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• • April 26, 2022 at 6:11 pm #14364878
    Magnus Gaarde

    Member

    I just posted this bug to Adobe, some might find it interesting.

    Convert Footnotes and Endnotes does not work when the footnotes does not have a footnote number.

    I have an Indesign document with footnotes.
    In each footnote I have removed the footnote number and the following tab character. (~F)

    I need these footnotes to be endnotes but this is not possible with the command “Convert Footnotes and Endnotes”.

    Without the footnote number in the footnotes the command/script does not recognise the footnotes as being footnotes.

    They are however still footnotes and I can continue working with them as footnotes and also address them via scripting but the command “Convert Footnotes and Endnotes” does not work.

    I can reinsert a footnote number in each of the footnotes manually one by one by going through “Special Characters > Markers > Footnote Number.

    This will make the conversion work but this should not be necessary.

    Now to the bonus problem:

    I figured I could simply iterate the footnotes and insert the footnote number with a simple script. Guess what? Not that simple.

    I can insert everything except for the SpecialCharacters.FOOTNOTE_SYMBOL in the footnotes.
    Looking at the undo menu it appears as if indesign thinks it has inserted something as it says: “Undo Insert Text”
    But nothing was inserted.

    I have scripted a workaround where I make a temporary footnote and just copy the footnote number from that to be inserted in the original footnotes.

  • April 26, 2022 at 11:19 pm #14364891
    Magnus Gaarde

    Member

    Dang! That block quote tag sure is effective. Sorry for screaming.

    • April 27, 2022 at 5:13 am #14364892
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      LOL. No worries, Magnus. Our fault… we need to get that CSS formatting fixed for the forum!

  • April 29, 2022 at 12:30 pm #14364995
    Magnus Gaarde

    Member

    For anyone interested the script below will insert footnote numbers back into all footnotes.

    
var scriptName = File($.fileName).name;
app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw = false; //Does not seem to work in this case

    Application.prototype.main = function() {
    var theDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var theStory;
    try{
    theStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
    }
    catch(e)
    {
    alert("Place cursor i story with footnotes and try again");
    exit();
    }
    var theFootnotes = theStory.footnotes.everyItem().getElements();
    var theCounter = 0;

    //progressbar setup
    var w = new Window('palette', 'Inserting footnote numbers ...', {x:200, y:200, width:350, height:70});
    w.pbar = w.add('progressbar', {x:25, y:12, width:300, height:12}, 0, theFootnotes.length);
    w.st = w.add('statictext', {x:10, y:36, width:320, height:20}, '');
    w.st.justify = 'center';
    w.show();

    //new temporary footnote
    var tempNote = theStory.insertionPoints[-1].footnotes.add();

    //Select and copy text from the temp footnote
    var theFootnoteNumber = tempNote.texts[0]; //includes both the number and the following tab character
    app.select(theFootnoteNumber);
    app.copy();

    // remove temp footnote
    tempNote.remove();

    //iterate existing footnotes and insert footnotenumber
for (var i = theFootnotes.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
app.select(theFootnotes[i].paragraphs[0].insertionPoints[0]);
app.paste();
theCounter++;
w.pbar.value = theFootnotes.length-i;
w.st.text = "Processing item " + w.pbar.value + " of " + theFootnotes.length + " total";
}
alert("Inserted footnote number in " + theCounter + " footnotes.");
}
app.doScript('app.main();',ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,undefined,UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,scriptName);


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