Listing of script labels items in an array
hi,
i use this cript to list my selection and i want to put all this labal and ID in array.
if a create a array i dont know how put length of array because depend of documents and how many labels there are.
thanks........ :-(
function(){
var p = [];
for(var i = 0; i < app.selection.length; i++)
p.push("Object: " + app.selection[i].toSource() + " | Contents: " + app.selection[i].label)
return p;
}().join('\r'), "Adobe InDesign ver. (" + app.version + ")"
hi,
i use this cript to list my selection and i want to put all this labal and ID in array.
if a create a array i dont know how put length of array because depend of documents and how many labels there are.
thanks........ :-(
function(){
var p = [];
for(var i = 0; i < app.selection.length; i++)
p.push("Object: " + app.selection[i].toSource() + " | Contents: " + app.selection[i].label)
return p;
}().join('\r'), "Adobe InDesign ver. (" + app.version + ")"
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But i dont know how to save all the values [alert(("ID:" + myPgItems) in the script label.
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Please find the attachment for more information
Kindly give solution as soon.
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Ad 1.
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hello to all
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var myAsset=myDocument.pageItems.item("Logo"); does not work. I am wondering if using allPageItems might work however, I have not made anything that has worked yet. Like var myAsset=myDocument.allPageItems.PageItem("Logo"); If there are any ideas about this I would appreciate the help.Hi Gonterman,
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I've done a lot of scripting in InDesign and made quite a bit of use out of nearly everything's script label. Now I'm working on a template-oriented Illustrator project that will require I store information about each layer somewhere in the file... just a 1 or 2 word description that would have fit nicely in a script label. However, I discovered there are no script labels. Does anyone have a suggestion how I might store information in an .ai file that can be retrieved later by a different script? At the very least I want to be able to store the name of one of the root layers as the primary layer (position won't help in identifying the primary label). I looked into keywords and xmpdata, but I haven't been able to get it to store anything and I'm not quite sure it's going to be much help.
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