AME-specific scripting guide

Hi, I see plenty of references in this forum to people scripting AME, but I can't find the promised doc for the AME-specific subset of Extend Script anywhere.
In the "Adobe Introduction to Scripting" pdf, in the section "More information about scripting", we are told:
"Each scripting language contains many more devices and techniques for adding power and complexity to
your scripts. To continue learning how to script your Adobe applications, please refer to the Adobe
scripting guide for your application."
Is there any such documentation?
If not, how do folk on this list work this out?
Many thanks
Peter

@Jeff – don't know if there is a specific scripting guide for InDesign CC.
For news of new methods, properties and objects in the DOM (Document Object Model) in ExtendScript (Adobe's implementation of JavaScript) with InDesign see:
Marc Autret:
So What's New in InDesign CC Scripting DOM
http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2013/06/so-what-s-new-in-indesign-cc-scripting-dom
Another valuable reference (not covering CC but also InDesign CS6) is:
http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
For learning ExtendScript you will find useful:
1. Learn about "core" JavaScript (there are plenty of useful courses floating around in the web)
2. Buy yourself a book like Grant Gamble's "InDesign CS5 – Automation Using XML & JavaScript"
and experiment with your own InDesign files and code snippets from that base on…
3. Find a collegue or some friends who also want to learn about it and do some learning sessions together
4. Visit this forum a lot and browse through older threads. Most threads are about ExtendScript.
Where did you hear that Adobe wants to phase out AppleScript on its products?
Flash based extensions and related to that "ActionScript" will be phased out next year for building Extensions for CC applications. It will be replaced with [HTML5, CSS and JavaScript] for building widgets. PhotoShop CC will be the first product where we will see this (maybe around mid 2014); others will follow.
Maybe you read about the abbreviation "AS" in this regard; which for some people is "AppleScript" and for some people it is "ActionScript". Don't confuse the two scripting languages.
Uwe

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Also, I had heard that the Applescript language was going to be fased out. Meaning, no new feature would be supported and things that changed would break current code in future version of the software. Is there any thruth in this? I'm a fairly novice applescripter and I can't even read Javascript, so I was wondering if I need to try to learn Javascript ASAP or if I'll be able to go by with my applescript.
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> No, I have no financial link with Script Debugger, but I do think that
> trying to script without it is a bit like having one hand tied behind your
> back.
>
> We've talked of doing AppleScript Pro Sessions in Amsterdam, but alas
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however, managed to get beyond Chapter 2, and have renamed this topic
accordingly.
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Shane Stanley wrote:
> BOMs tend to matter only when you're moving stuff between systems
> using
> different endian processors, eg Intel vs PPC. It's a pity in a way
> that BOMs
> aren't used more widely, but much of the industry seems stuck in
> good-enough
> mode with ASCII variants. if you're not seeing text get garbled,
> you're
> fine.
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changed them back to Western (Mac OS Roman). As far as I can remember,
I needed Little-Endian only for doing something with ID tagged text
that I'm now done with for the time being.
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- rightMargin
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bottomYPoint, rightXPoint}}
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Canât make Â«class marbÂ» of Â«class imppÂ» of document "Untitled-
[n]" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4" into type number.
I couldn't figure out what was going on there, and still can't. There
wasn't any problem with top of myMarginPreferences. bottom of
myMarginPreferences had to be a number, in order to work with top of
myMarginPreferences which evidently was text, and, uh... confused again!
Oh... top of myMarginPreferences is text, while
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If so, that doesn't seem to be intuitively evident, exactly.
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My (soft) copy of the Photoshop CS3 Scripting Guide says on the copyright page that:
>NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated. No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or
electronic form) may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
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>NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated. No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or
electronic form) may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
otherwise, without the prior written consent of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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Hi all,
First of all, all apologizes if this topic has been discussed yet. I have looked in the archives without success.
However feel free to give me the link if I missed it.
Ok,
I am trying to execute this snippet from the scripting guide. But there is no way I can get it working on the console:
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1:Console:Exec
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TIA Loic

// Create a new PDF document:
var newDoc = app.newDoc();
// Insert doc1.pdf
returns undefined
// Create a new PDF document:
var newDoc = app.newDoc();
// Insert doc1.pdf:
newDoc.insertPages({
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syntax error
1:Console:Exec
undefined
syntax error
1:Console:Exec
undefined
Hope it helps
Loic

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we're using CS4 and the "Watch Folder" feature would have been nice, if it worked on prproj files.
I tried to see what happens during export with a Sysinternals tool named "process monitor" but the log is just too big to make sense of.
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