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"Adobe® InDesign® CS6 Server software delivers a robust and scalable engine that leverages the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS6 software to enable you to programmatically create engaging automated documents." - Adobe® InDesign®

"Adobe® InDesign® CS6 Server software delivers a robust and scalable engine that leverages the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS6 software to enable you to programmatically create engaging automated documents."

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Is it possible to execute JSX scripts from outside ExtendScript?

Typically when you're writing a .jsx script to automate an Adobe product (like InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop), you write, debug and execute the script from the ExtendScript IDE. Is it possible to bypass ExtendScript and run the script from a…
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What is the difference between app.doScript and $.evalFile?

The only difference I have found so far: If a script that is run by app.doScript returns an error, the file and line number of the error are overridden by the file and line number of the app.doScript call. Are there any other differences I should…
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Getting the stack trace of an error in ExtendScript

When I catch an error in ExtendScript, I would like to be able to log its stack trace. It appears that errors do not contain stack traces in ExtendScript, so I'm playing around with the idea of adding stack traces to errors. The only way I know of…
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Adobe InDesign Server examples

I'm new to Adobe InDesign Server and I'm having a hard time finding a good kitchen sink app. All the examples I got from the SDK seem to partially work. All I'm trying to do is use a master page from InDesign from the server side and edit certain…
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InDesign Server - Can't resize image - it is locked and can't unlock it

I am writing some JS code to relink an image, then resize it to fit the containing object. Simplified version of code: var image = (get image); try { image.itemLink.relink(File(new_filename)); } catch(e) { (log it); } var image = (find image…
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inDesign JSX scripted add of heading and content into textFrame

I'm attempting to use inDesign JSX scripts to insert the following data into a document: data = [{heading:"Heading 1", content: ["Some content"]}, {heading:"Heading 2", content: ["Some other content with", "Multiple paragraphs"]}] The data has to…
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Indesign Server Scripting Textarea.Contents

I am creating a Javascript script to use with Indesign Server (CS3). Trying to find all textareas within a document and find the contents of them. I can easily loop through all the textareas, using the functions provided by Adobe. However, when i…
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Exporting pages as png with InDesign Server

Is there a way to export a page as a png with InDesign server? The following code works for a text frame. How do I do the same for the complete page contents? var theDocument = app.documents.add(); var thePage = theDocument.pages[0]; var…
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SimpleIDML How to convert IDML to PDF?

I am new to INDD CC Server. I have Implemented Indesign server running on Windows. I need to convert IDML to PDF but having issues. I have used SimpleIDML Python library to manipulate Adobe(r) IDML(r) files. My sample script is I2P.py from…
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Using InDesign CS6 Server Scripting, Can I Hide a Specific Layer In A Document?

We have a system that allows users to fill in variable data in InDesign IDML files. As information is entered, an InDesign server renders a JPG of the IDML for user review. Once all data is entered, the user can then request a PDF (which is also…
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InDesign Server CS5.5 "ReferenceError: User canceled this action/" on XML import

Recently when on mew InDesign documents when we try to import and xml file into the document I am getting this ReferenceError: User canceled this action. Does anyone have nay insight as to what this error actually is? XML is valid, Document checks…
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How to connect Java Class through Soap to InDesign cs6 Server? (Don't Use Command Line arguments.)

How to connect Java Class (client side) through Soap to InDesign cs6 Server? (Don't Use Command Line arguments.)
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Connecting to an Adobe InDesign console

I have a single instance of InDesign Server running on a Windows 2007 VPS, which runs a SOAP service on port 8081. This runs as a Windows Service and runs both dev and live JSX scripts, depending on the path of the script (we have a dev folder and a…
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InDesign Server development with C# over COM

I would like to develop an application based on InDesign Server in C# over COM. At the moment I'm struggling with the ideal setup as I can't find a proper ~interop.dll that I could reference from my source repository (for other developers to be able…
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Indesign Server soap response

I need to debug a soap webservice but i don't know where to start. This is returning wrong data and i need to find why. It is running on http://localhost:18385 and i can control the parameters that i send but don't know the endpoint file . if i…
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