Script to Create Image on the Fore Edge of a Book

Question

Hello,Here is an example of what I want to do:http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=149If you bend the pages of book, you can see an image (which is a word) on the fore edge of a book.I was wondering if there is a script or if I could create a script that would be able to make this in indesign?I have never made a script before, but I was imagining that it could go something like this:Duplicate an imagePaste in place on the next pageSelect the content inside the frameMove the image x distanceAnd repeat all above for the next page.then there would be an option for how many pages this would be done.Does this sound at all possible, or am I just making this completely up?Thanks in advance.

Jongware · Answer

We had a book printed that we didn't design ourselves, and it had this as well. Quite the surprise. Since then I've been thinking of doing it myself. Yup -- as you describe.

The only problem I foresee is a technical one, unrelated to InDesign. The vertical sliver of image per page has to be pretty thin, and on the VERY edge of the pages. Printing on offset is pretty accurate (well within the tolerance of about 1 mm you would be talking about), but binding is something else. I've see deviations after binding of well over 1 mm, all of up, down, and sideways. If you have a book with those gray chapter tabs at the outside of the pages to help locating a certain chapter, you can probably see how much it might deviate.

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