Adobe 65009333 - InCopy CS4 - PC Manual page 15

Getting Started
Term
Document
defaults
Document
elements
Document
events
Document
methods
Document
preferences
Document
properties
Documents
Libraries
Page
Page item
Pages or
spreads
Stories
Text objects
Looking at the InCopy object model
You can view the InCopy object model from inside your script-editing application. All reference
information on objects and their properties and methods is stored in the model and can be viewed,
To view the InCopy object model in the ExtendScript Toolkit, follow these steps:
1. Start the ExtendScript Toolkit.
2. Choose Help > InCopy CS4 Main Dictionary. The ExtendScript Toolkit loads the InCopy dictionary and
displays it in a separate window.
What it represents:
Document default settings, such as colors, paragraph styles, and text formatting
defaults.
For example, the stories, imported graphics, and pages of a document. The figure above
shows pages and stories, because those objects are extremely important containers for
other objects; however, document elements also include rectangles, ovals, groups, XML
elements, and any other type of object you can import or create.
Events that occur at the document level, such as importing text. See application events in
this table.
The actions the document can take; for example, closing a document, printing a
document, and exporting a document.
The preferences of a document, such as guide preferences, view preferences, or
document preferences.
For example, the document filename, number of pages, and zero-point location.
A collection of open documents.
A collection of open libraries.
One page in an InCopy document.
Any object you can create or place on a page. There are many types of page items, such
as text frames, rectangles, graphic lines, and groups.
The pages or spreads in an InCopy document.
The text in an InCopy document.
Characters, words, lines, paragraphs, and text columns are examples of text objects in an
InCopy story.
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