. I've modified tmaslen's jasminejsx (see my repo) to work with a...
View ArticleParagraph Style contents from pages selected from a list box
Hello, I have a script that I’m trying to modify but I have an issue that I can’t seem to work out. The function below is used to get the content of the applied “UAVC-IHD” Paragraph Style from pages...
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Looping through swatches for a dropdown in Indesign
Hey there, I am having trouble getting my swatches to appear in my scriptUI panel. what I am looking for is a loop that cycles through the document to find all the swatches then lists them in a...
View ArticleDiff b/w inline and anchored object and script to find them
hi .. I see in the forum there are inline objects and anchored object, can someone explain what's the difference between them?Are they the same?if not, is there a way to create script to find an...
View ArticleInDesign Table - Collapse empty Row
My apologies if this is not posted in the proper category...Ok, here's my issue...I have a table with 5 rows. Sometimes, not all of the rows in the table will contain data. Is it possible for...
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dropdown list background color change
Hey there, i am working on a dropdown list to show my swatches in order on a panel. I would like each index color to have the background color of that number listed.I am looking all over and struggling...
View ArticleSmart casing for Title Case with Script
Hi,I have working on a very large document which requires conversion of a particular paragraph style to Title case with smart casing such that words like A, An, The and so on and so forth, cover...
View ArticleGet Names Of All Script Labels Of An Object
Hello, I am working with a document that contains items that have had several script labels inserted into them. I want to be able to access various information stored within these labels in another...
View Article[AS] Adding Event Listener to Custom Dialog
Hi all,My goal is to have a custom dialog that includes a dropdown list but I would like to "activate" an enabling group is a certain value is selected (and of course deactivating it if another value...
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Finding a glyph in 1 format next to a glyph in another
Hello, I am using InDesign CS6 on a Windows 10 PC. I placed text from a MS Word document while keeping local overrides. I then searched for all text formatted as Italic and then assigned it an Italic...
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Coping folder alias's in finder through InDesign
Hi all, I have a need to copy Folder alias's from one folder to another in a script, this is easy to do with an indd alias but can't find a way of doing it with a folder alias. Below is a simple file...
View ArticleQuick Guide for Findchange script?
Hi, I cannot get the Findchange script to work. When I open the file in SublimeText there are 3 files: FindChangeList.txtFindChangeList_play.txt andFindChangeByList.jsx Which file do I edit and exactly...
View ArticleInDesign Scripting Basics
Hey All, I have experience with Javascript for web development and have some questions about InDesign automation.It's a bit tough to get started with a simple script and started reading the scripting...
View ArticleIndesign script for removing pages with specific content/keyword...
...just like Extract PDF Pages Based on Content
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Create swatch from Pantone name
I thought it was possible for a script to create a new swatch from a Pantone name. For example, given the name 'PANTONE 7696 C' I can (manually) create a new swatch in the Swatches panel, in the Colour...
View ArticleInDesign CS6: Keyboard Shortcut for placing images
I have several documents which have over a hundred pages each. Each page needs to have 1 of ten backgrounds.Is there any way I can tap a keyboard shortcut and have the image automatically placed in the...
View ArticleEingebundene Bilder eines Objektformates durch Text ihres Bildnamens ersetzen
Hi,ich habe einen Katalog mit Hunderten von insgesamt fünf verschiedenen im Text eingebundenen (anchored) Grafiken (grafik1.ai, grafik2.ai grafik3.ai, grafik4.ai und grafik5.ai), die alle mit einem...
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How can we cut/paste contents of footnotes
How can we get contents of footnotes and move() them to insertionPoint before footnote reference number and delete the empty footnote?
View Articlepush index number from javascript to jsx
Hey there, I have my dropdown list woking from the HTML to javascript. once I select the dropdown that I want, I have an alert to tell me which index I selected from that array. The alert will be...
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