Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Exporting Text and Setting Text-Export Preferences

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Exporting Text and Setting Text-Export Preferences 77
Exporting Text and Setting Text-Export Preferences
The following script shows how to export text from an InDesign document. Note that you must use text or
story objects to export into text file formats; you cannot export all text in a document in one operation.
(We omitted the
myGetBounds function from this listing; you can find it in “Creating a text frame” on
page 71,” or see the ExportTextFile tutorial script.)
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item(0);
//Text exportFile method parameters:
//Format as ExportFormat
//To As File
//[ShowingOptions As Boolean = False]
//Format parameter can be:
//ExportFormat.inCopy
//ExportFormat.inCopyCS2Story
//ExportFormat.rtf
//ExportFormat.taggedText
//ExportFormat.textType
//Export the story as text. You'll have to fill in a valid file path on your system.
myTextFrame.parentStory.exportFile(ExportFormat.textType, File("/c/test.txt"));
The following example shows how to export a specific range of text. (We omitted the myGetBounds
function from this listing; you can find it in “Creating a text frame” on page 71
,” or see the ExportTextRange
tutorial script.)
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myStory = myDocument.stories.item(0);
var myStart = myStory.characters.item(0);
var myEnd = myStory.paragraphs.item(0).characters.item(-1);
myText = myStory.texts.itemByRange(myStart, myEnd);
//Text exportFile method parameters:
//Format as ExportFormat
//To As File
//[ShowingOptions As Boolean = False]
//Format parameter can be:
//ExportFormat.inCopy
//ExportFormat.inCopyCS2Story
//ExportFormat.rtf
//ExportFormat.taggedText
//ExportFormat.textType
//Export the text range. You'll have to fill in a valid file path on your system.
myText.exportFile(ExportFormat.textType, File("/c/test.txt"));
To specify the export options for the specific type of text file you’re exporting, use the corresponding
export preferences object. The following script sets text-export preferences (for the complete script, see
TextExportPreferences):
with(app.textExportPreferences){
//Options for characterSet: TextExportCharacterSet
characterSet = TextExportCharacterSet.UTF8;
//platform options: ImportPlatform
platform = ImportPlatform.macintosh;
}
The following script sets tagged text export preferences (for the complete script, see
TaggedTextExportPreferences):