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Re: JavaScript

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From: Olav_Kvern
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:54
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chagny asked: "What do you mean "...grips with the InDesign object model rather than the scripting language itself.""

Dave meant that learning the way that InDesign does things is more complex than learning a new scripting language.

Ben--

You can *almost* go from VBScript to JavaScript (not Java) with a series of find/change routines. But not quite. That said, they're more similar to each other than either is to AppleScript.

Jay--

It's a breeze, in my opinion. If you are doing anything that requires iteration or basic trigonometry, it's well worth writing the script in JavaScript rather than AppleScript, just for the performance improvement.

Thanks,

Ole
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