Is it possible to automate an end of story marker?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 29, 2018
2 replies
1323 views

Hello world,

I've figured out how to save a logo icon as “Graphic” in my Library and planning use it as an “End of Story Marker” (versus copy/pasting every time in magazine stories). So is there a way to automate this to a Story without having to open Libraries and inserting it manually? I am new to GREP Styles and Scripts in InDesign, but thought someone here might have a solution before I dive into that abyss?

Thank you!

This topic has been closed for replies.

rob day

Community Expert

You can use a GREP F/C to insert a glyph, but I don't think there's a way to use find and change to insert a graphic, so you'll probably need a script.

This simple AppleScript (OSX only) would insert the contents of your clipboard at the end of every story in the active document. You would have to consider whether you really want the graphic at the end of every story.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

set s to every story of active document

repeat with t in s

set selection to insertion point (index of last insertion point of t) of t

paste

end repeat

end tell

So here I've sized and positioned an object, which is inserted at the end of a story.