RE: INDESIGN: Hyperlinks Question
RE: INDESIGN: Hyperlinks Question
- Subject: RE: INDESIGN: Hyperlinks Question
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:58:52 -0800
Never mind. I misread the result list, which was so verbose that I didn't see the forest for the trees.
Rick Gordon
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On 12/1/08 at 4:33 PM -0800, Rick Gordon wrote in a message entitled
"INDESIGN: Hyperlinks Question":
>I noticed in an InDesign CS3 document containing a generated table of contents, that in addition to the 3 hyperlink URL references in the document, which show up in the Hyperlinks panel, the script returns an additional hyperlink for each TOC entry. The class of the destination of those hyperlinks is hyperlink external page destination.
>
>So I wanted to write a script that would allow me to differentiate between those two types. First doing a relity check, I set up the following script:
>
>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
> tell active document
> set vDestList to destination of hyperlinks
> set vURLs to {}
> repeat with vItem in vDestList
> tell vItem
> if class is hyperlink URL destination then
> set end of vURLs to class
> end if
> end tell
> end repeat
> return vURLs
> end tell
>end tell
>
>It did what I expected, and produced a list of three class references. However, if I changed the portion within the repeat loop to the following:
>
> tell vItem
> if class is hyperlink URL destination then
> set end of vURLs to it
> end if
> end tell
>
>... then the list contains references to all 50-something hyperlinks, not just the three that are URL references. Changing the "it" to an explicit reference does not change things, nor does making the condition into:
>
> if class is hyperlink URL destination and class is not hyperlink external page destination
>
>Why? And why are the TOC hyperlinks, if they are considered as such, not showing up in the Hyperlinks panel?
>
>(Now if I were in Nevada, and could bet on who probably has the answer, I might be able to come out ahead here.)
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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