During last week’s InDesign User Group meeting in Perth, we took a look at how third-party scripts and plug-ins can help us expand the functionality of InDesign, and make us work more efficiently. The speaker-notes for this session have now been uploaded and provide an overview of the scripts/plug-ins that were reviewed. Download: Expanding InDesign – Speaker Notes. (5.4Mb PDF)
modified: 17-Sep-2010 (screenshot update) InDesign layout artists/designers continue to receive requests for the provision of PDF or print proofs that contain a clear indication of where the page border is positioned. Ages ago I wrote a small script that would quickly add a page border to your InDesign document.
Marc Autret (IndiScripts) wrote another lovely script. According to his own words… it’s the shortest script he’s ever written. The ShowHideLocalFormatting script!
Digitip 095 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts. This is the second part of a two part write-up about sorting paragraph and table text in InDesign and covers the sorting of table data, thanks to a great script developed and provided freely by Peter Kahrel.
Digitip 094 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts. Updated 23-Feb-2010 Added video You’ve spend a few days working on some great layouts for a customer. Lots of bulleted lists and tables, and when you receive the first proof back, many of the lists and tables have a note on them: “can you please sort this in alphabetical order”? I…read more →
Dave Saunders is coming to Australia! Learn to unlock the power of Adobe InDesign Scripting Learn from one of the world’s best. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to attend either a half day introductory or full day master class on scripting with Adobe InDesign, presented by Dave Saunders, one of the world’s leading scripting experts. Dave will be in…read more →
Updated 5-Sep-2008 (fixed incorrect web-link) The following list provides an overview of the Plug-ins and Scripts reviewed during the InDesign Add-Ons session at the Creative Suite LIVE Conference – Melbourne 28-29 September 2008.
Digitip 075 – Adobe InDesign InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign? So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. Let me take…read more →