Crowd-funding projects idea
I have several unfinished (due to lack of time) scripts and some outdated scripts written years ago which should be updated. After PayPal made its services available here in Ukraine so we could receive payments, I thought it would be mutually beneficial both for me and the Adobe InDesign users community if I would do what I can do best as I believe: writing scripts.
As before, I adhere to my principle: “I don’t sell my scripts, but I do sell my time”. So, all the scripts posted on my site remain free with the source code left open. I, on principle, never post my scripts exported as binary, so everybody could adjust them to their needs. If you like my idea and want me to update existing, complete unfinished, and develop new free scripts, consider supporting me by donating via PayPal directly to my e-mail: askoldich [at] yahoo [dot] com (Due to PayPal’s restrictions for Ukraine, I can’t have a Donate button on my site.)
The first such script — called Find Text in Location — was suggested and sponsored by The Treasures of GREP and is ready to use.
Here is the list of scripts I have already completed, which I am working on at the moment, and would like to update or finish in the future:
- Auto hyperlink script (completed)
- Fit column width script (completed) — fits the column width to the longest line of text found in this column.
- Change fonts CSV (completed)
- Fix overflow (completed)
- Place inline images and fit (completed)
- Copy selected links (completed)
- Apply alternating fills to pseudo-tables (completed)
- Apply alternating pattern to quasi-tables (completed)
- Place inline images in nested folders (completed)
- Move text to margin frames (completed)
- Find duplicate characters/words at the beginning/end of lines (in progress)
- Export paragraph style description settings — was written in InDesign CC 2014. Many new features were added to InDesign since then. I received quite a few e-mails asking to update it.
- Make better alternating fills (in tables) — the idea was suggested by Jean-Claude Tremblay but the script was never carried out all the way to the end and accordingly posted.