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Storing data within InDesign document is possible with insertLabel() but there is another place to save information about document. As we know, all InDesign documents have metadata stored in file itself. For more info take a look at other Metadata related posts listed at the end. We are able to insert our own data into …

Wanna insert text variable to text frame through scripting? No problem. It’s fast and easy! Question about this showed up about one week ago on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting forum, and I was also curious how to do it. I don’t want to write much, so, let’s go down to business

A few days on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting forum I found question about inserting info into XMP InDesign file info. Also, mission was to find text formatted into specific paragraph style, and insert found content into XMP’s ‘Document Title’. Easiest way to achieve this is to use ‘Find’ and search for paragraph style. But, I also …

Some of Adobe file format’s (INDD, PDF, AI) are using Metadata to store low-res preview of file inside file itself. For example InDesign allows you to select how many pages do you want to include in these previews and also preview size/quality. We have to keep in mind that data is not stored in binary …

Do you want to import styles from other document through scripting? It’s really easy to achieve, and you also have control about overwriting styles with same name. Also, you can import all kind of styles, you are not limited to just Paragraph or Character styles. We will take a look to the style ‘importStyles()’, but …

Does this image looks familiar?! Do you want to change missing font through scripting? Then I have good news for you, it can be done really fast and easy! We are going to look easiest way for retrieving missing fonts from document, and also I will share this script integrated into dialog and font selector. …

Few days ago on Adobe’s InDesign scripting forum I found question how to create custom menu to insert predefined text items into ScriptUI text box. I started to research and found really easy and good way you achieve this handy “menu”. All we need is dropdown and short script for controlling insert behavior.

Have you ever wanted to add a dropdown/listbox item but with icon beside? This is not really possible with native InDesign dialog manager, but it can be done with ScriptUI! It’s really easy to achieve this great little feature. So, let’s take a short look how to do this.

In previous post about Extracting Metadata with Adobe XMP we were extracting complete Metadata from file and saving it to XML file. In this post we will take a look how to extract just those elements that we want. Also, don’t forget to grab Adobe XMP Specification and visit Adobe XMP Develop Center for additional …

This is short and simple. Fast way to extract file name (without extension) and extension from file. Unfortunately Javascript doesn’t allow us to retrieve just file name or extension, but we can achieve it in really simple way through string operations. We are going to create simple prototype for ‘file();’ class. So, let’s get started!