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PDF Ebook Adobe Indesign Cs4 Scripting Tutorial

Submitted by antoq on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 00:17

Scripting is the most powerful feature in Adobe® InDesign® CS4. No other feature can save you as much time, trouble, and money as scripting. This document is for every InDesign user. If you never created a script before, we show you how to get started. If you wrote scripts for other applications, we show you how to apply your knowledge to InDesign scripting.

The document also covers how to install and run an InDesign script and describes what InDesign scripting can and cannot do. We discuss the software you need to start writing your own scripts. After you learn the basics of InDesign scripting in this tutorial, you can move on to Adobe InDesign CS4 Scripting Guide, which explores scripting in more depth. Adobe InDesign CS4 Scripting Guide contains hundreds of tutorial scripts covering topics like text formatting, finding and changing text, associating scripts with menu items, drawing objects on a page, and exporting documents.

Contents
Introduction
Getting started

    Installing scripts
    Running a script
    Using the scripts panel
    About scripting languages
      JavaScript
      Windows
      Mac OS
      Which scripting language should you use?

    How to use the scripts in this document
    Your first InDesign script

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript
      Walking through the script

Scripting and the InDesign object model

    Scripting terminology
      Comments
      Values
      Variables
      Operators
      Conditional statements
      Control structures
      Functions and handlers

    Understanding the InDesign object model

      Looking at the InDesign object model
      Measurements and positioning

Adding features to “Hello World”

    AppleScript
    JavaScript
    VBScript

Constructing a document

    Setting up measurement units and master spread margins
      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Adding a baseline grid

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Adding master page items

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Adding master text frames

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Overriding master page items and adding text

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Adding and applying a paragraph style

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Placing a text file

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

    Placing a graphic

      AppleScript
      JavaScript
      VBScript

Beyond the basics

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