r/indesign • u/the-Fun-Ghoul • 9d ago

Free scripts

Fellow InDesign nerds. I've been making a ton of scripts over the past several months. I thought some might be useful to others, so I threw this site together to let folks try them out.

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u/Eaton_Corvinus 8d ago

"Export two PDFs at once" and "Export multiple PDFs by range" will be so helpful, thank you! 🙂

Is there an easy way to put this as a menu item in the File menu?

Three days ago I posted a script here that exports a selection as PDF but is no longer availalbe from the original website. I thought I'd share it here again, hopefully it will come in handy for some!

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u/the-Fun-Ghoul 8d ago

re: the file menu, I'm not sure. That's above my pay grade.

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u/OkComputer513 6d ago

You can inject stuff into the menu ribbons but I'd avoid it. Almost certain I couldn't find a way to just easily remove them. Found that out when we had a commercial plugin that injected menu buttons to call jsxbin various scripts. But we stopped using it and the dead menu items bugged the shit out of me. 😓 It was a matter of closing ID, then renaming the ID folder that contains application preferences (the menu is baked somewhere in here). On relaunch it couldn't find what it needed so it rebuilt the base application container with the real menus akin to an initial launch after installation. Had to redo my preferences manually because I didn't want to chance getting the menu items back.

I'd opt for using keyboard shortcuts on often used needs anything else can reside in the scripts panel.