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InDesign is Adobe's scriptable publishing software. When using this tag also tag the language that you are coding in for context, e.g. [extendscript], [applescript], or [vbscript], etc..

Adobe InDesign is a software application that can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. It can publish content directly to tablet devices, in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

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Indesign SDK - Document based Persistent

I am new for "indesign SDK" Plugin development. Is there any example for document based persistent?. Thanks in advance.
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InDesign Applescript - Replacing missing fonts

I have a missing font and I am trying to auto-replace it while doing other things, however I can't seem to ACTUALLY find it for whatever reason. After entering this code if I open the find/change window the find/change format windows look accurate,…
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Indesign - Blue highlights around my texts

I do not know how I enabled it but :( cannot close. Tried to reset Indesign but didnt help at all. enter image description here
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Find and replace content between XML tags from another file

What i'm trying to accomplish is: I want to update 10.000 prices in my indesign catalog automaticly. The only way to do this, is to use XML. When I label my table cells in indesign i can export an XML file which looks like this. …
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Indesign SDK Panels TextEditbox

how to get the TextEditbox value for indesign panel. I have tried the following code: GetTextControlData(kDYNTextEditBoxWidgetID); It returns an error like as below: error C3861: 'GetTextControlData': identifier not found
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InDesign Javascript document Save kills script execution

I'm writing an indesign script that will open a dialog, allow the user to select multiple text files, and then it loops over each file, replaces text in the document with the info in the file, saves out an InDesign file, then moves to the next text…
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Using XSLT to edit tags in a multilevel bulleted list

The following is some simple XML with a multilevel unordered list that I would like to import into Adobe InDesign: XML test…
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Indesign - script opening document, change text, and export

I've worked with many different apps with many different API's to program ways to open, set things, and export or render the result. I however have little to no experience with in design. I've googled around today and found a few scripts for…
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Adobe InDesign script change to uppercase and copy text to clipboard

I am try to create an Adobe InDesign script that will select text, change the selected text to Uppercase and then copy the same text. I am stuck. #target "InDesign" var myDoc = app.activeDocument; if(app.documents.length != 0){ …
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Indesign - Is it possible to update value in cell when I know ID of the product?

I have a question, my colleague is creating product catalog in our company (in Indesign) He is updating a version from last year, because we have not much new products BUT all the prices (~7000) are new. I have never worked with Indesign before, so…
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Proper escape for "&" in an indesign script

I have a script for indesign that replaces some of the text in text elements with user specified text. Sometimes that text contains an &, and the indesign script screws up every time there is. I've tried all the common escape character "/,\,^,..."…
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How to use XML looping over mixed content in Indesign?

This is something I have been wrestling with for a couple of hours now, although in different non working forms. I have a simple XML which I import through File > Import XML
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Error Message for Text Format / DOM - InDesign, XML, XSLT & CSS

I've been using InDesign for a few years now but only just started to learn using the XML to tag, create XSLT & CSS styles. I've found an example in a book which I've used for the XSLT & adapted it to use the structure in a simple InDesign document…
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InDesign Script to Maximize Window

In my Adobe InDesign I have a startup script where I want to automatically maximize the entire InDesign window. This says I have an invalid object. var window = app.documents[0].layoutWindows[0]; window.maximize(); How do I make this work?
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f[i].insertionPoints[0].rectangles.add({geometricBounds:

i´m desperately finding a solution for my issue. I need to place a huge amount of inline graphics in InDesign with this script, but for some reason it doesn't work. I have a very poor knowledge of Javascript and my time is running out so i cannot…
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