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Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript

Errata for Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 8
1st paragraph

Hi,

On page 8, the book says to type the following:

app.selection[0]

... into a the ESTK, after creating a document with a text box and highlighting some of that text. I did this, and nothing happens. In the bottom left corner there is a message that says "undefined is not an object". In the JS Console, I see "Script Executed."

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Tom

 Anonymous  Feb 22, 2010 
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Page 30
2nd and 3rd code samples

Incorrect code - generates error messages and fails:

constructor mispelled as

rft1  Jul 10, 2009 
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Page 34
first complete paragraph

"Another approach is to use lower case throughout and replace spces with underscores,..."

"spces" > "spaces"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 40
paragraph under Inserting Special Characters

"It is easier, however, to enter such characters by their Uniciode value,..."

"Uniciode" > "Unicode"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 47
paragraph under Find and Change

"CS2 had just one Find/Chage operation..."

"Chage" > "Change"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 50
third paragraph under Format Settings

"(this explains why you have to reset preferences to null at the beginning of each script or function that performa a replacement)."

"performa" > "perform"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 57
before the first code block

"From left to right, the symbols correspond with the following scipted options: "

"scipted" > "scripted"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 57
last paragraph

"But if you?re working with a fonts that doesn?t have that feature,..."

"fonts" > "font"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 60
code block at page bottom

Incorrect code in sample function "format_table(myTable)":

1 - The two calls to applyStyle() should be to applyParagraphStyle() instead.

2 - In last two lines (on page 61) the variable "tbl" should be "myTable".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Page 60, code: replace "applyStyle" with "applyParagraphStyle" (twice, without quotes)

Page 61, last two lines of code at top of page: replace

tbl.rows.everyItem ().firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset
tbl.spaceBefore = tbl.spaceAfter = 0;

with

myTable.rows.everyItem ().firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset;
myTable.spaceBefore = tbl.spaceAfter = 0;

 Steve Caine  May 06, 2009 
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Page 60
code block at bottom of page (and onto next page)

Incorrect code in sample function format_table(myTable):

1 - The two calls to applyStyle() should be to applyParagraphStyle().

2- In last two lines (on page 61) the variable "tbl" should be "myTable" (three places).

 Steve Caine  May 26, 2009 
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Page 60
first paragraph under General Formatting

"... set the first base line in each cell to the leading,..."

"base line" probably > "baseline"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 63
first paragraph

"...note that the results are unpredictable when optical margin algnment is enabled."

"algnment" > "alignment"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 68
last sentence under Resizing a Frame

"... but there are better mothods for moving frames."

"mothods" > "methods"

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010 
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Page 74
paragraph under Acknowledgements

"... Dave Saunders, and Alan Stearns, ..."

comma after "Stearns" should be a period

 pbear  Mar 13, 2010