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GetURLs.jsx - access HTTP content from InDesign ExtendScript

Note added 9-May-2017: I've revisited GetURL and made a more modern version. More info here: http://coppieters.nz/?p=133 ---- In 2008, I created a sample InDesign ExtendScript called GetURLs.jsx . GetURLs.jsx is a limited http client; it allows you to fetch http URLs straight from an InDesign ExtendScript. I used the script as sample material to demonstrate a programming technique (state machines). It turned out the script was quite popular in its own right; I've been adding little tweaks to it ...

Jan 02, 2013

InDesign Scripting: Putting TextFrames in Perspective - for Visually Oriented Scripters

I admit it: I don't know the InDesign Scripting DOM by heart, so I spend a lot of time browsing around in the ExtendScript Toolkit Object Model Viewer. I frequently work on very diverse projects - sometimes it's GWT/Java, sometimes it's ActionScript, sometimes it's PHP/WordPress, sometimes it's C++ or REALbasic, and so on... - and invariably, when I come back to a particular project, I need to spend some time refreshing basic knowledge. It's like my brain 'switches' programming environment, and ...

Feb 04, 2011

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