Change Active Tool with script!

Did you know that you can change active tool through scripting? YES, YOU CAN, and it’s so easy! This is new option in InDesign CS5 scripting, and it’s so cool! You can even retrieve current tool name, hint, icon file! It’s really great feature! So, let’s look how to do it! 😀

Fill Text Frame with Placeholder text

Great InDesign feature is that we can fill empty text box with ‘Placeholder text’. That’s very handy when we have to create template, but we don’t have text. There are few scripts for InDesign that allow us to insert different types of text, but this is my favorite: Change placeholder text by luxlucid. Also, there is very good website for creating placeholder text: Dummy Text Generator! So, let’s get started!