❗ ❗ ❗ porky is not maintained anymore ❗ ❗ ❗
With porky you
- automize workflows
- code what computers are meant to do and not humans
- add safety to recurring tasks
- code less
- connect to databases and various other data sources (SQL, XML, JSON, CSV, ...)
- synchronize your layout by pushing a button
- extend the possibilities of Adobe's ExtendScript
- code completely in JavaScript
Please check the product website http://porky.io for code examples!
- Documentation available unter http://porky.io/documentation/
- Sample node.js socket server for handling MySQL, SQLite, JSON and XML sources available in src/bin
We also offer custom InDesign panel integration of porky and automation workflow consulting!
For details please contact us via anfrage@schreiber-freunde.de
- Download this projekt and unzip the archive into your Adobe InDesign Scripts Panel folder
- porky requires Node.js installed, so download and install the latest version from https://nodejs.org
- In order to run correctly, porky needs the following npm modules to be installed:
- request, sqlite3, mysql, pg, xml2js, htmlparser, markdown, brucedown and html-entities
- navigate via terminal to the porky project folder on your file system where the file package.json is located and enter 'npm install'
- all necessary dependencies will be installed automatically
- Start Adobe InDesign
- In the InDesign Scripts Panel double click the script located at /src/start-porky-data-source-access.jsx, now you have access to various data sources
- Create a new InDesign layout document and start playing with the examples
- Now: have fun and create workflows!
- porky requires Node.js installed, so download and install the latest version from https://nodejs.org
- for the rest see: OS-X installation
- it might be necessary to set the system variable NODE_PATH correctly so it points to the folder node_modules and Node can find its installed packages
Version 0.3.6 (2015-06-09)
- improves error handling for ESTK part of lib
Version 0.3.5 (2015-05-29)
- improves error handling in syncXMLElement(), code cleanup
Version 0.3.5 (2015-05-27)
- code cleanup, integrates latest JSON-js library, replaces json_parse() with JSON.parse()
Version 0.3.4 (2015-05-26)
- bugfix processJSON() parameter for local XML files
Version 0.3.3 (2015-05-22)
- adds support for local XML and JSON files
- code cleanup
Version 0.3.2 (2015-05-08)
- fixes image download bug in placeHTML()
- adds placeHTML() example script
- cleans up include directive from #include to //@include to ease JSLint
- changes placeholder image in createPlaceholderImage() to porky logo
- adds possibility in createPlaceholderImage() to chose a target folder
Version 0.3.1 (2015-04-28)
- adds console.log() features to Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK)
- code clean up
Version 0.3.0 (2015-04-20)
- code base (data source access side) completely ported to Node.Js
- adds new functionality
- placeholderToInlineImage(targetObject, localImageFolder, downloadImage, httpSourcePort)
- placeHTML(targetObject, htmlText, inlineStyles, blockStyles)
- writeFile(fullFilePath, fileContent, lineEnding)
- readFile(fullFilePath)
- csvToTwoDArray(csvString, splittingOptions)
- adds new dataSource.type markdownToHTML
- adds new dataSource.type markdownToJSON
Version 0.2.3 (2015-03-30)
- extends tagThis() support for text selection inside of table cells
Version 0.2.2 (2014-12-08)
- adds new function fitTextboxHeightAndThread()
Version 0.2.1 (2014-12-01)
- fixes bug for dataSourceType = JSON, returns correctly parsed JSON object
Version 0.2.0 (2014-11-26)
- adds htmlToJSON as new dataSource.type
- adds httpGetBinaryFile()
- fixes syncXMLElement()
- adds modifyFrame()
Version 0.1.9 (2014-10-31)
- adds syncing feature …
Version 0.1.8 (2014-10-30)
- adds function setSyncIdentifier()
Version 0.1.7 (2014-10-29)
- fixes sync bug returning var assXMLElem = null
Version 0.1.6 (2014-10-27)
- adds MySQL support
Version 0.1.6 (2014-10-24)
- adds windows compatible version
Version 0.1.5 (2014-10-08)
- adds info in Windows launcher script
Version 0.1.4 (2014-09-24)
- fixes wrong variable declaration in example script
Version 0.1.3 (2014-09-18)
- fixes relative/fixed path
Version 0.1.2 (2014-09-17)
- fixes relative path in sync scripts
- renames tests to samples and cleans up
- removes copyright
- folder cleanup
- code review
- adds license
- adds license and link to documentation
- ixes correct if/else …
Version 0.1.1 (2014-09-15)
- adds grunt
- Changes identing, adds grunt
Version 0.1.0 (2014-09-11)
- fixes fitting issue in fitTextboxHeightToContent()