Indesign CS5 | Create layers and Distribute automatically. [script]
Hi guys, Is there somescript to Indesign CS5 that create layersautomatically and distributetext, imagesand objects to them? Ex: I have one layer with many images and i would like to distribute them to...
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Hi! I have a bunch om paragraph style group, character style groups, paragraph styles and character styles in a large slelection of Indesign-documents. Now some of our font have new names. They are...
View ArticleExport SVG in Indesign CS5?
hi, i know that adobe canceled svg support for indesign at cs3. but it's really important that i find a way to export svg by scripting. has someone a tip? plugins for this are no solution. thanks in...
View ArticleChange case on multiple documents
Hi there!I'm very newbie to scripting and I have the following script which finds "AllCaps" format text and change it to real uppercase. I'm working with ID CS 6 on Windows XP.The script works on a...
View Articleplace image and left align
Hi all, I want to set the alignment of a placed image to left, but I cannot get it to work. Does anybody has an idea? This is my code of placing, where "box" is the Textframe:var newObject =...
View ArticleI'm hoping someone can kindly help with me with an error message that is...
<PDFX ISO="15930-1:2001" COMPLIANT="true">PDF/X Compliance Report1. Summary Warnings: The total found in this document was 0. Violations: The total found in this document was 0. No...
View ArticlePushing XML Attributes into Objects
Hi everyone, Just a query question to see if I’m doing this correctly (most likely not I suspect) and apologies for the size of this question. I have a project where I import approximately 250,000...
View ArticleHow to make a handwriting font look like real handwriting in InDesign CS5
This is a script I've written (AppleScript) that addresses the problem most handwriting fonts have — they look like fonts, mostly because they're settled so regularly along the baseline and their...
View Articleerror in extendScript (extendScript in InDesignCC)
I'm getting an error in createTOC using extendScript for InDesignCC (InDesignServer); same code works in CS6. Does anyone know of version differences that might explain this?
View ArticlePlease provide the Story Splitter script by Adi Ravid?
Hi, I'm working on a complex book and need to split threaded stories at lots of places. I know I can do it manually through the Story Editor but have really set my eyes on the Story Splitter script...
View ArticleA very basic newbie question, sorry: where is the documentation for presets?
Hi,I'm trying to write some ExtendScript to do a few fairly mundane export tasks and, so far, it is making a lot of sense... but... I keep on having to spend loads of time googling for the names of...
View ArticleHow find the missing glyph using javascript [like indesign preflight], and...
The situation: I want to use basetext font, but some of the glyphs are missing in it, and are highlighted with pink boxes. common font [stix, etc.] have much more glyphs than basetext font. I can apply...
View ArticleTags to ParagraphStyle
Dear Indesign users, Is there an way you can add ParagraphStyles like the XML structure below? Greetings from Holland!
View ArticleDeleting Unwanted Paragraph Separators
One section of my book contains unwanted paragraph separators between pairs of elements. Looking for instructions and examples for correcting situations like this. Any comments/pointers appreciated.
View ArticleFit frame to content for images (pdf)?
How to replace the line of code: textFrames for images (the script may specify PDF instead of all graphics?)app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT); Thanks.
View ArticleIssues while importing xml using javascript
Hello!I am importing an xml file in Indesign using javascript. I have been able to map most of the tags to their proper styles. The issue that need to be resolved are: 1. How to apply bullet...
View ArticleHow do I return the page width and height as a text variable?
Hi I'm trying to create a media box for use in job to return information in the slug area. I have a script that will return the username of the computer as a text variable but I would also like to...
View ArticleConstructor function load sequence
Hi All, I observed that InDesign's JS scripting, scripting engine does not load all the classes by default even the primitive ones like Enumerator. Unless and until something is accessed that returns...
View Article"Based on" to appliedParagraphStyle
Dear Indesign users, Is there an way you can edit ParagraphStyles trough scripting.I just need to set 2 ParagraphStyles "Based on" to "Indesign".See below image. Greetings from Holland.
View ArticleExport SVG in Indesign CS5?
hi, i know that adobe canceled svg support for indesign at cs3. but it's really important that i find a way to export svg by scripting. has someone a tip? plugins for this are no solution. thanks in...
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