A collection of Adobe InDesign scripts outside Total CMS core client code. Last updated 12/02/201
IT Staff
- March 28, 2022 UPDATE: MacOS 12.x (Monterey) incompatible with Adobe InDesign
- Migration to new Associated Press channels recommended for Blox Total CMS appliance sites
- Computer Setup
- Changing Appliance IP Addresses
- Adding Publications in InDesign
- Live e-Edition Setup
- Preventing Reporters from Editing Assets outside their Permission Group
- Configuring NITF Export at The Time Pages Are Finaled
- Image Toning Preferences XML Options
- Notifier Setup
- Automatic Keyboard Shortcut Loading
- SUPRT X Make IDML Backup
- Best Practices for BLOX Total CMS Segmented Live e-Edition Page Production
- Sending Live e-Editions
- Resetting Adobe InDesign to default settings
- Retrieving user's Adobe InDesign translation logs for support
- Upgrading BLOX Total CMS
- Linked Sites Quick Start guide
- Creative Cloud 2018.1 is Recommended
- Turning on Alerts for Beta Appliance OS Updates
- MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) removes compatibility for Adobe Creative Suite CS5 and CS 5.5 and CS6 versions
- AP Agate Round 2 (DELAYED): Football, Basketball, Hockey
- How do I keep content from a specific source from showing online using BLOX Total CMS?
- Updated Load Presets Utilities
- Output Options
Hosted vs. Appliance
Upgrade/Downgrade InDesign Code
Appliance Release Notes
Client Release Notes
Template Masters
Output from Adobe InDesign
Rulesets
Custom Functions for Rulesets
1-Pagers
- AP Agate Changes for August 2019
- Adding Frames to InCopy Assignments
- Adding Keyboard Shortcuts
- Adding Publications in InDesign
- Automatic Keyboard Shortcut Loading
- Changing Appliance IP Addresses
- Collections
- Computer Setup
- Creating Edition Pages for InDesign
- Creating Pages Using AdForce
- Creating Snippets
- Downgrading Your BLOX Total CMS InDesign Code
- Exporting a page as InDesign Markup Language
- How to upgrade appliances
- InDesign Jumps Setup
- Live e-Edition Setup
- PageTracker
- Reflow Prevention
- Ruleset Cache Reset
- 2016 Related Content Ruleset Changes
- Standalone Photo Package Setup
- Table Asset Setup
- Template Spawning
- Threading Frames
- Uncombining Pages
- Semi-automatic updating of the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy
Paginators (end users)
- Who should use the browser interface?
- Creating Adobe InDesign documents for one entire section
- Creating Edition Pages for InDesign
- Adding Frames to InCopy Assignments
- Creating Pages Using AdForce
- Exporting a page as InDesign Markup Language
- Ad Layout
- Ch. 17 - Clone and Move (PDF)
- Ch. 18 - Budgeting and Assignments (PDF)
- Automatic Keyboard Shortcut Loading
- SUPRT X Make IDML Backup
Workflow Tips
Page Design Tips
Pagetracker
Importing AP Content
Distributed Production
- An Overview of Distributed Production
- Distributed Production Output
- Placing Assigned Design Element Snippets with Article Assets
- Check Distributed Production Preparedness
- Remote Client Installation for Distributed Production
- What will a Remote user need: Additional or Optional items for Distributed Production
- Distributed Production Storage Locations for Remote users
- Image Toning for Remote Distributed Production Users
- Advertising Workflow and Distributed Production
- Default Folio Text Variables
- Distributed Production Log In Methods: Remote, Local, and Normal
- * Distributed Production Frequently Asked Questions *
Automated Production
Loops through Adobe InDesign templates and resets split-document template name to the template's name
With the template or BLOX Total CMS document opened, and one page present, the script will list all the paragraph, character, and object styles used in that template and the fonts used in any of those styles.
Reads active document metadata and reports the domain associated with that document.
Creates a template document based on user's input or from reading the file generated from Get Doc Dimensions utility
Generates a pop-up report of the document page size, margins, and print surface.
Assists Template Manager in storing and sharing hyphenation settings:
Used with versions of AD Force (5.6) that don't generate the .ldf file with the output. This utility creates a file with extension of .idf which will then open BLOX Total CMS Ad function. (BLOX menu>documents>Advertising>Create Publications From Edition Files)
For Mac/Winidows environments where Adobe InDesign pages may be built/modified in one OS and opened in the other OS.
Can be used by any site using the BLOX Total CMS Ad function to create publications. The script reads each frame on the page(s) and determines the expected completed ad file name (usually by ad number). When launched, the user navigates to the completed ad storage location (the path of which…
Same action as doing a file>save-as to overwrite the existing document. This reduces the size of the Adobe InDesign document without impacting BLOX Total CMS structure.
Work-around to open a document with a corresponding .idlk which cannot be released in a timely manner. Will allow completion of the page for output but should be used only in emergencies.
The same as having user do a File>Package for Print: creates a zipped folder on user's desktop which includes a copy of the document, an .idml of the document, the related links and fonts.
Opens the user's active translate log for review, copy/paste to new text document.
Generates a report of any image files that exeeds 1Mb. For troubleshooting documents that are really large
Collects specified error, crash, and/or translate log by-user by-work-date to include in reporting issues.
Removes placeholder label in frames shown in one of the snippet snifer generated layers
Loops through the active Adobe InDesign document and presents drop-down choice of templates to assign to this template for advertising page creation if needed.
Support tool to show related frames in snippets or page content that might cause large cut-out segments in Live E-edition segementing.
Resets tab settings if column widths have change
Removes sniffer generated layers and frames
Removes placeholder label in selected frames from above
Works in conjuction with the LOAD INDD PreflightProfile in the set below.
Loads PDF presets stored in tcms_indesgin/domain_local/OutputPreferences/Presets folder. Will remove any non-default preset (not bracketed with [].
Loads .idpp files stored in tcms_indesign/domain_local/OutputPreferences/Presets folder. Used in support of the addition of preflight checks in output preference files or with the prefilght uitlitify INDD Preflight_Errors (that utility requires a specifically named preflight profile of TCMS_PDF).
Can be used by any site using the BLOX Total CMS Ad function to create publications.
Loads PDF presets stored in tcms_indesgin/domain_local/OutputPreferences/Presets folder. Will remove any non-default preset (not bracketed with [].)
For sites not yet on Adobe Creative Cloud versions, loads Keyboard Shortcuts from stored file.
Possible workaround when creating an idml backup in previous attempts isn't possible because document continues to crash on opening.
Used in conjunction with the Make IDML Backup; if the opened document was created from that function and has a suffix of ""_repaired'; the script will over write the original.
Increase/decrease font/leading of content in text frames where a single paragraph style has been applied
Attempts to evenly distribute tag settings after initial sports agate placement.
Performs Adobe's recommended process for corrupt/damaged documents of exporting and opening an InDesign Markup (IDML) file that might correct issues with the document.
Prepares comics page layout (or any graphics layout) to use with INDD Autoflow utilities.
Fetches and places graphics/text files in Adobe script-labeled frames usually based on publication date. The files must be stored in "tcms_purged/domain/auto" folder. Use "TMPL8 Add labels to comics layout" utility to prepare snippets.
