2015
Lynda
Keith Gilbert
1:55
English

InDesign scripts can help automate complex layout and design tasks. But scripting isn't as hard as you think. This is InDesign Scripting Made Easy. This course helps designers, production artists, and other InDesign users obtain, install, use, create, and modify scripts. Keith Gilbert eases you into InDesign scripting, starting with finding and installing existing third-party scripts. He then shows you how to edit those scripts to fit your unique needs, which means working with the friendly JavaScript-based ExtendScript Toolkit. But you don't need to be a programmer. Keith demonstrates how anyone can create simple scripts from scratch with a little bit of JavaScript. He also provides three practical examples—setting preferences, watermarking layouts, and transposing characters—to show what is possible when you harness the power of InDesign scripts.

Introduction
Welcome
Before watching this course
Using the exercise files
1. Get Started
What are scripts?
Scripts and Creative Cloud
Script languages
2. Find and Install Scripts
How to run a script
Where to find finished scripts
How to install a script
3. Edit a Script
Choosing a script editor
Your first script edit
4. A Few JavaScript Basics
Understand the importance of syntax
Variables
Decision making and looping
5. Reference InDesign Objects with a Script
Understand the InDesign object model
How to use the object model reference
6. Create a Script to Configure Preferences and Defaults
Begin with a template
Write the body of the script
Test and troubleshoot the script
Finish the script
7. Create a Script to Add Document Watermarks
Start the Watermark script
Create a text frame
Format the text
Duplicate a frame
8. Create a Script to Transpose Two Characters
Plan the Transpose script
Check for an insertion point
Transpose the characters
Polish the script
Conclusion
Where to go from here

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