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• • July 4, 2020 at 3:19 pm #14328426
    Greg Sheffield

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    I have a text frame with several paragraphs contained within “<adtext>” and “</adtext>” tags.
    I have a script that does a bunch of stuff with this text frame, including the following snippet:
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=”(.+)(</adtext>)”;
    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = styleLegalsLine2 ;
    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=”$1″;
    textframe.changeGrep();
    Which changes the style of any paragraph ending in “</adtext>” to “styleLegalsLine2” and removes the “</adtext>” tag.
    Except it doesn’t change the style of the LAST paragraph or remove the tag.
    If after running the script, I immediately open the “Find/Change” dialog and click “Change All” without modifying any parameters, it gets the last one.
    What can I do to make my script change ALL instances including the last one?

  • July 4, 2020 at 4:18 pm #125753
    Greg Sheffield

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    More info:
    The problem is somewhat intermittent: Occasionally the script works as expected, and sometimes changegrep misses the last two or even three matching paragraphs.
    This made me wonder if there’s a problem with asynchronous execution, such that the changegrep commands are running before the earlier commands are finished building the text frame.
    I moved the code snippet to the bottom of the script to execute after a couple of other things that take two or three seconds. This appeared to help–changegrep worked more often–but it’s not a “solution” because I need certain things to happen before others.
    I put the snippet back where it belongs, and inserted a “fit frame to content” command just before it:
    textframe.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
    This seems to have solved the issue … perhaps “fit” waits for InDesign to finish building the text frame before executing and allowing the script to continue.

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