A Toolbox of Free Scripts
It’s always fun to stumble across some useful new resources for InDesign. Recently on Twitter, I found a link to a fun batch of InDesign scripts posted on GitHub by John Pobojewski. He calls it the InDesign Toolbox and it includes nine scripts that do useful little jobs, like…
Adding a Page Border:

Counting the number of items you have selected:

Counting the amount of text in a selection, story, or document:

Now with just a click I can tell that there were almost 27,000 words in the latest issue of InDesign Magazine. No wonder I need a nap!

Resizing selected items:

Exporting a CSV file with details of all the images used in your document:

Note: the script seems to display an error if any links are missing.
Fixing common typesetting mistakes, like multiple spaces, math symbols, en/em dashes, ellipses, etc:

And more. The download package includes instructions for installing the scripts. Check it out!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on September 3, 2014
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