Summary

If your workflow goes beyond original designs for each client and reaches into repetitive production, scripting is for you. Scripts are ideal for automating repetitive tasks from importing pictures to creating and formatting entire documents. You can even link InDesign to other scriptable applications.

Because InDesign supports JavaScript on the Mac and Windows, as well as AppleScript on the Mac only and VBA on Windows only, you can choose the script language you're most familiar with and/or that is compatible with your other applications. Even better, you can use more than one scripting language with InDesign (though any individual script can use only one language).