Select hyperlinks

[Paul Marriner]

I have a document with numerous page numbers, some are hyperlinks, some not. However there is no visual clue which is which. Is there a grep search that could add a new character style to those that are, or aren't, hyperlinks?

Paul 

[Jean-Claude Tremblay]

No need for GREP…

- Create a character style to highlight the hyperlink

- Selection the ALL the Hyperlinks inside the Hyperlinks panel

- Choose Edit Hyperlink in the panel option

- Pick your character style to be applied for the hyperlinks

JC

On Oct 1, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Paul Marriner <flyti...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a document with numerous page numbers, some are hyperlinks, some not. However there is no visual clue which is which. Is there a grep search that could add a new character style to those that are, or aren't, hyperlinks?

Paul 

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[Michael Brady]

Jean-Claude wrote:

> No need for GREP…
>
> - Create a character style to highlight the hyperlink
> - Selection the ALL the Hyperlinks inside the Hyperlinks panel
> - Choose Edit Hyperlink in the panel option
> - Pick your character style to be applied for the hyperlinks

The Character Style for Hyperlink should already be there. ID creates it when you make a new hyperlink or ID imports it if the text already has a hyperlink. I just edit the CS attributes by changing the color to None and turning of the underline.

[Michael Brady]

> On Oct 1, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Michael Brady <mich...@michaelbradydesign.com> wrote:
>
> I just edit the CS attributes by changing the color to None

Oops. That won’t work! Change the color to black and turn off the underline.


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Michael Brady

[Paul Marriner]

Thanks JC. I had a bit of brain-fade. Unfortunately being able to do that didn't solve my main problem.

Kasyan Servetsky was kind enough to write me a script to add hyperlinks to page numbers in a concordance. Unfortunately I didn't make clear that many of the page numbers are repeated and thus the script only adds a hyperlink to one instance of a page number. In the script that follows the second and any subsequent occurrence fails at line 43 (source = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(sourceTextRef);, or at least in that section. Changing the character style of the non-linked page numbers in the concordance and editing the script got me nowhere. Can anyone modify the following script to overcome the problem?

Paul

/* Copyright 2016, Kasyan Servetsky

September 29, 2016

Written by Kasyan Servetsky

http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua

e-mail: asko...@yahoo.com */

//======================================================================================

var set, doc,

count = 0,

scriptName = "Make hyperlinks";

PreCheck();

//===================================== FUNCTIONS  ======================================

function Main() {

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d+";

app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Pg Number";

var foundItems = doc.findGrep(true);

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

if (foundItems.length == 0) ErrorExit("No page numbers were found in the current document.", true);

for (var i = 0; i < foundItems.length; i++) {

try {

var sourceTextRef = foundItems[i];

MakeHyperlink(sourceTextRef);

}

catch(err) {

$.writeln(err.message + ", line: " + err.line);

}

}

var report = count + " hyperlink" + ((count == 1) ? " was" : "s were") + " created.";

alert("Finished. " + report, scriptName);

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function MakeHyperlink(sourceTextRef) {

var source, destination, hyperlink,

pageNum = sourceTextRef.contents,

obj = GetPage(pageNum);

if (obj != null) {

source = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(sourceTextRef);

destination = obj.docDest.hyperlinkPageDestinations.add(obj.page);

hyperlink = doc.hyperlinks.add(source, destination, {name: "Page_" + pageNum});

if (hyperlink.isValid) {

count++;

}

}

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function GetPage(pageNum) {

var obj = null;

for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {

if (app.documents[i].pages.itemByName(pageNum).isValid) {

obj = {page: app.documents[i].pages.itemByName(pageNum), docDest: app.documents[i]};

break;

}

}

return obj;

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function PreCheck() {

if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("Please open a document and try again.", true);

doc = app.activeDocument;

if (!app.activeDocument.saved) ErrorExit("The current document has not been saved since it was created. Please save the document and try again.", true);

Main();

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function ErrorExit(error, icon) {

alert(error, scriptName, icon);

exit();

}

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Jean-Claude Tremblay <tremb...@videotron.ca> wrote:

No need for GREP…

- Create a character style to highlight the hyperlink

- Selection the ALL the Hyperlinks inside the Hyperlinks panel

- Choose Edit Hyperlink in the panel option

- Pick your character style to be applied for the hyperlinks

JC

On Oct 1, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Paul Marriner <flyti...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a document with numerous page numbers, some are hyperlinks, some not. However there is no visual clue which is which. Is there a grep search that could add a new character style to those that are, or aren't, hyperlinks?

Paul 

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