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#1 By Chris ( 11 September 2014 - 00:50 )

I purchased indexmatic pro and my computer broke. I would like to add it to my new machine. Is this possible?

#2 By Marc ( 11 September 2014 - 11:29 )

Hi Chris,

Yes it is. Just install IndexMaticPro.jsx in the Scripts panel folder. That's it!

@+
Marc

#3 By Jason ( 16 September 2014 - 18:11 )

I downloaded the try version of IndyFont and it worked great. Now when I open my document, the custom bullet point I made isn't showing up. It shows the pink "if" in place of my bullet point. InDesign says that it's there but the actual bullet point isn't. So I re-created the bullet point and installed it but when I find/replace, InDesign can't find the font. I placed the font in the InDesign font folder as well as my Windows font folder to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

#4 By Tiffany ( 23 September 2014 - 21:32 )

Hello!

I just installed the IndexMatic 2 script. I am trying to find the best solution to properly index a list of names. These names are not marked with specific character styles. But, I do need to find the proper code to locate any time the first and last name appear both separately and together, such as the name 'Spiro Agnew'. I know what my output would be, but how can I further edit the first part of this equation to narrow down the search?

Spiro Agnew => Agnew, Spiro

Do I simply do this?
/(Spiro) (Agnew)/ => Agnew, Spiro
What where I add in question marks to accommodate any apostrophes?

Thank you so much for your help!

Best,
Tiffany

#5 By Marc ( 24 September 2014 - 14:10 )

@ Jason (#3)

> It shows the pink "if" in place of my bullet point.

At least this indicates that the font is properly installed—since the pink "if" is the missing character glyph generated by IndyFont.

Please, send me your OTF at support[at]indiscripts{dot}com so that I can study the issue.

Thanks,
Marc

#6 By Marc ( 24 September 2014 - 14:20 )

@ Tiffany (#4)

In indexing proper names when no styles are 'targetable' the usual approach is to set your queries in this form:
    NAME_ONLY => FULL_ENTRY
e.g.
    Agnew => $, Spiro

as the name is often an unambiguous key for indexing.

See also the following comments:
http://www.indiscripts.com/post/201...

@+,
Marc

#7 By Chris O ( 03 November 2014 - 18:03 )

Hi - I'm sure this has been covered before but I can't seem to find the answer. I have a catalog of book titles that I would like to index. All of the book titles are in a specific paragraph style and have an end of paragraph marker at the end of the title. Is there a query to add that will include the complete multi-word book title instead of separate individual words?

Thank you!
Chris

#8 By Marc ( 06 November 2014 - 19:10 )

Hi Chris O,

This should work:

   1. Run IndexMatic.

   2. Select your book title paragraph style in the Style panel.

   3. Select the Single Query mode.

   4. Enter the query as follows:
      /.+/

   5. Build the index.

@+
Marc

#9 By Craig ( 02 December 2014 - 12:34 )

Hi Marc, I purchased Wordalizer Pro 1.5 and work laptop died and has been replaced - I can't find the original email, but was wondering whether I could get hold of the jsx file again? I used this email to pay, so hopefully you can tie it up together and find me on a list of licensees somewhere!

Thanks - and great site, I keep coming back!

#10 By Marc ( 02 December 2014 - 21:32 )

Hi Craig,

Check your mailbox, I just sent you back your private link. Download the product package and re-install it.

Regards,
Marc

#11 By Citore ( 19 December 2014 - 16:26 )

Hi.
I just wondering if we can use this script it for Non-English language as well or not (like Arabic, Persian. etc...)

#12 By Cat ( 30 January 2015 - 13:02 )

Hello,
À l'occasion d'une (trop) rapide formation sur les styles dans InDesign, le formateur m'a passé des styles GREP très utiles qui ont une extension .xml.
Pourriez-vous me dire comment les installer pour que je puisse les utiliser SVP ?
Il m'a aussi donné un script, nommé GREP_a_appliquer.jsx, mais je ne sais plus exactement ce qu'il contient. Comment le savoir ?
Merci,
Cat

#13 By Marc ( 31 January 2015 - 14:36 )

Bonjour Cat,

Mon premier réflexe serait de supposer que le script GREP_a_appliquer.jsx a précisément pour fonction d'installer les styles GREP fournis dans les fichiers XML.

Autre piste à explorer, les requêtes Rechercher/Remplacer sont sauvegardées par InDesign au format XML dans un dossier de préférences — quelque chose du genre Preferences > Adobe InDesign > Version > Find-Change Queries. (Cela ne concerne pas les styles GREP mais les requêtes GREP.)

Le script Multi-Find/Change de mon confrère Automatication met à profit ce mécanisme : http://www.automatication.com/index...

Il est difficile de vous aiguiller plus avant sans autre précision.

@+
Marc

#14 By DerSiedler ( 25 February 2015 - 11:14 )

Last week i bought Wordalizer. Its a useful tool. Thanks.

Today I came up with a thing that frustrates me since CS5. The missing spread view in Bridge. You as a scripting pro might have a solution or an explanation why Adobe can't give us the feature. The thing is, that I work for an agency where we design a lot of broschures. Since we upgraded to CC last year we can't see the complete spread in Bridge. Can you tell me if its possible to make a plugin/script that forces InDesign to save the preview images as spreads instead of single pages? By default or as an option.

#15 By Jean-Philippe ( 28 May 2015 - 10:46 )

Bonjour,

Après avoir utilisé la version try de bookbarcode, j'ai finalement acheté la version Pro.
Tout fonctionne bien mais j'ai une petite question concernant l'actualisation d'un code barre. J'ai choisi dans ma mise en page (et le code barre est scanné sans problème) une hauteur de code barre (chiffre inclus) d'un peu plus de 7mm... or lorsque j'actualise, il semblerait que la limite basse d'un bloc est de 9mm... Y a-t-il la possibilité de contourner ce pb ?
Par avance merci pour le retour.
Cordialement,
Jean-Philippe

#16 By Marc ( 28 May 2015 - 13:31 )

Bonjour Jean-Philippe,

Pour des raisons historiques, BookBarcode 2.03 ne gère pas des dimensions de code-barres inférieures à 9,172 mm (c-à-d 26 pt).

Cf. http://www.indiscripts.com/blog/pub...

Il est possible cependant d'abaisser cette limite. Contactez-moi à support [at] indiscripts {dot} com

Cordialement,
Marc

#17 By Tom ( 05 August 2015 - 21:39 )

Hi - I'm trying to run automate InDesign using text data from a database. I have a dynamically created jsx InDesign script that I would like to run in InDesign, but I would like to start the script from the command line in Windows. The database can send an event to start InDesign but I would like to include the name of the jsx script that InDesign will run. Can InDesign run a jsx script from the command line? i.e. InDesign.exe -run my script.jsx
I will be running multiple scripts and don't want to start and quit InDesign for each script, so I don't want to put the script in the startup folder for InDesign.
Thanks for any suggestions. I'm using InDesign CC 2015 on Windows 8.1

#18 By Marc ( 06 August 2015 - 11:23 )

Hi Tom,

I didn't investigate running scripts through command line, but my fellows at the Scripting Forum have probably experimented this topic. (Instinctively I'd say ESTK is the way to go…)

Anyway, you should post a thread in the forum:
https://forums.adobe.com/community/...

@+
Marc

#19 By Mike Ng ( 07 August 2015 - 12:49 )

I've just purchased Indexmatic 2, but I can't seem to be able to import an external list for indexing. I was able to do so with IndexBrutal previously. Please help! Thanks

#20 By Marc ( 07 August 2015 - 13:11 )

Hi Mike,

Select the 'Query List' mode. The list editor has a button for importing plain text file.

[Note: according to my colleagues InDesign cannot import more than 29,721 characters in the edit control.]

Does it work?

Regards,
Marc

#21 By Rconover ( 01 September 2015 - 18:30 )

Hello,
When I use the script with indesign on an existing document the word cloud generated is tiny. How do you export for a high res print?

#22 By Marc ( 06 September 2015 - 22:33 )

Hi Rconover,

[Assuming you're talking about Wordalizer.]

The script generates pure vector artworks. Just select the result, group it and rescale it to your needs. This way you can reach any resolution for print purpose.

Regards,
Marc

#23 By Shannon ( 07 September 2015 - 16:06 )

Built my font using indyfont (have done so in the past) and my "Export OTF" is grayed out.

#24 By Marc ( 08 September 2015 - 10:55 )

Hi Shannon,

Please, send me your font doc at support[at]indiscripts{dot}com.

Best,
Marc

#25 By SterlingM ( 22 October 2015 - 18:29 )

I was interested in using an exception list so that I won't match words in the Index product.
For example limiting to 3 letters doesn't always work when words like "oak", "bar", "son" are desired words but words like "the", "but", "too" are not needed.

Going through the text file manually has taken hours after purchasing the Pro version. I considered PDF Index Generator but eventually settled on this product because it was built into Indesign (I'm on CS6), and there is the Word Cloud, and barcode products which I'm also interested in.

Anywho... any insights on how to exclude certain words would be most helpful.

Thank you.
-Sterling

#26 By Marc ( 23 October 2015 - 17:27 )

Hi SterlingM,

I guess you're talking about IndexMatic, which indeed has no 'stopwords' feature.

A very basic approach is to use the 'page rank' option to filter words having a high frequency.

But the query engine (see detail in the manual) remains the best way to target and retrieve relevant data from the document(s) you are indexing.

Regards,
Marc

#27 By Mike ( 30 October 2015 - 03:54 )

Hello!

I'd like to thank you for your web. It was very helpful for me.

I'm trying to write little script for Indesign CS 5.5 (we are still using it at work due to bind to some old woodwing server). The script is almost done and functional, but I'd like to make it more user friendly and use some icons.

I came across your article ‘Sprite’ Buttons in ScriptUI and decided to include my icons as a strings in script. But I have problem, that I'm unable to create strings form PNGs so they work. With your 'serialized PNG' works all great.

Please can you tell me how to do it? Is there some tool for conversion or piece of code?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Mike

#28 By Mike ( 01 November 2015 - 16:53 )

Hi!

Problem with PNG as string resource solved. Conversion done with toSource() function...

Anyway thanx for your web.

Mike

#29 By Hafiz ( 23 December 2015 - 17:30 )

Dear,

I purchased BookBarCodePro which i am using with Data Merge. I wondered if there is a way to break the pages according to an CSV file columns. In other words, i want Indesign to start a new page when I say it should. Can anyone help me with this issue? Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

Hafiz

#30 By Shawn ( 08 January 2016 - 20:09 )

What happened to the Shake angle in Wordalizer PRO 1.512?

#31 By YoMan ( 27 January 2016 - 17:52 )

Bonjour
J'aurais voulu laisser un commentaire sur le script SmartCellMerge dans sa page, mais je n'ai pas trouvé comment faire. Qu'à cela ne tienne, il fonctionne très bien sur CC et vient de me faire gagner des heures de travail.
Merci au bon samaritain qui a eu l'idée de développer ce script si pratique.

#32 By Michael ( 22 February 2016 - 22:31 )

I would like to use FontMixer with Document fonts. Right now it only seems to work with installed fonts. Is there a way to have it work with Document fonts? Otherwise I'd need to have all my clients install fonts, etc. I love the ease with which it allows you to make composite fonts.

#33 By Marc ( 24 February 2016 - 06:28 )

Hi Michael,

Very good question!

I've not investigated how Document fonts are managed under the hood. The Document object has both fonts and compositeFonts properties but it's not clear to me how they interact in case the target font is a “Document font.” Also, I'm curious about flags that could be extracted from the FontStatus enum.

By the way, the Font object now provides a createSubsetFont() method that might be of some interest…

@+
Marc

#34 By Thierry ( 17 November 2016 - 14:28 )

Bonjour,

J'aimerais savoir s'il existe un plugin qui permet de convertir un fichier pdf en un fichier indesign ? Merci, bien cordialement, Thierry

#35 By John ( 28 November 2016 - 21:06 )

Hello. I am attempting to index product numbers in a product catalog.

I have a list of all of our company item numbers, of which only some are included in the catalog file. I am using this list to create the index.

The script is giving results when it finds numbers within larger numbers. For example, item number "9731" should not be in this catalog, however the script is giving pages 37, 38, 61, because that number appears inside product numbers 97317, 97318, 97319, and A0297316.

#36 By Marc ( 29 November 2016 - 21:48 )

@ Thierry

Il y a PDF2ID de Recosoft :
http://www.recosoft.com/products/pd...

À tester…

Cdlt,
Marc

#37 By Marc ( 29 November 2016 - 21:52 )

@ John

Is the “Whole Word” option turned on in IndexMatic?

Regards,
Marc

#38 By Andy D ( 20 February 2017 - 15:34 )

Hi. I'm interested in purchasing the IndexMatic Pro script. Is the ability to select 'Long strings (style)' available in the pro version, it doesn't seem to be included in the free 'try' version.

Can I also assume that the pro version will index entries of 40-50 characters.

#39 By Marc ( 22 February 2017 - 01:03 )

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your feedback.

What is 'Long strings (style)'?

Instructions:
— Select your character style (in the Style pane)
— Switch to the 'Single Query' mode
— Run the query /.+/

That should work in the TRY version too. Did I miss something?

@+
Marc

#40 By SuperFlu ( 28 March 2017 - 08:44 )

Bonjour,
J'ai installé et utilisé avec succès FontMixer. Par contre, le fichier de la nouvelle police composite n'est pas un fichier .OTF. Du coup, comment puis-je conserver ce fichier et le gérer comme mes autres polices.
Merci pour votre retour

#41 By Marc ( 28 March 2017 - 22:11 )

Bonjour Stéphane,

> J'ai installé et utilisé avec succès FontMixer. Par contre, le fichier
> de la nouvelle police composite n'est pas un fichier .OTF (…)

En effet, FontMixer ne produit pas un OTF, mais une « fonte composite » au sens d'InDesign. La synthèse ainsi obtenue n'est utilisable que dans InDesign car cette fonctionnalité est propre à l'application. Si vous devez re-distiller une vraie fonte OpenType, il n'y a pas d'autre choix que d'utiliser un outil producteur d'OTF… par exemple IndyFont !

Cordialement,
Marc Autret

#42 By John ( 30 May 2017 - 23:20 )

Hello. I am making a product catalog. I am attempting to index all item numbers listed in the InDesign document. I am using an Excel document exported from our database that contains all item numbers. Many, but not all item numbers are contained in the InDesign catalog document.

My issue is that some items that are contained in my Excel document, as well as in the InDesign document, are not showing up in the resulting index document. All item numbers in the catalog have a special character style applied, and this is specified in the search. Any ideas?

#43 By Marc ( 31 May 2017 - 09:10 )

Hi John,

[Assuming you're talking about IndexMatic.]

> (…) some items that are contained in my Excel document, as well
> as in the InDesign document, are not showing up in the resulting
> index document.

As all entirely depends on both the query you're sending to iX and the document contents, this won't be easy to figure out without more detail. Often the problem comes from the fact that something almost invisible “breaks” the query, e.g. hidden special character in the text, unusual space, character style break…

> All item numbers in the catalog have a special character style
> applied, and this is specified in the search. Any ideas?

In such case, why don't you just run the global query,
   /.+/
with the target character style selected?

A good approach is to perform a Hit Report first, so you can sort out the entries (before index processing) and identify more easily what would go wrong and/or explain missing results.

Best regards,
Marc

#44 By Lloyd ( 09 August 2017 - 15:26 )

Do you write custom scripts? I'm trying to find a script that will search through a document looking for part numbers that are all in the form XX-XXXXXX (all numbers, no letters), then search through a folder full of images that use those part numbers as filenames, and then replace the images that are currently anchored to those part numbers. This is probably too complicated but I thought I'd ask. Thank you.

#45 By gctwnl ( 16 August 2017 - 15:14 )

I'm looking into buying IndexMatic for use with ID CC. I have a large book where I want to index to the most relevant places for a term. So, while the term "Business Function" might be on 100 pages, I only want to have the index link to maybe 10. This cannot be automated, but what I could do is have IndexMatic look for all occurrences, then hand select the ones I want. Is that a workflow that IndexMatic can support properly?

And what if some of the entries would be specific? E.g. some of the pages I want linked from "Business Function -> oldfashioned use of", again something I have to select manually.

I am quite aware that my needs cannot really be fully automated, but I'm looking for ways to improve in the ID user interface on indexing which is horrible.

Furthermore: could such a workflow support creating an index that has double entries, e.g. "Business Function" as main topic, but also "Elements -> Business Function", so "Business Function" as secondary topic inside "Elements"?

#46 By Ninon ( 17 August 2017 - 09:51 )

Bonjour,

Comme certains autres utilisateurs avant moi, j'ai été contrainte de changer d'ordinateur et je n'ai plus accès au mail contenant le lien de téléchargement d'Indexmatic : je ne peux donc pas le réinstaller. Auriez-vous la gentillesse de me le renvoyer ?
D'avance merci,

Bien cordialement,

#47 By Marc ( 16 September 2017 - 15:52 )

Hi Lloy (#44),

I *may* write custom scripts. My primary criterion — apart from being paid ;-) — is the technical interest of the project.

Just contact me at:
marc [at] indiscripts {dot} com

Regards,
Marc

#48 By Marc ( 16 September 2017 - 16:02 )

Hi gctwnl (#45)

It sounds like most of your requests are already under the scope of IndexMatic.

For example,
> I have a large book where I want to index to
> the most relevant places for a term. So, while the
> term "Business Function" might be on 100 pages,
> I only want to have the index link to maybe 10.

Using IndexMatic's `PageRank` parameter is likely the way to go. More details here:
http://indiscripts.com/blog/public/...

About the `topic > subtopic` structure, give a read to:
http://indiscripts.com/blog/public/...

Does it help?

Regards,
Marc

#49 By Marc ( 16 September 2017 - 16:07 )

Bonjour Ninon (#46)

> J'ai été contrainte de changer d'ordinateur
> et je n'ai plus accès au mail contenant le lien de
> téléchargement (…)

Une seule adresse pour demander une mise à jour de votre lien privé (ou toute autre question technique) :

support [at] indiscripts {dot} com

Cordialement,
Marc

#50 By James ( 15 December 2017 - 10:42 )

Hi Marc,

I'm looking at buying indexmatic to help me create an index for a very large product catalogue.

Using the try version and following your instructions above I was able to select a paragraph style, switch to query mode and run /.+/ and that worked well for pulling the product name and page.

BUT, I've just realised I also need the product code which is on the line above the product name and has it's own paragraph style applied to it. Is there regex to capture that string of digits (occasionally a letter) and also the text on the next line?

This would save me a lot of time.

Thanks,
James

#51 By Marc ( 15 January 2018 - 18:50 )

Hi James,

Sorry for the delay!

> (…) I've just realised I also need the product code which is on the
> line above the product name and has it's own paragraph style applied
> to it (…)

Then you need to create a Paragraph Style Group and have style1 and style2 in it. From that point you can tell IndexMatic to target the group and run a fine-tuned regex that both integrates product code and product name.

Regards,
Marc

#52 By Carsten ( 09 February 2018 - 10:15 )

Hi Marc,

we purchased Indyfont Pro and are trying to produce our first own font.

We added all the needed characters and created the template, then worked on the glyphs. Later we noticed that we didn't include the "space" character (U+0020). So we ran the script, added the glyph U+0020 and worked on the template again.

When we added the glyph in the script, it was added on top of the list, so we moved the page within the template from bottom to top, so to sync it with the glyph list.

When we then exported the OTF, the space character did not not work as intended.

What did we do wrong?

Cheers
Carsten

#53 By Marc ( 09 February 2018 - 18:09 )

Hi Carsten,

Thanks for your feedback on IndyFont Pro.

> Later we noticed that we didn't include the "space" character (U+0020).
> So we ran the script, added the glyph U+0020 and worked on the
> template again (…)

The SPACE glyph is a special one that is automatically created by IndyFont and cannot be redrawn. Remove the `U+0020` page and reexport the font.

What you can do, however, is adjusting the Space Width as shown below:

Technical Note. — It would be preferable that IndyFont prompts a warning message when the user manually creates a U+0020 glyph. This special code point should be made locked to avoid corrupted fonts. This bug will be fixed in the next release.

Regards,
Marc

#54 By Laeti ( 15 February 2018 - 15:05 )

Bonjour,
Je souhaite acquérir le script IndexMatic pour la génération d'un index de références produits. J'ai juste un doute sur la compatibilité avec InDesign CC puisque dans les infos données il est écrit : Type : Script pour Adobe® InDesign® CS3/CS4/CS5 + CS6/CC (test). Pourquoi "CC (test)" ?
Merci par avance
Cordialement
Laetitia

#55 By Marc ( 19 February 2018 - 15:29 )

Bonjour Laetitia,

Merci de votre intérêt pour IndexMatic.

> J'ai juste un doute sur la compatibilité avec InDesign CC (…)

IndexMatic est historiquement compatible avec InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5, mais il supporte CS6 et CC jusqu'aux dernières versions, sauf environnement ou configuration exceptionnellement récalcitrants.

Essayons de préciser ce dernier point. Il existe une dizaine de versions différentes d'InDesign sur lesquelles IndexMatic est susceptible d'officier, et autant de systèmes d'exploitation distincts, chacun avec un jeu de préférences spécifiques, tant au niveau de l'application qu'au niveau du système, droits de l'utilisateur, paramètres matériels, résolution d'écran, etc. Ce foisonnement fait qu'il est impossible de tester toutes les combinaisons et de garantir le parfait fonctionnement du script dans chacun de ces contextes.

C'est pourquoi nous insistons (lourdement ?) sur la nécessité de tester sur votre plateforme la version d'essai — bouton TRY — avant d'accéder à la version PRO. Si la version TRY fonctionne, la version PRO fonctionnera pareillement, car le code sous-jacent est identique.

IndexMatic est né avec les générations CS3/CS4/CS5, puis il a été graduellement « toiletté » pour continuer sa course sous CS6 et CC, à titre officieux. L'algorithme a fait ses preuves pendant près de dix ans et jusqu'à présent, la majorité des retours d'utilisation confirment sa robustesse et sa compatibilité avec InDesign CC au sens large — càd de 9.x à 13.0.

La version actuelle du script (2.032) est réputée la plus uniforme à cet égard, même si quelques anomalies ponctuelles touchent encore l'interface utilisateur (barre de progression partiellement masquée, artefacts d'affichage…).

Voilà le compte rendu le plus complet que je puisse vous livrer sur la question de la compatibilité. Mais, au risque de me répéter, la meilleure garantie reste de tester la version d'essai sur votre document cible.

N'hésitez pas à me faire part de vos découvertes à support [at] indiscripts {dot} com.

Cordialement,
Marc Autret

#56 By Carsten Sandkämper ( 26 February 2018 - 10:04 )

Hi Marc,

thank you for the swift answer earlier about the "SPACE issue".

Our specific problem is this:

We are creating a font that contains a connecting subline under each character, so that complete name tags or streetnames can be typed with a connecting subline.
It has to be connected to the letter and the subline should not contain breaks between the letters. We already styled all characters except the space character which produces a break at the moment.
We could use the underscore but this would hinder the workflow of our customer as he simply wants to c&p from one document to the other and not replace any characters.

Would this be doable with your plugin or is styling the SPACE character totally out of the question?

Thanks.
Carsten

#57 By Marc ( 27 February 2018 - 19:37 )

Hi Carsten,

In principle, styling the SPACE character in IndyFont is “out of the question” if by styling you mean adding ink to U+0020.

InDesign is of course able to apply a fine-tuned underline to any text unit through character styling. So I suppose InDesign is not the target app of your customer.

Anyway U+0020 really is a special character in InDesign as in many other apps, since it is directly involved in composition algorithms and rendering effects. I'm not expert enough to tell whether it can be safely made a printing glyph—while most other space characters can, cf http://www.indiscripts.com/post/201...

In Unicode, U+0020 is by nature “Non Joining” and belongs to the general category `Zs` [Separator, Space] with the binary properties White Space and Grapheme Base. As far as I know, its glyph *should* be a whitespace block and *should* only provide left side and right side bearings.

More importantly, most programs manage U+0020 disregarding the actual glyph, they only use the width declared in the font and apply their own logics for stretching and justification. Here is an interesting discussion on this topic: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/2...

In fact, I don't know whether the OpenType specification formally allows (and fully supports) the option of making fundamental non-printing characters visible. Some font typefaces provide a `/space` glyph containing outlines, so this is technically possible, but maybe it's something of a hack that breaks OTF compliancy behind the scene (?)

In spite—or because—of all these uncertainties, I wouldn't recommend to restyle the `/space` glyph if you're looking for a consistent, long-term, and portable solution.

Best regards,
Marc

#58 By DBLjan ( 23 May 2018 - 12:05 )

Bonjour!

I cant comment there, so I try here:

If I want to sort a document linklist by, lets say filename, how would I accomplish that with Collator? Or is .sort() the better opion here, having to use it only once per scriptinit (on a ~500 linklinst)?

Heres whats coming in:
ls = doc.links.everyItem().getElements();

(http://www.indiscripts.com/post/201...)

#59 By Marc ( 24 May 2018 - 14:57 )

Hi DBLJan,

Maybe you could sort links names:

===========================
#include 'path/to/collator.jsxinc'

// ...

var arr = doc.links.everyItem().name;
arr.sort(TCollator.compare);

// arr is now sorted.
===========================

However, the basic `arr.sort()` might be sufficient for link names—unless you really want to address specific language features.

@+
Marc