It's a fancy term for a simple concept. An object hierarchy works like a set of boxes within boxes. A large box contains a smaller box, which contains a smaller box, which contains a smaller box, and so on, until you reach the smallest box, which contains nothing and is the final level in the hierarchy of boxes.
InDesign hierarchy: InDesign contains its own hierarchy, which lends itself nicely to scripting. A document contains pages, pages contain frames, and frames contain text and pictures. You can create scripts that perform actions at any of these levels.
In other words, with scripts you can create documents, add pages, add items to pages, and modify the contents of frames, right down to a particular character in a text frame. You can think of this hierarchy in InDesign as a chain of command. You can't talk directly to an item that's at the bottom of the chain. Rather, you must first address the top level, and then the next, and so on, until you've reached the item at the bottom of the chain.
This is analogous to the way you use InDesign: You create new documents, add pages, place text and graphics on the pages, and, finally, modify the contents of the frames containing those items. If you're thinking about dabbling with any of the scripting languages supported by InDesign, the following words of both caution and encouragement are in order. First the encouragement: You don't necessarily need programming experience, scripting experience, or a pocket protector to begin creating scripts.
A bit of curiosity and a touch of patience will suffice. Many thanks — Graham. Why and not add in a script of an options of recurrence nnn times with turn on xxx degrees? Nice, thankyou. I only just noticed the link to the video versions here today but have checked out the last two now. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Click OK to create the new shortcuts set. Video Tutorial. Adobe InDesign , scripting. Highlight the text, and click the Bulleted List button in the Paragraph Formatting Controls mode for the Control panel.
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BreakFrame Removes a selected text frame and its contents from a story. Working with text-frame contents. Demonstrates: Working with the selection.
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Demonstrates: Text-object move method. Simple bubble sort. Demonstrates: Duplicating objects. Deleting objects. Iterating through each text frame in a story. TabUtilities Applies tab stops and indents to the selected text.
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