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• • March 6, 2022 at 4:29 pm #14359811
    Jim Smirch

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    Does anyone know if there are any command line switches that can be used when running InDesign.exe in Windows?

    In particular, I’d like to be able to open a template file as original in InDesign with a single command or shortcut and not have to open InDesign first and then select the template.

    Thanks

  • March 6, 2022 at 4:51 pm #14359812
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    InDesign is very scriptable, but I’m not sure it would work in the command line like that. I’d think you’d need to have InDesign running, but I’m not sure.
    Peter Kahrel wrote a book about using javascript in InDesign here: https://creativepro.com/product/javascript-for-indesign-2nd-edition/
    (and there are other articles on this site about scripting InDesign)

  • March 6, 2022 at 5:58 pm #14359813
    Jim Smirch

    Participant

    Thanks for the reply, David.

    I was hoping there was something simple.

    Since

    “\path\InDesign.exe \path\Template.indt”

    opens a template normally, I thought maybe something like

    “\path\InDesign.exe \path\Template.indt \o”

    would open it as an original. But I couldn’t find anything online about command line switches.

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