Table Of Contents - Adobe 27510753 - InDesign CS2 - PC Manual

Adobe InDesign CS2 Scripting Guide
Contents
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Introduction ................................................................. 1
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Scripting Basics ........................................................... 5
What is in this book ...................................................................................................... 1
Who should read this book ........................................................................................ 1
What you need to use scripting ............................................................................... 1
JavaScript .....
Macintosh ....
Windows ......
How to use the scripts in this document .............................................................. 2
Copying examples with long lines ..................................................................................... 3
Running JavaScript files ......................................................................................................... 3
Where to find more information .............................................................................. 3
InDesign online scripting resources .................................................................................. 4
Introduction to scripting ............................................................................................ 5
What is scripting? ...................................................................................................................... 5
Why use scripting? ................................................................................................................... 6
What about macros? ................................................................................................................ 6
Making script files readable ....................................................................................... 7
Commenting the script .......................................................................................................... 7
Continuing long lines in AppleScript and VBScript ..................................................... 7
Continuing long lines in JavaScript .................................................................................... 7
Objects and classes ...................................................................................................... 8
Objects .........
Object references ..................................................................................................................... 8
Values and variables ..................................................................................................... 9
Values ............
Variables .....
Variable names ........................................................................................................................ 11
Assigning values to variables ............................................................................................. 11
Array variables .........................................................................................................................12
Converting values from one type to another .............................................................. 12
Finding the value type of a variable ................................................................................13
Operators ....................................................................................................................... 14
Methods ......................................................................................................................... 14
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