Create Guides (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid) Unfortunately, the dimensions are only in inches, and if you need a different measurement system you have to change the code. The labels are placed in a specific layer, so that it's easy to delete them. It places a label on each frame showing its dimensions. Very helpful with newsletters and magazines! The lines resize automatically when you resize the text frame.
InGutter creates lines between your columns. Creates Line Between Columns (by Marc Autret)
See here how to create your own InDesign shortcuts. It could be very useful if you assign it a shortcut. The script adds or removes columns from a text-frame (or the page if nothing is selected). Add, Remove Columns (by Luis Felipe Corullón and Kai Rübsamen - paid) Align Objects to a Specified Position (shipped with InDesign)ĪlignToPage is a script that aligns objects to specified positions on a page. It moves objects by specified distances on right/left pages. To select all the guides you can also use the keyboard shortcut Command/Control Option G, without installing the script. It selects all the guides in the current spread, only the horizontal, or only the vertical. It adds guides around a selected object or objects. Add Guides Around Objects (AddGuides - shipped with InDesign) The five canons are the “fine” print, the “regular” print and 3 based of a geometrical division on the page: by 6, 9 and 12. This script allows you to get the top, outer, bottom and inner margins for the five most common canons of page construction. Remember to always save a copy of the original, in case anything goes wrong. This page shows you how to collapse the entire script into one single Undo. Unfortunately the page containing the link is in German, but try and check it out with the browser's translation! With this script you can make the process of running any script instantaneous by assigning a keyboard shortcut to it.Īdd scripts from a folder to the InDesign menu. It allows you to run a single script or a set of scripts on a single document or on a list of documents. Batch Process Scripts (by Kasyan Servetsky)
Link to the script (Look for the Download button under Script Installer) 2.
You should download it if you plan to install a lot of scripts. Please read them before launching each script. You'll find the link to the instructions of each script in its description at the link. Click on one of the entries of the list to go directly to that section. We divided them into sections for easy consultation. This is the list of the scripts we collected. It is way better to save first, just in case. However, some scripts perform a lot of changes under the hood, so you might find yourself having to “undo” hundreds of times. The changes made by the scripts are usually reversible using the Undo function (Cmd/Ctrl + Z). It might happen that the result of the script is not what you wanted, or that the script fails in some way. Save before launching the script (important)īefore running a script in InDesign, save your documents. So, think about how much time their scripts have saved you, visit their website, and make a donation.
Some of them accept donations in their websites. For each of them, you’ll find a link to the page of the developer who wrote the script. Consider a donation to the developerĪlmost all of the scripts in the list are free. Quickly see how to install a script here. Leverage Machine Translation to speed up your projects. Invite co-workers and translators to translate your files online.