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October 22, 2008
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is there a scripting reference for InDesign

  • October 22, 2008
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I have looked around or I would not be asking - is there an official scripting reference, such as what Adobe maintains online for Flash, that includes the complete object model for InDesign and how to access it? I have the advanced tutorial. I also visited niemannross.com per the wiki post, but have trouble accessing the site even with an openID.

If not official, what is the best alternative? (I did find http://www.indesignscriptingreference.com/cs3/javascript/ on the web - is that the best out there?)

Thank you!
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Jongware
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Community Expert
October 22, 2008
That's funny -- it looks suspicously much like the HTML I bloody generated a while ago from the provided Help files.

(Checking: yep -- so far, the HTML is virtually the same. It seems some guy named "Bazar Sitaram" is making money by advertising with free stuff.)

The help file that you see there, in glorious formatted HTML, is created from the same text you see in the ESTK, menu Help, section InDesign.
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October 22, 2008
Hi eLearning Developer,

It's all found in the object model viewer inside the ExtendScript Toolkit--no need for an external reference.

Thanks,

Ole