Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript

Resources

Some good resources are available from Adobe. As mentioned elsewhere in this Short Cut, documentation on the ESTK in CS5 and CS4 is available in the application itself via Help → JavaScript Tools Guide CS5 [or CS4], chapter 2. In CS3 the document is available via Help → SDK → JavaScript Tools Guide CS3. In those same Help menus in the ESTK you’ll find introductions to scripting: Adobe Intro to Scripting. Also available from Adobe are some other scripting resources, see http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html.

An excellent user-to-user forum for scripters is the one hosted by Adobe (http://http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scripting). If you know German, a good forum is HDS: http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/foren/Adobe_InDesign_Skriptwerkstatt_Forum_61.html.

The number of sites with useful information on InDesign scripting and with example scripts is growing. Here, I’ll provide a numbers of links to pages that give links themselves:

http://www.indiscripts.com/

http://indesignsecrets.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts

http://www.indesign-faq.de/de/scripting-ressourcen

http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/scripts_by_categories.html

http://www.indesignscript.de/linksammlungindesign.html

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

Finally, two other resources are worth mentioning here. The first is an HTML version of the object-model viewer, available at http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html. The author, “Jongware,” provides versions for both CS3, CS4, and CS5. Apart from ...