http://www.stevewareham.com Adobe JavaScript, Print, and Web Production Tutorials en-us Sunday, April 13, 2008 00:00:01 GMT http://www.stevewareham.com/swatch_switch.php I got the idea for this script from David Blatner of InDesignSecrets.com. The function of the script is to replace all swatches with swatches of the same name that have the "copy" suffix. This could be useful in the following instance: import an ASE file with a bunch of named swatches. Then import a different bunch with same names, but different definitions. ID apparently doesn't allow you to choose which definitions you want, so the new swatches all come in as "copy". In this case, we want the new definitions... so you'd run the script and it would get rid of the original and use the duplicate instead. http://www.stevewareham.com/capture_xmp.php This script will search for text within an InDesign document based on paragraph styles. The found text will be added the XMP metadata of the document and can be seen the the File Info window. It searches for text styled with paragraph styles named title, description, and keywords. http://www.stevewareham.com/batch_resizing.php This script will resize a batch of jpeg files. It is set to resize images to half of their current dimensions. It starts by opening image files in Photoshop one at a time and then prompting for confirmation that the new image size is acceptable. If the image needs to be scaled further up or down, you can click either click the "larger" or "smaller" buttons to scale the image in 50px increments. http://www.stevewareham.com/text2outlines.php This tutorial shows how to transform text within a PDF to outlines. Usually you wouldn't want to do this, as once text has been changed to outlines it is no longer searchable. Also, creating outlines of text will increase the filesize of the PDF. So why would you want to change text to outlines? Usually you would only need to do this when you are sending the PDF to someone else, such as a printing service, and they cannot work with the fonts contained within your PDF. Perhaps you have composite fonts embeded in your PDF, and your printing company cannot accept composite fonts. This tutorial assumes you do not have access to the source file that the PDF was created from. If you do, you should changes the fonts in that file. But, if you don't, here is how you can create outlines using Acrobat. http://www.stevewareham.com/massflatten.php This script allows you to flatten all the documents open in Photoshop at once. http://www.stevewareham.com/labelmaker.php This script speeds up the process of adding text tabels to images. If you need to label parts of images as (a), (b), (c), etc. this script can save you some time. First you'll make the first label (a), then using "shift-alt" you will make a copy of that label. Do that for however many labels you need. Positioning them where they should appear. After you have all your (a) labels in position, run the LabelMaker.jsx script to chang the labels to their correct letter designations. The labels will change based on the layer order, so when you run the LabelMaker.jsx script you'll want to just have a background layer and one layer for each label. http://www.stevewareham.com/batchpdf.php Let's say you have a batch of InDesign files and you want to convert them all to PDFs quickly. Here's and easy way to do just that using a PDF preset and some JavaScript. http://www.stevewareham.com Getting started with scripting, using the ExtendScript toolkit, and how to look up scripting objects. http://www.stevewareham.com/multidup.php In Adobe Photoshop you can make a duplicate any open image file by right-clicking the title bar and then clicking “duplicate”. This is good if you just need one duplicate, but what if you need more? Instead of repeating this step over and over you could run a script to make as many dupliates as you like. This tutorial describes a script to make multiple duplications withing Photoshop. http://www.stevewareham.com/listlinks.php Someone posted the question to the InDesign Secrets blog “How do I get a list of all the links within my InDesign Document?” I wrote a script that could do just that. This tutorial describes how the script works. http://www.stevewareham.com/intpdf.php After reading the February issue of Adobe’s online magazine which made good use of the interactive features of a PDF, I decided to create my own interactive PDF. What’s so interactive about an interactive PDF? Well, for one thing you can hide and show content on a page based on the user clicking a button. You can also use buttons to jump to specific pages. I put the latter of these features to use by creating a PDF with a table-of-contents that is displayed on each page, which will go to the requested page when the user clicks on the page number. Hovering the mouse over the page numbers displays a brief description of the page. I also created buttons on a single page that will cycle through different images on that page. The following tutorial describes the process I used when creating my interactive PDF. http://www.stevewareham.com/pdfstamp.php If you’re trying to add some text to a PDF, let’s say a header or footer you could use Acrobat’s built in “Headers and Footers” function. But, many times you will find that method comes up short. What if you want to apply the text across a hundred files? Or what if the text needs to change slightly each time? This tutorial describes one alternative to “Headers and Footers” for stamping text onto a PDF. It uses a batch process and JavaScript to get the job done.