Here's a new version (5.0) of my batch processor script (on DropBox). I had no time to post it on my site yet. It supports UXP scripts and IDML files. Let me know if you're able to download it now. ... View more

Hi MishoStoev,   The latest version of the script and 'step-by-step' sample files are posted on my site: see the link above. To create a shape (text frame) just choose a font, type 25, and convert it to outlines. Finally, edit the shape: set the text inset, move nodes with the white arrow, etc. It should work with Cyrillic: make sure to save the list of names as plain text (Unicode) e.g. in Notepad/TextEdit. To get the best possible result, you will have to experiment with settings in InDesign, such as font size and leading, and probably fine-tune it manually after running the script. I can't help you with this because I'm busy with my daily work.   Hope it helps! — Kasyan ... View more

Something like this: main(); function main() { var doc = app.activeDocument; var fileName = doc.name; var author = ""; // get author - everything up to the 1st underscore if (fileName.match(/_/) != null) { author = fileName.split("_")[0]; } fileName = fileName.replace(/\.indd$/, ""); // remove extention fileName = fileName.replace(/_/g, " ") // replace underscores with spaces var metaData = doc.metadataPreferences; metaData.documentTitle = fileName; metaData.author = author; } You can try it with my Batch processor to process 100+ documents.   ... View more

Here's the code (a start up script) that creates a menu item in the Links panel to trigger the script located in the app's scripts panel folder:   #targetengine "kasyan" var myScript1 = new File(app.filePath + "/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Remove all instances of the same link 1.0.jsx"); var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Remove all instances of the link"); var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false); try{ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("Links Panel Menu"); myScriptMenu.title; if (myScriptMenu.isValid && myScript1.exists) { var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1); } } catch (myError){}   There's more space for improvement but that's where I've got so far. P.S. This version works only in English locale. ... View more

Currently, I'm not sure if it's possible to add a menu item to a panel, but I know it's possible in the main and context menu. For example, assumingly the 'Remove all instances of the same link' script installed in the app's scripts panel folder, the following script (to be installed in the startup scripts folder) would create the Scripts > Remove all instances of the link menu like this:   #targetengine "kasyan" var myScript1 = new File(app.filePath + "/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Remove all instances of the same link 1.0.jsx"); var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Remove all instances of the link"); var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false); try{ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item("Scripts"); myScriptMenu.title; } catch (myError){ var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add("Scripts"); } var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1);  Of course, more menu items pointing to other scripts can be added using the first one as an example.    — Kasyan ... View more

Hi Mike, It's possible to do — make a script acting as a menu item — but I'm too busy with my daily work to get down to this at the moment. — Kasyan ... View more

It is created by the Record Find Change script. ... View more

Off the top of my head, if the language setting is applied properly in the text, you can use the appliedLanguage property in the script by defining it in the findChangeStrings.txt file.   ... View more

You can do this by the 'Remove all instances of the same link' script. ... View more

Try this script. ... View more

Yes, JPEGs are OK for printing but make sure to save them with Maximum quality: 12. ... View more

Check out the Numbering script by Jared Katz. ... View more

Check out the Merge files script by Michael Zaichenko. ... View more

Unfortunately, I have no more examples and no IDS anymore. ... View more

Here is an example: http://kasyan.ho.ua/tips/indesign_script/code_examples/indesign_server/gradient/gradient.html ... View more

I guess that EasyCatalog inserts some special characters so the text (file name) looks visually identical but is different under the hood. I have encountered such problems many times and wrote a couple of functions that helped me solve them on the fly. — Kas ... View more

I also encountered this error: here are the details. ... View more

I suggest a much simpler solution. I used it in this script. When the user clicks the About button, the corresponding URL address is opened in the default browser. function JumpToLink() { var tmpFolder = new Folder(Folder.temp.absoluteURI + "/Kasyan"); tmpFolder.create(); var linkJumper = File(tmpFolder.absoluteURI + "/" + tmpFileName + "temp.html"); if (!linkJumper.exists) { linkJumper.open("w"); var linkBody = '<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/text/find_text_in_location/find_text_in_location.html"></head><body> <p></body></html>' linkJumper.write(linkBody); linkJumper.close(); } linkJumper.execute(); }   A temporary HTML file is created in a  temporary folder and triggered by the execute() command in the default app (e.g. Fireworks on my computer). — Kas ... View more

1) Nobody knows — even Adobe. 2) An UXP guru — Davide Barranca — writes in his book:  "Compared to CEP, the most notable change is that UXP has lost Node.js support. You can still import pm modules in your projects, but there is no mixed-context anymore, nor default packages such as fs, path, etc." "You should have Node.js installed; even if UXP doesn't include it in the runtime, we'll use Node to automate the development environment." ... View more

@Robert at ID-Tasker  That's much easier than getting data from Excel via inter-application communication, but I don't have time for this: too busy with my daily work. Scripting is just a hobby for me. — Kas ... View more

Hi Practically237417547x6s,   I am trying to adapt it to work with google spreadsheets on a mac, and im notnhabing succeas. Any pointers? If you want to reference the contents of Google Sheets in InDesign, use Google Apps Script (GAS). Take the following steps. Build a Web API with GAS, Access the GAS Web API from InDesign using curl command, Read the contents of the sheet with GAS, Return the result to InDesign.   This is the answer to a similar question I found on this forum: the post is unavailable anymore. However, I didn't try to implement this. If someone could post an example code and show how to do this, I would be very grateful. A few years ago I played a little with Google scripting -- just scratched the surface -- but stopped because it had insuperable limitations for me.   Alternatively, I suggest you export Google Sheets to Excel to use them with my script (File > Download > Microsoft Excel).   — Kasyan ... View more

Wow! Very cool! Thanks for sharing this, Gleb. On my side -- on Windows --  this line throws an error: var svgFileName = latexCode.replace("/[^\w\d]/g", ''); because it fails to make a valid file name from a formula. I suggest changing it to, say, a prefix plus a randomly generated number, like so: var randomNum = Math.random(); randomNum = String(randomNum); randomNum = randomNum.replace(/^0\./g, "LtxEqtn_"); var svgFileName = randomNum; I think it's hardly possible that the same number would be generated twice overwriting an existing formula. Or, even better a unique date string: up to secs. ... View more

@HB44You're trying to run an old & buggy version. Make sure to download the latest version from my site here. Note there's _CS3 in the file name (instead of _Kas). Though it was written for CS3, it still works in version 19.1 — just tested it on my Mac. ... View more

I wrote a few scripts for replacing fonts. Here's the most advanced version with a more detailed description. Basically, you should create a list of fonts in pairs: find this — change to this. Changing fonts in InDesign by script is buggy! There's no equivalent of the find/replace font command available for scripting, but I tried to implement it as much as possible. ... View more

Here I wrote a script for this purpose. ... View more