Insert Text Variable

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6 total messages Started by Thomas_B._Nielsen Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56

#2031

Author: Thomas_B._Nielsen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56

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Hello,

Need to set the content of a textFrame on a master page to "Current Page Number" a slash and then the missing item "Last Page Number" as found under Type -> Text Variables -> Insert Variable -> "Last Page Number";

How do i add a text variable with scripting?

....parentTextFrames[0].contents = "^N/" + ?????;

Re: Insert Text Variable

#2032

Author: Thomas_B._Nielsen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56

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Indesign CS4 and JS

Re: Insert Text Variable

#2034

Author: Thomas_B._Nielsen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:21

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Found a solution:

try {
  myVar = myDocument.textVariables.item("Last Page");
  myVar.name;
} catch (e) {
//alert(e);
  myVar = myDocument.textVariables.add({name:'Last Page', variableType:VariableTypes.LAST_PAGE_NUMBER_TYPE});
  myVar.variableOptions.scope = VariableScopes.DOCUMENT_SCOPE;
}

myFoundItems[i].parentTextFrames[0].contents = SpecialCharacters.autoPageNumber;
myFoundItems[i].parentTextFrames[0].contents += "/";
myFoundItems[i].insertionPoints.lastItem().textVariableInstances.add( {associatedTextVariable : myVar} );

If anyone can tell me how i can use the application text variable "Last Page Number" without having to make a document variable, please post.

Re: Insert Text Variable

#2036

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:58

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Thomas,

Since the application text variable you're after is called "Last Page Number", all you need to do is this:

myVar = myDocument.textVariables.item ("Last Page Number");
...
...
myFoundItems[i].insertionPoints.lastItem().textVariableInstances.add( {associatedTextVariable : myVar} );

Peter

Re: Insert Text Variable

#2037

Author: Thomas_B._Nielsen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:28

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Well i tried that (and now once more) but it gives me a Invalid parameter in the line:

myFoundItems[i].insertionPoints.lastItem().textVariableInstances.add( {associatedTextVariable : myVar} );

Re: Insert Text Variable

#2045

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:01

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Strange -- it should work. Does your document have a variable called "Last Page Number"? (You call it an 'application variable', but these don't exist in that sense. The variables you see in the "Text Variables" dialog are examples created there by Adobe. I deleted them because I have no use for all those variables in every new document that I create. Which is also the reason why I can't really check your problem.)

What exactly does the error message say: invalid parameter or invalid value? If you specify a text variable that doesn't exist, you'd expect "invalid value", not "invalid parameter".

Peter

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