When using templates, you often don't want the template to print. I can find no way to mark a layer as non-printing in Designer. I would expect to see this in the layer list.
Thanks!
I'd like to offer some brief suggestions of what I believe would be a good start for scripting support. Clearly both InDesign and Quark have extensive scripting libraries but I think with some basic fundamentals a lot can be achieved. I believe the below would allow us to do about 80% of what we need.
Ability to create objects (text frame, image frames and rules) of specific sizes at specific co-ordinates using a list of properties. (set myFrame to create frame (x-coord, y-coord, width, height, colour, tint, border, name, columns, inset etc, etc)
Ability to populate frames with text or images with ability to fit or scale as required (set story 1 of frame 1 to "myText.txt")
Ability to assign styles to objects (set paragraph style of text frame 1 to "Heading 1")
Ability to create new pages with properties for size, bleed, numbering, spreads etc
Ability to reference selections (set border of selected frame to 0 - set style of selection to "Bold")
Ability to export using defined PDF Presets (export to myPath with PDF Preset "My Preset")
Ability to address (or loop through) all objects on a pages (set background of all text frames on selected page to "Transparent")
Ability to test for missing or broken links to assets
Ability to create colour swatches, character or paragraph styles, PDF Presets
Ability to create and manipulate layers
Most importantly, the ability to query for any property related to an object (set myProperties to properties of my selection -> list of all available properties) This is incredibly useful for writing and debugging.
