I talked with Laurent and it said that the fact that the object type is SBObject is probably done on purpose by the inDesign API. <br><br>- Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Matt Aimonetti <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mattaimonetti@gmail.com">mattaimonetti@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I generated the header file and looked at the description and I think that the issue us that the returned value isn&#39;t cast:</div>

<div><br></div><div>@property (copy) id appliedFont;  // The font applied to the find glyph preference, specified as either a font object or the name of font family. Can return: font, string or nothing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>&quot;id&quot; in Objective-C means refers to an object that isn&#39;t typed (could be anything). That might be the reason why you get an object that isn&#39;t cast. There is a workaround and it&#39;s to use the properties hash:</div>


<div><br></div><div><div>framework &#39;Foundation&#39;</div><div>framework &#39;ScriptingBridge&#39;</div><div><br></div><div>app = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier(&#39;com.adobe.indesign&#39;)</div><div>load_bridge_support_file &#39;inDesign.bridgesupport&#39;</div>


<div>doc = app.activeDocument</div><div>doc.allParagraphStyles.each do |style|</div><div>  puts <a href="http://style.name" target="_blank">style.name</a></div><div>  puts style.properties[&quot;appliedFont&quot;].name</div>

<div>  puts &quot;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&quot;</div>
<div>end</div></div><div><br></div><div>In my case it returns the following:</div><div><br></div><div><div>[No Paragraph Style]</div><div>Minion Pro<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>Regular</div>
<div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div>[Basic Paragraph]</div><div>Minion Pro<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>Regular</div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div></div><div><br></div><div>The available properties are:</div>
<div><div>OTFContextualAlternate</div><div>OTFDiscretionaryLigature</div><div>OTFFigureStyle</div><div>OTFFraction</div><div>OTFHVKana</div><div>OTFHistorical</div><div>OTFJustificationAlternate</div><div>OTFLocale</div>

<div>
OTFMark</div><div>OTFOrdinal</div><div>OTFOverlapSwash</div><div>OTFProportionalMetrics</div><div>OTFRomanItalics</div><div>OTFSlashedZero</div><div>OTFStretchedAlternate</div><div>OTFStylisticAlternate</div><div>OTFStylisticSets</div>


<div>OTFSwash</div><div>OTFTitling</div><div>alignToBaseline</div><div>allowArbitraryHyphenation</div><div>appliedFont</div><div>appliedLanguage</div><div>appliedNumberingList</div><div>autoLeading</div><div>autoTcy</div>


<div>autoTcyIncludeRoman</div><div>balanceRaggedLines</div><div>basedOn</div><div>baselineShift</div><div>bulletChar</div><div>bulletsAlignment</div><div>bulletsAndNumberingListType</div><div>bulletsCharacterStyle</div><div>


bulletsTextAfter</div><div>bunriKinshi</div><div>capitalization</div><div>characterAlignment</div><div>characterDirection</div><div>characterRotation</div><div>cjkGridTracking</div><div>composer</div><div>desiredGlyphScaling</div>


<div>desiredLetterSpacing</div><div>desiredWordSpacing</div><div>diacriticPosition</div><div>digitsType</div><div>dropCapCharacters</div><div>dropCapLines</div><div>dropCapStyle</div><div>dropcapDetail</div><div>endJoin</div>


<div>fillColor</div><div>fillTint</div><div>firstLineIndent</div><div>fontStyle</div><div>glyphForm</div><div>gradientFillAngle</div><div>gradientFillLength</div><div>gradientFillStart</div><div>gradientStrokeAngle</div>

<div>
gradientStrokeLength</div><div>gradientStrokeStart</div><div>gridAlignFirstLineOnly</div><div>gridAlignment</div><div>gridGyoudori</div><div>horizontalScale</div><div>hyphenWeight</div><div>hyphenateAcrossColumns</div><div>


hyphenateAfterFirst</div><div>hyphenateBeforeLast</div><div>hyphenateCapitalizedWords</div><div>hyphenateLadderLimit</div><div>hyphenateLastWord</div><div>hyphenateWordsLongerThan</div><div>hyphenation</div><div>hyphenationZone</div>


<div>id</div><div>ignoreEdgeAlignment</div><div>imported</div><div>index</div><div>jidori</div><div>justification</div><div>kashidas</div><div>keepAllLinesTogether</div><div>keepFirstLines</div><div>keepLastLines</div><div>


keepLinesTogether</div><div>keepRuleAboveInFrame</div><div>keepWithNext</div><div>keepWithPrevious</div><div>kentenAlignment</div><div>kentenCharacterSet</div><div>kentenCustomCharacter</div><div>kentenFillColor</div><div>


kentenFont</div><div>kentenFontSize</div><div>kentenFontStyle</div><div>kentenKind</div><div>kentenOverprintFill</div><div>kentenOverprintStroke</div><div>kentenPlacement</div><div>kentenPosition</div><div>kentenStrokeColor</div>


<div>kentenStrokeTint</div><div>kentenTint</div><div>kentenWeight</div><div>kentenXScale</div><div>kentenYScale</div><div>kerningMethod</div><div>keyboardDirection</div><div>kinsokuHangType</div><div>kinsokuSet</div><div>


kinsokuType</div><div>label</div><div>lastLineIndent</div><div>leading</div><div>leadingAki</div><div>leadingModel</div><div>leftIndent</div><div>ligatures</div><div>maximumGlyphScaling</div><div>maximumLetterSpacing</div>


<div>maximumWordSpacing</div><div>minimumGlyphScaling</div><div>minimumLetterSpacing</div><div>minimumWordSpacing</div><div>miterLimit</div><div>mojikumi</div><div>name</div><div>nextStyle</div><div>noBreak</div><div>numberingAlignment</div>


<div>numberingApplyRestartPolicy</div><div>numberingCharacterStyle</div><div>numberingContinue</div><div>numberingExpression</div><div>numberingFormat</div><div>numberingLevel</div><div>numberingRestartPolicies</div><div>


numberingStartAt</div><div>objectReference</div><div>overprintFill</div><div>overprintStroke</div><div>paragraphDirection</div><div>paragraphGyoudori</div><div>paragraphJustification</div><div>parent</div><div>pointSize</div>


<div>position</div><div>positionalForm</div><div>previewColor</div><div>rensuuji</div><div>rightIndent</div><div>rotateSingleByteCharacters</div><div>rubyAlignment</div><div>rubyAutoAlign</div><div>rubyAutoScaling</div><div>


rubyAutoTcyAutoScale</div><div>rubyAutoTcyDigits</div><div>rubyAutoTcyIncludeRoman</div><div>rubyFill</div><div>rubyFont</div><div>rubyFontSize</div><div>rubyFontStyle</div><div>rubyOpenTypePro</div><div>rubyOverhang</div>


<div>rubyOverprintFill</div><div>rubyOverprintStroke</div><div>rubyParentOverhangAmount</div><div>rubyParentScalingPercent</div><div>rubyParentSpacing</div><div>rubyPosition</div><div>rubyStroke</div><div>rubyStrokeTint</div>


<div>rubyTint</div><div>rubyType</div><div>rubyWeight</div><div>rubyXOffset</div><div>rubyXScale</div><div>rubyYOffset</div><div>rubyYScale</div><div>ruleAbove</div><div>ruleAboveColor</div><div>ruleAboveGapColor</div><div>


ruleAboveGapOverprint</div><div>ruleAboveGapTint</div><div>ruleAboveLeftIndent</div><div>ruleAboveLineWeight</div><div>ruleAboveOffset</div><div>ruleAboveOverprint</div><div>ruleAboveRightIndent</div><div>ruleAboveTint</div>


<div>ruleAboveType</div><div>ruleAboveWidth</div><div>ruleBelow</div><div>ruleBelowColor</div><div>ruleBelowGapColor</div><div>ruleBelowGapOverprint</div><div>ruleBelowGapTint</div><div>ruleBelowLeftIndent</div><div>ruleBelowLineWeight</div>


<div>ruleBelowOffset</div><div>ruleBelowOverprint</div><div>ruleBelowRightIndent</div><div>ruleBelowTint</div><div>ruleBelowType</div><div>ruleBelowWidth</div><div>scaleAffectsLineHeight</div><div>shataiAdjustRotation</div>


<div>shataiAdjustTsume</div><div>shataiDegreeAngle</div><div>shataiMagnification</div><div>singleWordJustification</div><div>skew</div><div>spaceAfter</div><div>spaceBefore</div><div>spanColumnMinSpaceAfter</div><div>spanColumnMinSpaceBefore</div>


<div>spanColumnType</div><div>spanSplitColumnCount</div><div>splitColumnInsideGutter</div><div>splitColumnOutsideGutter</div><div>startParagraph</div><div>strikeThroughColor</div><div>strikeThroughGapColor</div><div>strikeThroughGapOverprint</div>


<div>strikeThroughGapTint</div><div>strikeThroughOffset</div><div>strikeThroughOverprint</div><div>strikeThroughTint</div><div>strikeThroughType</div><div>strikeThroughWeight</div><div>strikeThru</div><div>strokeAlignment</div>


<div>strokeColor</div><div>strokeTint</div><div>strokeWeight</div><div>tabList</div><div>tatechuyoko</div><div>tatechuyokoXOffset</div><div>tatechuyokoYOffset</div><div>tracking</div><div>trailingAki</div><div>treatIdeographicSpaceAsSpace</div>


<div>tsume</div><div>underline</div><div>underlineColor</div><div>underlineGapColor</div><div>underlineGapOverprint</div><div>underlineGapTint</div><div>underlineOffset</div><div>underlineOverprint</div><div>underlineTint</div>


<div>underlineType</div><div>underlineWeight</div><div>verticalScale</div><div>warichu</div><div>warichuAlignment</div><div>warichuCharsAfterBreak</div><div>warichuCharsBeforeBreak</div><div>warichuLineSpacing</div><div>

warichuLines</div>
<div>warichuSize</div><div>xOffsetDiacritic</div><div>yOffsetDiacritic</div></div><div><br></div><div>That&#39;s probably enough info for you to use ;)</div><div class="im"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">


&quot;<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> My current project requires a JPEG<br></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">export and an IDML (InDesign&#39;s package XML for 3rd parties) export and I<br>


</span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">cannot get the Dictionary standard &quot;exports&quot; to work.&quot;</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>Can you explain a bit more about what you call the standard exports to work? I *might* be able to help.</div><div><br></div><div>I had started writing a very simple parser for the sdef header file, but I never finished the project nor released my code since nobody seemed to need it.</div>


<div>It would certainly be nice to have the equivalent of AppleScript Editor&#39;s dictionary viewer but with the MacRuby method names. It shouldn&#39;t be hard to do, but I really don&#39;t have much time to work on it at the moment. If anyone is interested, please let me know, I can assist you.</div>


<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>- Matt</div></font><div><br></div><div>p.s: To generate the bridgesupport file I run the following commands:</div><div>$ sdef /Applications/Adobe\ InDesign\ CS5.5/Adobe\ InDesign\ CS5.5.app/ | sdp -fh --basename inDesign</div>


<div>$ gen_bridge_metadata -c &#39;-I.&#39; inDesign.h &gt; inDesign.bridgesupport</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Spencer Rose <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dspencerr@gmail.com" target="_blank">dspencerr@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<br>
Hey Matt,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the response.  I had already read and done the tutorial there.<br>
It was very helpful.<br>
<br>
The problem is not so much the weakness of Scripting Bridge, it is the<br>
difficulty in knowing all of the method calls and their syntax available<br>
from InDesign.<br>
<br>
Following an earlier thread in here i used &quot;myIndesign.methods(true,true)&quot;<br>
and now have a list of methods, but that list is completely devoid of really<br>
import actions like &quot;open&quot; &amp; &quot;export&quot; and the documentation in the Scripting<br>
Dictionary for InDesign which I have been using for Javascript &amp; Apple Script<br>
does not translate straight across.  The code I used to start experimenting<br>
with speaking directly to the InDesign DOM and getting its info was as follows:<br>
        @id = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier(&#39;com.adobe.indesign&#39;)<br>
        doc = @id.activeDocument<br>
<br>
        pgph = doc.allParagraphStyles<br>
<br>
        pgph.each do |style|<br>
           puts &quot;#{<a href="http://style.name" target="_blank">style.name</a>}&quot;<br>
           puts style.appliedFont<br>
        end<br>
<br>
I get the name of the Paragraph Style, but the appliedFont just prints an<br>
SBObject.<br>
<br>
This is a really small example, but is the basis for my work because I will need<br>
to get font names, styles, kerning, margins, the text of stories and coordinates<br>
of text boxes and a lot more  information.  My current project requires a JPEG<br>
export and an IDML (InDesign&#39;s package XML for 3rd parties) export and I<br>
cannot get the Dictionary standard &quot;exports&quot; to work.  I really like macRuby and<br>
have totally jumped on it. Your book is awesome and has helped a ton.<br>
But I worry that it is not sufficiently evolved for me to use it<br>
on a project needing this level of control and access to InDesign<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance, Spencer<br>
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