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The Scripting Guide contains an introduction to scripting and tutorials. You can also find a number of useful scripts that you can run, such as. Indiscripts (InDesign Scripts and Gears) focuses on layout automation, scripting practice and plugins development in the context of Adobe®. Please read them before launching each script. Categories: Scripts for scripts; Layout (aligning, drawing, guides); Text Frames; Text; Numbers, Prices, and.
 
 

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Also, are there any other resources for learning scripting in InDesign or any of the other Adobe products? The scripting language is vanilla Javacript that you can learn from the internet there are plenty of resources. Point to note that this is quite an old version of JS so the fancy features like arrow functions won’t work. Basic things like strings, array, object, prototype inheritance, etc work the same as on the web. Once you are comfortable with the language, you need to study a bit about the anatomy of an InDesign document, on this front studying the DOM documentation would help.

Try to understand by making an association with the objects you see and the objects mentioned in the documentation, this will help you visualize how things are working. Regarding sample code, you can look at the sample scripts shipped with InDesign, accessible via the Scripts panel. Right click any script and choose edit script. Now you can see the code.

Also this forum is a treasure trove of helpful information on scripting, if you are stuck, search on the forum more often than not you will land on something helpful. I am a developer. I work for a company that produces name badges, so I basically work with logo images and text boxes.

Right now I am trying to take a json file, which has all the properties of the logo and text boxes such as size and placement, and write a script to create the InDesign job. I got it pretty much working, but I would like to optimize it, and the resources I am finding are pretty lacking.

I would also like to create an imposition script, so I can take the one InDesign file and put it multiple up on a sheet. Adobe Support Community.

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Thank you! Follow Report. Community guidelines. Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more. Jump to latest reply. Manan Joshi. Now you can see the code Also this forum is a treasure trove of helpful information on scripting, if you are stuck, search on the forum more often than not you will land on something helpful.

Hope this will get you started -Manan. Alo Lohrii. Hi cday, what is your background? Are you a designer? How is your knowledge of InDesign itself? In Response To Laubender. I am also familiar with Photoshop, but just started using InDesign. That first book you linked to looks great, thank you! Post Reply. Preview Exit Preview. You must be signed in to add attachments. Learn and Support.

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Scripting in InDesign

 
Known Issues So meta. With this script you can resize an scriptong InDesign document to any dimension! Given a link for linked story, how can I get its link source?