To my knowledge, master page items still don't populate the Table of Contents in Indesign without overriding the master page item.

Problem with this is it defeats the purpose of the master page item.

For instance, I have a large manual, in which the chapters are included in a master page layout. The text in the master page item is auto generated using the Special Character - Marker - Section Marker feature, so all I have to do is start a new section in my document.

But the TOC will not take that text from the master page, unless I over ride it.
Very frustrating.

Thoughts?

We are developping a plugin for inDesign and while testing a new feature on a Mac we noticed that sometimes InDesign was crashing. We managed to reproduce this bug in a very simple indesign script that make inDesign crash 100% of the time and I'm looking for a way to get around this inDesign bug.

The crash occurs when we programatically add an htmlItem to a pageItem then close the document too quicky, It's only on Mac, doing that on windows works perfectly. The crash error seems to be a memory usage problem on inDesign's side.

Here is the script code :

var document = app.activeDocument;
var sourcePageItem = document.allPageItems[0];

sourcePageItem.htmlItems.add(
document.activeLayer,
LocationOptions.AT_END,
sourcePageItem,
{
geometricBounds: sourcePageItem.geometricBounds,
htmlContent: '<b>Hello</b>',
}
);

document.close(SaveOptions.NO);

other observations :

-Doing a sourcePageItem.htmlItems[0].remove(); to remove the htmlItem after adding it doesn't change anything, so the problem comes from using the function htmlItems.add() and not having an htmlItem in the document.
-Delaying the close by using $.sleep(5000) before fix the crash, but we can't rely on it as the delay needed increase with the number of htmlItems added and it might be different from a computer to another due to performances.
-Saving the document or not doesn't change anything


I've added my clean document with just a rectangle frame, the script and the crash report on this url : https://we.tl/t-uFpX658s0o since we can't add an indeed file to the post

If there is no way to fix it, do you have an idea to get around this inDesign bug ?

We are developping a plugin for inDesign and while testing a new feature on a Mac we noticed that sometimes InDesign was crashing. We managed to reproduce this bug in a very simple indesign script that make inDesign crash 100% of the time and I'm looking for a way to get around this inDesign bug.

The crash occurs when we programatically add an htmlItem to a pageItem then close the document too quicky, It's only on Mac, doing that on windows works perfectly. The crash error seems to be a memory usage problem on inDesign's side.

Here is the script code :

var document = app.activeDocument;
var sourcePageItem = document.allPageItems[0];

sourcePageItem.htmlItems.add(
document.activeLayer,
LocationOptions.AT_END,
sourcePageItem,
{
geometricBounds: sourcePageItem.geometricBounds,
htmlContent: '<b>Hello</b>',
}
);

document.close(SaveOptions.NO);

other observations :

-Doing a sourcePageItem.htmlItems[0].remove(); to remove the htmlItem after adding it doesn't change anything, so the problem comes from using the function htmlItems.add() and not having an htmlItem in the document.
-Delaying the close by using $.sleep(5000) before fix the crash, but we can't rely on it as the delay needed increase with the number of htmlItems added and it might be different from a computer to another due to performances.
-Saving the document or not doesn't change anything


I've added the script and my clean document with just a rectangle frame with this post.

If there is no way to fix it, do you have an idea to get around this inDesign bug ?

This is version 14.0.2 of InDesign for the mac

For example, in a business card, some employees have a direct and mobile phone number, some employees only have a direct phone number. If there is a "Direct" paragraph style and a "Mobile" paragraph style, on a record where there isn't a Mobile number, after previewing the next record with both numbers the "Direct" paragraph style is now applied to the Mobile number.

The data merge should retain the paragraph styles based on the placeholders, not the previewed data.

Images I have attached:
1: placeholder view showing Direct style
2: placeholder view showing Mobile style
3: preview view showing record without mobile number
4: preview view showing next record with mobile number (both lines have "O:" instead of top have "O:" and bottom having "M:").

See https://indesignsecrets.com/data-merge-remove-unwanted-lines.php for a better description of the problem.

Hope that helps describe the issue.

How to repeat the issue:

0. Activate Clipboard history in windows settings (win 10)
1. Copy a random number to your clipboard (my testnumber "-2,375")
2. Create a new document and place a rectangle (or random object) on your page
3. Select the object and click (focus) in the field for the y-coordinates
4. hit "windows+V" to open your clipboard history (must be activated in the settings)
5. Click on your previous copied number.

6-Bug. The number has been pasted two times in the y-coordinates field.

Test system:
- Win 10 pro (1809)
- current Indesign CC version (how to check the actual version?)

By the way, if you try the clipboard history in a text field in inDesign, it works totally fine.

Thanks for your help.

In advance:
- Our external writers send us InDesign CC files (idml and indd)
- We open and save them in InDesign CS6
- Our customers use InDesign CS6

1. Version:
InDesign CS6 8.0
InDesign CC from 12.0 to 14.0.2 (others not tested)

2. Steps:
Since when: between 10 and 17. April 2019 (last time it worked on 10. April 2019)

2.a Open InDesign CC (any version, i tested 12.0, 13.1, 14.0.1 and 14.0.2)
2.b Save a file with activated hypenation (either indd or idml, both tested)
2.c Open either one of 2.b. in CS6

3. Expected result:
Hypenation works as usual in CS6. Text fits frames.

4. Actual result:
- Hypenation doesn't work in CS6 which resluts in text frames having overflow

5. Test files and information:
Already tested:
- de- and reactivating hypenation in CS6
- checking for "no break" option
- checking every used paragraph- and character-format
- checking user dictionary options
- checking language options
- checking autocorrection options
- saved the file as idml and indd in CC 12.0, 13.1, 14.0.1, 14.0.2 and then opened it in CS6
- contacted support

When I try to place a file in InDesign CC 2019 (or ANY CC 2019 app) and I enter text in the search box to find my file it defaults to "my Mac" instead of the folder I want it to search. Then when I select the folder I want to search it yields no results even though I KNOW there is a file there containing that word in the name. The folder I want it to search is on a remote server. I have tried to reindex the remote server in Spotlight (by adding it to the privacy tab and then removing it) but that did not work (Spotlight did not reindex the folder). I have changed the finder preferences to search the current folder. But these have not fixed the issue. PLEASE FIX!