How to start Indesign with JS

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4 total messages Started by candido_serra Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19

#1922

Author: candido_serra
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19

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To start Indesign and create a new document with VBS I use this code:

Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.CS3")
Set myDocument = myInDesign.Documents.Add

With JS the second line will be:
var myDocument = app.documents.add();

but how I can write the JS code for the first line?

Thanks

Re: How to start Indesign with JS

#1924

Author: Bob Stucky
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:19

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For Adobe products, ExtendScript (Adobe's JS flavor) only executes inside the context of a running Adobe application. The only outside connectivity is through BridgeTalk, which is accessible only from another Adobe application or an Air application.

Bob

Re: How to start Indesign with JS

#1926

Author: candido_serra
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:51

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Thanks for the explanation Bob.

Re: How to start Indesign with JS

#1931

Author: JerrodHill
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:08

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Still you might be interested in this first line...

#target indesign

At the top of a .jsx file on the desktop, it can start InDesign.

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