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Save and name your indesign file

Now that you're able to create an Indesign document, lets save and give it a name.

But firstly, seeing the "Hello world" prompt gets boring very quickly, you can either comment it out by adding // to the beginning of the line and it will be ignored, or you can just delete it.

#target indesign
//Now you know how to add comments to your code
//alert("Hello world");
app.documents.add();


Ok, back to saving and naming your file in one go. Just add
#target indesign
//Now you know how to add comments to your code
//alert("Hello world");
app.documents.add();
app.documents[0].save();

Hit F5 (Ctrl+R on a mac) to run it.

Screenshot of the Save dialog box














Notice the [0] attached to app.documents[0].save(); this is important as you may have many documents open so you need to tell Indesign to use document 0, which is how counting in javascript works, [0] equals item1, [1] equals item2, [2] equals item3, and so on.

Next, we'll create a text frame and add content to it.

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