AS--InDesign CS2--Filteration

pooja.yadav · July 12, 2006, 6:04am

Hi All,

I need a script to do the following actions:

Image Outer line should be of 0.3 pt.
Tracking should be upto 20, not exceeding 20.
Base Line check of spread.
Image should be of 100 or 101 or 102 0r 103% only.
Leader Lines should be on 5pt.

Thanks in advance…
Pooja

pooja.yadav · July 15, 2006, 3:53am

Dear All,

I think there is no such scope for that, I am adding two more lines:

!. XML Error Check
2. Check for Open Type fonts used in the document.

Thanks
Pooja

roy_the_kid · July 15, 2006, 10:56am

Have you tried using the excellent Adobe forum for InDesign scripting. It includes all aspects of scripting, including AS. It has been an invaluable resourse for me in the past few years.

Roy

Jerome · July 16, 2006, 1:05am

That’s a lot of stuff you want it to do, how much ya paying for it? Or do you expect someone to spend their time to create something so that you can get a promotion at work?

pooja.yadav · July 16, 2006, 7:16am

Hi Roy,

I have tried it on Adobe Forum. But nobody has answered me.

Dear Jerome : It is not part of my work, it’s my own interest to do it. It won’t help me to get promotion. My promotion came through what production my team has given, what revenue I have earned for my company.

By the way I have develop this script for Font checking:


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set theDoc to the front document
	tell theDoc
		set thetype to font type of every font
		if thetype is in {OpenType CFF, OpenType CID, OpenType TT} then
			display dialog "Open Type Font"
		else
			display dialog "Post Script Font"
		end if
	end tell
end tell

But it has some problem, if I used both OpenType and PostScript Font then it show only “Post Script Font” dialog. I know what mistake I am making, and I am trying to resolve it.

Thanks
Pooja

pooja.yadav · July 16, 2006, 11:37am

Hi All

Some more progress in it, but unable to check if both fonts are used in theDoc


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set theDoc to the front document
	tell theDoc
		set theFontList to name of every font as text
		set TotalFont to count of every font
		display dialog "Tolat Fonts are : " & TotalFont
		repeat with i from 1 to TotalFont
			set FontName to get name of font i as text
			display dialog "The Name of the fonts are : " & FontName
			
		end repeat
		set thetype to font type of every font
		if thetype is in {OpenType CFF, OpenType CID, OpenType TT} then
			display dialog "Open Type Font"
		else
			display dialog "Post Script Font"
		end if
	end tell
end tell

Thanks
Pooja

Jerome · July 16, 2006, 7:41pm

Pooja,
If my assessment is wrong my appologies, however it appeared that you were posting a laundry list of specs for a script with no attempt at doing any of the work yourself. There are people on these boards that make money programing, and graciously help out when something is posted, but one should not expect to have everything handed to them. If you have a problem there are a lot of people who will answer what they can, I have answered some of your questions earlier so you know I don’t have a problem doing so. If you can’t find it on ScriptBuilders, and don’t or can’t post a project on MacDeveloper then get the project started and post a question when you run into a problem, someone will help if they can.

On to your problem, I’m not sure how you ultimatly want the reporting of the fonts, but this shoud work for stepping through the font list and telling the name and type of font that is in the document based off of your parameters. I took the liberty of eleminating some redundancy and using the object reference to call directly to the document to get the information.

tell application "InDesign CS"
	set theDoc to the front document
	tell theDoc
		set theFontList to every font
		display dialog "Total Fonts are : " & (count of theFontList)
		repeat with i from 1 to count of theFontList
			set FontName to name of item i of theFontList
			set thetype to font type of item i of theFontList
			display dialog "The Name of the font is: " & FontName
			if thetype is in {OpenType CFF, OpenType CID, OpenType TT} then
				display dialog "Open Type Font"
			else
				display dialog "Post Script Font"
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

Jerome

pooja.yadav · July 17, 2006, 3:41am

Hi Jerome,

Don’t wothered man, I know this fact. Below I have developed it with the help of Stanley on Adobe Forum. I have still some problem, it will help me if you can check it.


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set theDoc to the front document
	tell theDoc
		set theFontList to name of every font as text
		set TotalFont to count of every font
		display dialog "Tolat Fonts are : " & TotalFont
		repeat with i from 1 to TotalFont
			set FontName to get name of font i as text
			display dialog "The Name of the fonts are : " & FontName
		end repeat
		--		set Tenp to (count of every font of font type) is in {OpenType CFF, OpenType CID, OpenType TT}
		--		display dialog Tenp
		set thetype to font type of every font
		
		repeat with i from 1 to count of items of thetype
			if item i of thetype is in {OpenType CFF, OpenType CID, OpenType TT} then
				set nm to display dialog (item i of theFontList) & " : is an Open Type Font" default button 1 buttons {"Ok", "Delete"}
				set nm to text returned of nm
				set nm to nm as text
				if text returned is "Delete" then
					delete item i of theFontList
				end if
			else
				display dialog (item i of theFontList) & " : is an Post Script Font"
			end if
		end repeat
		--To Check missing fonts or installed fonts
		set FontStatus to font type of every font
		if FontStatus is not installed then
			display dialog "Fonts are missing"
		else
			display dialog "Fonts are installed"
		end if
	end tell
end tell

I am unable to delete the font.
I am unable to show missing fonts.
How can I check parsing error of xml in InDesign document

Thanks
Pooja

pooja.yadav · July 17, 2006, 5:03am

Hi Jerom

For XML Validation I am writting the below code, but it still not working.


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set theDoc to the front document
	tell theDoc
		if validation errors is true then
			display dialog "Error Exist"
		else
			display dialog "No Error Exist"
		end if
	end tell
end tell

Thanks
Pooja

Jerome · July 17, 2006, 11:23am

Pooja,

What are you trying to delete the fonts from, the document or the list. Right now it looks like you are trying to delete the Open Type fonts from the font list. If you want to delete them from the document you will have to take another approach. Your script looks very combersome to the user with all the dialog boxes. What is the real goal, to get rid of the Open Type fonts or make a report of the fonts? Or is our goal something else entirely. If it is to eleminate fonts then it appears to me that using the built in Find Font would be faster than wading through all those dialog boxes. If you are looking to build a list of post script fonts then you should be able to do this without all the boxes as well. Also look at InDesign’s GUI functions to build dialog boxes that are a lot more flexable, I’ll try to post an example a little later.

On the XML, I havent done much with XML and InDesign. If I have some time I will take a look.

Jerome

Macrajeev · July 17, 2006, 12:54pm

Hi Pooja,

A lot of stuff you want to do greate going, I am working on the same type of projects. Deletion of font is not possible , when you will delete any font then it will ask for replacement. Or get the file path of that font and then if it is activated then first deactivate that font and say delete from list.

Thanks
Rajeev Kumar