I want to create a simple docuement with 2 pages?

Question

I want to my plugin to create a simple document as soon as My Plugin is loaded in Indesign. I have derived my class IStartupShutdownService  so that it's called in startup.
But this is failing at line 23 below.
What else do I need to include in my .fr file?
class LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl : public CPMUnknown<IStartupShutdownService>
public:
    LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl(IPMUnknown* boss);
    virtual ~LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl();
    virtual void Startup();
    virtual void Shutdown();
CREATE_PMINTERFACE(LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl, kLTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl)
LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl::LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl(IPMUnknown *boss):CPMUnknown<IStartupShutdownService>(boss)
    do
        const PMReal width=612, height=792;
        const int32 numPages=5, numPagesPerSpread=1;
        // Create the command.
        InterfacePtr<ICommand> newDocCmd(Utils<IDocumentCommands>()->CreateNewCommand());  //<-----this is coming null and failing
        ASSERT(newDocCmd);
        if (newDocCmd == nil)
            break;
        // Set the command's parameterised data.
        InterfacePtr<INewDocCmdData> newDocCmdData(newDocCmd, UseDefaultIID());
        ASSERT(newDocCmdData);
        if (newDocCmdData == nil)
            break;
        newDocCmdData->SetCreateBasicDocument(kFalse); // Override the following defaults.
        PMPageSize pageSize( width, height);
        newDocCmdData->SetNewDocumentPageSize(pageSize);
        bool16 bWide = kTrue; // landscape orientation.
        newDocCmdData->SetWideOrientation(bWide);
        // Size margin proportional to document width and height.
        PMReal horMargin = width / 20;
        PMReal verMargin = height / 20;
        newDocCmdData->SetMargins(horMargin, verMargin, horMargin, verMargin);
        newDocCmdData->SetNumPages(numPages);
        newDocCmdData->SetPagesPerSpread(numPagesPerSpread);
        // Create the new document.
        CmdUtils::ProcessCommand(newDocCmd);
    while (false);
LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl::~LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl()
void LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl::Startup()
void LTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl::Shutdown()
Below is the .fr file:
* Boss class definitions.
resource ClassDescriptionTable(kSDKDefClassDescriptionTableResourceID)
Class
  kLTestStartupShutdownServiceBoss,
  kInvalidClass,
  // Implementation of IStartupShutdownService
  IID_ISTARTUPSHUTDOWN, kLTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl,
  // Implementation to IK2ServiceProvider to identify the service type as startup-shutdown
  IID_IK2SERVICEPROVIDER, kLTestStartupShutdownServiceImpl,

Answer 1

Hi maddy,
I want to save the document to MyDocuments folder, I tried to look in IDocFileHandler but I can not get a function which takes path/name as input with docRef.
Can u suggest how can my document to disk?
I dont want user to enter any detail, the document just created should get saved on Disk with the use of some commands only.