Posts labeled “automation”
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Mapping Word Styles to an InDesign Template: An AI Agent Test on 208 Paragraphs
In the Auto Style article I placed Word files into a template of my own, and after Auto Style no paragraph used an original template style. This time I built an AI agent for that job and tested it on…
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InDesign Auto Style with Word: Testing a Messy File and a Custom Template
This article is also available as a short video on YouTube: InDesign Auto Style with Word: Two Files Tested InDesign has a feature called Auto Style. You select a text frame, pick a Style Pack in the Style Packs panel…
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Google Docs to InDesign: Place Text on Specific Pages with a Script
A question on r/indesign described an existing 160-page InDesign document with five page templates in an irregular order. The author wanted to place the headline and body text for each page from a Google Doc instead of copying and pasting…
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Words Missing After Placing a Word DOCX in InDesign: How to Check the File
After you place a Word manuscript, a few words are gone. In one reported case on r/indesign , the Word file said "John 1:11-12 said," and the placed text stopped at "John 1:11". In that thread and in an older…
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What to Check When Replacing Fonts in a Translated InDesign File
A translated InDesign file often comes back still set in the original fonts. If those fonts lack the Thai or Chinese characters, missing-glyph boxes appear, and the obvious fix is to replace the fonts. A suitable replacement can clear those…
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Word Fonts and Languages That Survive "Remove Styles and Formatting" in InDesign
You place a Word manuscript with Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables checked, and Preserve Local Overrides checked so the author's italics and bold come through. You apply your paragraph style. Most paragraphs follow it, but some keep…
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How to Restore Missing Word Index Entries in an Edited InDesign Document
You placed a Word file in InDesign, edited the layout for a while, and then noticed the Index panel is empty. The Word file has index entries. If you place the file again with Preserve Styles and Formatting, they come…
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Why InDesign Asks for a Replacement When You Delete an Unused Paragraph Style
You try to delete a paragraph style you stopped using, and InDesign asks which style to replace it with. Find/Change finds no text with that style. I confirmed that a Based On reference can cause this: if another paragraph style…
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Seeking Testers: Comparing IDML Files Before and After Translation
I'm developing a tool that compares two IDML files: the InDesign document you sent out for translation, and the one that came back. It runs on Windows, the current build is unsigned, and the trial is free. I plan to…
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Where an InDesign Script Should Stop
A translated document comes back and the layout is full of overset text. Not one frame: dozens, spread across chapters, plus a handful of table cells where the German ran two lines longer than the English. A script can tighten…
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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…
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InDesign Will Not Warn You About External Links
A document opens cleanly. No red flags in the Links panel, no warnings on export. It gets zipped, copied to a shared drive, or handed off as it stands. On the other machine, images are missing — not one or…
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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…
