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On 5/9/03 3:06 AM +1000, Ton Kuypers, tkuypers@pandora.be, wrote:

> Shane, in particular, uses a newsreader to follow traffic here, and he's
> going to have to use extra steps to just read your message.

Surprisingly, it's come through with all the styling intact. But that's
probably the luck of the newsreader.

> tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
> tell parent of story 1 of active document
> export format RTF to "Users:ton:Desktop:test.rtf" without showing options
> end tell
> end tell
> Result: --> InDesign 2.0.2 got an error: parent of story 1 of active document
> doesn't understand the export message.

You don't export the parent of a story -- here, you should use "story 1 of
active document".
> 
> tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
> tell parent story of active document
> export format RTF to "Users:ton:Desktop:test.rtf" without showing options
> end tell
> end tell
> Result: --> InDesign 2.0.2 got an error: Can't get parent story of active
> document .

The parent story property is used when you refer to a text frame, like
"parent story of text frame 1"; it's meaningless with a document.

> 
> tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
> tell story 1 of active document
> export format RTF to "Users:ton:Desktop:test.rtf" without showing options
> end tell
> end tell
> Result: --> InDesign 2.0.2 got an error: Can't make
> "Users:ton:Desktop:test.rtf" into a �class kfil�.

I think this might be your real problem: that looks like a bogus path to me,
unless your disk is called "Users". It should be something like: "Macintosh
HD:Users:ton:Desktop:test.rtf".

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au