Comments on: Creating a Word Cloud in InDesign

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:02:58 +0000

oh, realy nice script but …. only can creat 100 words,right?

i have 210 words. some time more.
what can i do?

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:55:39 +0000

Yes, Marc has released a shipping version, and it’s so good that I actually plunked down 25 Euros for the Pro version, which has many niceties in addition to the free Try version. (And no, I don’t own stock in Marc. )

By: Marc Autret

Marc Autret — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:57:50 +0000

I have finally released Wordalizer 1.25:

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/04/wordalizer-125-create-word-clouds-in-indesign

By: Dave Weinberg

Dave Weinberg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:06:34 +0000

@jongware suh-weet! thx!

By: Jongware

Jongware — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:25:55 +0000

@Dave — coo. Marc calls this “a first try”, so it seems he’s not quite done with it!
I expect he’ll announce a full version on his web site — probably with lots of new & exciting options — whenever he thinks he’s ready to unleash it upon us.

By: Dave Weinberg

Dave Weinberg — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:07:43 +0000

hey jongware-

ok… having a total homer simpson ‘doh’ moment – thanks for clarifying. At risk of another homer moment – how does one unlock the weighted word list or is that for a pay version of the app? If so, did not see a place to download that. how much $?

thx!

By: stacy

stacy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:48:37 +0000

awesome!

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:30:20 +0000

I can sense about three days worth of noodling on the horizon. Thanks for the article!

By: George3

George3 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:30:20 +0000

Not to criticize other writers (and I won’t), but your Real World InDesign is one of the best “tech” books for designers that I have read, and the commentary in these InDesign Secrets “columns” is both worthwhile and entertaining. Furthermore, I have learned far more from Real World InDesign than from all the other InDesign texts I have read. I recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.

By: Jongware

Jongware — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:26 +0000

Dave, the different sizes of words represent their respective relative word counts. If you create a Wordalizer (or indeed, a real Wordle) from a text where every word only occurs once, there are no relative word counts.
If you create a new document and enter this text

small
small
small
larger
larger
huge

you will see “huge” is 1/3 of the size of “small”, and “larger” is twice as big as “huge”.