Adobe InDesign: SDK/Scripting Bugs and Features
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Separate the indesign scripting forum from the indesign community support forum
With the relaunch of Adobe's community support forums, the indesign scripting forum was merged with the general indesign forum. Please separate the two so users can find the most relevant content.
45 votesHi,
1. The majority of InDesign Scripting threads were merged and archived at first.
2. After a month or so, InDesign Scripting re-appeared as its own topic in the new forums.
3. David K. started un-archiving older threads last week, a few at a time, very slowly and by hand, because of odd server-side limitations.
4. There is no “Direct Link” to the Scripting Topic at this time, but this ought to be fixed with the current sprint from the forums team. The internal bug number is: ALFD-1530While we wait for ALFD-1530, there is a backdoor way to find direct links to topics. You can follow a topic then look at your follows… or just use these links:
• InDesign Scripting: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/scripting
• InDesign SDK: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/sdk
• InDesign Server Developers: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/server%20developersThanks
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Allow keyboard shortcuts to be assigned by script
Add the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts do built-in InDesign menu actions or panel menus by javascript.
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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:
- Open the document.
- 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)
}- Expected output:
. Note 1.
. Note 2.
. Note table.
. Note 4.- Actual output:
. Note 1.
. Note…16 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0Please 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
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Bug When Overriding Master Page Items: Unexpected Shift of Master Page Objects
When overriding page items by script, those items are unexpectedly shifted and do not stay in the x/y position, they are on the master page. This differs widely from the UI-behaviour of InDesign.
There is a very good view and analysis of this bug from Marc Autret, which can be found here:
http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2014/06/indesign-scripting-forum-roundup-6#hd1sb28 votes -
GREP Find and replace Script not working CC2019
We are getting below error while running the GREP script in InDesign CC2019, but same is working fine in CS6 version. Please check and fix this bug quickly to migrate CC2019 version.
Error: User canceled this action
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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,…8 votesThanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it
-InDesign Team
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[15.0.0.155] New property Alternate Text for Hyperlinks is not supported by Scripting, IDMS and IDML
Hi,
I see no new property for a new feature with InDesign 2020 version 15.0.0.155:
Alternate Text for Hyperlinks.The feature is also missing with IDMS and IDML.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )7 votesThanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it
-InDesign Team
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Setting stroke weight to 0 by script results in 1 pt
Given a frame (graphic or text) with stroke color set to 'None' and stroke weight set to 0, the jsx command "app.selection[0].strokeWeight = 0" sets the weight to 1pt and stroke color to the default swatch.
Steps to reproduce:
- Create a new Document.
- Create a new Text (or Graphic) Frame.
- Set the stroke weight to 0 and color to 'None' if necessary
- Select the frame with the Selection tool.
- Start a script with a following one line: app.selection[0].strokeWeight=0
Expected result: no change
Actual result: stroke weight set to 1pt and color to the default swatch.Note:
Setting stroke weight to…7 votes -
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 offset7 votesThanks for reporting
We are reviewing the issue-InDesign Team
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TextFrame ExportFile to Snippet fails if source selection is inner text (ex: an insertionPoint)
Select an insertionPoint, call parent textFrame through
app.selection[0].parentStory.textContainers[0]
Then
call exportFile (snippet) on that object and export fails.
It seems the scripting engine has kept the initial insertionPoint as reference when exportFile is called leading to an execution error (this export format cannot be applied to this object).
It should work.
Bug encountered with several versions/os.7 votesThanks for reporting
We are reviewing the issue-InDesign Team
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Add MeasurementEditboxes to ScriptUI
I'd love to see MeasurementEditboxes to ScriptUI. We had them previously, and I don't know why they were never added to ScriptUI.
You can read more background here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1007448
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XSLX Import partially fails on Windows
The problem is while manual import of XSLX files is no worries, it partially fails when the placement is called from script on Windows.
The main issue is that sheetName property seems to be ignored leading to the first sheet always being placed no matter which sheetName has been set.
The expected behaviour is that the sheetName set in app.excelImportPreferences.sheetname is correctly placed.
No problem with old xls format or with xlsx on mac.6 votesThanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it
-InDesign Team
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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…
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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-brea5 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the 14.0.3 version of InDesignPlease 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.
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Please expose a PDF's page count to scripting
I posted this one in the general feature requests section, should have done that here in scripting. Here's the link:
It got quite a few votes over there. . .
P.
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Epub toc links are not created when a document's toc is created by a script
To create a (navigable) Epub TOC you check the 'Make text anchor in source paragraph' checkbox. The links are created correctly when the TOC is created manually, but when the TOC is created by a script, the links are not created.
To confirm, please open the attached document and run this very simple script:
app.documents[0].createTOC (app.documents[0].tocStyles.item('Epub'), true);
The used TOC style ('Epub') has the 'Make text anchor in source paragraph' box checked.
Then export the document to reflowable Epub. In the Export dialog's General tab, select 'Multilevel (TOC Style)' at 'Navigation TOC' and at 'TOC Style, select the Epub style.…
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Add `parentPage` and `parentTextFrame` of Table Cell and Row
Please add
parentPage
andparentTextFrame
tocell
androw
. 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 -
Can't retrieve XMP-metadata from Cloud-stored files
Hello Adobe and hello Community,
I'm having a problem with a Javascript I wrote to retrieve XMP metadata from linked files, that are stored in a Creative Cloud Library (Bought from Adobe Stock -> stored in a Library, because i was unable to download the files).
Ultimately, the script retrieves the Creditline of all the linked graphics in an InDesign-file / InDesign-files in a folder by bulk processing.
I have to accesse the XMP to retrieve the correct copyrightinfo.
@Adobe: On Adobe Stock you guys put the information to give credit to the creator in the XMP field "Creditline" (creator…4 votes -
Collapse Treeview not working
On Indesign CC (Win or Mac) :
Treeview with multi levels can be expand with recursive function;
But collapse operation seems to be not working with similar function;On Indesign CS6 (Win or Mac) :
Treeview with multi levels can be expand.
Collapse operation runs halfway. But items (not node) on first level are indented too much.Run Script treeviewexpandcollapse.jsx to test it
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InDesign crashes when converting a table
In the attached document, when I (try to) convert the tabbed text to a table, InDesign crashes.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open the document from the attached zip file.
- Select the text frame.
- Run the following one-line script:
app.selection[0].parentStory.texts[0].convertToTable ('\t', '\r');
Expected result: a table.
Actual result: InDesign crashes.Note: the crash does not happen when the tabbed text is converted manually:
- Select all the text
- Table > Convert Text to Table
4 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0Please 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
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