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Stop doing by hand what your computer should do for you

Production-grade InDesign scripts, automation plugins, and editorial workflow consulting for publishers, agencies, and in-house design teams.

4 min
To export 800 catalog pages in one script run
6
In-depth guides published in the blog
Free
Nuke Pasteboard Clutter — no signup, no catch
24 hr
Max reply time on any support question

Everything your production team needs

Built by someone who's actually sat at the InDesign desk, not just theorized about it.

Batch Processing

Process hundreds of files overnight. Variable data, catalog automation, PDF export — all with a single script run.

Layout Automation

Generate layouts from data sources. Connect InDesign to spreadsheets, databases, and JSON feeds automatically.

Quality Control

Catch errors before they become expensive reprints. Preflight checks, style audits, and link verification built in.

Custom Consulting

Your workflow is unique. We build bespoke automation solutions that fit your exact production process.

Multi-Language Support

Scripts built for global publishing workflows — handle RTL text, character sets, and locale-specific typography.

Lifetime Updates

Adobe updates break things. Every script purchase includes lifetime updates when InDesign changes the rules.

Productivity in practice

Real problems these tools solve — documented in our guides.

15 min → seconds

Pasted text from a client email: straight quotes, spaced hyphens, and double spaces throughout a 60-page document.

Without:

Find & Replace, one rule at a time. Six to eight separate passes to catch everything.

With:

One-Click Typography Janitor runs eight GREP fixes in a single execution. Reports every replacement made.

One-Click Typography JanitorRead the guide
minutes → one click

Imported Word document. Local formatting all over the story, fighting your paragraph styles on every other paragraph.

Without:

Select all, clear overrides — but it only works frame by frame, not across a threaded story.

With:

Click inside the story. Strip All Overrides in Story — the entire linked story is clean in one shot.

Strip All Overrides in StoryRead the guide
hunting → one run

Inherited file. Unusual font warnings and preflight errors — but nothing looks wrong on the pages.

Without:

Scroll through every spread looking for off-page junk. Easy to miss items on spreads you skip.

With:

Nuke Pasteboard Clutter finds every item with no parent page and removes the lot. Done.

Nuke Pasteboard ClutterRead the guide

Ready to reclaim your time?

Book a 30-minute call. I'll look at your current workflow and tell you honestly whether automation will help — and by how much.

No sales pitch. Just a real conversation about your production process.

InDesign Scripts & Editorial Automation Consulting | Programmatic Design