Comments on: Book to Document Script for InDesign CS3

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:15:12 +0000

I’m glad you got it worked out, sorry you had such trouble! I did go back and remove all the spaces from the script. Maybe that was the problem? Not sure.

By: S.P. Sarasvati

S.P. Sarasvati — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:57:31 +0000

I finally found my way back to the original forum and copied and pasted the script there. This seemed to work fine. Thank you.

By: S.P. Sarasvati

S.P. Sarasvati — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:43:25 +0000

Thank you Rainer for the suggestion. However, when I click on your link I get the error “Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage.” I have been trying for awhile and don’t know if the site is having some problems, or there is something wrong with the address. i.e.,I see other characters at the end of the addres line which are not highligted, i.e. !skip=0 What do those mean? My internet connection seems fine since I can go to other sites.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:31:57 +0000

Go to the original forum:

http://forum.adobe.com/webx/.3bc3c645!skip=0

then take post 33

there is the original script which is running

By: S.P. Sarasvati

S.P. Sarasvati — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:59:08 +0000

I am working with Windows OS and am following the instructions on this website. I opened the ExtendScript Toolkit 2, and pasted the script that I copied from this site, into the toolkit’s window pane. It looks like the screen shot shown on this site. I then saved it to the same location as per the instructions, using the same name (BooktoDocument.jsx). So I am not sure what else to do.
I have one suggestion. Your instructions start out by saying to open the ExtendScript Toolkit 2. It would be nice if you tell the reader where this utility is located. It may be known to other users but I could not locate it until I happened to ask an Adobe person via an email when I posted a bug report for the Indexing problem.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:14:45 +0000

The spaces shouldn’t matter, but where are you trying to paste it exactly? You should just be pasting it in a simple text editor program and saving it out as a .jsx file. If you are using something like TextEdit on the mac, make sure it really isn’t saving it as an .rtf file as is it’s default.

By: S.P. Sarasvati

S.P. Sarasvati — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:43:02 +0000

There is one more thing I forgot to mention and since I really don’t know much about scripts I am not sure if it’s important. But when I pasted the script into the ExtedScript Toolkit it added a space after each line. Does this matter? And if so, how do you stop it from doing it?

By: S.P. Sarasvati

S.P. Sarasvati — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:37:28 +0000

I have tried running the script today (10-2-07) and got the same error #25 as Luc got. Except my Source line says: if(app.books.length > 0){
The offending text:;
I have 24 files in my Book list. I tried removing some to see if it worked but it did not.

By: chriscoyier

chriscoyier — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:45:28 +0000

NOTICE: The post has been updated to fix the script. There was a missing // on the first line (to comment it) which was probably what was causing the error you all were having.

Copying and Pasting the entire script above should have no problems now.

By: chriscoyier

chriscoyier — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:44:20 +0000

Hey Adam and Luc,

We’re going to look into this problem. Something may have gone wonky when we posted the script, we’ll take a look and let you know as soon as we can.