A panel plugin for Adobe Illustrator that provides a UI for the indie comic lettering workflow. Requires Illustrator 2022 (26.0) or later.

Download the Adobe UXP Developer Tool from the Adobe Developer Console.

Install and launch it.

1. Open the UXP Developer Tool
2. Click Add Plugin
3. Navigate to this folder and select manifest.json
4. Click Load next to the plugin entry

Illustrator must be running. The panel will appear under Window > Extensions > Indie Comic.

Click Reload in the UXP Developer Tool whenever you edit index.js or index.html.

To share the plugin with others:

1. In the UXP Developer Tool, click the ••• menu next to the plugin
2. Choose Package
3. This produces a signed .ccx file that can be double-clicked to install

For public distribution via the Adobe Exchange marketplace, you'll need to go through Adobe's review process. See the UXP plugin distribution docs.

The Dialogue tab reads a plain-text script.txt. Format:

Page 1
CHARACTER: Dialogue line here.
CAPTION: Narration text here.

Page 2
HERO: Another line.

• Page markers: Page N (capital P, space, then the number)
• Dialogue lines: anything with a colon — the speaker name is stripped, only the text after the colon is placed in the text frame

This plugin does not rely on a fixed folder layout (unlike the ExtendScript scripts). You browse directly to the script.txt file using the file picker. The selection is remembered for the session.

This folder is self-contained. To extract it:

cp -r uxp-plugin/ ~/indie-comic-uxp-plugin/
cd ~/indie-comic-uxp-plugin/
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial UXP plugin scaffold"

Tested on Illustrator 2025 (29.x).