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Re: Re: How can find-change grep only on Masters

Repeating a script multiple times is surely not a good solution. I would do it in the following way.

 

Try to understand what is going on here and see the differences between these lines and the last script!

 

if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {    if ( app.scriptPreferences.version >= 6 ) {        app.doScript( main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT , [], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Search in masterpages" );            }    else {        main();    }
} else {    alert ( "No documents open!" );
}

function main() {

    // Your settings    // ---    var searchList = [        [ "USA" , "Obama" ],        [ "rocket" , "sky" ],        [ "New York" , "Los Angeles" ]    ];    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;    var target = app.documents.everyItem().masterSpreads.everyItem().textFrames.everyItem();       for ( var j = 0; j < searchList.length; j++ ) {        var curSearch = searchList[j];        app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = curSearch[0];         app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo= curSearch[1];         target.changeGrep();     }        app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
} // main

 

 

– Kai


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