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Posts labeled “ExtendScript”

  1. Your Second InDesign Script: Condensing Text Until It Fits

    Part 1 reported which pages contained overset text without changing the document. This post changes it: the script below lowers the horizontal scale of the selected frame's entire story, one percentage point at a time, until the overset clears or…

  2. Your First InDesign Script: Which Pages Have Overset Text?

    Most InDesign scripting tutorials open with a finished script. This one opens a step earlier: with the smallest useful thing a script can do, and with the decision of what to leave out of it. The goal is one dialog…