Scripts for InDesign sorted by alphabetized categories
Links to interesting scripts, sorted by categories. I just started filling in this page so there is a small number of scripts so far. Some scripts may appear in several categories.
Alternate Layout
Save InDesign Alternate Layouts as Separate Documents
Anchored/Inline objects
Replace inline text frames with their contents
Assignment
AssignmentNavigator by Kerniff Publishing Systems
A free script that helps you find assignments in InDesign documents.
Backup
Save with backup by Gregor Fellenz (grefel)
Save versions by Martin Fischer
Make BackUp by Kasyan
Baseline
Fitbaseline is a calculator that distributes the baseline grid over your document height. (Use it on the web page for free, or buy the script for InDesign). It will evenly distribute the baseline over the document by adding or subtracting a small amount of space to approach your desired baseline as close as possible.
Batch processing
Batch processor by Kasyan
Scripts for the above-mentioned batch processor. They can also be used as standalone scripts, but with care: they are supposed to run with user interaction turned off so they have no fool proofing — e.g. they don't check if a document is open in InDesign.
Batch resave PageMaker files by Kasyan
Batch resave INX-IDML files by Kasyan
Batch export indd-files to pdf by Kasyan
Check pageitems for shift by Kasyan
This script was written for Batch processor to solve the issue with Bug in the book’s Update Numbering feature.
Batch-process (convert/export/import) documents by Peter Kahrel
Book
Package book for print by Kasyan
Export book documents to individual PDF files by Peter Kahrel
Create a book from InDesign documents in selected folder
Run the script, select a folder. A book with the same name as the folder will be created and all InDesign from the folder will be added to it. Originally the script was written by Martin Fischer, I reworked it a little to make compatible with CS4 and above.
Relink documents in book by Kasyan
Jump to Page in Book by Harbs
This script is similar to the “Command/Control J” shortcut, but it works on Book files.
Make book from Excel by Kasyan
Character
Enter/create accented characters (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Enter accented characters using easy-to-remember keystrokes; combine letters and accents; enter characters by their Unicode value.
Color
Column
Move to column or resize by Kasyan
Create graphic lines between columns
draws vertical lines between columns in selected multycolumn text frame
Conditional text
Uploading conditional names from external csv by Loic Aigon
Cross-reference
Quick Reference by Harbs
Quick Reference is a script created to simplify the process of creating cross references.
Convert Cross-References to Text by Peter Kahrel
CSV or tab delimeted TXT file
DataMerge
InlineMerge by Loic Aigon
Flow all your datamerge records in one unique frame. Perfect for directories!
CSV2Tables by Loic Aigon
Get true tables from DataMerge records.
Data Merge Colored QR Code Maker by Colin Flashman
Data Merge Cut and Stack assistant by Colin Flashman
Data Merge to unique names by Colin Flashman (description is here)
Dictionary
Script for word gathering and sorting in InDesign Dictionary by Jongware and Hans
Document
Compare two documents by Kasyan
The script compares two documents and finds the differences between them
Merge files by Michael Zaichenko
Damaged documents (apps, scripts and tips for recovering)
Merge the two open documents by Dave Saunders
Mass combine a bunch of indd files into one by Simon Wiscombe
Put all the files you want to combine into one document in a folder, named in the order
you want them to appear in the book (e.g. "001.indd", "002.indd", etc. or something) so they appear correctly when sorted by name in finder/explorer. Set the destination document as the active document. (The original page is here).
Close all open documents without saving by Kasyan
Save and close all open documents by Kasyan
Revert all documents by Kasyan
Reverts all open documents without confirmation dialog box (warning!
be careful when using this script)
Version of an InDesign file (a couple of scripts to find it out)
Resave files by Kasyan — Resaves files to make them smaller in size.
Resave in the current version by Kasyan
Warn about documents open on DropBox by Kasyan
ePub
Unzip and Zip EPUB files (AppleScripts for Mac only)
Creative Commons scripts by Olav Martin Kvern
InDesign has the unfortunate feature of stripping out embedded index entries when it exports to ePub. Olav Martin Kvern has written a set of Creative Commons scripts for InDesign to help publishers get around this issue.
Event scripts
Check out event scripts (scripts that run automatically).
Excel
Scripts interacting with Excel — a collection of scripts wich interact with Excel: either directly, or via comma delimited (CSV) or tab delimited files.
Export
Export Stories to InCopy by Kasyan
This script exports stories in the active document to InCopy Document format creating a separate file (.incx) for each story.
Page Exporter Utility (PEU) by Scott Zanelli
exports single pages of an InDesign file to various formats.
Automatic dialog after background export (exportPop.jsx) by John Hawkinson
This script will automatically pop up a dialog box after every export finishes (PDF, IDML, whatever). It also makes sure that the Background Tasks window is turned on.
Export book documents to individual PDF files by Peter Kahrel
Export all text
Exports all the text in the active document on page by page basis as a single
text file.
Batch-export to interchange/InDesign markup by Kasyan
Opens all InDesign documents in theselected folder and exports them into “Interchange Files” subfolder as inx files, which is created in the selected folder.
Batch resave INX-IDML files by Kasyan
Opens all INX and IDML files in the selected folder and saves them as INDD documents in the “Resaved Files” subfolder, which is created in the selected folder.
Batch-convert/export files (CS2 and up) by Peter Kahrel
Export documents by the folder to PDF, EPS, INX, RTF or convert large numbers of documents to a newer InDesign format.
Export SWF Individually script for CS4 by Ignacio Lirio
Exports all pages in InDesign document as individual SWF files to the same document's folder. Takes same export presets as the last manual export, so it's a good idea to make a first manual sample export to check these presets.
Batch export indd-files to pdf by Kasyan
Opens all InDesign documents in the selected folder and its subfolders, and exports them to pdf-format.
Export all items of the pages in jpg
The script creates a folder on the desktop whose name is the document´s name + _jpgExport extension and exports all page items to this folder as separate jpg images.
Export current page to JPG by Kasyan
Multiprint by Oleg Butrin and Konstantin Smorodsky
Labeled Pages Exporter by Smartmix — a script to export labeled pages to PDF, JPEG or PNG
Print selected pages by Luis Felipe Corullón — unlike the name suggests, the script, actually, exports selected pages to JPG, PDF, PNG formats
Export button description settings (unfinished project) by Kasyan
Set object export options by Kasyan
ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK)
ExtendScript Memory by Marc Autret (for script developers only)
Find-Change
Find Text in Location by Kasyan
Find duplicate characters/words at the beginning/end of lines by Kasyan
Batch Find-Change by list (for Batch processor) by Kasyan
FindChangeByList script with result dialog box
Find change by queries by Kasyan
Performs a series of find-change operations based on the previously saved settings.
Record Find Change by Martin Fisher
Various GREP utilities by Peter Kahrel
Search and change case by Thomas Silkjaer
Find-change missing font with scripting by Marjan Tompa
Batch-find-and-replace by fabiantheblind
a batch-processing script for find change queries. You can process GREP, TEXT, GLYPH and OBJECT searches.
DoQueryList by Mikhail Ivanyushin. User manual in English is included inside the download package. To change the language in the dialog box from Russian to English/German/French, click the “flag” icon in the left bottom corner.
Find-replace by Kasyan
Fonts
Make font catalog by Kasyan
Change fonts (for Batch processor) by Kasyan
Change fonts CSV by Kasyan
Can be used as a regular script against the current document, or you can run it from the batch processor to replace fonts.
Collect used fonts by Kasyan
Font Reporter by Marijan Tompa
Collects used fonts information from multiple files
Find/change missing font by Marijan Tompa
Script for changing missing fonts inside styles by Marc Autret
List font properties by Roland Dreger
The script lists up to 15 properties of a font — either in the text sections, paragraphs, format fields or the current insertion point in the active document. These properties are included in a new text frame on a separate layer. The respective initial position is marked with an arrowhead.
Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder by Ajar Productions
The script copies fonts from an InDesign document to a folder.
IndyFont by Jongware
Build OpenType Fonts from within InDesign
Make list of installed fonts by Kasyan
List the fonts in the current document by Kasyan
Show a document's fonts with type and status by Peter Kahrel
Footnotes
Convert footnotes and imported (static) endnotes to (dynamic) endnotes (CS4 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Two scripts here. When you place a Word document with dynamic endnotes in Indesign, you end up with static endnotes in the InDesign document because InDesign doesn't do dynamic endnotes. One of the scripts here fixes that. The other script converts dynamic footnotes in an InDesign document to dynamic endnotes.
Dynamic sidenotes (CS4 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Using an approach similar to that to dynamic endnotes, the script converts footnotes in an InDesign document to dynamic sidenotes. The same script can also be used to set up a sidenote system in an empty document. Other scripts here make it easy to add new sidenotes and to stack sidenotes at the top, centre or bottom of a page.
Adjust space between footnotes and text (CS2 and later) by Peter Kahrel
InDesign lets you set the minimum space between text and footnotes on a document basis only. The script enables you to set that space per page.
Restoring the Footnotes into the Story by Marc Autret
Footnote–endnote conversion (for CC2018 and later only) by Peter Kahrel
Convert text to footnote by Jarek (Jump_Over) — converts “quasi-notes” to real notes
Various foot- and endnote tools by Peter Kahrel
Glyph
Make list of all the unassigned glyphs by Pete Baumgartner and Peter Kahrel
This script makes a list of all the unassigned glyphs in the active document and writes the result to the extendscript toolkit JavaScript console.
Manage missing glyphs by Peter Kahrel
DeliverGlyphs by Jean loup Fusz (Jloupf)
Quickly import all glyphs of a font into InDesign
Graphics
Scale Graphics by Harbs
If you ever realized in the middle of a job that you need to adjust the size of all your graphics, you will appreciate this script!
GREP (Regular expressions)
GREP utilities by Peter Kahrel
For deciphering GREP, use What the Grep script by Jongware.
ExtendScript RegExp Tester by Marc Autret
a simple interface to quickly test your regex from InDesign.
Migrate-GREP-Styles by Rick Gordon
AppleScript for InDesign to migrate GREP styles from a user-chosen paragraph style in a source doc to a user-chosen paragraph style in a destination document. If 2 or more documents are open, user chooses source and destination from list. Otherwise, user chooses from a file dialog.
ChainGREP by by grefel
Create FindChange Skripts based on saved Queries
Guides
Convert object to guides by Kasyan
Align top by Kasyan
With one or more objects selected, script aligns them (from the top of the objects) to the top most guide on the page.
Select Guides by Harbs
This script makes it simple to select a lot of guides at once.
Move object by horizontal guide by Kasyan
Move to guide or resize by Kasyan
Hyperlink
Auto hyperlink by Kasyan
Automatically creates hyperlinks from the list.
Restore external page destinations by Kasyan
Make hyperlinks from URL by Kasyan
Create Text Anchors by Kasyan
Finds all text formatted with character style “Anchor” and creates text anchors from the found text.
Remove all hyperlinks from the active InDesign document by Harbs
Script to make hyperlinks live by ckcosner
The aim is to take an InDesign document that was intended only for print, and go through to make all hyperlinks live. One of the problems is that typesetters can insert spaces or soft returns (shift-enter) in the middle of URLs to get them to break in the right spot. (The original link is here)
Decode URI All Hyperlinks Destination URL Name by Uwe Laubender
Decodes all hyperlink destination URLs and names; can be undone in one go. More info is here.
Automate Creation of Hyperlinks
An InDesign CS2 JavaScript. Put it into the "Version 4.0 Scripts" folder to make it work in up-to-date versions of InDesign.
Finds a string in text and creates a hyperlink based on the contents of the string. This script employs a hybrid approach to finding and changing text, using both JavaScript regular expressions and InDesign's search method.
Scripts for making hyperlinks (my approach)
Convert hyperlinks to buttons by Kasyan
Character style to hyperlink by www.luxlucid.com
Hyperlink images by Kasyan
Gryperlink by Rorohiko
Use InDesign Find-And-Replace To Assign Hyperlinks To Text
Create hyperlinks by Gregor Fellenz (grefel)
creates hyperlinks from URLs and e-mail addresses.
Change automatically frame with hyperlink text into hyperlinked frame
Hyphen
Remove hyphens by Loic
removes any hyphenation in the document and updates the paragraph styles ( Except the standard paragraph style).
Find Hyphenations by Harbs
This simple script searches your current story for hyphenated words.
IDML
Batch-IDML-Generator
Sometimes you want to incorporate data into your designs. This is a simple tool that lets you batch generate IDML files using data from a CSV file based on a template.
Image
Place inline images in nested folders by Kasyan
Place inline images and fit by Kasyan
Place inline images by Kasyan
This script It finds text between two @ characters – e.g. @Pencil.tif@ – and replaces it with image that has the same name.
Place images by Kasyan
This script replaces text frames containing file names of images with actual images.
Resize images by Kasyan
Resizes all raster images in the current InDesign document and sets them to 100%.
Trista DPI by Denis Libit
This script performs the routine tasks that occur in publishing workflow after the creation of "raw" layout with raw source images. Linked JPEGs are resaved in the same folder as TIFF or PSD, depending on the presence of clipping, and resampled to (usually) 300 dpi.
Unembed pasted images by Peter Kahrel
Place Images by Contextmenu by Gerald Singelmann
Swapping images by Gerald Singelmann
Scale Graphics Script by HarbsScales placed graphics en-mass.
Check for flipped images by Keith Gilbert
Convert RGB/CMYK images to Grayscale (ID+PS) by Kasyan
Opens all RGB/CMYK images from the active InDesign document in Photoshop and converts them to Grayscale.
Convert RGB/Grayscale images to CMYK (ID+PS) by Kasyan
Opens all RGB/Grayscale images from the active InDesign document in Photoshop and converts them to CMYK
Scale images (width and/or heigh) by Jan Stockinger.
Scale images (percent) by Jan Stockinger
Change image masking by Jan Stockinger
Image fitting options by Jan Stockinger
Position images by Jan Stockinger
Position objects by Jan Stockinger
Open All RGB Files by Kasyan — Opens in Photoshop all TIFs and PSDs which are in RGB or Grayscale color mode. Very useful when your file contains loads of images that you have to color correct.
Count total number of pixels in the image by S Hopkins (AppleScript)
Delete All Images by Peter Kahrel
Align Placed Images by Reference Point by Dave Saunders
Import
MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files (the original version posted on InDesignSecrets). The latest version is here.
PDF placer
Places all the pages of a PDF inside InDesign
Batch import paragraph and character styles by Thomas B. Nielsen
This script will let you choose a folder of files, open each of the files in it and import the styles from source document.
An InDesign HTML Import Script by ID-Extras
Word to InDesign by Roland Dreger
This script provides an alternative import for Microsoft Word document into Adobe InDesign.
Protect local styling by Kasyan
This script is used for processing text created in Word and placed into the current InDesign document
InCopy
Check out all stories by Kasyan
Index
Clean Up Index Topics by Kasyan
This script cleans up topic names in the Index panel so that you don´t have to clean up text in the generated story every time you regenerate the index
IndexMatic 2 by Marc Autret
one of the most advanced word indexing scripts
Indexes and concordances by Peter Kahrel
Create concordance (index of a word in its contexts); create indexes without using InDesign's index feature; add topics and page references form character styles or using a word list; convert page references to text; rebuild index for text markers.
Scripts for indexing written by Peter Kahrel
Update index by Peter Kahrel
Index from character style by Martin Fischer and others
The script creates an index based on the words which have a specific character style applied to them.
QuickIndex by Kerntiff Publishing Systems
QuickIndex is a convenient way to add index markers in InDesign.
Kerning
Kerning (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
InDesign doesn't let you modify kerning tables, but with this script you can apply your own kerning tables.
Layer
Objects to layers
the script puts each element on a seperate layer.
Line
Create graphic lines between columns
draws vertical lines between columns in selected multycolumn text frame
Line Numbering by Harbs
Did you ever wish you could have numbered lines in InDesign? Well, now you can with this script.
Link
Update path names in links by Kasyan
This script relinks old links with new ones in a folder you choose.
Update links to new drive letters (ID for Windows) by Kasyan
This script changes the drive letter in the path names, has an option to relink all or only missing links.
Restore broken links after server migration in InDesign (ID) by Kasyan
restores broken links by replacing the part of the path that changed.
Remove all instances of the same link by Kasyan
Just select a graphic frame with Selection tool and run the script — all instances of this link will be removed together with frames.
Batch update links by Kasyan
Batch updates all modified links in all InDesign documents located in the selected folder.
Show InDesign links (ID &Bridge) by Kasyan
This script makes possible to see list of all links in an InDesign file selected in Bridge.
Links Report to CSV, Create a List of Linked Files (for Mac) and LinkExport-Pro_1a
scripts export some information about placed images in the active document and saves the result to csv/txt file. (Check out also Create a List of Linked Files article)
Create a List of Linked Files (for Mac)
Delete references to linked tagged text files (CS and later) by Peter Kahrel
InDesign 3 (CS) and earlier always create a link when you place tagged-text files. These links show up also when you convert such documents to later versions of InDesign. The script removes all these links.
Name document links by FourAces
Adds a name label with the link name, path, type, and status above the linked object (graphics & texts).
Remove missing links by Kasyan
Removes missing links in the active document, their containing frames stay in place.
Embed all links by Kasyan
Relink and fit by Kasyan
Relinks all instances of the selected image with another one and fits frame to content.
Transliterate cyrillic links by Kasyan
The script removes Cyrillic characters from file names replacing them with English equivalents.
ImageNavigator by Kerntiff Publishing Systems
A free script that helps you find images within your InDesign documents and books. Easily find images without links.
Reedit the import options of any placed graphic by robinfredericf.
Batch Rename and Relink by Kasyan
This script renames all graphic links in the active document on page by page basis.
Rename and relink to add prefix to existing links by S Hopkins
Update Modified Links by Kasyan — Updates all modified links in the current document. It's very handy if you assign a shortcut to it — no need to open Links panel to update links.
Image Relinker by Jeremy Howard
Resave as PSD or JPG and relink by Kasyan
Relink images for the batch processor by Kasyan
Metadata
Metadata of links by Martin Fischer
Catches MetaData of linked images and creates a report at the Desktop
Add Alt Text Source from XMP Alt Text / Extended Description (Accessibility) by Kasyan
Nested style
Apply Nested Styles by Harbs
This script directly applies nested styles. It works on nested, GREP, and line styles.
Notes
Set all text in brackets as notes
Numbers
Count Number of Steps by Kasyan
Change All Numbers in a Document using Math by Steve Wareham
Price adjuster by Peter Kahrel
Number-span elision (drop digits) by Peter Kahrel
Numbering script by Jared Katz
allows the numbering of a layout in the form of ticket, raffle tickets, event cards, etc.
Prime/Composite Number Highlighting by Jean-Claude Tremblay
See also the Numbering styles tip
Object
Align objects (CS2) by Peter Kahrel
InDesign CS2's options for aligning objects are limited. The script expands these.
Select objects by Frans van der Geest (F vd Geest DTP)
Draw arrows around an object by Colin Flashman
Move object by column by Kasyan
Adjust layout modified by Olav Martin Kvern
Moves the content of even/odd pages by specified amounts
Step and repeat imposition by kasicki roland
Override
Clear style overrides in InDesign documents by grefel
Clear all overrides 1.0 by Kasyan
Clear character overrides 1.0 by Kasyan
Overset text
A collection of scripts dealing with a common problem: find / shrink / fit, etc. overflowed text frames.
Package
Package for Archive by Kasyan
This script packages all InDesign documents in the selected folder.
Package scripts for Batch processor by Kasyan. Three versions: two for CC 2017/8 and one for CS6. Read the comments in the scripts for details.
Package book for print by Kasyan
Page
Add a page while typing (CS2, 3) by Peter Kahrel
Add a page at the end of the document in which you're typing. No longer relevant from CS4 as it is built into the program.
ExtractPages by Eddy, Loic Aigon and Kasyan
Select a range of pages to export.
ExtractPages pulls off the pages and generates a new document.
Page to PS Layers (Apple Script) by Rob Day
The script exports PDFs of the ID layers and reassembles them in PS. In order to get the layers to register you need to include registration marks in the PDF preset you choose — the zip archive includes the preset I use. After running the script you can use canvas size to eliminate the crop mark.
Check all pages within one InDesign document have same size by Hans-Gerd Claßen
this script lists all pagesizes of indd-documents in the chosen folder.
Separate Pages by Harbs
This script breaks apart the spreads in the active document. This is useful for enabling inner bleeds.
Remove Empty Pages by Harbs
This is a simple script to help you get rid of empty pages in your document.
Apply No Master to Empty Pages by Harbs
This script applied the [None] master page to empty pages. Empty pages can be defined in two ways.
Autofit page size by Peter Kahrel fits the page size to its content.
Page Splitter by Mohammad Hasanain
Paragraph
Export paragraph style description settings to CSV by Kasyan
The script exports most of the document´s paragraph style description settings to CSV-file which can be opened in Excel.
Delete empty paragraph style groups by Kasyan
Add paragraph rule by Hans-Gerd Claßen
The script cycles through the stories of the document to find the "Quote" paragraph style and modifies the existing rule below so that it covers the whole paragraph.
Show paragraph based-on script by Harbs
Fix Paragraph Leading by Harbs
This is a simple script which ensures the leading of all end-of-paragraph marks match the text before it.
Pasteboard
Clean up your Pasteboard by Marc Autret
Pasteboard Expander for InDesign CS5-CS6 by Marc Autret
Place PDF crop preference by Marc Autret
Section
Sections from paragraph/character styles
Script
Batch process scripts by Kasyan
Select
Select objects by Frans van der Geest (F vd Geest DTP)
Sorting
SmartSort by Marc Autret
a pure paragraph sorter, that is, it actually reorders text elements without altering any formatting or style attribute that may exist at the character scale.
Language-aware paragraph sorter by Peter Kahrel
Spread
Spread rotation menu commands by Peter Kahrel
Rotate many spreads by Peter Kahrel
Styles
Delete all GREP styles inside all paragraphs styles by Kasyan
Change the language of all paragraph and/or character styles
Change Language in Styles and in the Text by Yevhenii Budantsev (Eugenyus)
Paragraph style changer by Stephan Möbius
Auto create paragraph and character styles by Thomas Silkjaer
Batch import paragraph and character styles by Thomas B. Nielsen
This script will let you choose a folder of files, open each of the files in it and import the styles from source document.
List paragraph styles in their style by Dave Saunders
The script creates a list of paragraph styles where each style name appears in the formatting of the style — a sort of quick visual guide to a document's paragraph styles.
List paragraph and character styles by Kasyan
Makes a list of all paragraph styles and character styles in the active document, showing the font, font size and leading.
Show all nested styles by SLTyPete
GREP style by Peter Kahrel
The script creates a list of all GREP styles defined in a document's paragraph styles.
Clear style overrides in InDesign documents by Grefel.
Rename styles with prefix by Kasyan
Import paragraph styles by Kasyan
Compare Styles by Yevhenii Budantsev (Eugenyus)
Apply Object Style to All Text Containers in a Story by id-extras
Swatch
Import colors from CSV by Muppet Mark
Change All Swatch Names to “Name With Color Value” by Vamitul
Delete duplicates of defined basic colors by Martin Fischer
Normalize CMYK by Marc Autret
Merge down swatch duplicates by Dave Saunders
Hex Swatches in InDesign by Harbs
This startup script adds a menu item to your swatches panel that allows you to add hexadecimal swatches (among other cool things).
Amazing Swatch Sorter by Jongware
Replace swatch by Konstantin Smorodsky. The script globally replaces one swatch with another.
Convert White to [Paper] and solid blacks to [Black] by Colin Flashman
Convert Faux Blacks to user input values by Colin Flashman
Convert LAB Greys to shades of Black by Colin Flashman
Convert RGB Greys to shades of Black by Colin Flashman
Remove Word colors by Kasyan
Create the new RGB swatch from HEX value by rob day
Table
Sort tables (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Sort a table on up to three columns. Formatting can be preserved.
Merge tables (CS2 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Merge all selected tables.
Table Merger by Harbs
This is a simple script which merges two tables. You can select to either merge horizontally or vertically
Tables sized to frame by Peter Kahrel
This script sets table properties that cannot be controlled by InDesign table styles, including table width and row height.
Make sure to (register, if necessary, and) log in to see the download link at the bottom of the page.
Auto Column by Gerald Singelmann
Fit column width script — fits the column width to the longest line of text found in this column.
Remove empty columns and rows by m1b
Apply alternating fills to pseudo-tables by Kasyan
Apply alternating pattern to quasi-tables by Kasyan
Tables of Contents
Batch-update Tables of Contents (for the batch processor) by Kasyan
Batch-update Tables of Contents by Marc Autret
Text
Text counter
A simple script that counts a number of text frames, paragraphs, words, characters (including and not including spaces).
Scripts that help fix Word formatting
Add vertical rules to selected paragraphs (CS4 and later) by Peter Kahrel
You can define horizontal rules (one before, one after) in InDesign's paragraphs, but not vertical rules. The script fixes that.
Highlighting word- and letter-spacing overrides (CS4 and later) by Peter Kahrel
The scripts highlights paragraphs with overridden word and/or letter spacing.
Highlight No Break (CS4 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Like word and letter spacing, the No Break attribute is not easily visible. The script highlights all text to which No Break has been applied.
Kerning (CS3 and later)
InDesign doesn't let you modify kerning tables, but with this script you can apply your own kerning tables.
Enter/create accented characters (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Enter accented characters using easy-to-remember keystrokes; combine letters and accents; enter characters by their Unicode value.
Distribute Tabs by Gerald Singelmann
This JavaScript considers the left indent and the position of the last manual tab stop and distributes all other tab stops. It should work with several paragraphs selected, treating each paragraph indepentently. It works here with CS2 as well as CS3. Since I had no time to test rigorously any feedback is welcome.
Text fitting scripts by Harbs
One of the most tedious jobs is fitting text to the space it is supposed to take up. A little bigger, a little smaller, wait! the text is different sizes… sigh… Well, here’s a few scripts to help with a couple of different situations…
Freeze Composition by Harbs
If you were ever given the job of editing text without changing the page breaks, you will appreciate this script.
Convert existing text to placeholder text by Kasyan
Placeholder text light by Mario
SelToPlaceholder by Marc Autret
Protect local styling by Kasyan
Text frame
Merge TextFrames by Ajar Productions
a script for merging loose text frames into one big textframe.
Break columns script
Breaks columns in the selected text frame into separate text frames, keeping original columns' sizes, gutter and text flow.
Create graphic lines between columns
draws vertical lines between columns in selected multycolumn text frame.
Remove Empty frames by Colin Flashman
Move text to margin frames by Kasyan
Text variable
InstantVariable by Marc Autret
Quickly edit your custom text variables on selecting them
Show/set text variables (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Display the names and values of custom text variables in a document; change them easily and create new variables conveniently. New version for CS4, also works in CS3.
Insert variable by Harbs
The script makes the process of inserting variables easier.
Add Custom Variables by Loic Aigon
tomaxiVARIprocessor by Marijan Tompa (tomaxxi)
Converts variables to text, based on the applied paragraph/character style
Tracking
Change tracking to specific paragraph styles by Kasyan
Uncategorized
Leavers hoodie script by Kasyan
Replace time from 24 hrs to AM-PM by Kasyan
World Map by Jongware
Draws a world map.
Maze generator by Jongware
Start it in a blank document with no selection to get a crude "width/height" dialog, or draw a rectangle and have it selected to fill it with 5 mm wide maze paths. If you're feeling experimentally, draw polygons, or tack together a few shapes and combine their paths into one.
Language-aware paragraph sorting (CS3 and later) by Peter Kahrel
Sort paragraph (or lines) according to the sort rules of the document's language. Formatting remains intact.
Claquos 3 — Pie Chart Builder for InDesign by Marc Autret
Inject quickly a pie chart into your InDesign's layout.
Speeech! by Marc Autret
QR Code by Jongware
Expand US State Abbreviations by Jongware
Songbook with guitar chords by Kasyan
Add an Antique Edge to Photos by Boris Kascheew
Twelve month wall planner script by Colin Flashman
Days of the week maker by Colin Flashman
Photo Book with InDesign by Roland Dreger
Place circles at random locations of the page to cover text by Marc Autret
Varnish
Add varnish by Kasyan
Varnish Images by Mars Premedia
Varnish Maker by Mars Premedia
XML
CSV & XML by Loic Aigon
Two little utilities to convert CSV to XML and back.
Remove not placed xml elements by Kasyan
Load xml from Web into an InDesign document (example)
Zoom
Zoom to Width by Harbs
This convenient script will zoom to the width of your currently selected object.