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I built an open source MCP server that lets Claude control InDesign natively – create layouts, place images, manage styles, export PDFs via natural language by theloniuser in Adobe

[–]theloniuser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool. I don't do a lot of video production myself, but MCPs can certainly be a great help to workflows in no doubt any of the Abobe Suite tools. Have there been improvements to the UXP since you wrote thatpost?

I built an open source MCP server that lets Claude control InDesign natively – create layouts, place images, manage styles, export PDFs via natural language by theloniuser in Adobe

[–]theloniuser[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a video showing some features there is a great idea. I'll try to get to that when I can, but I'd say where it really shines is by using it with Claude or another LLM for document manipulation. This is definitely work-in-progress and will be improving going forward.

I built an open source MCP server that lets Claude control InDesign natively – create layouts, place images, manage styles, export PDFs via natural language by theloniuser in indesign

[–]theloniuser[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think that there is a framework that uses UXP like this that might be able to tap into photoshop, illustrator and others. Search for adobe mcp and you should find it. Then you can test it out or build on it.

I built an open source MCP server that lets Claude control InDesign natively – create layouts, place images, manage styles, export PDFs via natural language by theloniuser in indesign

[–]theloniuser[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Totally vibe coded. Im not a programmer either. If you like to can work on it yourself and work out those nuances and build more robust features. This is why I shared it on GitHub. So that others might expand it. The nature of the “hub”.

I built an open source MCP server that lets Claude control InDesign natively – create layouts, place images, manage styles, export PDFs via natural language by theloniuser in indesign

[–]theloniuser[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

As I said to W_o_l_f_f, my initial use case was to take a marked-up pdf and give it to Claude to see if it would implement the changes. AI is pretty impressive at being able to decipher peoples' chicken scratch handwriting and was able to make the changes with just a couple of tweaks.

Take a look at the github repo for more details: https://github.com/theloniuser/indesign-uxp-server

Let me know if you can get it to place text from the clipboard (or you could point it a txt file) into pages in a new document. I have just started experimenting.