Wordalizer 1.5 | Create Word Clouds in InDesign CS4-CC!
June 24, 2014 | Wordalizer | en | fr
Here is the new release of our coolest InDesign toy! Wordalizer 1.5 for InDesign CS4/CS5/CS6/CC can now digest large corpus (up to 1,000 entries) and generate many styles of word clouds, based on geometrical patterns, color themes, or even multiple fonts! Open any source document (or book) and let Wordalizer extract the meaningful vocabulary from your text. Edit the word list as needed and adjust the settings according to your mood.
Before you go any further, download the fresh Wordalizer 1.5 Manual (PDF, 18 pages):
Overview and Key Features
Wordalizer is a word cloud builder for Adobe InDesign. It helps you extract, edit, and visualize the relevant vocabulary of a text, then it creates an original artwork based on those words, their frequency in the source, and many other settings you can fully customize.
Here are some of the key features:
• InDesign CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC compatible, on Mac OS and Windows platforms.
• New user interface, providing either English or French language depending on your InDesign localisation.
• Support for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian source texts.
• Ability to parse text from the active document, from an entire book, and even from the clipboard.
• Ability to manually edit the “weighted word list” before producing the word cloud (adding, removing, sorting, balancing weights).
• 100+ predefined color shemes.
• 8 geometrical patterns: Circle, Square, Cardioid, Hourglass, Lemniscate, Propeller, Trefoil, Explosion.
…and so much more!
Give it a try!
Wordalizer's TRY version offers all the features of the PRO release, except it will automatically add on the word Wordalizer
into your final artwork. If you need to handle a clean word cloud in production, consider to purchase a PRO version license.
• Installation. — The TRY and PRO versions of Wordalizer are both delivered in the jsx format. You simply need to put the file in your Scripts Panel folder. The script is instantly available in the InDesign Scripts panel.
• Note. — If you cannot find the location of your Scripts Panel folder, run InDesign and display the Scripts panel (Window > Automation > Scripts or Window > Utilities > Scripts). Then right-click the User folder and, in the fly-out menu, pick Reveal in Finder (Mac OS) or Reveal in Explorer (Windows). If there is not already a Scripts Panel subfolder within the revealed Scripts folder, create here a new folder named Scripts Panel.
Some examples
Feel free to send me your own Wordalizer artworks, or to post links in the Comments sections!
Notice, Acknowledgements
Wordalizer was formerly inpired by a famous web service, Wordle, created by Jonathan Feinberg.
My very special thanks to Jonathan Feinberg, Theunis de Jong, Dominique Chiron and Jean-Christophe Courte.
I also wish to thank the people who have helped improve and promote this product, in no particular order: Klaus Nordby, David Blatner from InDesignSecrets, Stéphane Baril from Adobe France, Loïc Aigon from Ozalto, Laurent Tournier from Indigrep, Cécile Mazin from ActuaLitté, Alexander Charchar from Smashing Magazine, Rinniee Ginsburg from Webgranth, Ingo Wilsinger, Jan Mirus. Not forgetting those graphic designers, trainers, authors, and InDesign gurus who have all contributed at some level to the success of Wordalizer: Sandee Cohen and Diane Burns (authors of “Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign”), Pariah Burke, Erica Gamet, Haeme Ulrich, Khaled Galal, Jennifer Blatz, Phillip Southgate and so many others!
Comments
Bonjour,
Encore un super script d'Indiscripts ! Je viens de tester la version d'essai sans aucun pb (avec plus de 600 mots). J'ai également parcouru la notice très détaillée.
Je ne peux pas m'empêcher de faire une remarque. Est-ce que ce serait possible d'indiquer à Wordalizer, à défaut de dimensions sans doute compliquées à gérer, mais une proportion de la zone finale afin d'avoir autre chose que des nuages inscrits dans des carrés ? J'aimerai insérer un nuage qui colle bien avec les proportions de ma page.
Merci en tout cas pour cette mise à jour et tous les autres scripts !
Merci Étienne pour votre commentaire très stimulant.
Je prends bonne note de votre suggestion, qui se justifie tout à fait. Le jeu des formes disponibles dans Wordalizer est destiné à s'enrichir peu à peu. Je pourrais par exemple intégrer un rectangle en hauteur et un rectangle en largeur. La difficulté qui se pose est la prise en charge d'un ratio tel que vous l'envisagez. C'est jouable mais cela demande réflexion.
Cordialement,
Marc
Bonjour, j ai un un message d erreur....
InDesgn a renvoyé l'erreur suivante: cette valeur placerait un ou plusieurs objets en dehors de la table de montage
merci pour votre aide
Bonjour Jonathan,
Merci pour votre rapport de bug. Pouvez-vous m'en dire plus sur le contexte d'apparition de l'erreur ?
Quel OS ? Quelle version d'InDesign ? Quels paramètres spécifiés avant la production du nuage de mots ? Si vous avez des captures d'écran ça peut aussi m'aider.
N'hésitez pas à me contacter par courriel pour entrer plus avant dans le détail :
support[at]indiscripts{dot}com
Cordialement,
Marc
ET EN ARABE ???!!!
Hi there,
thank you for the script. But is there a chance to use "long tail words"? I´d like to use it for a list of customers. But some names consist of more than one word and can´be displayed properly.
Thank you
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
> Is there a chance to use "long tail words"?
1) Run Wordalizer, click the gear icon that opens the Preferences panel.
2) Make sure that the option Observe NBSP is turned on.
3) Click OK and close the dialog box.
From then, use non-breaking spaces where needed in your text. The parser will capture any expression formed of NBSP-separated words as a *single entry* in the list.
Note: Of course it's also possible to manually enter multiple words in a single line in Wordalizer's word list panel.
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Marc
Hi there,
I'd really like to use wordalizer 'cause it just looks great. But unfortunatly I can't beacause it always gives me an error message. It says that InDesign doesn't support "pasteboardMargins".
I would really appreciate if could hear fromm you soon.
thank you,
Sascha
Hi Sascha,
Thanks for your bug report. The 'pasteboardMargins' error was CS4-specific and *is now fixed*.
Give a try to wZ 1.507.
Regards,
Marc
Marc, you're the best!
One shortcoming, major in my opinion, is that even though I can specify a shape, I have no control over size. Need a word cloud to fill an 8.5 x 11 page? How about a banner sized cloud 36 x 80? Can’t do either. Sure, they can be resized, but not with them being proportional to my needs. There will be quite a bit of manual adjustment to get them to fit. It would be nice to be able to specify page size or for Wordalyzer to use the existing active page size.
Hi Roy,
Yes, that's the point already mentioned by Etienne in comment #1 above (French).
What I need is to implement something of a ratio specifier in the dialog. Not so easy, considering how wZ works for the time being.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Marc
Hi Marc,
i have bought the Pro-Version. Now the selection of the source does not work for me. The current Indesign document search does not work. Also read the clipboard does not work. I have to type the whole word list. As a language I selected German. I'm using OSX 10.9.4 and Indesign CC. Thank you for tips.
Hi Ulrich,
Thank you for your feedback. Please email me at support{at}indiscripts[dot]com so that we can investigate the issue.
Regards,
Marc
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NOTE ABOUT THE ISSUE MENTIONED AT COMMENT #13
Make sure that the parameter "Min. frequency" (in Wordalizer > Advanced settings) fits your needs. In particular, if your source is a simple list of words without duplicates, you'll want to set Min frequency to 1.
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Wow! I bought the PRO-Version and it works fine!!
The only thing I missed - already written before - is to use a custom shape. I designed a businesscard and it didn't work without manually correktures and a word cloud in a logoform woud be fine, too. I would buy it for an extra charge :)
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Greetings from Germany
Peter
Hello
Je copie une liste de mots et j'utilise la méthode du presse-papiers. Mais une fois WP ouvert, le panneau ne contient aucun mot. Merci, c'est urgent ;-)
Il faudrait prévoir la possibilité de bêtement importer un fichier-texte tabulé comportant "mot[tab]nombre", histoire de simplifier grandement la chose. Merci.
Hi Peter (#16),
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, "custom shape" is definitely a challenge to me.
Next step will probably be custom ratio. Better than nothing :/
Regards,
Marc
Hello Branislav,
#17
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> [U]ne fois WP ouvert, le panneau ne contient aucun mot […]
Il est probable que l'option avancée « Fréquence min. » soit à 2 (réglage d'usine). Un clic sur la roue d'engrenage pour le vérifier.
N. B. — Ce réglage par défaut repose sur l'idée d'évacuer les hapax et assimilés quand Wordalizer mouline sur un document. Mais j'avais mal anticipé le comportement des utilisateurs, comme on le voit aussi en #13. Il semble que leur premier réflexe soit de copier dans le presse-papier une simple « liste » de mots, sans répétition, ce qui conduit wZ à n'en voir aucun !
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> Il faudrait prévoir la possibilité de bêtement importer un fichier-texte
> tabulé comportant "mot[tab]nombre"
Tout à fait d'accord ! (En droite ligne avec la remarque précédente.) Je vais y travailler.
Amitié,
Marc
Merci. Avant ta réponse j'avais déjà chipoté pour comprendre et effectivement j'ai créé des listes avec des mots répétés autant de fois qu'ils devaient être "lourds".
D'un autre côté, l'éditeur de liste intégré à wZ me paraît relativement fonctionnel (?)
Tu pars d'une liste vierge et tu peux directement saisir et pondérer chaque terme en mode : <mot1> <TAB> <poids> <ENTER> <mot2> etc.
Isn't it?
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Marc
Great script. However, when I used the try-out version I was able to generate a wordlist with the source "Scan the current InDesign document". This doesn't work with the Pro version? When I choose this source it opens the window and the list stays empty. So I still have to make a list manually. What went wrong?
Another thing, the sources "Scan the InDesign book" and "Extract words from the clipboard" aren't available to choose from, the buttons remain grey and unavailable so I can't use them.
One more thing... when I make a wordlist manually, I can only change the words in the first font checkbox, the other font checkboxes stay grey and unavailable.
I just bought this because it seemed like it would save time on a project, but I keep getting a "This value would cause one or more objects to leave the pasteboard" error message.
It's followed by and jumbled up mess of words clumped together at the bottom of the page.
I'm using InDesign CC 2014.
Hopefully, this wasn't time and money wasted. Nice presentation though.
@ Reinier (#23)
I answered you by email.
@ DK (#24)
A few users have reported the bug you mention and I've to confess I don't know how they finally solve it. The error message—"This value would cause one or more objects to leave the pasteboard"—indicates that Wordalizer fails to properly set up its geometric workspace, which seems to depend on some unusual Preference settings in InDesign. The problem is, I wasn't able to identify which parameter causes this mess in spite of my many investigations. It happens that trashing ID prefs or re-installing the application MIGHT fix the issue according to some users, but I'm still unable to provide a general solution as long as I can't reproduce the bug on my own platforms. I admit that this is very frustrating :(
Please, try first to trash your preferences and deactivate other plug-ins or startup scripts. Then, if the problem remains, contact me by e-mail at: support[at]indiscripts{dot}com
Best Regards,
Marc
[EN] NEW VERSION AVAILABLE:
http://www.indiscripts.com/category...
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[FR] NOUVELLE VERSION DISPONIBLE :
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Marc
[EN] NEW VERSION AVAILABLE:
Version 1.512 fixes the bug "This value would cause one or more objects to leave the pasteboard" (mentioned in #3 and #24.)
http://www.indiscripts.com/category...
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[FR] NOUVELLE VERSION DISPONIBLE :
La version 1.512 corrige le bug « cette valeur placerait un ou plusieurs objets en dehors de la table de montage » (signalé dans #3 et #24.)
http://www.indiscripts.com/category...
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Marc