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• • August 1, 2013 at 8:52 am #64633
    Natausha Greenblott

    Member

    Hello,

    I’m wondering if anyone has run across a script that will export all the Stories in each document contained in a Book (.indb) to InCopy. I tried creating something myself (it was very very basic, I really don’t know much about scripting), but I had to hit the “Save” button for every document and it choked if there were no Stories available to export.

    var d = app.activeBook.bookContents.everyItem().fullName;
    for (i=0;i<d.length;i++){
    app.open(d[i]);
    with (app.activeDocument){
    app.menuActions.itemByID(94979).invoke();
    save();
    close();
    }
    }

    Ideally, I’d click to run the script, select which book, a folder to save in for all documents, and then the script would go through all the documents and export any Stories. Thoughts? Ideas? Appreciate any help. Thanks.

  • September 9, 2015 at 2:08 pm #78010
    Laura Gallagher

    Member

    Did you ever find a solution for this? I’m looking to do the same thing.

  • September 10, 2015 at 3:18 am #78015
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Here’s a script that exports all stories on document pages (i.e. skipping stories on master spreads). It saves the icml files in the documents folders using the document name followed by a number (the numbers look random but are the storyies’ IDs). (Adding functionality to select a book and an output folder is a hassle.)

    Peter

    [CODE]
    (function(){

    function exportDocumentStories (doc) {
    var stories = doc.stories.everyItem().getElements();
    var baseName = String(doc.fullName).replace(/\.indd$/,’ ‘);
    for (var i = stories.length-1; i >= 0; i–) {
    if (stories[i].textContainers[0].parent instanceof Spread) {
    f = File (baseName + stories[i].id + ‘.icml’);
    stories[i].exportFile (ExportFormat.INCOPY_MARKUP, f);
    }
    }
    }

    function exportICML() {
    var chapters = app.activeBook.bookContents.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < chapters.length; i++){
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
    app.open (chapters[i].fullName);
    exportDocumentStories (app.documents[0]);
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
    }
    }

    if (app.books.length === 1) {
    exportICML();
    } else {
    alert (‘Open (just) one book.’);
    }

    }());
    [CODE]

  • September 10, 2015 at 3:21 am #78016
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    (Sorry, got the coding tags wrong.)

    
(function(){

    function exportDocumentStories (doc) {
    var stories = doc.stories.everyItem().getElements();
    var baseName = String(doc.fullName).replace(/\.indd$/,’ ‘);
    for (var i = stories.length-1; i >= 0; i–) {
    if (stories[i].textContainers[0].parent instanceof Spread) {
    f = File (baseName + stories[i].id + ‘.icml’);
    stories[i].exportFile (ExportFormat.INCOPY_MARKUP, f);
    }
    }
    }

    function exportICML() {
    var chapters = app.activeBook.bookContents.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < chapters.length; i++){
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
    app.open (chapters[i].fullName);
    exportDocumentStories (app.documents[0]);
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
    }
    }

    if (app.books.length === 1) {
    exportICML();
    } else {
    alert (‘Open (just) one book.’);
    }

    }());


  • September 10, 2015 at 3:23 am #78017
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Still doesn’t look right. But you can copy the script text anyway.

    P.

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