Adobe InDesign: SDK/Scripting Bugs and Features
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findColor() returns a number, it should return objects to which the colour was applied
Using the Colour tab in the Find/Change dialog you can search text and/or objects to which a certain colour was applied in the document. That works fine.
However, in a script, this call:
app.findColorPreferences.properties.findWhat =
app.documents[0].swatches.item ('red');
app.documents[0].findColor();returns the number of objects to which the swatch 'red' was applied. It should return the objects to whci the swatch was applied.
This makes the function entirely useless. Please fix this.
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Allow Mail Merge Preview Scripting
It would be super handy if we could make a few options available to improve the mail merge process and automation via scripting. These include:
1. Allow the mail merge preview to be switched off and on via script
2. Allow the data file to be refreshed via scriptI'm trying to build a script that basically turns off preview, refreshes, turns preview back on. In an ideal world this would just be a refresh button at the bottom of the data merge panel that does all this behind the scenes - that also has the ability to be called…
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Buttons are not working when a top layer is blocking it's under layer.
Hi, buttons don't work if the layer is placed under a layer. It is like the image remains on top with 0% opacity and everything under it, is unclickable.
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API REST calls in Scripting for InDesign
Use scripting to contact a database through API and get a list for the data merge. If this is available already, I'm at a loss on how to implement it and would love assistance.
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Expose footnote and endnote numbers to the DOM
Currently, footnote and endnote numbers are not exposed in de DOM, and can't be used in a script. Please expose them, so we could do stuff like this ...
var endnoteText = myNote.texts[0].contents; var endnoteNumber = myNote.number;1 vote -
Add possibilty to hook into Context Menu and reciece the selected Context Menu Item
I'm looking for a way to add custom scripts to the context menus (right click with the mouse) of the paragraph style and the character style palette.
So the user finds the style he's looking for, right clicks on it, chooses my script, the script gets the reference to the selected style item, and runs with it.
I asked this in the forum (in 2015), and it’s still not possible but hardly missed:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/id8-js-context-menu-item-for-paragraph-and-character-style-palette/td-p/7416881Thanks, Tobias
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Upgrade XSLT enginge
Please consider upgrading the underlying XSLT 1.0 engine to at least XSLT 2.0 (if not XSLT 3.0)! It’s a pain to be forced to transform before going into InDesign or to write clumsy (for nowadays) XSLT 1.0 code.
Thanks, Tobias
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Add all new JavaScript functions of ECMAscript 6
Please consider an upgrade of the underlaying JS engine to a newer standard. There are many, many functionality we are missing, e.g.
array.indexOf(),array.foreach(), default parameter handling in functions ... the list feels endless.
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Handle SpecialCharacters with unicode equivalents as normal text
SpecialCharacters are certainly necessary in places where there is no unicode equivalent (such as AUTOPAGENUMBER) but for many characters with unicode equivalents (BULLETCHARACTER, COPYRIGHTSYMBOL), it complicates string manipulation with no benefit (that I can see).
Example:
mySelectionContents = app.selection[0].contents;
alert("The current selection is when added to a string is " + mySelectionContents);
alert("The current selection is when coerced to a string is " + String(mySelectionContents));If you select a single bullet character, and force the specialCharacter to a string by adding it to the alert string you get "1396862068" or "BULLET_CHARACTER" if you explicitly convert to…
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InDesign Scripting bug? Master Pageitems of specific Layer as Collection
I want to see all 'master' page items of all master spreads on a specific layer using code like this:
app.activeDocument.layers.itemByName('existLayerName').pageItems.everyItem().getElements();
Even such a layer contains 'master' page items, this code always returns an empty array!
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Events: 'afterSelectionAttributeChanged' (LayoutWindow)
The event 'afterSelectionAttributeChanged' (LayoutWindow) has the "Event" class, but logically its class should be "MutationEvent", since it is not clear which attribute of the object has been changed...
The mutation event in most classes that have an addEventListener method does not work.
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Update Indesign script to support ES6
Update Indesign to support modern ES6.
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BUG - Scripting: multiple paragraph styles for multiple paragraphs in one text box not working correctly
Paragraph styles are not being applied correctly when setting more than two paragraph styles for more than one paragraph in a text box.
For three or more paragraphs, paragraph n is set to paragraph style n, and paragraphs 1 through n-1 are set to paragraph style n-1. The expected behaviour would be that paragraph 1 is set to paragraph style 1, paragraph 2 is set to paragraph style 2, paragraph 3 is set to paragraph style 3, ..., paragraph n is set to paragraph style n.
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Scripted iterative document open/close fails to close files
Note: my sample code is jsx, but the problem may not be limited to jsx.
We have multiple products that sometimes show a problem with document.close() not actually closing the file, leading to incorrect functioning, memory bloat, slowdowns, and we believe some crashes. I provide a test script that takes a currently open document and iteratively copies it, opens the copy, then closes the copy -- after the loop is finished, the copy files are removed.
Important: If run from the ESTK or Scripts Panel, the script works as expected -- no problems. If run from a custom menu (setup…
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inDesign crash with documents.loadMasters()
i have try to load master page by script (i post a small script test) but indesign crash... if i want copy masterspread from doc1 to doc 2 i must use "duplicate"...
target indesign
// create two document
var doc1 = app.documents.add()
var doc2 = app.documents.add()// add new master spread and set it
var master = doc1.masterSpreads.add()
master.namePrefix = "XX"// save document on disk and get file
doc1.save()
var doc1File = doc1.filePath// close
doc1.close()// load master spreads of doc1 on doc 2
doc2.loadMasters(doc1File)1 vote -
Make ImageCatalog Script an integral contact sheet function in InDesign
Good morning. There is a sample script in InDesign that I LOVE! It makes contact sheets much quicker (and using far less memory) than Photoshop or Bridge. If you have a hundred images and want to make a contact page, this script is the way to go. Much more efficient. The Script is the ImageCatalog under JavaScript samples in the Scripts window. This has always been available, and always worked very well until the last couple of updates. Now when I run it, it just sits there. If I try saving the images again (save a copy) or saving them…
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[CS6 to 2020 15.0.1.209] documentPreferences.snippetImportUsesOriginalLocation | values true and false do the opposite what they should do
Hi,
if I set value for snippetImportUsesOriginalLocation of documentPreferences to true, InDesign will place a snippet file with spread.place( snippetFile ) always at the current zero point [0,0].Wheras I set the value to false the snippet will be placed at its original position.
It should be exactly the other way.
Currently value false will use the original position and value true will chose the current zero point as defined with app.documents[0].zeroPoint .
Tested with German InDesign versions:
CS6 8.1.0
CC 2014 10.2.
2020 v. 15.0.1.209
All on WIndows 10.In the discussion linked to below Gerald Singelmann can see…
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nextItem() doesn't work
Instructions:
- Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
- Open ID CC 2019
- Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
- Run the script
- Observe that line 8 gives an "Object is invalid" error. That's because the nextItem() on line 6 didn't work.
To see this more clearly:
- Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
- Open ID CC 2019
- Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
- Comment line 6 and uncomment line 7.
- Run the script
- The script runs fine. It prints out "2", the name of the second page.
In other words, nextItem() is broken. The work around (in this case) is to use an…
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