Hi All, I am learning indesign, I have a doubt in story splitting... I want to split the story if the same story is used in two different text frames, I am extracting idml file and getting the needed data. My question is, I have a single story which is used by two text frames (Threaded text), and these two textframes are available in ...
Hi, I have a CMYK colorspace in indesign, i want to convert that as RGB color space, I got some codes, but I am getting incorrect data. Some of the codes which I tried are given below double cyan = 35.0; double magenta = 29.0; double yellow = 0.0; double black = 16.0; cyan = Math.min(255, cyan + black); //black is...
Does anyone know what is the format of the digital magazine content created by InDesign? And how we can render it in iPad? The digital content for the famous Time iPad mag is created using InDesign. Any information or head start here is well appriciated. Thanks AJ ...
I need some directions for the following problem: I have a lot of InDesign files and i have to setup a process that will track if a certain paragraph or text block has changed between diferent versions of the file. If the text block has changed i want to extract that text block in a "portable" format (html, pdf, txt). Is there an Adob...
The last time I produced a catalog I used a software called EasyCatalog that worked with Adobe InDesign to merge data from a spreadsheet with graphics. I wouldn’t say it was completely successful. I know of one other catalog building software called Catalog Builder by Computer Pundits. I'm just looking for any suggestions from someone ...
For a project I need to automate creation of business cards. Now, they have a InDesign file for each business card template. They insert the info of alle the people in the indesign file and then generate a pdf of it. Now, entering the information of customers in a web application is no problem, but how will I generate a pdf and how will...
Hi All, With the help of (idml) itemtransform horizontal / vertical distances and path point arrays, I can find out the coordinates of text frame (x1,y1), (x2,y2), (x3,y3), (x4,y4). If the textframe is rotated then item transform values are getting changed, but the path point array values are same. I can find rotation angle by the matri...
I referencing (placing) one InDesign file with several pages into another InDesign file. When I place it I select Import Options and choose the page of the parent document that I want to show. My problem / question is that if I insert a new page into the parent anywhere but at the end of the document (beginning or middle) the links t...
I managed to accidentally delete a backup of files I had which I then later recovered. The recovery has lost the files names and location and I am left with about 3000+ .indd (Adobeb InDesign) files. My problem is I am trying to find the .indd file that I was working on with out having to open each one manually to check. I know some o...
Hi All, When I open the INDD file in indesign, some of the fonts are missing, Its showing only the substituted fonts when I clicked on "Find Font" button instead of missing fonts. Where can I see the original font used in the particular text? I have pasted the missing fonts loader plugin in the path "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDes...
Hi All, I want to create my own plugin, Is there any tutorial available. I want to do it in java. Thanks in Advance. ...
Hi, I want to create plugins on my own. Before doing that, I am trying to run the samples given in the Indesign sdk samples. I am using Mac, I downloaded the entire eclipse archive and set the indesgn cs5 sdk in the preference of eclipse. If i run some samples like BasicDialog, it is running successful and plugin is created. And for oth...
I want to group textframes in my InDesign CS3 vb.net script. It worked for InDesign 2.0 but it does not work with InDesign CS3. Here is my code: Dim myDoc As InDesign.Document = Nothing Dim myGroup As InDesign.Group = Nothing Dim myObjectList(2) myObjectList.SetValue(myOuterTextFrame, 0) myObjectList.SetValue(myInnerTextFrame, 1) myObj...
I have a fairly large Indesign file with a text field that needs to have a different text for each client. The name of the client must come in the text field. When I have for example 100 clients, I want to automaticly export 100 PDF's and each PDF has its own custom text in that field. The name of the client must be appended to the filen...
This code references the root XML node, adds a FirstXMLObject under it, then adds a few fields under FirstXMLObject: var myXMLroot = mydocument.xmlElements.item(0); // The root always exists var b = myXMLroot.xmlElements.add( "FirstXMLObject"); b.xmlElements.add( "Name", "Bob"); b.xmlElements.add( "Address", "1234 Sesame Lane"); Supp...
What is the DOM expression to get current page where the cursor is: app.activeDocument.currentPage ? ...
I have been working on converting graphics and layout heavy books (created in Adobe InDesign) into cross-platform eBooks with non-standard functionality (embedded video, audio, interactivity, etc). Exporting from InDesign to EPUB or other similar formats don't seem to work very well with the types of books I work with. There are all ki...
Hi all, starting with InDesign CS 5, there is a new format, called IDML, that defines a document to be rendered by InDesign. I'm looking for a way to view this format without opening InDesign (which is damn too heavy). The optimum solution would be an applet/a flash library/something that can render content in a web page (in fact, even ...
I have an InDesign document which has hyperlinks contained inside a text frame. I need a way to determine the geometric bounds of the text contained in the hyperlink. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to do this in ExtendScript. // Export the hyperlinks in the document for (k = 0; k < myDocument.hyperlinks.length; k++) { /...
I add a button in Adobe InDesign with an action to perform request xml from restful webservice, but I couldn't find any objects like XMLHttpRequest or ActiveXObject. I don't know there is any object in sdk that lets me do that job? ...