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InDesign Server with Python

Architecture

Getting Started

Install InDesign Server

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Setup

Example

# Path to JSX script to do the export
exportScriptPath = "export_pdf.jsx"

# soap client = IDS host client running on a soap port
client = Client('http://localhost:12345?wsdl')

# Create SOAP call params object, based on IDS wsdl
# For details go to http://localhost:12345?wsdl
RunScriptParameters = client.get_type('ns0:RunScriptParameters')
IDSP_ScriptArg = client.get_type('ns0:IDSP-ScriptArg')

# Get editorial contents from database
# this example returns a dictionary{} of editorial data
editorialContents = {'arg1': 'Electric Cars',
		 'arg2': 'An electric car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using energy stored in rechargeable batteries.',
		 'arg3': 'The first practical electric cars were produced in the 1880s'}

# pass the data to RunScript so you can access them from your .jsx file like so: app.scriptArgs.getValue("frontTitle");
params = RunScriptParameters("", "javascript", exportScriptPath, [IDSP_ScriptArg(key, value) for key, value in editorialContents.items()])

result = client.service.RunScript(params)

export_pdf.jsx

function ExportAsPDF(myFile){  
    try{
       	app.documents.item(0).exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, app.pdfExportPresets.item("[High Quality Print]"));
    }catch(e){
    	alert(e);
    };  
}
function LoadDataIntoTemplate(doc){
	// using script label to place data into placeholders
	for (var idx = 0; idx < doc.allPageItems.length; idx++)
	{
		var pageItem = doc.allPageItems[idx];
		// Editorial contents
		if (pageItem.constructor.name == "TextFrame" && pageItem.label == "placeholder1")
		{
		  pageItem.contents = app.scriptArgs.getValue("arg1");
		}
		if (pageItem.constructor.name == "TextFrame" && pageItem.label == "placeholder2")
		{
		  pageItem.contents = app.scriptArgs.getValue("arg2");
		}
		if (pageItem.constructor.name == "TextFrame" && pageItem.label == "placeholder3")
		{
		  pageItem.contents = app.scriptArgs.getValue("arg3");
		}
	}
}
function main(){
	var myTemplateFile = new File("/c/ServerFiles/template.indt");
	var myPDFfile = new File("/c/ServerFiles/brochure.pdf");
	var doc = app.open(myTemplateFile);
	// get scriptArgs and update
	LoadDataIntoTemplate(doc);
	// Export as PDF
	ExportAsPDF(myPDFfile);
	doc.close();
	alert("PDF Exported");
}
main();

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postman/soapui soap request example

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soap="http://ns.adobe.com/InDesign/soap/">
<soapenv:Body>
    <soap:RunScript>
        <runScriptParameters>
            <scriptLanguage>javascript</scriptLanguage>
            <scriptFile>C:\Temp\OpenClose.jsx</scriptFile>
            <scriptArgs>
            <name>myParameter</name>
            <value>305</value>
            </scriptArgs>
        </runScriptParameters>
    </soap:RunScript>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

How to inspect scripting object properties?

InDesign Server Resources