Re: Strange InDesign script misbehavior
Re: Strange InDesign script misbehavior
- Subject: Re: Strange InDesign script misbehavior
- From: Roy McCoy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:31:08 +0200
Thanks, Rick. I'll be looking forward to looking through the new
version, especially if it contains a few more explanatory comments
hint hint.
Roy
On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Rick Gordon wrote:
Bingo!
I have the answer, and it is (ta-da):
Page width and page height are attributes made available by the
third-party plug-in Page Control by DTP Tools. That plug-in allows
the mixing of different page sizes (among other things) within a
single InDesign document.
I hadn't realized that I was accessing a non-standard attribute, and
will rewrite the script in a way that that's not required. I
actually had been planning on making the script more aware of of
Page Control, because if I wanted it to function properly in a
document with pages with multiple sizes (like every book cover I do
these days), a few more tweaks would be required.
Rick Gordon
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On 6/23/09 at 12:36 AM +0200, Roy McCoy wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Strange InDesign script misbehavior":
Håvard Graudo wrote:
Catch the error of the try block within the tell InDesign block.
The try block is royally long and you ignore any errors, so you
will not know what went wrong.
This is again the script at http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1107821/Convert guides to lines.scpt
. I'd already found out, through the placement of the beep, *where*
the problem apparently was:
set vWidth to page width of vPage
After commenting out "try" and "end try", I can see *what* the
problem apparently was:
Adobe InDesign CS3 [same in CS4] got an error:
Can't get page width of page id 198 of spread id 193
of document "Untitled-1CS3.indd".
I checked the class of vPage and it's page, so the problem with the
script seems to be that I can't get page width of a page. Anybody
have
any idea why the author of the script can but I can't?
Thanks,
Roy McCoy
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