AUTOMATE INDESIGN GRAPHIC EXPORT WITH APPLESCRIPT II
ADDING FUNCTIONALITY TO AN EXISTING SCRIPT It goes without saying that once you have a basic script written, you may discover other processes that you will want to add. This is particularly true with the demonstration script written in our previous blog post. That script exports all groups and all graphics from a document based […]
AUTOMATE INDESIGN GRAPHIC EXPORT WITH APPLESCRIPT
EXPORTING GRAPHICS IN INDESIGN InDesign does a remarkable job for exporting documents to HTML, but there is one place where it leaves some work to the designer. That is with graphics that have been created inside of InDesign or with graphics copy/pasted from another resource. These graphics don’t make it into the collection of files […]
DIALOG FOR TEXTONAPATH
USER INTERFACE DIALOGS In the previous post we created text on a circle in InDesign using a simple script. To make the script more user friendly, a user dialog is in order. There are a number of ways one can create a dialog, but InDesign users will find that for most purposes, the easy-to-create dialog […]
TEXTONAPATH
TEXT ON A PATH Taking a short detour from automating animations in InDesign to look at a subject that came up recently in the user forums: text on a path. In working with text on a path you may have come across some issues that were a little difficult. That’s probably the reason that there […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN IX
OBJECTS THAT DRAW THEMSELVES I have had people ask why they should delve into writing scripts for animating InDesign when the application provides so much capability from within its Animation panel. My answer is that using a script provides so much more capability. And, if one already knows how to write scripts, it is often […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN VIII
PERPETUAL MOTION (OR NOT) The animation settings property for an object in Adobe InDesign has two properties that determine the number of times an animation sequence will repeat: plays(integer) The number of times this animation plays. Can return integer (1-100) plays loop (boolean) Set to true if the animation repeats. We can see how this works […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN VIII
OBJECTS THAT DRAW THEMSELVES I have had people ask why they should delve into writing scripts for animating InDesign when the application provides so much capability from within its Animation panel. My answer is that using a script provides so much more capability. And, if one already knows how to write scripts, it is often […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN VII
MOTION PATHS When it comes to writing scripts to create animations in InDesign, defining the motion path for your object may become your number one headache. STRAIGHT PATHS To set up a path for animating a page object to travel in a straight line is not as simple as it sounds: Define the x- and […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN VI
SCRIPTS TO ANIMATE OBJECTS IN INDESIGN In this blog post series we are creating animations for InDesign using scripts. If you followed our last post, you saw that there were a number of properties that needed to be set for an object ‘s animation settings to create its animation: duration – the length, in seconds, […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN IV
ANIMATING OBJECTS IN INDESIGN WITH SCRIPTS If you have been following along with the previous posts in this series (Animating InDesign with Scripts) you should have a pretty good handle on the basics of writing scripts for animation. For our purpose we have been looking at code that is part of a sample script provided […]