Adobe InDesign: SDK/Scripting Bugs and Features
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InDesign Scripting Guide - Script Requirements
Hi Team,
I am developing Adobe Plugins that work with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. We need your support for the following requirements.
- Please provide an official scripting guide for Adobe InDesign.
- We cannot find the right script for the following actions in InDesign 2.1. To read and write leading from and to a Text Frame. 2.2. How to create groups or groupItems in InDesign? 2.3. How to add textFrames and other groupItems into the groupItem in InDesign? 2.4. To read and write width from and to a Text Frame. 2.5. To read and write height from and to a TextFrame.
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CC 2022: outdated linked Indd-Document on MasterSpread replaces content
I am met with the following bug on our 2022 server (v17.4.2):
when updating outdated links via script I use this line:
openDoc.links.everyItem().update();
however, if those outdated links are linked indd-pages contained on my masterSpreads, then instead of updating the links, the contents of my document will be completely replaced by the contents of that linked file.
I encountered the same bug when using place() to place another indd document containing the same outdated links. So place() also replaced the contents of my file. the image shows the contents of my file before and after updating my links.
This is…
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ScriptUI is not fully compatible with UI scaling
When UI scaling is set to anything higher than the minimum, some scriptui palettes behave very unexpected and are not useable anymore. More simple windows do work fine, though.
I suspect that some complex ui elements such as the ListBox trigger this behaviour, somehow confusing the layout manager. I found that a (palette) window is rendered too small if it includes a ListBox. Any attempt to resize the window by the user makes all elements go away (or the whole window in ID 2024).
In another case, programmatic positioning of the palette made it disappear. This works fine as long…1 vote -
Moving Anchoring Text to Anchored Object Crashes InDesign
Given a Text instance (
source) that contains an anchored object (U+FFFC marker), the commandsource.move(…)crashes InDesign if the destination (TextFrame, Text, InsertionPoint…) is itself an anchored object (or inside it).Code:
// Tested in ID CS6 and CC
// (see animation)
const BEG = LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING;
var TFS = app.activeDocument.textFrames;source = TFS.itemByName('source').texts[0]; // Text: contains the anchor
host = TFS.itemByName('host'); // TextFrame: 'host' frame
dest = host.textFrames.itemByName('dest'); // TextFrame: 'dest' framesource.move(BEG,dest); // --> ID crash
//source.move(BEG,host); // WOULD BE OK
//source.duplicate(BEG,dest); // WOULD BE OK2 votes -
QR Code Contents Reader
Hi,
It would be really helpful if we were able to access the contents and colour of a QR code using a script so that they can be batch updated using a script.
For example, I have hundreds of documents containing 100 Web Hyperlink QR codes and I want to update all the ones that contain "utmcampaign=summersale" to now be "utmcampaign=summersale" and turn all the QR codes that are black to now be red.
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Two calls to waitForProcess() required to preflight some files
When preflighting some files IDS outputs a "No errors yet; still looking" message to the console and no preflight results are returned.
But when we make 2 calls to waitForProcess() we can retrieve the preflight results.
Sample jsx file attached (as a .txt file). I can supply .idml files that require the two waitForProcess() calls.
We found the fix on a German forum post from 2014: https://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/foren/Preflight_Meldung_No_errors_yet;_still_looking__P529496.html
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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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Generate Adobe Color files from hexadecimal
Generate Adobe Color files from hexadecimal
There is a way to generate an *.ASE file for importing color samples into Adobe software (PS, AI, ID...) starting from a list I have in a TXT, CSV, EXCEL or other file.
example of the list:
e0cffc
c29ffa
a370f7
8540f5
6610f2
520dc2
3d0a91
290661
140330
therefore I would like these color codes to be saved in an *.ASE file that can be imported into INDESIGN which generates the 9 colors (9 as 10,000 colors)
Step 2 (optional) - if these colors can somehow be "also" converted from HEX to CMYK
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Redirect support to the InDesign from web browser
Adding the ability to handle redirects to the InDesign CEP/UXP extensions would make the authorization process for extensions in third-party services easier.
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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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getSystemPath using CSInterface throws URI Malformed error
I was trying to get the my documents folder path of the system using CSInterface getSystemPath function. It works in most of the cases. But it throws URI malformed error (refer the screenshot below), if the path of the documents folder contain characters from languages other than English.
I debugged the CSInterface.js file at line 521. And I found that the below piece of code returns the path of the folder without encoding the characters from languages other than English.
window.adobe_cep.getSystemPath(pathType)
IN MY CASE:
Path of documents folder: "C:\Users\sanjay\OneDrive - Élégante\Documents".
window.adobe_cep.getSystemPath(pathType)
// Returned value -…1 vote -
The CreateTOC function regularly crashes InDesign 18.0.
It has worked fine in previous versions of ID (at least up to v17.0).
I've yet to work out the fine details, but some documents I create are fine. Most aren't. Creating the TOC manually seems to work.1 vote -
Add `parentPage` and `parentTextFrame` of Table Cell and Row
Please add
parentPageandparentTextFrametocellandrow. Up to now it is not possible to determine, on which page or in which text frame a specific table cell/row is located.There is a hack with adding an anchored text frame, releasing it an reading its properties. But this is very hacky an time consuming ...
Or I have to use insertion points inside the cells/rows to get to the parentPage.
But this is all very clumsy.
( See here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/extendscript-indesign-2022-return-parentpage-s-of-last-cells-of-all-tables/m-p/12942541#M477149 )Thanks,
Tobias4 votes -
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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hyphenationExceptions in Dictionary
Hi,
app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions.itemByName("English: UK").name.
It returns,
English: USA.
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InDesignServer - All Layers are allways unlocked
InDesign Server 2021 and 2022 do unlock all Layers every time a document is opened.
There is no way to know the initial state of the layers. They are always unlocked for the Scripting.
Furthermore, this change is also saved to the document, removing the locks the user did.
I tested this with following script:var file = new File("C:/Test/Test.indd");
var doc = app.open(file);
for (var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++) {
var layer = doc.layers[i];
app.consoleout("Layer " + layer.name + " Locked: " + layer.locked + " Visible: " + layer.visible);
}
doc.close(SaveOptions.YES);I've already posted this…
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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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