Looking At The Indesign Object Model - Adobe 65024872 - InDesign CS4 - Mac Manual

Adobe InDesign CS4 Scripting Tutorial
Term
Document
defaults
Document
elements
Document events
Document
methods
Document
preferences
Document
properties
Documents
Libraries
Page
Page items
Pages or spreads
Stories
Text objects

Looking at the InDesign object model

You can view the InDesign object model from inside your script-editing application. All reference
information on objects and their properties and methods is stored in the model and can be viewed
What it represents
Document default settings, such as colors, paragraph styles, and text formatting
defaults.
For example, the stories, imported graphics, and pages of a document. The figure
that precedes this table shows pages and stories, because those objects are very
important containers for other objects, but document elements also include
rectangles, ovals, groups, XML elements, and any other type of object you can
import or create.
Events that occur at the document level, like importing text. See "application
events" in this table.
The actions the document can take; for example, closing a document, printing a
document, and exporting a document.
The preferences of a document, such as guide preferences, view preferences, and
document preferences.
For example, the document filename, number of pages, and zero point location.
A collection of open documents.
A collection of open libraries.
A single page in an InDesign document.
Any object you can create or place on a page. There are many types of page items,
such as text frames, rectangles, graphic lines, or groups.
The pages or spreads in an InDesign document.
The text in an InDesign document.
Characters, words, lines, paragraphs, and text columns are examples of text objects
in an InDesign story.
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