Adobe InDesign CS5 On Demand

14. Automating the Way You Work

What You’ll Do

Create a Library

Use and Update a Library

Change Library Item Information

Search and Sort Libraries

Create and Use Snippets

Create Conditional Text

Use and Run Scripts

Use Data Merge

Work with XML

Export XML or IDML

Introduction

A library stores InDesign items, such as text frames, graphics frames, shapes, buttons, sounds, and movies so you can use them in other documents. A library is not an InDesign document; it’s a separate file (INDL). After you add items to a library, you can use them in any InDesign document. A snippet is an item from an InDesign document that you can save as an external InDesign Snippet file (IDMS) for use later. Snippets and libraries are similar. However, there are a ...