Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Navigation Points Not Available to Scripting in InDesign 2021 (16.0)
Problem Description:
Querying navigation points inside a movie trigger errors from InDesign 16.Steps to Reproduce:
1. Query movie.navigationPoints.length or movie.navigationPoints.count() with Extendscript.The following script shows this issue(s) with simple document containing a move and one button with a play at navigation point action applied.
var btn = app.activeDocument.buttons[0];
var beh = btn.behaviors[0];
var mov = beh.movieItem;
var navPts = mov.navigationPoints;
try{alert(navPts.length); /*doesn't exist*/}catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}
try{
alert(navPts.count()); /*Give incorrect error - Error: Request failed because the underlying functionality is no longer available in the current version of the application */}catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}
alert(navPts.everyItem().getElements().length); /incorrectly…
62 votesAvailable in Prerelease Builds ·
AdminRavi Kiran
(Senior Lead Quality Engineer, Adobe InDesign)
responded
The issue has been fixed in the latest Prerelease Build (build 15) of InDesign.
You can download the latest PreRelease build from the Creative Cloud Desktop application.
Please check if the issue is resolved for you & let us know.
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ID 2020 bug - checkbox not shown.
in ID2019 everything is Ok - the checkbox is visible. But in 2020 - not!
var w = new Window("dialog");
var list = w.add ("listbox", undefined, ["One", "Two", "Three", "Four"]);
list.items[1].checked = true;
w.show();8 votesThanks for reporting the issue
We are reviewing it-InDesign Team
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while normal batch process consumes at least 1GB for 100 document, with running script file with some process consumes at least 40-50GB RAM and It causes computer no to respond
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to
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thank you
1 vote
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