What kind of errror?

hm, it would be better, if you built a example doc with 5 old linked filed and 5 new ones and describe exactly, what ist the goal. You can sent me your test-doc to forum@ruebiarts.de

Craig, this needs more clarification!

If I run Peters GREP on your lines, then 19:53 and 20:20 is selected. But at 19:53 these are different persons. In your final result this shouldn’t be removed? So what is the goal? Remove the date-time only, if it is the same person? Is it always the same time or only the same person?

Hi,

your mentioned script does export a active document to a specified location. It doesn’t honor page ranges.

It seems not possible, to save page ranges in a preset either (same with “view after export”). But you can set those values inside a script. From Adobes examples:

    
//using the current PDF export settings.
    var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
    with(app.pdfExportPreferences){
    //Enter the names of the pages you want to export in the following line.
    //Note that the page name is not necessarily the index of the page in the
    //document (e.g., the first page of a document whose page numbering starts
    //with page 21 will be "21", not 1).
    	pageRange = "1, 3-6, 7, 9-11, 12";
    }
    myDocument.exportFile(
		ExportFormat.pdfType,
        File(Folder.desktop + "/ExportPageRangeAsPDF.pdf"),
        false
	);
    //</fragment>

best
Kai

Masood, sadly I’m not familiar with scripting in Illustrator, cause Illustrator has another object modell than InDesign.

You can send me a example to forum@ruebiarts.de. Without seeing the error and a detailed description, what should be your final result, I can’t help you.

# means a empty cell, buth with ::# the cell isn’t empty. If you add new cells, they are empty. The : is a hidden character for everything, that has no own hidden character in InDesign. This can be a mark, but also a character that comes during an import.

It is interesting, that someone can do this by hand or with scripting. I like the idea of somewhat “half automatism” ;-)

So, assume you have a single page on the right, then facing pages, e.g. 500. I would do the following:

1. Create a new list for numbers (solves the problem of threading)
2. Create on page 2 and 3 one textframe, insert a return and apply your list numbering (the contents show now 1 and 2)
3. Group those 2 frames and select it

4. Run the following lines:

var sel = app.selection[0];
var allSpreads = app.activeDocument.spreads;
var n = allSpreads.length;

while (n --) {
  sel.duplicate(allSpreads[n]);
}

5. Delete the selected group on page 2+3
6. Ungroup the group on page 1 and delete the left frame

Why do I like this idea?
Cause otherwise a script must create a list, create frames, check if left or right handed, insert content … this would take much longer as the above 6 steps.