SCRIPTING NEW DOCUMENTS: DOC PRESET
If you are a design studio that produces a variety of products (from business cards to brochures), you most likely have found ways to shortcut your workflow for creating new documents: Create the document from a template Create the document using New Document and selecting a document preset. From there import styles from a […]
CREATIVE CLOUD BONUS
CREATIVE CLOUD BONUS Adobe has just added another enticement for becoming a Creative Cloud member: Behance ProSite NEVER HEARD OF IT In case Behance is new to you (as it was to me), Behance is a social media platform designed just for creative professionals who want to showcase and share their work with the world. As […]
FINISHING TOUCHES FOR EPUB
InDesign CS5 and above does a fair job when it comes to exporting a document as HTML. But once you have a template, you may find it just as easy to work with the HTML and CSS. (You will end up having to modify your HTML code anyway, especially if the final product will require […]
IPAD FIXED FORMAT TEMPLATE
When it comes to creating a fixed format ePub for iPad, using a template can take a lot of the guesswork out of the process. The iPad FixedFormat Template provided on the ePub page of our website www.yourscriptdoctor.com/ePub is set up for eight facing pages plus cover. (Of course, you can add more pages later, but stick with the […]
EXPORTING INDESIGN TO HTML
HTML Tagging One of the advantages of using a later version of InDesign (5.5 and above) is the support for HTML export. If you have defined your text using paragraph and character styles exclusively, you can determine how you want your HTML text tagged when exported. From either the Paragraph or Character Styles panel menu, […]
GET TEXT FRAME INFO II
FILLING IN THE GAPS In writing a script the major task often relies on a number of dependencies that must be resolved before the script can be successful. This is true of the script that we began in the previous blog, “TextFrameInfo”. This script is designed to collect information about the text frames in a […]
GET TEXT FRAME INFO
Electronic publications with fixed formats rely on absolute positioning. This allows text to be positioned on top of images. Positioning elements on a page is determined in the CSS file. When you export an InDesign document as HTML, the application assumes you are creating a dynamic formatted document where element positioning can change depending on […]
AUTOMATING JPEG EXPORT II
In our last blog we introduced the beginnings of a script to automate exporting pages of an InDesign document as JPEG images without the accompanying text frames. This was done by moving text frames to a non-printing layer prior to exporting. To complete this script there are two procedures that need to be taken care […]
AUTOMATING JPEG EXPORT
When you export a document using the export to JPEG option, each page is exported in its entirety as a jpeg. This includes text as well as graphics and images. This may not be what you want especially if exporting at a lower resolution. Text, as you well know, does not display well at lower resolutions. Accordingly, […]
DATA OUT OF RANGE ERROR
Recently I was reminded of a problem in writing a script for Adobe InDesign that needs discussion. It has to do with existing measurement and margin settings. You may recall in creating a small document that you need to make sure margin settings are not larger than the size of the document. If not, here […]