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InDesign MCP Server

by chris-enea
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# InDesign MCP Server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with Adobe InDesign through ExtendScript API. Enables text manipulation in InDesign documents via Claude Desktop. ## Features - **Add Text**: Insert text at start, end, or after selection - **Update Text**: Find and replace text with support for all occurrences - **Remove Text**: Delete specific text from documents - **Get Document Text**: Retrieve all text content from active document ## Setup 1. Install dependencies: ```bash pip install -r requirements.txt ``` 2. Configure Claude Desktop by adding to your `claude_desktop_config.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "indesign": { "command": "python3", "args": ["/Users/honeycomb/indesign_mcp/server.py"], "env": {} } } } ``` 3. Ensure Adobe InDesign is installed and running ## Usage The server provides four tools accessible through Claude Desktop: ### add_text - `text`: Text to add - `position`: "start", "end", or "after_selection" (default: "end") ### update_text - `find_text`: Text to find - `replace_text`: Replacement text - `all_occurrences`: Replace all instances (default: false) ### remove_text - `text`: Text to remove - `all_occurrences`: Remove all instances (default: false) ### get_document_text Returns all text content from the active InDesign document. ## Requirements - Python 3.7+ - Adobe InDesign (tested with 2025) - macOS (uses osascript for InDesign communication) - Active InDesign document ## How it Works The server communicates with InDesign via ExtendScript through macOS osascript, executing JavaScript code within InDesign's environment for text manipulation operations.

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