Looking for a Page Swap Script

[joep10800191]

Hi all -

I was wondering if anyone has come across a page swap script. Something simple that will popup a dialogue box and you can enter 2 pages to switch locations (without changing the location of any other pages). I don't really know much about scripting at all, so I wasn't sure if it was even possible but I did I find the below from a few years ago (from indiscripts):

function swapPages(p0, p1)

{

if (p0 == p1) return true;

var pages = app.activeDocument.pages;

var pg0 = pages.itemByName(''+p0); // force string argument

var pg1 = pages.itemByName(''+p1); // force string argument

if ( pg0.documentOffset > pg1.documentOffset ) return swapPages(p1,p0);

try {

  pg1.move(LocationOptions.AFTER,pg0);

  pg0.move(LocationOptions.AFTER,pages.itemByName(''+p1));

  return true;

  }

catch(ex) {return false;}

}

// usage:

swapPages(28,34);

This works great but the issue is it will only swap the 2 pages listed at the end (28 and 34). Was wondering how difficult would it be to adjust this to create a dialogue box when you run it, and choose the pages you want to swap.

Thanks in advance!

[rohit_ID · Accepted solution]

Hi

So you need a user input for your pages to be swapped. Please try following:

     var page1 = Number(prompt ("Enter Page1", 100));

     var page2 = Number(prompt ("Enter Page2", 100));

     swapPages(page1,page2);

This will prompt you a dialog to enter the page numbers. Also 100 is what a default value will be shown which you can change to anything.

Hope this resolves what you are trying to do.

Thanks

[joep10800191]

Thank you so much, that worked!

[Colin Flashman]

I'd recommend that opening poster read further into the comments on the indiscripts page that featured the script (Indiscripts :: Swapping and Reordering Pages ) as another scripter (Fabian the blind) had indeed written the script with a user interface rather than one prompt after another.

Despite that, I didn't know any of these 3 scripts existed (swap pages no UI, swap pages with UI, reorderpages) and they're all pretty cool!