Re: Three InDesign scripting questions
Re: Three InDesign scripting questions
- Subject: Re: Three InDesign scripting questions
- From: David Wolfe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:25:42 -0500
On Feb 24, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
On 25/2/06 8:40 AM, "David Wolfe" <email@hidden> wrote:
Create a folder called "InDesign" inside
Library:Scripts and place your scripts (or aliases of them) inside
it. Then you will have an InDesign Scripts Menu.
No, you will have a contextual system-wide menu appearing in
InDesign. And
there's a very big difference in speed of execution when running
scripts
from such a menu compared with running them from InDesign's Scripts
palette.
I have found that the scripts' launch is very slightly delayed using
the Scripts menu, but they run at the same speed as far as I can
tell. Maybe there's more of a difference if the script is longer and
more complex than those I use. There are some benefits to the menu
though. For one, InDesign is the only application I can find that has
a Scripts Palette. Not even the other Creative Suite Applications
have them (at least up to CS). There's something to be said for
having all of your scripts for the OS and all apps in one
conveniently-accessible location. I have two big monitors with lots
of room for lots of palettes, but for those without that luxury, one
less palette may be a godsend, especially since the Scripts menu is
ever-present anyway. And using the Scripts menu as I described allows
anyone to have scripts for any given application ready available from
within that application even though the app has no Scripts palette. I
use applescripts regularly in Acrobat, for instance. Without my
Acrobat folder inside Library:Scripts, I'd have to go out to the
Finder and locate and double-click the script to run it. This way, I
just pull down the menu and it's there. I even run Javascripts in
Acrobat from the menu by wrapping them inside an Applescript. They
run plenty fast for me. I save tons of time by automating complex
tasks that would otherwise have to be done manually.
David
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