Indesign server application

I have a separate web application, which among other things works with Indesign files.
I need to process indesign files:
1)extract text; return extracted text to my application;
2)replace some specific text content inside document; return output document to my webapplication;
I need this entire processing to be automated. So I would like to pass file to some application (idnesign server script/plugin? running somehwere ), which would work with file and give me an output.
Is it feasible? How would I go about such task? What bits of Adobe software would I need?
It seems that I need Indesign Server CC, but I can't figure out theoretical workflow. From what I gathered, I can develop some script for indesign server, that will do the job. But how would script inside server might be triggered and notified about incoming file?
Any suggestion/links/information is deeply appreciated.

Doing some searching I came across this thread in the Adobe Reader forum which is the first place I've seen a concrete answer, so you might want to give it a try: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/392875?tstart=0

Similar Messages

InDesign Server :line 13: 2753 Bus error "$installed_name" "$@"

[InDesign Server CS4, CS5, CS5.5    line 13: 2753 Bus error "$installed_name" "$@"]
We support a few clients on various version of InDesign Server and all have exactly the same issue upon having the application produce PDF files...   line 13: 2753 Bus error "$installed_name" "$@"   which causes InDesign Server to unexpectedly quit.
Searching these forums we have found CS3 instances of this error message pointing to fonts not loaded on the machine running InDesign Server, but no "this is what we did to fix it" solution has been found.
Our customers are running beefed up MacPros or Mac Minis with Mac OS 10.6 (non server) and OS 10.7 (server), 8GB - 16GB RAM, 1TB HD
For font management we have the following being utilized:
- Universal type server
- if no plugin exists for InD Server, not sure how much this app will help manage fonts
- Suitcase Server
- if no plugin exists for InD Server, not sure how much this app will help manage fonts
- Loading all fonts into:   /Users/*/Library/Fonts
- seems to be the best option for font management on a system running InDesign Server
Our company develops a plugin for InDesign Server and allows regular InDesign to produce the pdfs in a similar manner. Running our plugin under regular InDesign we DO NOT have these issues of BUS errors, yet as soon as any of our customers utilize InDesign Server, they all immediately see BUS errors.
We have written a shell script that quits (normally) indesign server, and relaunches it (if quit abnormally) so that we have some semblance of an "always on" InDesign Server application, but this is merely a band-aid fix for a bigger problem.
We are pointing the finger at Adobe InDesign Server being the problem here, yet our customers do not care where the blame is placed, we are seeing a solution for them in any fashion that presents a permanent solution.
Julio Vasquez
Product Specialist @ Comosoft, Inc.

Hi Julio,
I am having the same exact problem. We are evaluating the InDesign server and will consider buying it only if it performs reasonably stable. This "installed_name" "$@" is baffling us.
Team Adobe InDesign Server: Kindly address this concern soon!
Varun

Indesign Server CS4 service is not starting on Windows Server 2003 64bit

Hello guys,
I am not able to start Indesign Server CS4 service on windows Server 2003 SP2 64bit .
I have successfuly configured the service with InDesignServerService.msc, set the port to 18555. InDesignServerWinService the Log On option is set to "This Account". Also tried using different accounts!
When starting the indesign service from windows Service control panel I get this error:
Could not start the InDesignServerService x64 service on Local Computer.
Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Error log from windows Event viewer:
Error
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the InDesignServerService x64 service to connect.
Indesign server application works if launching from command line with the specified port 18555.
If trying to lauch IndesignServerService.exe from command line, there is a delay and finally nothing happens.
I have also tried launching 32bit indesign server service and the same error comes.
Would be grateful for your thoughts!
Message was edited by: Andrewdev
Server specs:
Windows Server 2003
Standard x64 Edition
Service Pack 2
Intel Xeon CPU 3.00Ghz
9.76 GB of Ram
Server is running virtualy on Xen hypervisor, there is no antivirus and windows firewall is disabled.

Hi Chandi,
      If Microsoft fix is not working or it is too old to apply then go for manual process i.e.;
      In the Microsoft KB article follow this :-
     Services that use the local system account to log on to a Windows Server 2003-based computer start if the Allow service to interact with desktop
     option is turned on. To turn this option on, follow these steps:
In the Services tool, click the service that you want to start, and then click Properties.
Right-click the Log On tab, and then click to select the Allow service to interact with desktop check box.
Click OK to exit the Properties dialog box.
   This will solve your problem.
   Thanks,
   Akansh Upadhyaya,
   System Engineer,
   (Windows + Unix.)

When do I have to use InDesign Server?

This might be a bit off topic, but maybe someone here can help me.
I have an application that communicates with a database driven editorial system. Basically it displays all the pages of an issue. And it can poll the database, see that there are layouts that need to be updated. Then it will checkout the layout load articles (i.e. InCopy content) and check in. A new preview is generated and I get the updated view of the issue.
The question is: Am I allowed to do that with the InDesign Desktop application on my machine? All the stuff done can also be done manually. But some people tell me that it is actually a Server job.
So can anyone explain in laymans terms what is legal to do with regular InDesign scripting?
Any opinion (or definite answer) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Ralf

well, i'm no expert, and i understand the licensing policy of ID Server is really complicated. I believe that one rulw o' thumb is that if alle the users of your system also use either InDesign or InCopy, it's permitted to deploy a stand-alone InDesign as a server. If 70% or more of the users have InDesign, and you want the stability and speed of the server version, you could go and get the 'entry' license. There's also a corporate license for use within the same firewall thats 3 times the cost of the entry, and if you want to make your service available to the general public, it will cost you even more.
But, as i said, i'm no expert and certainly not an adobe sales rep, and it's probably best you ask someone at Adobe to be sure.

InDesign CS3 - Application Error

Hi,
I work with CS3 Design Premium Suite. While working with InDesign CS3 sometimes I receive this error and the application closes after clicking the ok / cancel to the error window
Error Windows:
DDE Server Windows: Indesign.exe - Application error
The instruction at "0x4bb5f8a8" referenced memory at "0x426d130c". The memory could not be read.
Win XP prof, SP3, 4 GB RAM, Quad Core 2.50 HP Workstation: HPxw 4600
Any help is highly appreciated.
Zain

Did you also install any new fonts? That looks like a font error.

Datamerge crashes (indesign server)

I am trialing indesign server....
I have successfully created a js based datamerge using the soap example
I am now trying to do this programatically (e.g. directly interfacing with the server objects)
In both C# and VB I am getting a crash everytime I execute the datamerge MergeRecords function.
Below is the script I am running, with comments, if the doc.DataMergeProperties.MergeRecords("c:/temp/wibble.txt") line is commented out the script will execute fine, uncomment it and the whole thing crashes, including the server, when another function is called afterwards.
This is driving me mad
Any help appreciated ... if it is any help I have a c# visual studio 2010 project that isolates the issue and can be zipped and email/posted
Option Explicit Off
Partial Class vbcreate
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Response.Write("here")
'Dim app As InDesignServer.Application
'Dim doc As InDesignServer.Document
app = CreateObject("IndesignServer.Application")
doc = app.Open("C:/Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server SDK/samples/sampleclient-aspnet-soap/files/template2.indd")
'''''' Below returns 1 so OK up to here
Response.Write(app.Documents.Count)
ds = "C:/Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server SDK/samples/sampleclient-aspnet-soap/files/CSV/xls.csv"
app.dataMergeOptions.removeBlankLines = True
doc.DataMergeProperties.SelectDataSource(ds)
'''''' Below still returns 1 so still working
Response.Write(app.Documents.Count)
''''' the wibble file is created but then the application CRASHES
doc.DataMergeProperties.MergeRecords("c:/temp/wibble.txt")
'''''''EITHER of these two next lines will cause a crash
Response.Write(app.Documents.Count)
'doc.close(InDesignServer.idSaveOptions.idNo)
'Response.Write(app.Documents.Count)
End Sub
End Class

Thanks for the reply!
I cross posted deliberately as no one had even read the entry in the server forum, you'll see that it is days older, mea culpa for not including the relevant link/hightlighting the cross post.
To answer your other questions
I am refering to Indesign COM objects; as you'll see from the code excerpt I have instantiated an app object (app = CreateObject("IndesignServer.Application")) successfully added a template file (doc = app.Open("C:/Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server SDK/samples/sampleclient-aspnet-soap/files/template2.indd")) assigned the data merge data source (doc.DataMergeProperties.SelectDataSource(ds)) but it then falls down when the actual datamerge is called.
FYI, I have tried this in C#, vb.net and even classic ASP (vbscript) because of the typeing issues with c# and they all fall down at the same point.
I have a JSX version of this; this works fine if I pass it Indesign Server using SOAP (I am using the bundled sample soap script at the moment which is in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server SDK\samples\sampleclient-aspnet-soap), the datamerge works and the files are created fine.
I am using 7.5.1 (the trial was downloaded last week).
I am currently using the "lame" approach (call out using JS and the process the directory containing the files after Indesign has finished); but as the processed files have then to be associated with database records this is driving me mad.
Hope this expansion is helpful.
Regards
Andrew Wait

JS InDesign Server CS2 - Search and Replace

I am struggling to get a search and replace script to work on InDesign Server CS2.
This works on my Desktop CS2:
app.documents[0].search('xxx', false, false, 'yyy');
but not through InDesign Server CS2.
Can any one please help.
Thanks
Simon Kemp

Thanks for all of the replies.
This situation is that the company I work for has decided to consolidate some of the duties of our graphics departments. People in one location will be dummying documents for people at another location.
The paths to the images are UNC paths, which means they're pointing to different shares on different servers. This cannot be changed.
Also, the images at either location may not exist until days after the dumming process.
During the dummying process, the application that's used to build the pages places empty ad boxes (placeholders) on the page. The placeholders are text frames.
I don't understand in what way, but the paths to the images are hidden inside the InDesign file. From the users' standpoint, the placeholders simply display basic information about the ad (customer name, ad number, etc.) and hold the position for the images that will be placed later.
It is not using script labels to apply the paths.
So, this is why I describe the problem as needing to do a search and replace inside the InDesign file.
As I mentioned before, I know this is doable. I think I now see that the problem problem is figuring out how these hidden paths are being applied in the document. My only thought was script labels, but this is not the case...

Can I export a PDF in InDesign Server and return it to the calling client?

Using Java/CORBA between a client machine and InDesign Server, I would like to:
1. Make a remote call to InDesign server to create a document, passing IDML as a parameter on the call
2. Make another remote call to InDesign server to export a PDF, returning the PDF on the call return.
Is this possible? I notice that the doExport method does not return a PDF to the calling client. Instead, it saves the PDF on the server. I don't see any apis which would allow me to do the above.
The use case here is a web application which need to "preview" an image. The image consists of a template and some variable data which is sent to an InDesign server for composition and is returned as an image.
Thanks for any help.

I fail to see the issue. You have added crop marks, have you not? For all intents and purposes those are marks that are supposed to be visible and printable for cutting in the real world. If you don't want them, don't use them. Acrobat can generate them on the fly for printing, anyway.
Mylenium

InDesign Server, Applescript, and SOAP

Hi All,
I've scoured these forums and the rest of the 'net as best I can, but I can't seem to find a solution for my issue, so I'm hoping maybe someone out there can shed some light on it for me.
I have InDesign Server running on one box (IP of 192.168.1.5, launched to service SOAP commands on port 12345), and I'm attempting to send a SOAP command to it via Applescript from another box, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it the RunScriptParameters. The Applescript I'm running looks something like (dummy text in for the parameters right now, because that's where my trouble is):
tell application "http://192.168.1.5:12345/"
set resultText to call soap {method name:"RunScript", method namespace uri:"http://ns.adobe.com/InDesign/soap/", parameters:????}
end tell
Every time I run it, under a variety of ways of trying to feed it parameters, I get the error: "/ got an error: The required SOAP element "RunScriptParameters" could not be found. Please check the SOAP message that was sent to InDesignServer." I'm lead to believe that the method name and method namespace uri I'm sending through are correct, as if I change either of those it gives me a generic error. (Method <blah> not implemented, if I change "RunScript or the method namespace uri.)
So, what I'm left with is figuring out how exactly to send through the RunScriptParameters with this setup. I've tried every way I can think of to feed it the scriptLanguage, scriptFile, and scriptArgs, as an array of elements under parameters, as part of a variable called runScriptCommands which I feed through parameters, and every variety of this, to no avail, all giving exactly the same error. Any help would be immensely appreciated.
(And I know Applescript may not be the ideal way to call a SOAP command, but it would be a very simple way for me to test ID Server scripts in my situation, and there isn't any reason that I can see that it shouldn't work...)
Thanks!
Mathew

Hey..Can you tell me how did you executed jsx using sampleclient. Which SDK's sampleclient you used for executing this.??

InDesign Server to manage reporting services

Hi, Im looking for help/guidelines regarding InDesign. I'm a software architect working on a line-of-business application that will eventually require printing about 5 hundred thousand personalized report (of about 20 pages each) over a couple of days (and many other smaller jobs), and my client requires that this job be executed by a third party. Think of the document as a fairly standard financial report printed once a year for each participant. The application is built in .net, backed by a sql database. Once a year, the data is mined, computed, and outputed in a format acceptable by the supplier (who is chosen through a public tendering process).
So from what I've learned thus far, to be complient with most suppliers, I must use some file format like postscript or eps, and to do this, it looks like InDesign Server might be what I'm looking for.
So here is what I've figured out so far (and where I will need your help if I'm not making sense) :
- Create a kind of IDML template using InDesign on a desktop computer
- in our .net application, modify the IDML for each participant to personalize it (a lot of conditional code to remove sections of text, and inject numbers, etc).
- Send each (or a batch is feasable) to the InDesign Server to prepare for publishing into postscript/eps files
- and if feasable, also create a PDF of each because we need to keep a digital version of the document on the client's corporate SharePoint (for legal reasons).
Is this how InDesign should be used? Am I making any sense?
Thanks in advance for all the answers.

You're pretty close, the outlined steps could work. Of course you'd have to add some more postprocessing steps - add or remove pages dependent on your conditional sections, let InDesign rebuild the index if you need one, eventually optimize the layout beyond the automatically maintained keep options.
With that number of produced documents your topmost issue will be speed. For that reason I'd try to not use IDML and outside processing - to open an existing document is much faster than to import it from IDML, and if you can reuse the same template document without close-open, it will be even faster. InDesign has many features such as conditional text, text variables, counters that could be utilized. Your script would then work straight on the document object model, given an input such as tab delimited text or xml.
It is possible to communicate from .net applications with InDesign, but here you should also run comparisons with VBScript and ExtendScript which both have the advantage to run within the InDesign process. There are also other advantages of VBScript and ExtendScript - controlling InDesign can be a bit inconvenient for strongly typed languages like C#, even though it is doable. The community and thus possible support is larger for ExtendScript.
Output will work in all mentioned formats. You might get along with a PDF-only workflow, but as you mentioned the print supplier may have special requirements.
Dirk

InDesign Server crashing on hyperlinks - HYPERLINKS.RPLN

When trying to access properties of a hyperlink it causes InDesign to crash. I can assign properties of the hyperlink but if I try and retrieve properties it hangs and crashes resulting in the error below. I'm using InDesign Server 64bit version 7.0.4.553. What's interesting is this works completely fine when testing using InDesign CS5 client version.
I have used Extend script toolkit to try and debug the issue but you can't even use the databrowser to look at the hyperlink properties as it'll crash there as well. But if I debug using toolkit with client version of InDesign it works fine. It really seems like an issue with InDesign Server and I'm not sure what I can do to work around/fix this problem.
Example script -
var myDoc = app.open([document path]);
for (i = 0; i < myDoc.hyperlinks.length; i++)
     var myHyperlink = myDoc.hyperlinks[i];
     var newDestination = myHyperlink.destination; // - this causes indesign to crash
     //Do some processing...
Faulting application name: InDesignServer.exe, version: 7.0.4.553, time stamp: 0x4d891c6d
Faulting module name: HYPERLINKS.RPLN, version: 7.0.4.553, time stamp: 0x4d891ef9
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000006e33b
Faulting process id: 0x1dfc
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccd52e23e3216c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server x64\InDesignServer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server x64\Required\HYPERLINKS.RPLN
Any help would be great! I can post more information if needed.

I think I may have found the problem...
It appears that the particular document I'm working with has a shared link that is contained in another document (in InDesign if you look at the hyperlink details it is a shared destination and for "document" it specifies a different document then the current one. This would probably happen when the hyperlink is copied from a different document. When trying to access that shared link it is unable to get the properties of it because there is actually no reference to it as the other document isn't open on the server.
This is an interesting problem because I'm not sure where to go with this... I need to be able to get the hyperlink but with the given scenario I can't figure out a way to do that.

InDesign Server as a reporting service

Hi, Im looking for help/guidelines regarding InDesign. I'm a software architect working on a line-of-business application that will eventually require printing about 5 hundred thousand personalized report (of about 20 pages each) over a couple of days (and many other smaller jobs), and my client requires that this job be executed by a third party. Think of the document as a fairly standard financial report printed once a year for each participant. The application is built in .net, backed by a sql database. Once a year, the data is mined, computed, and outputed in a format acceptable by the supplier (who is chosen through a public tendering process).
So from what I've learned thus far, to be complient with most suppliers, I must use some file format like postscript or eps, and to do this, it looks like InDesign Server might be what I'm looking for.
So here is what I've figured out so far (and where I will need your help if I'm not making sense) :
- Create a kind of IDML template using InDesign on a desktop computer
- in our .net application, modify the IDML for each participant to personalize it (a lot of conditional code to remove sections of text, and inject numbers, etc).
- Send each (or a batch is feasable) to the InDesign Server to prepare for publishing into postscript/eps files
- and if feasable, also create a PDF of each because we need to keep a digital version of the document on the client's corporate SharePoint (for legal reasons).
Is this how InDesign should be used? Am I making any sense?
Thanks in advance for all the answers.

Hi, JP43.
For what it's worth, your question is on the boundary between the scripting forum and the general forum.
So from what I've learned thus far, to be complient with most suppliers, I must use some file format like postscript or eps,
This seems a bit peculiar. The obvious format for your document output would be PDF. PostScript and EPS seem weird choices, though certainly conceivable (well, I don't think you can have multi-page EPS files, but you can certainly have 20 EPS files and you can have multi-page PostScript files, but they tend to be output-device specific, though they need not really be).
What is your supplier doing with the file? Are they a printer? A specialty industry auditor? Or something else? If they're a printer, they should be asking for a PDF, I think.
Though it's also possible what they want is a less final output format that humans can deal with in other applications, such as Microsoft Word. A lot depends on the workflow. Anyhow, back to the main question:
and to do this, it looks like InDesign Server might be what I'm looking for.
Note that it's not a requirement that you use InDesign Server, and at $22,000/license, depending on your volumes, it may make sense to just use InDesign Desktop. The standard InDesign EULA doesn't let you drive its automation remotely, but if you have a human being walk up to a computer and start a script that reads 500,000 input files and produces 500,000 output files, I think that is in compliance.
Replacing your bullets with numbers:
1. Create a kind of IDML template using InDesign on a desktop computer2. in our .net application, modify the IDML for each participant to personalize it (a lot of conditional code to remove sections of text, and inject numbers, etc).
3. Send each (or a batch is feasable) to the InDesign Server to prepare for publishing into postscript/eps files
4. and if feasable, also create a PDF of each because we need to keep a digital version of the document on the client's corporate SharePoint (for legal reasons).
#2 is definitely one way to do it. If you are comfortable manipulating the IDML XML in .NET, and it's not important for you to leverage InDesign's object model in your conditions (e.g., you do not need to know how many pages InDesign would set a particular table at, and that does not effect your decisions of what objects to place where), then this is fine.
If your batch data is fairly simple substitutions, you could use InDesign's Data Merge feature. But that's really just a mail merging feature and it sounds like you have large tables of data and it is probably not sufficient.
The way I would probably implement it is to write code for InDesign's scripting that starts with a template (INDD or IDML or whatever), and then instructions InDesign to place various items in various places, replace/remove conditional items, etc. This allows you to leverage InDesign's knowledge of how the page is laid out and to make layout-continent adjustments in your script. If you tried to do this in IDML, you would have to replicate InDesign's layout engine in your software which is essentially infeasable and at which point you might as well throw InDesign out the window and just use something like iText to produce a PDF directly.
That said, #'s 1,3 and 4 are all trivial.

Developer Update for InDesign Server Developers

Hello all,
If you are creating plug-ins for the Creative Suite of Adobe applications, you'll want to attend this ninety minute session for an update on developing plug-ins for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, Version Cue, and XMP.
Topics include the C and C++ APIs, Extendscript and other developer details. Dan Brotsky, Chief Architect for the Creative Suite, will discuss highlights of the Version Cue SDK, and the Creative Suite Activation Software. This presentation is not for the technically faint of heart expect high technology at high speed!
This session will be recorded for later review, and a summary document made available for reference.
Who should attend? Any developer that is interested in creating plug-ins for any products in the Creative Suite.
May 3rd. 9:00 am to 10:30 am PST
Free
Online via Acrobat Connect - watch from your desktop - no special software require to participate.
Register at:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=883099&loc=en_us
MNR

I have spent some time geting Java automation to work with InDesign, it's not my favorite language but I learned some things that may help and put them into some course content that Adobe should put out shortly; will post here when it is available online.
Our company, Silicon Publishing, provides general InDesign Server automation training, though we don't have a current offering that specifically targets Java we teach some of the basics of working with Java (many unique techniques!) and could arrange a limited form of training.
The documentation and samples with the SDK should take you part of the way there: for specific scripts, it has been helpful to us to get things working in an easier-to-write (i.e. JavaScript) script first, then translate such a script to Java, taking into account the unique characteristics of the language and various tactics (outlined in the SDK documentation) to address these.
Max
Max Dunn
Silicon Publishing
www.siliconpublishing.com
[email protected]

Tagging TextFrames With InDesign Server - not showign in desktop?

Hi all,
Ive come across a weird issue with marking up text frames with InDesign Server (CS3) whilst processing xml rules during an xml import.
I run the following code on desktop it works fine. When run on server, it works apart from the frames will not highlight when "Show Tagged Frames" is selected.
(code cut for brevity)..
//..open a new doc, import the xml file, process the rule set.
function AddTextFrame(element)
this.name = "AddTextFrame";
this.xpath = "//textFrame";
this.apply = function(element, myRuleProcessor)
with(element)
var frame = page.textFrames.add();
//...frame geometry code goes here...
markup(frame);
As Ive stated, the code is functionally fine on desktop and server, but the tagged frames will not highlight when the document is created on server?
Ive tried numerous work arounds (placeIntoFrame etc) but to no avail.
Any ideas, is this a known/expected behaviour?
Cheers, Scott

After much local experimentation and iteration with Adobe tech support, we have a fix for Problem nr. 1: cannot define the port that works in our environment (IDS CS4 running as a service, Windows 2008 Server).
Add this parameter to your server startup command line for each instance of InDesign Server you're running:
-ORBendPoint giop:tcp:<serverIP>:<portNumber>
where
<serverIP> is the static IP of the server that is running IDS. Note: The OmniOrb docs imply that you can use the server's domain name here, but that didn't work for us. 127.0.0.1 also did not work. The IP number does work. This might help your Problem nr. 2: wrong IP address in the application IOR if you set it to the IP you want to listen on, but we have no experience with that.
<portNumber> is the port you want IDS (via OmniOrb) to listen on. If you're running multiple instances as we are, each instance should have its own unique port number.
I completely agree that, as an enterprise product, IDS's default behavior of boldly going where no one has gone before in your port space at each restart is not the way to play nice in a firewalled, enterprise environment. This should be documented in Adobe's Introduction to InDesign Server in the command line parameter discussions, it would have saved us a lot of time

Cannot connect to Indesign Server process

We have Indesign Server CS 5.5 (with all patches installed) running inside a Virtual Machine. Our application (c#) also runs in a virtual machine with full admin priv.
Only 1 instance of Indesign Server is configured (using the MMC snap in) and uses the configuration name test (-configuration test) set in the command line arguments.
InDesignServer.exe is started by the service InDesignServerService.
The problem is that the service starts InDesignServer.exe with an unknown configuration name....so our application cannot connect to it. It should be using the configuration name set using the MMC snap in (-configuration test in this case). I also tried specifying the configuration name in the service startup parameters (using services.msc)...that did not work either. \
IndesignServerService DOES create the configuration name folder in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\InDesign Server\Version 7.5\en_US\ but it just doesn't register the configuration name in the Running Objects Table so our application cannot use it.
If we manually started InDesignServer.exe from command line using: InDesignServer.exe -configuration test, our application can connect to it. If we start it manually using command line, the configuration name is registered in the Running Objects Table.
How can we fix this so the service starts InDesignServer.exe and registers the configuration name in the running objects table?
The code we use to connect to the InDesignServer is the same one in the adobe documentation:
string instanceName = "configuration_noport";
dynamic app = (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindToMoniker(instanceName));
It only works if we start it manually from command line....it does not work if we let the service start it.

Now try to execute the compile class from the command line; let us say the class is inside c:\tmp now make a directory inside the tmp and called it lib
copy the jar file which contains MYSQL driver into lib
on the command line on the current directory ( c:\tmp) type
java -cp ./lib/mysql-connector.jar ConnectTest
The PATH env. variable has nothing to do with the jar file on the classpath; the path allows you to execute program from any command line directory if the program is on the path
CLASSPATH. Specifying where to search for additional libraries in Windows is easily done by seeting the environment variable CLASSPATH, which Java uses to see where it should find Java programs and libraries but never seen any success with it. So the best thing is to explicityl mention it on the command line ( jar dependecies)
Regards,
Alan Mehio
Lodon,UK

Indesign server application

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for