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Fabian Morón Zirfas edited this page Jun 13, 2025 · 4 revisions

The app is the base of everything. below that you can only call something like a root level. The "scripting engine" alert($.locale). Don't worry about that. You can use this to get output in the ESTK like this:

$.writeln("Hello World");

But this is only for debugging. So the app holds documents, fonts, selection and things like this.

/**
    Get he app version like this  
    */
alert(app.name + " v" + app.version);

Or you could use the selection like this.

/**
    You need a page and a selected item to run this script
    */
alert(app.selection[0].constructor.name);
    /*
      You can address a target application like this
    */
    #target indesign
    alert(app.colorSettings.properties.toSource());

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