Indesign VB Scripting [was FrameMaker vs. InDesign book files]

[David Spreadbury]

Chris,
According to the document at
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/pdfs/in
design_cs3_scripting_tutorial.pdf the answer is yes, InDesign can handle
VBScripts.

Excerpt:
The Scripts panel can run compiled or uncompiled AppleScripts (files with
the file extension .spt, .as, or .applescript), JavaScripts (files with the
file extension .js or .jsx), VBScripts (files with the extension .vbs), or
executable programs from the Scripts panel.

If you are using the CS4 version, try
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/pdfs/indesigncs4_scriptingtutorial.pdf.

HTH,

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Chris Despopoulos
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:01 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Indesign VB Scriptin [was FrameMaker vs InDesign book files]

Is it true that nDesign supports VB scripting?  Is the handling of a
document model any better than that for Word?  What I mean is, in Maker you
can us the API to get all the text items in a paragraph, and that breaks the
pgf into all the char format changes, all the table anchors, aframe anchors,
xrefs, etc.  Trying to get that kind of detail about your content in Word is
miserabl, as far as I can tell.  So the question is (yes, on the surface
this is off topic), how does Indesign expose its content to VB?  Does
anybody have any experience?

And to get on topic, would it be reasonable to have a VB tool that can stuff
ID content into Maker (and vis-versa)?

cud



      
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