Hi Josh.
Joshua Ballanco <mailto:jballanc@gmail.com> 22 December 2011 15:04 On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Stephen Horne wrote:
I am afraid I don't have a copy of InDesign, so I cannot test your specific situation. However, it would be interesting to know what part of your script is slow. Specifically, I would be interested in seeing some benchmarking to indicate whether your script is wasting more time on the "load_bridge_support_file" line or the "SBApplication.applicationWithURL" line. (I suppose calls through to InDesign could be the bottle neck as well, but that would be rather unexpected I should think.)
You can probably start off with Ruby's Benchmark library (with some decent documentation here: http://rubydoc.info/stdlib/benchmark/frames , though honestly you only really need "Benchmark.measure"). From there it might be interesting to look at other profiling results, but best to start simple.
I've had a look at benchmark, and it seems it is the bit that creates the link to InDesign that's the bottleneck. Here's the code I used: #!/usr/local/bin/macruby framework 'ScriptingBridge' require 'benchmark' Benchmark.bm(7) do |x| x.report("load_BSF: ") { load_bridge_support_file '/Users/fatboy/inDesign.bridgesupport'} x.report("Create NSURL:") { @appurl = NSURL.fileURLWithPath("/Applications/Adobe Indesign CS5/Adobe InDesign CS5.app")} x.report("Link to ID: ") { @id = SBApplication.applicationWithURL(@appurl)} x.report("Link to doc1:") { @doc = @id.activeDocument} end and here's the report it returned: user system total real load_BSF: 0.130000 0.000000 0.130000 ( 0.109424) Create NSURL: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.001404) Link to ID: 27.770000 1.270000 29.040000 ( 14.824474) Link to doc1: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.000127) Fb
- Josh
