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• • May 21, 2013 at 11:32 am #33628
    Charles Cleveland

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    I?m new to Adobe scripting with JavaScript. I?m trying to create a new InDesign document, and I?m frustrated. The Adobe Introduction to Scripting says to use the line, ?app.documents.add().? This works with Photoshop, but not with InDesign, at least inside of the ExtendScript Toolkit. So what, if anything _does_ work?

  • May 21, 2013 at 1:24 pm #33631
    Harbs

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    app.documents.add() is correct.

    What happens if you try?

  • May 27, 2013 at 2:40 am #33691
    Charles Cleveland

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    Per the Adobe Intro to Scripting, I entered app.documents.add() into the Javascript Console panel and ran it from there. I got the error message, ?Result: undefined.? As I mentioned, this worked with Photoshop, but not InDesign.

    Since my original post, I discovered that app.documents.add() works correctly, and I get an open document, when I type it into the main edit window and run it from there.

    So for me, with CS6 on Windows 7 64-bit, app.documents.add() works in the main edit window, but not the Javascript Console panel. Is this a glitch, or is it how things are supposed to work?

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