I work for a company that produces name badges, so I basically work with logo images and text boxes. Right now I am trying to take a json file, which has all the properties of the logo and text boxes such as size and placement, and write a script to create the InDesign job. I got it pretty much working, but I would like to optimize it, and the resources I am finding are pretty lacking.

I would also like to create an imposition script, so I can take the one InDesign file and put it multiple up on a sheet.

That first book you linked to looks great, thank you!

Alo Lohrii

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Dowload the latest scripting sdk here https://console.adobe.io/downloads/id

Scripting documentation is at /docs/html
InDesign sample scripts at /scripts/indesign
InCopy sample scripts at /scripts/incopy
InDesign Server sample scripts at /scripts/indesignserver
Tuorials and Guides are at /scripts/scripting_tutorials & /scripts/scripting_guide

Also this scripting tutorial series maybe a good way to start https://www.youtube.com/user/BSKTCreation/videos

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

The scripting language is vanilla Javacript that you can learn from the internet there are plenty of resources. Point to note that this is quite an old version of JS so the fancy features like arrow functions won't work. Basic things like strings, array, object, prototype inheritance, etc work the same as on the web.

Once you are comfortable with the language, you need to study a bit about the anatomy of an InDesign document, on this front studying the DOM documentation would help. Try to understand by making an association with the objects you see and the objects mentioned in the documentation, this will help you visualize how things are working.

Regarding sample code, you can look at the sample scripts shipped with InDesign, accessible via the Scripts panel. Right click any script and choose edit script. Now you can see the code

Also this forum is a treasure trove of helpful information on scripting, if you are stuck, search on the forum more often than not you will land on something helpful.

Hope this will get you started

-Manan