The adage ‘work smarter, not harder’ often comes to mind when composing documents. Thankfully, scripting can help save the day, as Typefi Senior Scripting Engineer, Peter Kahrel, explains in this article.
Peter Kahrel’s extensive online repository of free scripts is an essential resource for anyone who works on long documents in InDesign.
XML and CXML code, when seen as one long string, is pretty unintelligible. Learn how to use Oxygen XML Editor to make that code readable by prettifying it, and make it useable in Typefi jobs.
It's possible to make text automatically appear in a certain format in InDesign using local overrides or character styles, but that won't work in Typefi fields. Learn how you can get around this limitation in this tutorial by Peter Kahrel.
In this recorded webinar, Peter Kahrel demonstrates how to deploy scripts in Typefi workflows, and highlights the significant improvements that have been made to script deployment functionality in Typefi 8.4.
In this webinar, Peter Kahrel offers an overview of Typefi AutoFit scripting and provides a demonstration of how to fix a commonly encountered scenario—when an overset inline image causes a large gap at the bottom of a frame.
In the previous two sessions of the DO MORE with Scripting series, Peter Kahrel demonstrated how to communicate with the Typefi Engine and how to use the Typefi scripting Document Object Model (DOM). This episode brings these two things together in a case study which demonstrates how to keep a float in a section.
In this webinar, Peter Kahrel looks at a major component of Typefi scripting—the Typefi Document Object Model (DOM). The DOM provides scripting access to the Typefi Designer plug-ins, enabling scripts to interact with Typefi items such as Elements, Fields, and Sections.
In this webinar, Peter Kahrel addresses some practicalities of writing and using custom InDesign scripts in Typefi workflows. You'll learn about Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit, differences between InDesign Desktop and InDesign Server, interacting with the Typefi Engine, and testing and deploying scripts.
If you’re looking for a way to supercharge your InDesign skills, there are few things as good as learning a bit of GREP. Learn the basics from Peter Kahrel in this issue of InDesign Magazine.
Custom Adobe InDesign scripts can save publishers time, trouble, and money by automating complex layout and design tasks. All custom InDesign scripts are designed to run at a specific event. This webinar explains the nature of these events, and provides a solid foundation for those who want to start writing scripts for Typefi workflows.
Join Peter Kahrel, Typefi Engineer and scripting expert, in this recorded webinar series to learn how you can harness the most powerful feature in Adobe InDesign: scripting! Peter covers everything from learning how to write scripts and use them in InDesign to advanced techniques and much more.