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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:50

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Stephen--

Have you worked through the "Hello World" example in the InDesign Scripting Guide?

Most of the scripts in the Guide were designed to be copied out of the guide and pasted into buttons in a VB form. You would then build the VB project to create a standard Windows executable file, and then save that application (or a shortcut to it) in the InDesign Scripts folder.

You can also convert the examples to VBScript (see the section on that process at the end of the introduction to Chapter 4 in the Scripting Guide), and simply save them as text files (with the file extension .vbs) in the Scripts folder.

Which method should you use? For scripts that require a user interface, use VB; for scripts that don't, use VBScript.

Thanks,

Ole

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