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  1. False state with app.gpuPerformancePreferences.enableGpuPerformance if no GPU available

    Function GetEnableGPUPerformance() of interface IGPUPerformancePrefs of GetExecutionContextSession()->QueryWorkspace() returns true in case no GPU or a not supported GPU is installed on your macOS computer.

    To reproduce launch InDesign CC 2018 or later with modifier keys command, option, control, and shift pressed and confirm resetting the preferences.

    If you now check the setting either with some C++ code, or ExtendScript "app.gpuPerformancePreferences.enableGpuPerformance", in both cases the returned result is true , which is not the expected result.

    When you now choose Preferences > GPU Performance the properties are shown deselected and disabled, which is correct. If you now click in "OK", the…

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  2. app.activeBook

    When more than one book is open, selecting the book tab (when they're tabbed), doesn't work for app.currentBook in scripting. It's needed to click inside the book panel to have it targeted. Just the tab selected doesn't work.

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  3. Scripted iterative document open/close fails to close files

    Note: my sample code is jsx, but the problem may not be limited to jsx. Change the filetype of my provided files from txt to jsx prior to using!

    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…

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  4. La nueva versión indesign 2020 ya no tiene la opción de Flip page para flash.

    La nueva versión indesign 2020 ya no tiene la opción de Flip page para flash.

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  5. 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…

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  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…

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  7. User Interaction Level resets during Data Merge

    Using at the top of the InDesign tell block:
    set user interaction level of script preferences to never interact

    The way I understand user interaction levels, when set to 'never interact', it should suppress all dialog boxes from popping up.

    When AppleScript performs 'merge records', and the merged record contains missing fonts, ONLY SOMETIMES a missing fonts dialog box pops up and breaks the script. One can close this dialog, run the script again, and the dialog doesn't appear. This unpredictability is why I'm logging it as a bug.

    Looking at the JavaScript DOM, the userInteractionLevel is a setting at…

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  8. Default Composer doesn't change via SDK

    If I change the Default Composer via the Preferences Advanced Type dialog then query it in a script using app.textDefaults.composer I can see it has changed. However when I change it via a script it appears to change when I query it again but it is not changed in the prefs dialog and if I create a new document it is not the default composer. This is all with no open documents btw.

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  9. Missing styles for Spectrum Web Compontents

    When Spectrum Web Components generated via script, they sometimes lose their styling. (See attached screen recordings.)

    The elements are inserted using a template element, which is likely causing this problem.

    index.html

    <sp-theme theme="spectrum" color="light" scale="medium" dir="ltr">
        <main>
            <sp-button id="refesh-button">Refesh</sp-button>
            <div id="refesh-area">
                <!-- generated elements -->
            </div>
            <template id="input-item-template">
                <div class="input-item">
                    <sp-field-label class="input-label">Label</sp-field-label>
                    <sp-textfield></sp-textfield>
                </div>
            </template>
        </main>
    </sp-theme>
    

    create.js

    const inputItemTemplateElem = document.getElementById("input-item-template");
    
    for(let i=0; i<20; i++) {
        const inputItemFrag = inputItemTemplateElem.content.cloneNode(true);
        if(!inputItemFrag || !(inputItemFrag instanceof DocumentFragment)) {
            console.error("Error when cloning the template.");
            return;
        }
        const inputLabelElem = inputItemFrag.querySelector(".input-label");
        inputLabelElem.textContent = "Label " + ++labelIndex;
        refeshAreaElem.appendChild(inputItemFrag);
    }
    

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  10. Uncaught TypeError in sp-theme component

    An error message keeps showing with the sp-theme component:

    UDT:

    ./main.js:1109 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'warn')
    at r7.attributeChangedCallback (VM11 main.js:1109)
    at uxp://uxp-internal/domjsscripts.js:2
    at y.attributeChangedCallback (uxp://uxp-internal/domjs
    scripts.js:2)
    at Object.didChangeAttributeForCustomElement (uxp://uxp-internal/domjsscripts.js:2)
    at l.didChangeAttributeForElement (uxp://uxp-internal/domjs
    scripts.js:2)
    at e.exports.didChangeAttributeForElement (uxp://uxp-internal/domjsscripts.js:2)
    at didChangeAttribute (uxp://uxp-internal/domjs
    scripts.js:2)
    at set value [as value] (uxp://uxp-internal/domjsscripts.js:2)
    at set nodeValue [as nodeValue] (uxp://uxp-internal/domjs_scripts.js:2)
    at r7.setAttribute (uxp://uxp-internal/domjs
    scripts.js:2)


    main.js

    require("@spectrum-web-components/theme/sp-theme.js");
    require("@spectrum-web-components/theme/src/themes.js");
    require("@spectrum-web-components/theme/src/express/themes.js");


    index.html

    <sp-theme id="panel-theme" system="spectrum" color="light" scale="medium" dir="ltr">
    <header id="panel-header">
    <sp-switch id="language-switch" dir="ltr" size="m" focusable="" data-js-focus-visible="">DE/EN</sp-switch>
    </header>
    <main id="panel-main">
    ...

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  11. UXP logs in the wrong folder

    The UXP logs for InDesign 2026 still end up in the 2024 folder.

    Wouldn't it be more consistent to adjust the path to the corresponding version?

    InDesign 21.0, macOS Sonoma

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  12. InDesign 21.0 UXP: File URI scheme

    With InDesign 21.0, my plugin can no longer access files in the plugin folder when using the standard file uri scheme: file:///pathToFile (3 slashes).

    Error: Could not find an entry of 'file:///Users/<user name>/Library/Application%2520Support/Adobe/UXP/Plugins/External/9e463c3edemo1.2.2/assets/files/main.css'

    I use:

    uxp.storage.localFileSystem.createEntryWithUrl(url.href, {
    "type": types.file
    })

    It works:
    - in 2024 and 2025
    - when loading the plugin via the Adobe UXP Developer Tool
    - with file:/pathToFile (just 1 slash)

    It doesn't work:
    - when installed (via double-click).

    Is this a bug, or does it mean we can no longer use the standard URI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme)?

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  13. checking text object with isValid breaks reference

    I have already described this issue on creative cloud forum for devs: https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/accessing-isvalid-property-updates-object-reference/11477

    but since there was no response, i still don't know if this a bug.

    Basically, reference to text object updates after checking it with isValid.

    Steps to reproduce:

    1) get selected text in textframe with app.selection[0] and put it in the variable (selection)
    2) add some text just before selected text
    3) try to select selection with app.select(selection) -> text selected correctly.
    4) check selection with isValid (selection.isValid)
    5) try to select selection once again with app.select(selection) -> text selected incorrectly.

    Indesign version: 19.2
    Expected behavior: preserve…

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  14. No consistent way to control undo/redo of script execution

    In a UXP plugin, there is no consistent way to control the undo/redo stack.

    The closest we have is through app.doScript, but this is fraught with many issues.

    1. When you run an async UXPScript (most would be, if working with files), the undo mode is ignored.
    2. You can run extendscript, but as we are trying to move away from that I would like a uxp supported solution. In general, we have run into issue after issue with app.doScript using extendscript.

    Ideally, you would fix item 1 and also some of the surrounding issues with UXP script execution (no way…

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  15. html5

    In indesign desktop version, new functionality to export document directly to html5 is added. We are looking to use the new html5 export functionality with Indesign Server. Seems it's currently not possible to write a script or a plugin to export documents to html 5 other than manually via desktop InDesign UI. (no reference found in SDK documentation)

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  16. corrigir bug

    Muitos arquivos RTF estão com problemas para ser importado, o indisign acaba fechando. Observação: os arquivos RTF possuem muitas páginas (média de 500 páginas)

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  17. implement control of layers Composition of imported photoshop file with javascript

    implement control of layers Composition of imported photoshop file with javascript

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  18. Inserted special character for current page number is not refreshed from the plugin since version 20.0

    Inserted special character for current page number is not refreshed from the plugin since version 20.0.
    In previous versions, after adding a new section using kNewSectionCmdBoss, the page information was refreshed.
    Now the section is changing, the page number in the information bar at the bottom is correct, but the page number in the text frame with inserted special character has stopped updating.

    When the same is done via the Sections window in Indesign (Numbering & Section Options) with the start of new section field set, it works.

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  19. FINESTRA DEI COLLEGAMENTI

    Come nella immagine allegata, la parte delle informazioni di collegamento appare trasparente. Così risulta illeggibile e inutilizzabile.

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  20. Problem related to half space in the dictionary

    "When the Persian dictionary is fully added to the software through the method explained on your website, the software incorrectly identifies words that use half-space as incorrect, even though the exact word exists in the .DIC file and the spelling rules are defined in the .AFF file. Please investigate this issue as it is very important.

    Thank you."

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