Indesign crash with findGrep()
findGrep() causes a crash with the following terms:
"w?"
“\w?”
“h?”
“w?i?”
...
e.g.:
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "w?";
var _result = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
Roland Dreger
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Hello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3
Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.
If you are unable to see the update yet, go to Creative Cloud desktop application, open the menu (three dots) from the top-right corner and click on ‘Check For App Updates’.
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 14.0.3
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
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Anonymous
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Fantastic, thanks. I was wondering why some of my scripts worked in all version but CC2019
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Roland Dreger
commented
Hi Lainie,
with which expressions are there still problems? I've just tested it here and it works for me now in the current version.
Roland
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Lainie
commented
does not fix issue!!
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Roland Dreger
commented
Hi Uwe,
thanks for confirming the issue and the tests. I didn't pay attention to memory consumption on my last test. If I remember correctly, InDesign crashed completely in the previous versions. Now it freezes.
This bug is especially annoying if you create scripts with regular expressions input fields for search. Again and again workarounds.
changeGrep() does not cause problems with the same expressions.
Roland
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Uwe Laubender
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What I also see on my machine when testing GREP "w?" with InDesign CC 2018.1:
Memory consumption goes way up for task "Adobe InDesign CC 2018" as shown in the task manager. After a little while non-reacting InDesign is using more than 50% of my memory, constantly increasing. After two minutes 60% of RAM. So I had to kill the process, because I did not want my machine to crash. Fan is also whirling like mad. Have 68 GByte of RAM installed.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Uwe Laubender
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Hi Roland,
there's already a strange behavior if you are use the findWhat field for GREP in the UI and look for "w?" and there is nothing in the change field. Or formatting change is not defined. The first insertion point of a story is found. And then nothing on, even if there is a "w" somewhere in the text of the same story. ( Tested with CS6 and CC 2018.1 on Windows 10 (1803)).And yes, I can confirm, that InDesign is freezing.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )