[JS, ACE] I have an InDesign/InCopy script run a script system?

I wish I could leave my InCopy users run a script that will create a new InDesign document on the fly, that the stories which they can then modify in InCopy.

To do this, I guess I must have a copy of InDesign running on our server and have this copy of InDesign running the document generation script.

So my question is, can I have an InCopy script call an AppleScript in OS (we are working on Mac) who will read something like 'say a copy of InDesign running on the server to run script x,' script where x creates the new document?

(I'm not terribly familiar with Applescript, but I imagine that such a thing would be pretty easy to do, if that is possible).

An added bonus would be if scripts called in the BONE and InDesign could send messages back in the chain to alert the caller InCopy script when they were finished, so that the InCopy script could then open the new document of the user.

Thank you.

Yes. It would certainly be a violation of the EULA.

Basically no matter when you use InDesign as a web service to 'benefit' from a user not allowed (like the present where InCopy users would use the files resulting), you need credentials.

You would be obliged to pay for the InDesign licenses for all your InCopy users, or pay for InDesign Server. Unless you have a certain users, it would probably be cheaper...

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