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Feb 25, 2025
07:45 PM
I managed to solve this by my own. For anyone in need of a starting point for such a script topic here's my solution: /**
* @description Convert all non-empty StrikeOut (cross-out) annotations into StrikeOutTextEdit (true replace) annotations for Adobe Acrobat
* Tobias Wantzen
* .0
*/
try {
this.syncAnnotScan();
for (var nPage = 0; nPage < this.numPages; nPage++) {
/* get all annotations on the page */
var Annots = this.getAnnots({
nPage: nPage
});
/* process each annotation */
if (Annots != null) {
for (var i = 0; i < Annots.length; i++) {
if (Annots[i].type == "StrikeOut" && Annots[i].contents != "") {
/* get position of strikethrough annotation */
var AnnotsRect = Annots[i].rect;
/* create caret annotation */
var newAnnot = this.addAnnot({
page: nPage,
type: "Caret",
author: Annots[i].author,
intent: "Replace",
refType: "R",
rect: [ AnnotsRect[2], AnnotsRect[1], AnnotsRect[2] - 10, AnnotsRect[1] + 10 ],
richContents: Annots[i].richContents
});
/* group with strikethrough annotation */
Annots[i].richContents = "";
Annots[i].intent = "StrikeOutTextEdit";
Annots[i].inReplyTo = newAnnot.name;
Annots[i].refType = "Group";
}
}
}
}
} catch (e) {
app.alert(e);
} I'm not quite sure about the caret annotation's rect definition I found by try & error. Will this still work on very small or very big font sizes of the text in the PDF? I don't know ... If there is a better solution for positioning the caret annotation please let me know. Thanks, Tobias
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Feb 25, 2025
11:11 AM
Would you mind, giving a simple code example of what to do exactly? How do I code a "reply to Caret one"? I have "StrikeThrough" annotations with "contents", which should be true "Replace Text-Type" annotations (see attached PDF). Thanks, Tobias
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Dec 16, 2024
02:48 AM
@SouvikThank you very much! If your devs need the whole script, which incorporates the sample icon, it can be found here: https://github.com/TobiasWantzen/ToggleCover
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Dec 16, 2024
12:58 AM
@Souvik Thanks! BTW: Why don't you simplify those icons a bit by allowing base64-encoded PNGs or SVGs or something else? Creating those "streamed icons" is IMHO a bit nasty ...
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Dec 10, 2024
08:19 AM
Now I’m on Acrobat 2024.005.20320. The issue persists as described above: New Acrobat UI: On the 5k monitor: Icons are missing On the 4k monitor (second monitor on the system): Icons are well Old Acrobat UI: On the 5k monitor: Icons are well On the 4k monitor (second monitor on the system): Icons are missing
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Dec 10, 2024
08:15 AM
Thanks for contacting me. This is my version info up to now: I’ll do the update and come back to tell, if the behaviour has changed.
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Dec 10, 2024
06:20 AM
I already tested to disable the new UI, but there it is oposite: On the 5k monitor the icons work: 5k monitor, old Acrobat UI and on 4k they don't: 4k, old Acrobat UI It's a bit frustrating.
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Dec 10, 2024
12:34 AM
I'm still having trouble with icons of my custom javascripts in the toolbar. On my 4k monitor (1920 x 1080) the icons look as I intended: 4k monitor, everything is fine. But on my second monitor, 5k (2560 x 1440), the icons are missing: 5k monitor, icons missing. I rendered the first icon (e.g.) from this PNG via the JavaScript console: PNG icon It rendered to: var strDataToggleCover = "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"; It seems to me, that Acrobat is using different icons for lower or higher resolution of the screen device. (Until now I can not believe, that I still cannot simply use a base64 encoded PNG for custom icons in the toolbar ...) Can somebody please give me a hint, what I have to do to make the icons work in any screen resolution? Thanks, Tobias
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May 30, 2023
08:47 PM
Thank you for your clarification, Peter! And Rob for the workaround for some use cases.
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May 29, 2023
10:52 PM
Thanks Rob for your input, but I meant something else: The user can select a table (and cell) style without selecting any object in the document – so before running the script there is a selected table and/or cell style: And I want to change this user default to table and cell style "[None]" – so after running the script no table and cell style is selected: So I’m looking for something to reset user selection (without any selected object in a document) of table and cell style which is similar to resetting user selection (without any selected object in a document) of character and paragraph styles: var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
aDoc.textDefaults.appliedCharacterStyle = aDoc.characterStyles.item(0);
aDoc.textDefaults.appliedParagraphStyle = aDoc.paragraphStyles.item(0); What is the corresponding code for table and cell styles? Thanks, Tobias.
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May 29, 2023
09:19 AM
Hi there! If nothing is selected in a document, the user can still choose defaults in all styles panels (character, paragraph, object, table, cell styles). With app.activeDocument.textDefaults.[...]
app.activeDocument.pageItemDefaults.[...] I can change those defaults as I like. But I haven't found a setting to change table and cell style defaults. So my question is: Is it somehow possible to reset table and cell style defaults as it is with paragraph, character, and object style defaults with a script? Thanks, Tobias
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Dec 17, 2022
11:17 PM
I can confirm this (non-)behaviour for Mac even all the years after the original post. Please vote on uservoice: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/46096285-scirptui-in-events-app-activate-doesn-t-work
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Dec 14, 2022
11:44 PM
2 Upvotes
Thank you very much for your inspiring work, Roland! This was the right way to go (although it’s a rocky one ...)! I hope you don’t mind, that I use some of your code lines in this threat ... For people who are stumbling over this thread: InDesign’s easy access to the "author" metadata field ("metadataPreferences.author") respects only (and consequently) one author for an InDesign document. If there is a comma or a semicolon inside the author String, it treats this as one author and qoutes it (as mentioned in the starting post). This respects the possibility to insert authors with "[last name], [first name]", as in "Gibson, William" – either separated by comma or semicolon. To insert multiple author names correctly, we have to use the XMP methods. Here is a piece of code, which allows to correctly insert multiple authors into the XMP metadata field "author": const destinationNameSpace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
const destinationName = "dc:creator";
const containerType = "SEQ";
var activeDoc = app.documents.item(0);
var metadataPrefs = activeDoc.metadataPreferences;
var numberOfContainerItems = metadataPrefs.countContainer(destinationNameSpace, destinationName);
var newContainerItems = ["William Gibson", "Dorothy Sayers"]
/* Check if container exists */
if (numberOfContainerItems === 0) {
/* Create new container */
metadataPrefs.createContainerItem(destinationNameSpace, destinationName, 0, ContainerType[containerType]);
}
/* Empty existing container */
for (var n = numberOfContainerItems; n > 0; n -= 1) {
metadataPrefs.setProperty(destinationNameSpace, destinationName + "[" + n + "]", "");
}
/* Fill containerItems into container */
for (var i = 0; i < newContainerItems.length; i += 1) {
var objectItem = newContainerItems[i];
var itemIndex = i + 1;
var itemPath = destinationName + "[" + itemIndex + "]";
metadataPrefs.setProperty(destinationNameSpace, itemPath, objectItem);
} Please note, that this is just a proof of concept ignoring error possibilities. For a better implemenation with error checking, analyse Rolands code carefully. I found a very informative resource on "XMP metadata in InDesign scripting" in some of tomaxxi’s blog posts: https://indisnip.wordpress.com/?s=xmp Especially this one: https://indisnip.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/storing-custom-data-into-indesign-file-xmp/ Thanks a lot, Tobias
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Dec 12, 2022
05:11 AM
I can enter comma or semicolon separated authors in the GUI. So it’s worth a try!
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Dec 12, 2022
04:04 AM
For everyone, who wants to vote: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/46071736-indesign-insert-authors-document-s-metadata-witho
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Dec 12, 2022
03:46 AM
Thanks for your feedback, Peter. But then, in my eyes, this is a bug. Authors in PDF description should be separated by comma or semicolon, every PDF parser will use those as delimiter. Then I’ll post a bug report on uservoice. Thanks, Tobias
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Dec 11, 2022
11:04 PM
Hello everyone, in my document, the authors are styled with a specific paragraph style. My script harvests this specific style and inserts the (cleaned up) contents into the document’s metadata field "metadataPreferences.author". This all works very well, but I always get quotes around the author names: I looked up the object model and "metadataPreferences.author" only accepts a string. It doesn’t matter, if I use semicolon or comma separated authors, both separators cause the qouted form – no separators, no quotes. The code I use for injecting into InDesigns metadata is quite straightforward: app.activeDocument.metadataPreferences.author = stringOfAuthors; Does anybody have an idea of how to prevent the quoted form of authors in the corresponding metadata field? Thanks, Tobias
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Sep 08, 2022
07:17 AM
Hej @StudioGDigital , you are completely right and I second your writing strongly. For the meantime, I’m really happy with my Acrobat script, which saves you the manual comparison you describe completely. Give it a try: https://wantzen.com/blog/acrobat-script-formatierung-in-kommentaren-auszeichnen/ Regards, Tobias
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Aug 31, 2022
09:47 PM
Hello together, since the latest (August) update my Acrobat on a MacOS 15 machine doesn’t save it’s preferences any more. After every new start all changes of the toolbar are gone and reset to default. Even parts of my selections inside the Preferences are gone (e.g. "Always show page format of the document"). I searched the forum and found nothing, that helps (e.g. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/acrobat-reader-dc-won-t-save-preferences/m-p/8864633). A reinstall of the application hasn’t helped, so I’m a bit out of ideas ... Maybe someone can assist me in getting this back to work again. Thanks Tobias
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May 31, 2022
09:40 PM
Thanks @rob day, this is an excellent starting point for my needs!
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May 31, 2022
10:12 AM
First findings in the API: var theDoc = app.activeDocument,
thePage = theDoc.pages[7];
var theFrames = thePage.textFrames,
hasOverrides = false;
for ( var i = 0; i < theFrames.length; i++) {
if ( theFrames[i].overridden ) {
hasOverrides = true;
}
}
if ( ! hasOverrides ) {
var thePrimaryTextFrame = thePage.appliedMaster.primaryTextFrame;
if ( thePrimaryTextFrame ) {
thePrimaryTextFrame.override(thePage);
}
}
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May 31, 2022
09:45 AM
I don’t have an idea, on how to start a script, which checks every page of a document, if the primary text frame of the master page is used or if it is still »unlocked«. Can someone please give me a hint, where to start this? Thanks, Tobias
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May 18, 2022
03:35 AM
1 Upvote
I’m completely with you, Peter! I placed this feature request in Uservoice in mid 2017. Before uservoice, I requested this since InDesign CS1 (2002!) every single year with the web form, which was available at that time for transmitting feature requests. Nothing ever happened. I suspect, that InDesign “marketing” says: “Hey, you can use Optical Kerning, it’s a cool feature!!” But, as you said: It’s nice, but not perfect. We need all of them: metricial kerning, optical kerning, AND user defined kerning tables! Thanks, Tobias
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May 17, 2022
09:26 PM
1 Upvote
Yes, but I’m still a bit upset, that Adobe doesn’t integrate real user defined kerning pairs, as Quark (and some other applications) has done ever since. Its a pitty that this topic has not very much supporters: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/31111675-kerning-editor-with-individual-margin-alignment-o
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May 17, 2022
09:17 AM
Thanks, Uwe! And, yes, geometricBounds and visibleBounds would be nice either. Feature requests are very frustrating. Years pass and nothing happens. It’s nearly as frustrating as the few new features in new InDesign versions. To the community it looks, like InDesign’s development is nearly dead. Kind regards, Tobias
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May 17, 2022
07:50 AM
I think, we’re done. Both approaches work. Thanks to the both of you for your help, investigations, and testing. It’s an interesting topic, because it’s on the edge of InDesign’s scripting capabilities. I added a uservoice for this: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/913162-adobe-indesign-sdk-scripting-bugs-and-features/suggestions/45171790-add-parentpage-and-parenttextframe-of-table-ce (Although I was a bit unshure, where to place scripting requests: in "Adobe InDesign: SDK/Scripting Bugs and Features" or in "Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests" ...)
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May 17, 2022
12:40 AM
Oh – I wasn’t aware, that this is possible! Thanks!
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May 16, 2022
10:37 PM
Thanks Uwe for marking this as solution. But in my eyes, there are two solutions/correct answers in this thread, because the two approaches differ in what you get in the end and it depends on your goals. Thanks, Tobias
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May 16, 2022
10:37 PM
Thanks, Rob – this is genious! Actually I thought about a similar approach either, but abandoned it. (I thought about looking for the paragraph sign `\r` after the table or the first character of the paragraph after the table, because finding a table start and its contents or the character behind the table’s paragraph is comparatively easy. Alternatively we could compare your var et = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements(); to app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "<0016>"; and see, which approach is faster.) And I’ve abandoned it, because I really wanted to know, on which page a specific row (or cell) is placed. Looking for the insertion point after the table only tells me, on which page the table ends. Thanks, Tobias
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May 15, 2022
11:38 PM
1 Upvote
Hej Phil, I’m on a Mac and have no access to a Windows with Acrobat installed. But as far as I read Kelly’s blog post, I mentioned, correctly, you should try to install the scripts in the application folder: Windows (32 bit): C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat <VERSION NUMBER>\Acrobat\JavaScripts Windows (64 bit): C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat <VERSION NUMBER>\Acrobat\JavaScripts Please give this a try. Kind regards, Tobias
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