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This one places the contents of all notes in a new document:



n = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().notes.everyItem().texts[0].contents; 
tf = app.documents.add ().textFrames.add  
   ({geometricBounds: ['10mm','10pt','250mm','200mm']}); 
tf.contents = n.join ('\r\r')



Peter

Peter,

Thank you for this! Your script works great. I feel like you are a genie who granted my wish.

Peter,

Is it possible to add a page number to the note to help identify the note?

(By the way, I bought a copy of your book: GREP in InDesign CS3. It's very clearly written. Hope to get some time soon to dedicate to reading it more thoroughly.)

Here you go. It finds notes in tables as well. It ignores notes in inline frames.

Peter

(Glad you like the GREP title. There's a CS4 version, by the way.)



#target indesign;

array = []; 
notes = [];

// notes in main stories 
notes = app.activeDocument. 
   stories.everyItem(). 
   notes.everyItem().getElements();

// notes in tables 
try {notes = notes.concat (app.activeDocument. 
         stories.everyItem(). 
         tables.everyItem(). 
         notes.everyItem().getElements())} catch (_){};

for (i = 0; i < notes.length; i++) 
   try {array.push (notes[i].texts[0].contents +  
         ' [' + notes[i].storyOffset.parentTextFrames[0].parent.name +']')} catch (_){};

tf = app.documents.add ().textFrames.add   
   ({geometricBounds: ['10mm','10mm','250mm','200mm']});  
tf.contents = array.join ('\r\r')

Peter,

Thank you for adding the page numbers -- works perfectly!

Regarding your book, are there many changes in GREP from InDesign CS3 to version CS4?

Jay,

Some passages were rephrased to make them clearer. For instance, the difference between lazy operators and negative classes could do with some clarification. I also added some examples here and there, and described a new feature in CS4, GREP styles. Finally, I added a short section on how you can chain saved queries using very simple scripts. I didn't know that one when I wrote the CS3 edition -- jongware spotted it and mentioned it in this forum a while ago.

Something that didn't make it into the CS4 edition is that CS4 supports Unicode properties and sub-properties (of the form \p{..}, see Friedl, "Mastering Regurlar Expressions", pp. 122, 123). For example, there is a property \p{P} that matches punctuation. This one has several subproperties (\p{Pd} matches all kinds of dashes, \p{Po} captures opening punctuation, there are several others). All in all there are 37 Unicode properties.

They didn't make it into the CS4 edition because Adobe is sometimes a bit shy about telling us what new features they implement -- Unicode properties was one of them. I tried these in CS3, but forgot to do that in CS4. A correspondent in France pointed it out to me.

I've now put together an overview of these new properties at <http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/grep_mapper.html> There's a script there that generates selected Unicode ranges and lets you map any GREP wildcard on the selected range.

Peter

Peter,

Thank you for your thorough explanation and comparison of your GREP in InDesign CS3 and CS4 books. I'm going to download the CS4 version this afternoon.

I've recommended your book to a number of InDesign users. It's a great way for both 'techies' and 'non-techies' to get a handle on taking advantage of GREP in InDesign.

Thanks, Jay.