DMED1100InDesign Advanced

Class 8

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Agenda Scripting Introduction to XML

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Scripting is Not … Overtly challenging Only for programmers Just for long tasks

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Running Scripts Put the script in

Adobe InDesign CS4\Scripts\Scripts Panel Could also put a shortcut to the script in the

folder Open Scripts Panel

Window -> Automation -> Scripts Alt + Ctrl + F11

Double-click the script name

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Writing ScriptsThree main supported scripting languages: JavaScript

InDesign has built-in support called ExtendScript Is cross-platform Doesn’t easily communicate with other (Non-CS)

programs File extension .js or .jsx (preferred)

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Writing Scripts AppleScript

For the Mac OS File extension .applescript or .as

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Writing Scripts Visual Basic

For Windows Three main types:

Visual Basic Script (VBScript) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Visual Basic (VB 6, VB.NET)

Textbook recommends using VBScript Can edit via text editor (NotePad or NotePad++)

Could also edit using VBA Accessible from most Office software

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Writing Scripts In Excel

Developer -> Visual Basic If Developer tab is unavailable

Office Button -> Excel Options -> Popular -> Show Developer Tab in Ribbon

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Writing Scripts Any language that can connect to the

platform works C, C++, C# Perl Python JScript And many others …

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Scripting Tutorial Download

InDesignCS4ScriptingTutorial.pdf InDesignCS4ScriptingTutorialScripts.zip

Work through the tutorial

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Using the ESTK Full-featured text editor Also checks syntax of script

Edit -> Check Syntax

Make sure InDesign selected as target application

To turn on ID’s screen display Scripts Panel (ID) -> Options -> Enable Redraw

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Monitoring Events Scripts can be run when events happen:

Opening a document Creating a new document Saving a document Closing a document Exporting

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Menu Scripts Scripts can run menu items or add items to

menus See Adobe InDesign CS4 Scripting Guide for

more details

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Startup Scripts Place script in a folder Startup Scripts in

Scripts folder Need to add some lines to prevent message

box

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XML Extensible Markup Language A way to tag information in a text file

<author>Information about author</author> Not just an extension of HTML

HTML is about formatting XML is about content

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XML Vocabulary Tag

A label for a piece of XML data Marked with angle brackets Cannot contain space characters Must be well formatted

XML Element The actual XML data

<author>Charles Dickens</author>

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XML Vocabulary Elements may contain other elements:

<author><name>Charles Dickens</name><dob>7 February 1812</dob><birthplace>Landport, Portsmouth</birthplace>

</author>

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XML Vocabulary XML Attribute

Use to add information about the element Known as Metadata

<author lastUpdate=“10/03/02”>

XML Comment Allow you to keep notes

<!-- This is a comment -->

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XML Vocabulary XML Processing Instructions

InDesign does not use Can just delete if they exist

DTD (Document Type Definition) Description of:

What elements appear The order of appearance

Not required by InDesign

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Structure View View -> Structure -> Show Structure

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XML Tags Tags panel

Window -> Tags

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Importing XML File -> Import XML Import Options:

Mode: Replace or Merge with existing XML Create Link: to source XML document Apply XSLT: apply a style sheet Clone Repeating Text Elements: allows automatic

placement of XML elements

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Replacing XML Elements Select structure in Structure View Choose Import XML Turn on Replace Content Turn on Import Into Selected Element

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Exporting XML File -> Export Choose XML from Format pop-up menu

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Creating Placeholders Look at pp. 763-765