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Indesign - script opening document, change text, and export

I've worked with many different apps with many different API's to program ways to open, set things, and export or render the result.

I however have little to no experience with in design.

I've googled around today and found a few scripts for changing text in very basic ways, but here's what I'm looking for :

A way to have a "template file", which I can then, 100 percent programmatically open, change the text on specified layers (is that what they're called in Indesign?) by name for instance, and then export either as a save file or as a pdf.

Id prefer Python but I hear that's not possible in Indesign so I'm open to JavaScript or whatever language it takes.

Is this even possible with this app? If so, anyone have any tips or links on how I'd do so?

Thanks so much in advance!

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Answers (1)

Nicolai Kant
Nicolai Kant

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Everything is pretty much straight forward InDesign programming.There are plenty of things on the net, try to search by topic.

A fairly good start is the official scripting manual and tutorial: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/scripting/InDesign_ScriptingGuide_JS.pdf

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/scripting/InDesign_ScriptingTutorial.pdf

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