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1. Dropshadow > Size is limited to 0-144 points within scripting but you can enter higher numbers manually 0-1000 points

   My understanding is indesign dropshadow effect needs to be updated for the option: size within the dropshadow panel to be able to accept 0 - 1000 points for scripts. You can input higher numbers within the size by doing it manually but not with scripts for whatever reason. It will only accepts 0-144 point or 2 inches within the code.

   1. Indesign CC 2025
   2. Run the attached script a 100 in height image and you'll get the error.
   3. On the dropshadow applied to have the distance 5.0 in and size 5.0
   4. Distance: 5.0 in and Size: 0.0694 in
   5. Script attached.

   I have a script to automatically apply dropshadows and we have a formula where we take the height of the image and multiply that by 5% which gets placed in the Distance and Size. This works for smaller images but when there are larger images the number it puts into the distance works but the size seems to be limited to 2 inches. But if I do it manually it can go up to 13.8889″
   for the size

   I get this error: ERROR in applyDropShadow: Error: Invalid value for set property ‘size’. Expected Unit (0 - 144 points), but received “5.0 in”. 13.8889 in = 1000 points

   //@target "indesign"
   //@targetengine "session"

   function isValidObject(obj) {
   try {
   return obj && obj.isValid;
   } catch (e) {
   return false;
   }
   }

   function applyDropShadowByHeightInInches(obj) {
   if (!isValidObject(obj)) return;

   var doc = app.activeDocument;
   var originalH = doc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits;
   var originalV = doc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits;
   
   try {
       // Switch the document to inches.
       doc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
       doc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits   = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
   
       // geometricBounds => [y1, x1, y2, x2] in INCHES now.
       var bounds = obj.geometricBounds; 
       var heightInches = Math.abs(bounds[2] - bounds[0]); // bottom - top
   
       // 5% of height in inches
       var dropShadowInches = heightInches * 0.05;
   
       // Apply the drop shadow
       var ds = obj.transparencySettings.dropShadowSettings;
       ds.mode     = ShadowMode.DROP;
       ds.angle    = 120;                 // Static angle
       ds.distance = dropShadowInches;    // in inches
       ds.size     = dropShadowInches;    // same as distance
       ds.opacity  = 35;                  // example opacity
       ds.noise    = 2.5;                 // example noise %
       ds.xOffset  = 0;
       ds.yOffset  = 0;
       ds.spread   = 0;
   
   } catch (e) {
       $.writeln("Error applying shadow: " + e);
   } finally {
       // Restore original measurement units
       doc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = originalH;
       doc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits   = originalV;
   }
   

   }

   function main() {
   if (app.documents.length === 0) {
   alert("No open documents.");
   return;
   }

   var doc = app.activeDocument;
   if (!isValidObject(doc)) {
       alert("Active document not valid.");
       return;
   }
   if (app.selection.length === 0) {
       alert("No objects selected.");
       return;
   }
   
   var count = 0;
   for (var i = 0; i < app.selection.length; i++) {
       var obj = app.selection[i];
       if (isValidObject(obj)) {
           applyDropShadowByHeightInInches(obj);
           count++;
       }
   }
   alert("Drop shadow applied to " + count + " object(s).");
   

   }

   main();

   My understanding is indesign dropshadow effect needs to be updated for the option: size within the dropshadow panel to be able to accept 0 - 1000 points for scripts. You can input higher numbers within the size by doing it manually but not with scripts for whatever reason. It will only accepts 0-144 point or 2 inches within the code.

   1. Indesign CC 2025
   2. Run the attached script a 100 in height image and you'll get the error.
   3. On the dropshadow applied to have the distance 5.0 in and size 5.0
   4. Distance: 5.0 in and Size: 0.0694 in
   5. Script attached.

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2. Creating a new cross reference instance and/or changing the para style of existing X-ref hangs Indesign

   1. INDESIGN 2025 V. 20.3.1.73

   2. STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE X_REF BUG WHICH HANGS INDESIGN

      2.1 Show the Cross-References panel (choose Window > Type & Tables > Cross-References)

      2.2 Either a) double click on an exisiting Cross-reference in the Cross Reference Palette to edit it in the (modal) "Edit Cross-Reference" dialogue panel.

      2.3 OR b) Click the Create New Cross-Reference button in the panel.

      2.4 Click on the Reference Format drop down menu .

   3. EXPECTED RESULT
      Show the Cross Reference Format drop down menu, allowing user to select of one of the items in the list of current Formatting styles. This new format will then be invoked in the document layout view. (See screen shot with filename "HANG BUG when x-ref style menu is invoked.png").
      Clicking the "Ok" button confirms the choices made in this dialogue and ends the model window session (which prevents other editing of document(s) to take place during the generation of a new/edited X-ref in the text.

   4. ACTUAL RESULT
      Frequently these steps results in a hang.

   5. ADDITIONAL LEVELS OF DETAIL, TESTING & LOGICAL ANALYSIS

   Seem like clicking on the Cross Reference Format Style menu is always trigger for the Hanging, not any of the previous steps, Though this does not mean that clicking on this menu ALWAYS results in a Hang. Changes to the X-Ref format style are sometimes possible (even on a X-ref that previously hung InDesign) and the operation will in this case always succeed when "ok" button is clicked.

   In trying to determine the subtle cause of intermittent hanging during these operations, it would sometimes appear that this seems to be related to generating a text for the reference that is longer the the remaining white space on the line where the cross reference is being inserted.

   Under normal circumstances, changing a X-ref style is may cause the line of text with the new or previewed edit to X-ref to be overset (the screenshot file called "red dot for overset text.png")

   But in many cases the existing style is not causing overset text, but even clicking on the menu (rather than clicking then releasing on a new formatting Style item in the list) results in the hang. And at other times it's only after a different formatting style is selected the hang occurs.

   .6. CONCLUSIONS

   So its seems to be that the Hang bug trigger is orthogonal to the actual variations in the formatting style settings themselves, and more likely to be the code which executes the menu or the screen redraws for menu changes that is at fault. But given Adobe's woefully buggy code for InDesign and Illustrator, who rightly knows at this point after 15 years of the codebase seeming becoming repeatedly refactored with bad design choices that only make a buggy application worse with each release in terms of application stability with respect to existing Indesign features and functions (many of which have been in the app for over a decade, although possibly enhanced, reworked for the cross-platform JS based UI framework refactored or rewritten entirely).

   .7. FURTHER NOTES FOR ADOBE TO READ AND TO PLEASE TAKE SERIOUSLY

   I demonstrated this hanging behaviour during a live screen-sharing session with an Adobe support worker using their Adobe's in-house screen sharing application. I asked this person to log this as a bug. The poor technical support employee of Adobe was unable to confirm or deny if this bug is known or new to their developers and obvious no idea if a fix was in the works. He suggested opening the files in Adobe InDesign 2024. I have not attempted this at this point, if there is feature parity with the new cloud based InDesign Review system (which new feature logs seem to indicate is the case) and all the other INDD features I'm using then I'll consider doing so and report back on success or failure of this.

   I note that bugs on User Voice forums in relation to previous iterations of InDesign and it's Cross Referencing set of functions seem to litter this forum. So any linkages with these might be worth investigating.

   Might I add that i resent wasting hours of time on buggy INDESIGN applications for over a decades now and then getting so frustrated I have to spend an hour or more of my time documenting the bug as precisely as possible in the (vain) hope of the bug being fixed before the current project I'm working on is completed. I've laboured under this bug for a couple of months now for a project I dont work on every day, it's a long multi-document report using the InDesign Book to combine the Indesign files for TOC, X-refs and page numbering functions with a total number of pages which will be in the 100s.

   1. INDESIGN 2025 V. 20.3.1.73

   2. STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE X_REF BUG WHICH HANGS INDESIGN

      2.1 Show the Cross-References panel (choose Window > Type & Tables > Cross-References)

      2.2 Either a) double click on an exisiting Cross-reference in the Cross Reference Palette to edit it in the (modal) "Edit Cross-Reference" dialogue panel.

      2.3 OR b) Click the Create New Cross-Reference button in the panel.

      2.4 Click on the Reference Format drop down menu .

   3. EXPECTED RESULT
      Show the Cross Reference Format drop down menu, allowing user to select of one of the items in the list of current Formatting styles. This new… more

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