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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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vb.net in InDesign Scripting - Grouping TextFrames

I want to group textframes in my InDesign CS3 vb.net script. It worked for InDesign 2.0 but it does not work with InDesign CS3. Here is my code: Dim myDoc As InDesign.Document = Nothing Dim myGroup As InDesign.Group = Nothing Dim…
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InDesign script to pull file by week number

I have a script for our newspaper that pulls comics from a folder and places them in an InDesign document. Most comics have the full date in the filename, but a few Sunday comics go by the week number for that Sunday. I.E. Blondie sunday filenames…
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Nested quotation marks in "do shell script"-command cause error

I'm running a cURL shell script from an (indesign) extendscript jsx-file. This works well for simple queries, but in the command below you can see that I'm having quite some quotation nesting, which seem to be making the command fail! It's not…
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XSLT 1.0 How to convert < > to Adobe InDesign namespace

InDesign supports special formatting attributes, which let me embed a reference to a paragraph, character, table, or cell style in an XML file. When the XML file is imported and laid out, InDesign uses the referenced style to format that element.…
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Can graphs be dynamically link from excel to adobe InDesign or from Illustrator to InDesign

My small company has been using PageMaker for years. They are trying to move off PageMaker because it will no longer work at some point. We are looking at InDesign as a possible replacement. One thing they use in PageMaker that must be do able in…
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InDesign: Export a group with the page clipping intact

I'm trying to write an script (javascript) to export an group to an image. This works but the group has pageitems that extend beyond the page size. The problem is that when exporting the group the clipping is not there anymore, so the exported image…
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Adding object to paragraph style in InDesign

I am trying to add a short underline in the paragraph style for my inline headlines. At the moment I am doing it with Paragraph Rules - rule below + offset and right indent (see attached image, the orange line). But this solution only works if the…
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InDesign scripting, get the items selected in a panel

I am working on a Javascript that searches for certain "paragraph styles" inside InDesign, the way I want to accomplish that is by creating an array of 'paragraph styles' which are selected in the 'paragraph styles panel', is there a way I can…
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Hidden until triggered(Indesign CS6 Folio Builder, DPS Content) not working in adobe content viewer on ipad

I'm having a problem with adobe indesign folio builder when I try to trigger a button to become viewable. So, I have a multistate object(3 states), on first state(let's say home) I have 2 buttons that go to 2 other states(some sort of pop-ups) and…
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Can I use Basil.js to get images from a URL?

I am a novice user at ExtendScript, Basil.js & Javascript. After seeing the project http://basiljs.ch/gallery/ending-the-depression-through-amazon/ I wondered if it is possible to simply get the Basil.js Script/ Extendscript/Indesign to grab images…
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Indesign Script: replacing all cases of (https) with (http) without duplication

I am trying to fix all of the hyperlinks in my indesign files, and replace the https with http. right now, in order for it to work, I run this script.. var i; hls = app.activeDocument.hyperlinkURLDestinations; for (i = 0; i < hls.length; i++)…
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app.-properties in function erroring

im quite a JS noob but trying to script my workflow. I modified a script to my needs, but suddenly the setting of app.-based properties doesnt work in a function anymore: function myExport(Xquali, Xdpi, XAA, XSP, Xpath, BMcounter) { switch…
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JavaScript Error "Undefined is not an object"

I am attempting to debug javascript that runs inside Adobe indesign. The first executable line returns an "undefined is not an object" if ( app.documents.length==0 ) { exit(); } Could Adobe have moved the nested object "documents" to a higher…
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Indesign Script no longer printing output in Extend Script

My script runs fine but I don't see any output anymore in the javascript console. It looks like InDesign is no longer linked to it. Also normally InDesign would start up ExtendScript Toolkit but it no longer doest that. Is there a way to reenable…
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InDesign Script for importing idml to indd document

I am using InDesign Server and a soap based application to communicate through the server. I am able to get all fields of form used in indd document and also able to replace its text/value. Now, I am looking to get all images used in indd doc and…
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