found it a pain to place photos ...What am I missing?   File>Place...  or drag and drop from the Finder. ... View more

Right, the Applescript version is about 10 years old—I stopped updating it when I switched it to JS ... View more

Hi @stanford_9489 , Not sure if this helps, but if I have the last spread set like this, where both Allow... options are unchecked (the spread is in bracketts):     Then the position of the next added page depends on whether I drag the left or right page from the master spread:     ... View more

1) can take advantage of high-end inkjet output having many more inks than just CMYK and can match many more Pantone colors than what is possible within a CMYK Gamut alone.   Hi @61parker , The Pantone libraries (since CS6) are defined as Lab not CMYK color. Spot colors by definition are extra plate separations running custom inks on an offset press.   I have a large format inkjet composite printer running 7 colors (CcMmYKk) which has a larger gamut that CMYK offset printing. The way to get at the larger gamut is send the Lab color and let the RIP handle the conversion to CcMmYKk.   These Spot and Process defined colors have the same Lab values and output the same to my RIP.   ... View more

Hi @qing_3274 , Also, a Layer set not to print (Print Layer unchecked in Layer Options) will display as italics in the Layers Panel. Its contents will be hidden when Overprint Preview is turned on:       ... View more

Can you post a screen capture of the error message? I won't be upgrading to CC2025 anytime soon. ... View more

Hi Mike, Try this Drop box link:   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fhnvventjc7vxpzzmft5f/AKwgMb_SlYYf5JUfSfpr2nk?rlkey=e7ruj0dh52vvwku98mqbmbqen&dl=0   ... View more

Here’s the metadata scipt from @Dave Creamer of IDEAS  link—I moved it to Dropbox:   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/8qx0xhghw9vmpdooiojxt/AFf99mh2-teh8xn-JdkTtaU?rlkey=gkle0nou69ccakxzdj6qs0cew&dl=0   ... View more

I moved the latest verion to Dropbox (Adobe no longer has a file sharing service). This vesion works with CC2021, have not tested it in newer versions:   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fgl2b67v7iuyu701twgc9/h?rlkey=gygixac74tr4mp9l87oa2l1a9&dl=0     ... View more

I can't understand.   If you are adding a bleed for print, you wouldn’t want the text to move when you add the bleed to the text frame.   This:     Not this (which would happen when the text frame is moved):   ... View more

It's moving.   That’s what you want, but I would want to extend the object, so the bleed is added without moving the text content. How would Distibute Objects handle the diffent needs?   ... View more

Hi @dublove , In your example do you want to move the selection or extend it to the bleed? Or, consider this more ambiguities example:     Should the rectangle be moved or extended? Where? All four sides? One, two, three, or four?   ... View more

Hi @K.C. Taylor , Have you checked if your formula works with fonts that have very different x-heights? In case it isn’t clear, Leading is the measurement from baseline to baseline—the font meterics that might affect white space don’t matter.   These two examples have the same 10pt Size and 14pt Leading, but there appears to be more space between the lines because the x-heights are so different:       ... View more

Hi @Andreas Jansson , The metadata problem has been around since at least 2017. This thread has a JS script that clears the ID doc and its placed images:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/is-there-a-script-to-clear-indesign-metadata-redundancy-or-the-clipboard-just-like-photoshop/m-p/12638735#M460299   From 2017 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/file-size-is-too-big/td-p/9370587/page/3   ... View more

when I create a filled rectangle it says the size is bigger than intended   Do you mean the size Acrobat reports as the page size in Document Properties? That is the PDF total size not the trim size—here I included a Slug with the 8.5"x11" document trim:       ... View more

Hi @soulbookings , In Document Setup you set the Page Size Width and Height to the final desired trim size. You set the Bleed amount, and whether to include it, in the Print or Expert dialog. There is no need to draw crop and bleed marks in the document:   ... View more

Hi @VADI GRAPHIC , You would have to edit the CropMarks.jsx script with a plain text editor—it should be in your application scripts folder (see: Adobe InDesign 20XX⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts Panel⁩ ▸ ⁨Samples⁩ ▸ ⁨JavaScript⁩). Edit lines 55-57, and 61 to this and save:       ... View more

Hi @m1b , Not sure if this helps but getSpecifier() has 3 parameters (appName, version, locale)—locale might be worth trying. In case you don’t have the complete Bridgetalk API reference you can get it here:   https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/interapplication-communication/bridgetalk-class/#bridgetalkgetspecifier       ... View more

Hi Neil, Not sure I can help, but I think there is a big enough difference in the two CMYK profile gamuts, that the ideal would be to convert directly from a large gamut RGB space to the final print CMYK space (not RGB>CMYK>CMYK).   When I compare Coated FOGRA39 to ISO Coated v2 300% with Apple’s ColorSync Utility, I can see that Coated FOGRA39 has a larger gamut in the blues. Here is the comparison (ISO Coated v2 300% in white):     ... View more

Can someone explain to me how this difference comes about   Hi @franziskaf24503411 , Before you export, check to make sure the document’s Assigned CMYK profile is also ISO Coated V2 300% (see Edit>Assign Profiles...):     And also check the actual document color values with Separation Preview panel—it sounds like there was a color converion on the Export to PDF.   ... View more

Hi @wb-40 , Try this:   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3l5u1q751w0u2hf2c5vwg/AAgt0RarMfpcyiyiKs8zoMQ?rlkey=vsh4o0c70xoe5krklvngf1cd9&dl=0 ... View more

The snipet I just posted was to test if the new InDesign sees an open document. Something tells me Bridgetalk (the code used to communicate with Photoshop) is broken in the new updates. I’m not going to be able to do anything for awhile. ... View more

Isn't using invoke() the same?   Not exactly, currentTool is read/write, so you can get and set the tool   //get the current tool var ct = app.toolBoxTools.currentTool $.writeln(ct) //set the current tool app.toolBoxTools.currentTool = UITools.PAGE_TOOL; ... View more

User HAVE to be in "Page tool" mode BEFORE he starts changing selected pages   You can script the tool selection.   app.toolBoxTools.currentTool = UITools.PAGE_TOOL; ... View more

I have no explanation for knowing why Registration 60 % appears as 100 % in the PDF.   Hi @jmlevy , Acrobat is showing the overprint. Try turning on Overprint Preview in InDesign:   ... View more

@jmlevy is right, setting the text to 60% of the [Registration] swatch results in an output value of 60|60|60|60, total ink 240%, not 60% Black (CMYK 0|0|0|6)   You need to turn on Overprint/Separation Preview to display the expected ouput color for a PDF/X-1a export on an offset press. Use the [Black] swatch for your Character Style.     Also, if you inspect the text in AcrobatPro the Color Space is listed as Separation, All—not DeviceCMYK       ... View more

Hi @johnr54626971 , If you check the Character Style’s font in Find/Replace Font are its Restrictions listed as Normal?   ... View more

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker , The best you can do is set or get the active page or spread—activePage only returns a single page, not an array of pages:   //make page 2 active app.activeWindow.activePage=app.activeDocument.pages[1]; //get active page $.writeln(app.activeWindow.activePage.name)   Also app.activeWindow.activePage can still be unreliable—depends on the zoom level—the frontmost page doesn't always correspond to the selected page in the Pages panel, ... View more

Can you show the alert you get when you run this script from the new version of InDesign?   if (app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.saved) { alert("Active document’s file path is:\r" +app.activeDocument.filePath) } else { alert("Please open a document or save the active document and try again.") } ... View more

I stay a full version behind with ID and PS, so I can't test. Someone messaged me that doing a Save As with the active document to the desktop worked . ... View more