Cari Jansen

Expanding InDesign – Scripts and Plug-ins

Cari Jansen — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:36:22 +0000

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)

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PageBorder Script

Cari Jansen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:45:40 +0000

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), has taken the PageBorder script I wrote quite...read more →

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Displaying Style Overrides in InDesign CS4 (and CS5)

Cari Jansen — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:40:19 +0000

Marc Autret (IndiScripts) wrote another lovely script. According to his own words… it’s the shortest script he’s ever written. The ShowHideLocalFormatting script! Once installed his script provides a simple on/off mechanism to display any local style overrides that are applied to text. No need to look for that tiny little + symbol in the Character/Paragraph Styles panel… instead a very...read more →

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Sort it please… (2)

Cari Jansen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:14:46 +0000

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. Sorting Table Columns Sorting Table data is not something the SortParagraphs.jsx script that comes...read more →

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Sort it please… (1)

Cari Jansen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:14:31 +0000

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 →

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Event – InDesign CS4 Scripting Seminars

Cari Jansen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:26:48 +0000

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 →

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Creative Suite LIVE – Melbourne (follow-up)

Cari Jansen — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:26:32 +0000

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. 01 David Blatner’s Tips for Adobe InDesign Plug-in (Free) Ok, in a perfect world you would launch InDesign no more than once a day, but if you...read more →

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How do I create fractions in InDesign?

Cari Jansen — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:01:50 +0000

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 →

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Selection to PDF – New InDesign Add-on

Cari Jansen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:42:37 +0000

Modified 15-June-2008 – added Using the Script section Ever wanted to be able to select some artwork in your InDesign document and turn it into an instant PDF? Maybe an ad you’ve created on the page in InDesign that also needs to be used in another publication or submitted to a publisher in PDF format? Well, you can create a...read more →

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Layout Zone for small newspapers

Cari Jansen — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:00:58 +0000

Digitip 071 – InDesign CS3 / Layout Zone script Modified 23-April-2008 (improved sound quality) Modified 22-April-2008 (added transcript). Martinho da Gloria’s Layout Zone script adds two cool features to InDesign CS3. The script was announced via InDesign Secrets earlier this month, and Tim Cole on his Adobe blog, provided excellent instructions on installation and usage of the script. With this...read more →

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Using Scripts in InDesign, CornerEffects

Cari Jansen — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:20:13 +0000

Digitip 067 – Adobe InDesign CS3 The following tip will take you through Script installation, running scripts, assigning a keyboard shortcut to a script and reviews the sample script “CornerEffects.jsx”. With the installation of Adobe Creative Suite 3 or InDesign CS3, a series of sample scripts, ready for use are installed. In the previous version of InDesign you would have...read more →

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Adobe Sample Scripts overview PDF for download

Cari Jansen — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:24:34 +0000

Back in October 2005, I submitted an article for InDesign Magazine providing an overview of the TextCleanup Script that ships as part of the Adobe Sample Script files with InDesign CS2 and the Creative Suite bundle that was published in the Oct/Nov’05 edition of the magazine. I’ve always included a section on Scripts in the InDesign Manual I wrote. However,...read more →

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eSeminar follow-up

Cari Jansen — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:06:57 +0000

Thank you to everyone who attended the “Building Strong and Flexible InDesign Documents”, Adobe eSeminar today. Here are some of the links I referred to: 1) the Adobe Exchange – A great resource for scripts, tutorials and other goodies. 2) the Adobe Store , then under STORE heading, go to Store Home. 3) … and the 21 Adobe Sample Scripts...read more →

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MakePlural script

Cari Jansen — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:11:22 +0000

I encountered an interesting challenge when working on an InDesign job recently. Over 265 listings containing details under specific subheadings, some of which needed to be altered to plural words where the listings under the subheading were delimited either by "and" or ",". This is how the following script was born, with additional help of volunteers sharing their knowledge on...read more →

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