Animating Adobe InDesign Fixed Layout
Animation Paths: Motion Path Points To this point, all of our animation scripts have involved either a vertical or horizontal direction of travel. Our Fly In script (March 8) started by setting the list value for the variable <em>dTravel</em> as {800, 0.0}. This set the path of travel for the page item selected 800 pixels horizontally and […]
Animating InDesign Fixed Layout EPUB
Are You Having Fun Yet? Even though we have just covered some of the basics of using a script to animate InDesign page items for a fixed layout EPUB, hopefully you have found some time to play and have some fun creating an animated page or two. This week we will expand on the subroutines […]
Animating InDesign for Fixed Layout EPub
Overview In our previous blog (March 9, 2015) we introduced the concept of using a script to create animation for InDesign fixed layout projects. To animate a page item onto the page, we developed two handlers (subroutines): calculateRelativeMove – calculates distance object will move from off page to current positionparameters:reference to object to move, side of […]
Animation for Fixed Layout EPUB
As of October 2014 Adobe released an update to InDesign that gave new meaning to animation for fixed layout EPub ebooks. In addition to adding the ability to use audio, video, and placed HTML, the update includes the ability to create animations for fixed layout EPUB directly in InDesign. These animations previously were only available […]
Animating InDesign For EPUB
Animation for Fixed Layout EPUB As of October 2014 Adobe released an update to InDesign that gave new meaning to animation for fixed layout EPub ebooks. In addition to adding the ability to use audio, video, and placed HTML, the update includes the ability to create animations for fixed layout EPUB directly in InDesign. These […]
AppleScript Dialog Timing Issues
Time in a Dialog Box Unless you are super new to AppleScript you probably are quite familiar with modal dialog boxes. But, just to review, recall that a modal dialog box, when issued from within an application, will not allow any other activity to occur in the application until the dialog is dismissed. In this […]
Custom Dialogs
Take Some of the Work Out of Creating Custom Dialogs If you have created scripts having a custom dialog you know that the code can be quite involved. For instance, having to create a row, then a column, and then a user interface element can take up a few lines of code to say the […]
Automating Image Captions in Adobe InDesign II
Sample Script for Adding Captions This article will give you some ideas for adding captions to images using a script. We will be using AppleScript but ExtendScript users can easily convert the script as needed. Our sample script will depend on the following: Images have been saved with the description field defined for the image’s […]
Automating Image Captions in Adobe InDesign
Creating Captions in InDesign How do you create captions in InDesign? Adobe InDesign provides several choices for creating captions automatically. You have probably used one or two of the methods with varying amounts of success. The options for automation discussed below depend on image files having the desired metadata established as part of its File […]
Images in Edit-First InCopy Workflow
InCopy to InDesign Workflows The subject of our last four blogs has concentrated on using an Adobe InCopy to InDesign edit-first workflow. If you have been following along, you may have come to the conclusion that this workflow is just what you need for a project. However, when it comes to working with images and […]