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Explains how to use scripts provided in the document and where to find the script archive.
Points to user forums and external resources for further learning on scripting.
Details the scriptPreferences object and its properties for controlling script execution.
Explains how to execute scripts from within other scripts, including passing parameters.
Covers methods for running scripts automatically when InDesign starts, using session engines.
Demonstrates scripting for creating, opening, saving, and closing InDesign documents.
Explains how to script page size, bleed, margins, guides, and master spreads.
Details scripting for exporting documents to PDF format with various export options.
Provides an overview of InDesign's layer object model and its components.
Covers adding, referring to, deleting, moving, duplicating, merging, and assigning page items to layers.
Explains how to create various page items like rectangles, ovals, and text frames.
Details how to manage the size, position, and shape of page items using coordinates and bounds.
Explains how to apply transformations like scaling, rotation, and shearing to page items.
Covers creating text frames, adding text, and placing text files into InDesign documents.
Details how to set text defaults, apply fonts, change text properties, and work with styles.
Explains how to use find/change features for text, formatting, and grep patterns.
Introduces InDesign dialog scripting and its components (widgets).
Guides through creating a simple dialog box with basic controls and gathering user input.
Explains InDesign's event scripting model, event listeners, and event propagation.
Covers creating and removing event listeners to respond to application and document events.
Describes InDesign's menu scripting model, including menu items, submenus, and menu actions.
Explains how to invoke built-in InDesign menu actions programmatically from a script.
Introduces InDesign's preflight feature, profiles, rules, and data objects.
Explains how to process a document against a preflight profile and handle any errors found.
Covers scripting for importing and controlling playback of movies and sounds in InDesign.
Demonstrates scripting for creating interactive buttons with different states and behaviors.
Introduces animation concepts like motion presets, paths, and timing settings for page items.
Provides an introduction to XML and its use in InDesign, along with its limitations.
Covers setting XML preferences, importing XML, creating tags, elements, and attributes.
Explains how to associate XML elements with page items and text, and place them into frames.
Introduces InDesign's XML rules feature, its components, and how it processes XML.
Provides examples of XML rules, including setting up a sample document and finding/formatting elements.
Demonstrates how XML rules can be used to apply formatting and create page items based on XML content.
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