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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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Parse generated XML from InDesign with PHP

I'm generating XML from InDesign and would like to parse the XML in PHP. Below is a sample of the XML that InDesign is generating: About Us Overiew Where…
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InDesign CS6 scripting - Add overflowing content on next page(s)

After I imported XML-Data into an InDesign document I see that red plus symbol at the textframe at the end of the first page. How can I insert/move that content on next page(s) with scripting?
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InDesign CS6 scripting - XML-Import - Assign tags to formattings

I'm implementing an automatization for Adobe InDesign CS6. The script imports an xml-file into an exisiting InDesign-file. It imports places the xml into a textframe that is created within the scripting. This part works fine but at this point the…
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InDesign Workspace does not show numbers and fonts anymore

since yesterday im having trouble with my InDesign. I cant see any typo or any numbers of positions and other things anymore whether i use CS 5.5 or CS 6. It alwys looks like this: It would be great if someone had a solution for this…
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InDesign: Accessing document dictionary

In my script, I am copying a table of cells that have a lot of text in them. This text has a bunch of custom hyphenation rules that are saved in the document dictionary, NOT in the user dictionary. This is accessed in the UI by opening User…
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Resize inDesign document form A4 to 210x285

I have created a catalogue for a cliend in A4 210x297. It has default setting for margins, and i think that by default there is no bleed. They want me to resiye it to 210x285 with 3mm bleed. How can i do that and remain the same scale, and equal…
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playing videos in epub

Can I embed and play videos from an indesign cc exported .epub in ibooks kindle software (pc/mac) any online resource? I want to create an epub but want as wide an audience to see it as possible.
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exporting IDML Document to XML

I want to know if there is a way where i can export a document created in InDesign to XML provided a DTD is given, when i tried to do one by selecting export option and format as XML, i got the below output.
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Export active page to PDF (AppleScript + InDesign)

I have an AppleScript that exports the active document in InDesign to a PDF on my desktop. --this script exports all opened InDesign document as PDFs set my_destination to (path to desktop) as string tell application id…
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Destroying ScriptUI palette windows (and more)

In ExtendScript, I've run up against a very strange scenario with which I need some help from a ScriptUI guru. I've got a huge InDesign script that, during the course of its execution, displays a progress bar in a palette window. (var w = new…
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Indesign scripting create deeper structures by adding tags

I first set out to do this with XSLT, then with PHP. Now i'll have to have a go at it with Indesign scripting (javascript probably) My problem is that i have an indesign file without structure (nothing is tagged, but everything has a paragraph…
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InDesign Scripting: Need to export INDD file as INX (INDX)

I'm working with InDesign CS4 and CS3. Both need to export their files down to CS2. I'd like to use a .jsx code snippet to export to INDX, but I can't seem to do-so with the ExportFormat."formatName" JS code. Doesn't look like Adobe supports…
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InDesign Script: export to IDML

I am trying to write a script to perform a data merge, followed by a find/replace, page add, and finally export. I can get it to perform the merge and find/replaces that are needed. When I add a new page manually I normally select the first page in…
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InDesign: Changing default Cell Style

I am trying to change the default document settings for a batch of InDesign documents – that is, the styles, swatches etc. that are 'active' (marked blue) in an open document with nothing selected. But I have a hard time figuring out how to change…
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Adobe Indesign JavaScript: using app.findGrep() and app.changeGrep() consecutively

I have a script that should find and replace predefined terms and mark the changes visually on a separate layer. The process basically works in two steps: Loop through a list of expressions, look for every expression with app.findGrep() and insert…
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