I have an AppleScript program which creates XML tags and elements within an Adobe InDesign document. The data is in tables, and tagging each cell takes .5 seconds. The entire script takes several hours to complete. I can post the inner loop code, but I'm not sure if SO is supposed to be generic or specific. I'll let the mob decide. [ed...
First off: I'm using a rather obscure implementation of javascript embedded as a scripting engine for Adobe InDesign CS3. This implementation sometimes diverges from "standard" javascript, hence my problem. I'm using John Resig's jsdiff library (source here) to compare selections of text between two documents. jsdiff uses vanilla object...
hi this is ahamed, i need some ideas for indesign with XSLT...i donot have any idea about programming i am using indesign CS3.. i have ms access file contain 8 columns. 1st column Classification 2nd column company name 3rd column postbox 4th column city 5th column telephone 6th column fax 7th column email 8th column website First, how...
I often get a PDF from our designer (built in Adobe InDesign) which is supposed to be sent out to thousands of people. I've got the list with all the people, and it's easy doing a mail merge in OpenOffice.org. However, OpenOffice.org doesn't support the advanced PDF. I just want to output some text onto each page and print it out. Here...
What is the best practice for importing text into html from a multipage InDesign document, from designer to non-designer. Document designed on a mac going to CMS on PC - hand off the InDesign File or strip text into word file? Supplying all images and pdf as go-by? ...
A rather complicated problem in data exchange between a database and a bookform: The organisation in which I work has a database in mysql for all social profit organisations in Brussels, Belgium. At the same time there is a booklet created in Indesign which was developed in a different time and with different people than the database an...
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 column TextFrame's height until the text overflows the frame. Then it increases the height unt...
I am developing a .NET application (using C#) that needs to massage some Adobe InDesign files and output their content as PDFs. I could use InDesign's scripting but the COM interfaces seem a bit cleaner for this non-interactive work. Unfortunately, I have to guess at the semantics of InDesign's COM interfaces because I don't know where ...
Hi I need to save every page of a Indesign CS3 and Quark file as JPEG , in my cocoa application using Objective C... can anyone suggest me on this? thank you ...
I need to open a text file to read the contents and then insert them into the document. ...
I'd like our magazine team to be able to download website data in a file that Adobe InDesign can read. They can then import/open the file, make a few tweaks, and cut out a vast deal of repetitive manual labour (they currently use copy&paste for a few hours). After a brief Google I note that v2 of InDesign can import/export XML so perhap...
I need to create an application that generates a bunch of templates for Office (2000), OpenOffice.org (2.0) and InDesign. The design of the templates will be made in each application but we need a system for placeholders so that my application opens a template, replaces the placeholder with some text (like a name, address, phone number) ...
As a faint hope, does anyone know of an integration piece for SQL Server Reporting Services, such that we could use our Adobe Indesign templates? ...
Within the InDesign CS4 designer, I can very easily make a TextArea transparent. I just right click on the TextArea within a document, select Effects-->Transparency, and within the “Effects” window that launches, I can set the “Opacity” to 0% on the Fill settings. I am attempting to figure out a way to make a TextArea transparent via j...
I'm working with InDesign CS4 and CS3. Both need to export their files down to CS2. I'd like to use a .jsx code snippet to export to INDX, but I can't seem to do-so with the ExportFormat."formatName" JS code. Doesn't look like Adobe supports exporting to INDX from javascript - perhaps using a plugin (but that's a lot of overhead for a si...
I'm trying to get details of the graphics in an InDesign file. For technical reasons I'm using COM. Not my favourite, as (discussed elsewhere in StackOverflow) you have to spend half your life casting. In Theory (!), the code snippet belwo should work. Intellisense shows doc.AllGraphics as returning objects. The CS3 scripting ref...
I first set out to do this with XSLT, then with PHP. Now i'll have to have a go at it with Indesign scripting (javascript probably) My problem is that i have an indesign file without structure (nothing is tagged, but everything has a paragraph style) Wat i have to do is 1) ad tags to paragraphs based on their styles 2) deepen the stru...
We are looking for a good way to produce documents for print like the one below, which have content in them that is shared with other pages (the scanned document below is one page in a 102-page booklet). For example, the "Desired Outcome(s)" section is restated on several other pages. When we want to tweak or add to it, we currently have...
Hi guys, I've got a bit of a problem at the moment. I'm trying to work with indesign (cs3) and xml. Basically i have a template which is has 1 master dps, both pages have the same data (fields 1-5) but one is left aligned, one right - hence mildly different paragraph styles. What i want to be able to do is import xml and have indesign ...
Hello, I'm using a Objective-C Scripting Bridge to communicate with InDesign CS3/CS4. Unfortunately I'm stuck on Save command which appears to be existing only as a part of the standard suite and not defined again in InDesign. Because of that it looks like I can Save, Save as but not Save Copy a document. Does anyone have any idea how to...