InDesign has six elements: Application frame, Application bar, Panels, Tools panel, Control panel, and Document window. You can use it to create both offline and online communication tools such as flyers, posters, newsletters, infographics, etc. It is used by graphic designers, artists, publishers, and marketers to create print and digital media. Indesign is used to design layouts that contain texts, images, and drawings. Using the script API on a different engine, you make the web service call externally from other language (VBScript, Applescript, etc.) then pass the results into the ExtendScript via the script API call (in COM/Applescript) of application.doScript('ExtendScript code snippet here') (or doJavascript) where for ExtendScript snippet, could be a short snippet that uses ExtendScript includes to include actual JSX file then call a ExtendScript function/method, passing it the web service results as arguments.Adobe InDesign CC is an editing and publishing software. NET, even Microsoft JScript - their version of Javascript for command line/desktop/etc.). You can also use the script API from COM/VBScript (on Windows) or Applescript (on Mac), which execute external to InDesign but interact with InDesign via the API.įor Windows, by COM, I mean any language that supports COM, so it's not just the default VBScript (can be Python, Perl, PHP, Java. Make web service calls externally and interface to ExtendScriptĪdobe's scripting API engine is not strictly ExtendScript/Javascript. I would assume it would port to InDesign easily. I don't have specific example for InDesign, but here's some meant for Illustrator. Besides Extendables, there are 2 alternate options:Ĭan't say for specific versions of the Adobe suite, but if you can use or have Adobe Bridge/Bridgetalk, you can make use of Adobe's cross app communication and HttpConnection class available to Bridge (as per the SDK doc), and have InDesign call Bridge to make the HTTP request and pass results back to InDesign.

Indesign 17.0