Placing a snippet

How can I make a simple script that places a spesific InDesign snippet in the document, at cursor point?
Just like when draging a snippet in to a document.
Im on a Mac

@David André – populate the placeGun with a file (one IDMS file) or with an array of files (more than one IDMS files).
In ExtendScript terms something like the snippets below (dummy code, will not run before defining the variables myEntireFilePath1 etc.):
For more than one file to be placed use an array:
var myFileArray = [myEntireFilePath1, myEntireFilePath2, myEntireFilePath3];
app.documents[0].placeGuns.loadPlaceGun(myFileArray);
One file example:
var myFile = File(myEntireFilePath1);
app.documents[0].placeGuns.loadPlaceGun(myFile);
Also see:
http://jongware.mit.edu/idcs6js/pc_PlaceGun.html
Uwe

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"Live Snippets" an idea sculpted out from a giant project.

Hi, all the enthusiastic members
I intend to distribute an open source and free script collection, that lets the user to export a selected text to an Incopy file and observing and synchronising the relation between the exported file and its instances inside the indesign document in a semi-automatic way. And that by the following scripts:
http://sites.google.com/site/livesnippet/javascript-files
live_snippets_startup.jsx - has finished.
Initiate the dialogs and the essential styles, elements and variables to be ready for the other scripts.
new_from_the_selection.jsx - has finished.
This export the selected text (and only the selected - not the story) as a new InCopy file to a folder called "live_snippets" inside the document's parent folder. These InCopy files named automatically with four digits like this file "live_snippet.0006.incx".
The selected text enclosed with starting and ending marks by adding small anchored text frames with nonprinting attribute and labeling these text frames with the snippet number (the number of the Incopy file).
check_the_document.jsx - has finished.
Check and states of the instances with their Incopy files. and mark the modified and missing snippets by spoiling the font style of the starting anchored text frame contents so they appear in the preflight panel. And changing the colors of the modified snippet to blue and missing ones with red.
submit_this_modification.jsx - hasn't finished yet.
Modify the snippet (the Incopy file) by re-exporting the instance that the text cursor inside it.
update_this_instance.jsx - I haven't started with it.
placing the snippet (the Incopy file) to update the selected instance (by selecting the starting anchored text frame or by putting the text cursor inside the snippet.
place_snippet.jsx - I haven't started with it.
place a snippet in the text cursor location without having to browse to the live_snippets folder (only getting the snippet number is enough).
I will continue until the collection reach a perfect stage and has a comprehensive abilities.
The current features:
You can choose to place the snippet so the instance follow it with formatting or without formatting.
You can add a description to the snippet which stored in the file meta data.
Intended features:
You can nested the snippets so it's possible to exclude partitions from the snippet to be in variety. Also in this feature you can change the order of the sub-snippets inside their parent so the global layout and the decorative elements could be changed permanantly and easily.
I want to put these files on an online service (the google site is temporarily) , web site or forum so we can make our modification, online read and write code, supply our comments on the code lines and functions level, showing the downloads count, tracing the versions...
So, is it available in this forum tools, because I tried to add the files from New>Document in my forum page and faced with a forbidden message.
Also I hope if any one see that this approach is an unnecessary repeating of existing InDesign tools or plugins already in the market. Please tell me.
When creating. The "With Format" option is set as default but you can change it for every instance (Not done yet) to its own option.
These anchored text frames have nonprinting attribute, but we could print it by modifying the export or print options in reviewing stages so the numbers can be used as a reference in emails and broadly modifications
When the achieve the ability to nested the snippets so we can in this question example change the points and assure that all questions have the same wording.
The small circle indicate that the instances shares only the contents without the format.
The Incopy files created automatically without the need to specify the location or name.

What about if we put the marker on a separate layer to assure that the text will not be spoiled. How could we do that?
Is it possible to use tags in the text and a text frames in a separate layer for showing the instances informations.
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Snippets: CS3 vs CS2

We're just moving up to CS3 from CS2.
In CS2, when I placed a snippet it was automatically placed in the position where it was when created. In CS3, I get a loaded cursor that wants me to click. In looking at InDesign help, I found there is a new preference under "file handling" that I THOUGHT would help, but it does not. I changed the preference setting to "position at original location", but I still have to click for the snippet to place.
I know it seems like it's not a big deal, but we have a script that places a snippet (among doing other things) and I really don't want it to stop for the user to click. They're used to things just showing up where they're supposed to be.
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Lisa

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Snippet resource definitions don't update

Please help, InDesign is not behaving the way I expect it to do.
When exporting a snippet with styling that is controlled solely by an object style (I've been careful to check for any stray local formatting), I've tried placing said snippets into a destination document that's got updated versions of said object styles in place.
Once the snippet lands, it doesn't adopt the destination document's style definitions, but instead retains the styling it was saved with as an override. Does anyone know why this occurs, as it's contrary to what's stated in Adobe's help documentation.
Thanks

@Mijburgh – that could be a complicated case.
Can you tell us more?
What exactly are the overrides?
Is the document where you place the snippet from the same version of InDesign where you exported the snippet?
What exact version of InDesign and OS are you using?
I would question the "soleley" in "is controlled soleley" if it comes to formatting and object styles.
Could you make the snippet available for testing on Dropbox service (or something similar)?
At least post some screenshots where we can see the deviations in formatting.
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Uwe

Print a report

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how can i print all the pages without this problem

I think it is possible by placing a snippet of java on your page.
I've used [ and ] to avoid problems in displaying this thread.
[a href="JavaScript:window.print();">print</a]
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Ton

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a bit basic maybe but I'm stuck on this from an hour...
I need a textFrame to become a graphic object.
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This looked like an interesting challenge, so I'm taking a shot at it. I created a new document and added three text frames (unpopulated) to the first page. I tagged them "Image", "Caption" and "credit". I then exported as a snippet, deleted the document and opened another new one. Then I placed the snippet (so far, everything has been manual -- no scripts) and indeed, the snippet placed and the frames were added to the document's structure and were properly tagged -- the three tags were automatically created by the action of placing the snippet.
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var myPlacePoint = [myPage.marginPreferences.left, myPage.marginPreferences.top];
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if (mySnippetFile == null) { exit() }
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for (var j = mySnippet.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
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var myDoc = app.documents.add();
var myPage = myDoc.pages[0];
var myPlacePoint = [myPage.marginPreferences.left, myPage.marginPreferences.top];
var mySnippetFile = File.openDialog("Choose the snippet");
if (mySnippetFile == null) { exit() }
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for (var j = mySnippet.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
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And that does the job.
Thomas,
You were very close but you forgot that the text frames that make up a story are addressed as textContainers from CS3 onwards. Your code would have worked in CS2.
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Hello all,
I am new to programming. I’ve dabbled with VB.NET at times over the years but this is the first time I’m trying C#. Although, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done any type of programming other than writing SQL queries at work. For the sake of trying to
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above are resolved. Any assistance / guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here’s the code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Exccel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using System.IO;
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    public
partial
class
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SqlDataAdapter sqlDA;
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EventArgs e)
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private
void btnLoad_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
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string sqlQry =
"SELECT * FROM Acct ORDER BY Name, PaymentDate";
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SqlConnection(sqlCon);
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void btnExport_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
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Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
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Dave
David Young

Hello again Kristin,
I tried the code snippet to include the headers in the Excel file but it didn't work for me. Maybe I put the code in the wrong place? Again I have put the code below including where I placed the snippet. I get no error message and the application runs. Am
I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Dave
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Exccel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using System.IO;
namespace Bills_DB_DataGridView
    public partial class Form1 : Form
        SqlCommand sqlCMD;
        SqlDataAdapter sqlDA;
        SqlCommandBuilder sqlCB;
        DataSet sqlDS;
        DataTable sqlDT;
        public Form1()
            InitializeComponent();
        private void btnExit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
            this.Close();
        private void btnLoad_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
            string sqlCon = "Data Source = localhost\\DAVE_DB; Initial Catalog=Bills;Integrated security = true;";
            string sqlQry = "SELECT * FROM Acct ORDER BY Name, PaymentDate";
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            connection.Open();
            sqlCMD = new SqlCommand(sqlQry, connection);
            sqlDA = new SqlDataAdapter(sqlCMD);
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            sqlDS = new DataSet();
            sqlDA.Fill(sqlDS, "Acct");
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            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
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                    xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, 2].EntireColumn.NumberFormat = "@"; //Format column 2 to text
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            releaseObject(xlWorkSheet);
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        private void releaseObject(object obj)
            try
                System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);
                obj = null;
            catch (Exception ex)
                obj = null;
                MessageBox.Show("Exception Occured while releasing object " + ex.ToString());
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                GC.Collect();
David Young

[JS CS6] paste onto active document from external .indd

Hey everyone, i'm at a complete loss with this, tried loads of examples from this forum etc and cant get anywhere so i've given up!
All i'm trying to acheive is to prompt the user for a code, then that refrences an indesign file in a folder, this is all working ok, we have a variable called BMDFile with a full file path ready to go, but I can't figure out how to get this file on a currently open document in an editable format.
I just want it to paste from an indesign file onto this empty doc
I'm trying to edit this example from the forum now...
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var doc2 = app.documents[0]; // paste to
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Unfortuately the Workflow setup here (that I cant change is)
Designer accepts a job for a customers ad with other software we use, it creates a blank indesign template with the correct name in the correct place with correct colour settings etc
It opens that blank document in InDesign and the designer makes the ad
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I just wanted to script:
Designer has the automatic blank template up, sees its a repetative ad
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Script pastes the almost fully made ad on the template for them
If indesign cant do this, i'm probably better off scripting windows to find out where these files are saves and copy a pre-saved template into the relevant folder with the new name (if i can find out how its generated) and then open that. But this means the designer would be shutting down a blank template, running a script then opening it, not very intuative. I was thinking of a library but only one user can work on it at a time, so not ideal. Placing a Snippet DOES work, leaving editable objects, but to update a snippet seems to be a lot of unnecessary clicks if it could just remain an .indd that anyone could go in and update as necessary
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Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone has had "issues" when opening an .idml file in cs6
which was saved out of InDesign CC.
More specifically, the following:
Some image links acquire an Opacity Effect of 43%.
And not every image in the file — only a handful (10 out of 50) images.
The (original) InDesign CC file has their opacity set at 100% (ie - no transparency applied at all)
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Laubender wrote:
@Lester – can you check, if the same problem occurs with IDMS files (Snippets) in InDesign CC ?
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IDMS is directly related to IDML. It uses the same properties and XML structure.
Just for testing purposes…
Hm. Your workaround is really no workaround. It is a dead end…
Uwe
@Laubender
I selected one of the problematic images in cc, exported as idms. Then, created a new page in cs6 and placed that snippet file. It did not acquire the 43% opcaity. I'm not positive I did exactly what you were suggesting...or if this info is helpful.
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Hi,
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