Posts labeled “automation”
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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…
