A Toolbox of Free Scripts

It’s always fun to stumble across some useful new resources for InDesign. Recently on Twitter, I found a link to a fun batch of InDesign scripts posted on GitHub by John Pobojewski. He calls it the InDesign Toolbox and it includes nine scripts that do useful little jobs, like…

Adding a Page Border:

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Counting the number of items you have selected:

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Counting the amount of text in a selection, story, or document:

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Now with just a click I can tell that there were almost 27,000 words in the latest issue of InDesign Magazine. No wonder I need a nap!

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Resizing selected items:

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Exporting a CSV file with details of all the images used in your document:

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Note: the script seems to display an error if any links are missing.

Fixing common typesetting mistakes, like multiple spaces, math symbols, en/em dashes, ellipses, etc:

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And more. The download package includes instructions for installing the scripts. Check it out!

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This article was last modified on July 25, 2019

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