I don't know why you might want to do this by script, but here it is:

Main();

function Main() {
if (app.documents.length == 0) {
alert (“Please open a document, select some text, and try again.”);
exit();
}
else if (app.selection.length > 1 || app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty(“baseline”) == false) {
alert (“Please select some text, and try again.”);
exit();
}

var the_document = app.documents[0];
var the_selection = app.selection[0];

var the_dialog = app.dialogs.add({name:”Change leading in the selected text”});
with(the_dialog.dialogColumns.add()){
with(dialogRows.add()){
staticTexts.add({staticLabel:”Change leading in the selected text by”});
var increase_by = measurementEditboxes.add({editUnits:MeasurementUnits.POINTS, editValue:0});
}
}
var dialog_result = the_dialog.show();

if (dialog_result) {
if (the_selection.leading != Leading.AUTO) {
the_selection.leading = the_selection.leading + increase_by.editValue;
}
else {
the_selection.leading = (the_selection.pointSize * (the_selection.autoLeading/100)) + increase_by.editValue;
}
}
}

Written in CS5.5, Windows.

Warning: it's not totally tested — just a quick exercise in scripting before going to bed.

Make sure that Preferences > Type > Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs should be off.

Regards,
Kasyan

Hi Dave,

I have a suggestion: the new forum software should provide for possibility to post code. In the code I posted, backslashes have been removed before the quotes surrounding the CarImage in the line 24, which will result in error in case the object style doesn't exist in the document.

The line should have been be like so:

alert(“Object style [backslash]“CarImage[backslash]” doesn't exist”);

Formerly I tried to enclose the code in

tag in the HTML source editor, but this didn't help.

Regards,
Kasyan

Forgot to add var in the following lines:

var frame = found[i];
var gb = frame.geometricBounds;
var gb_new = [ gb[0], gb[1], gb[0]+13, gb[1]+26 ];

Main();

function Main() {
var page, placedFile, graphics, i, j,
doc = app.activeDocument,
pages = doc.pages;

for (i = 0; i < pages.length; i++) {
page = pages[i];
var graphics = page.allGraphics;
for (j = graphics.length-1; j >= 0; j–) {
placedFile = page.allGraphics[j];
if (placedFile.constructor.name == “ImportedPage” && placedFile.itemLink.linkType == “InDesign Format Name”) {
try {
placedFile.graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers.item(“Frames”).currentVisibility = false;
}
catch (err) {}
}
}

}

alert(“Done”);
}

P.S. Written in InDesign CS5.5, Windows.

Hope this helps.

Kasyan

Hi Blondie,

Yes, Peter's script has some issues but it's impossible to fix it because it is posted in binary format (the author doesn't want anybody ti meddle with code).

Today, while drinking my morning coffee, I wrote this script. It takes all indd-files from the selected folder and its subfolders and exports each file to pdf-format saving them in the 'Pdf' folder which is created by script. Note that there is possibility that in different subfolders can be files with identical names. The script handles this situation: it adds a sequential number to the file name so it never gets overwritten. For example: SomeFile.pdf, SomeFile.pdf(1), SomeFile.pdf(2) and so on.

For better performance the script doesn't display documents being opened and closed, but the progress bar shows which file is being processed, how many files have already been processed.

I haven't totally tested it yet — it's already time for me to go to my work — so probably I'll make some changes to it.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Kasyan

// Script for InDesign CS3-5.
// July 22 2011
// Written by Kasyan Servetsky
// https://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua
// e-mail: askoldich@yahoo.com
//======================================================================================
var gScriptName = “Batch export INDD-files to PDF”; // Name of the script
var gScriptVersion = “1.0”; // Version

var gSet = GetSettings();
CreateDialog();

//===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
function CreateDialog() {
var pdfPresetsList =app.pdfExportPresets.everyItem().name;
var win = new Window(“dialog”, gScriptName + ” – ” + gScriptVersion);

win.p = win.add(“panel”, undefined, “”);
win.p.alignChildren = “right”;
win.p.alignment = “fill”;

win.p.g = win.p.add(“group”);
win.p.g.st = win.p.g.add(“statictext”, undefined, “PDF-presets:”);
win.p.g.ddl = win.p.g.add(“dropdownlist”, undefined, pdfPresetsList);
win.p.g.ddl.selection = gSet.selectedPdfPresetIndex;
win.p.g.ddl.preferredSize.width = 220;

win.buttons = win.add(“group”);
win.buttons.orientation = “row”;
win.buttons.alignment = “center”;
win.buttons.ok = win.buttons.add(“button”, undefined, “OK”, {name:”ok” });
win.buttons.cancel = win.buttons.add(“button”, undefined, “Cancel”, {name:”cancel”});

var showDialog = win.show();

if (showDialog == 1) {
gSet.selectedPdfPresetIndex = win.p.g.ddl.selection.index;
app.insertLabel(“Kas_” + gScriptName + gScriptVersion, gSet.toSource());
Main();
}
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
function Main() {
var folder = Folder.selectDialog(“Select a folder with InDesign files to resave”);
if (folder == null) exit();
var files = GetFiles(folder);
var pdfFolder = new Folder(folder.fsName + “/” + “Pdf”);
VerifyFolder(pdfFolder);

if (files.length == 0) {
alert(“No files to open.”, gScriptName + ” – ” + gScriptVersion);
exit();
}

var pdfPresets =app.pdfExportPresets.everyItem().getElements();
var selectedPdfPreset = pdfPresets[gSet.selectedPdfPresetIndex];
var count = 1;
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–
var progressWin = new Window (“window”, gScriptName + ” – ” + gScriptVersion);
var progressBar = progressWin.add (“progressbar”, [12, 12, 350, 24], 0, files.length);
var progressTxt = progressWin.add(“statictext”, undefined, “Starting exporting files”);
progressTxt.bounds = [0, 0, 340, 20];
progressTxt.alignment = “left”;
progressWin.show();
// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–

for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
var currentFile = files[i];

try {
var doc = app.open(currentFile, false);
var docName = doc.name;

// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–
progressBar.value = count;
progressTxt.text = String(“Exporting file – ” + docName + ” (” + count + ” of ” + files.length + “)”);
// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–

var file = new File(pdfFolder + “/” + GetFileName(docName) + “.pdf”);
if (file.exists) {
var increment = 1;
while (file.exists) {
file = new File(pdfFolder + “/” + GetFileName(docName) + “(” + increment++ + “).pdf”);
}
}

doc.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, file, false, selectedPdfPreset);
doc.close(SaveOptions.NO);
count++;
}
catch(e) {}
}

// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–
progressWin.close();
// Progress bar ———————————————————————————–

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;

alert(“Done.”, gScriptName + ” – ” + gScriptVersion);
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
function VerifyFolder(folder) {
if (!folder.exists) {
var folder = new Folder(folder.absoluteURI);
var array1 = new Array();
while (!folder.exists) {
array1.push(folder);
folder = new Folder(folder.path);
}
var array2 = new Array();
while (array1.length > 0) {
folder = array1.pop();
if (folder.create()) {
array2.push(folder);
} else {
while (array2.length > 0) {
array2.pop.remove();
}
throw “Folder creation failed”;
}
}
}
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
function GetFiles(theFolder) {
var files = [],
fileList = theFolder.getFiles(),
i, file;

for (i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
file = fileList[i];
if (file instanceof Folder) {
files = files.concat(GetFiles(file));
}
else if (file instanceof File && file.name.match(/.indd$/i)) {
files.push(file);
}
}

return files;
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
function GetFileName(fileName) {
var string = “”;
var result = fileName.lastIndexOf(“.”);
if (result == -1) {
string = fileName;
}
else {
string = fileName.substr(0, result);
}
return string;
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
function GetSettings() {
var set = eval(app.extractLabel(“Kas_” + gScriptName + gScriptVersion));
if (set == undefined) {
set = { selectedPdfPresetIndex : 0 };
}

return set;
}
//——————————————————————————————————————————————————–

Hi Simon,

Here is a simple example:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
// clear find change text preferences before search
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
// this is scripting equivalent of the 'Find What:' edit text field
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = “text”;
// search it in the active document
// you can also search it in almost everywhere: story, text frame, paragraph, line, word, etc
var finds = doc.findText();
if (finds.length > 0) { // something has been found
// for the 1st found item display the name of the page where the 1st text frame (there can be several threaded frames) containing it is located
alert(“Found ” + finds.length + ” items, the first of them is on page ” + finds[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name);
}
else { // found nothing
alert(“Nothing has been found”);
}
// clear find change text preferences after search
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

Hope this helps.
Kasyan

Oops! I'm sorry for the confusion. I still work mostly in CS3, but the applyShortcutSet method is available only in CS5. How could I miss it? It's just one line above the applyWorkspace which I mentioned in my previous post. Thank you for correcting me, John.