Convert applescript to javascript

I have a file which contains applescript. I need to convert this script to javascript and run it in my windows. Please help!!!

Muppet Mark seems right.
Translating APS to JS is someway doable. Unless the APS script uses cmd that don't have matching items in JS, it shouldn't be a problem.
However, I don't think a script may convert all by itself an APS script to JS.
For generic commands such as "set x to" or "display dialog", it's quite easy but how to translate "whose", "starts", "first", "last"....?
What if the script goes for file on the system using a tell application "Finder" block ?
In my opinion, the translation process can only be efficiently done by a someone knowing both languages.
Can I help you ?
Loic

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I have been using as imple Indesign AppleScript but need to convert it to javascript and have no prior experience. I've been reading the Adobe pdf about scripting and it is great as it shows the differences between the 3 (as, js, vb) but I'm still having trouble figuring out how this would conver. Would anyone be able to show me the converted result?
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This should work:
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Hello to all,
I need to convert a simple AppleScript to JavaScript, but as I don't know one bit about JavaScript, is there anyone willing to help me out ?
Here is the AppleScript:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
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Very simple script to resize some low-res pictures without touching final resolution.
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This will change the resolution only..
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@twtwtw
the do JavaScript "document.forms[0].submit()" command didn't work, so I kept the original way of submitting by clicking the button. The submitting part works, but not the input file part.
That's the code I used
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with SWFFilePath set as the POSIX path as well as the default file format
Macintosh HD:Users:myaccount:Desktop:Scrapbook:!动画.swf'
but it did not work.
If you've got the time, feel free to upload an .swf. The service is free and the server delats uploaded files after 15 min. (if you don't have any, you may try an empty .txt file instead - it won't get converted, but the point is just to get it into the input box).
In the meantime, I'll have a look at adayzdone's suggestion. It's not perfect (the downside being that it requires the window to be active, so I can't run the script in the background or with my screensaver & password on), but it's still more reliable than my sollution with navigating arrowkeyes.

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I have an Applescript that I need to convert it into Javascript.
To create Indesign instancs in applescript i use
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5" statement
How create Indesign instancs in JavaScript
or what is equivelent statement of ( tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5" ) in Java Script
Using COM I create Indesign Instance like
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INDESIGN::_Application oApplication;
if(oApplication.CreateDispatch(L"InDesign.Application") ==0)
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How create Indesign instance using java Script ?
Thanks.

Thanks CarlosCanto for reply
I am a new developer and want to create indesign application.
First I explane you, What i want to do?
I want to create an Indesign application for both mac and window os.
First I use COM and crate indesign application
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But COM is not supported on mac so i want to use JavaScript
I am using Qt to develop my application and i want to create a java script .
When I run my JavaScript on window then Indesign application should start .
In my post I write about ExtendScript ToolKit 3.6, but i do not want to use this tool.
For example on mac in Apple Script when i run my apple script
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set myDocument to make document with properties
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in apple script editor which is inbuild with mac, Indesign Application start(create) sucessfully.
I want to use javaScript editor inbuild with window.
Like in applescript there is no need to put the script in /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences
/Adobe InDesign/Version 7.5/<locale>/Scripts
Simply when i run apple script application create. I want to such using java script.
I do not want to put my script C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data
\Adobe\InDesign\Version 7.0\<locale>\Scripts
to start indesign application
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/In DesignScripting/InDesign-ScriptingTutorial.pdf
Establish communication with the InDesign application object:
AppleScript :   tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
VBScript     :    Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application")
JavaScript   :    Refer to the application as app.
plz give a simple java script (.js) file example which create Indesign Application (instance) , when i run my java script in any java script editor, No need to put script /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 7.5/<locale>/Scripts and run script after run indesign.
Like in VB to create indesign object we use CreateObject("InDesign.Application"). In javascript how create object of InDesign Application.
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Thanks a lot.
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If all you want to do via Applescript is chain several 'Actions' to run in a certain order then just duplicate the action line and change the name strings to those of the other action & action sets like so…
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I've been using Applescript to automate a process that starts in InDesign (create PDFs), then goes to Acrobat to set open options (I've got a batch process for that but can't find a way to trigger it). If I can get that to work, I'll attempt to automate the task of using a Photoshop droplet to create JPEGs of a specific size from these PDFs.
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Kevin some thing like this for Photoshop should aid you
set Todays_Date to do shell script "date \"+%d-%m-%y\""
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{name:"Rasterized PDF's " & Todays_Date}
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-- set background color to {class:CMYK color, cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:0, black:0}
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set The_Dialog to display dialog The_Question buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 1 with icon note
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set File_List to (files of Input_Folder whose name extension is "pdf")
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-- Tiger (OSX.4) shell call to count the pages
set Page_Count to my PDF_Pages(POSIX path of The_File)
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repeat with i from 1 to Page_Count
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activate
open The_File as PDF with options ¬
{class:PDF open options, bits per channel:eight, constrain proportions:true, crop page:trim box, mode:CMYK, page:i, resolution:300, suppress warnings:true, use antialias:true, use page number:true}
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-- Case sensitive stings
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set Doc_Name to text items of Doc_Name
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_"
set Doc_Name to Doc_Name as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set Doc_Name to text item 1 of Doc_Name
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set New_File_Name to (Raster_Images as string) & Doc_Name & ".tif"
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set File_Number to ""
repeat until (length of (File_Number as text)) = (length of (Page_Count as text))
if File_Number = "" then
set File_Number to i
else
set File_Number to "0" & File_Number
end if
end repeat
set New_File_Name to (Raster_Images as string) & Doc_Name & "_" & File_Number & ".tif"
end if
end tell
save Doc_Ref in file New_File_Name as TIFF with options {byte order:Mac OS, embed color profile:false, image compression:LZW, save alpha channels:false, save layers:false}
close current document without saving
end tell
end repeat
end if
end repeat
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set ruler units of settings to User_Rulers
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beep 3
-- OSX Tiger shell handler
on PDF_Pages(This_PDF)
try
do shell script "/usr/bin/mdls -name kMDItemNumberOfPages" & space & quoted form of This_PDF & " | /usr/bin/grep -o '[0-9]\\+$'"
on error Error_Message number Error_Number
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return false
else
display alert "Error " & Error_Number message Error_Message giving up after 3
return false
end if
end try
end PDF_Pages
and something like this to perform JavaScript from within AppleScript for Acrobat
You would be better talking to the JavaScript Experts on how to use addScript() to get your doc level scripts in.
property Default_Path : (path to desktop folder as Unicode text) as alias
property JavaScript : "var re = /.*\\/|\\.pdf$/ig; var filename = this.path.replace(re,''); try { for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++) this.extractPages( { nStart: i, cPath: filename+'_' + (i+1) +'.pdf' }); } catch (e) { console.println('Aborted: '+e) }" as text
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activate
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on run
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