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Automating InDesign since 2009

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Mini-scripts and short re-usable samples.

InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #8

Summer is the ideal time to deepen your knowledge of InDesign scripting, isn't it? In this new episode of our roundup series we will investigate Page objects, style groups, and a nice selection of practical snippets. Feel free to grab and share the good stuff…

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Speeech! [UPDATE]

Speeech for InDesign CS4/CS5/CS6/CC allows you to quickly create nice speech balloons.

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #7

Do you want to stretch your InDesign-scripting power? Check out the new episode of the ISFR series and improve your skills in managing text, characters, styles, page items, events… in an automated manner.

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #6

Just by chance, the new episode of our ISFR series focuses on two topics often considered the most complex in InDesign scripting: page coordinates on the one hand, tables and cells on the other. Here are some enlightening discussions in these areas…

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InTetris for InDesign CS5/CS6/CC

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #5

As pointed out by Davide Barranca in his recent Open Letter to (Adobe) Devs scripting resources appear very sparse on the Internet. At some level, this ISFR series is an attempt to keep interesting codes, snippets, and knowledge visible to InDesign scripters, from various discussions I have participated in during the last months. Let's get to the heart of the matter…

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The ‘Collect Everything’ Trick

Given an InDesign document, how to exhaustively collect every persistent object it embeds in a single pass? The following snippet solves the problem in the blink of an eye…

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #4

Welcome in the new episode of the Scripting Forum Roundup series. Today I decided to focus on solid tricks and in-depth topics that might be of interest to experienced script developers…

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Pasteboard Expander for InDesign CS5-CS6

Is there a way to enlarge the pasteboard in that particular area?

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #3

Here is the third episode of the Scripting Forum Roundup(s), a selection of 18 recommended discussions and sample codes which I have contributed to over the last six months. Enjoy!

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Improve the Way you Merge Cells in InDesign

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…

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InDesign Scripting Forum Roundup #2

As opened in the “InDesign Scripting Forum: 25 ‘sticky’ posts” article, I will regularly feed this 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…

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TotalRescale | Last-Minute Layout Adjustment

TotalRescale for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5 makes it easy to shift and/or rescale your layout.

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ShowHideQuotes : révélateur de citations

Le script ShowHideQuotes permet de révéler / masquer automatiquement les passages entre guillemets du document actif.

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Transforming Spreads in InDesign CS4-CS5!

Wanna scale, rotate, skew spreads in InDesign? This ‘feature’ is available since CS4!

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A Simple Script to Fix Table Widows

FixTableWidows in action (InDesign CS4/CS5).

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InDesign Scripting Forum: 25 ‘sticky’ posts [roundup]

The InDesign Scripting Forum is an ideal place to post scripting recipes and to address technical issues. I learn a lot from its famous contributors —Dave Saunders, Harbs, Jongware, Peter Kahrel, Kasyan Servetsky, Marijan Tompa… At odd times I post my own brainchilds. Here is a small selection of snippets and topics that I think are worthwhile.

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Report Page Hyphens 2.0 (beta)

In May 2010, Loïc Aigon and I have written the first draft of ReportPageHyphens, a quite basic script which is used to inventory all unattractive hyphens that occur between two pages. The preliminary version of RPH has been released in Scriptopedia and was supposed to work in InDesign CS4. Since then we have found several bugs and issues. Some of them have been reported in Scriptopedia's comment page, or in the Adobe InDesign forum. The main user request was that the script can also identify unwanted hyphens that appear in footnotes. Should we try a new approach?

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ScriptUI Challenge: JPEG Links Explorer

JpegSplorer: script for InDesign CS4/CS5 (Windows interface).

To be quite honest, I do not believe for a second that this script has a future! JpegSplorer for InDesign is nothing but an attempt to push ScriptUI to its utmost limits...

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My First Extendables’ Script for InDesign

A few days ago, Stijn Debrouwere has disclosed Extendables, an unprecedented open source framework for Adobe ExtendScript. So exciting! This project will interest many script developers, especially those dealing with InDesign. “If you're doing any serious scripting, Extendables will definitely make your life easier,” Stijn said. “It includes some of the newer Javascript 1.6+ Array methods like forEach, useful shortcuts/monkeypatches and modules for logging, HTTP connections and creating user interfaces.” I tested for you this yet young but already powerful scripting catalyst.

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