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• • February 14, 2013 at 3:36 pm #64161
    Brian Pifer

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    Howdy,

    Is there any way, using pageItems.everyItem() or some other method, to get a collection of all Page Items that have a script label without having to iterate through the entire Page Item collection? I'm writing in JavaScript, and working on CS3.

    Basically, the script would work like so:

    myLabeledItems = myDoc.pageItems.?

    for (item in myLabeledItems) { //do stuff }

    I want to be able to dynamically create and place files based on info (like the date) in the doc name, and the label. If there's a better way than using labels, I'm all ears. Thanks for your help.

  • February 21, 2013 at 12:49 am #64232
    Eugenyus

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    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    var piLabels = doc.pageItems.everyItem().label;
    piLabels.sort();
    var frstLabel = lastLabel = 0;
    do{
    while (piLabels[frstLabel] == piLabels[lastLabel+1]){lastLabel++;}
    if (lastLabel != frstLabel) {
    piLabels.splice(frstLabel, lastLabel-frstLabel+1);
    lastLabel = frstLabel;
    }
    else{
    frstLabel++;
    }
    }while(frstLabel!=piLabels.length-1);
    alert(piLabels.join(“n”)); //Lists the labels without having to iterate…

  • March 15, 2013 at 2:10 pm #64417
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestion, but you still have to touch them all in the sort. I figured out though that that wasn't where the bottleneck in my script was.

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