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Yes, those things happens with InDesign too! On the other hand, InDesign has really great crash recovery system, and it saved my work so many times. But, sometimes, InDesign just keeps crashing even with no documents opened, or not saving settings that we made, not displaying fonts correctly. First thing you can try is to …

When building complex scripts with lot of options that user can choose, it’s always great to allow user to also save selected settings and reuse them on next launch. We already discussed about this topic in earlier post [Saving script data within document] but I recently found better way for serializing and storing data. In …

Finding properties in OMV (Object Model Viewer) can be really painful, and slow. Personally, my best friend when writing scripts is Theunis de Jongs (aka Jongware) InDesign JavaScript Reference Guide but also trying to remember connections between objects and when to use which property, class, method… But, there is also another way to find out …

Counting words and also paragraphs, stories, characters is something pretty easy to achieve, but very often done in wrong way. Most of the time, people are looping through stories, text frames, paragraphs and adding word count. That is OK, for short documents, with short stories, but as document length increases, script needs more and more …

After long time here comes new post about InDesign scripting! This one is really cool and handy. Simply select files and script will load them directly into PlaceGun tool! Really simple and handy! Also there are some options that you can set while loading files into PlaceGun, but we will just focus on simple loading. …

[UPDATED] Do you need information about fonts used in your document(s)? Do you want to check is some fonts missing in a more than one file? You can do that with FontReporter®!

Inspired by yesterday post about making Panel Names to Title Case, I made small script to help you enable/disable this feature (Easter Egg) through scripting. What script actually does? It checks if folder “noallcaps” exists in InDesign start up folder, and depending on our selection it creates/removes folder. I also added check for folder contents, …

Are you annoyed with all panel names in All Caps?! There is really easy way to turn them into Title Case! Tested with InDesign and InCopy CS4 and CS5! Be sure you check out Don’t Like All Caps in the Interface? Try This For Some Relief on InDesign Secrets website! Have fun!

Few days ago on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting forum I found question about duplicating all anchored and inline objects to another layer. It’s quite simple task, and all we have to do, is to get all page items, and check item parent. If parent is Character, then it’s anchored/inline object. So, let’s take a look!

Want to add custom colors to document? Wanna do it fast and painless? Here is short function that will do all job for you!