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Harv--

It's possible to get VB.NET to work, but I think you might be better off with VBA (as mentioned above, VBA is included in MS Office applications) or with VB5 Control Creation Edition (CCE). VB5 CCE is available for download from: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/cce/default.asp>

Once you've got that, you should be able to work through the basic tutorial in the Scripting Guide. It shows you how to make the essential connection from VB->InDesign.

We'll work on getting your VB.NET to work once you're up to speed with VB5.

iolaire's script is a good one, but will miss rectangles inside groups, on master pages, and inside other page items. This is because myDocument.Rectangles contains the top-level rectangles on the pages of the document. Instead of iterating through that collection, use the Document.AllPageItems collection, which contains all of the page items on the document pages, regardless of their "nesting" level.

Note, however, that AllPageItems does not include objects on master pages--for those, you'll have to search the MasterSpread.AllPageItems collection for each MasterSpread.

Until we can get you going with VB, here's a VBScript that does what you want to do:



Rem ChangeStrokes 
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.application.2.0") 
If myInDesign.Documents.Count > 0 Then 
    Rem Get a reference to the active document. 
    Set myDocument = myInDesign.ActiveDocument 
    For Each object In myDocument.AllPageItems 
    If TypeName(object) = "Rectangle" Then 
        If object.StrokeWeight = 0.5 Then 
            object.StrokeWeight = 1 
        End If 
    End If 
    Next 
    For Each MasterSpread In myDocument.MasterSpreads 
        For Each object In MasterSpread.AllPageItems 
        If TypeName(object) = "Rectangle" Then 
            If object.StrokeWeight = 0.5 Then 
                object.StrokeWeight = 1 
            End If 
        End If 
        Next 
    Next 
End If 




Copy the script out of this message, then paste it into Notepad and save it with the file extension .vbs to the Scripts folder inside your InDesign folder (create the folder if it doesn't already exist). At this point, you can run the script from the Scripts palette inside InDesign. (If you don't see the Scripts palette, or if its title is "Script," rather than "Scripts", you need to update to InDesign 2.0.2. If you don't see a Scripts folder, create one.)

Thanks,

Ole