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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 can't load sample plug-in

Hy It's my first expirience with Adobe SDK, I'm using InDesign SDK to create my custom plug-in, but I can't even get the sample plug-ins to load into InDesign. I opened up some projects located in \Adobe InDesign CS6 Plugin SDK\build\win\prj, a…
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Inaccuracy in SVG?

below you can see a picture of a path in Indesign over a screenshot of the svg in the browser. It's a little hard to see, the lines are completely okay, but the curves are sadly not accurate enough. XML:
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'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' error on indesign interop

Im trying make automated page design with Adobe InDesign CC. this is my code in C# : public class HomeController : Controller { public ActionResult Index() { object missing = Type.Missing; Type type =…
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How to insert a degree symbol into excel

I'm trying to type a degree symbol into an excel document which is then being saved out as a .csv document before finally being imported into InDesign via an add on called Easycatalog. Having no luck with keeping the degree symbol as a degree symbol…
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Why is the Item Position messed up after override?

The Situation: My Script creates a weekplanner with the masterpage as template. What's happening in the script is: Create Page Apply Masterpage Override each item Change content of each item do this for the whole dates-array length The…
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Use Date Library in Extendscript (Javascript)

I'm new to Indesign Scripting, but I'm working on an InDesign CC Script, where I would need to work a lot with date-functions. I wanted to know if it's possible to import a JS Library like date.js or moment.js in Extendscript for that matter? Cheers
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Indesign get Colors from selected object?

I searched through stackoverflow and the adobe community to find an answer for this. I can't figure out, how to get the color of the selected Object in Indesign. I know now that I need to check for it to be a swatch or a normal color added. But I…
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Complex data merge in Adobe InDesign for business cards

I have a spreadsheet of people's info for business cards including name, title, phone, mobile and email that I want to use as the input file for an InDesign data merge. The phone, mobile and email lines are prepended with "T", "M" and "E",…
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How can I move a dialog window in Applescript?

I've been told that, technically, you can't move a dialog in AppleScript. Amazingly, the following code works. I'm running a script for InDesign that creates a dialog box. Opening a new AppleScript Editor window and running this code will move the…
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find methods in COM object

I'm trying to use the COM object of InDesign Server CS6 to export an InDesign document as a PDF. Checking the object model viewer that comes with InDesign I find a method 'exportFile()' for the Document object, but using this results in an error…
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How to format a table cell into one?

So I am having an issue, (or me just being a complete Derp. I am pretty sure it's the latter) with tables and formatting. I need to recreate a table from a Word document into my InDesign, and I basically need to make two header row into one so that…
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How to migrate SWF plugin panel for InDesign CS4 to InDesign CC2014?

I'm trying to migrate some legacy code for a patch panel written in Flex / Flash for InDesign to work in CC2014. Currently, it is falling over as there is a var "InDesign" that was previously set but is no longer set. EG: In order to get a reference…
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Applescript dialog in InDesign CS6: how to restrict number ranges in inputs?

I have an applescript dialog for InDesign CS6 that returns values entered into three text fields. Here's the relevant snippet set userResponse to show myDialog if userResponse is true then set docWidth to edit contents of myWidth as string …
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Multiple conditional using AppleScript in Indesign -- won't work?

This is making me lose my mind. Here's a short version of thee code that I'm trying to get to work. It's returning bizarre values and giving me errors at random height and width settings. I can't for the life of me figure out where I went wrong! I…
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InDesign: Delete Document Dictionary

I am having trouble deleting a document dictionary in InDesign CS 5.5. I can clear the contents of a user dictionary using this script: var myUserDictionaries = app.userDictionaries; var myCountDict = myUserDictionaries.count(); for (var i =…
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