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Can a script execute another script?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:09:04 GMT

Dear colleagues,

I am not talking about calling a function from another file for which I used the #include directive. I want to execute a .jsx that I know only at runtime.

Until now I have found this: If a script file contains

#target framemaker

it is possible to use File(lvFilename).execute() (without the target instruction the script would simply open in ESTK).

But: The execute() method triggers a warning that I should execute only scripts from trustworthy sources (or so…).

Is there any other method to execute other scripts? Or is there a way to make my scripts trustworthy?

- Michael

Getting and setting attribute values [ExtendScript]

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:14:16 GMT

Hi colleagues,

I got some code to get attribut values but have a hard time setting the value. The function SetAttributes() which I would expect seemingly does not exist.

Getting an attribute value is similar to this:

lvElem = pvDoc.ElementSelection.beg.child;

lvAttrs = lvElem.GetAttributes();

for(j=0; j<lvAttrs.len; j++) {

Console(j + ': ' + lvAttrs[j].name + '="' + lvAttrs[j].values[0] + '"');

}

But how does setting an attribute value work?

Thanks,

- Michael

How can I get the Doc object from any other object?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:23:53 GMT

Dear colleagues,

in FrameScript it is dead-simple to get to the document part of any object, just add .Doc to the variable.

How can I achieve the same with ExtendScript? I amtired of passing the document object next to AFrames or Pgfs along into subroutines, because those objects already contain the information about their document. But how do I access this?

Thanks for pointers,

- Michael

PS: Almost the same is true for the page an object lives on. With FrameScript we use .Page, with ExtendScript you have to move up the object tree until you reach the UnanchoredFrame.PageFramePage…

PPS: It would be great to see some convenience properties like .Doc and .Page implemented natively.

Is the menu command ID global?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:08:10 GMT

Dear colleagues,

the documentation describes how to add menus and commands and always uses command IDs 1, 2, 3...

nMenu1.DefineAndAddCommand(1,"cmd1","command1","");

nMenu2.DefineAndAddCommand(2,"cmd2","command2","");

function Command(cmd) {

switch (cmd) {

case 1: alert("Command 1 executed"); break;

case 2: alert("some other message"); break;

}

To me it seems the command IDs should be unique throughout the session. If so, how can we easily create unique IDs?

- Michael

Can't save ]]> in document text to XML

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:28:32 GMT

Dear colleagues,

I am currently evaluating a Save-as-XML problem with FrameMaker 9.0p255. The content of the document shows some XML examples which contains CDATA sections, like

<environment>
  <var name="service"><![CDATA[Inhalt]]></var>
</environment>

Reminder: This is in the text of the FrameMaker document.

When I save as XML, the XML parser complains: »Error at line 140, char 77, Message: The sequence ']]>' is not allowed in character data«

When I open the XML file in a XML editor I see that all < are correctly escaped as < and all > are left as is. The built-in Xerxes parser also reports: »The character sequence "]]>" must not appear in content unless used to mark the end of a CDATA section.«

And the XML Recommendation says:

The right angle bracket (>) may be represented using the string " > ", and must, for compatibility, be escaped using either " > " or a character reference when it appears in the string "]]> " in content, when that string is not marking the end of a CDATA section.

It seems to me FrameMaker should either write all > as > to avoid the possibility that it might be used after ]].

Can you reproduce this issue (I can using the UserGuide structured application, by just putting ]]> in any element)?

Have you found a way to workaround this, maybe with a special R/W rule?

Thanks,

- Michael

XSL Preprocessing: Does Xalan’s document(URI) work?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:37:43 GMT

Hi fellows,

For the first time I have XML source file with xi:include tags, like

<xi:include href="other.xml"/>

Many XSLT processor automatically process the xi:include element, but Xalan-C as shipped with FrameMaker apparently does not. So I added this to my preprocessing stylesheet:

<xsl:template match="xi:include">
<xsl:apply-templates select="document(@href)/*" />
</xsl:template>

FrameMaker 10 (in this case, hadn't had the time to test with previous version) hangs with 100% processor usage as soon as I access the document() function.

Has anyone successfully used the XSLT document() function with FrameMaker?

Thanks,

- Michael

EDD: How to track table column number with straddled cells

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:04:30 GMT

Hello,

I have a table layout where I want a different paragraph format in the first column depending on a table attribute value. So I created a Text Format Rule for the cells like this:

If context is: {first} < * < table [class="definition"]

Use paragraph format: T_FirstColumn

Else

Use paragraph format: T_Column

This works fine until the user straddles some cells in the first column, like this:

In the first column the three cells are straddled, so the cells in row 2 and 3 "think" they are first and use the bold paragraph format.

Apart from setting additional attributes (through API programming), do you have a solution?

Thanks,

- Michael

Looking for 3D source font

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:55:08 GMT

Hello fans of ancient t-shirt prints,

I used http://www.identifont.com/ to detect Figaro as the font for the text in the circle (the lower-case g is especially remarkable), but was not successful to find the font of the three initials GFE in the center. http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ does not like outlined / shadowed / 3d-ified fonts like this.

This is a T-Shirt print from the late seventies and I would like to recreate the design today for a 30 years anniversary coming up. Any idea for the center font?

Thanks a lot!

- Michael

Changing appearance of Track Changes condition formats?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:16:35 GMT

Hi all,

has anyone succeeded in changing the appearance of the FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED and FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED condition formats. They are shown in the UI so I tried it via the MIF file. In the first place I wanted to use the numeric underline, because it looks usually a lot better than the standard underline. So I modfied

<Condition

> # end of Condition

but after opening the MIF everything is as before. As if the original settings are hardwired somewhere…

Any ideas?

- Michael Müller-Hillebrand