† Theunis de Jong (1966–2020)

Such sad news.

Personally, Theunis was a regular help to me in my earlier days of using the forums, and gave me the push to learn to write my own scripts.

From a forum standpoint, he was one of the greatest contributors to this forum. Not just for the volume of posts that he would contribute to, but also for the quality of his answers; his wit and humor within those answers; the lengths he would go to in order to provide the answers; and his solutions that would not only solve an issue for one poster, but quite often the entire community. One item that comes to mind was an article contributed to InDesignSecrets – tackling tables through scripting – an issue that is often a pain-point for InDesign users who have to deal with tables en masse: https://creativepro.com/tackling-tables-through-scripting/

We will miss you greatly Theunis. Rest in peace.

I am sorry to know about this. My condolences to his family and friends.

Gustavo (from Madrid)

This is so sad to hear. R.I.P.

Such sad news 😢 He will be missed.

Very sad to hear of Theunis' passing.

More oftern than not, whenever I had an InDesign scripting problem to solve most poeple would say it's not possible and then I would find that Jongware had found a way.

Rest in peace.

We are all diminished by his passing. Marc, your tribute is thoughtful, beautiful, and appropriate. Thank you for that.

As a mere human being (read; non scripter) I understand how we depend on the dedication and knowledge of scripters, both qualities Jongware had in huge amounts. I trust that others will continue his legacy.

RIP...

Wow. This is going to sting. Jong sponsored me to be an ACP. His advice has helped a lot of people, myself included.

I'm an illustrator dude and never come to the ID forum, but I know who the scripting regulars are. I used to visit the ID scripting forum a lot when I was learning years ago. I learned most of what I know from the couple of illustrator scripters that were still around at that time but mostly, I learned from the heavy guns in this forum, the artillery was far superior in this side of town. One of the ID scripting gurus was so good that he made the cross over to the Illustrator forum. His scripts were the most complex I've ever seen. 

I got hooked when I saw his "Draw a Tricuspoid Shape" script, when I was in scripting pre-school. But then he wrote Where Am I? and Gear Up!, oh my the scripts just kept coming, Puzzlify, Krazy Circles, Monoline, DrawArtHandles and my personal favorite, Circle Fill. I quickly became a fan of his. He wrote many more scripts, too many to count, those are just some of the ones that helped me understand some of the hardest Math concepts and scripting in general. His body of work is truly inspirational to me.

And back to the Tricuspoid script that a user requested and to exemplify his dedication as Marc rightfully pointed out in his beautiful post, this is what he wrote

"Several hours of Heavy Math fun 🙂 Oddly, getting the circumference circles was about the hardest part."

"// Change to set the size of the tricuspoid

// Actually, it's not the *actual* size, more like cos(30) or something ...
// (I might look into that later. It's 01:18 right now; yup, past the midnite hour.)"

I'm happy I had the opportunity to spend the last decade in the illustrator scripting trenches alongside a legend, rest in peace Math Genius JongWare, you will be missed.