Indiscripts

001–018 |  CONTROLLING LAYOUT, PAGES, LAYERS, FRAMES
019–037 |  HAVING FUN WITH IMAGES, GRAPHICS, SHAPES, COLORS
038–051 |  DEALING WITH TEXT CONTENTS, STYLES AND LANGUAGES
052–058 |  FINE-TUNING TYPOGRAPHY
059–068 |  LINKING, INDEXING, ANCHORING, SHARING
069–074 |  PLAYING WITH DATA AND TABLES
075–090 |  CONVERTING, IMPORTING, EXPORTING, EPUBLISHING
091–099 |  USING FIND, CHANGE, GREP AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
100-126 |  SCRIPTING, EXTENDING, PROGRAMING YOUR OWN SOLUTIONS
127–140 |  UNCLASSIFIED

Note. — The overwhelming majority of resources and sources I focus on are InDesign-wise, and available in English. In some cases, however, you will find Illustrator, Photoshop and/or Acrobat-related topics. Also, I may mention additional links provided in non-English languages. A table of pictograms and their meanings is placed at the bottom of the page.

Controlling Layout, Pages, Layers, Frames

001. Manage book covers and jackets

HurryCover "Book Covers and Dust Jackets Made Easy"
User Guide • Manuel d'utilisation
Démo Urbanbike
Scriptopedia's Review
Buchcovers und Schutzumschläge ganz einfach
CoverBuilder (brunoherfst)
IdJsCoverCS5 (ocn.ne)
Make Book Jacket (danrodney)

002. Move every object on every page toward
         or away from spine | Olav Martin Kvern

AdjustLayout (indesignsecrets)

003. Streamline the creation and editing of
         layer-heavy documents

MadeForLayers (axaio)

004. Selectively activate Illustrator layers
         within InDesign

(forums.adobe.com)

005. Add custom layer sets automatically on
         document creation or later

tomaxxiLAYERS (adobeexchange)

006. Enlarge the pasteboard where needed

PasteboardExpander (indiscripts)

007. Automatically add size labels (W x H)
        to InDesign frames

SizeLabels (rorohiko)
Overview • Direct Link
LabelImageSize (jongware) • Direct Link

008. Create InDesign guides that are shorter
         (or longer) than the page

(indesignsecrets)

009. Apply frame transform to image(s) then
         reset parent frame to 0°

RemoveGraphicFrameRotation (indiscripts)

010. Mark all Master Page overridden page items
         with custom XML tag

tomaxxiMARK-UP (tomaxxi)
Direct Link

011. Balance columns with vertical
         justification | James Felici

(creativepro)

012. Manage vertical rules between text columns

InGutter (indiscripts)
Deal with InGutter "side-effect"
Corondeles automáticos en InDesign
Des filets personnalisés dans vos colonnes

013. Easily switch artboards orientation
         in Illustrator

EasySwitch (loicaigon)
Direct Link

014. Allow multiple InDesign users to work on
         the same page simultaneously

LayoutZone (automatication)

015. Add automatic “jump” lines in
         InDesign | Jongware

PleaseContinue (indesignsecrets)
Direct Link

016. Appliquez des traits de coupe à
         l'objet sélectionné | Loïc Teixeira

AdvancedCropMarks (scriptopedia)

017. Fit text frame to content in Illustrator
         (and many more handy scripts!)

(kelso)

018. Round off all object dimensions in
         pixels-measured documents

Roundhouse (github)

Having fun with Images, Graphics, Shapes, Colors

019. Easily create speech balloons
        in InDesign-based comics

Speeech! (indiscripts)
Quoted as 'brilliant script' by D. Blatner (indesignsecrets)

020. Make pies (and more) in InDesign | Jongware

MakeMeAPie (forums.adobe)
Claquos BETA (indiscripts)

021. Check for flipped images (and report graphic
         filename, page number etc.)

(gilbertconsulting)
InDesignSecrets Post

022. Adjust image frame and resize it to page-bleed
         without moving its content

FitFrameToBleed (brunoherfst)

023. Report all image coordinates & sizes of
         the active document | Jongware

(forums.adobe)

024. Display a thumbnail list of pictures
         in a palette

PictureTaste (kerntiff)

025. Get a picture framing interface in Photoshop

PictureFrame (scriptopedia)

026. Make pattern-filled text in InDesign

PatternMaker (documentgeek)
Text frame w/ background using MagnetoGuides

027. Easily scale/rescale/unscale graphics

ScaleGraphics (in-tools)

028. Batch-process raster images
         in InDesign | Denis Libit

TristaDPI (github)
Exchange (detail)

029. Convert anything into ASCII Art

AsciiMe (loicaigon)
Direct Link
ASCII Art mit InDesign (pixelstaub)

030. Divide frames in equal parts

FrameDivider (brunoherfst)

031. Adjust colors, handle embedded images,
         and much more, in Illustrator CS6

Phantasm CS (astutegraphics)

032. Скрипт для Illustrator — Штрихкод EAN-13
         (Make EAN-13 barcodes in Illustrator)

BarcodeEAN13 (za-vod)
BookBarcode for InDesign (indiscripts)

033. Automatische Nummerierung mit Barcodes

(sachaheck)

034. Generate color swatch variants
         in InDesign | Jongware

Variations (indesignsecrets)
Direct Link

035. Use the SoftSkinning panel in Photoshop

SoftSkinning (vimeo)
Utilisez les panneaux PS de Stéphane Baril

036. Make dot-dash-dot strokes
         in Illustrator & InDesign | Jeff Witchel

(layersmagazine)

037. Create fun 'sunburst' polygons in InDesign

(indesignsecrets)

Dealing with Text Contents, Styles and Languages

038. Automatically highlight styles in InDesign

StyLighter (indiscripts)
Style highlighting, by Mike Rankin
Farbige Formate (absatzsetzer)
Avez-vous bien stylé votre doc InDesign ?
PerfectPrepText (jongware/kahrel)

039. Manage text changes in InDesign and InCopy

CtrlChanges (ctrlpublishing)
Official Beta Ann.

040. Edit the text of an InDesign document from
         outside!

StoryTweaker (rorohiko)

041. Calculate word count for an entire book

(forums.adobe)
What exactly is a word

042. Domesticate Text Variables

tomaxxiVARIprocessor (adobeexchange)
Custom Text Variables manager (kahrel)
What to do when ID Text Variables don't display correctly
Add User and Computer name Variables (loicaigon)
Direct Link

043. Enhance the title case feature

TitleCase (kahrel)

044. Use an equation editor in InDesign and
         XPress (Mac OS X)

MathMagic (mathmagic)

045. Paste contents into a document with respect
         to italics, bolds etc.

RichPaste (indiscripts)

046. Manage footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

Dynamically convert footnotes to sidenotes (kahrel)
Dynamic Endnotes (kahrel)
Footnotes in columns (kahrel)
Brilliant answer to footnote question... (indesignsecrets)
Migration typographique des appels de note

047. Relax the international text capabilities
         of InDesign CS4 (and later)

idRTL (scriptui.com)

048. Create non-latin placeholder text

(indesignsecrets)

049. Work on InDesign multi-lingual documents

ColourFullLanguage (kerntiff)

050. Sort paragraphs using the Index feature!

Language-aware sorter LIGHT (kahrel)
Language-Aware Paragraph Sorter

051. Work on right-to-left languages
         (Arabic, Hebrew...)

World Tools (in-tools)

Fine-Tuning Typography

052. Create OpenType fonts...
        from within InDesign!

IndyFont DEMO (jongware)
Create a custom bullet with IndyFont (indesignsecrets)

053. Schrift-Eigenschaften
         auflisten | Roland Dreger

AppliedFont (hilfdirselbst)

054. Find and manage missing glyphs in InDesign

Missing Glyphs (kahrel)
Discussion

055. Turn on Optical Margin Alignment for all
         text frames | Robb Irrgang

FixOMA (github)

056. Check and fix hyphenation issues

HyphenationChecker (kahrel)
GetHyphens (kahrel) †Teus de Jong
ReportPageHyphens (scriptopedia)

057. Erstellt einen Schriftartenkatalog von allen
         Schriftarten aus dem InDesign Schriften-Verzeichnis

FontCatalog (destio)

058. Have fun with "the most amazing script
         for producing word clouds!"

Wordalizer (indiscripts)

Linking, Indexing, Anchoring, Sharing

059. Create a full index from scratch!

IndexMatic (indiscripts)
IndexMatic rated "exceptionally good" in InDesign Mag. (rankin)
IndexMatic's Frequently Asked Questions
Addressing exotic symbols such as ™ or ® through iX
Générer un index des auteurs ou des titres d'œuvres
Traitement des sauts de ligne forcés avec iX

060. Show the content of an index marker

IndexToolTip (kerntiff)

061. Fill in a Table of Contents using find/change

(forums.adobe)

062. Utilisez les textes conditionnels
        pour produire une table des matières

(expertsgraphiques)

063. Convert URLs to hyperlink (InDesign/InCopy)

URL2hyperlink (dtptools)

064. Easily manage InDesign text anchors and
         get rid of orphaned ones

TextAnchors (kahrel)

065. Simplify the editing of text shared between
         multiple documents (CS6)

SyncTXT (adobeexchange)
CS5 version

066. Break links between InCopy and Indesign

(gilbertconsulting)

067. Clone and synchronize objects in InDesign CS5.5

(indiscripts)

068. Auto-populate article info from InDesign
         metadata

(gilbertconsulting)

Playing with Data and Tables

069. Use Data Merge to create a table

CSVtoTables (scriptopedia)
Direct Link (loicaigon)
Vrais tableaux InDesign en fusion de données (loicaigon)
Create a table for a directory (indesignsecrets)
Tips & Scripts par Loïc Aigon (branislavmilic)

070. Copy table content without losing formatting
         of the table target | Dave Saunders

PopTabUnleashed (jsid)

071. Opérez une fusion de colonnes via Grep

(expertsgraphiques)

072. Turn your raw data into finished documents

DocsFlow InCatalog InData (emsoftware)
InData | Added support for text anchors, hyperlinks...

073. Make the Cell Merge feature intelligent!

SmartCellMerge (indiscripts)
Скрипт по объединению ячеек таблицы (adobeindesign.ru)
Tabellenzellen zusammenfügen (absatzsetzer)

074. Transparente Konturen in
         InDesign CS 5.5-Tabellen | Martin Fischer

(absatzsetzer)
Original Post (DE)

Converting, Importing, Exporting, ePUBlishing

075. Improve your InDesign-to-PDF workflow

Export InDesign book chapters to individual PDFs (kahrel)
MadeToTag | Prepare docs for export to accessible PDFs (axaio)
Make PDF sticky notes in your document (indesignsecrets)
Acrobat X Action Wizard for PDFs created with InDesign CS5.5
Create PDF forms with InDesign CS6 (adobe)
Création de formulaire PDF avec InDesign et Acrobat Pro
Idem pour CS4-CS5 (sbaril/vimeo)

076. Batch convert/export documents
         (now supporting Interactive PDF)

BatchConvert (kahrel)

077. Get InDesign nested styles in RTF Export

TextExporter (rorohiko)

078. Convert Publisher to InDesign (CS6)

Pub2ID (markzware)

079. Create custom links from text
         (Acrobat script) | Gilad D.

(try67)

080. Convert QuarkXPress to InDesign (CS6)

Q2ID (markzware)
Win Release (CS6)

081. Generate fixed-layout ePUB (CSS/XHTML)

ePubCrawler (rorohiko)
Export all hyphenation points w/ ePubCrawler
Using templates and snippets w/ ePubCrawler
Porting text frame page geometry into CSS (Original post)

082. Convert InDesign books to iBooks in one click

CircularFLO (circularsoftware)

083. Import Markdown into InDesign

MarkdownID (jongware)

084. View InDesign documents on your iPhone

ADOView (applicationiphone)

085. Improve your InDesign-to-ePUB workflow

ID-to-ePUB Basics & Beyond slides (amarie/toccon)
ApplyObjectStyleByParaStyle (mariani)
Building eBooks w/ InDesign: Forced Line Breaks (carijansen)
Customizing ePUB files w/o cracking them open (lizcastro)
Lists in ePUB generated from InDesign CS6 (bilodeau)
Media queries in ePUBs (epubsecrets)
Using ID to adapt plain text for ePUB (lizcastro)
Scripts to fix indexing issues (olavkvern/wrightinformation)
Three must-have scripts for ID-to-EPUB (indesignsecrets)

086. Automatically rescale your layout
         for DPS renditions | Michaël Chaize

(appliness)

087. Rapidly turn multiple PDFs into a set of
         DPS-ready InDesign files

CreateINDD (adobe)

088. Take your design straight from InDesign to HTML5

In5 (ajarproductions)
J. Putney working on a ID-to-HTML5 solution (Original post)
In5 delivers HTML5 from InDesign (creativepro)

089. Identify your InDesign file | Jongware

Identify (forums.adobe)
Direct Link

090. Easily deal with mutiple InDesign versions

Soxy (rorohiko)

Using Find, Change, GREP and Regular Expressions

091. Execute multiple find/change queries

Multi-Find/Change + Find/Change Attributes (automatication)
Two essential plug-ins for InDesign (gilbertconsulting)
Introduction to Find/Change Attributes (carijansen)
F/C Attributes, présentation (expertsgraphiques)

092. Change text case through GREP

GrepChangeCase (kahrel)

093. Get your job easily done with GREP and
         FindChangeByList

(indesignsecrets)

094. Capitalize lists by paragraph styles | Trevor

(forums.adobe)

095. программа обработки текста запросами
         (Process multiple queries)

DoQueryList (adobeindesign)

096. Use GREP to find the 1st occurrence of
         a word in a story

(forums.adobe)

097. Become a GREP guru (thanks to Peter Kahrel)

GREP Queries Manager (kahrel)
GREP Editor (kahrel)
GREP Style Report (kahrel)

098. Enable/disable all GREP styles in a document

tomaxxiGREPToggler (tomaxxi)
Direct Link

099. Apply 'cyclic' GREP styles

(indiscripts)

Scripting, Extending, Programing your own Solutions

100. Learn how to automate InDesign with AppleScript

Introductory lessons from MacGrunt
Speed up the crawl: automate your slug
Property persistence only works in .scpt format

101. Explore the InDesign scripting DOM
         (full reference)

IdJsHelp (jongware)

102. Track DOM changes from InDesign CS5.5 to CS6

(indiscripts)
Forum Topic

103. Run abandoned, older Javascripts
         in InDesign CS5 and later

MakeItRun (indesignsecrets)

104. Automate the processing of multiple ExtendScript
         documents via drag-and-drop

Batcher (rorohiko)

105. Utilisez Configurator et Entreprise IT Tools

(ludovic-martin)

106. Use Configurator to invoke scripts
         (including via the HTML widget)

Configurator (labs.adobe)

107. Invoke a library to achieve
         common scripting tasks

IdsTools (indd-skript)

108. Create nice and reactive ScriptUI interfaces

ScriptUI for Dummies (kahrel)
Overview of (and tribute to) "ScriptUI for Dummies"
On some inner workings of ScriptUI events
ScriptUI fonts facts (indiscripts)
Panels vs. ProgressBar visibility issues (milligramme)
Placeholder EditText & other considerations on 'onDraw'
How the AutoLayout Manager operates (draft)
My OWN ScriptUI framework (testing metric controls)

109. Create a full catalogue of
         InDesign's icons (idrc)

IconCatalogue (kahrel)

110. Run a script from an
         InDesign plug-in | Timothy Brand-Spencer

(blogs.adobe)

111. Augment ESTK features and have a "Batch
         Export To Binary" menu

BobsESTKExtras (forums.adobe)

112. Run a JSX script in ESTK from a
         command line (Win)

(jianfengli)

113. Promote, distribute and monetize CS6 solutions
         through Adobe Exchange

The New Adobe Exchange (blogs.adobe)

114. Meet Flex/Flash and build Creative Suite Extensions

CS Extension Builder 2 (blogs.adobe)
Optimizing Flash performance (Keith Gladstien)
Drag-and-drop between Extensions & CS host apps (bobstucky)
Flex 3 component & framework lifecycle (developmentarc)

115. Clone arrays in ActionScript (deep copy)

(help.adobe)

116. Augment and process nested Groups (CS4-CS6)

Aggregate (indiscripts)

117. Prototype pageItemsByLabel
         und manyPageItemsByLabel

von Gerald Singelmann (hilfdirselbst)

118. Learn JavaScript fundamentals

Course for absolute beginners (BobTabor/msdn)

119. Do master the JavaScript language

How I ended up enjoying JS (OmarGonzalez)
Five things they told you not to use in JS (fuchs)
Open letter to JS leaders regarding semicolons (izs)
Does JavaScript need classes? (zakas)
JavaScript inheritance by example (rauschma)
Paradigms of iteration in JavaScript (KrisJordan)
Recommended JS style guides and beautifiers (AddyOsmani)
The typeof operator problem (Andrea Giammarchi)
Object creation: learning to live without 'new' (KeithPeters)
A brief lesson on Scope (AlexYoung/dailyjs)
The magic __proto__ property (AsenBozhilov)
A few new things coming to JavaScript (AddyOsmani)
A primer on strings and string encodings (AlexYoung/dailyjs)
"JavaScript Allongé," (ReginaldBraithwaite/leanpub)

120. Write fast and efficient JavaScript

Tips & tricks by A. Osmani (smashingmagazine)
Efficient JavaScript, by Mark Wilton-Jones

121. Categorize values in JavaScript
         (type checking and more)

Article by Axel Rauschmayer (adobe)

122. Compile all subsets of an array
         into a new array

Multiple solutions suggested (forums.adobe)

123. Use smart and/or crazy JavaScript libraries

Ratio.js | Rational numbers for JavaScript
Numeric.js | Perform sophisticated numerical computations
Moment.js | Parses, manipulates, & formats dates
Arctext.js | Curving text with CSS3 and jQuery
SlabText | jQuery plug-in for producing responsive headlines
Relevancy.js | A library for sorting/weighting strings by relevance
Font.js | Powerful font toolkit for JavaScript
AnotherJS | Another way to think JavaScript
JsExe | JavaScript compressor!
XLSX.js | Reads and writes Excel through base64 strings
Sql.js | Port of SQLite to JavaScript (via Emscripten)
Psd.js | Photoshop document parser in CoffeeScript
25 useful JavaScript libraries and tools (smashinghub)

124. Detect global variable leakage
         in 139 bytes!

by maettig (github)

125. Unit-test JavaScript
         applications | Dustin Butler

Jasmine (adobe)

126. Use a typed JS dialect that compiles
         to plain JavaScript

TypeScript (typescriptlang)

Unclassified

127. Play Space Invaders in InDesign!

LayoutInvaders by Philipp Geuder (indiscripts)
Layout Invaders DEMO (vimeo)
Source code (schlompf/github)

128. Generate unique Sudoku puzzles straight
         into InDesign

SudokuGenerator (rorohiko)

129. Experiment the shortest-ever
         Aphorism Generator

Sample code (indiscripts)

130. Access the utimate Web-to-Print solution,
         with full multi page support

PrintUI

131. Use a Web Dev panel in Photoshop CS5 or above

WebZap (creativemarket)

132. Cut, copy and paste with two clipboards
         at once in InDesign

(gilbertconsulting)

133. Freely change time...
         in Indesign | Peter Kahrel

TimeChange (indesignsecrets)

134. Write (unreadable!) JavaScript
         without using any letters or numbers!

(hackaday)

135. Package documents without the annoying
         "instructions.txt" file

(indesignsecrets)

136. Replace the ugly InDesign CS6 splash screen
         by your own PNG

(forums.adobe)

137. Preflight and multi-export Illustrator
         layers/artboards | Matthew Ericson

MultiExporter Preflight (github)
Original Post

138. Install optional extensions plug-ins in
         Photoshop CS6

(helpx.adobe)

139. Easily changes layer style color w/ currently
         picked foreground color

tomaxxiFXcolor (adobeexchange)

140. Ajoutez un cadre photo personnalisé
         dans Photoshop

Encadrement (habaki/scriptopedia)
Aperçu de l'interface (PNG)

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	Additional link(s) on a similar topic
	Sample code, snippet, etc.
	Finished script (not necessary freeware)
	Extension provided as a CS panel
	Plug-in, add-on
	Global solution, stand-alone application
	Tips and tricks, tutorial etc.
	Reference, article, in-depth document
	Video
	PDF document
	ZXP file (extension)
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	JP / Resource available in Japanese
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