I built in option for saving to app.viewPreferences. That’s it, if you want, take look at my script on Adobe’s forum. Read/set cursor key increment for curent document: (add Alt to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5) Adjust Leading. Increase by Increment (set in Preferences) Ctrl-Shift->. Var keyInc = // readĪpp.viewPreferences.cursorKeyIncrement = 5 // write Download PDF Mac shortcuts All shortcut guides. Read/set cursor key increment for new created documents: Let’s see how to read/set values from both preferences through script. That’s important to know when we convert units that you got from measurementEditboxes, because they always return values in points!

Another important thing is that key increment unit is same as Horizontal ruler units, which means if our horizontal ruler units are in Points, cursor key increment will be also in Points. If we set cursor key increment from Preferences, while document is open, just app.activeDocument will update. Second one, app.viewPreferences is for every new document we create, like default value. First one, app.activeDocument is saved with document, and it’s opened with document and InDesign will use that value for cursor key increment. InDesign CS4 is more than just a page layout tool as part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts.

One is in app.activeDocument and other is in app.viewPreferences. One interesting thing is that InDesign has two settings for cursor key keyboard increment. But here, I just want to look how to assign value to Preferences. Script is also published on Adobe’s InDesign scripting forum but with finished dialog and with unit conversion. Get an overview of the key features of InDesign CS4 including using Adobe Bridge to access files, checking on potential production issues with the Preflight panel and viewing and navigating your document. This was my very first InDesign script 😀 So, I decided to try to create script, with simple dialog box where I can input number, and change setting. Unfortunately InDesign doesn’t allow me to change that setting, without going into Preferences. For many years I worked just with CorelDRAW and one thing I really liked and I used to was changing cursor key keyboard increment.

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