Are.na for InDesign

Are.na for InDesign is a plugin that allows you to import your blocks right into your InDesign document.

Features

• Import an image from a block
• Insert block data into text frame
• Turn a channel into a booklet
• Convert markdown in Text block to .icml

Usage

Setup

1. Login with your are.na credentials. (via Are.na’s Oauth = no credentials are stored on this app.)
2. Make sure you save your document first.
3. Once the document is saved, you will be prompted to specify where to save arena data. (It will create arena-assets folder at the specified directory.)

Insert an image from a block

1. Go to a channel containing the block.
2. Select Rectangle Frame in document.
3. Hover over to the block in the panel and click Insert.

note: It will download the image and saved it into the directory you specified. You can configure Fitting Option in Settings Page.

Insert attributes from a block

1. Go to a channel containing the block.
2. Select Text Frame in document.
3. Hover over to the block in the panel and click Insert.
4. Select the attribute you want to insert
5. Hit Confirm

Convert an entire channel to booklet

1. Go to a channel.
2. Hit “Insert all blocks” button.

note: During the initial action, it also automatically creates Master Pages for each types as “A-image”, “A-link”, etc. So you can change the layout and edit what properties to show.

Editing the Master Pages

1. The plugin will read the name of items and tries to fetch the data.
2. For example, if you place a TextFrame item named as “title”, it will use “title” attribute of Block data, if “image.display.url”, it will use the dot notation to access child attributes. For Rectangle, if you name the item as “image”. For all the attributes available, refer to dev.are.na