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#1 2010-03-08 04:11:23 pm
Need a small fix InDesign Applescript
Hi,
I wrote a tiny script to turn any empty text boxes in an ID doc to Unassigned content.
Applescript:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell active document
set myTextframes to every text frame
repeat with i from 1 to count of myTextframes
if contents of text frame i = "" then
set (content type) of text frame i to unassigned
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
It works, except it always displays a message: Adobe InDesign CS3 got an error: Can't get contents of text frame (number) of active document. It doesn't matter to me, since I know that the script works. But someday I'd like to share this with others. Any idea why I get this error?
AppleScript: 2.11
Browser: Firefox 3.5.8
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)
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#2 2010-03-08 07:23:23 pm
- Marc Anthony
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- From: Dallas, TX
- Registered: 2006-04-27
- Posts: 178
Re: Need a small fix InDesign Applescript
Hi. You're looping through indexes and then altering their state; at some point, the item ceases to exist. You could avoid the error by looping in reverse, but this can be expressed without looping.
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#3 2010-03-08 08:08:48 pm
Re: Need a small fix InDesign Applescript
Without looping through the text frames you can use the following:
Applescript:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell active document
set (content type) of every text frame whose contents is "" to unassigned
end tell
end tell
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