Applescript, slightly off-topic...

[Ken Ray]

Ton,

Any chance you can do it in two steps? I don't know InDesign, but if you
can replace one string with another that are NOT returns, perhaps you
can replace the three returns with *** and then replace *** with two
returns?

Just a thought...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> tkuypers at pandora.be
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Applescript, slightly off-topic...
> 
> 
> It is the replace part that crashes InDesign... When 
> replacing with "€€€" it works fine, when using the paragraph 
> code it goes wrong...
> 
> I now will start working on getting the text into InDesign 
> and do the search and replace in there... Hmmmm... Thank you 
> Adobe :-((
> 
> 
> 
> > From: "David M. Cole" <RunRev at colegroup.com>
> > Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:52:53 -0700
> > To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > Subject: Re: Applescript, slightly off-topic...
> > 
> > try this ... i'm pretty sure it will work.
> > 
> >> tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
> >>     set find preferences to nothing
> >>     set change preferences to nothing
> >>     tell active document
> >>         set vSearch to "^p^p^p"
> >>         set vReplace to "^p^p"
> >>         search for vSearch in active document replacing 
> with vReplace
> >>     end tell
> >> end tell
> >> 
> > 
> > 
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