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Scripts for InDesign

Scripts, like InDesign Templates, Plugins, and the proper use of shortcuts, are one of the nearly powerful (if notthe almost powerful) tools we have as InDesign users.

Scripts are, in fact, like magic added to InDesign. Each time yous have a repetitive task to carry out in InDesign, at that place is probably a script ready to practice simply that. We've collected a list of the best 210 scripts at that place are effectually. If yous can't detect what you lot need – or you think we missed some great ones, feel free to drop a annotate below.

Quickly see how to install a script here.

Consider a donation to the developer

Almost all of the scripts in the list are free. For each of them, y'all'll find a link to the folio of the programmer who wrote the script. Some of them accept donations in their websites. So, think virtually how much fourth dimension their scripts accept saved you, visit their website, and make a donation.

Salve before launching the script (important)

Before running a script in InDesign, save your documents. Information technology might happen that the result of the script is non what yous wanted, or that the script fails in some way. The changes made by the scripts are ordinarily reversible using the Undo part (Cmd/Ctrl + Z). However, some scripts perform a lot of changes under the hood, so you might find yourself having to "disengage" hundreds of times. Information technology is way better to relieve first, just in example.

The ultimate InDesign scripts list

This is the list of the scripts nosotros collected. Nosotros divided them into sections for easy consultation. Click on ane of the entries of the listing to go straight to that department.

You lot'll discover the link to the instructions of each script in its description at the link. Please read them before launching each script.

Categories:

• Scripts for scripts
• Layout (aligning, drawing, guides)
• Text Frames
• Text
• Numbers, Prices, and Fractions
• Tables & Charts
• Images
• Color
• Styles
• End notes, Foot notes, etc.
• Variables, References, and Hyperlinks
• Sort
• Index
• Find & Replace
• Import/Export/File Conversion
• Grep
• Fonts
• Book
• Others
• Must Accept
• Language

Scripts for scripts

1. Script Installer (by in-tools.com)

Information technology helps you lot install other scripts. Then meta. You should download it if you plan to install a lot of scripts.

Link to the script (Expect for the Download button nether Script Installer)

2. Script Launcher (past Peter Kahrel)

Information technology creates a panel from which you can run your scripts.
Advantages to the default panel:

• it lists your scripts in a historical order, then that the final-run script is on elevation of the list
• y'all tin can assign to it a keyboard shortcut (see the Adobe guide).
• you tin can search for a specific script

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iii. Batch Procedure Scripts (by Kasyan Servetsky)

It allows you to run a single script or a set of scripts on a single document or on a list of documents.

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4. Script Shortcut

With this script you can brand the process of running any script instantaneous by assigning a keyboard shortcut to it.

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v. Add together Script to Menu

Add scripts from a folder to the InDesign carte. Unfortunately the folio containing the link is in German, but try and check it out with the browser's translation!

Link to the script

half dozen. Add Undo to Your Script

This page shows you lot how to collapse the entire script into 1 unmarried Undo. Retrieve to ever save a copy of the original, in case anything goes wrong.

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Layout (aligning, drawing, guides)

seven. Calculate Margins (by Laurent Doucet)

This script allows yous to get the tiptop, outer, lesser and inner margins for the five most common canons of folio structure. The five canons are the "fine" print, the "regular" print and iii based of a geometrical division on the page: by 6, 9 and 12.

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8. Add Guides Around Objects (AddGuides - shipped with InDesign)

It adds guides around a selected object or objects.

9. Select All Guides (by in-tools.com)

Information technology selects all the guides in the electric current spread, only the horizontal, or simply the vertical.

To select all the guides you can likewise utilize the keyboard shortcut Command/Control Choice G, without installing the script.

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10. AdjustLayout (shipped with InDesign)

Information technology moves objects past specified distances on right/left pages.

eleven. Marshal Objects to a Specified Position (shipped with InDesign)

AlignToPage is a script that aligns objects to specified positions on a page.

12. Add, Remove Columns (by Luis Felipe Corullón and Kai Rübsamen - paid)

The script adds or removes columns from a text-frame (or the page if nothing is selected). Information technology could be very useful if you assign information technology a shortcut.

See here how to create your ain InDesign shortcuts.

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13. Creates Line Between Columns (by Marc Autret)

InGutter creates lines between your columns. The lines resize automatically when you lot resize the text frame. Very helpful with newsletters and magazines!

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14. Size Labels (by Rorohiko)

Information technology places a label on each frame showing its dimensions. The labels are placed in a specific layer, and so that it'southward easy to delete them. Unfortunately, the dimensions are only in inches, and if yous need a different measurement system you take to change the code.

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15. Create Guides (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

With this script you tin either create indentation guides, or create imitation double columns. In the outset example you tin can choose between three measurements: gutter measurement, half-gutter measurement, and custom measurement. In the second case y'all tin can duplicate the number of columns in each page of your spread. The gutter will be respected. Using this, you can avoid any alterations on your original column guides.

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16. Resize Items Without Moving Them

This script allows you lot to resize a number of selected page items while keeping them 'in-place'. With this script you can resize a bunch of folio items, while keeping their centers stock-still. The items volition abound or shrink, but they will 'stay put' and not slide effectually.

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17. Unlock Frames (past Hans Haesler)

This "AllesEntsperren" script allows you to unlock frames. Information technology also allows you to preserve the locked land of anchored objects. You lot will observe it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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18. Lock Frames (by Hans Haesler)

With this "AllesSperren" script you tin lock all frames. More versatile than manual deportment. Y'all will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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19. Copy Guides (past Hans Haesler)

With this "HilfslinienKopieren" script the selected guides are copied to the selected page. With the option "gespiegelt" (= "mirrored"), vertical guides are copied in a such style that the target page is a mirrored copy of the source page. You will find information technology in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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20. Convert Selected Folio Guides to Spread Guides (past Hans Haesler)

With this "HilfslinienUmwandeln" script you tin can c onvert selected page guides to spread guides (and vice versa). When no guides are selected, a dialogue is shown to confirm that all guides of the agile spread are converted. You will find it in the alphabetical listing of scripts linked.

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21. Equalize Border and Shading

This script helps with the paragraph border feature, it lets you to set up both paragraph shading and borders on the same paragraph.

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22. Set upward Baseline Filigree and Type Area

This script makes it easy to set up the baseline grid and type area in Adobe InDesign.

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Text Frames

23. Convert Multicolumn Text Frames to Individual Frames (by Steve Wareham)

It creates threaded text frames starting from a multicolumn text frame. It'south helpful when you need to make some columns wider than the others.

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24. Break Frame (shipped with InDesign)

BreakFrame removes a selected text frame and its entire contents from a threaded text-frame.

25. Split Story (shipped with InDesign)

SplitStory splits the text frames of the selected threaded text-frame into separate, unlinked text frames.

26. Divide Story (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

Like the one above, this script allows yous to split up your story from the selected text frame to the end.

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27. Thread Text Frames (past Rorohiko)

This script helps yous to introduce a not threaded text frame to a threaded text frame.

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28. Remove Empty Text Frames (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows yous to remove all empty text frames on document or current spread. Also offers the selection to remove empty pages when the document is selected as script scope.

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29. Thread Story (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

With this script you can thread selected text frames to brand i single story.

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xxx. AutoStick - Edit Stickers in InDesign

This script is for editing stickers in InDesign. By sticker I mean very simple blocks, one-line text frames having some edge and containing a title or just a few words. It can be used for uncomplicated diagrams, mind-maps, and family trees.

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31. Copy Attributes of a Frame to Another (by Hans Haesler)

With this "RahmenAttributeKopieren" script you can c opy the attributes of a frame to another one. Yous volition find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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32. Move Frames past a Defined Value (by Hans Haesler)

This "RahmenVerschieben" script allows you lot to m ove frames past a defined value. On even and/or odd pages, in the unabridged document or in a range of pages. You volition find information technology in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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Text

33. Listing Mistyped Words (by Theunis DeJong)

This script lists all the words in your text that are not nowadays in the InDesign dictionary.

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34. Manage Missing Glyphs (by Peter Kahrel)

The script lists all the missing glyphs in your document and allows you to apply a font to them.

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35. Line Numbering

These scripts number the lines of your text by creating an anchored text frame at the start of each row. I am talking plural because I actually found two alternatives. A gratuitous script created by in-tools.com, and another solution by id-extras.com which costs $49 but adds a few more powerful features to the same role.

Link to the complimentary script by in-tools.com
Link to the script by id-extras.com

36. Enlarge Text to Fit the Frame (by in-tools.com)

FitTextPrefs enlarges the text to fit a text frame based on the preference you choose.

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37. Shrink Text to Fit the Frame (by in-tools.com)

FitTextToFrame volition try to bring whatever overset text back into the text frame.

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38. All Caps to Small Caps (past in-tools.com)

It replaces strings of total caps with modest caps, and adds a Character Style to adapt the text to fine-tune the results.

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39. Fit Overset or Underset Text (by Sterling Computing) - $eighteen.24

The script fits overset or underset text in an story into the text frames of that story, while minimising visible changes to the text design. Information technology doesn't change the point size or leading in the default settings, since that tin can create mismatched baselines with adjacent columns of text from 2 different stories.

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40. Split Text (by Ajar Productions)

The script breaks apart text past many options (by paragraphs, columns, words, etc.). You can use it in order to quickly divide blocks of text that can exist individually positioned. Information technology also comes with an undo feature.

You have to subscribe to Ajar Productions' newsletter to download the script.

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41. Observe Hyphenations (past in-tools.com)

This script searches for hyphenated words inside a specific story.

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42. Remove Hyphenations (past Loic Aigon)

The script removes any hyphenation in the certificate and updates the paragraph styles (except the Basic Paragraph Style).

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43. Text counter (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script counts the number of text frames, paragraphs, words, characters and shows them in a panel.

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44. Widow Fixer (by Dan Rodney) - $ix.99

The script automatically prevents single words from beingness on their ain line (It adds GREPs to your paragraph styles - check this other post if you want to learn how).

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45. Add Paragraph Style to Text

Practice you need to add a certain paragraph style to selected text, but don't work with an extended keyboard? In this topic give-and-take you lot can observe the script for you lot!

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46. Observe/Change the Side by side Paragraph Style (by Thomas Silkjær)

This script will allow y'all to notice and change paragraph style for "this paragraph and the ane following it".

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47. Highlight No Break (by Peter Kahrel)

Y'all can easily apply the No Break feature to any span of text to ready all kinds of typographic problems. Simply sometimes, it might be very helpful to bear witness where No Pause had been practical.  With this script you lot can do merely that!

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48. Swimmer - Supervene upon Words with Images (by Kris Coppieters)

With this script yous tin can replace placeholder text with images or icons (and vice versa). The thought behindSwimmer is that a certificate might comprisekeywords that sometimes need to be replaced by graphic icons, and sometimes need to be reverted dorsum to plain words.

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49. UnicodeInjector - Insert whatever Unicode Grapheme into Text

Hands insert any Unicode character lawmaking into text in InDesign. The script allows y'all to assign a keyboard shortcut to a sequence of one or more Unicode grapheme codes.

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fifty. Create Dotted Text (by Hans Haesler)

This "RasterSchrift" script allows yous to c reate "dotted" text. The characters are composed of circles, squares or stars. With or without a groundwork and with or without highlights. For both options i can choose circles, squares or stars. You will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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51. Etch - Add together Diacritics Shortcuts for Unfamiliar Languages (by Peter Kahrel)

This script allows yous to create shortcuts for diacritics, letters, and symbols that might not exist in the font you're using.

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Numbers, Prices, and Fractions

52. Cost adjuster (by Peter Kahrel)

The script helps with adjusting prices. Yous can multiply them, change the currency, the format, the separator, add a graphic symbol mode, etc.

If you often piece of work with tables and pricing in tables, you might want to read this post about linking InDesign tables to Excel spreadsheets.

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53. Commutation thousand separators and decimal indicators (by Peter Kahrel)

The script helps y'all in exchanging k separators and decimal separators (dots/commas in numbers) from English language to non-English style and vice versa.

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54. Format Fractions (by Dan Rodney) - $69.99

The script properly adapts fractions to the text appearance. Adobe in the 2022 version added the support to fractions for OpenType fonts, but all the same non for TrueType or PostScript Fonts. As well, non all the OpenType Fonts support fractions, and applying the formatting is still a laborious work. This script does the job in an advanced, no-brain mode.

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55. Convert Numbering to Normal Text (past Hans Haesler)

With this "NumKonvertieren" script you tin can c onvert Numbering (and Enumerations) to normal Text. Useful when the text must be copied or exported. You will discover information technology in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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Tables & Charts

56. Tables using data merge (by Loic Aigon)

InlineMerge flows all your datamerge records in one unique frame.

If you need some assistance with data merge, cheque this tutorial.

Link to the script

57. Pie Chart Builder (by Marc Autret)

The updated script, Claquos 2022 helps you with creating pie charts direct in InDesign.

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58. Deb-o-Matic Prison cell Style Automator (by Chuck Weger and Deb Haines)

Sometime table style editing can merely get y'all so far. If you lot're dealing with a lot of tables, yous don't want to edit every single cell in guild to get it simply right. With this script, you can automate this, applying all the prison cell styles in one become! Here'due south how it works: you need to add a column on the left side of the tabular array that tells InDesign which cell style should be practical to that row.

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59. Apply Jail cell Styles Based on Content

It'due south a script you tin can use to apply cell styles based on the content within those cells. You'll need to open it in a script/text editor and make a couple changes to match your needs, only it's pretty simple.

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60. Resize Chart Bars (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

One click to resize all selected rectangles based on values entered in the dialog for each of them. Each field refers to one bar/column in your chart.

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61. Resize Table Columns (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to resize the cavalcade'southward width of specific tables in an InDesign document.

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62. Utilise Paragraph Fashion to Text in Tables

In this topic discussion you can find the script that will help you lot find specific phrases that are in diverse tables inside a document and change their paragraph mode.

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63. Figure and Table Numbering for InDesign

On this page yous can discover many scripts, including this ane. It allows you to automatically number figures and tables.

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64. Distribute Distance Between Tabular array Columns (past Hans Haesler)

This "TabStopVerteiler" script allows you to distribute the distance between table columns regularly. You will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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65. Distribute Distance Between Table Columns Using Dialog (by Hans Haesler)

Similar the one higher up, this "TabStopVerteiler_D" script allows you to distribute the altitude between table columns regularly. ("_D" stands for "Dialog"; modify the settings using a dialog). You will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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Images

66. Unembed Embedded Images (by Peter Kahrel)

The script extracts both embedded and pasted images, saves them into a given binder, and replaces them with linked images.

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67. Place Inline Images [updated]

Two scripts for the same part also hither. One is by Kasyan Servetsky, it finds text between two @ characters – e.g. @[electronic mail protected] – and replaces it with the image that has the same name. The other is by Rorohiko and simply replaces words with images (This concluding one is too reversible).

Link to the script past Kasyan
Link to the script by Rorohiko

68. Open All RGB Images (past Kasyan Servetsky)

The script searches TIFFs and PSDs which are in RGB or Grayscale color mode and opens them in Photoshop.

Link to the script (Search in the page for "Open All RGB Files")

69. Prove Options for Placed Images (by John Hawkinson)

Once you've placed an prototype you can't get access to Show Options. This script allows you to get around that! It assumes a frame (rectangle) is currently selected, and re-places the file associated with it, while showing the options dialog box.

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seventy. Create LowRes Images Plus (past Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to create LowRes versions of each image linked to your InDesign certificate to keep your certificate lighter. It is particularly useful if you're using Ajar Production'southward in5™ plugin, if you lot're working in a network based company, or even if your computer is not as fast every bit you desire.

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71. Relinking Images (by Jeremy Howard)

It'southward a script to relink images! This script allows you to: relink all links in the current document or across all open documents; relink specific file types by specifying which file types y'all would like to relink; choose to relink missing links, modified links, or all links in the document, whether they are missing or not.

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72. FillBleed - Set up Bleed Bug

This script allows you lot to gear up bleed issues in InDesign.

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73. Split Images that Span Across Two Pages (past Chris Bennett and Martinho da Gloria)

With this script yous can dissever an image that is spread across two pages, without having to do it manually.

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74. Exchange or Bandy Two Images

There is a fashion to manually swap or exchange images. With this script, withal, you can do information technology much faster.

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75. Apply Alt Text from Image Captions (by Peter Kahler)

This script allows you to quickly go through your document and create custom alternative text for images with the push of a push.

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76. Apply an Alpha Channel to a Placed Epitome (by Hans Haesler)

This "AlphaKanalWahl" script allows you to apply an Alpha channel to an already placed image. The epitome must contain the Alpha channel, of form. You will detect it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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77. Create a Contact Sheet with Image Files (by Hans Haesler)

With this "BilderKatalog" script you can create a "Contact Sheet" with the image files of the selected folder. Y'all will discover it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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78. Create a Caption Below Multiple Movie Frames (by Hans Haesler)

Thanks to this "Bildunterschriften" script you lot can create a caption below all motion-picture show frames or below the selected ones. You lot will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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79. Rename Images

This script allows yous to rename images once they're already in InDesign.

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Color

80. Convert Color Photos to Grayscale

This Color2Gray tool allows yous to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color paradigm.

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81. Catechumen Blackness and White

This script allows y'all to catechumen white to [Paper] and blacks to [Black]. You lot can find the link on this page under the category "Colour".

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82. Convert False Blacks to User Input Values

This script allows you to convert false blacks to any value you lot wish to input. You can discover the link on this folio nether the category "Colour".

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83. Catechumen LAB Greys to Shades of Black

This script allows you to convert LAB greys to shades of blackness. You can find the link on this page under the category "Colour".

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84. Convert RGB Greys to Shades of Black

This script allows you to catechumen RGB greys to shades of black. You can find the link on this folio under the category "Colour".

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Styles

85. Show Text Overrides (by in-tools.com)

The script enables a hidden feature that shows which parts of the text have been overridden.

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86. Highlight paragraph and graphic symbol styles (by Marc Autret)

StyLighter highlights each paragraph and grapheme way with different colors, and shows which parts of the text have been overridden.

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87. Local Formatting to Character Styles (by Peter Kahrel)

These three scripts work together to create and acquaintance Graphic symbol Styles to inline formatting.

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88. Create Paragraph and Character Styles (by Thomas Silkjaer)

The script automatically creates paragraph and character styles and assigns them to the text.

Link to the script (Search in the page for "Auto create paragraph and graphic symbol styles")

89. Convert Nested Styles into Character Styles (by in-tools.com)

The script converts nested styles into locally-formatted character styles (overriding whatsoever manually practical character style that conflicts with the nested style). It works on nested, GREP, and inline styles.

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90. Delete Empty Paragraph Style Groups (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script deletes empty paragraph style groups.

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91. Batch Import Paragraph and Character Styles (by Thomas B. Nielsen)

This script lets y'all batch import paragraph and character styles from a source certificate in documents stored in a binder.

Link to the script (Search in the page for "Batch import paragraph and character styles")

92. Reset to Bones Styles (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to reset the grapheme, paragraph and objects styles to its Basic default. Avoid applying wrong style when creating a new object or typing/pasting a text.

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93. Apply Object Style by Search (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

Thanks to this script you can apply object style into text frames only by using the script's search field.
The script searches the entire certificate for a specific text, and all the text frames containing that text will receive the selected object style as applied object style.

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94. Move to Layer Based on Mode (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script moves objects from current layer to new i, based on the applied style. This is a time saver when you want to organize all your document objects in layers based on what they are (texts, images, etc).

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If instead, what yous desire to move is a film, you can find a costless script by Jeremy Howard in this topic give-and-take.

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95. Rename Styles (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

With this script you can chop-chop rename styles in your InDesign document.

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96. BorderCollie - Fashion Management

This gratuitous script for InDesign helps you with style management. It allows you to ascertain, edit and synchronize styles and swatches across collections of disparate InDesign document collections.

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97. Clear Style Overrides

After running this script whatever overridden attributes will be reset. For fine tuning, you can limit the process to objects or text formatted with a particular fashion.

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End notes, Foot notes, etc.

98. Dynamic Endnotes (past Peter Kahrel)

The script converts static endnotes to dynamic ones.

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99. Footnotes to Endnotes (by Peter Kahrel)

The script converts static footnotes to dynamic endnotes.

Update 7 March: added a render linker function.

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100. Endnotes for InDesign

Inspired by the one above, this script also converts InDesign footnotes into endnotes. So you lot need footnotes first. Endnotes are only possible within stories (single or linked textframes), you'll find your endnotes at the end of the story.

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101. Footnotes in Columns (by Peter Kahrel)

More than a script, it's a serial of scripts and a quick tutorial that help you place and organize footnotes into columns.

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102. Dynamic Sidenotes (by Peter Kahrel)

This one is too a series of scripts and a quick tutorial that help with creating sidenotes (as well numbered).

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Variables, References, and Hyperlinks

103. Show/Set Text Variables (by Peter Kahrel)

The script creates a card that lists all the variables used in a certificate, and allows you to alter their value (all in one identify).

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104. Insert a Variable (by in-tools.com)

The script creates a dialog that makes placing text variables easier.

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105. Quick Reference (past in-tools.com)

The script simplifies the creation of quick references both with and without anchors.

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106. Make Hyperlinks from URL (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script creates hyperlinks from the URLs in the text. It also adds temporary colors to indicate if the hyperlink creation failed or was successful.

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107. Hyperlink List Viewer (past Kerntiff Publishing Systems)

This script gives you a console that lists all the hyperlinks nowadays in the document.

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108. Create Text Anchors (past Kasyan Servetsky)

The script creates text anchors from the text. You lot utilise a Character Style to signal where each anchor should exist, and the script does all the rest.

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109. Remove all the Hyperlinks (by Harbs)

The script removes all the hyperlinks present in a document.

Link to the script - Search in the page for "Remove all hyperlinks from the active InDesign document"

110. Add Bookmarks from a Paragraph Style

This script helps you to apply bookmarks to a particular paragraph fashion from an interface.

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111. Add together Bookmarks from a Character Style

This script helps you to utilise bookmarks to a particular characters style from an interface.

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112. Create Hyperlink Changing Text (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to create hyperlinks in an InDesign document changing the URL in the text to a customized text.

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113. Import Text Variables (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

With this script yous tin can import text variables from another document. And you accept the option to import/override existing text variables.

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114. Gryperlink - Assign Hyperlinks to SKUs and Other Text (by Kris Coppieters)

This weird name is a combination of the words hyperlink and GREP, considering thanks to GREP, this script helps you automate the assignment of hyperlinks to SKUs and other text.

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115. Create Hyperlink from URLs and E-mail

This InDesign Script converts Text into real Hyperlinks.

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116. Hyperlinker - Find and Convert to Hyperlink

Hyperlinker finds spider web addresses, electronic mail addresses, domain names and phone numbers, and converts them to hyperlinks. It besides lets y'all to do a GREP search for any kind of text (similar product numbers for example) and turn them into hyperlinks.

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Sort

117. Sort Paragraphs Alphabetically (shipped with InDesign)

The script SortParagraphs sorts the paragraphs in the selection in alphabetical social club.

118. Sort Paragraphs Alphabetically – Lite Version Language-Aware (by Peter Kahrel)

This script sorts the paragraphs in the selection in alphabetical order. Unlike the SortParagraph above, this one takes account of the text language. Information technology can't deal with formatted lists (unless the formatting was applied by nested GREP styles).

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119. Sort Paragraphs Alphabetically – Full Version Language-Enlightened (by Peter Kahrel)

An evolution of the script in a higher place. It's configurable and tin deal with every kind of sorting (except for text in tables).

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120. Table Sort (by Peter Kahrel)

This script lets you sort text inside tables.

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 Index

121. Index from Discussion List (by Peter Kahrel)

From a word list, the script runs on all the opened documents and creates an index. It's great for writer, language, citation indexes and similar indexes.

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122. Topics and Page References from Graphic symbol Styles (by Peter Kahrel)

The script creates topics for and folio references to all text formatted with certain character styles.

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123. Page References from Imported Topics (by Peter Kahrel)

The script imports topics and references from another certificate (InDesign by default imports simply the topics, non the references).

Link to the script

124. Building an Index Using Character Styles or External Word List (by Marc Autret)

The script builds an Alphabetize using character styles or an external word list. Use it to automatically build subject field, linguistic communication, or author indexes.

Link to the script

125. Clean Up Alphabetize Topics (past Kasyan Servetsky)

This script cleans upwards topic names in the Index console and so that yous don't have to clean upwards text in the generated story every time you regenerate the index.

Link to the script

126. Index with Links (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

With this script you lot can brand an alphabetize based on a list of links.

Link to the script

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Find & Replace

127. FindChangeByList (shipped with InDesign)

The script performs a series of common text find/change operations past reading a tab-delimited text file. Check the script beneath to run into how to create the txt file automatically.

128. FindChangeList French Version

This script works like the one merely to a higher place it, only information technology is applicable to documents in French.

Link to the script

129. Notice/Change inside InDesign Paragraph Styles (past id-extras.com) - $49

The script allows you to do Notice/Change properties on paragraph styles.

Link to the script

130. Record Find Change (by Martin Fischer)

The script helps you with creating the FindChangeList.txt file you need to employ the script FindChangeByList.jsx shipped with InDesign.

Link to the script

131. Notice Change by Queries (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script lets you lot relieve and run a series of find-change operations.

Link to the script

132. Multi-Find/Change (past Martinho da Gloria)

This is really an extension – not a script – but it should be mentioned here anyway. It gives you a very useful interface from which you tin create and run a series of find-alter operations.

Link to the script

133. Identifies Word Stacks (by Rorohiko)

The script applies a graphic symbol style to whatever word stack. The Character Style has a thick red underline to help y'all spot the word stacks.

Link to the script

134. Find and Replace to Assign Hyperlinks to Text

With this script you can automatically assign a hyperlink to InDesign text based on find-and-replace pattern matching.

Link to the script

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Import/Export/File Conversion

135. Copy Layer (by Redokun)

The script copies an entire layer from a document to another.

Link to the script

136. Batch Convert/Export Documents (by Peter Kahrel)

The script batch converts from indd, indt, inx, idml, pmd, QuarkExpress file format to indd, indt, PDF, PDF (Interactive), eps, rtf, html, xml, jpg, png, swf, and parcel. Information technology can also be used to export InDesign documents to PDF as split up pages, and change the InDesign version of many files. Concluding simply not least, you can employ information technology to run a specified script against all documents in a folder.

Update 7 March 2022: now the script batch converts also InDesign books to PDF.

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137. Page Exporter Utility (by Scott Zanelli)

The script offers a number of options for exporting your files to PDF, eps or jpg. At that place is as well an option that lets you create a number of different PDFs from unlike layer combinations (helpful with documents with many language layers).

Link to the script

138. Export Book Documents Individually (past Peter Kahrel)

The script exports all documents in a book to separate PDFs (also page past folio, or department by section).

Link to the script

139. Merge indd Files into One (past Simon Wiscombe)

The script creates a unmarried InDesign document from several indd files.

Link to the script

140. Place a PDF Pages into InDesign (by Scott Zanelli)

The script automatically imports pages from a PDF (or another indd file) into an InDesign document. It comes with several options like positioning, scaling, rotating etc.

Link to the script

141. Export Sections as PDF (past Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to export all certificate sections as dissever PDF files.

Link to the script

142. Export Two Unlike PDFs (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

Do you need a low resolution and high resolution PDF? With this script y'all can export two different PDF presets straight from one document.

Link to the script

143. Consign InDesign to Word

Practise you want to export your entire InDesign certificate to Word? withExport to Wordy'all can do only that!

Link to the script

144. Salvage as INDD and IDML

This script allows you to relieve your document as both an INDD file and an IDML file, automatically.

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Grep

145. Migrate GREP Styles (by Rick Gordon)

The script allows yous to migrate a GREP style from a paragraph way in one certificate to another paragraph mode in a dissimilar certificate.

Link to the script

146. What the GREP!? (by Theunis de Jong and Marc Autret)

This script helps yous in analyzing and understanding any GREP expression. Information technology'south a script you should accept if you ever run GREPs.

Link to the script

147. GREP Query Manager (past Peter Kahrel)

This script creates a console that displays an overview of all the GREPs used in the current user's folder, shows each query'south name, finds expression, and changes expression.

Link to the script

148. GREP Editor (by Peter Kahrel)

This script creates a GREP editor. If y'all ever tried to type a GREP into the InDesign Observe/Change box, you'll know why this script has to be.

Link to the script

149. ChainGREP - Run Several Queries One Later the Other (by Gregor Fellenz)

Like it says in the tagline, this script will give you GREP superpowers. It's essentially a script that allows you to create and executechains of GREP queries on your InDesign documents.  To top information technology all off, it's easy to use even if you don't know how to script!

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150. Change GREP Style (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to change "GREP manner" expression. You choose the expression you want to modify and the expression you want to use. The script volition change all paragraph styles that have the GREP expression entered in the dialog field. The character mode practical to that GREP fashion will be kept.

Link to the script

151. Brand Bar Graphs with GREP (By Colin Flashman)

Thanks to this script, you can create bar graphs with grep styles. It merely needs to be run once to create the styles. Once run, the object or paragraph styles tin can then be used to use the GREP styles to numbers throughout a document.

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Fonts

152. Build OpenType Fonts from Within InDesign (by Theunis de Jong)

The script allows you to create your Fonts directly inside InDesign. Add your logo and any pictogram and utilise them into your documents.

Link to the script

153. Font Reporter (by Marijan Tompa - tomaxxi)

This script creates a report of the Fonts used in a single certificate or many documents. The study can likewise be divided by each document.

Link to the script

154. List Font Properties (past Roland Dreger)

Based on what you choose, the script creates a box that lists all the properties of the text side by side to each style range, paragraph, story, or insertion betoken (Hither the original post in High german).

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155. Replace Fonts (by Hans Haesler)

This "SchriftenTausch" script allows you to r eplace fonts. Useful when several similar documents have to be candy. Because the pairs Search/Replace are stored in two files. You volition discover it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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156. Supplant Fonts with Search/Replace (past Hans Haesler)

Like the script to a higher place, this "SchriftenTausch_Datei" script allows yous to supervene upon fonts. The addition "Datei" signifies that a text file is used which contains the Search/Replace pairs. When no document is open up, a folder tin can exist selected which contains the InDesign files to exist processed as well as text file containing the pairs of the font names. You will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

Link to the script

157. Determine the X-Peak of a Font

With this script it is possible in Adobe InDesign to easily determine the ten-height of a font.

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Volume

158. Relink Documents in Volume (past Kasyan Servetsky)

Given a folder, with a book open, the script re-links only missing files in the book.

Link to the script

159. Book from a Folder (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script creates a book from InDesign documents in a selected folder. The volume volition have the same name as the folder.

Link to the script (Search in the page for "Create a book from InDesign documents in selected binder")

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Others

160. InDesign Repair for Windows (past Mikhail Kondakov)

This is actually a Win application – not a script – but information technology'southward and so helpful that I must mention it here. You can apply this Win app to repair corrupt InDesign files in some scenarios (Here the original post in Russian).

Link to the script

161. InDesign Repair for Mac (by Stellar Phoenix) - 89€

You can utilise this script to repair corrupt InDesign files (for Mac only).

Link to the script

162. Create Hard Covers [updated]

These are two scripts that permit you to create a precise volume jacket starting from the dimensions of your certificate. I is a gratuitous script by Marc Autret, the other is by Dan Rodney and it costs $xix.99. Cheque yourself which one y'all prefer.

Link to the script by Marc Autrer
Link to the script past Dan Rodney

163. EAN13/ISBN barcode directly within InDesign (by Marc Autret) - €39

The script creates a vector image of your barcode straight into the document. You can and then export the images using one of the scripts described in the images section of this postal service.

Link to the script

164. Import a HTML Folio (by id-extras.com) [update]

This script is intended to provide the main text and images on whatsoever given web page, and import those into InDesign. The text comes in with same paragraph and graphic symbol styles prepare for utilise in your publication.

Link to the script

165. Delete Empty Text Frames (past Colin Flashman)

This simple script deletes all the text-frames which are empty.

To Redokun's users: sometimes when translating an InDesign file with Redokun, you skip some of the paragraphs which are not necessary in the target language. By doing so, the translated file can contain empty text-frames that might no longer exist necessary. This script will come to the rescue.

Link to the script

166. Setting InDesign Preferences (past Keith Gilbert)

Modify and use this script to prepare your preferences in InDesign. The script comes of help when you update InDesign, or use some other computer. It should be run with a certificate open.

Link to the script

167. Zoom to Width (by in-tools.com)

The script zooms to the width of the currently selected text-frame or object. Very helpful with a keyboard shortcut assigned to the script.

Link to the script

168. Speech balloons (by Indiscripts)

This script automatically creates voice communication balloons. Smashing for those who work with comics.

Link to the script

169. Capsize Selection (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows you to invert choice on active page in InDesign.
Substantially you will be able to deselect selected objects and select all other in an active page.

Link to the script

170. Save and Close all InDesign Documents (past Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

The championship says it all! This script allows you to close, salvage or save and close all opened InDesign documents.

Link to the script

171. Swatch Usage (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script runs a written report on swatch usage. If you're having a hard time removing a swatch, this script could be useful. Since swatches used equally manner properties (paragraph shadow, dominion, etc), even if the holding is turned off, InDesign won't let you to delete the swatch. Knowing where information technology'southward being used, you tin remove information technology without doubts.

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172. Apply MasterPages(by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

One click to use the master y'all desire to the pages y'all want. Select the Principal Page you want to apply, then a paragraph style (to make apply the master simply to pages containing that style) or even pages, or odd pages. You tin use a combination of these filters or just one. Only yous demand to choose at to the lowest degree 1 (or paragraph fashion, or fifty-fifty pages, or odd pages).

Link to the script

173. Make clean Up Your Pasteboard

The basic purpose of this script is to articulate out the temporary components left out of the document bounds. The area to clean up tin exist extended or restricted via the user interface.

Link to the script

174. Remove Objects Exterior the Pages (past Hans Haesler)

This "ObjekteEntfernen" script, much like the one just above, removes all objects positioned outside of the pages. You will notice information technology in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

Link to the script

175. Remove File Extensions from Captions

A unproblematic mode to help you remove file extensions from caption, if you are using static captions.

Link to the script

176. Batch Convert InDesign Page Size (by Jeremy Howard)

In this topic discussion you can find a step by step script on how to catechumen multiple InDesign document page sizes.

Link to the script

177. Motion Items to the Pasteboard and Back (past Frédéric Robin)

Ever wish you lot could rapidly slide some selected items (or everything) on a page out to the Pasteboard? This script does just that. And it also slides the items back onto the page at their original locations when you run the script once more.

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178. ComboMambo Updated (by Chuck Weger)

This script allows y'all to import a list of items directly into a class field to save all that error-prone typing (and your sanity). The script was originally written for CS6, and now it has been updated to work with the 2022 release of InDesign CC.

Link to the script

179. LayerLifter - Motility Objects Between Layers

This unproblematic script offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers. It also has an optional characteristic to nudge all items on the layer throughout the whole certificate or beyond the current spread.

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180. Copy/Paste Coordinates

This script allows you to copy/paste the position of InDesign folio items for accurate position matching betwixt items.

Link to the script

181. InDesign/InCopy Notes Notification

This scripts alerts you when an InDesign/InCopy document that you open contains notes.

Link to the script

182. SwatchWatch - a Portable Filigree of Swatch Samples

SwatchWatch is a free script for Adobe InDesign CS5 and higher. It will append a printable grid of swatch samples to any document.

Link to the script

183. Press2ID - Connect InDesign to a Wordpress Blog

Connect Adobe InDesign to a Wordpress Weblog via REST. The script places Worpress posts in the agile Document.

Link to the script

184. SmartRevision

This script allows yous to auto-save under different revision names.

Link to the script

185. Create Mazes in InDesign (by Theunis de Jong)

Non all scripts are technical ways to improve your work. Some are whimsical and astonishing, similar this one. With this script you will be able to create mazes in InDesign. Information technology simply goes to show yous the infinite potential of scripts.

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186. Split a Certificate in Several Sections (by Hans Haesler)

With this "DokumentAufsplitten" script you lot can split a document in several sections. Make your pick: Start pages, the number of split documents, the number of spreads, single pages. You volition discover it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

Link to the script

187. Join Multiple Documents into a Unmarried One (by Hans Haesler)

With this "DokumenteVereinen" script you tin join some documents into a single one. You will find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

Link to the script

188. Supercede Practical Swatch (by Hans Haesler)

This "FarbeErsetzen" script allows y'all to r eplace an applied swatch on a page (or in a range of pages). No swatch is removed, no definitions are modified. Yous will observe it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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189. Convert all Swatches into Grayscale - No Proper noun Modify (by Hans Haesler)

With this "FarbeZuGrau_Name" script y'all can c onvert all swatches of a document into greyscale mode. The proper noun of a swatch is non modified. You will find it in the alphabetical listing of scripts linked.

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190. Catechumen all Swatches into Grayscale -With Name Change (past Hans Haesler)

With this "FarbeZuGrau_Werte" script you can c onvert all swatches of a document into greyscale mode. The proper name of a swatch is modified to the new CMYK values . You volition detect it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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191. Remove Swatch Duplicates (past Hans Haesler)

With this "MehrfachFarbfelderEntf" script, inspired by some other created past Dave Sauders, you lot can r emove duplicates of a swatch whose names are completed with numbers or "copy". Supersede the application with the original swatches. You will observe it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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192. Release Anchored Objects (past Hans Haesler)

This "VerankertesLoesen" script releases anchored objects in the entire document (or in the selection). The object's position on the page doesn't move. You lot volition discover it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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193. Restore Locked State of Anchored Objects (past Hans Haesler)

This "VerankertesSperren" script restores the locked state of anchored objects. Useful, because "Unlock everything on the current spread" releases also anchored frames for whom "Forbid Manual Positioning" is activated.Y'all will find information technology in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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194. Add/Remove Items from InDesign Menus

This script allows y'all to add or remove items from InDesign menus. You lot can find it going through the web log mail linked.

Link to the script

195. Offset Path

Have you ever wanted to create a new path in InDesign that follows an existing path, but is offset--inside or outside the original path--by a specified distance? With this script, yous tin! You can find it going through the web log post linked.

Link to the script

196. Draw Ukulele and Guitar Chords

With this script you can depict ukulele and guitar chords in InDesign.

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Must accept

197. Import Nearly Anything from Another Document (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

- $nineteen.99
It imports all the styles (text, table, stroke, object, TOC styles), colors and master pages from an existing InDesign file (name: byLFC_import).

Link to the script

198. Speed Up InDesign (past Gregor Fellenz)

Based on Erica Gamet commodity, this script helps yous to speed upwardly InDesign when a large document comes out. Best feature: you tin restore your favorite setting by launching information technology a second fourth dimension.

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199. History Scripts (by in-tools.com)

The script gives you an interface from which yous come across the undo or redo stack. From the dialog, yous can select which betoken you'd like to go to by proper name and employ the change avoiding mistakes.

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200. Quickmark (by Peter Kahrel)

The script leaves a bookmark at the electric current cursor position. You can become somewhere else in your document, and then come back to your bookmark later on.

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201. Work With Others on the Same File (by Automatication)

The script LayoutZone lets you select several InDesign page elements or frames and convert them to a Placed InDesign file (.indd). You tin can edit this exported file and and then, when the edit is done, catechumen it back into a native object.

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202. Batch Update Links to Many Documents (by Kasyan Servetsky)

The script updates in batch all modified links inside all the InDesign documents located in a selected folder.

Link to the script

203. Link Finder (past Gert Laursen) - $40

Given a folder or fifty-fifty an entire hard-drive the script will endeavor to find any missing graphics based on proper name, metadata and size of graphics.

Link to the script

204. Compare Two Documents (by Kasyan Servetsky

The script compares two documents and finds the differences betwixt them.

Link to the script

205. Package for Archive (by Kasyan Servetsky)

This script packages all InDesign documents in a selected folder.

Link to the script

206. QuickResize - $59

With this script you tin resize an entire InDesign document to any dimension! Nosotros include a review of this script.

Link to the script

Link to the review

207. InBackup

InBackup creates backup copies of the document in the folder specified by the user. But, to employ it, we must re-assign a document save hotkey to this script. I tried to find a solution which saves automatically the document. For example, it saves the document every 5 minutes without pressing the 'save command' or Ctrl+south.

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208. Create Backup Copies of Agile Document

Similar to the i above, this "SicherungsKopie" script allows you to create backup copies of an active document, all saved in a fill-in binder with different version numbers. You volition discover it in the alphabetical listing of scripts linked.

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Language

209. Apply Language (by Luis Felipe Corullón - paid)

This script allows y'all to utilise a selected language (provided by InDesign) to all text frames in your current certificate and all styles, in just one click!

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210. Alter Language

This "SpracheGruppenKopie" script allows you lot to copy the selected group of paragraph or character styles, change the language of the styles and apply them to the texts of the selected layer. The selected language is also applied to texts formatted with "[Bones Paragraph]" or "(No Fashion)". You will find it in the alphabetical listing of scripts linked.

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211. Change Applied Language

This "SpracheWechseln" script changes the applied language. The selected language is applied to the paragraph and graphic symbol styles as well as to texts formatted with " [Basic Paragraph]" or "(No Style)"You volition find it in the alphabetical list of scripts linked.

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Language Translation

This is actually not a script, but our own Redokun.
Redokun is a translation software that provides a hassle-free solution for translating InDesign, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and HTML files and information technology's flexible enough that information technology tin be adjusted to pretty much every workflow.It can work well for freelance designers, and it can exist adopted to scale by companies of all sizes with in-business firm translators effectually the globe.

Read our translation software comparison and run into how see how Redokun compares to other solutions.

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Conclusion

These are all great scripts, and they already saved me a lifetime on working with our beloved InDesign. Unfortunately, some of them are not updated to the CC2017 and they might have stopped working. Let me know what you call back about this list, if you find whatever error in the scripts, or if you tin can't detect the script you demand.
What's your favorite ane?

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Stefano Bernardi

Stefano has worked on numerous mid to large–sized InDesign projects for Alstom, DeLonghi, Philips, and many others earlier starting Redokun in 2022.
As Redokun's Co-Founder, Stefano spends most of his time helping customers to optimize their InDesign work-flow. He also holds in-house InDesign courses for companies in the Venice, Italian republic area.

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