PDF to InDesign script for FOLIOs

I have a number of back issues in which I wish to convert to digital using DPS. So I found this script that will save me weeks worth of work.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishingsuite/articles/dps-pdf-to-indesign.html
I am working with a 112 page magazine + cover.
When I limit the magazine down to 8 pages, this script works like a charm.
However, whenever I work with anything beyond 8 pages, the page orders go completely out of whack, the script doesn't import some pages and it's a mess.
I tried to reply to post a comment on this page, as others have done, to get in touch with the programmers who help people like me, but the page keeps saying sign in to post a comment - and I am already signed in and it won't let me post anything, no matter what browser I'm using.
I'm hoping someone can help me here.
Thanks.

Working with Derek directly did the trick!
The difficulty with the script is that it requires everything to be in "alphabetical order." What that means is that when you split the files in Acrobat into individual PDFs, everything needs to be in "alphabetical order" and Acrobat does not do that the way this script requires.
So Acrobat gives me 1_ISSUE24.pdf, 2_ISSUE24.pdf and if I had 9 pages, that wouldn't be an issue. But I had over 200 pages for a specific issue and when you get to page 10, you're no longer working in alphabetical order if the single page numbers don't have a 0 in front of them.
So if you have up to 99 pages, make sure every page with a single page number has a 0 in front of it, e.g. 01_ISUEE24.PDF
If you have up to 999 pages, make sure every page with a single page and double page number has two 0's in front it., e.g. 001_ISSUE24.PDF
Unless there's a program out there that will automatically put 0s in front of filenames for you, you have to do this manually, which is slightly time consuming. FAR LESS time consuming, however; than re-sizing everything yourself and doing this the old fashioned way with cut and paste, etc. etc. etc.
So the script is extremely helpful, it's free - you just have to have your page numbers numbered correctly.
Thank you, Derek, for your time and your help.

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Working with Derek directly did the trick!
The difficulty with the script is that it requires everything to be in "alphabetical order." What that means is that when you split the files in Acrobat into individual PDFs, everything needs to be in "alphabetical order" and Acrobat does not do that the way this script requires.
So Acrobat gives me 1_ISSUE24.pdf, 2_ISSUE24.pdf and if I had 9 pages, that wouldn't be an issue. But I had over 200 pages for a specific issue and when you get to page 10, you're no longer working in alphabetical order if the single page numbers don't have a 0 in front of them.
So if you have up to 99 pages, make sure every page with a single page number has a 0 in front of it, e.g. 01_ISUEE24.PDF
If you have up to 999 pages, make sure every page with a single page and double page number has two 0's in front it., e.g. 001_ISSUE24.PDF
Unless there's a program out there that will automatically put 0s in front of filenames for you, you have to do this manually, which is slightly time consuming. FAR LESS time consuming, however; than re-sizing everything yourself and doing this the old fashioned way with cut and paste, etc. etc. etc.
So the script is extremely helpful, it's free - you just have to have your page numbers numbered correctly.
Thank you, Derek, for your time and your help.

[JS][CS5] Enhancing Section 508 accessibility of pdfs from InDesign script

I was using a script to automate mapping styles to tags and tagging graphics as artifacts or as figures with Alt attributes for section 508 accessibility reasons, but in order to encourage use by designers, I wanted to add code to unlock all locked items in the document and then relock those items before the end of the script. Otherwise, the script would hang up when it encountered a locked item. I have an approach that seems to work, but is there a more elegant way of handling the locking and unlocking, especially for anchored and inline graphics?
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It creates all necessary tags in the tags palette if they do not already exist.
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Any graphic on a master page is tagged as an artifact.
Any graphic with a file name that contains either of two 4-character sequences, “art_” or “_art” (case insensitive) is also tagged as an artifact.
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d.layers.everyItem().locked = false;
d.pageItems.everyItem().locked = false;
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for ( var i = 0; i < markup_tag_names.length; i++ ) {
     zTag = d.xmlTags.itemByName( markup_tag_names[i] );
     if ( zTag.isValid ) continue;
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var p_tag = d.xmlTags.itemByName('P');
var figure_tag = d.xmlTags.itemByName( 'Figure' );
var artifact_tag = d.xmlTags.itemByName( 'Artifact' );
var root = d.xmlElements[0];
for ( var i = 0; i < d.allGraphics.length; i++ ) {
     g = d.allGraphics[i];
     pg = g.parentPage;
     if ( pg == null ) continue;
     isOnMaster = pg.parent.constructor.name == 'MasterSpread';
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Are you running this in a persistent engine?
Have you tried wrapping the myDisplayDialog() call in a try/catch block to see if it is throwing an error?
I can provide all the relevant scripts if necessary, but they're pretty convoluted. The most important one is the user input function. Here it is:
It's quite common that the convolutions are related to the problem. A good exercise is narrowing it down to a small reproducible test case without the convolutions, and often as not you may find the problem in the process. If not, well, at least you'll provide something to test with.

Indesign Script for placing excel-file

Hi all, I'm new to Indesign Scripting, and I'm hoping someone can help me with the following code:
All I want to do is:
open indesign file
open excel file
place excelfile as a table (with flow enabled)
save document & export as PDF
Thanks!
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            useTypographersQuotes = true;
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"I just loaded a table into a text frame but it still contains nothing". I wonder how I'd check that, actually.
@Jongware:
To prevent this situation you could set the max. allowed cell height below your min. text frame height.
If this is not applicable, because in some situations you cannot know the usable text frame height beforehand, you can iterate through all your set rows and check if the parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name property of the first insertionPoint of its first cell is defined. If it's undefined and your last text frames parentPage.name is not equal to the last defined parentPage.name of your check your table will remain overset.
Thinking about that method I must admit, that you can get a false positive, if a text wrap object on an applied master page comes into play…
So no, I see no fail-safe check for this situation.
Uwe

Indesign plugin for folio

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I have one tricky question on you. Iam developing plugin for InDesign, this plugin adds some functionality to indd file, this file is uploaded into cloud and folio is created. Folio is loaded to device (eg iPad, which is connected thru wifi to internet) and now i need this: when the button in folio is pressed i need to send http request on my server with ID of iPad. Is it possilbe to achieve this, by any means necessarry? (I have bad feeling that this couldn't be done... )
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Kind regards
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS9293e1fb3b977c5c7b1f65ad12f28224932-7f ff.html#WS9293e1fb3b977c5c7b1f65ad12f28224932-7ffb
I
have read this parts, but it doesnt work the whole way. For example the preview thing i mentioned.
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It didn't get attached to your posting, but I did receive your e-mail with the one page attachment and have posted it here. Looking at it with Acrobat, I see no problems at all unless you really blow up the logo beyond about 400% to 500%. It certainly doesn't look bad at all at small magnifications.
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Hi all,
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I am using File >> Export... to create the PDF document, and I am sure the PDF document is of the interactive type and not the print type. Am I exporting it incorrectly? Is there a specific step that I have missed somewhere? Do I need to create a Folio Build to make the Folio Overlays work?
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What we need to accomplish is importing the 408-page PDF file into InDesign,
then inserting the second 1-page 408 times PDF AFTER every page of the first
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> Larry
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The aim for me is to understand how elements are sorted and arranged into indesign, and be able to find an specific element by its item name.
The output document could be an xml or txt document with a treeview structure.
I would like have a rough idea of which kind of javascript code I should use for that.
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You can use Muse to create such a website. All you need to do is, create links in Muse for the sermons and select " link to File " in the hyperlink option and link to those Mp3 files.
Please refer to this screenshot :- http://prntscr.com/4xvdup
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Script for InDesign CS6 - create multiple, prenamed layers

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{ var layerName = ":: STRIPES"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
{ var layerName = ":: LEGAL"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
{ var layerName = ":: BLK BAR"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
{ var layerName = ":: FLAME"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
{ var layerName = ":: LOGO/TYPE"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
{ var layerName = ":: TRIM,ETC"; var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add(); myLayer.name = layerName; }
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Can anybody help me out!?
Thanks in advance

Marijan Tompa's scripts are very nice and useful, however, for this simple task you can try create your own wiht this code:
app.activeDocument.layers.add ({name: "GRADIENT", layerColor: UIColors.red});
app.activeDocument.layers.add ({name: "STRIPES", layerColor: UIColors.lightBlue});
app.activeDocument.layers.add ({name: "LEGAL", layerColor: UIColors.gray});
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var myLayerB = myDocument.layers.item(3);
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alert("Layers created!");
assume, your document has one layer.
Script creates three new layers, they appear in Scripts palette in this order:
LEGAL
STRIPES
GRADIENT
and merges 'old' layer to bottom layer of newly created set (GRADIENT).
sure, you can add as much layers as you need, just don't forget modify LayerA and LayerB numbers accordingly.
Or disable second part of the script at all, if you don't want anything to be merged.

Is there an updatedcrossrefs script for InDesign CS6

Running Mac Pro/2.66 GHz—Quad-Core Intel Xeon/Snow Leopard/
OS/Mac OS X Version 10.6.2/2.66 GHz
I converted a CS3 InDesign that uses the script "updatedcrossrefs.js", to CS6 InDesign. This file uses hyperlinks on the TOC and Index.
I tried using the same script for CS3 InDesign in CS6 InDesign but it does not work.
This is the error message "Could not catch page. Check destination names and existence."
Is there an updated script for CS6?

Sorry did not know I was using bold. My co-worker found this script however, she does not work here anymore. But here is the script. I know nothing about scripts except how to use them. Sorry.
// Updatecrossrefs.js
// Updates cross references made with hyperlinks
// the hyperlink destination is where the reference refers to
// the hyperlink sourcetext is the text that will be updated (like see xx)
// If a book is open, the book will be handled,
// if no book is open, the active document will be handled.
// Made by Teus de Jong, last version April 10, 2006
// Revisions by Dave Saunders January 22, 2006 and March 20, 2006
// Thanks Dave!
// Added unique naming mechanism for sources -- October, 2008
if (app.books.length == 0){
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                    errorExit('No documents are open');
          } else {
                    nrofdocs = 1;
                    doc = app.activeDocument;
} else {
          nrofdocs = app.books[0].bookContents.length;
          for (i = nrofdocs - 1; i > -1; i--) {
                    if (app.books[0].bookContents[i].status != BookContentStatus.documentIsOpen)
                              app.open(File(app.books[0].bookContents[i].fullName));
          doc = app.open(app.books[0].bookContents[0].fullName);
for (d = 1; d <= nrofdocs; d++){
          for (i = 0; i < doc.hyperlinks.length; i++){
                    hyper = doc.hyperlinks[i];
                      // leave ID's own internal markers alone
                    if (hyper.name.substring(0, 1) == '.'){continue}
                      // leave hyperlinks to URLs alone
                      try {
                              if (hyper.destination.constructor.name == 'HyperlinkURLDestination'){continue}
                    } catch (e) {
                              hyper.showSource();
                              errorExit('Selected hyperlink has undefined destination');
                    s = hyper.source.name;
                    // added October, 2008
                    // sometimes ID's unique name mechanism for sources fails; make sure the source has
                    // the same name as the hyperlink + '_src'
                    if (s != hyper.name + '_src')
                              hyper.source.name = hyper.name + '_src';
                    if (hyper.destination.constructor.name == 'HyperlinkTextDestination'){
                              s = getParentPageName(hyper.destination.destinationText);
                     } else {
                               // try/catch added to allow for hyperlinks that have lost their destination -- Dave
                               try {
                                          s = hyper.destination.destinationPage.name;
                                } catch (e) { continue }
                    if (s != ''){
                              // Check to see if update needed; saves a lot of time when processing large books -- Dave
                              if (hyper.source.sourceText.contents != s) {
                                        hyper.source.sourceText.contents = s;
          if (d >= nrofdocs){
                    break;
          doc = app.open(app.books[0].bookContents[d].fullName);
function getParentPageName(txt){
          try {
                    var myFrame = getParentTextFrame(txt);
                    var pag = myFrame.parent;
                    while (pag.constructor.name != 'Page'){
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                              if (pag.constructor.name == 'Character'){
                                        pag = getParentTextFrame(pag);
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                              if (pag.constructor.name == 'Application'){
                                        throw 'Error';
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                    return('');
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          if(app.version == 3){
                    return(x.parentTextFrame);
          else {
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function errorExit(s){
          alert(s);
          exit();

How to export book pdf using custom presets for all book files in indesign using javascript

How to export book pdf using custom presets for all book files in indesign using javascript.

Hi jackkistens,
Try the below js code.
Note: you can change your preset name in below (e.g, Your preset name).
var myBook = app.activeBook;
myBook.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, File (myBook.filePath+"/"+myBook.name.replace(/\.indb/g, ".pdf")), false, "Your preset name", myBook.bookContents, "Book_PDF", false);
example:
var myBook = app.activeBook;
myBook.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, File (myBook.filePath+"/"+myBook.name.replace(/\.indb/g, ".pdf")), false, "[High Quality Print]", myBook.bookContents, "Book_PDF", false);
thx,
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