Add Menu for InDesign’s Drawing Tools

This script is part of the Interface collection. See the full collection here. 

InDesign’s drawing tools are pretty good, but unfortunately they’re not so easy to reach: you have to go through the Object menu, then select Paths or Convert Point. That becomes tedious when you use them a lot. The script described here makes them better accessible by placing all the options in a single menu in InDesign’s top menu:

You can copy the script to InDesign’s script start-up folder so that it installs every time you start InDesign. To install a script as a start-up script, copy it to the start-up scripts folder, which is a sister, so to speak, of the regular Scripts folder. To reach it, open the Scripts panel (Window Utilities > Scripts). Right-click the User folder, then select Reveal in Explorer (Windows) or Reveal in Finder (Mac):

In Finder’s/Explorer’s file list you’ll see the Scripts and the startup scripts folders:

If you don’t see a start-up folder, simply create it. This will install the script only for the current user. To make the script available to all users on the computer, use the application’s start-up folder. To get there, right-click the Application folder in the Scripts panel, then copy the script to the startup folder you see in Explorer’s/Finder’s file list.

For more precise handling of curves and handles, see the Point Editor script.

Version history

April 2024: First posted (though it’s an old script).

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