Passing arguments to jsx file externally

Hi,

I have a script (javascript, jsx) that will parse content from InDesign (.indd) documents using InDesignServer. I want to be able to pass the filename, as well as the path of the indesign file as parameters to this script.

I have tried this vbs solution:

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runjavascript.vbs

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Option Explicit

On Error Resume Next

Dim appRef

Dim javaScriptFile

Set appRef = CreateObject( "Photoshop.Application" )

appRef.BringToFront

javaScriptFile = "C:\myscript\test.jsx"

call appRef.DoJavaScriptFile( javaScriptFile, Array(Array("one","two"), Array("three")), 1)

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DoJavaScriptFile takes 3 params, the first being the script, the 2nd is an array of params. In my example, you can have an array of arrays of params. When you receive params from javascript side, it will see param 0 as (one, two), param 1 is (three). For most people, simple case is fine: eg:

call appRef.DoJavaScriptFile( javaScriptFile, Array("one","two", "three"), 1)

The javascript would look like this:

test.jsx

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#target photoshop

if (arguments.length > 0)

alert("ARGUMENT 0 = " + arguments[0]);

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from the jsx side, there's a magical variable called "arguments" of array type. When you pass variables in, the 1st one will be arguments[0], the next one would be arguments[1], and so forth.

To execute this from command line, (assuming everything lives in c:\myscript):

cscript c:\myscript\runjavascript.vbs

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This approach does not work, because I get an error from the CreateObject function, it cannot create an object for InDesignServer.Application.

Ideally, I want to be able to pass arguments from a python script to a jsx script.

Setup:

InDesign CS4 .indd documents

Win2k8 server

JavaScript (via ExtendScript toolkit)

InDesignServer CS5.5 (32bit)

SmartLayout plugin