Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Guide VBScript
This document shows how to do the following:
.Work with the Adobe® InDesign® scripting environment.
.Use advanced scripting features.
.Perform basic document tasks like setting up master spreads, printing, and exporting.
.Work with text and type in an InDesign document, including finding and changing text.
.Create dialog boxes and other user-interface items.
.Customize and add menus and create menu actions.
.Respond to user-interface events.
.Work with XML, from creating XML elements and importing XML to adding XML elements to a layout.
.Apply XML rules, a new scripting feature that makes working with XML in InDesign faster and easier.
We assume you already read Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Tutorial and know how to create, install, and run scripts.
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Tutorial
Scripting is the most powerful feature in Adobe® InDesign® CS3. No other feature can save you as much time, trouble, and money as scripting. This document is for every InDesign user. If you never created a script before, we show you how to get started. If you wrote scripts for other applications, we show you how to apply your knowledge to InDesign scripting. The document also covers how to install and run an InDesign script and describes what InDesign scripting can and cannot do. We discuss the software you need to start writing your own scripts. After you learn the basics of InDesign scripting in this tutorial, you can move on to Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Guide, which explores scripting in more depth. Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Guide contains hundreds of tutorial scripts covering topics like text formatting, finding and changing text, associating scripts with menu items, drawing objects on a page, and exporting documents.
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