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• Create the Excel using Indesign javascript file

  Hi all

  We can create csv file using indesign javascript. Is there a way to create excel file using indesign javascript?

  Thanks in advance

  Hi all

  It is a way to generate an Excel from an InDesign table by using a combination of jsx, vbs and applescript.

  Quite a long discussion on that Open with below is a better application of the suggestions here.

  // Exports SIMPLE tables to proper excel file single and double quotes in the table would have to be escaped on the Mac version
  // Does not take Unicode file names
  // with a bit of brain racking can be developed to deal with merged cells and nested tables
  // Pieced together by Trevor (wwww.creative-scripts.com coming soonish) based on the referenced sources
  // Sold AS IS https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1718021
  
  var doc = app.properties.activeDocument && app.activeDocument,
         myTable = myTable || getTable (doc);
  if (!myTable) {alert ("Take a break, needs a document with a table in it!"); exit();};
  var filePath = new File (Folder.temp + "/" + +new Date + ".xlsx"),
      osFilePath = filePath.fsName;
  if ($.os[0] === "M")  osFilePath =  osFilePath.replace(/(.)(\/)/g,"$1:").replace(/\//, "");
  
  exportTable (myTable, osFilePath);
  if (confirm ("Open new excel file")) filePath.execute(false);
   exit()
  function exportTable (myTable, filePath)
      {
          var  numberOfRows = myTable.rows.length,
                 rowNumber, columnNumber,
                 isMac = $.os[0] === "M",
                 rowContents = [],
                 setRange, openMark, closeMark;
  
          if (isMac)
              {
                  setRange = 'set value of range "A';
                  openMark = '" to {';
                  closeMark = '}';
              }
          else
              {
                  setRange = 'app.Range("A';
                  openMark = '") = Array(';
                  closeMark = ')';
              }
  
  for (var z = 0, rowNumber = 0; rowNumber < numberOfRows; rowNumber++) {
      var  numberOfColumns = myTable.rows[rowNumber].columns.length,
              toRange = GetExcelColumnName (numberOfColumns - 1),
              columnContents = [];
       for (columnNumber = 0; columnNumber < numberOfColumns; columnNumber++) {
           var cellContents = myTable.rows[rowNumber].cells.everyItem().contents;
           columnContents  = '"' + cellContents.join('", "') + '"';
       }
      rowContents[rowNumber] = setRange + ++z  + ":"  + toRange+ z + openMark  + columnContents + closeMark;
  }
  
  var tableData = rowContents.join("\n") + "\n";
  
                 if (isMac)
                      {
                          // Thanks Hans https://forums.adobe.com/message/5607799#5607799
                         var myAppleScript =
                          '''set excelRunning to isRunning("Microsoft Excel")
                             tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                             set theWorkbook to make new workbook
                             tell sheet (1) of theWorkbook'''
                             + tableData + '''
                             end tell
                             save workbook as theWorkbook filename "''' + filePath + '''"
                             close active workbook
                             if not excelRunning then tell application "Microsoft Excel" to quit
                             end tell
                             on isRunning(appName)
                                  tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
                             end isRunning
                          ''';
                        app.doScript (myAppleScript, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE);
                      }
  
                  else
                      {
                          // Thanks Calos https://forums.adobe.com/message/5607799#5607799
                          // changed by me :-)
                           var vbscript =
                           '''Dim app
                              Set app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
                              'take away the ' from the line below if you want to see excel do it's stuff
                              'app.visible = true
                              Dim newDoc, sheet
                              Set newDoc = app.Workbooks.Add()
                              Set sheet = newDoc.Worksheets(1)
                              '''
                              + tableData
                              + 'newDoc.SaveAs "' + filePath + '''"
                              app.Quit
                              Set newDoc = nothing
                              Set app = nothing
                            ''';
                          app.doScript (vbscript, ScriptLanguage.VISUAL_BASIC);
                      }
  
              }
  
  function GetExcelColumnName (columnNumber) {// 0 is A 25 is Z 26 is AA etc.
      // parsed from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/181596/how-to-convert-a-column-number-eg-127-into-an-excel-column-eg-aa
       var dividend = columnNumber + 1,
              columnName = "",
              modulo;
  
      while (dividend > 0)  {
          modulo = (dividend - 1) % 26;
          columnName = String.fromCharCode (65 + modulo) + columnName;
          dividend = Math.floor((dividend - modulo) / 26);
      }
      return columnName;
  }
  
  function getTable (doc) { // thanks Marc http://forums.adobe.com/message/6087322#6087322
      if (!doc) return false;
      app.findTextPreferences = null;
      app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "\x16";
      var tables = doc.findText();
      if (tables.length) return tables[0].parentStory.tables[0];
      return false;
  };
  

• create a color in a color group

  Hello

  I have create a color in the swatch Panel, that ok, I create a color Group (colorGroups js), ok for. But I want to create a color to color group and can't find a code for that js. Maybe I need to create a color and remove within a color group after?

  Can anyone help?

  Thant much.

  Hi, try this example.

  //@target "indesign-10"
  
  var doc = app.documents.add();
  var color_group = doc.colorGroups.add({name:"CG"});
  
  var ref_swatch = doc.colors.add({
    model: ColorModel.PROCESS,
    space: ColorSpace.CMYK,
    colorValue: [100,50,0,0],
    name: "ref_swatch"}
  );
  
  var color_group_swatch = color_group.colorGroupSwatches.add(ref_swatch);
  
  $.writeln([
    color_group_swatch.swatchItemRef.colorValue,
    color_group_swatch.swatchItemRef.name
  ]);
  
  // => [[100,50,0,0],"ref_swatch"]
  

  Thank you

  mg.

• I need to create a PDF from InDesign file that people can change in Reader or Acrobat

  I need to create a PDF from InDesign file that people can change (for example, change a name of 'John' to 'Johnny') of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. I already looked at forms, but they do not keep your police, faces and sizes colors and just do everything is selected as a form of black text, 12pt, Times New Roman.

  Can anyone here help me?

  Vincent,

  If you use Acrobat pro, build your .pdf file, and then save it as (french version):

  

  ... so that everyone using Acrobat Reader (or Pro, of course) can change the file .pdf (with restrictions), add comments...

  If you want to try to 'protect' your .pdf file, you can try with this (in the menu 'Preferences' (french version)):

  

• create a color picker

  Hello

  How could I create a color picker inserted in a window?

  Thank you

  Fred

  Hello

  I remember this one looked more complicated than it is.

  The color picker is not a real after effects user interface, but it's an OS user interface. Is not in the SDK of EI, but in the SDK of ExtendScript (JavaScript Tools Guide)

  $.colorPicker (name)

  name: the color to be shortlisted in the dialog, as an RGB hex (0xRRGGBB) value, or - 1 for the default value of the platform.

  Return number

  defaultColor var = 0xff0000;

  var color = $.colorPicker (defaultColor);

  This is!

• Whenever I try to create a text box indesign automatically for me and place the text in the middle.

  Whenever I try to create a text box indesign automatically for me and place the text in the middle. I can get the text moves if I play with the object ' menu ' detected block options, but it does every time. "

  Hello, welcome to the forum of InDesign. I'm a different Steve.

  What version of InDesign are you using? What operating system do you use?

  Tell us exactly how you create your text box (frame).

  The easiest way is to choose the tool of Type (T). Click and drag an image where you want to go.

  But, if you place the text to another program like Microsoft Word, click file > Place. Select the file and click Open. Drag-and-drop placement of text cursor to position it on the page.

• Create a form in Indesign: text endangered field borders

  I hope someone can help! I create many forms in Indesign. I have a problem with the field borders when it is exported to PDF format.

  I set up the form fields in the Indesign Document as a graphic frames with a keyline in black 0.5pt, these are integrated in the main text of the page. These are then converted to text fields through the palette of "buttons and forms. Export pdf as an interactive pdf file.

  When first I look at the pdf file in Acrobat (or drive), it's fine.

  

  However, after typing in some examples of data some of the border disappears. I tried the form of compensation, but they are not always visible.

  

  Zoom in and out does not work. I tried to align the rule with the inside/outside/Center of the frame, it makes no difference. I tried setting the fields as floating on the page, does not work. The only solution I found is to set the border to 1pt - but it makes the very heavy form. Is there a way around this, or is 1 pt line width minimum that will work in this type of document?

  If anyone has any bright ideas that would be wonderful! Thank you.

  Unfortunately, there's really nothing you can do to control the display of the border of the form fields with borders .5pt, I see the same results as you.

• How is - what cut you a rectangle in 2 colors with a diagonal from top to bottom?  Once I draw a diagonal with the online tool I am at loss to create 2 color split?

  How is - what cut you a rectangle in 2 colors with a diagonal from top to bottom?  Once I draw a diagonal with the online tool I am at loss to create 2 color split?

  Rosemary,

  A simple way would be to:

  (1) give the rectangle a color, then Ctrl > Cmd + C + F;

  (2) use the direct Selection tool, and then deselect (click and empty space), then click on the opposite corner to the part where you want to keep the color, then press DELETE, then change the fill color to the other.

  Or, you can ClickDrag with the line tool along the diagonal line from corner to corner (guides are your friends), select it all and Pathfinder > divide, then select live from the triangle where you want to change the color and change.

• I often struggle to create single quotes in Indesign :-(

  I often struggle to create single quotes in Indesign, I think that it is something simple that a pressing need to set, see attached, someone can advise?

  It is not a police problem.

  

  Form of apostrophe in InDesign is related to the language applied to your text - and quite rightly, because each language has its own preferences for quotation mark and apostrophe characters.

  It really seems that you type English, and yet you said InDesign that this text is in French.

• I created a 22 page Indesign document and I am wanting to place it in muse as a book. How can I do this

  I created a 22 page Indesign document and I am wanting to place it in muse as a book. How can I do to do that.

  Its a simple 22-page document. Back to Earth with a yellow area single text on each page, such as a previous/next button on the bottom. I'm hoping to put it in muse on one page, instead of having to do an absurdly long page in muse. I want the next/previous buttons to work as well.

  Inside of InDesign, I have already selected "Digital Publishing", but am stuck now on what to do.

  I use Creative Cloud 2015 for Muse and InDesign.

  Any help will be appreciated. Once the Adobe online chat is open again, I will discuss with them, but by then, I expect to get help on the forum.

  You can try to use the composition for this where containers will include content and the triggers can include thumbnail images.

  Thank you

  Sanjit

• Import a flat .psd or laminates gives different colors in InDesign

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  When in Photoshop the background layer is double clicked (to make a layer), and the file is saved without any change.

  the colors in InDesign seem dull (as if there is some sort of current CMYK simulation).

  This happens with all the other images on the page where it is placed.

  On other pages, the flat file still looks raw and RGB - ish, but as soon as a layered file is added, the colors change.

  As soon as I delete the image in layers, colors go back to high heat. Sometimes in Print, Web, and Digital Publishing mode.

  I don't want any of this! (I use InDesign to make a presentation to the screen, and I like the look of the RGB image, but who are Cinema 4 d returns, I need a few institutions overlay)

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• Using a LinearGradient CSS to create a color - LookUpTable

  I have a list of the values of procentual and I want the entries in a table view according to the values in this list of colors. So I want to use the colors defined by a lineargradient inside the style sheet.
  
  So, I need something like this:
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  3. set the styleclass according to for the line
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  How can I implement step 4? Or is there another possibility to create a color look up table from a css gradient?

  Unfortunately, your solutions do not include the lineargradient to read starting from the style sheet.

  You already know how to do that because you posted the css for the style sheet in this thread.

  Is it possible to create a non-Visual lineshape with the styleclass gradient and use the Pixelreader to get the colors according to the pixelposition him?

  Yes. Create a component, set the values for the default size on this subject, apply your style sheet to it, place it in a scene newly created, that you place on a stage, take a snapshot of the scene and use the pixel reader to search for a pixel in the desired location in the snapshot.

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  The white line can be created by using the rotation tool or the transform command. In both cases, the degrees of rotation is determined by dividing the number of strokes by 360 degrees. Rotation tool, you can make a duplicate order to repeat the rotation, make sure that your rotation a copy not the original.

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