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Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan Servetsky
Legend
August 8, 2013
Question

Action Recorder for InDesign

  • August 8, 2013
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Rorohiko just released beta version of Action Recorder — an extension panel which allows recording and replaying repetitive actions and saving recordings as scripts.

However it doesn't work for me in InDesign CS6 for Windows for some reason: nothing happens when I click controls and, unlike it's shown in the demo movie, the default set and action are missing in the panel.

I'd like to know if it works for other people and in other versions of InDesign (both Mac and Windows).

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G
GoSv
Participating Frequently
October 21, 2015

Seems it doesn't work on latest CC15 anymore? Are there any other options to have actions in Indesign?

Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan ServetskyAuthor
Legend
October 21, 2015

Unfortunately no: scripting is the only way to automate things in InDesign. Action Recorder is not supported any more.

G
GoSv
Participating Frequently
October 28, 2015

Yes I got answer from the script writers also.

Pitty, we all urgently need this for production.    

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_Pico_
Participating Frequently
August 10, 2013

Hi Kasyan,

We've just released version 1.0.1 which fixes the initialization issues that were occuring on Microsoft Windows systems.

You can download the latest version at:

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/action-recorder/

If you run into any more issues feel free to send us an email.

Thanks,

Pico @ Rorohiko.

aanavaras
aanavaras
Inspiring
August 10, 2013

Hi Pico,

I downloaded and recorded a simple action, Created a TextFrame and wrote "Hello World\n\nI'm Action Recorder"

When i played the recorded action, TextFrame was created and the text is written without 'Hello World'.

below, i shared the screenshot and the exported action file's content. what could be the prob?

Action1.action:

{name:"Action-1", repeats:"1", commands:[({name:"ItemCreate", collection:"textFrames", properties:"({geometricBounds:[36, 36, 229.606299212598, 559.275590551], itemLayer:\"Layer 1\"})", multilevel:false, bounds:[], relativePosition:[], method:"relative"}),({name:"AddText", text:"Hello World"}),({name:"ApplyMenuAction", actionName:"Paragraph Return", actionId:119743}),({name:"ApplyMenuAction", actionName:"Paragraph Return", actionId:119743}),({name:"AddText", text:"I'm Action Recorder"})]}

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_Pico_
Participating Frequently
August 11, 2013

Hi Aanavaras,

It looks like you uncovered an issue where inserting characters using menu items was overwriting text-contents.

There's a new build on the website (1.0.2) which should fix this issue!

I'll warn you that recording text changes is not something we have put a lot of work into. However styling text with action-recorder should be very simple!

Thanks,

Pico

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_Pico_
Participating Frequently
August 8, 2013

Hi Kasyan,

I've just checked and indeed it looks like we broke the windows functionality entirely in this prerelease build. Thanks for pointing it out!

We will have a new build up within a couple of days that should work fine on Windows.

If you are interested in becoming a beta tester just send us an email at beta@rorohiko.com and for helping us test this product as we develop it we will give you a free single activation code.

I will post back here when a more windows-friendly build is available.

Thanks again,

Pico @ Rorohiko

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