2007 27 Jul |
Diploma - Posters and Indesign Scripting tagged as: and , , , , , , , , Cooperation between Julia Laub and Benedikt Groß. During the workout process of our diploma book, we did quite a lot of experiments with generative elements. Because at the end we just could use a limited number of these elements, we decided to design some posters to document these “effects”.
All posters are technically done with the Indesign Scripting Interface and a with little help of Processing (recursive area tiling, see end of post). For each “effect” like for instance “connecting all words in one line with all words from the next line”, we programmed always a single script. After we did the book we realised that we got a nice collection of scripts, where you can easily see the spectrum of our experiments. During the diploma-exhibition at the HFG Schwäbisch Gmünd quite a lot of people asked us about these scripts. So we decided to tide up everything and to release this collection in public. Feel free to use and modify these scripts however you wish. Any feedback about modified scripts or projects is very welcome! Voilá, here it is: MrGenerativeSystemeScriptPack_1.0.zip
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How to use it
For more informations on Indesign Scripting check hilfdirselbst.ch, adobe forums or the official adobe scripting page. Last but not least, a special “merci” to the hilfdirselbst.ch forum, for answering all our questions so nice!
Because Indesign Scripting is sometimes super slow (especially if you try to create a lot of new elements), we decided to use instead Processing for our algorithmen. In Processing everything was way faster, after creating the “tiles” there, we imported it via pdf to Indesign. An online applet of our “recursion tiling algorithmen” can be found here.
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generative typography and layout…
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hey beni,
haben uns auf der diplomausstellung lang unterhalten und ich war wirklich beeindruckt von eurem projekt.
bin jetzt grade hier und lade mir eure skripts runter.
das wird was geben in nächster zeit!
lets rock the graphic community!
;)
johanna
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really enjoy your work.
Great!
Yeahhh/Geilll!
:-)
see you soon in Basel
Das sieht sehr cool aus. Werde mir eure scripts anschauen, sehr interessant…
Bist wieder mal in der Schweiz?
Lieber Grus
matthias aus basel
hello I would like you help me if you don’t mind. I try to use Scripts by Install MrGenerativeSystemeScriptPack_1.0.zip. So I download it and I Copy the “MrGenerativeSystemeScriptPack_1.0″ folder to:
CS3 -> Adobe InDesign CS3Scripts Scripts Panel and I try to run it by using Window in Indesign (View -> Automation -> Scripts, or by Alt+Ctrl+F11 this hotkey works but without any respond or from
CS2 -> Adobe InDesign CS2PresetsScripts
I
* Select one or multiple textframes and then I try to:
* Run a script by double clicking on “MrConnectWord.jsx” but its open a new program whats the problem can help me please my mail is yaarobb@yahoo.com if you don’t mind. I will be thanks full for you.
bay the way I couldn’t find the (View -> Automation -> Scripts)
window>automation>presets>scripts
also, not fully understanding the recursive tiling alogrythim. How do i go about creating the tiles via online aplet. how do you go from the source code to a tiled layout?
hello evan,
the online applet is just an “online demo”, but if you run the source code directly in processing it’s very easy to export there vectors with a little help of the pdf export command …
Great work! I am interested in similiar scripting for my Senior Project on censorship. Do you know if this scripting could be applied to online content? Let me know as I am trying to figure out if this is even conceivable. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
Hi
Great Project!
You said that you imported a PDF to InDesign (which was exported by processing). Obviously a PDF contains all the vertex data, though when I import an PDF to InDesign I just get one big picture and not several tiles (or vertexes). So do I miss a special importer or did you convert it with some other program along the way?
Cheers
Marek
hi marek,
my workflow was: tiling in processing + exporting the pdf, import pdf to illustrator, import to indesign via clipboard and last but not least run some custom scripts to fill each “rectangle” with text … hope this helps.
thanks for sharing. werd des gleich mal ausprobieren. gruss
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Hi,
Any body have idea about autogeneration of index from a indesign book file.
thanks
sathish
hey bene!
long time no see.
have’nt visited your portfolio-site for “years”…
and really enjoyed looking at your “new” works (they are actually from last year ;) but new … at least for me). your diploma/book/poster looks great!
cheers!
t
pl. given some tutorials
thanks
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