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New Scripting Features in CS5

Apr 12, 2010 1:55 AM

This discussion is for new features/improvements in CS5 related to scripting. For changes to the scripting DOM which effect older scripts please use this discussion instead.

 

Appropriate topics are ones which revolve around the ESTK, InDesign's DOM, or new technologies (such as the new "CS Extension Builder"). Please try to keep the discussion on topic!

 

Thanks,

Harbs

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  • Harbs.
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    1. Harbs.,
    Apr 12, 2010 3:59 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    I'll start this off with the ESTK:

     

    1. Stability: I'm happy to say, that it does not crash! It's way more useable than the CS4 version!
    2. UI fixes: There's a lot of fixes to niggly issues in the UI.
    3. OMV performance: The OMV is now downright snappy!
    4. Auto-completion works much better. It will not auto-complete custom variables, but at least the built-in properties and methods work pretty well.

     

    There's probably a whole bunch of things I'm forgetting, but I'd say that this is a start!

     

    Harbs

     
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  • Harbs.
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    2. Harbs.,
    Apr 12, 2010 2:32 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    Here's a few of scattered tidbits in the DOM:

     

    1. doScript() now works in CS5 while a modal dialog is active. This is really useful for doing stuff which doesn't directly affect the state of a document while a ScriptUI dialog is open.
    2. Enumerations now return the human readable form rather than a number. (Nice one!)
    3. CJK settings are now accessible in the Roman DOM (which adds an awful lot of items to the DOM).
     
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  • Harihara Sudhan
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    3. Harihara Sudhan,
    Apr 14, 2010 7:56 PM   in reply to Harbs.
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    Dear Harbs,


    Really I appreciated publish for the CS5 Scripting Features, and really many thanks to you...

    Past some of the years I can used your coding as well as Dave's codes.

    Really very nice for this intro...


    Please let me know the DOM concepts in CS5 scripting architecture and new extra Features also [Scripting].



    Thanks & Regards

    T.R.Harihara SudhaN

     
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  • Steven..
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    4. Steven..,
    Apr 12, 2010 5:57 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    Are there new events?

     
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  • Steven..
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    5. Steven..,
    Apr 12, 2010 6:00 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    The omv can now be in a dockable panel

     
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  • Fred Goldman
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    6. Fred Goldman,
    Apr 12, 2010 7:36 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    One of my favorite features of CS5 is the Mini Bridge panel. It's great ot have the ability to open and place files without having to bother with dialogs. Is there anyway for scritping to take advantage of this? For example select a file in bridge and then run a script and the script would place the file?

     
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  • Steven..
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    7. Steven..,
    Apr 12, 2010 7:56 AM   in reply to Fred Goldman
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    Fred Goldman wrote:

     

    One of my favorite features of CS5 is the Mini Bridge panel. It's great ot have the ability to open and place files without having to bother with dialogs. Is there anyway for scritping to take advantage of this? For example select a file in bridge and then run a script and the script would place the file?

    Probably not, since its created in flash. However I personally dislike this panel since it is a memory hog like its ancestor. Actually its my understanding that  the bridge application opens in the background when you use panel. Yuck.

     
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  • Fred Goldman
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    8. Fred Goldman,
    Apr 12, 2010 10:09 AM   in reply to Steven..
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    Yes, it's true it is a memory hog and it requires Bridge to be open otherwise it will open it for you. I have never used Bridge before because of what a memory and resource hog that it is (and slow), but now I can't help myself. It is so convenient to be able to browse through all your files right within InDesign. I have even set Bridge to automatically launch at startup just for this reason.(BTW, why doesn't it open script files).

     
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  • Peter Kahrel
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    9. Peter Kahrel,
    Apr 13, 2010 3:59 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    I've posted a PDF that lists the new properties and methods available in InDesign:

     

    http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/pdf_dictionaries.html

     

    Peter

     
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  • Harbs.
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    10. Harbs.,
    Apr 13, 2010 4:16 AM   in reply to Peter Kahrel
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    Very nice Peter!

     

    Thanks!

    Harbs

     
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  • Harbs.
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    Apr 13, 2010 4:22 AM   in reply to Steven..
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    Steven.. wrote:

     

    Are there new events?

    Yes. A whole bunch of them. There's also CSXS events as well...

     

    Event handlers can now be attached to page items as well using PageItem.addEventListener()

     

    Harbs

     
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  • Robert-Tkaczyk
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    12. Robert-Tkaczyk,
    Apr 14, 2010 3:37 PM   in reply to Harihara Sudhan
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    Thanks & Regards

    T.R.Harihara SudhaN

     

    DO YOU REALLY NEED TO EMPHASIZE YOUR MESSAGES ??


    WHY YOU CAN'T FORMAT YOUR MESSAGES LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE ON THIS FORUM ??

     

    robin

    www.adobescripts.com

     
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  • sudar1983_14
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    13. sudar1983_14,
    Apr 16, 2010 1:17 AM   in reply to Harbs.
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    In CS5 InDesign, Is it possible to add the tags in the footnote area ("Tagging of footnote text is not supported").

     

     

    Arivu

     
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  • grefel
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    14. grefel,
    May 19, 2010 7:44 AM   in reply to sudar1983_14
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    is this a question? as far a i can see it's not: still no xml-tags in footnotes.

     
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  • கற்பனை (Imagine)
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    15. கற்பனை (Imagine),
    Oct 12, 2010 12:47 AM   in reply to grefel
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    While applying the inset spacing top to the Fitted frame, the width of the frame to be reduced. Is there any new updations on TextframePreferences.

     

    Please give me anybodies.

     

    Regards,

    Karpanai

     
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  • கற்பனை (Imagine)
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    16. கற்பனை (Imagine),
    Oct 12, 2010 1:01 AM   in reply to கற்பனை (Imagine)
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    I'm facing the issue while applying the inset spacing to the single line text frame (Fitted frame).

     
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