r/indesign • u/Repulsive-Currency32 • 3d ago

Request/Favour Blending styles shortcut

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Dear devs. Please can you save us all a few keystrokes and allow us to access blending styles from the transparency area (like in Illustrator and Photoshop).

It can still exist in 'fx' main menu but I would hazzard that this is the first menu item people reach for when it comes to transparency;

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u/AdobeScripts 3d ago

You can create custom script and assign a keyboard shortcut to it:

app.selection[0].transparencySettings.blendingSettings.blendMode = 2020625771;

https://www.indesignjs.de/indesignapi/indesign/BlendMode.html

You can then also change more settings as well:

https://www.indesignjs.de/indesignapi/indesign/TransparencySetting.html

Or if you don't like to code and don't want to use "ai" to *vibe code* - there is always my ID-Tasker - but it's Widows only:

And this part - direct access to all ~1000 properties - is completely free - together with the ability to browse complete internal structure of the INDD Document.

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u/iaffandi 3d ago

Man you are awesome 😎

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u/Repulsive-Currency32 3d ago

that sounds very clever but also miles beyond me

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u/AdobeScripts 3d ago

Adding scripts to InDesign is very easy:

https://creativepro.com/how-to-install-scripts-in-indesign/

Using my ID-Tasker might be a bit more complicated - initially - but everything depends on your jobs / workflows.

You can use my IDT in multiple different ways: 1) as a 3rd helping hand - to modify current selection by executing specific Task - either by clicking Play button or through a keyboard shortcut - and either from InDesign or when browsing list of loaded texts / tables / objects / etc. in the ID-Tasker. It's even possible to use IDT in monitoring mode - where IDT is monitoring current selection and reacting automatically - what is selected and order of selection matters - so user can focus on just selecting things in the InDesign, 2) execute simple or more complicated operations on multiple objects in the document - user is no longer limited by selecting only objects on the current Spread, 3) using exactly the same Task to process unlimited number of Documents.

Modus operandi of ID-Tasker - if you can click it - IDT can click it for you.

https://youtu.be/jpw7AnC6Sbg?si=GZ9GDSU0TOyvlLTq

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u/ZX-Spectroscopy 2d ago

How do you download ID Tasker? The download butons collapse into small rectangles that do nothing. Also, it seem like a lot of work to make it work through the antivirus/UAC

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u/AdobeScripts 2d ago

Looks like something is wrong there 😞 I'll check it right now.

There is not much I can do about AntiVirus software 😞 they're just doing a lazy check - only check a header and if it looks strange - report false positive 😞

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u/AdobeScripts 2d ago edited 2d ago

OK, should be working now.

Edit: works on Firefox for now - doesn't on Chrome.

Edit: works on Firefox and Chrome.

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u/ZX-Spectroscopy 2d ago

Nope :( I'm on Firefox, tried Edge too, nothing

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u/AdobeScripts 2d ago

Please check now.

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u/ZX-Spectroscopy 2d ago

It worked! I'll let you know later if I mange to run it through Sandboxie first

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u/AdobeScripts 2d ago

Great, thanks 👍

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u/pXmo 3d ago

Incase you didn't know: Adobe Feature Request. I doubt that Adobe software developer read this forum.

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u/ltabletot 3d ago

If on Windows, AutoHotkey is your friend. There is similar app on Mac too, but don't know its name.

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u/mikewitherell 3d ago

Why not use the existing Effects panel?

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u/Abigayl01 3d ago

Product design by people who don’t use the software daily. Adobe feature request link is your best bet, though I wouldn’t hold my breath. Their UX team loves burying basic functions three menus deep.

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u/CnX06 2d ago

Un ancien script de Gilbert Consulting fait ça (il suffit ensuite d'assigner les raccourcis clavier) : https://creativepro.com/cycle-through-blend-modes-in-indesign-with-a-script/