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Indesign Scripting
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I wrote a couple of scripts in vb/vbscript. I can't help with much, but here's what I learned:
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[li]The object model confuses me to this day. I'm sure it makes perfect sense once you understand it, but I could never really access certain things (like all tables in a document, for example).
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[li]There are definitely some things you simply can't do -- you can do them with the mouse or a keyboard shortcut, but not via scripting.
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[li]The Adobe forums (there's an ID scripting forum) are the absolute best source of help/info that I could find.
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[li]Raw VBScripts -- text files with .vbs extensions -- ran WAY faster than compiled VB or the VBA console. To the tune of 40 or 50 times faster, for many things. This was counterintuitive to me, but after I figured it out I just used raw text files.
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[li]For all my complaints, I shaved literally hundreds of hours off of my project. My little scripts to localized table formatting, trying to mimic table "styles," sort of, were really helpful.
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Note that all of this advice relates to ID 2.0, not CS, and things certainly could have changed between versions.
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[li]The object model confuses me to this day. I'm sure it makes perfect sense once you understand it, but I could never really access certain things (like all tables in a document, for example).
[/li]
[li]There are definitely some things you simply can't do -- you can do them with the mouse or a keyboard shortcut, but not via scripting.
[/li]
[li]The Adobe forums (there's an ID scripting forum) are the absolute best source of help/info that I could find.
[/li]
[li]Raw VBScripts -- text files with .vbs extensions -- ran WAY faster than compiled VB or the VBA console. To the tune of 40 or 50 times faster, for many things. This was counterintuitive to me, but after I figured it out I just used raw text files.
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[li]For all my complaints, I shaved literally hundreds of hours off of my project. My little scripts to localized table formatting, trying to mimic table "styles," sort of, were really helpful.
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Note that all of this advice relates to ID 2.0, not CS, and things certainly could have changed between versions.
There is a forum dedicated to scripting at
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Genimuse,
what you can't do via scripting ??
robin
Scripts for AdobeFamily
gg 3753393
Skype: indesignscripts
what you can't do via scripting ??
robin
Scripts for AdobeFamily
gg 3753393
Skype: indesignscripts
Scripting with Indesign is Great I use it all the time, it can be a huge time saver for some tasks. I had a task yesterday where I had to create a book with 120 pages and 120 graphics, one graphic per page. I ran a script that I had and the task was done in under 3 minutes generating all the pages and placing the graphics, without the script it would have taken CONSIDERABLY longer.
As mentioned earlier the adobeforums.com site has an excellent scripting form. Olav Kvern is the king of Indesign scripting and answers questions there frequently he has also written some excellent tutorials and sample scripts that can be downloaded.
As mentioned earlier the adobeforums.com site has an excellent scripting form. Olav Kvern is the king of Indesign scripting and answers questions there frequently he has also written some excellent tutorials and sample scripts that can be downloaded.
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