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Formatting the unformattable in InDesign

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Type: Papers & articles
  • Categories: GREP, InDesign

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.

Deploying scripts in a Typefi workflow

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Scripting Typefi AutoFit

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Bringing it together in a script

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Typefi Document Object Model

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

How to write and use custom InDesign scripts

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Learn the basics of GREP

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Type: Papers & articles
  • Categories: GREP, InDesign

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.

InDesign script events

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Webinar series: DO MORE with Scripting

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: InDesign, Scripting

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.

Footnote workarounds and scripts for InDesign

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Type: Papers & articles
  • Category: InDesign

Whether you're explaining, referencing, or elaborating, footnotes and endnotes are an invaluable design tool. Peter Kahrel explains basic footnotes, endnotes, and margin notes, through to table notes and complex multiple footnote threads in this article.

How to do multilingual publishing with InDesign

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Type: Papers & articles
  • Categories: InDesign, Multilingual Publishing

Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Guy van der Kolk made his InDesign Magazine debut in May with an article titled "Expanding Your Linguistic Horizons: Multilingual publishing with InDesign." You can read the full piece here.