With its hundreds of interconnected features and its documentation erected in front of you like a Gothic cathedral, IndexMatic³ will undoubtedly inspire you with this fateful question: where to start? And we often start with something concrete, a specific problem that needs to be solved right now. The purpose of this page is to guide you quickly and clearly into the inner workings of the program, from the questions most frequently asked to the tech support…
IndexMatic³ | Frequently Asked Questions [UPDATE]
May 11, 2026 | IndexMatic³ | en | fr
What’s New in IdExtenso 2.6
May 02, 2026 | Tips | en
IdExtenso continues to evolve as the most comprehensive framework for InDesign/ExtendScript developers. Version 2.60324 brings significant enhancements across binary handling, compression, text processing, DOM utilities, and more…
InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #14
April 21, 2026 | Snippets | en
Welcome back to a series that’s been quietly running since 2011 — yes, you read that right, fifteen years. Episode #13 dropped way back in June 2019, and honestly, we all thought that was the finale. But then something funny happened: the internet started forgetting things…
HurryCover TRY & PRO: The Secret Weapon for Professional Book Covers
March 31, 2026 | HurryCover | en | fr
The Meta-Operator Effect (ExtendScript)
February 17, 2026 | Tips | en | fr
While implementing a bounding box system, I discovered — almost by accident! — an unexpected and remarkable property of operator overloading in ExtendScript. This post is technically dense, but the concepts explored are worth the cognitive effort...
The Creative Coding Collective Project
January 23, 2026 | Extras | en | fr
In a world where everything is evaporating, where no human collective seems strong enough to resist the constant deception, one ends up wondering where to turn, to whom to pray, with whom to build. I don't have the answer, but the least I can do is mention the rare islands of genuine solidarity. Creative Coding Collective, a community born from a Slack group of 700 Adobe developers and scripters, has as its motto to prioritize collaboration over competition. Our New Zealand colleague Kris Coppieters — who also maintains a thriving blog on programming and new tech — leads the CCC project at this address: hub.creativecodingcollective.org.
IndexMatic³ | XML/IDML Bug Fixes
December 27, 2025 | IndexMatic³ | en | fr
The latest version of IndexMatic (26-Dec-2025) fixes several bugs identified in the XML/IDML output layer. The typical error you might encounter was an internal XML error message (with some formatting settings) or the dialog box freezing at 50% when generating the index in InDesign or IDMS form…
SmartSort 1.24 for InDesign | Added Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
October 14, 2025 | SmartSort | en | fr
Sometimes, the most interesting development stories begin with a simple email from an unexpected corner of the world. This summer brought one such adventure with SmartSort, our language-aware paragraph sorting script for InDesign…
ByteStream: Your Swiss Army Knife for Binary Data in InDesign Scripts
September 30, 2025 | Tips | en | fr
Gone are the days of manually parsing bytes and wrestling with endianness! ByteStream (a powerful addition to the IdExtenso framework) introduces a declarative format string syntax that lets you read complex binary structures in a few lines of code. Whether you're extracting metadata from font files or parsing proprietary formats, ByteStream transforms hours of painstaking byte manipulation into readable code…
IndexMatic³ | 10 Tricks That Almost No One Knows
July 03, 2025 | IndexMatic³ | en | fr
So you use IndexMatic³ regularly, at cruising speed, but do you know the more secret features that no one ever told you about? Take advantage of the summer to give yourself a crash course on increased productivity. Hidden tools, shortcuts, and little-known tricks: here are our top 10…
InDesign 20 Goes to MathML — Part 2
March 23, 2025 | Tips | en
In the first part of this paper, we explored the basics of MathML and how it's incorporated into InDesign's Math Expressions panel. For script developers working with ExtendScript and/or UXP, the underlying SVG structure requires further investigation. This will lead us to intriguing issues and potential challenges…
Finally Fixing the “Show Hidden Characters” Menu Action [UPDATE]
February 15, 2025 | Snippets | en | fr
InDesign does not always show the hidden characters when you ask it to Show Hidden Characters! Why? Because the active document window may then be in some preview Screen Mode that prohibits the appearance of invisible characters. It's a bit silly, but that's how it is. Well, that's how it was until today. A simple startup script will solve this little paradox…
The Great Folder Fiasco: A Tale of InDesign 20.1 and macOS
January 31, 2025 | Snippets | en
As a developer or InDesign scripter, you know how important it is to stay up-to-date on the latest changes and issues affecting your work. Here we'll tackle an obscure, low-level issue affecting InDesign 20.1 on macOS…
SmartSort 1.21 for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5/CS4
December 04, 2024 | SmartSort | en | fr
SmartSort is a free InDesign script that sorts paragraphs or cells. It produces a lexicographic order consistent with the language considered. Version 1.21 fixes an issue related to case discrimination in various ‘tailored’ languages. It also deals with the letter ⟨ё⟩ in Russian.
InDesign Script: Show Me the Rivers
November 06, 2024 | Extras | en | fr
My colleague Mikhail Ivanyushin has just developed a nice utility that detects and highlights text ‘rivers’, these stacks of oblique or vertical spaces which form randomly within a typographic composition and “make it ugly.” Chasing such road accidents is a fetish sport. So if you don't have time to damage your eyes, here's a more comfortable solution…
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