Coming Soon, For Adobe InDesign 2024
and Above
Work Smarter, Not Harder
In today’s tight economy, you need to find ways to sharpen your competitive edge. A few scripts in your arsenal can be your answer. Scripts unleash InDesign’s hidden power to let your computer take the work out of your workload.
• Use Scripts
• Modify Scripts
• Build Scripts
Legacy Scripts (CS5 and 5.5)
For owners of our previous book (AppleScripting Adobe InDesign CS5 and CS5.5), we are providing a set of legacy scripts for download. These have been tested and updated as needed to work with changes in InDesign up to and including 2023.
Use Scripts
There are a number of scripts provided with the book that can be run as is. These often include a custom dialog box for entering values needed for the script. They may also depend on resources saved in a predetermined location on your hard drive. For convenience, the scripts use a folder named Resources and one named Projects inside the User's Home folder for testing. Projects, such as building a Newsletter may include a template and resources to demonstrate building a start-to-finish project.
Modify Scripts
AppleScript is a very friendly language. Most beginning users are able to make minor changes to a script to fit their needs with a minimum of instruction. Many useable scripts are provided with the book that can be used as is or with just a change or two.
Build Scripts
At the end of each chapter is a section that walks you through a project appropriate for the chapter. You start out running scripts, then changing values in scripts, and finally adding functionality to scripts using snippets of code (handlers) provided in a library. Before you know it, you will be putting your own scripts together that could save you many hours of time and a considerable amount of frustration.
These scripts will be available free of charge until the release of the new book versions.
Some of the Projects included:
Newsletter
Magazine
Calendar
Small Ads
EPUB
Slideshow