Adobe Script Tutorial 2 Drop Down List and Export PDFs

William Campbell February 14, 2022
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William is a prepress operator and programmer who began his career in graphic arts as a paste-up artist back in the days of rubber cement and Letraset. During his early career, William was also tinkering with computers, making natural the transition to digital when computers revolutionized the printing industry. In the decades since, William has amassed experience in both graphic reproduction and computer science. Along his journey, William has been a typesetter, press operator, film stripper, bindery, and ultimately a digital prepress operator. Currently William operates the prepress solutions provider Mars Premedia, and develops automated solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Contact William at https://www.marspremedia.com/contact/

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Part two of the series adds a drop-down list to select PDF preset to use when exporting PDFs from a folder of InDesign documents. Get example code: https://www.marspremedia.com/download?asset=adobe-script-tutorial-2.zip Visual Studio (VS) Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ ExtendScript Debugger: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Adobe.extendscript-debug How to install Illustrator scripts macOS: https://youtu.be/DGMYAdv4N4k How to install Illustrator scripts Windows: https://youtu.be/_RImYICaoFw How to install InDesign scripts macOS: https://youtu.be/JdP1iXS9ZiY How to install InDesign scripts Windows: https://youtu.be/gACWRCOxvSY How to install Photoshop scripts macOS: https://youtu.be/b_kCiXFTNGk How to install Photoshop scripts Windows: https://youtu.be/ZVYiXP7h6Rw More about installing scripts both macOS and Windows: https://www.marspremedia.com/software/how-to-adobe-cc Other useful scripts for Adobe Creative Cloud applications: https://www.marspremedia.com/software EXTENDSCRIPT RESOURCES InDesign ExtendScript API http://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/ Photoshop ExtendScript API https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/photoshop-latest/ Illustrator Scripting Guide https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/ JavaScript Tools Guide https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/ ScriptUI for dummies https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/scriptui.html (PDF) Adobe Creative Cloud JavaScript Tools Guide https://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/aftereffects/scripting/JavaScript-Tools-Guide-CC.pdf (PDF) Illustrator CC Scripting Guide https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/illustrator/pdf/Illustrator_Scripting_Guide_cc.pdf (PDF) Illustrator CC Scripting Reference JavaScript http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/illustrator/pdf/Illustrator_Scriptin_Reference_JavaScript_cc.pdf (PDF) Illustrator Scripting Guide (2021) https://readthedocs.org/projects/illustrator-scripting-guide/downloads/pdf/latest/ (PDF) Photoshop CC Scripting Guide (2013) https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/photoshop/pdfs/photoshop-cc-scripting-guide.pdf (PDF) Photoshop Scripting Reference (2020) https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/photoshop/pdfs/photoshop-javascript-ref-2020.pdf

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