Convert Word Document to indesign file with InDesign Server

Hi Alex,

You can indeed place a Word document into an InDesign file and print it as a PDF. But when the Word document comes into InDesign, expect a lot of work tidying up the formatting, redesigning, and preparing the file for the correct sort of PDF (digital or print) that is required. This is a big job usually (unless you're lucky with your Word file, or it's very simple, or you really don't care what it looks like much) -- and many people have full-time jobs, if not careers, doing just that all day :-)

"-Should I perform some additional processing of placed word document to place it into .indd?"

Are you talking about from a scripting perspective? From a scripting perspective, you do not have to do anything special to a Word file to be able to place it into InDesign. (But from a practical point of view, people usually do prepare Word files before placing, to make it easy to work with them afterwords in InDesign.)

"-Otherwize could you please appoint the sequence of basic steps to implement word->indd convertion?"

InDesign, place your text cursor in a text frame somewhere. Then run this one-line script:

app.selection[0].place("C:\\MyFile.doc");

That's the basics.

Ariel

PS It sounds to me like you need to get a little more familiar with using InDesign. For scripting, it's always good to know first how to do something in InDesign with the regular UI before trying to script it, because scripting really basically just replicates the steps you would be doing manually as a user.