Welcome
Welcome to Michèle’s PostProcess plugin, designed to finalize processing the document when all automation tasks have done their job. This plugin standardizes footnote character sizes and relinks the document’s images.
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General information
Plugin name: PostProcess
Version: 1.0.0 – 8/18/26
Fee: Free
Availability: Adobe Marketplace
Source code in book: Adobe InDesign Automation of Nonfiction Books via JavaScript
Requirements
There are no specific requirements for this plugin to do its job.
What it does
When all tasks have finished doing their work, a few lingering details need to be taken care of, namely:
- Reset character sizes in cross-references and automation tags embedded in footnotes. Since these two are formatted via standard character styles, their respective character sizes are larger than the footnote’s character size. The entire footnote’s character size is reset according to the footnote’s paragraph character size style.
- Images are relinked to their 300 DPI variants.
These two processes may be run time and again as the author/InDesign professional run through their round-robin cycles to get the book published.
Please note that a dialog box displays the HOMEDIR full path to enable the plugin user find the PostProcessReadme.txt file.
For more information
You will find source code in my InDesign automation book so that you could roll your own PostProcess plugin.
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