How to create document of Adobe in-design in c# or Java with instantiating the UI

[lakhwinders1831208]

How to make document without opening the application in c# or Java.

I am able to create the document but for that, I have instantiated the UI of Adobe in-design

Below is the code I tried which is working but for this application need to be instantiated.

Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("InDesign.Application.CC.2019", true);
dynamic app = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type,true);InDesign.idScriptLanguage.idJavascript, new object[] { "" });
Document document = app.open("D:\\ResumeInDesign.indd", false);

[Manan Joshi]

So you want to create an InDesign document without accessing InDesign, as in on a machine that does not have InDesign installed?

-Manan

[lakhwinders1831208]

Yes but I have no issues in installing SDK, but the whole application I don't want to install on the server.

And in case if that is compulsory then I can install that as well but don't want to open from code for any activity from code.

Thanks

[Manan Joshi]

Not possible InDesign file format is a closed proprietary format, you can't create it without the use of InDesign. What you could do is create an IDML file, look into the specs

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/idml/idml-specification.pdf

IDML is basically an XML format that can describe the InDesign document fully, so you can write code to create IDML files instead on INDD files.

-Manan

[lakhwinders1831208]

Hi Manan, I will go through this documentation

[Trevor:]

InDesign server is designed exactly for what you are looking to do.

[lakhwinders1831208]

Can you share some examples with me if you have as I am not able  to find any with C#

[Trevor:]

I don't have any examples for InDesign Server, if you search the InDesign Server forum, you might find.

The are examples on this forum using c# with indesign.

Basically you just need to connect to the COM port and then you can use c# easily.

The big question is if you have the buget for the server, I think the staring cost is about $20,000