When I catch an error in ExtendScript, I would like to be able to log its stack trace. It appears that errors do not contain stack traces in ExtendScript, so I'm playing around with the idea of add...

Javascript's setTimeout function is a method of the window object. This object doesn't exist in ExtendScript and is therefore not available to scripts made for Adobe InDesign or Illustrator. What c...

I am working on processing meta data information of my Indesign document links, using ExtentdScript. I want to convert the object to string using JSON.stringify but when I use it, I am getting err...

We are currently working on an pdf version of a newspaper at work, we have a .net website which captures the articles to publish, storing the content entered as html, so we can maintain styles like...

I want to find digits followed by "f", "ff", "f." or "ff." to standardize the spelling following given conventions/rules. I already tried some regular expressions, but unfortunately I did not find...

I often get a PDF from our designer (built in Adobe InDesign) which is supposed to be sent out to thousands of people. I've got the list with all the people, and it's easy doing a mail merge in Op...

My only prior experience with #targetengine is when I've used #targetengine "session"; to turn a dialog into a palette when scripting in InDesign. But as I'm trying to figure out how to script a me...

uncaught exception: Error: This operation is not supported in the environment this application is running on. "location.protocol" must be http, https or chrome-extension and web storage must be...

What is the DOM expression to get current page where the cursor is: app.activeDocument.currentPage ?

I am building web site and I've got .psd file of how the site should look like and I can make it manually but it will take time. I was wondering if there is a way to export a Photoshop or InDesign ...

So i have this project where i need to manipulate pictures, text and other objects to create: birthday, wedding and other cards. Each of these cards contain fonts, styles ect. Now the tool i have...

I've started a project where I need to use Adobe Indesign and ExtendScript to programmatically extract some data from a series of INDD files. The version of Javascript used for scripting in these p...

I'm new to Adobe InDesign Server and I'm having a hard time finding a good kitchen sink app. All the examples I got from the SDK seem to partially work. All I'm trying to do is use a master page fr...

How do I load another script file and run a method on it? I'm using InDesign javascript and I don't know how to include multiple files in the same script.

I want to create my own plugin, Is there any tutorial available. I want to do it in java. Thanks in Advance.

I would like to run code by testing only the current selection (not the whole document) and I'm having difficulty understanding exactly how the array "app.selection" and its methods work. To start,...

I'm an in-house developer for a print company. We use Adobe Indesign CS3 and CS5 to create documents for printing. I created a script in Adobe Extendscript that creates an Indesign Document and h...

I am trying to create a template for XML data using InDesign. Basic Structure is: <page> <section1> <product><title></title></product> <product><title&...

How can I open a text file, read the contents, and then insert the contents into a document in InDesign?

This seems like it would be a very easy problem to solve, but I've been banging my head against it for almost an hour. All I need is a snippet of javascript/extendscript code so that my InDesign CS...

I am trying to extract text from a pdf book and continue to run an issue where sections of copied text fail to retain the proper capitalization properties when pasted into a text document. I have r...

starting with InDesign CS 5, there is a new format, called IDML, that defines a document to be rendered by InDesign. I'm looking for a way to view this format without opening InDesign (which is dam...

I can use the Glyphs panel to use a character with a manually chosen alternative glyph. But how can I then retrieve that glyph ID programmatically? I am currently using IDrawingStyle::GetSpecial...

The only difference I have found so far: If a script that is run by app.doScript returns an error, the file and line number of the error are overridden by the file and line number of the app.doScri...

I'd like our magazine team to be able to download website data in a file that Adobe InDesign can read. They can then import/open the file, make a few tweaks, and cut out a vast deal of repetitive m...