ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN III
ANIMATING USING TIMING LISTS, GROUPS, AND DELAYS In this blog series we are working with a script provided by Adobe as part of their Samples Scripts: AnimationEncyclopedia.applescript. To see how this script works, first make sure that the measurement unit for InDesign’s script preferences is set to auto value. AppleScript tell application “Adobe InDesign CC 2017” set […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN II
ANIMATIONENCYCLOPEDIA SAMPLE SCRIPT In our previous blog post we started looking at a script “AnimationEncyclopedia” which is part of the Sample scripts provided by Adobe. This is a fairly lengthy script, but not unreasonably complex, especially if you pick it apart piece by piece. And that is what we attempted to do, up to the […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN II
ANIMATIONENCYCLOPEDIA SAMPLE SCRIPT In our previous blog post we started looking at a script “AnimationEncyclopedia” which is part of the Sample scripts provided by Adobe. This is a fairly lengthy script, but not unreasonably complex, especially if you pick it apart piece by piece. And that is what we attempted to do, up to the […]
ANIMATING INDESIGN I
BEGINNING ANIMATION FOR INDESIGN In our last blog post we demonstrated using an animation from Adobe Animate CC 2017 within an InDesign document. The process worked great, and for some animation projects may be the only way to go. But even with an application as powerful as Animation CC 2017, anything that involves user interaction […]
ANIMATE CC FOR INDESIGN
ANIMATE CC FOR ADOBE INDESIGN I recently took a little detour to get caught up with Adobe Animate CC 2017. Always looking for better (or more efficient) ways to get applications to do my bidding, I was curious as to how well Animate CC would play with InDesign. Of course, my main concern was to […]
ANIMATING ADOBE INDESIGN V
SCRIPTS AND RECIPES Why would someone want to go to the bother of writing a script to create animation for InDesign when you can do just about everything from the user interface? One reason: “just about” is just that. You can’t do everything from the user interface. Reason two: Writing a script is not hard, […]
AUTOMATING A HEART IN INDESIGN
JUST IN TIME FOR VALENTINE So you want to make a quick valentine to post on line. Because you are an InDesign specialist, you might want to demonstrate some of your skills while trying out Publish Online. And, with your final output to be from InDesign, you have some definite advantages in creating your graphic. […]
AUTOMATING ANCHORED OBJECTS WITH CAPTIONS
ANCHORED OBJECTS WITH CAPTIONS The process in our previous blog post dealt with anchored objects that use the above line option. The script assumes that the user has an insertion point selected for placing the image. Preferably, the insertion point would be on its own paragraph. This is preferred; as to place an image in […]
ANCHORED GRAPHICS_ABOVE LINE
Typically the manual process for placing an anchored graphic above line, can be outlined as follows: Place insertion point in text where image is to be placed Place graphic (Command/Control + D) Select graphic from the place dialog (often having to jump through hoops to get to the right folder) Select the container for the […]
SCRIPTING INDESIGN DIALOGS
USER DIALOGS A new year. A new InDesign CC version (2017); and lots to talk about. Whether you are new to working with scripts or an old hat, one thing that is for certain, almost every script you write will in some way need to communicate with the user. The dialogs built into JavaScript and […]