Adobe InDesign Server Examples

Question

I'm new to Adobe InDesign Server, and it's hard for me to find a good kitchen sink app. All the examples I got from the SDK seem to work partially. All I'm trying to do is use the server side homepage from InDesign and edit certain text fields. For example, placing the first and last name in certain text fields. Does anyone know of a good place to get sample code that shows all the features, or how will I handle this problem?

Answer 1

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/documentation.html#idserver It has many resources that are useful at startup. Specifically, http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/InDesignServer/ids-solutions.pdf contains a series of code examples for various common operations .

As for your specific example, a typical way to solve it is: 1. Get the page object from the list of main pages. 2. Iterate over each text box on the page. 3. Define the fields somehow, for example by setting the script label in the template document and checking the labels of each text field through which you iterate. 4. Set the contents of the text box.

Answer 2

Most of InDesign's official documentation is partial.

Jongware also contains full reference documentation: http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html

Answer 3

Probably the reason that the IDS is not exhaustive in the documentation is that working with the server version is an extension of the classic use of the index. Thus, an exception to some of the features described in detail in ids sdk docs, you will find most of the help using the InDesign Scripting guide;)