Indesign CC'14 Script for randomising Baseline shift and character rotation

[MattCass87]

Hi Guys and Gals,

Please could someone write a short script and/or point me in the direction of where I can find one for the following:

I need a script that will randomly adjust the baseline shift and rotation of individual characters within certain certain parameters (e.g +10 baseline shift, 2deg to -10 baseline shift, -2deg)

Many thanks in advance

Matt

[Peter Spier]

Moved to the scripting forum....

[MattCass87]

bump

[TᴀW]

There isn't really a simple way of rotating character in InDesign. You'd have to convert each one to outlines and then rotate. But then the text would be no longer editable.

[MattCass87]

Thanks Ariel,

There are options for baseline script and character rotation in the text palette. I know there is a script to randomise it as i've seen it in previous versions of Indesign however they no longer work in the new CC.

So if anyone can point me in the direction of some script writers I can email that would be a huge help.

Thanks

[Colin Flashman]

Loic Aigon made one ages ago called text shaker: http://www.scriptopedia.org/en/js-indesign/28-textshaker-en.html

It randomly shifts the baseline up and down. Doesn't skew the text though.

Need more information? Contact Loic directly: www.ozalto.com

Colin

[Adam5C0B]

Still working in 2023 (v 18.4). This was exactly what I needed to make some body text in a handwriting font look more handwritten. Thank you!

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

@MattCass87 – do you mean something like that?

Uwe

[MattCass87]

Thanks Colin, thats definitely along the correct lines..

Laubender, thats is exactly!!.. albeit i'd be using it to a less dramatic extent. Does that have the ability to set maximum and minimum parameters?

Thanks

Matt

[Laubender]

It's no full-blown script yet…
Just one line of code without any features but rotating a selected character by a free value of degree.

Hint: There is a characterRotation property for the Character Class in the DOM.

Uwe

[Laubender]

This feature, never exposed to InDesign's user interface, seems a little bit buggy.
It's with us since InDesign CS5.
A word of caution here: I don't know, if any of the modern export methods like Fixed Layout ePUB will support it.

(I strongly doubt that, but did not test yet)

Uwe

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi Uwe,

I'm very curious to read your script! 

Marc Autret has written the amazing Wordalizer!  Indiscripts :: Wordalizer 1.5 | Create Word Clouds in InDesign CS4-CC!

Another way to say "HELLO!"!  

[Colin Flashman]

@Uwe

Text altering features such as skewing, emboldening, or rotating text don't work with epub export... at least at the time of writing this.

[Laubender]

@Colin – Thank you for commenting on this.
You are right. Tested this with InDesign CC-2014…

Uwe