Structure textframe indesign
hi
i use cs ext builder 2 and i develop an indesign extension.
do u know how to retrieve the structure of a textframe (paragraphe > paragraphe > table....) content. i want to know where is a table in a textframe...
thanks
Simon
If you want to get a collection of all tables which starts in a text frame you'd do something like this: myTextFrame.tables. However, this will not find tables continued from a previous text frame. For that you need to work backwards and infer it from the textframes the table occupies (assuming there is one).
For InDesign-specific questions like this, the InDesign Scripting forum is a better place to ask: http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scripting
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0 ??? 0xa00650d8 _XHNDL_trapback_instruction + 0
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2 com.adobe.Writer for Text 0x353c7f94 ResetWriterInstance() + 820
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4 com.adobe.Writer for Text 0x353c4884 0x353c1000 + 14468
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eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x242ca047 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0xbfffd2a3
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x2ed9cc30 ebp: 0xbfffd0b8 esp: 0xbfffce70
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0xa00650d8 cs: 0x00000017
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2 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel 0x248d1263 0x248d0000 + 4707
3 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel 0x248d2a76 0x248d0000 + 10870
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I am using Indesign CC to create a 1200 page catalog. The data is imported in via an XML document with tagged elements. I am struggling to get the information to show up in the Topics/Reference area of the Index Tab. Is there a way to link the tagged elements of the structure panel with the Index Tab to create an index without having to indivually double-click on each word that I'd like added to the Index. I was told by a colleague of mine that the XML structure in Indesign was only there for layout and linking styles and that it is not used to link information to the Index Tab to help generate an index.
i ran into the similar issue. what i'm doing as a work around is to hack the Table of Content functionality to generate an index, and the Index function to generate a table of content. it worked quite well for me, but i only have to deal with a 200 page catalog, not 1200.
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Indesign Comparing XML Structure
Can Anyone help me ?????
I have wasted a lot time in this query with no result please help me to achieve my desired output.
i want to display all XmlAttributes of a xml structure in a TextFrame of indesign CS4 that match the following conditions :-
1) for a selected Character Style ( KT), XmlAttribute of one document(i.e CHAPTER ) must have same value as other document(GLOSSARY) that is being compared. then keywords with same id & olinkend would be displayed in a text frame.
snapshot 1 shows chapter with highlighted keyterm & its olinkend (which to be used for comparison).
snapshot 2 shows Xml Structure of Glossary with highlighted glossentry & its id
Snapshot 3 shows Xml Structure of chapter(containing keyterm its olinkend)
Snapshot 4 shows Xml Structure of chapter(containing glossary)
in above snapshot pathology,etiology,pathogenesis,infection and disease have same olinkend(keyterm in chapter) and id (glossentry in glossary) but Human Microbiome Project do not have different id & olinkend so its not a keyterm. it should not be displayed in text frame with keyterms but somehow it is tagged wrongly as KT .we dont want it to b displayed.
my text frame displayed it as
i want a javascript code to display only keyterms in a text frame( in active document i.e. chapter )where keyterm olinkend = glossentry id and finally save the data to excel file .
i have taken this code from ADOBE FORUM plz modify this to achieve my output.
var myDc =app.activeDocument;
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var myDia = app.dialogs.add({name:"Character Style Display Menu", canCancel:true});
with(myDia.dialogColumns.add()){
with(borderPanels.add()){
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HOPE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MY QUERY.
THANX
WAITING FOR REPLY.Could Peter or someone move this to the scripting forum, please?
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Would like to create a script for list all elements and structure of an indesign document
Hello everybody,
I'm a very beginner in indesign scripting.
I would like to create a script in order to list all elements and the inner structure of a n indesign document.
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.
Thanks for answers.Hi Ossydoc,
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
Now, when you publish your site, Muse would automatically upload those files onto the server and the users would then be able to listen as well as download those sermons using the links on your site.
Hope this helps
Regards,
Rohit Nair -
Page number of linked textframe in indesign document
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My indesign document has linked pages 1 - 10 (ie., linked textframes). I want to take page number of selected text from 5th page., which textframe is linked textframe of 1st page. When i use the following code for findpage, its returning the page no 1 instead of 5.
Kindly reply for me...
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Structure inDesign document and export as XML for use in the web
Hello everyone,
I just recently started using inDesign and I am fascinated by its possibilities! I use it for a project where a finished inDesign layout that is used for a printed publication is now supposed to be transformed for implementing it on a web site. My job is to export the inDesign document as an XML file. After massive reading the last weeks I'm quite familiar with the structuring and tagging in inDesign. Though there's some issues I do not understand. Your precious advice would be of highest meaning to me
The programmer who will later use my XML output for the web-transformation needs the document structured in different levels like "Root > Chapter > Subchapter > Text passage / table". I already structured the document with tags like title, text passage, table, infobox,... but the structure is just linear, putting one item following to another.
How can I structure the document with reoccuring tags that enable me to identify the exact position of an item in the document's structure? So that I can say for example "text passage X" is located in chapter 4, subchapter 1. This has to be done because the document is supposed to be updated later on. So maybe a chapter gets modified and has to be replaced, but this replacement is supposed to be displayed.
I hope my problem becomes clear! That's my biggest issue for now. So for any help I'd be very thankful!Our print publications are created in InDesign CS5 for Mac then the text is exported to RTF files then sent to an outside company to be converted to our XML specifications for use by our website developers. I would like to create a workflow in which our XML tags are included in the InDesign layouts and then export the XML from the layouts.
Some more detail about what kind of formatting is necessary might be helpful.
I know that IDML files contain the entire layout in XML format. Is it a good idea to extract what we need from IDML, using the already-assigned tags?
Well, if you want to export the whole document, it's the only reasonable approach.
We use a workflow system such that each story is a seperate InCopy document, stored in ICML format (Basically a subset of IDML). Our web automation uses XSLT to convert each story into HTML for use on our web site; it also matches it up with external metadata so it knows what is a headline and what is not, etc.. It is not exactly hassle free, and every once in a while someone uses a new InDesign feature that breaks things (e.g., our XSLT has no support for paragraph numbering, so numbered paragraphs show up without their numbers).
You could do the same thing with with IDML, you'd just have to pick out each story, but that's small potatoes compared to all the XSL work you're going to have to do.
On the other hand, there may be better approaches if you're not going to export the whole document. For instance, you could use scripting to export each story as an RTF file, and then you could convert the RTF files into HTML using other tools.
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