Adobe Community: With CS2, some things have changed

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40. (Teus_de_Jong),

Sep 1, 2005 12:43 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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The syntax of adding a page reference to an index topic has changed. In effect the first two parameters have been combined.

Where in CS you would have (leaving out the last two optional parameters PageReferenceLimit and PageNumberStyleOverride, which didn't change):


myTopic.pageReferences.add(myStory, myIndex, PageReferenceType.currentPage);

where myStory is the story in which the pagereference is and myIndex the index in the story (storyoffset) where the pagereference is.
In CS2 this would become:


myTopic.pageReferences.add(myStory.insertionPoints[myindex], PageReferenceType.currentPage);

Although formally the first parameter of pageReferences.add is of the type Text, an insertionpoint will be accepted.

Teus

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41. Peter Kahrel,

Sep 21, 2005 5:11 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Re: pageReference

You don't need an index or any (direct) reference to a story either. You could cycle through a collection of found items, as in

myItems = app.activeDocument.search( 'wildebeest' )

for( i = myItems.length-1; i > -1; i-- )

 myTopic.pageReferences.add( myItems[i], pageReferenceType.currentPage )

Peter

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42. (Teus_de_Jong),

Sep 21, 2005 8:03 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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That's right Peter: in CS2 you only need a parameter sourceText; this can be any text item. I just gave the example to illustrate how to convert CS scripts to CS2.

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43. (Vieregg),

Oct 31, 2005 2:38 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Hi, I'm looking for an Acrobat patch. Does anybody has one? My InDesign isn't any longer able to read Acrobat. Maybe it is also unable to open QUark. Acro Writer isn't able to write. Several problems. Maybe there is a loss of dates.

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44. (Dave_Saunders),

Oct 31, 2005 3:34 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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This is surely not the place to look. Why not try one of the Acrobat forums.

I'll leave your message and this response here for a day and then delete both.

Dave Saunders
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PS: I have already deleted the duplicates you left attached to other messages in this forum.

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45. (sjuillerat),

Nov 3, 2005 1:27 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Hi I've seen also some changes for the Excel import preferences. On CS you could set the select sheet with:

iApp.ExcelImportPreferences.SheetName = sheet
iApp.ExcelImportPreferences.RangeName = range
iApp.ExcelImportPreferences.DecimalPlaces = 3

This works no more on CS2. That's really desapointing because it was a great feature for automated import.

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46. (Dave_Saunders),

Nov 3, 2005 3:59 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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All three of those properties are apparently still supported by the object model (according to the CS2 scripting reference). Are you sure you're not suffering from a problem elsewhere in your script? Or maybe this is a bug. It doesn't look to be a deliberate change in functionality.

Dave

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47. (sjuillerat),

Nov 3, 2005 4:03 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Dave,

You're right, all properties are supported, but they doesn't seem to work as in CS anymore. I tried to run a simple script using this propoerties, it works fine in CS but setting those properties in CS2 is useless. maybe it's a bug.

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48. (Dave_Saunders),

Nov 3, 2005 4:35 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Did you make sure that your TableFormattingOptions were set for formatted input? That could be a factor here.

Dave

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49. (sjuillerat),

Nov 3, 2005 5:10 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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I tried to add the TableFormattingOptions, but it doesn't change the result. The real problem is when I use the command "Place", Indesign should use the "sheetname", "RangeName",... properties if they have been set previously. But in my case I set all the properties of existing sheets in my excel file, but at the execution of the place command in my script, the import window still open asking me which sheet to import.

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50. (Dave_Saunders),

Nov 3, 2005 7:07 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Ah, that's a different issue. There is a bug that I reported a month or so ago. I'm not sure if I reported here, though. Here's how I got around the problem of the no-iteraction flag in the place command not working:

// 1. Import Excel File

var myFile = File.openDialog("Choose an Excel file");
if (myFile == null) { exit() }

if (app.version == 3) {
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
} else {
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
}

myDoc = app.documents.add();
setXLimportPrefs();
try {
myDoc.pages[0].place(myFile,[0,0],undefined,false,true);
} catch (e) {
alert (e + " " + app.excelImportPreferences.errorCode);
exit();
}
if (app.version == 3) {
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
} else {
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
}

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function setXLimportPrefs() {
with (app.excelImportPreferences) {
  alignmentStyle = [AlignmentStyleOptions.spreadsheet,
    AlignmentStyleOptions.leftAlign,
    AlignmentStyleOptions.rightAlign,
    AlignmentStyleOptions.centerAlign][0];
  //decimalPlaces = 3;
  //errorCode = 0;
  //preserveGraphics = true; // Not sure what this does either
  //rangeName = ""; // Hopefully leaving this blank will cause ranges to be ignored
  //sheetIndex = 0;
  //sheetName = "";
  //showHiddenCells = true;
  tableFormatting = [TableFormattingOptions.excelFormattedTable,
    TableFormattingOptions.excelUnformattedTable,
    TableFormattingOptions.excelUnformattedTabbedText][1];
  useTypographersQuotes = true;
  //viewName = "";
}
}

As you can see, I ended up commenting out most of the import preferences.

Oh, this is JavaScript, so you'll need to translate.

Dave

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51. (sjuillerat),

Nov 4, 2005 2:46 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Thanks for your script Dave.

But the problem is the same, because you can't specify the sheet and zone you want to import in your script. It seems I should have a file for each sheet in the excel file :(

Serge

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52. (sjuillerat),

Nov 4, 2005 5:36 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Hi Dave

I finally decided to try make an import in Javascript and it works a lot
better. I "uncommented" the following lines

sheetName = "mysheetname";
rangeName = "xx:yy";

And it work perfectly well! selecting the right sheet!

I think there is a problem with the VBS feature. I'll continue in javascript then.

Thanks for your help.
Serge

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53. (Dave_Saunders),

Nov 4, 2005 6:30 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Ah, I was going to asked if you'd tried uncommenting those two lines. Glad it worked.

Dave

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54. (JS_Bishop),

Dec 8, 2005 8:56 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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I am not a scripter but I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem given that it's likely to be small. The script below works in version 2.0 but not version CS2. This handy little thing saves me hours of work!

Any help is very much appreciated.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
tell document 1
set theSelection to selection

repeat with anItem in theSelection
set theTarget to anItem
set theClass to class of theTarget
if theClass is in {EPS, PDF} then -- if the image is selected by direct tools
set theTarget to parent of anItem
end if

if page item 1 of theTarget exists then
tell theTarget
«event K2 fitc» given «class givn»:content to frame
set horScale to round (horizontal scale of page item 1) + 0.5
-- add 0.5 %
set vertScale to round (vertical scale of page item 1) + 0.5
-- add 0.5 %

if horScale is greater than vertScale then
set vertical scale of page item 1 to horScale
set horizontal scale of page item 1 to horScale
else
set horizontal scale of page item 1 to vertScale
set vertical scale of page item 1 to vertScale
end if
«event K2 fitc» given «class givn»:center content
end tell
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell

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55. Shane Stanley,

Dec 8, 2005 9:50 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2" set theSelection to selection repeat with anItem in theSelection set theTarget to anItem if exists graphic 1 of theTarget then set theTarget to graphic 1 of theTarget else set theClass to class of theTarget if theClass is not in {EPS, PDF} then set theTarget to {} end if end if if theTarget is not {} then tell theTarget fit parent given fill proportionally set horScale to round (horizontal scale) + 0.5 -- add 0.5 % set vertical scale to horScale set horizontal scale to horScale fit parent given center content end tell end if end repeat end tell -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>

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56. (JS_Bishop),

Dec 11, 2005 6:31 PM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Thanks Shane. People like you make the world a better place!

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57. (Diane_King),

Jan 25, 2006 7:35 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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I couldn't find any of the commands for dealing with InCopy stories in the scripting reference. Commands like check in and check out. I looked under Links and under Stories and did a search for InCopy. Am I looking for the wrong thing?

ID has made it easy to export all stories to InCopy, but it doesn't make it easy to unlink. You have to select all the stories in the links pallet, choose check out and then unlink. It doesn't seem like much, but if you have 40 documents with multiple InCopy stories each, it can be time consuming. There is also no way to do a global check out of all IC stories in all the open documents which would be handy for making global changes like changing a font or doing an all documents find/replace.

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58. Peter Kahrel,

Feb 12, 2006 7:10 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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duplicate() has changed. In CS2 you can now add an offset to duplicate an object at a certain position. To duplicate an object and move the duplicate 4cm to the right and 3cm down, this can be done with one statement in CS2:

myObject.duplicate(['3cm',4cm'])

In CS1 you need two steps: duplicate and move:

myObject.duplicate()

myObject.move(undefined,['3cm',4cm'])

Peter

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59. (Jerome_Gantner),

Aug 31, 2006 5:57 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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Is there a breakdown on the change of syntax for AppleScript as well? I have run into a few problems with updating scripts for CS2, and while I have been able to find the solutions with the help of this thread and the scripting guide the latest one I don't see a reference to. Specifically making an inline graphic (rectangle) in the text flow is not working in CS2.

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60. (Prachi_Srivastava),

Aug 20, 2007 4:23 AM in reply to (Dave_Saunders)

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can u tell how to place assets in a library using adobe indesign CS3

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