We're in the process of re-writing some externally developed plug-ins for InDesign CS to run in CS5. One of the things these plug-ins do is resize a document to a specific size when the document is opened. It looks like APID might do what we need it to do but I've been through the cookbook and reference manuals and, while I'm able to create and deploy compiled scripts that fire when a specific InDesign document is opened I need it to fire when any InDesign document is loaded.

Currently I'm doing this via a user executed VBS file, we'd like to automate this.

I'm struggling to understand exactly how I get the docLoaded event to fire when not attached to a specific object or proxy object.

I'm probably missing something simple but a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated.

Also, I was under the impression that I would be able to create and compile scripts using VBS. This doesn't appear to be the case, can someone confirm this? I've been able to make use of the extensions to ExtendScript (createProgressBar for example) but the compiler only seems to accept files of type .js or .jsx.

I currently have some pretty comprehensive scripts written in VBScript, being able to call those from a registered menuItem would be useful, is that possible? An alternative would be to register a new menuItem using JavaScript which calls a JavaScript function which, in turn, calls myVBS file.

I hope I've been clear!

Thanks in advance,

Conrad

Thanks for that, that's great. I've now been through the same example in more detail and seen what I was missing. I was trying to get the extendscript into one of the textframes in the sample document, not the external jsx file. I've changed that and it's now working.

My problem is now centered around the running of my complex VBS files. Here's an example:

A user clicks on a link in an ASP page that does some pre-processing and then opens an InDesign document in their local instance of InDesign CS5.
I want to do a query in our database which will return the correct height and width of the document (this might have been adjusted by a third party).
These measurements should be used to resize the document.

Using VBS I can do one half (the database bit) and using APID I can do the auto-resize on load.
Is it possible to return values from an external VBS file back into parameters within a jsx file?

Can you point me to instructions that would outline how to run a VBS from within a JSX file? I really just need the event handlers from the APID toolkit. Everything else (that I need) is do-able from VBS.

Thanks again

Conrad