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 →
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 →
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”.
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.
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 →
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 →