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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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Large Indesign file to ebook

I have an 50 MB Indesign book file with +800 images. I would like to convert it to ebook. How can I deal with the size? I know that images can be compressed but any other options? Should I divide it to chapters or parts?
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InDesign cc 2015 - Right to Left

Im totally new to InDesign and struggling a lot with it whenever I try to use Arabic... So I figured how to make arabic work but still I can't find a way how to change the writing direction from Left to Right to Right to Left If I wanna write arabic…
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How can I add bleed to a PDF book cover using Photoshop?

I have a book cover sent as a PDF which is according 5x8 dimensions, only that is does not have bleed and I need to add it. I am using Adobe InDesign CC 2015 and Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. How can I make it happen?
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Indesign Expandable Textbox

I know there is a way to create an expandable / collapsible text box in Indesign. Been on W3 Schools, Youtube, and Lynda. Anybody out there done this before?
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InDesign scripting — set the margins of the opened document

I've searched here and on Google but I can't find the solution to my problem. I would like to create a (java) script that set margins according to the opened InDesign file and not create a new one. Here is a sample code (doesn't work as I would like…
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Format text to bold

I have one xml file and I am reading data from it using indesign java scripting. At one point I got stuck whenever I get text in xml enclosed within ''INDIA'' then should get converted to bold INDIA font for after executing java script. Is…
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How to determine whether the content in text frame of in design document changed through java script or action script?

I got an requirement to find out if content in text frame got changed or not through action script. Till now i am comparing with my server side data to check content from indesign document text frame, but now i would like to check if any default…
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InDesign remove spacing inside paragraph

I have an paragraph in InDesign CC 2015, in that paragraph there is a space in front of a sentence. The space depend on the size of the font but i want to align all the sentences exactly the same. Is that possible? This is how it looks now: The…
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Why does InDesign put "c_" before literal text?

I'm working with the old interchange format of Adobe InDesign (.inx files). This XML file has text contents like the following: c_Stackoverflow Which results in Stackoverflow Question: Why does it put c_ before the…
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Which Adobe products should I be concerned with in terms of web development

What Adobe products do you use or feel accomplish most of what is needed for web development. My point here is that scripting can accomplish almost everything that Flash and the Adobe family can, but then what about graphics. Illustrator, Indesign,…
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Error importing XML to InDesign

I'm have an XML file from client that I need to import to Indesign but image href in the file are not in the correct format for Indesign (it is like; image href = "imagename") so I need to correct them to image href = "file:///imagename.tif" but…
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Get possible hyphenation for the selected word

I am new to scripting in Adobe Software. I would like to write a script, which shows me, where I can hyphenate a word. I wonder, if there is any way to get this information from the build in spellchecker. It should also take the current language…
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How to use InDesign SDK on Visual Studio 2013 for C++ project?

I have got a stuck on my research about “using InDesign SDK to develop a plugin for InDesign”. Through my research, I have tried to start a sample project that shipped along with the SDK from Visual Studio 2013 (Note that all sample projects are…
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Embed google map in idesign

I design custom travel guides. I am going crazy trying to find a way to insert offline zoomable maps in them. I use indesign CC. So far all I have managed is to embed google maps in the document and export it as an interactive pdf, but it needs…
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How can I extract a certain number from a string using Regular expressions?

I think this is probably easy but I don't have the time to learn how to do it. In a html file, I have a certain class of paragraph, let´s say:

The "p" tag is always followed by numbers, which increase by one in every…
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