Free Bundled Scripts on Adobe.com
September 2nd, 2006The InDesign or Creative Suite installation CDs contain a bunch of free scripts you can use in InDesign’s Window > Automation > Scripts palette.
If you can’t find the CD, or your IT admin has it under lock and key, you can download the scripts from from a link on Adobe’s XML and Scripting resource page.
Click the Scripting Resources tab in the middle of the page. If you’re on CS2, scroll down to the bottom and click on the link entitled Download InDesign CS2 Scripts. The 155K .zip file contains the same set of approximately 20 scripts as AppleScripts (Mac only), VB Scripts (Windows only) and JavaScripts (either platform).
If you’re on CS3, you shouldn’t need to download anything (installing CS3 automatically installs all the scripts — look in your Scripts panel.)
To install and run scripts, see this post.
[Edited by AMC 5/8/07]
That’s fantastic! Thank you for pointing that out…
The Place Multipage PDFs script allows me to place a 60-page pdf file into Indy in under a minute. A great timesaver.
thanks!
This is fabulous! The ImageCatalogue Script is something I have searched high and low for. I know the Suite offers a similar thing thru brudge but we have independent programs. No one I talked to knew about these. Awesome!
In Mac, which plug-ins folder, do I drop in “tip of the day” plug-in?
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So this Place Multipage PDF thing works really seamlessly but I cant seem to come up with how it would be useful. How do other people use it? Like what kind of projects?
One question about the place multi-page PDFs script. I tried it several ways but can’t get it to place the PDF with the upper left origin at the BLEED of the page, not the trim of the page. So, placing an 8.75×11.25 PDF on a 8.5×11 does not center the PDF on the page and give you bleed all the way around. Is there something I’m missing, a key command to force it to center?
Hi KS, there might be a setting in the script itself that you can change (open the .jsx file in a text editor and see if you can suss it out). Otherwise you could temporarily change the doc size to 8.75 by 11.25 via File > Document Setup, place the PDFs, then change the doc size back to 8.5 by 11. InDesign grows and shrinks the “canvas” on all 4 sides equally by default, and here’s an instance where that sometimes-aggravating default could work to your advantage.
Thanks Anne-Marie. I did consider changing the page size but wanted my crops to be at 8.5×11. I didn’t think it through to “step 2″ of your work-around.
I will check the script to see if I can change something but your workaround works fine. Good idea.
KS
Hello KS, you can edit the script to place the pdfs at a certain location. I use this script a lot and have to change the location all the time. I dont; have time now to tell you what line it is on but if you need this reply to this post and I will post he instructions at a later time.
I have found this script quite helpful at paginating and adding headers/footers to customer supplied pdf files for books and journals that we print. We were using Pitstop to do this but I have found that way to be very unintuitive and problematic. Does anyone know of a way to “globally” align the content of placed pdfs within an Indesign document? without going through each page individually and using the content move tool.
I’m using the Java flavour of the TextCleanup script but find that its not case sensitive… so its changing both upper and lower case of the same letter to capital letters only. What I want is lower case replacing lower case and upper case replacing upper case. Has anyone been able to change the java script to be case sensitive?
Thanks for this. I was looking for help with text cleanup and found you through google.
Re:Design - there seem to be several little (or not) documented tags for the TextCleanup script - one of which is caseSensitive:true/false (others include wholeWordtrue, includeFootnotes, includeMasterPages, includeHiddenLayers - all of which can be set to true or false). Tkae heed that both the tag itself and the “true/false” setting are, themselves, caseSensitive.
Reference:
http://www.grafika.cz/art/sazba/skriptid16.html
http://forum.rudtp.ru/archive/index.php/t-20634.html
I could really use this script tonight, but Adobe seems to have given up on CS2 already. They don’t waste any time, do they?
And for the time I’ve wasted looking for it, I could’ve imported them, a page at a time.
Rick, the scripts for CS2 are still up at the same page I linked to in the post. Maybe you didn’t scroll down enough? They’re at the bottom of the Scripting Resources tab.
Hi,
Anybody have idea about, autogeneration of Index from a Indesign CS2 Book file.