🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, I'm stumped. I had that script working fine, but trying it out a few times now shows the same behaviour with the quotes. Can't work that one out. But doing a find/change on the quotes after pasting deals with that. I added a line to sort out the ampersands as well.

Peter



with( app.documents.add() ) 
   { 
   textPreferences.typographersQuotes = false; 
   with( app.activeDocument.textFrames.add() ) 
      { 
      geometricBounds = [0,0,'700pt','500pt']; 
      insertionPoints[0].select(); 
      } 
   } 
app.paste(); 
app.findPreferences = app.changePreferences = null; 
with( app.activeDocument.stories[0] ) 
   { 
   search( '&', false, false, '&' ); 
   search( '<', false, false, '&lt;' ); 
   search( '^t', false, false, '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;' ); 
   search( '^[', false, false, "'" ); 
   search( '^]', false, false, "'" ); 
   search( '^}', false, false, '"' ); 
   search( '^{', false, false, '"' ); 
   insertionPoints[0].contents = '<pre>'; 
   insertionPoints[-1].contents = '</pre>'; 
   }