Category Archives: Recipes

Two Free Scripts Released At CreativeProWeek 2019 in Seattle

During the CreativeWOW! session at the CreativeProWeek 2019 in Seattle, Kris Coppieters showed two free scripts. We’ve made these scripts available for anyone interested. Read more on the following web pages:

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A Guide To Building CEP Extensions For Adobe Creative Cloud Apps

All-day workshop. Thursday, June 13, 2019 – Westin Hotel, Seattle, 9:00AM – 4:00PM. This workshop helps you get started with enhancing Creative Cloud apps (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop…). You will learn how to add custom-made user-interface and custom scripts. Why CEP? … Continue reading

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Replace Words With Images In InDesign

Our free Swimmer script allows you to do a search-and-replace and find certain patterns or words in your InDesign file, and replace them with anchored image frames. The Swimmer script has been updated to version 1.0.5 and now supports object … Continue reading

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InDesign ExtendScript ‘callOnIdle’ Helper Script: a Guest Post on Adobe.io

Kris wrote a guest article on the Adobe.io blog. If the information is useful, please give the article a few ‘hand-claps’ by clicking the icon at the end of the article. This helps raise the article’s profile! Have a look here: … Continue reading

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ShowPaths for Mac OS X updated.

As a developer, I use ShowPaths pretty much every day to quickly get copy-paste-able file path info to various files. Simply select a few files in the Finder, drag/drop them onto the ShowPaths icon, and get all the paths in … Continue reading

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Manage styles across many documents – BorderCollie for InDesign.

BorderCollie is a free script for InDesign which helps with style management. It allows you to define, edit and synchronize styles and swatches across collections of disparate InDesign document collections. This script is to serve as an example of what can be achieved … Continue reading

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AutoStyleTagger – InDesign Database Publishing, Simplified

I was at the CreativePro Week 2017 in Atlanta, and sat in on one of Russell Viers‘ sessions. He showed us how you can start from a spreadsheet, export the data in tabbed text format, import the data into InDesign, … Continue reading

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Draw Ukulele or Guitar Chord Charts With InDesign

I love playing guitar and ukulele, but I find the chord charts found on the internet often difficult to read while playing. The chord diagrams are located above the lyrics, and I have a hard time reading both lyrics and chord … Continue reading

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For Developers: Faster Debugging Of Adobe Extensions

For people developing Extensions for the Adobe Creative Suite: how to get rid of the annoying click on ‘index.html’ each time you want to start debugging an Adobe Extension. http://coppieters.nz/?p=63

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InDesign To Markdown Export – Crawler.ID2MD

The first member of a range of InDesign export scripts has become available. Crawler.ID2MD provides InDesign-to-Markdown export, with a best-effort layout approximation. Crawler.ID2MD is highly configurable. As of today, the software is available for testing and purchase here: https://www.rorohiko.com/Crawler.ID2MD Installing … Continue reading

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