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Preface: I'm a graphic design and know very little about coding. For a project I'm working on I have to produce over 200 InDesign documents, with different names, widths and heights.

This is what I need the script to do:

  • Make a new document in InDesign
  • Take the document name, page height, page width data from excel spreadsheet
  • Make new frame (w: width of the page h: height of the page+ 40mm)
  • Center the frame to the page
  • Place a specific .tif inside the frame
  • Align bottom of the image to the centre bottom of the frame
  • Save the file in the selected folder
  • Select data from next row down in the excel file
  • Repeat

I'm a complete beginner, but I'd like to write this program and learn as I go.

Any advice or direction as to how I could write this would be great!

Thanks!

Chris Ricketts
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  • Here's a link to Adobe's reference on scripting InDesign with javascript: [https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/indesign/pdfs/JavaScriptToolsGuide_CS4.pdf](https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/indesign/pdfs/JavaScriptToolsGuide_CS4.pdf) – Josh Voigts Oct 09 '17 at 14:50
  • Do you actually have to save 200 *.indd-Documents* or do you just need 200 PDFs in the end? – mdomino Oct 12 '17 at 10:50

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Adobe indesign allows scripting in Javascript, AppleScript, VBScript. Good for task like automating similar .indd documents. Here's the link that may be helpful: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/scripting/InDesign_ScriptingTutorial.pdf

Gaurav
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