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"Adobe® InDesign® CS6 Server software delivers a robust and scalable engine that leverages the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS6 software to enable you to programmatically create engaging automated documents." - Adobe® InDesign®

"Adobe® InDesign® CS6 Server software delivers a robust and scalable engine that leverages the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS6 software to enable you to programmatically create engaging automated documents."

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Node SOAP client to connect to InDesign Server

I am trying to get node/express to send soap request to indesign server. Posting the request from Soap.ui or Postman works fine. Loading the "soap" page in the browser errors. I also tried the node client with a few sample scripts from the new and…
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Indesign server data merge

I am trying to do a data merge using Indesign Server. test.indd in the script below already has all the merge fields assigned. I only need this script to open the file, do the merge, and save the merged file. The file that gets saved is the…
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InDesign Server - Updating text frame contents results in missing or extra content

I'm trying to update a series of textframes using InDesign Server's SOAP API. When I try to change the contents of a textframe, the result that comes back sometimes has missing or extra content. Here's the function I'm using to update the…
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InDesign Server 5.5 Multiple page sizes in one document

I am able to generate PDF files using InDesign Server 5.5. Now I wish to be able to generate a PDF file whose pages vary in size i.e. one page is A4 while another is A5. I can't seem to find the right attribute to set because the setting of the page…
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inDesign Script: Get Text and Page number of Text styled with a certain Paragraph Style using JavaScript

I have an inDesign document with 10 pages filled with text. The text is styled with different Paragraph Styles, of which some are relevant for building a custom table of contents. There are two relevant Paragraph Styles, "Header1" and "Header2" from…
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How to add javascripts to my InDesign Server Java web app?

I wrote a simple Java (1.5)-based web app (deployed on a Tomcat-6-server), which communicates with an InDesign server using CORBA. After I managed to add job options (stored in separate files within the filesystem), I'd like to do the same for…
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Reliably detecting text overflows in TextFrames in InDesign Server using javascript scripting?

I'm doing some Javascript scripting with InDesign Server at the moment. I'm having trouble trying to reliably detect overflows in TextFrames, after changing formatting or placing XML into them. For example, I've got a function that shrinks a 4…
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Iterating to all arguments indesign server

To recieve arguments in Indesign Server you simply call: app.scriptArgs.getValue("myvar"); But when I like to iterate over all the arguments, it seems Indesign Server doen't understand how to do this. There is a way with…
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adobe indesign atomation using .net

can you give me some idea on how automate a simple functuin to export indd into pub.Do i need to have indesign server? thanks! how about quark to epub conversion automation? Thanks! regards, jerome
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delete xml information / reference without losing structure

I'm currently working on a project that builds catalogs. The catalogs consist of several different, linked INDD-files. Now, those INDD-files are filled up with XML data and saved. When we import them, we always get errors that there is a link…
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Copy Images instead of Moving them | InDesign Javascript

I have written an InDesign javascript script that moves me all images (respectively the frames of the images) into a new layer "Webbilder" created by the script (if not existing). How can I customize it so that the images are not moved but…
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Adobe InDesign CS5 Server JavaScript: Get rectangle by XML tag

Current set-up: Adobe InDesign Server CS5 scripted through ExtendScript via PHP SOAP The problem: I'm currently placing an image file into a rectangle using the following code: frame = doc.rectangles[0]; imgList = frame.place(new…
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InDesign Server Crashing on Data Merge

I'm trying to do a very basic data merge with InDesign Server and keep getting a crash. I begin the server with ./InDesignServer -port 18383 starts with no problems. I call the script with ./sampleclient ./scripts/test.jsx The .jsx looks like…
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How to send XML file from AEM DAM to InDesign server?

I'm creating XML file pragmatically in AEM DAM using Java. I want send this created XML file to Adobe INDesign server automatically. And I want to import this XML file in InDesign server. 1) How can I send created XML file to InDesign server…
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indesign scripting - find textarea, add text & apply styles

Want to apply a script to find a text area, give it some text and change the colour of the text Here i have added the text but dont know which attributes change the colour: myFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.itemByName("test"); myFrame.contents…
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