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Best Claquos Themes for your Pie Charts

15 impactful themes to professionalize your pie charts in InDesign

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SmartSort 1.21 for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5/CS4

SmartSort, free script for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5/CS4SmartSort is a free InDesign script that sorts paragraphs or cells. It produces a lexicographic order consistent with the language considered. Version 1.21 fixes an issue related to case discrimination in various ‘tailored’ languages. It also deals with the letter ⟨ё⟩ in Russian.

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InDesign Script: Show Me the Rivers

Did you notice the river in the text?My colleague Mikhail Ivanyushin has just developed a nice utility that detects and highlights text ‘rivers’, these stacks of oblique or vertical spaces which form randomly within a typographic composition and “make it ugly.” Chasing such road accidents is a fetish sport. So if you don't have time to damage your eyes, here's a more comfortable solution…

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HurryCover³ | Top 8 Best Tips & Tricks

HurryCover (v3) - Advanced Script for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5/CS4, macOS/WindowsAs the user manual is still being finalized, there may be some little-known or underrated HurryCover 3 features that you may have missed. Want to save time when designing advanced book covers in InDesign? Here are the best shortcuts and hidden tricks…

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InDesign 20.0 Goes to MathML — Part 1

The latest version of InDesign provides an internal solution for formatting math formulas. The underlying technology is a UXP WebView panel (Math Expressions) interacting with MathJax, a popular JavaScript package capable of processing maths in various formats. In this case, MathML as input and SVG as output…

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InDesign 2025 — Everything Works Fine!

Good news! All essential indiscripts tools run fine in InDesign 20.0 (macOS/Windows)

Let's Play with JS Array Objects (in ExtendScript)

IdExtenso provides a new ArrayAs2D module that unleashes the hidden strengths of ExtendScript operators. With this toy, you can now write code that adds, multiplies, evaluates 2D points or vectors. For example, if you develop an InDesign script based on Bézier curves or working on polygonal paths, all calculations of points, distances, normalized vectors, etc. become wonderfully compact…

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IndexMatic³ | Hidden Treasures of the ~format Directive

IndexMatic³ Expert for InDesign CC/CS6/CS5/CS4)IndexMatic users have long been faced with the following problem: when the client provides a list of index entries and adds extra information (birthdates, etc), how can the query list be adjusted accordingly? Introduced with iX³, the ~format directive offers an efficient solution…

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Make `&` (almost) Behave as a Reference Operator

Suppose you have an ExtendScript class (I mean, “prototype”) whose methods essentially return new object instances. As an obvious example, consider the concat or slice methods of Array.prototype. They always produce a new array rather than reworking the existing one. There are situations where you want to update the calling object —and make this explicit in the code— while still leveraging the methods already available…

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HurryCover³ | Make Book Covers & Jackets in InDesign

It’s official! Building a book cover in InDesign will no longer be a geometric nightmare. The new edition of HurryCover is intended to be a definitive answer to the puzzle of complex templates: with or without flaps, with or without wrap, whether you need a hinge margin or a physical spine gap, the template generated by HurryCover³ remains 100% resizable, even if you have already set up the graphic elements of your artwork…

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Indiscripts Temporary Archives [UPDATE]

Some scripts we designed in the past for InDesign CS/CS2/CS3—and even CS4—are no longer available or maintained. But, from time to time we still receive queries for these old files—such as IndexBrutal, IndexMatic, Claquos, Equalizer, HurryCover, BookBarcodeCS3… Here is a special repository dedicated to frustrated users.

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HurryCover³ Quick Tour

InDesignScripts | Clean List Timeline on Twitter/X

Go to InDesignScripts from your Twitter/X account! A clean list focusing on InDesign, scripts and more.

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Private Investigation into Style Overrides

Myths and facts about text formatting overrides in InDesign…

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Built-In String Features in IdExtenso

If you are one of the happy users of the IdExtenso scripting framework for InDesign, you may have noticed — or overlooked! — that this enhanced version of ExtendScript provides many additional services, including in the primitive areas of the language. For example, any string immediately has functionalities like trim(), codePointAt(), toUTF8(), which aren't available in the root syntax. Let's take a closer look at this toolbox…

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IndexMatic³ | Frequently Asked Questions [UPDATE]

With its hundreds of interconnected features and its documentation erected in front of you like a Gothic cathedral, IndexMatic³ will undoubtedly inspire you with this fateful question: where to start? And we often start with something concrete, a specific problem that needs to be solved right now. The purpose of this page is to guide you quickly and clearly into the inner workings of the program, from the questions most frequently asked to the tech support…

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“Professional Photoshop UXP”

Professional Photoshop UXP, a comprehensive guide to unlocking Photoshop's potential.In the realm of Adobe techs, the underutilization of certain features is a puzzle I've long pondered. My theory revolves around the absence of an omniscient narrator, someone capable of weaving the intricate tales of these technologies into a coherent story. Enter Davide Barranca, a rare expert who, standing at the crossroads of Ps mastery and the technological labyrinth of UXP, extracts and shares the keys we all need to forge ahead. Whether you're immersed in the world of Photoshop or exploring the potential of UXP, Professional Photoshop UXP is the compass you've been seeking…

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Scripting: How to Position InDesign Guides

Now, can you tell what X and Y are?InDesign guides are funny creatures. Whether or not they are assigned to a page via the fitToPage property, they remain firmly anchored to the geometry of the spread they belong to. The most mysterious thing is their location attribute, which does not obey all the principles ordinarily weighing on rulers coordinates. This article explores how to determine correct positions in all scenarios…

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IndexMatic³ | Compatibility Patch for InDesign 2024

Every release of InDesign — even as paltry as version 19 (labeled 2024) — finds a way to break a deep feature that has worked perfectly since the Neolithic era. This time around, Adobe disabled ScriptUI colors for text labels, sabotaging the readability of the IndexMatic³ dialog. A compatibility update is available now…

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What's New in IdExtenso 2.31008

IdExtenso: ExtendScript Framework for InDesign Ninjas

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