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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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app.open not responding if called from inside onclick()

Working on a script for InDesign I found this problem : if I call app.open() from inside button.onclick() it stops and nothing happens. Since I'm a beginner with Javascript I'm probably doing something wrong. But if not, how do I fix? I can not find…
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Different glyph index for same glyph in Word and InDesign

When selecting a character from the Wingdings font to insert into a document, MS Word 2015 and InDesign CS 5.5 show different glyph indices for at least some characters. According to Word, the character I am looking for, Unicode 25A0 (black…
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Does an Indesign syntax highlighter exist?

Does anybody know of a non-manual method of highlighting syntax when pasted in InDesign? I'm trying to show code of a project in an InDesign documentation but don't want to have to manually highlight the code, and preferably add numbered rows…
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how to store adobe page maker data in database?

One of the educational data was stored in adobe page maker file (.PMD) file. Which consist of scientific formulas like mathematical equations, chemistry formulas, I would like to store those data on a MSSQL database then represent in browser. I…
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What clipboard format does InDesign use?

I'm trying to create data to paste into InDesign and I'm using the following code to copy my data to the clipboard: Clipboard.generalClipboard.setData("dms", xml.toXMLString()); But when I paste it into InDesign, it shows the code rather than the…
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replacing euro character entity with the euro symbol

I have some XML that looks like this hello world, the € is doing awfully well today Currently, when I import this to indesign, the € is still showing as that, instead of displaying as € I've tried…
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InDesign is crashing when opening a file from the book

Edited shorter version: I am trying to close an open book in InDesign and run some functionality after. It looks like the next step starts before the book is fully closed myBook.close(); alert("Book closed"); I have the alert displaying with the…
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InDesign Applescript Resizing Placed Images

Please explain how to make applescript understand I want to select all images on the active page (which in my case are going to be one), to resize the image and fit frame to content. tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6" set myPagecount to count…
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Applescript bypass prompt

I'm trying to bypass prompting. This is a piece of "my" code: tell application "Finder" set folderA4 to choose folder with prompt "Please select the Folder with A4-booklets" set allFiles to every file of folderA4 set listCount to count…
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Right to left dialog/pallete/windows in Extendscript for Adobe InDesign

I need a right to left Window (is a object in ScriptUI). In C#, a form has tow properties RightToLeft and RightToLeft layout that create a right to left form. How can I do this in Extendscript?
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Copy a text frame from one Indesign File to another and then compare there properties without specifying any specifically

I have the following scenario. I have to copy a page item into a new Indesign document and then compare all the properties and write the ones that are not equal into a log file. I'm using the following code: var textFramesCollection = new…
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Indesign - findChangeByList Script - "appliedParagraphStyle" for Object

I'm working on a data visualisation project. The idea is to translate words from a book into colors depending several variables. We have a online version that works on d3.js http://savereykjavik.github.io/words/index.html - But we would like to make…
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InDesign CS6 javascript: importXML and remove empty pages

I use InDesign CS6. I wrote a javascript to add an option into menu: it first imports an XML in a document, then removes empty pages. As run, before it actually imports an XML file, it removes empty pages. So there aren't enough pages for the…
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Encoding problems using popen

I got a InDesign page filled with 4 pictures. Im using ex = os.popen('exiftool -T -IngredientsFilePath '+item).read() to get back all pictures and their filepath used in that document But when i try to write this answer into a file it seems the…
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upload to ftp folder with indesign script

I am using indesign CC 2014 I have embedded "FTPConnection.jsx" that "Peter Torpey" wrote. then I wrote these codes to upload files to my server. Everything works fine, however files do not open correctly. I tried to open them with Notepad++ and I…
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