InDesign's scripting capabilities

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July 29, 2024
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Hi folks

I am currently researching about the scripting capabilities of InDesign. Actually I want to know whether I can run a script in InDesign to do a feature that is not supported by InDesign. For example I want to add character limit and format to a form field created in InDesign. But it is not possible in InDesign. Is there any way I can do it using scripts?

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Your example refers to the functionality of the interactive PDF.

Can be done by injecting JavaScript code into the exported PDF - but needs to be done in Acrobat - AFTER exporting PDF.

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Actually I wanted to do it within InDesign itself. Is there any way for that?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Actually I wanted to do it within InDesign itself. Is there any way for that?

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Manan Joshi

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Generally scripting is used for automation of InDesign. Whether something can be done or not can be answered by looking at the InDesign DOM API and figuring out what is possible or not via scripting. For that start at the link given below

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Application.html

Now if you find that scripting is lacking for your task then the final tool you can explore is creating C++ plugin for InDesign. This can do almost anything within the app. The only need is that it should have been exposed by the Adobe team for the 3rd party developers.

-Manan

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