Plugins and Scripts Posts

Move Pasteboard Items to Current Spread

September 8 2010 • 11:07 AM

[This post is by guest writer Jamie McKee of MacKey Composition. Check out the great script!]
As a book designer who cut his teeth on PageMaker, I was used to the idea of “One Pasteboard to Rule Them All…” — that is, a common pasteboard that always showed the items on it, regardless of what spread you [...]

TransformMaster Enables Resizing of Master Pages Applied to Document Pages

July 27 2010 • 11:09 AM

InDesign’s multiple page size feature was left half-baked. TransformMaster makes it whole!

How to Think About Pages and Page Sizes in InDesign CS5

July 14 2010 • 5:19 AM

Insights into how the new page size feature works in CS5

SVG Import and Export Means Better ePubs

June 18 2010 • 10:08 AM

If you’re making ePubs, you want SVG for vectors. But InDesign needs help to import and export SVG files!

Self-running slide show script

June 15 2010 • 7:41 PM

What? A slide show running in InDesign? Yes, it’s easy with this free script.

Cool Pie Charts Script for InDesign: Claquos 2

June 14 2010 • 2:23 PM

Indiscripts fait quelques-unes des écritures du monde cool InDesign! And if my amazing ability to speak French doesn’t wow you (thank you, Google!) then this beta of a new script from M. Autret at Indiscripts will.
Some years ago, Claquos (which, I’m pretty sure translates as, “I bet I can write a script that will make [...]

Transpose two characters

June 8 2010 • 5:33 AM

Keith whips up a cool script to swap the order of two characters.

Create InDesign CS5 Panels with Configurator 2.0

May 23 2010 • 2:03 PM

Configurator from Adobe Labs was just updated to work with InDesign as well as Photoshop. Use it to create your own InDesign CS5 panels with drag and drop simplicity.

Drag and Drop AppleScripts for EPUB, IDML, etc.

May 18 2010 • 7:55 PM

These four AppleScripts (and a simple flick of the wrist) can help Mac users explore and edit IDML, EPUB, FLA, and DOCX files.

Adding Zoom and Print to InDesign SWF Files

April 14 2010 • 8:17 AM

You want all the zoom and pan features of a really cool swf, but you’re an InDesign users, not a coder? No problem!