I haven't checked into the forum in a long time and would have missed this post if Harbs wouldn't have posted on slack but after seeing it I must comment. Theunis helped me and countless others out on many occasions and will be missed by the community here and more so by his family. The treads between Jongware, Marc, Uwe, Peter, others, and myself were quite inspiring each demonstrating their own style and JW certainly had some of that. ... View more

There's good instructions of how to change the splash screens on Ps and other apps on both Windows and Mac at http://mteam7.com/blog/cc-splash It's not incredibly simple but it's looks workable. I have not tried it yet. ... View more

I don't think Uwe really need the points for keeping his ACP but I marked his question as correct because as you wrote he certainly deserves credit. ... View more

I personally find js way easier and quicker to write than applescript which is such a verbose and clumsy language. Yes applescript is more English like and easier for a program language illiterate to read but after a really short time it should become significantly quicker to program in js. ... View more

Bye Bye ExtendScript Bye Bye SUI Bye Bye CEP Hello UXP, for how long and in how long ???? ... View more

@ErinF ? UXP Adobe https://medium.com/adobetech/xd-and-creative-cloud-extensibility-faq-e615dd6ecbfe ... View more

Extendscript is going to have a major update and brought to modern standards that I think will be maintained i.e. as new standards appear in JS they will be added. The system is UXP the XD is using which works very differently from the current system, including very different UI methods. How much of the overall API is going to remain open to COM and applescript is somewhat questionable but the new method is going to be way more efficient than  anything applescript can offer ... View more

Glad you got it working. You should port the script to Javascript, applescript in indesign doesn't have a future by the looks of things. Your questions will also get answered more with js, most people ignore all questions on applescript ... View more

Did you look at my JSX.js A Game Changer in Adobe HTML Extensions Development? – Creative-Scripts.com  ? If you use that you can just use $.__dirname You can look at the source code there of how that is done. ... View more

raveitsdave​ you have a good fish on the hook there with Tom! @Tom Sorry for the edit on the email, Spam is a big problem here. ... View more

I posted a link to here in a developer hangout ... View more

Using JSX.js A Game Changer in Adobe HTML Extensions Development? – Creative-Scripts.com is really simple. See the examples there and also Shawn posted a sample github repo on the forum here about a week ago. If you need help with it after reading the link leave a post here. ... View more

The best way of dealing with it would be using an extension that can download load the files asynchronously and when they are all downloaded the can be embed in the document. One could handle multiple documents and carry on working in indesign like that except for the interruptions for the linking and embedding. ... View more

See Re: Include remote .js-file in script-file (and use it's variables) In particular post #21 and the gist files there. Now one can also use curl on Windows 10 not just Mac. One can curl to the temp folder, link to indesign, embed images and then delete from temp folder. ... View more

Can also use JSX.js A Game Changer in Adobe HTML Extensions Development? – Creative-Scripts.com  but you'll still have to use some form of disable / enable which can either be ideally setting the buttons atribute btn = document.getElementById("Button"); btn.disabled = true; and then on call back btn.disabled = false; The other way would be if (!disabled) { disabled = true; evalScript('theScript', function(){disabled = false;}); } Unless you have good reason then the  1st method is better ... View more

Hi Erin I can't believe there's a difference InCopy is really closely related to InDesign and there's no reason there should be. In fact all the apps should be able to handle "invisible" extensions they are just extensions which don't have any menu item or UI and have some event that starts them automatically. So as long as the app can listen to an event listed in the manifest like app start, or document create then it will work. Trevor ... View more

I don't have any examples for InDesign Server, if you search the InDesign Server forum, you might find. The are examples on this forum using c# with indesign. Basically you just need to connect to the COM port and then you can use c# easily. The big question is if you have the buget for the server, I think the staring cost is about $20,000 ... View more

InDesign server is designed exactly for what you are looking to do. ... View more

You can't believe the documentation. The CEP first extension I make was an invisible one for InDesign and that was a few years back when they came out with CEP. It could be there's some magical "invisible" extension type but the above method does the trick. ... View more

More quotes from Harbs Harbs  [16 hours ago] Prior to CC 2019, Lifecycle caused the invisible extension to launch without Menu and Geometry. Harbs  [16 hours ago] For some reason, in CC 2019 Menu and Geometry became required… ... View more

Glad you got it working, invisible extensions do work on InDesign. I think point 2 is significant. Harbs posted this on slack today <UI>     <Type>Custom</Type>     <Menu></Menu>     <Geometry>         <Size>             <Height>100</Height>             <Width>100</Width>         </Size>     </Geometry> </UI> Comments <Menu></Menu> Nothing between the tags     <Geometry>         <Size>             <Height>100</Height> needs some number here, doesn't matter what (within reason)             <Width>100</Width>         </Size> </Geometry> ... View more

You have it in your manifest in the correct place. I have a post Setting Cep Debug Mode and Log Level the Easy Way – Creative-Scripts.com It avoids using RegEdit and much less error prone. You wouldn't get extra spaces if you used it. ... View more

<Lifecycle>     <AutoVisible>true</AutoVisible> </Lifecycle> ... View more

Extension Builder 3.0. is not appropriate for CEP HTML extensions, see links on the forums front page Extensions / Add-ons Development ... View more

If you where not going through the exchange then you could have the extension download from you site and store the files in an accessible location outside of the extensions folder in a way that won't mess up the signature. There are quite a few caveats for doing this including. HTTPS connections can be a real pain in the neck when the IT department etc. uses it's own proxies and you need to be able to add the appropriate security certificates to the extension. Similarly the IT departments might not have you site opened. The  "accessible location"  is going to be user based and not Admin based so it would need to be done for each user The  "accessible location"  can well be not that accessible on some users systems Adobe doesn't want you doing this as they don't want you loading malicious code onto their users system's. It's a bit mean hearted of them but one can see where they are coming from. Best of luck. Trevor  ... View more

There's lot's of mathematical ways of doing it. I wrote a script that orders swatches as per luminance one can use simplifications of the various delta formulas and compare them with white. The simplest DOM method would be to use app.convertSampleColor and convert to grayscale. Then decide what gray scale you consider gray. For the Logo Package Express extension I developed I used a math method for the inverted color scheme which changes dark colors to white. See these for some screenshots. Logo Package Express Extension – Creative-Scripts.com Package Logo Files for Clients in Under 5 Minutes | The Logo Package  ... View more

I see Uwe found something nice! ... View more