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Custom Scripts

With InDesign’s scripting support, you can automate repetitive tasks, such as drawing frames, placing images, and formatting text. Scripts can perform a multitude of tasks, from applying styles to automating an entire publishing system. In fact, any action that can change a document or its contents can be scripted. Scripting also plays an integral role in XML-based workflows.

InDesign supports the use of AppleScript, JavaScript, and VBScript. It’s possible to create your own scripts or run scripts that other people have created (Figure 1.17).

Figure 1.17. The Scripts panel displays the scripts that are located in the Scripts folder. You can double-click a script to run it.

Scripts Folder Locations When you create or receive ...