Typography and Automation

[fabianmoronzirfas]

Fellow InDesign scripters,

while giving a workshop on typography and automation at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam the students and I created this script collection and also a wiki on scripting InDesign.

Some of these scripts are usefull others just fun. Maybe you want to kill some time with the "Layout Invaders" by schlompf or just bring some text into a fixed width with "swissd for ID" by natael. They are all open source. So feel free to share modify and fiddle with it. If you run into any problems leave an issue over here and we get back to you with a solution.

Cheers Fabian

[Marc Autret]

Hi Fabian,

Awesome collection and very creative projects.

Thanks for sharing

@+

Marc

PS. — See also: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/11/space-invaders-game-in-indesign

[fabianmoronzirfas]

Hi Marc,

thanks for the post on indiscripts.com. I'm glad you dig this.

Cheers

:fab

[-hans-]

Hi,

seems like my spaceinvadersabilities did not get better in the last 20 years 😉

Great wiki!

Hans-Gerd Claßen

[L__Guy_O_Rojo]

Looks like it's all javascript.

[sundar_r]

Nice one! great thing!

[fabianmoronzirfas]

Thanks for the praises folks.

@L. Guy O\'Rojo Yes its all javascript

[rajnikids]

hi sundar jee,

i m trying to createparagraph styles, specifying what we need? But the error message display while running.

I m specifying here the font family which i need and the font style. but not works..

can you sort this out.

var doc = app.documents.item(0);

var paraStyleBodyText = doc.paragraphStyles.add({

  name: "Ariel",

  fontFamily: "Time New Roman",

  fonStyle: "Roman",

  pointSize: 6,

  fillColor: "black25",

});

[fabianmoronzirfas]

Hi rajnikids,

try this:

var doc = app.documents.add();

var fontname = "Times New Roman"+"\t"+"Regular";

var parstyle = doc.paragraphStyles.add({        

     appliedFont:fontname    

     });

The fontstyle, in this case regular, has to be separated by a tab.

It would be good if you start a new discussion in the forum when you have more questions.

Cheers

:fab

[rajnikids]

Thanks fabian,

Its pretty clear about your instruction to start with new discussion. apologise.

but, on the above script I want to add the poinSize: 10 && fillColor: red.

Could you help on this.

thanks & regards,

rajnikids

[Jongware]

It would be good if you start a new discussion in the forum when you have more questions.

Your question is totally unrelated to the on-going thread.