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1. Scripting | graphicLayerOptions : Changing visibility of graphicLayer will change ID number of placed graphic

   Problem Description:
   If you change the visibility of a graphicLayer of a placed graphic, could be a PDF, a PSD, an InDesign page or a AI file, the ID number of the placed graphic will change. The result of this is, that "everyItem().doSomething" with object graphicLayer will not work at all.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Place a graphic with some graphic layers.
   2. Access the graphic layers of the graphic by scripting and try to change eg. currentVisibility for all graphic layers in one go.
   Frame holding the graphic is selected. The script snippet below should do this easily. However, it is not!

   Note:
   In case of a placed InDesign page or a PDF exported from an InDesign document with layers intact, all InDesign layers are nested in one "layer group" so we have to look after graphicLayers[0] (that's the "layer group") and add graphicLayers.everyItem() to access all sub-layers.

   app.selection[0].graphics[0].graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers[0].graphicLayers.everyItem().currentVisibility = false;

   Actual Result:
   Error message thrown. In my German InDesign this is:
   "Die angeforderte Aktion konnte nicht ausgeführt werden, da das Objekt nicht mehr existiert."
   This is the $ID/ObjectDeletedError

   Expected Result:
   No error message. The visibility of all graphic layers should change.

   Any Workarounds:
   Loop the graphic layers. But do so that every time you do not access a reference to the graphic by its ID number.

   Something like that will work:

   var layerLength = app.selection[0].graphics[0].graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers[0].graphicLayers.length;

   for(var n=0;n<layerLength;n++)
   {
   $.writeln( n+"\t"+app.selection[0].graphics[0].id );
   app.selection[0].graphics[0].graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers[0].graphicLayers[n].currentVisibility = false;
   };

   The following will NOT work:

   var graphicLayers = app.selection[0].graphics[0].graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers[0].graphicLayers.everyItem().getElements();

   for(var n=0;n<graphicLayers.length ;n++)
   {
   graphicLayers[n].currentVisibility = false;
   };

   Why will that not work?
   See into the results in the JavaScript Console with $.writeln( n+"\t"+app.selection[0].graphics[0].id ); from the loop that is working.
   Everytime you change currentVisibility of a graphicLayer the ID of the graphic is changing. That means the object is not itself anymore.

   Here some sample output from the JavaScript Console with one of my sample files:
   /*
   Result:
   0 325
   1 331
   2 337
   3 343
   4 349
   */

   You can see that the graphic began with a ID number of 325, after changing currentVisibility of the first graphic layer it suddenly became ID 331 and so on.

   Read about this scripting issue in the InDesign Scripting Forum here:

   "Place specific pdf layer into indesign with javascript"
   Yuliascript 18.06.2018
   https://forums.adobe.com/message/10452540#10452540

   Also here a thread from 2012:
   "Activating object layers basing on document layers"
   Marco Lugli 14.12.2012
   https://forums.adobe.com/message/4920745#4920745

   Also see attached documents with a placed sample PDF:

   PlacedPDFwithLayers-13.1.0.76.zip

   Download link from my Dropbox:
   https://www.dropbox.com/s/hfsspv5ddxaakvy/PlacedPDFwithLayers-13.1.0.76.zip?dl=0

   FWIW: Did this bug report also at Bug ID - ID-4208697.

   Regards,
   Uwe Laubender
   ( ACP )

   Problem Description:
   If you change the visibility of a graphicLayer of a placed graphic, could be a PDF, a PSD, an InDesign page or a AI file, the ID number of the placed graphic will change. The result of this is, that "everyItem().doSomething" with object graphicLayer will not work at all.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Place a graphic with some graphic layers.
   2. Access the graphic layers of the graphic by scripting and try to change eg. currentVisibility for all graphic layers in one go.
   Frame holding the graphic is selected. The script snippet below should do this easily. However,… more

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2. Bug with index entry

   If you select a word after a table (»sit« in InDesign document: https://adobe.ly/2X0wXOi) and create an index entry using script, the page reference will be created after the word (under certain circumstances).

   var _doc = app.activeDocument;
   var _docIndex;

   if(_doc.indexes.length === 0) {
   _docIndex = _doc.indexes.add();
   } else {
   _docIndex = _doc.indexes.firstItem();
   }

   var textObj = app.selection[0];
   var _parentTopic = _docIndex.topics.add("Topicname");
   var _pageRef = _parentTopic.pageReferences.add(textObj);

   – word before that, everything's correct.
   – tables with 3 or more rows
   – the more table rows the more offset

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3. 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)

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4. 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 as a different format (jpeg vs tiff or tiff vs jpeg), sometimes it works. Again - I LOVE this script, and wish you would just make it a regular feature. Is there something I should be doing with my images before I run the script?

   These are sample scripts that ship with InDesign. They show up under Windows / Utilities / Scripts / Samples / JavaScript / ImageCatalog.jsx. There is no vendor to contact other than Adobe for this one. There is another version of this under Windows / Utilities / Scripts / Samples / AppleScript / ImageCatalog.jsx, but I've never been able to get the AppleScript version to work.

   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… more

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5. IDML resources

   On https://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/documentation.html site links are not working at the IDML section. Please fix it!

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   Need More Info  ·  amaarora responded

   The links are working fine for me.
   Can you recheck once at your end?

   Thanks

6. textStyleRange.convertToNote() becomes very confused.

   I'll attach a self-contained script which first creates in order to demonstrate problems with textStyleRange.convertToNote(). The script creates a small document containing "b"s. These are marked with a smaller pointSize so that they form individual textStyleRanges. The script then converts these textStyleRanges into notes. Unfortunately, the script terminates with a message: "Object is invalid; tsr.convertToNote()". This message happens because the scripting engine has become confused and is trying to convert a "b" within a note into another note. This shouldn't happen and is the first problem.

   Open the story window. The beginning of the story has a clear pattern of notes between sentences. This should continue to the end of the document, but looking further down, two more problems can be seen:

   (1) Overflow.jpg shows that the text at the frame's overflow boundary has become confused. It should say "The quick green fox ...", but instead it says something like "The The The quick The ...".

   (2) Nearer to the end of the story, Confusion.jpg shows that larger phrases are converted into notes even though only "b" should be converted.

   I can't attach a script, so here it is:

   // Run this script in InDesign CC 2019, Roman Region.
   //THIS IS THE PROBLEM PART THE REST IS JUST TO SET IT UP.

   // Convert all "b" characters into notes
   function hideNotes(story){

    // Find all the "b"s
    app.findTextPreferences = null;
    var findPrefs = app.findTextPreferences;
    findPrefs.findWhat = "b";
    var matchingItems = story.findText()
   
    // It shouldn't be necessary to copy the findText() results, but just in case ...
    var copy = []
    for (var i = 0; i < matchingItems.length; i++) { 
        copy[i] = (matchingItems[i])
    }
   
    // Loop through the "b"s and convert them to notes
    for (var i = 0; i < copy.length; i++) { 
        var tsr = copy[i].textStyleRanges.firstItem();
        tsr.convertToNote();
     }
   

   }

   // This is just setting up a document with reasonable defaults
   function setup(){

   // Set up application
   var millimeterMeasurementUnits = 2053991795; // This means millimeters
   app.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = millimeterMeasurementUnits ;
   app.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = millimeterMeasurementUnits ;
   
   // Set up new document
   var doc = app.documents.add();
   doc.zeroPoint = [0, 0];
   doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = 1380143215 // This means PageOrigin;
   doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth = 210
   doc.documentPreferences.pageHeight= 297
   doc.marginPreferences.left  = 20
   doc.marginPreferences.right  = 20
   doc.marginPreferences.top  = 20
   doc.marginPreferences.bottom  = 20
   
   // Set up new page
   var page = doc.pages.firstItem();
   page.marginPreferences.left  = 20
   page.marginPreferences.right  = 20
   page.marginPreferences.top  = 20
   page.marginPreferences.bottom  = 20
   
   // Set up new frame
   var textFrame = doc.textFrames.add();
   textFrame.geometricBounds = [20, 20, 277, 190];
   
   // Add frame text
   for(var i = 0; i < 250; i++){
       var insertionPoint = textFrame.insertionPoints.lastItem()
       insertionPoint.pointSize = 12
       insertionPoint.contents = "The quick green fox jumped over the lazy dog. "
       insertionPoint = textFrame.insertionPoints.lastItem()
       // This point size will set the "b" into its own textStyleRange
       insertionPoint.pointSize = 7
       insertionPoint.contents = "b"
   }
   

   }

   //Entry Point
   setup();
   var stories = app.activeDocument.stories;
   for (var i = 0; i < stories.length; i++) {
   hideNotes(stories[i]);
   }

   I'll attach a self-contained script which first creates in order to demonstrate problems with textStyleRange.convertToNote(). The script creates a small document containing "b"s. These are marked with a smaller pointSize so that they form individual textStyleRanges. The script then converts these textStyleRanges into notes. Unfortunately, the script terminates with a message: "Object is invalid; tsr.convertToNote()". This message happens because the scripting engine has become confused and is trying to convert a "b" within a note into another note. This shouldn't happen and is the first problem.

   Open the story window. The beginning of the story has a clear pattern of… more

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7. [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 this also on a Mac OSX-version of InDesign:

   https://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=573538#573538

   Regards,
   Uwe Laubender
   ( ACP )

   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… more

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8. Where to find InDesign document links API reference?

   Where do I find the API reference for document links? (As show in the Links tab.) I've found scripting guides and various bits of documentation, but I can't find a complete object model reference.

   Newcomer to InDesign scripting. All I need is to dump the full path of every linked image to a text file. I've found a script online which does this, but it only outputs each link's 'name'. A fuller version of the same script dumps out the size and file type as well.

   I'd like to modify this script to dump out 'path', but 'path' doesn't seem to be the property name, and I can't figure out where to find the list of property names. Am I missing something? Does this documentation exist?

   Where do I find the API reference for document links? (As show in the Links tab.) I've found scripting guides and various bits of documentation, but I can't find a complete object model reference.

   Newcomer to InDesign scripting. All I need is to dump the full path of every linked image to a text file. I've found a script online which does this, but it only outputs each link's 'name'. A fuller version of the same script dumps out the size and file type as well.

   I'd like to modify this script to dump out 'path', but 'path' doesn't seem… more

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9. nextItem() doesn't work

   Instructions:

   1. Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
   2. Open ID CC 2019
   3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
   4. Run the script
   5. 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:

   1. Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
   2. Open ID CC 2019
   3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
   4. Comment line 6 and uncomment line 7.
   5. Run the script
   6. 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 index of "Page_263.index+1". I think, in other situations, the work around will require a loop.

   Instructions:

   1. Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
   2. Open ID CC 2019
   3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
   4. Run the script
   5. 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:

   1. Load Script4.txt into ExtendScript CC
   2. Open ID CC 2019
   3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
   4. Comment line 6 and uncomment line 7.
   5. Run the script
   6. 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… more

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10. Script failing ... strangely

    Instructions:

    1. Load Script.txt into ExtendScript CC
    2. Open ID CC 2019
    3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
    4. Run the script
    5. Observe that the script gives an error on line 6 (Invalid object for this request.) This is because TextFrame281 and TextFrame284 are the same object. They should be different objects.

    To see this more clearly:

    1. Load script.txt into ExtendScript CC
    2. Open ID CC 2019
    3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
    4. Uncomment line 4 (var temp = TextFrame_281.id)
    5. Run the script
    6. The script runs fine. If you look in the document that has been created, the two text frames are in the upper right corner and they are linked to each other.

    In other words, the value of TextFrame_281 changes, depending on whether it is accessed. My only guess is that this is some kind of lazy evaluation gone wrong.

    Instructions:

    1. Load Script.txt into ExtendScript CC
    2. Open ID CC 2019
    3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
    4. Run the script
    5. Observe that the script gives an error on line 6 (Invalid object for this request.) This is because TextFrame281 and TextFrame284 are the same object. They should be different objects.

    To see this more clearly:

    1. Load script.txt into ExtendScript CC
    2. Open ID CC 2019
    3. Connect ExtendScript CC to ID CC 2019
    4. Uncomment line 4 (var temp = TextFrame_281.id)
    5. Run the script
    6. The script runs fine. If you look in the document that has been created, the two text… more

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11. How to turnoff Type contextual controls in Indesign CC 2018?

    app.typeContextualUiPrefs.showFractionsUi = false;
    don`t work

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12. The Script FindChangeByList.jsx not working CC2019

    Dont Working script

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15. Allow for control of undo tracking Re: Undo Set Scripting Tag

    Currently the only way to manipulate the undo queue is to run a script with doScript and even then it's very limiting. With my current event listeners, the user clicks around a few times and the undo queue fills up with 'Undo Set Scripting Tag' and they are unable to undo simple changes without holding down CTRL+Z for a few seconds. I am unable to use doScript because I need to return values to my interface. I would like to suggest an option to temporarily suspend undo tracking during certain script actions. Some of my actions do not change the document and only update the interface.

    Currently the only way to manipulate the undo queue is to run a script with doScript and even then it's very limiting. With my current event listeners, the user clicks around a few times and the undo queue fills up with 'Undo Set Scripting Tag' and they are unable to undo simple changes without holding down CTRL+Z for a few seconds. I am unable to use doScript because I need to return values to my interface. I would like to suggest an option to temporarily suspend undo tracking during certain script actions. Some of my actions do not change the… more

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16. A reference to panel item 25 breaks a script

    There's a rogue panel that breaks InDesign CC2019 when it is referenced (CC2018 is not affected).

    Open InDesign CC2019, then run this one-line script:

    app.panels[25].name

    Result: Error: 'Invalid object for this request'.

    Now do this:

    app.panels[25].isValid

    which returns true.

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    Under Review  ·  amaarora responded

    Thanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it

    -InDesign Team

17. ScriptUI: Opening Dialog while dialog is open breaks InDesign

    I posted that bug in gerneral Bugs section. Belongs to Scripting though:
    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/37298593-scriptui-opening-dialog-while-dialog-is-open-brea

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    FIXED  ·  amaarora responded

    Hello All,
    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the 14.0.3 version of InDesign

    Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix. The latest version of InDesign is 15.0

    If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.

18. Preferences folder access via ExtendScript with macOS Catalina public beta 3

    I've installed macOS X Catalina public beta 3 and I have an annoying issue with scripting.
    I can't access to the user's preferences folder via Javascript even if I've assigned to InDesign full file system access in the security panel of the system preferences.
    I can't read any files inside the user's Library so that I can't load a GREP query for example.

    Hope you find a fix on this.

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19. Table footnotes not indexed correctly

    Table footnotes are not indexed correctly in two ways: to the script engine they appear in the wrong order and table footnotes have no .index property.

    The attached document has one text frame with three footnotes in the main text and one table with one footnote. The table footnote is footnote 3. To reproduce the problem, do this:

    1. Open the document.
    2. Run this script against the document (in the ESTK):

    fnotes = app.documents[0].stories[0].footnotes
    for (i = 0; i < fnotes.length; i++) {
    $.writeln (fnotes[i].contents)
    }

    1. Expected output:

    . Note 1.
    . Note 2.
    . Note table.
    . Note 4.

    1. Actual output:

    . Note 1.
    . Note 2.
    . Note 4.
    . Note table.

    Now do this, still with the same document:

    app.documents[0].stories[0].footnotes[3].index

    This returns an error. The error message is 'index'. Footnotes outside of tables correctly return their index as expected.

    Table footnotes are not indexed correctly in two ways: to the script engine they appear in the wrong order and table footnotes have no .index property.

    The attached document has one text frame with three footnotes in the main text and one table with one footnote. The table footnote is footnote 3. To reproduce the problem, do this:

    1. Open the document.
    2. Run this script against the document (in the ESTK):

    fnotes = app.documents[0].stories[0].footnotes
    for (i = 0; i < fnotes.length; i++) {
    $.writeln (fnotes[i].contents)
    }

    1. Expected output:

    . Note 1.
    . Note 2.
    . Note table.
    . Note 4.

    1. Actual output:

    . Note 1.
    . Note… more

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    FIXED  ·  Abhinav Kaushik responded

    Hello All,
    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0

    Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.

    If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.

    You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 15.0
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html

    -InDesign Team

20. Crash when calling IActionManager::PerformAction() in InDesign SDK Sample

    Steps:
    1. On macOS, build sample plugin "SnapShot.sdk.xcodeproj" which is from Adobe InDesign SDK.
    2. Load the plugin in InDesign.
    3. Create a empty new document.
    4. Open panel "Windows->SnippetRunner[US]"
    5. From snippet name drop down list, select "ManipulateStructureView"
    6. Cick "Go" icon button.
    7. On parameter dialog, select "ChangeStructureViewState(toggle)".
    8. Click OK.
    9. Crash.
    The attachment is the crash log.

    For the same plugin with same operations, the crash only occurs on macOS, but not on Windows.

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