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Recording a script

Explorer ,
Nov 23, 2015 Nov 23, 2015

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How can I record a series of steps in InDesign and have them saved as a script?

I do this in Excel all the time and it's a great way to create at least the starting point for a script that may need some tweaking, but at least it's a good starting point.

I found a Rorohiko ActionRecorder that isn't supported anymore.  Surely there's a tool to do this function.

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Guru ,
Nov 23, 2015 Nov 23, 2015

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It's impossible.

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Nov 25, 2015 Nov 25, 2015

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But possible in Photoshop, so all Adobe have to do is offer a “ScriptingListener” plug-in for InDesgin (and Illustrator). Why not just add actions to InDesign (they work well in Photoshop and not so well in Illustrator), instead of expecting users to tackle scripting? Yes, I know that the script code created by ScriptingListener is verbose/obscurified etc.

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Nov 26, 2015 Nov 26, 2015

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Because InDesign is a very different beast. The scripting support is the best, but it's not architectured well for action recording.

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