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Indesign Crashes while Creating Tags

Jul 30, 2012 1:16 PM

Tags: #tags #text #javascript #indesign #xml #scripting

Hi There!

I'm trying to find a way to take all of the styles from a document, turn them into tags, and map all of the styles to their corresponding tags automatically. This script works, but halfway through, it freezes and Indesign crashes without warning. This occurs in mac and windows, cs 5.5 and 6.

The script is:

 

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPStyle = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;
for (i=2; i<myPStyle.length; i++){
     var myPStyleName = myPStyle[i];
     try{
          var myXml = myDoc.xmlTags.add(String(myPStyle[i].name.replace(" ","-").split("/")[0].split(".")[0]));
          }catch(e){}
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
     app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myPStyleName;
     app.changeTextPreferences.markupTag=myPStyle[i].name.replace(" ","-").split("/")[0].split(".")[0];
     app.activeDocument.changeText(); 
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
     }

 

Any advice, or an alternative way of accomplishing this would be very welcome!

Best,

Nate

403 Views   2 Replies   Latest reply: natewhoscripts, Jul 31, 2012 8:17 AM
 
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  • csm_phil
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    1. csm_phil,
    Jul 30, 2012 11:05 PM   in reply to natewhoscripts
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    Hi Nate,

     

    I have mofied your above JS code, Please try this JS code.

     

     

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPStyle = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;
for (i=2; i<myPStyle.length; i++){
     try{
         var myPStyleName = myPStyle[i].name.replace(/[  ]+/g,'').split(".")[0].split("/")[0];
         var myXml = myDoc.xmlTags.add(String(myPStyleName));
         app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
         app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat= ".+(?=\\r)";
         app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myPStyle[i].name;
         app.changeGrepPreferences.markupTag=myXml;
         myDoc.changeGrep(); 
         app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
         }catch(e){}
     }

     

    thx

    csm_phil

     
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  • natewhoscripts
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    2. natewhoscripts,
    Jul 31, 2012 8:17 AM   in reply to csm_phil
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    That works brilliantly, thank you so much.

     
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