Skinning a user interface with ScriptUI may be tricky as soon as you want to apply custom fonts to specific fields or controls. Besides the ScriptUI object model does not offer intuitive solutions to that purpose, we also have to cope with a few cross-platform issues…
The Hidden Way to Highlight Styles
May 10, 2012 | Snippets | en | fr | Comments (24)
Improve the Way you Merge Cells in InDesign
April 18, 2012 | Snippets | en | fr | Comments (1)
In a recent tutorial from ExpertsGraphiques (in French), Pierre Labbe has demonstrated a GREP-based method to merge two adjacent columns in a table while preserving the corresponding rows. It lies in fact that InDesign does not offer a so basic functionality! The “Merge cells” feature (which you access from the Table menu) is confined to globally merge all selected cells in a single one. Although P. Labbe showed great ingenuity, it seemed natural to investigate a more effective approach…
Cloning and Syncing Objects in ID CS5.5
February 18, 2012 | Extras | en | fr | Comments (18)
Factorization is a profound paradigm in graphic design. Of course designers want to focus on newness, and they hate repeat what is already done. But this is a hard battle, because their work is mainly about pattern, analogy, iteration, derivation, and update, so they often have to deal with reusing the same stuff in a different way. Let's go further on this subject.
InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #2
December 26, 2011 | Extras | en | Comments (4)
As opened in the “InDesign Scripting Forum: 25 ‘sticky’ posts” article, I will regularly feed this “Extras” section with recommended discussions and/or snippets which I have contributed to through the ID Scripting Forum. Here is the scripting stuff I found specially interesting over the last six months…
How to Detect a “Ghost Item”
October 20, 2011 | Tips | en | fr |
A “ghost item” is an anchored / inline page item (text frame, spline item, etc.) which is temporarily hidden because its parent character is in an overset area:
IndexMatic 2.025 | New-Release Notes
October 09, 2011 | IndexMatic | en | fr | Comments (9)
Notice to all indexing experts! IndexMatic 2.025 for InDesign has just been released with an impressive number of new features and goodies: the Hit Report retrieves words and stats before indexing, the Query Editor has been entirely redesigned, queries now allow comments and cross-references, and finally IndexMatic's regular expressions support Unicode properties and five additional metacharacters “you can't live without.”
What Exactly is a Word?
September 04, 2011 | Tips | en | Comments (4)
A number of InDesign scripts manipulate words for counting, indexing, or other processing purposes. Given a text container—basically a Story—the InDesign Scripting DOM provides many ways to handle text contents through specialized subclasses of the Text interface: one can easily access to insertion points, character ranges, lines, paragraphs, text columns, styled-text chunks, and… words. Although this concept seems pretty straightforward, I tried to understand a bit better what it really means.
Notes on ‘fastEntireScript’ Undo Mode
August 22, 2011 | Tips | en | Comment!
In April 2009, Thomas Silkjær reported a bug on app.doScript that alters the ‘undo’ feature in InDesign. Although this issue has been fixed in CS5, there are still some pitfalls to beware of when you want to speed up your script through fastEntireScript…
IndexMatic 2 | Public Release and User's Guide
July 02, 2011 | IndexMatic | en | fr | Comments (34)
IndexMatic 2 is a powerful and highly configurable word-indexing tool for InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5+ (Mac and Win). The present release (v. 2.02) offers completely new features: ‘sub-topic’ processing, XML export, InDesign snippet generation, and much more! “This script is a truly wonderful achievement. It's versatile, clever, and lightning fast, and the options are sensible.”—Peter Kahrel, June 2011.
Comparing the Performance of ExtendScript Snippets
June 23, 2011 | Tips | en | Comments (2)
Although jsPerf is a very effective tool in a pure JavaScript environment, you may want to benchmark competing code snippets in the specific ExtendScript field. Here is a simple way to test and improve your InDesign scripted functions…
Comment paramétrer les espaces dans InDesign
May 16, 2011 | Extras | fr | Comments (3)
Le contrôle des espaces (chasse, justification, etc.) est le lieu d'une divergence historique entre XPress et InDesign. Tandis qu'InDesign propose une douzaine d'espaces distinctes qui semblent emprisonnées dans leur sémantique Unicode, XPress a souvent été considéré comme un outil plus flexible du fait qu'il ouvre à l'utilisateur le pouvoir de définir lui-même les valeurs d'espacement et les plages de variation dont il a besoin. Cependant, le déficit d'InDesign n'est pas aussi définitif qu'il y paraît…
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