Hi Rick,

On 21/12/2009, at 11:43 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:

> How can I find out all of what APID is capable of?
>
> ------------------
>
> On 12/17/09 at 6:07 PM +0200, Harbs wrote in a message entitled
> "Re: "Continued on next page ..."":
>
> >Or, with APID it can be made totally dynamic, but the fancier it gets, the more expensive it'll be to write... ;-)
>

http://www.rorohiko.com/activepageitemsdeveloper

You can download a fully functional demo which contains a cookbook, reference manual, etc...

Keep in mind - this is a product from a small company on a very limited budget, so there's a lot of 'should' and 'could', but if you look at our range free and commercial products (most of which are built on APID):

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/task-tools-for-adobe-indesign/

or what Harbs has accomplished (a lot of his stuff is built on APID):

http://www.in-tools.com

you'll see that the resulting solutions are much more capable than what could be achieved with just standard scripting.

If you are interested, you should probably start with the cookbook (as said, it is included in the Active Page Item Developer Toolkit download).

APID introduces an event model which is older (has been around since InDesign CS) and totally different to the event model that's part of ExtendScript now - so there's events and events. But APID allows you to 'attach' to InDesign at a much lower level than standard ExtendScript - and it has a lot of other cool features.

Cheers,

Kris


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