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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 Script for identifying and replacing images of indd document

I am using InDesign CS6 server for changing text and images of .indd files. Though I have got scipt for changing texts but I am not able to change the images of indd document. Can some one plz help me out with script for identifying all the images…
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Indesign Script JS: Edit Document TextFrame Content and get back to Dialog Window

I want to edit some textframe content in Indesign documents by JS. But I cannot find any solution to get any change with feedback in Dialog Window. So I just have a simple document with one Textframe with name test I just paste relevant parts to…
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Indesign real-time package for collaboration

I manage a team of designers working on Indesign. When we work on a project, it often happens that a designer has to work on the project of another. We work with Dropbox for Business. But when we take the work of another designer, there is often…
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export all InDesign book to text

I'm trying to export all documents in a book to plain txt format. I've tried the "ExportAllStories" scripts already in InDesign and of course it only picks up the current document. I've also downloaded a text exporter from Rorohiko Workflow…
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How to tag an inDesign document so that tagged content is in between other tags?

It is easy to tag a single piece of content and then export it as xml in inDesign. Simple text block What I'm struggling to do is to get it to export tags /…
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Indesign script - How to get first paragraph in threaded text frame

I have a book with text frames on each page , they are all threaded together, I want to grab hold of each text frames first paragraph, is there any way, I'm trying app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].paragraphs.length and returns "0", only…
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Indesign Export Paragraphs to text based csv

We are trying to write a simple script to export all stories in an Indesign file we have only two styles Headline, which is the headline of each article and text, that is the body of the article we wat to export to a csv file (text) so we can…
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InDesign javascript to find overlapping textframes

is there anyway in InDesign using Javascript to search for any text frames in a document that overlaps? I've been looking through a document with all the properties of TextFrame and can't find anything that might tell whether there's any overlapping…
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transform dynamic XML to Adobe InDesign table using XSLT

I'm in trouble with transforming an list of XML-items to a indesign-table. One issue is to calculate the number of rows, because this is needed but can't processed as simple count(). The InDesign-table should look like…
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Using iText, Cannot Replicate PDF Bookmark Destinations Created from InDesign/FrameMaker

I am writing a utility to collapse the bookmarks an exisiting PDF, and save the file as a new PDF. The platform is Java using the iText API. The following code retrieves the existing bookmarks and recursively calls a method to close them. /*…
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Interactive PDF in InDesign - showing a form area after selecting from dropdown menu

I am trying to show a form area after selecting an option from dropdown menu. For example, if my dropdown menu options were ONE, TWO, and THREE, I would like the option THREE to take them to another area of the form and also show that area when it…
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Applescript is not always setting my variable to the clipboard

I'm trying to set up an Indesign script that copies the link information of a selected image and appends it to a text file to the desktop, if the text file does not exist it creates one. The link information is copied to the clipboard using a custom…
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Is it possible to auto resize column width to content with extendscript in indesign

I'm looking for a solution to make the cell width fit to it's content due a script in Extendscript. anyone who can help me with this? It's okay to change to resize the entire column. First I run this script to make sure every cell has just 1…
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InDesign Import

I want to create a folder on my desktop. I want to be able to drop in there, maybe 10-20 sized and prepped PDFs. As soon as they go in that folder, I want them to open in Indesign into a SINGLE document, but as separate image boxes, with the path to…
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InDesign CS5 Script: How can I script “Alt + click” (close) on the XML structure pane?

I found this script which opens the complete structure of an InDesign doc. var items = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.everyItem(); while( items.xmlElements.length ) { items = items.xmlElements.everyItem(); app.select(items.getElements()); …
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