APPLESCRIPT DATE
HAPPY NEW YEAR With the New Year, thoughts may tend to turn to dates; that is, days of the calendar. This post is designed for new users who may be struggling when it comes to working with AppleScript’s date object. But “those in the know” may also find some new information tucked away in the […]
SEASONS GREETINGS
Taking time off to enjoy the season with friends and family. Hope you are doing the same. Animated Card A simple animated card hosted at Publish Online is one of those fun things that you can do in Adobe InDesign (with the help of Illustrator or Photoshop). Using a script to put the animation together, […]
SINGLE PAGE CALENDAR-APPLESCRIPT
Need a little something to give to friends and family? How about a personalized calendar? You could create a simple one page calendar printed similar to the one shown below. This one is letter size but you could do it legal size or larger. (Smaller won’t work). Interested? Our sample script for this week will […]
MAKING THE MOST OF TABLE AND CELL STYLES
WORKING WITH TABLE AND CELL STYLES Now that you are automating the creation of tables using cell styles and table styles, you need to save these styles for use in future projects. The hard part of this subject is where to save the styles. If you have administration privileges, the place might be inside InDesign’s […]
TABLES AND APPLESCRIPT
WRAPPING UP TABLES If you have been following this post series you should be fairly comfortable using scripts to create tables with the aid of scripts. But there are a few issues that need to be covered before we close the door on our tables. DELETING CELLS A recent post on Adobe’s User Forum asked […]
AUTOMATING IMAGES IN TABLES
AUTOMATING IMAGES IN TABLES It’s time to move on from tables filled with just boring text. Adding images to a table can make it more interesting and even help clarify a concept. But working with images in tables can be anything but easy—that is until the 2015 version of InDesign. Prior to that version the […]
TABLE STYLES
TABLE STYLES We presented a small sampling of what can be done with cell styles in our previous blog post. Cell styles are the foundation of working with table styles. With just a few cell styles established in a document, you can get a head start automating table production using table styles. For the sake […]
STYLING TEXT IN TABLES
STYLING TEXT IN TABLES In the previous blog post we saw that the style for the text object that creates a table, sets the styling for imported text that is converted to a table. This can be a great time saver when all text in a table is to be set uniformly. Style Converted Import […]
TEXT IN TABLES
TEXT IN TABLES When it comes to text in tables, InDesign provides a wealth of options for placing the text as well as converting placed text to a table. In this post we will explore some of the options. Existing Table You can add text to any cell within a table using the cell’s contents […]
INTRODUCING TABLE AND CELL STYLES
TABLE AND CELL STYLES In our previous blog post our scripts created a table and added some styling to the cells. This is all well and good, but not as efficient as using styles. When it comes to cell and table styles, these are not, because of the amount of information they can define, created […]