PUBLISH ONLINE II
Embed Publish Online With the August release of InDesign CC 2015, there is a new option that is sure to give you another reason for wanting to try the Publish Online “technology preview” feature. In addition to being able to share your interactive documents on Facebook, Twitter, and email, you can now embed your Publish […]
BEGINNINGAPPLESCRIPT V
CUSTOM DIALOG WIDGETS In creating a custom dialog for Adobe InDesign, a script can take advantage of a variety of widgets for user input fields. In our previous blog we worked with a text editbox, a dropdown, a checkbox control, and an enabling group. In this discussion we will look at the remaining widgets which […]
BEGINNING APPLESCRPT IV
FINISHING THE CUSTOM DIALOG In our previous blog we started the process of creating a custom dialog for Adobe InDesign CC 2015. For this we created our dialog with a text editbox and a dropdown to get the name of the PDF file and the PDF preset to use as part of the PDF export. If you were successful […]
BEGINNING APPLESCRIPT III
CUSTOM INDESIGN DIALOGS The hardest part of writing a script is often experienced in creating the user interface. Adobe InDesign provides a fairly robust dialog object for creating a modal dialog for this purpose. As you may remember, a modal dialog, once displayed, prevents any other activity within the application until it is closed. To […]
BEGINNING APPLESCRIPT II
ORGANIZING A SCRIPT In our previous blog (July 21), we put a demonstration script together using AppleScript. This script allows the user to choose a PDF export preset from a list of presets. With the preset chosen, it exports the PDF to a fixed file path on the user’s desktop. This is OK for a […]
BEGINNING APPLESCRIPT I
WHERE TO START Recently a user inquired if a script could be written to automate the process of exporting a document to PDF. If this was possible, the user inquired “where would I start.” Blogs written on scripting most often assume that the reader knows the basics of writing a script. But this inquiry caused […]
STYLING TEXT FOR GLOSSARY
STYLING TEXT FOR GLOSSARY Our Feature Script for the month of July involves creating page destination hyperlinks for terms on Glossary pages. Part of the process for setting up the Glossary pages however requires a little work. There needs to be some way to identify the glossary terms from their descriptions. For the most part, […]
DOSCRIPT TO CALL EXTERNAL FILE
DO SCRIPT There are a number of ways that the do script method (doScript for ExtendScript) in a script for InDesign can be used to an advantage. Here we look at processes that involve a script written in an external file: Cross Application ScriptsWhen you need to pull information from another application into a script written for InDesign, […]
WORKING WITH IMAGE METADATA
WORKING WITH IMAGE METADATA Of course you know that metadata is the data hidden in a file that carries with it a wealth of information about the file. With images this can include all of the information about how and when the image was photographed. Within applications such as Photoshop and Bridge, this information is […]
HYPERLINKS IN INDESIGN INTERACTIVE PUBS
Hyperlinks in InDesign Interactive Publications The idea behind using an interactive document is that users will tend to become more engaged with the document. Hopefully, this means that readership increases with comparative desired results. To explore how the new Publish Online (technology preview) feature for InDesign CC 2015 works with hyperlinks we created a sample document for […]