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thanks, robs snippet runs like a charme. already published the whole catalog (2400 jpegs) without any issues. after the script ran, the document is finished, saved and indesign is closed. so theres no collision with other situations for the listener. ... View more

wonderful, uwe already posted this thread, and i found your answer withthe event listener. works like a charme. thanks a lot! ... View more

sorry uwe, i now read through the full thread you posted, and yes rob day delivers the codesnippet that rescale the images to their 100% scale right after the placement-event of the image. It helped that you linked the thread, and i can head on with my client now. ... View more

please read my answer again. it doesn't happen to png's. so it wont depend what dpi i set the image in psd. as long as i define it to be 30 cm wide, it can be 30cm at 72dpi, or 30cm at 150 dpi, or 30cm at 300dpi. if you want to, you could even set the dpi to 1440.... etcpp as long as you set the width to 30cm. Thats because DPI is the density of pixels, not the actual format. you need to divide the number of pixels in width by the dpi, in order to get the inch of the width. then you can multiply this number with 2.54 to get the cm of the width of the image. Hence if you define a picture with 30cm length the amount of pixels will be recalculated by Photoshop (that is if "resample image" is checked, of course)   so, again, as long as you set the width to 30cm, then indesign will always place it with exactly 15cm width on a DIN A4 page. If you dont believe me, just reproduce my step to step guide to convince yourself: create an image at 30cm width in indesign (feel free to choose your favourite dpi , really any you like) then place this image on a DIN A4 page in indesign. voila it places the image at 15cm width exactly. wrong, buggy and irrational, since the same image saved as png (yes with the same resolution and size, as in "the same image") will be accurately placed at 30cm width. Did you reproduce this? my current workaround btw is to resize the whole page at the moment of import to a rediculous large format, and resize it back to Din A4 after initial placement. this is the only way i can think of to get the original 30cm-width the image was saved at. the script is for a catalog with about 3000 images of any formats and sizes (stamps, letters, letterpieces...) that are imported and layouted by javascript. you can imagine that a lot of envelopes are wider than DIN A4. Hence i get issues when importing such images and try to get their original dimensions. unfortunately the Javascript Api of Indesign wont let you read the metadata of the images. i coded it for a company that did that manually every 3 month. the designer needed about 14 days to finish the catalog. my script needs an hour. oh and the jpg placement link you posted is about cc2019. content awareness has nothing to do with this bug. again: it wont occur to pngs (other formats not tested yet) just to jpgs. hence checking a checkbox wont help anyhting. i work in CC 2017 the company uses CS6. even in cs6 this bug was present. there is no content aware fit to turn off in cs6 is there? ... View more

thx for your effort, but please refer to the procedure i wrote about, dont interprete wildly and post solutions to other situations. (autofit is turned off, its a indesign bug, since this doesnt occur to pngs, only to jpgs) again: create a jpg in Ps at 30 cm width. place it in Indesign onto a DinA4 Page. Please show me a screenshot where you placed a jpg that is larger than the page. Indesign will automatically downscale jpgs. while it will keep pngs at their original 100% scale. so you see Indesign is scaling images for no rational reason. ... View more

Seems a lot of people dont know the real issue here: create an image with 28 cm width and one with 30 cm width (in photoshop or wherever), and place them in indesign onto an DIN A4 page. voila one is 28cm, the other scales down to 15cm width. Both say scale 100%. My script which should import and place images automatically has no way to determine which has been downscaled and which not. Hence this issue is not about dpi and how to define and understand them. Its about Indesign scaling images, with no rational usage, automatically at import/placement. ... View more