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1. [ExtendScript/UXP] Position layoutWindow viewport

   I would like to be able to specify a layoutWIndow viewport's center.

   In Illustrator, we can position the center of the window's (a View, in Illustrator) viewport in document coordinates, so we can, for example, center a page item in the window.

   I would much appreciate this addition to Indesign scripting.

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2. 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.

   1. Please provide an official scripting guide for Adobe InDesign.
   2. 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.

   We cannot find some basic properties of TextFrames such as width and height in InDesign. In Illustrator, we can access the width and height of a TextFrame like "textFrame.width;" and "textFrame.height;" but we cannot find the equivalent script for InDesign. Most of the time, it is like we need to write custom functions to get the desired value like using "Geometric Bounds' to calculate the height and width.

   Can we get direct and simple properties to access the values, please?

   Please let me know if you require additional information.

   Hi Team,

   I am developing Adobe Plugins that work with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. We need your support for the following requirements.

   1. Please provide an official scripting guide for Adobe InDesign.
   2. 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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3. CC 2022: outdated linked Indd-Document on MasterSpread replaces content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   when updating outdated links via script I use this line: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 extremely problematic, since updating the links via script before exporting is necessary for our process.

   If I update the links manually, everything works fine.

   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… more

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4. InDesign hangs when placing text

   This bug has been around for a long time. It would be nice to have it fixed.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Install the Adobe font family, Source Han Sans TW, on your computer.
   2. Create a folder: c:\Temp and give everyone full permissions.
   3. Download Script1.jsx and place it in "C:\Users<User>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 19.0-J\en_US\Scripts\Scripts Panel"
   4. Start ID 2024 running in the CJK region.
   5. Open the scripts panel and run Script1.jsx
   6. Wait as long as you would like.

   Actual Result: Usually InDesign hangs (i.e. freezes). Sometimes InDesign crashes and submits and crash report to Adobe.

   Expected Result: That the script would place text and then terminate normally.

   Wordaround: Use InDesign 2024 Debug. Unfortunately, InDesign 2024 Debug gives many failed assertion messages and they quickly become annoying. It's interesting that InDesign 2024 Debug places the text and the script terminates normally, except, of course, for all the failed assertions.

   Here's a video, for what it's worth:

   https://www.loom.com/share/5536719355a0432fb0069513ccb1d0df?sid=0f285aff-7589-4860-bc62-736f7452f3f8

   I had to rename Script1.jsx to Script1.txt in order to upload it. This is a forum for scripting problems which doesn't allow people to upload scripts!!

   This bug has been around for a long time. It would be nice to have it fixed.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Install the Adobe font family, Source Han Sans TW, on your computer.
   2. Create a folder: c:\Temp and give everyone full permissions.
   3. Download Script1.jsx and place it in "C:\Users<User>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 19.0-J\en_US\Scripts\Scripts Panel"
   4. Start ID 2024 running in the CJK region.
   5. Open the scripts panel and run Script1.jsx
   6. Wait as long as you would like.

   Actual Result: Usually InDesign hangs (i.e. freezes). Sometimes InDesign crashes and submits and crash report to Adobe.

   Expected Result: That the script… more

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5. 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 as UI is not scaled, so it is at least not a pure scripting mistake.
   It would be a lot of work to rewrite all affected scripts again using UXP, so please fix this! Some more simple interfaces show that basically ScriptUI can work in the scaled mode!
   The whole thing is not completely new, see https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2021/03/scriptui-vs-ui-scaling
   I am using ID 2023 and 2024 on Macintosh.

   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… more

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6. 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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7. Sample script "PlaceMultipagePDF.vbs" does not work properly

   Related threads in the support community
   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0/ct-p/ct-indesign-jp?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&lang=all&tabid=discussions&profile.language=ja

   The above is a recent event, but the following thread is from 2018. We can assume that the situation is not good and has been going on for several years.
   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-placemultipagepdf-script-only-adds-pdfs-to-the-end-of-the-document/m-p/14015164?profile.language=en#M538521

   I can't try it in CS already, but presumably the problem is still the same and bad in all versions since CC.

   The "PlaceMultipagePDF.vbs" set of sample scripts pre-installed in InDesign clearly behaves abnormally compared to the .jsx, .applescripts of the same name.

   Observing the behavior of .jsx and .applescript, it seems that the following processing steps are involved. 1.
   1. display a dialog to select a PDF file
   2. select target document from new or existing documents
   3. if user selects an existing document, select target page from pull-down
   4. place the first page of the PDF on the selected page of the indd document
   5. add a new page immediately after the selected page of the indd document
   6. place the next page of the PDF
   7. loop through 5. and 6. until the PDF page reaches the end

   .vbs behaves differently in the middle.
   4. ignore selected pages in indd document and add pages to the end of indd document
   5. place "second page" of PDF
   6. loop 4. and 5. until the PDF page reaches the end, but the "first page" of the PDF is placed at the end
   7. the last page of the indd document is deleted (where the first page of the PDF is placed)

   Even for Windows users, the user's goal can be achieved by choosing .jsx instead of .vbs.
   However, not all users can determine which is correct. Also, who would expect such different results from different scripting languages, even though they have the same name?
   In any case, the pre-installation of scripts that do not work properly as samples should be taken seriously.
   I think the solution is to fix the contents of the .vbs and reflect them in updates, or else exclude them from the pre-installed packages.

   <Japanese>：にほんご
   サンプルスクリプト「PlaceMultipagePDF.vbs」は正常に動作しない

   サポートコミュニティの関連スレッド
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   上記は近日の出来事だが、下記スレッドは2018年のことである。よくない状況が数年間続いていることが推測できる。
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   私は既にCSで試すことができないが、おそらくこの問題はCC以降すべてのバージョンで変わりなく不良であると思われる。

   InDesignにプリインストールされているサンプルスクリプト群の “PlaceMultipagePDF.vbs” は、同名の .jsx, .applescript と比較して明らかに動作が異常である。

   .jsx, .applescript の挙動を見守ると、以下の処理工程のようである。
   1. PDFファイルを選択するダイアログ
   2. 新規ドキュメント、または既存ドキュメントからターゲットドキュメントを選択
   3. ユーザーに既存ドキュメントが選択された場合、ターゲットページをプルダウンから選択
   4. inddの選択されたページに、PDFの始めのページを配置
   5. inddの選択されたページのすぐ後ろに新規ページを追加
   6. PDFの次のページを配置
   7. PDFのページが末尾に達するまで5.と6.をループ

   .vbs の挙動は途中で異なる。
   4. inddの選択されたページを無視して、inddのドキュメント末尾にページを追加
   5. PDFの2番目のページを配置
   6. PDFのページが末尾に達するまで4.と5.をループするが、最後にPDFの始めのページが配置される
   7. inddの最後のページが削除される（PDFの始めのページの配置先）

   Windowsユーザーであっても、 .vbs は使用せず、.jsxを選ぶことでユーザーの目的は達成できる。
   しかし、どちらが正しいか、すべてのユーザーは判断できない。また、スクリプト言語の違いでこんなに結果が異なるなんて誰が予想できる？
   いずれにしても、まともに動作しないスクリプトがサンプルとしてプリインストールされることは真剣に問題視するべきである。
   .vbsの内容を修正しアップデートに反映する、さもなくばプリインストールのパッケージから除外してしまうことが解決法だと考える。

   Related threads in the support community
   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0/ct-p/ct-indesign-jp?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&lang=all&tabid=discussions&profile.language=ja

   The above is a recent event, but the following thread is from 2018. We can assume that the situation is not good and has been going on for several years.
   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-placemultipagepdf-script-only-adds-pdfs-to-the-end-of-the-document/m-p/14015164?profile.language=en#M538521

   I can't try it in CS already, but presumably the problem is still the same and bad in all versions since CC.

   The "PlaceMultipagePDF.vbs" set of sample scripts pre-installed in InDesign clearly behaves abnormally compared to the .jsx, .applescripts of the same name.

   Observing the behavior of .jsx and .applescript, it seems that the following processing steps are involved. 1.
   1. display… more

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   Closed: Fixed  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

   This issue has been resolved in the latest version of InDesign 2024(v19.0).  Please update to this version of InDesign from Creative Cloud Desktop application to get the fix.

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Moving Anchoring Text to Anchored Object Crashes InDesign

    Given a Text instance (source) that contains an anchored object (U+FFFC marker), the command source.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' frame

    source.move(BEG,dest); // --> ID crash
    //source.move(BEG,host); // WOULD BE OK
    //source.duplicate(BEG,dest); // WOULD BE OK

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13. 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 script

    I'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 from a script, so then I can run my other scripts which refresh links/colours based on the merge all in one go.

    Oh and while you're at it, can we PLEASE do something about the Mail Merge error messages. I've seen them so many times and it slows down the save and close and really it's inconsequential. Can they have a "do not show again" option for all files.

    Please and thank you.

    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 script

    I'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… more

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14. 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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15. 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 - "file:///C:/Users/sanjay/OneDrive%20-%20Ã%89lÃ%a9gante/Documents"
    // É is encoded as Ã%89

    encodeURI("C:/Users/sanjay/OneDrive - Élégante/Documents")
    // Expected value - "file:///C:/Users/sanjay/OneDrive%20-%20%C3%89l%C3%A9gante/Documents"
    // É is encoded as %C3%89

    decodeURI("Ã%89") throws URI malformed error.
    decodeURI("%C3%89") returns É.

    ISSUE:

    So, I guess it is the problem with the encoding of window.adobe_cep.getSystemPath(pathType). Is there any work around for this issue?

    SAME ISSUE WITH OTHER FUNCTION:

    I'm also facing the same issue with other scripting functions like "documentAfterActivate" CS Event which returns the path of active document if a document is opened. The path received is not encoded properly for characters other than English.

    VERSION INFO:

    CEP: 9
    InDesign: 2022
    OS: Windows 10

    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 -… more

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16. 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.

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17. 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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18. hyphenationExceptions in Dictionary

    Hi,

    app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions.itemByName("English: UK").name.

    It returns,

    English: USA.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/hyphenationexceptions-in-dictionary/m-p/13001402#M480763

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19. 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;
    

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20. 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/7416881

    Thanks, Tobias

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