InDesign CS5 Automation Using XML & JavaScript

Book Description

InDesign is now regarded as the industry standard in desktop publishing and is very widely used by publishing professionals and non-specialists alike. Many users have a pressing need for automation of their workflows but have been reluctant to get started because of the lack of a simple internal mechanism for recording steps, like Photoshop and Illustrator actions.
Instead InDesign relies on scripting which, for many InDesign users, may seem a little too much like hard work. In fact, InDesign comes with all the tools necessary for creating scripts and scripting is not that difficult–it can even be fun!
This book is aimed at the general user and provides an introduction to scripting InDesign, using JavaScript to create simple cross-platform solutions. It also gives a general introduction to XML, DTDs and XSLT, before showing how to automate the importing and exporting of XML data.

• Learn proactively through step-by-step tutorials on creating JavaScript solutions: the “Try it for yourself!” approach allows you to see for yourself how scripts are put together.
• Create scripts that manipulate text and images, build documents automatically and output them as interactive PDFs.
• Become familiar with the InDesign object model: as you work through the book, you will make repeated use of the essential syntax for manipulating InDesign objects such as document, pages, text frames, graphics and preferences.
• Create user interfaces to make your scripts more flexible and user-friendly. Rather than just creating scripts which always perform the same steps, you will learn to user ScriptUI to provide users with the ability to make choices that determine what the script will do.
• Learn how to automate XML import and export and provide an interface which allows the user to filter import by supplying parameter values.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Scripting Essentials
Chapter 3. Conditional Statements, Loops And Functions
Chapter 4. Creating Dialogs
Chapter 5. Scriptui Dialogs
Chapter 6. Working With Files And Documents
Chapter 7. Document Layout
Chapter 8. Working With Text
Chapter 9. Working With Images
Chapter 10. Page Items And Layers
Chapter 11. Error Handling And Debugging
Chapter 12. Interactive Documents
Chapter 13: Xml Essentials
Chapter 14: Indesign Xml Essentials
Chapter 15: Working With Dtds
Chapter 16: Xslt Essentials
Chapter 17: Xslt Processing-Control Elements
Chapter 18: Working With Indesign Xml Objects
Chapter 19. The Javascript Xml Object
Chapter 20. Exporting Xml
Chapter 21. Conclusion

中文：

书名：使用XML和JavaScript的InDesign CS5自动化

InDesign现在被视为桌面出版的行业标准，并被出版专业人士和非专业人士广泛使用。许多用户迫切需要工作流程的自动化，但由于缺乏简单的内部记录步骤的机制，如Photoshop和Illustrator操作，他们一直不愿开始。
相反，InDesign依赖于脚本编写，对于许多InDesign用户来说，这似乎有点过于繁重。事实上，InDesign附带了创建脚本所需的所有工具，编写脚本并不是那么困难；它甚至可以很有趣！
本书面向普通用户，介绍了如何使用脚本编写InDesign脚本，并使用JavaScript创建简单的跨平台解决方案。在展示如何自动导入和导出XML数据之前，还对XML、DTD和XSLT进行了一般介绍。

• 通过创建JavaScript解决方案的分步教程主动学习：方法允许您亲自查看脚本是如何组合在一起的。
• 创建处理文本和图像的脚本，自动构建文档并将其输出为交互式PDF。
• 熟悉InDesign对象模型：在阅读本书时，您将反复使用操纵InDesign对象(如文档、页面、文本框架、图形和首选项)的基本语法。
• 创建用户界面，使您的脚本更加灵活和用户友好。不只是创建总是执行相同步骤的脚本，您还将学习使用ScriptUI来为用户提供做出选择的能力，以确定脚本将执行的操作。
• 了解如何自动执行XML导入和导出，并提供允许用户通过提供参数值过滤导入的界面。

目录表

第一章.引言
Chapter 2. Scripting Essentials
第3章.条件语句、循环和函数
第4章.创建对话框
第5章.脚本对话框
第6章.使用文件和文档
第7章.文档布局
第8章.使用文本
Chapter 9. Working With Images
Chapter 10. Page Items And Layers
第11章.错误处理和调试
Chapter 12. Interactive Documents
Chapter 13: Xml Essentials
第14章：InDesign XML Essentials
Chapter 15: Working With Dtds
第16章：XSLT要点
第17章：XSLT处理-控制元素
第18章：使用InDesign XML对象
第19章.Java脚本XML对象
第20章.导出XML
第二十一章。结论