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Re: Transitioning from PageMaker Scripts - Help Needed

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From: Roy_McCoy
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:16

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r pollack wrote:

> We will be transitioning from PageMaker to InDesign shortly.

And I thought I was the last one. Congratulations.

> I did an evaluation for my employer, and based on my recommendations  
> we will soon be upgrading. I used Trial version of ID CS3 for my  
> eval. but we will be purchasing ID CS4 in the next week or so.
>
> There are several scripts that originally came with the PageMaker  
> 6.52 install. I am searching for equivalent scripts.

I'm kind of in the same boat, except I lost of track of which ones  
came with PageMaker and which ones I made myself. In either event I  
want to get them converted to InDesign in the relatively near future.

> First, we will need a script to remove all unused styles. [...]
>
> So, is there a script for InDesign that "recreates" a new document,  
> page by page and leaves all unused and anomially elements behind?
>
> Thanks for any help in our transition period.

In this forum they want you to say which language you're using or want  
to use: AppleScript (Mac), JavaScript (Mac/Windows), or VBScript  
(Windows). I opted for AppleScript and am now unsubscribing here,  
where there's so much JavaScript, in order to stay concentrated on  
that. I'll still be in AppleScript-Users and the InDesign Lasso group,  
and would be very interested in an InDesign AppleScripters group if  
one existed or were set up at Yahoo or wherever. You or anyone else  
can write me if you're interested in that, my address is roymccoy dot  
nl at gmail dot com.

Thanks,

Roy McCoy
Rotterdam, NL

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