MultiAd Creator Scripts
MultiAd Creator is a very nice desktop publishing program. It's been very popular at newspapers for creating ads for a very long time. Creator 6 is available for Windows and Mac, and is very scriptable.
Windows
Scripting Help
- Scripting Help File - A guide to Creator for Windows' object model. It doesn't have a lot of extra help yet (it's a straight conversion of Creator's type library).
- Creator 6.5.3 Enums - Creator's various enumerations, converted to VBScript constants.
Scripts
- All Updated Scripts for Creator 6.5.2 - A package of scripts updated or added after the release of Creator 6.5.2 for Windows. Now includes Change Case and the Border updates. (Creator 6.5.3 has the same set of scripts as 6.5.2.)
- Border in Black and Photo Border Update - Bug fix for the Border in Black and Photo Border scripts.
- Change Case - A set of three scripts that permanently change selected text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.
- Equally Space (Horizontal and Vertical) - Puts an equal amount of space between the selected elements. Doesn't handle rotated, skewed, or flipped elements well, sadly.
- Fix Graphic Scales - Fixes a possible graphic resizing problem by averaging the horizontal and vertical scale of the selected graphic elements. A Mac version is available from Steve Mills' mac.com page.
- Move Set To Front - Swaps the paper size set you provide with the first one in the list of sets. It works by editing the Registry, so quit Creator first!
- NEW! - Creator 6 Prefs Extractor (Windows) - Exports Creator's preferences from the registry, removing some entries you shouldn't need. You can restore them by context (right) clicking the resulting .reg file and picking Merge from the menu.
- Sort - Two scripts to sort the text in a flow or selection.
Mac
- NEW! - Booklet Print 1.2 - 6.5.6 or higher - Updated with the new facing pages settings. You don't need to use placeholder pages anymore.
- Booklet Print 1.1 - 6.5.5 and older - Rearranges your document for printing as a booklet.
- Change Case - A set of three scripts that permanently change selected text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.
- Change to C6 Document - When a file or files are dropped on this, it will change their File Type and Creator Code to a C6 Document.
- Color Chooser - A routine that lets your users select a color from a list.
- Color Replacer 2 - Replaces all references to one color with another color. First release; slow and may be buggy.
- Document Sizes Manager - Lets you load and save your document sizes.
- Equally Space - Puts an equal amount of space between the selected elements. Doesn't handle rotated, skewed, or flipped elements well, sadly.
- Lock Page Numbers - Locks page numbers so you can rearrange pages in a document without messing up the page numbering.
- Mask with Shape 2 - A new version of Mask with Shape that always contains the front element in the back one. You don't have to have a graphic to use this version.
- Make Menu Item Example - Shows how to make a new menu item for a script (so you can give it a key equivalent). Menu item making scripts go in your Startup Items folder in the Add-Ons folder.
- Open in C6 - An applet that opens files dropped on it in Creator 6.
- Proportional Resize - Two scripts that let you proportionally resize an element by giving the new size of either its width or height.
- Scale Group - Resizes a group by a percentage, scaling its contents. This can fail if you scale an element in the group outside Creator's limits.
- Select None - Deselects everything in the app, on all pages. Relatively similar to Select All, then Tab.
- Text Block Color Changer - Changes the color of all the text in the selected elements.
Creator2 Snippets
Scripts not listed above haven't been tested with Creator 6, but will often work with little or no changes.
- Booklet Print - Rearranges the pages of a facing pages document so they can be booklet bound. I recommend running this script on a copy of your document (in case something goes wrong).
- Character Codes - Defines variables for return, newline, tab, quad, and block break characters.
- Color Replacer - Replaces one color with another everywhere in a document.
- Convert Colors - Switches all colors (except those you explicitly exclude using a variable in the script) to spot or process.
- Open Basic Shapes - Open the Basic Shapes document from your C2 folder.
- Reset Group Handles - Ungroups and regroups a selected group, which will put their handles back to square instead of rotated.
- Select All With Element Style - Selects all elements on the current spread which have the same element style as the selected element.
- Swap Pastes - Switches the key equivalents of Paste and Paste in Place. (Intended for your C2 Startup Items folder.)
- Toggle Path Openness - Closes or opens a single-contour path element.
- V Text Selection - Similar to Stairstep Text Selection that comes with Creator. This makes a v or ^ shape using vertical offsets.
Other Creator Help
Sometimes text just isn't enough. Here's some short help pages:
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PostScript or Bitmap? - How to tell what kind of print driver you're using to print from Creator.