Chris, According to the document at http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/pdfs/in design_cs3_scripting_tutorial.pdf the answer is yes, InDesign can handle VBScripts.
Excerpt: The Scripts panel can run compiled or uncompiled AppleScripts (files with the file extension .spt, .as, or .applescript), JavaScripts (files with the file extension .js or .jsx), VBScripts (files with the extension .vbs), or executable programs from the Scripts panel. If you are using the CS4 version, try http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/pdfs/indesigncs4_scriptingtutorial.pdf. HTH, David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Chris Despopoulos Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:01 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Indesign VB Scriptin [was FrameMaker vs InDesign book files] Is it true that nDesign supports VB scripting? Is the handling of a document model any better than that for Word? What I mean is, in Maker you can us the API to get all the text items in a paragraph, and that breaks the pgf into all the char format changes, all the table anchors, aframe anchors, xrefs, etc. Trying to get that kind of detail about your content in Word is miserabl, as far as I can tell. So the question is (yes, on the surface this is off topic), how does Indesign expose its content to VB? Does anybody have any experience? And to get on topic, would it be reasonable to have a VB tool that can stuff ID content into Maker (and vis-versa)? cud _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
