Notes-InDesign

Useful notes for InDesign.

Table of Contents

• Folder Structure
• Styles
• Document Templates
• Workflows

Folder Structure

InDesign/

Contains the current presentation.

PDF/

Contains the current PDF document, and old version in Archive/

Archive/

Contains old versions of the InDesign document

Styles

Paragraph Styles

Case Scenarios

• Type/ (text, blockquote, footnote)
• Annotations/ (comment-printed, comment-not-printed, dimension, label)
• Layout/ (header, footer)

Headers

Different levels of headers for each document.

• H1
• H2
• H3
• H4
• H5
• H6
• Text
• Labels
• Title
• Subtitle

Object Styles

Case Scenarios

• Tags
• Line Styles

Character Styles

Case Scenarios

• Bold
• Italic
• Underline

Document Types

• Report
• Presentation

Workflows

Set Text Variables with JSON

Document templates with multiple text variables can be quickly filled with data using JSON objects.

var settings = {title: 'Title',
		            subtitle: 'Your Subtitle Here'};

app.activeDocument.textVariables.item("Title").variableOptions.contents = settings.title;
app.activeDocument.textVariables.item("Subtitle").variableOptions.contents = settings.subtitle;