AUTOMATE DOCUMENT CREATION WITH DIALOG
AUTOMATING DOCUMENT CREATION In our previous blog post we started a script that would automate the creation of a web document using a document preset. As part of the automation the script allows the user to choose a stylesheet from which text (paragraph and character) styles, object styles and table styles are imported. As part […]
AUTOMATING DOCUMENT CREATION
AUTOMATING DOCUMENT CREATION In our previous blog post we started a script that would automate the creation of a web document using a document preset. As part of the automation the script allows the user to choose a stylesheet from which text (paragraph and character) styles, object styles and table styles are imported. As part […]
AUTOMATING DOCUMENT CREATION
QUICK AND EASY! Running out of time and recovering from a minor auto accident, it was now too late to send valentine cards through the mail. In a pinch, I decided to put together a quick electronic card for family and friends. This could be something that I could attach to a personalized email. What […]
SLIDESHOW WRAP UP
With this blog post we are wrapping up our journey into the automation of a multi-state-object slideshow with two stylistic options. The approach for the coding took a little different turn in that the InDesign document was created based on the size and resolution of the images. This provided the opportunity to introduce a handy […]
CREATE DIALOG FOR SLIDESHOW USING APPLESCRIPT
DIALOG FOR SLIDESHOW For the last blog posts we have been builing a script to automate the creation of a slideshow using a multiple sselection object. First we created the slideshow, then the buttons. With this post we will create aa custom dialog to give the user two stylistic options for the slideshow: Style Options […]
AUTOMATING BUTTONS FOR SLIDESHOW
BUTTON, BUTTON… So many automation projects you work with may require a button. Multi-state objects are one instance. This is especially true when the multi-state object is included as part of a Publish Online project. In this post we will look at a number of ways a button can be added to the multi-state project […]
FILES, FOLDERS, AND APPLESCRIPT
Happy and Prosperous New Year WHY APPLESCRIPT I am often asked why most of the example scripts I write are for AppleScript. Do I prefer AppleScript over JavaScript? Not really. But being that I work primarily with Macintosh, not Windows, it just makes sense for me. Also for the beginning script writer, AppleScript is a […]
AUTOMATED SLIDESHOW USING IMAGE EVENTS
AUTOMATED SLIDESHOW USING IMAGE EVENTS Our previous blog post introduced you to one of AppleScripts’ little helper applications that within a script can reduce a laborious task down to a keyboard shortcut. The application is Image Events. Image Events Should you have a process that requires getting some information from an image file or altering […]