Howto: Determine Image Offset via Scripting?

Given the screengrab, below,
How would I go about, via scripting (js), fetching the "X+" value? Is it a calculation of other values, and if so, what are they?
I want to get that "7.2" value.
Thanks.

app.selection[0].graphics[0].geometricBounds[1]-app.selection[0].geometricBounds[1]

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Setting filenames for images sequences via scripting

Is there a good way to set the output filename for a sequence via scriping? When I explicitly set the filename and render location, the frame number is being appended to the end of the extension. (example: "filename.png002").

Did a quick test.
You can set name the way you want "Comp 1-[#].jpg" - I mean if you add [#] by hand, AE seems to respect that.
So I guess you could check how many frames you are going to render and set appropriate amount of # signs in the file name.
Looking at your example, seems that AE ads frame number after the extension. In case you want to control where AE puts those frame numbers, try this "filename-[#].png" - that should do the trick.

How to determine installed version of EMET via script?

Hi all,
I was not able to find a easy way to determine installed verison of EMET via script. If you can guide me in the right direction, this would help a lot.
Many thanks
Sam

This is probably not the right forum for scripting questions and you didn't specify which script you (want to) use... Below you can find some examples...
If you use VBscript you could use WMI and query the class Win32_Product:
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
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This method is not advisable because the class isn't optimized for queries and therefore the query takes a long time!
You can also use the Windows Installer object:
Option Explicit
' Connect to Windows Installer object
Dim installer
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Dim product, products
Set products = installer.Products
For Each product In products
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Wscript.Echo installer.ProductInfo(product, "InstalledProductName")
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Next
Set products = Nothing
Set installer = Nothing
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This method enumerates all the products but be aware that you should also check the installstate because the installstate of a product also can be advertised.
You can also use powershell to enumerate the uninstall registry keys but you have take into account that the results may be different on a 64-bit Windows and the bitness of the powershell proces:
gci "hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall" | foreach { gp $_.PSPath } | select DisplayVersion,DisplayName | where { $_.DisplayName -match "^EMET*" }
You can also install and use the
Windows Installer PowerShell Module and use this command:
get-msiproductinfo | where { $_.Name -like '*EMET*' } | select ProductName,ProductVersion | format-list
On the internet you can find a lot of information about your question. For instance I found these pages:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/11/15/use-powershell-to-find-installed-software.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/alexshev/archive/2008/06/30/from-msi-to-wix-part-17-windows-installer-automation-interface-part-2.aspx
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Problems with *.zmg Image deploy via PXE

Hi all,
I am currently faced with the following problem unfortunately:
We use ZCM pre boot (pxe) to image our clients with a windows7.zmg image which was configured with sysprep.
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w
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I have redesigned the imaging now follows:
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I am typing this on a problem with the mbr, but does not know how to fix it: (
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hi all, i am having an issue where found out that Imaging Script cannot be used to multicast so i am running in to a problem now. If i push out an image via zcm script bundle it works fine with your suggestions but i cannot seem to figure out why the image wipes out all the hard drives in the systems during multicast image set or a single image load via pxe boot.
First problem:
if i push out an image via Zenworks Image preboot bundle file set is set to 1 it wipes out all the hardrvie in the system (tow hard drive, disk 0 and disk 1. i can certainly fix the disk resizing issue by adding a script to unattaned file after the image is loaded to resize the disk automatically using diskpart commands. which works fine.
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here is what i did:
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Image Processor type Script Request

I would like to get a jsx that acts much like the image processor, with more options. Here is what i need to be able to do to an individual folder containing 500+ jpgs.
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I would really like to be able to have a GUI that allows me to select the source folder as well as select the 4 destination folders. I currently have an action that does this for me, but it requires me opening one of the images to record the 4 destination folders' locations in the action. Which has become too time consuming. Eek.
I am experienced in coding, but i am not experienced in jsx at all. If anyone wants to help me write it, that would be great. If someone wants to write it for me... ;)
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Here is a start for you, it will need to be modified with the resize values etc.
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Writing commands to get specific data channels in the output report via script or automated script generation..

In my project I have to make certain calculation and then get the data plotted in the given report template. I am using automated script for this. My script is doing all the calculations and then it not selecting and drag-dropping the selected channels on the report template. Its saving the blank report template.
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Go to Solution.

Hi LaxG,
Brad is absolute right. It is possible to create your whole layout via script.
If you have loaded the example report layout you can copy these lines to create a new line in your plot. This is the recommended object oriented way.
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You open this layout file and have stored the names of your calculated channels. When you are doing this with a script they always have the same name and belong to the same group.
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AE | NI Germany

How to find a text in the Frame maker document via script?

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Image in sap script

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Do you experts why there is a image Z_SIGN1 in se78.
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Help needed to enhance Image Processor Pro Script to save transparency in TIF

Hi everyone,
this is my first post in this community.
We have a droplet which reduces the resolution of tif images to 72dpi and save the tif image with transparency. This works fine, but it took to long for the whole process of many picture in different folders. That's the reason why we searched for another script which can preserve the folder structure and set the resolution of every tif image to 72dpi.
We found Image Processor Pro, which does exactly what we needed. The script works perfectly in CS5 and CS5.5 as it saves the tif with the transparency. Those saved tif images could be used in InDesign with the transparency.
BUT Image Processor Pro script works not so perfectly in CS6 as it seems that this option to save a tif with transparency is not implemented or does not work in the script. The result is that those converted tif images are w/o transparency in InDesign. That's a huge problem for us.
This is the point where I need your help. Neither I have experience yet with jsx-files nor with the right syntax of it.
Is there a way for anybody of you to implement / enhance Image Processor Pro so it will save tif with transparency?
We used the latest German Version of Image Processor Pro: 2.3.1 (link: http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html)
(The German version contains only german on screen texts!)
I am very thankful for every help you can give.
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Possible causes:
1) It probably has nothing to do with your image files, but you won't know until someone else tests one of them. You could create a small 50% gray TIFF file with transparency and post it, assuming you know it exhibits the issue with IPP.
2) At the download link you provided:
http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html
There are two installers for Image Processor (CS5 and CS6). Did you download and install the CS6 Version Installer?
3) Another possible solution other than modifying the script is to reset the PS Preferences file. When strange things happen in PS with no explanation this usually fixes them. My PS CS6 was inflating all new files by 1.4MB. After examining one of the files it turned out PS was inserting a Costco printer profile into every new file. So don't automatically assume your PS image files are not somehow being corrupted and causing loss of transparency in IPP. Creating a new Preferences file resolved my issue:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
You may want to record your old Preferences settings prior to creating a new one, but test it first with the default settings.

Spry Photo Gallery Image Size via CSS

Hello!
I´ve been customizing the spry photo gallery for a couple of time, but got my little problem when viewing it on a mobile phone. When you load up the pictures with a size of 450 x 300 px for example, put up the right xml file with it´s width and height, so the gallery shows the pictures in that size. So what I want to do is that you can specify the image size with css depending on the device you´re watching the site with. There is div in the css called "mainImage" where the size is in %. When you change it to 75% for example. The pictures are correctly shown with 75% of it´s original size, but the outline (grey background) is still in 100%. When you make this grey background transparent it´s still there and moves the caption down. I guess there have to be done some changes within the SpryImageViewer.js, but I just know very little things about JavaScript. Do you have any clues how to change this to specify the image size via CSS?
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Is it possible to modify the tag structure tree and the role map via scripting?

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Set filename of printed PDF via script

Hi folks!
I have a little problem with generating a PDF. First my Workflow:
I have a InDesign document with 6 pages. This document is merged with a databasefile containing 100 records. After merging it, we have to generate a PDF file. This PDF file is opened within acrobat. Within the document, I'm searching for an ID each record has so I can split the document to 100 files (each with 6 pages) and name it by the ID I found.
The script within Acrobat is finished and working. I thought, the InDesign script is finished ,too. But I was wrong -.-
I merged the databasefile with the document and exported it as PDF. But after exporting, we noticed that the script within Acrobat isn't finding the adressheader where the ID is in. The script only noticed the text after that header. The result is, that Acrobat get's always "null" as ID
If we print the PDF with our PDFprinter, the header could be read by our Acrobat script. I don't know why this is... But now I changed the script to print the files via our PDF printer. Unfortunately I can't set a name for my exported file - do you know if there is a possibility to print PDF's without prompting after each one and with a via script given name?
Here you can see the old script for InDesign and right after it, the Acrobat sript. Maybe I made some mistake by generating my PDFexport and don't need to use the printer?
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    if( existingDoc == true ) {
        n = n+1;
        n = checkIfFileExists(filename, n);
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var pageAmount = this.numPages;
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        this.extractPages({nEnd:(pageType-1), cPath : filepath+filename+"-000_"+fileExistence+".pdf"});
    } else {
        this.extractPages({nEnd:(pageType-1), cPath : filepath+filename+"-000.pdf"});
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Hi,
I have a little problem with generating a PDF. First my Workflow:
I have a InDesign document with 6 pages. This document is merged with a databasefile containing 100 records. After merging it, we have to generate a PDF file. This PDF file is opened within acrobat. Within the document, I'm searching for an ID each record has so I can split the document to 100 files (each with 6 pages) and name it by the ID I found.
Why you don't export 6-page PDFs directly from InDesign?
robin
www.adobescripts.co.uk

Bug: Setting "Don't include footnotes" via scripting doesn't change the find/change dialog

Hi,
Small bug, but can be confusing. Whether you write this line:
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
or this line:
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
... you won't see any different in the little footnotes button in the
find/replace dialog, even though the setting does work via scripting.
More testing is needed to see what can be done to get the UI in sync
with the setting...
Ariel

The dialog isn't updated while it's displayed. But hiding the dialog and displaying it again (twice Ctrl+F) shows that the script did do its thing.
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Image offset to the right

Why is the image offset to the right when I try to print in landscape mode? On a print the title block is mostly off the page to the right and it prints like this on both of my printers.

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The Tablet PC Settings control panel has radio button options for Right-handed and Left-handed menu appearance - the menus are supposed to appear to the left if you're right handed, and vice-versa if you're left handed. I had changed the setting to match my right-handedness. The default setting was Left-handed.
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ITunes Music Locations - controlling workstations remotely via script?

I do storage administration at a company with over 2000 users scattered across the globe. Predictably, at least have use iTunes. We redirect the "My Documents" folder to a network location to force the backup of critical project data. This creates a huge problem for us. iTunes defaults to using the My Music folder in My Documents. This means we are storing and backing up at least 1TB of music.
I have found that iTunes stores its configuration in xml files in the application data directory in the user profile. I cannot readily figure out where in this file the location is recorded.
Has anyone confronted this problem, and if so, is there a way to control iTunes installs remotely to set the music folder location, via script, GPO or anything at all?

The library location is indeed stored in the iTunesPrefs.xml file. Look for the key "iTunes Library Location:1".
But I have a script that almost does what you want. Here is the perl source:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunesopenlibrary.txt
Here is a compiled EXE for it:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunesopenlibrary.zip
Anyway, the script basically works by setting the library location to a path that you pass to it. It does so by updating the iTunesPrefs.xml file. This file is very small, so you shouldn't need to worry about it!
Of course, the script only works if the iTunesPrefs.xml file already exists. It would be nice if you could include a template iTunesPrefs.xml in your new user creation/login script. If the path is the same for every user, well, then you're done I guess.
If not, you can run the script to set the path to what you really want it to be.
Existing users are a different story. You can run my script to change the library location, of course. But then you also have to move their existing library file and their music back to that location. Well, you don't have to; you can make the users do it themselves! Also, I don't know if that will work as I haven't tested it.
I haven't fully explained everything, but I don't have time right now. I hope at least I've given you some ideas. Of course the optimum solution is an Apple-provide GPO you could use. You can try asking apple for it via either a bugreport (if you have an ADC account), or the feedback page for iTunes:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
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