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What's .idrc stand for?

Explorer ,
Feb 05, 2015 Feb 05, 2015

Hi everyone

Can someone tell me what's .idrc stand for

What's format it is?

Thanks

Regard

Teetan

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Mentor , Feb 05, 2015 Feb 05, 2015

Probably that's short for InDesign resource compiler.

There is no single .idrc, it is a bunch of binary formats determined by the folder containing the file.

The whole resources folder of nested folders is a replacement for a single MacOS Classic file's resource fork, each idrc_XXXX folder stands for one type, each numbered file stands for one resource.

Some files such as idrc_PNGA are just binary copies of .PNG .

Most other files are produced by the ODFRC resource compiler, whose ancestors are App

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Mentor ,
Feb 05, 2015 Feb 05, 2015

Probably that's short for InDesign resource compiler.

There is no single .idrc, it is a bunch of binary formats determined by the folder containing the file.

The whole resources folder of nested folders is a replacement for a single MacOS Classic file's resource fork, each idrc_XXXX folder stands for one type, each numbered file stands for one resource.

Some files such as idrc_PNGA are just binary copies of .PNG .

Most other files are produced by the ODFRC resource compiler, whose ancestors are Apple's MPW Rez compiler, later the Apple+IBM OpenDoc resource compiler. Most idrc_ formats are described by matching sources in ".fh" files of the plugin SDK, and the responsible C++ routines use streams to load them from that binary format.

For example a randomly chosen plugin contains these resources:

idrc_CLST - class table describing the C++ object model

idrc_FACT - factory of implementation classes referenced by the class table

idrc_LOCR - localization indexes

idrc_PMST - localized strings

idrc_PVER - general plugin version info

idrc_VIEW - persisted views (dialogs, panels or other widgets)

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Explorer ,
Feb 05, 2015 Feb 05, 2015

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Thank you Dirk Becker

thank you so much!

but in this pic what's .idrc stand for?

Regard

Teetan

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Mentor ,
Feb 06, 2015 Feb 06, 2015

As I mentioned above before I even saw your other thread, some resources within InDesign's own plugins are just disguised .png files.

Rather than creating your own icons you can locate and reuse the images from InDesign's default plugins, e.g. I do that for the font icons in a beefed up Find-Change-Font dialog. I guess the screen shot is from Peter's PDF, and I think Peter also provides a list of icon resources - I don't know where because I use my own.

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Explorer ,
Feb 06, 2015 Feb 06, 2015
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thank you Dirk Becker

I think now I know what you mean.

Thank you so much!

Teetan

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