Category Archives: Recipes

Eliminate Word Stacks and Hyphenation Stacks in InDesign

Find and clear up word stacks and hyphenation stacks from your InDesign document. SmokeWordStacks is a free script designed to help you quickly find these issues. This script originated at CreativeProWeek, back in 2015.  We revamped it and modernized it. … Continue reading

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JSXGetURL: set curl options from ExtendScript

JSXGetURL enhances ExtendScript in any Adobe Creative Cloud app, to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL has been updated to use curl 8.7.1, OpenSSL 3.3.0, zlib 1.3.1 and Tightener … Continue reading

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ZXPSignCmd/ExtensionManager alternative: PluginInstaller handles both JSX and CEP

We added support for CEP into PluginInstaller, a tool that is part of Creative Developer Tools (CRDT). If you have either an ExtendScript script, or CEP extension software that you want to protect/track/monetize…, make sure to check this out. PluginInstaller handles the … Continue reading

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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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