Running InDesign from the command line

[h***@adobeforums.com]

Hi!

Does anyone know where I can find information about running Indesign CS2 or CS3 from the command line. Just alunching the application is of course not a big problem, but I'm having trouble finding information about which flags or arguments can be appended to perform operations when launching the application.

Example: Is there a flag or argument that tells InDesign to open a specific template on launch?

Thanks in advance.

//Herman

[Robert Tkaczyk]

You can just double click on .INDT file

robin

[h***@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the help Robert, but maybe I didn't explain myself properly.

I'm developing an application for a client where I want to use data from a database to generate xml files and image files that our client can then use to populate pre-tagged frames in an InDesign template.

To make things a little easier for the user, I want to open the application within my code and also tell InDesign to open a specific template file at the same time.

To do so I would have to run the application by typing something like:

indesign.exe /open /template.indt

Hope that helps...

//Herman

[Robert Tkaczyk]

you don't use scriping ??

in VB:

Set myDoc=myInDi.Open("c:\templ_1.indt")

Post by h***@adobeforums.com
our client can then use to populate pre-tagged frames in an InDesign template.

this could be automated ;)

robin

[h***@adobeforums.com]

That looks good easy in VB. Do know how to do it in C#?

Do you have any references to how one might do to automate population of frames? Any good links? I've been searching a lot for it.

//Herman