Delete hidden layers script

I wish, I wish for a javascript that would check my open document for hidden layers and delete them, thats all.
Thank you,
Richard

Hello try67 and thank you very much for the script.
It works well but not at 100%.
As an example:
If I have a InDesign file with 20 hidden layers. The script will delete 10, then when double-clicked again 5 more will be gone, do it again and 2 more will be deleted, so the run command needs to be repeated until all hidden layers are gone.
I cannot find any particular pattern as to the way layers are deleted and what prompt the script to stop, but I am sure there is one.
If you find out why please let me know, in the mean time this sure beats: selecting layers, right click, select delete layers, click yes, wait...
Thanks again,
Richard

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Here is a script to will delete hidden layers but not throw an error is there are no hidden layers.
try{
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Determine if hidden layers exist

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here you go
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MisterStylow wrote:
Delete multiple Layers by selecting multiple object?
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Jenjimay wrote:
I have tried exporting only the visible layers but is there a setting in InDesign that I can use to export only the visible content to pdf?
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Hi,
I am a bit baffled by this as I haven't seen this in all my
years using Dreamweaver.
I have created a few links, that when rolled over they
display a hidden layer that contains a styled table of contents (No
links in the tables).
This works perfectly as expected on my testing server, but
when it is uploaded to the client webserver, the hidden layers
display below each link, throwing the page out completely, and also
the CSS style does not apply.
Is there something on the clients webserver that needs to be
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Cheers

Are the layers actually hidden in the code? I mean when you
look at the
code view of the page (either in the CSS or the inline styles
for the
layers, depending on what DW version you are using), do you
see -
visibility:hidden
or -
visibility:visible
Which?
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> Hi,
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> I am a bit baffled by this as I haven't seen this in all
my years using
> Dreamweaver.
>
> I have created a few links, that when rolled over they
display a hidden
> layer
> that contains a styled table of contents (No links in
the tables).
>
> This works perfectly as expected on my testing server,
but when it is
> uploaded
> to the client webserver, the hidden layers display below
each link,
> throwing
> the page out completely, and also the CSS style does not
apply.
>
> Is there something on the clients webserver that needs
to be changed or
> tweeked to recognise hidden layers, CSS etc?
>
> Cheers
>

Hidden layers get PDFed anyway

Hello all,
I've been meaning to ask this for a while now:
Whenever I hide InDesign layers; then Export to a PDF; and choose Visible Layers (in the General options); and finish up and OK the producing of the PDF; the dialog immediately warns me that stuff from hidden layers will be in the PDF anyway! Sure enought there is!
Why?
Also, is there a way in Acrobat 8 or 9 Pro to remove an entire layer (OCG, in Acrobat-speak) along with its objects all at once?
I can't find it if it does this.
Mike Witherell in Maryland

The world's spun a few times since then Peter. I'm trying to think back.
I had a raft of buttons on a separate layer forming an index (call these buttons B). I could turn this layer on using a
button (call this button A) on the page in view, and a button on the index layer (call this button C) could then hide it
again.
The PDF was exported with all layers.
The visibility or otherwise was determined by the button options - visible in PDF or hidden.
So button A which turned on the raft of buttons forming the index was set to visible, but all the buttons on the index
raft (buttons B and C) were set to hidden. Mouse down of button A had the behaviour to show each of buttons B and button
C and hide button A - you have to list each event separately in the actions attributed to each button.
Mouse down of button C then hid buttons B and C and showed button A.
The crux I think is what you can define as a "field" for the purposes of the Button Option menu > Behaviors > Behavior >
Show/Hide Fields. I was defining buttons as fields. I can't remember/never knew whether you could define a layer as a
field. I think probably not, and you would have to make the contents of a layer a single button or selection of buttons
and then define them initially as visible or not visible in the PDF.
k

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