@m1b  In short, you're roughly correct.   I'm mostly working on Mac, but recently also got the first PC in years, for Windows 11. Before that I used virtual machines on Intel Mac for both Mac and Windows builds.   That requirement "compiled for the platform" is only the beginning. You might get thru with any / the latest of VStudio and Xcode, but the InDesign SDK specifies particular compiler versions for a reason. Those aren't usually the latest, but rather a year back (when a new InDesign major version comes around) or even more. That's because Adobe also has to test the compiler versions, update all their internal libraries down to the applications themselves.   While in the recent years compilers have been more stable than 15 years ago, we've just reached a moment where things are shifting again. Newer language versions bring new features, and Adobe actually starts to use them. See a recent thread with "K2_BE_GONE".   As we're talking about compilers, those also have their requirements - a minimum OS version is specified, while you later on also observe a maximum. More so on the Mac, while Windows has other issues – look around for "xlocnum hack".   The compiler also comes with an OS SDK, which again has version dependencies. On Windows you may install multiple VStudio versions (only in sequence of older … newer) but years ago I've also experienced that after such attempts neither worked. Rolled back a VM snapshot and my Windows 7 Ultra license fell apart with all the accumulated application version history. There are special licenses to deal with that, look for MSDN or nowadays those go as VStudio Pro subscription.   I've already mentioned virtualization. After moving away from VMware I have recently spent far too much time on getting used to UTM, work around its limitations, tracking and downloading installers – for OS, Xcode and InDesign versions, associated SDKs. At least with InDesign major versions, you better start over with a new system rather than inherit oddities that will only show on user machines. Linking to that old runtime library that won't be provided by newer OS versions. Downside of starting over is you also have to restore those settings, and better know why you set them in the first place.   Plenty other things to observe, but you get the idea. Sure you can take shortcuts, especially if you're building only for yourself. ... View more

Are you sharing the screen or one particular window such as the application frame? ... View more

#targetengine "session" can collide with plenty other scripts using the same engine name.   With your minimum script this is only relevant in the case that you install such another script, and that they also have a function setUnitsToInches, or whatever other functions you may add in the future.    Just avoid #targetengine "main", as that is the default name where everything is purged after the run. How about #targetengine "rickg76305781" ?   ... View more

Yes. Use IScriptRunner to eval their name. ... View more

That "no longer exists" object is your function setUnitsToInches, because it is purged after the script run. Add a targetengine directive on top, in a separate line, to keep it alive.   #targetengine "setUnitsToInches"   ... View more

That numeric ID is unfortunate, it can change across app versions and documents. For example I just tried a new document app.activeDocument.languages.itemByID(96).properties.toSource() ({name:"Italian", singleQuotes:"‘’", doubleQuotes:"“”", icuLocaleName:"it_IT", untranslatedName:"Italian", hyphenationVendor:"Hunspell", spellingVendor:"Hunspell", id:96, label:"", parent:resolve("/document[@id=1]"), index:32})   I don't know why the object model for appliedLanguage claims Language as also supported type. Maybe if the current application version does not support the language?   Export an example text frame with your language applied as snippet. Open the snippet in a text editor. See the applied language as attribute <CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]" AppliedLanguage="$ID/nl_NL_2005"> <Content>Dutch</Content> </CharacterStyleRange> Proof on the text selection, it previously had a different language: app.selection[0].appliedLanguage = "$ID/nl_NL_2005" $ID/nl_NL_2005 app.selection[0].appliedLanguage [object LanguageWithVendors] app.selection[0].appliedLanguage.toSpecifier() /language-with-vendors[@id=96] resolve('/language-with-vendors[@id=96]') [object LanguageWithVendors] resolve('/language-with-vendors[@id=96]').name Dutch: 2005 Reform   ... View more

When I reread your message on a larger screen and later in the day, I noticed that reduced GDEF experiment. Could be that previously the GDEF had some language specific detail in it, I think GDEF has provisions for that. Still only with my private theory that when nothing language specific is in the font the text runs might extend across languages. Could be anything else. There are plenty more open questions, e.g. is the superscript a dedicated glyph (allowing for different kerning)? Difficult to tell, maybe you can see the glyph id thru the glyphs panel.   I understand those limitations of commercial and especially custom fonts, so too bad we can't have a deeper look at it. I'm anyway in no position to do much about it even if we know more.   Anyway thanks for bringing up the interesting topic. ... View more

Fonts can have details (trying to avoid the term "feature") that are specific to language or writing script. So it makes sense to break composition at language changes, which would ignore the kerning pair. On the other hand when the font has no such language specific details it makes sense to run thru … Interesting that there apparently is such an optimization.   Is there any such language specific detail in your font? What particular languages are involved?   For example, are these the same glyphs across the documents? I know that would rather be GSUB… Could be that they use the presence of the GDEF as one trigger rather than descending into it to watch out for relevant languages.   What particular composer? InDesign is using HarfBuzz for shaping – I don't know whether for all of the composers, how the internal decisions are made, and whether that is relevant at all. Would be interesting to watch …   Can you share copies of both fonts for testing, e.g. stripped down to the relevant glyphs if it is a commercial font, and different font name so we can have them in the same document without effort? I use my own limited composer for preview of OpenType features in a plug-in, and would love to mimic the exact behaviour. When I initially wrote it ten years ago I found only one example (Arial Hebrew limitations for the slashed zero feature) but don't even remember what I did with it. I'd also like to have a look at that GDEF.   Have you repeated your tests in e.g. Illustrator? I'd suggest to also cross-post in Type and Typography / mention this thread – and please keep us informed. ... View more

Run the script from your host - e.g. AfterEffects script panel. Idea is to connect from there to the debugger. Also try other applications, e.g. download Bridge or Premiere. If they can connect, maybe the problem is with AfterEffects.   For comparison, my VS code "attach" lists these hosts: So your choice of name+version appears to be right, while the InDesign family and others still append the architecture.   ... View more

Search the SDK for HandlePopupMenu. ... View more

Run a simple "$.writeln('Hello, debugger')" from your application, the watch the VS Code console. (old ESTK trick to connect from InDesign Server)   Also read about BridgeTalk. alert(BridgeTalk.appSpecifier) https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/interapplication-communication/bridgetalk-class/ ... View more

It just occured to me: when you write "UXP Script" do you mean an .idjs file? Could be the problem. Try a UXP "plugin" before you rebuild the entire box.   ... View more

We're having another XMP discussion in parallel, plus one in the UXP centric creativeclouddeveloper.com forum. https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/custom-xmp-metadata-not-showing-in-indesign-file-info-panel-using-uxp/m-p/15436477#M632247 https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/is-there-any-manifest-permission-for-activedocument-filepath-in-indesign-uxp/11241   My conclusion: If you're within InDesign, prefer the proven InDesign methods.   Beyond that, I can only refer to the typical path when things go wrong:   Name your particular OS (you did not mention Mac or Windows, so I guess you're on Windows. I'm using Mac) . Are there admins around that locked/crippled it down with "enterprise" gradee security software, what used to be antivirus a decade ago. It might show a pattern when others come along for the same problem.   Then take the route with various degrees of reboot in safe mode, use another user account, reinstall, purge preferences, purge more preferences, cleaner script, try another machine with clean OS etc. Look around in other threads, there are lengthy FAQs.   ... View more

Hi Rob, let me add a detail: InDesign stores XMP of linked objects within the document. An old plugin of mine uses that to fix broken XMP without touching the images, add own accounting relevant metadata and so forth during PDF export, and reverts after the export … You're right though about scripting where this is only relevant because you better update links before looking at their XMP. ... View more

Something is wrong with your InDesign + UXP installation. Using InDesign 20.3.1 for no specific reason,  I'm a bit slow with updates:    ...   The document "last updated 26.7.2023" does not mention the tag, but according to another thread support was added to photography products only later in December 2023. https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-support-for-new-iptc-accessibility-metadata/idc-p/12946693   When looking around in UXP I found much documentation is backed by github. According to the history there of your namespace document that July 2023 change was about broken links and the previous revision is from 2021. Explains the missing items. https://github.com/AdobeDocs/xmp-docs/blob/main/src/pages/XMPNamespaces/Iptc4xmpCore/index.md     When you get xmp going in principle, I think there is another detail waiting for you - that tag may have language versions.   Happy programming! ... View more

Again, you are NOT working on the active InDesign document. You are working on a separate XMP object. The other examples are how Bridge or any other program would work on external files with XMP - images, PDFs, anything you would place in InDesign. In principle you can also modify a closed InDesign document that way, but as you have it open in InDesign better change it through the metadataPreferences. ... View more

I'm also missing file operations along these (taken from ExtendScript), your script sounds like you're working on a detached XMP object. The XMP library does not know that you have an active document. The same script could be running in Photoshop, and still deal with an InDesign document.     ... View more

Might be a bug, considering that uxp xmp should also work from other programs. Is that an official tag, though? Maybe some validation taking place. Retry with "CreatorTool" (mentioned in ExtendScript XMP docs) If you're in InDesign anyway, also have a look at doc.metadataPreferences. https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/dom/api/m/MetadataPreference/ ... View more

Hiding in the docs: https://opensource.adobe.com/spectrum-web-components/components/picker/changelog/ sp-menu was "deprecated in PickerBase" derived classes, ca. 2021   I guess the UXP implementation of sp-picker that I use (as of InDesign 20.4.1)  is older and nobody bothered to update it, while some suggestions were floating around to use swc versions instead of uxp widgets. To me that implied growing code size and dependency handling, so I try to avoid it for now.   Btw, there was some comment removed that suggested to take the value from the picker rather from event.target . Might be helpful if you receive an event at all, I work with the selectedIndex. ... View more

Do you use the debug build? Looking thru my sources I found an old overloaded kRollOverIconButtonBoss. The IControlView was #if'ed out in version 9 (move from Carbon to Drover) because of an assert from DVIconSuiteButtonTristateControlData. That ControlData was expecting a certain counterpart in its drover peer. Near that I'm now using a kBaseWidgetBoss as base for an icon widget.   ... View more

Data exchange like the clipboard here, but also drag and drop, comes in flavors. That is, the source provides text, utf, rich text and so forth for text and the destination chooses what's best to them.   For page items that includes internal objects stored in a scrap area, snippet, PDF and TIFF, you likely get one of the latter. Third party export format plugins may add their own flavors. Are you using any one of those? Declaring the appropriate priority is tricky.   The "Copy" process has multiple phases, internal flavors differ from external flavors. For performance reasons, as long you stay within InDesign the data is not exported to the external clipboard. So the first step is to strictly stay within InDesign, not switch over to other applications.   You don't sound like you did, but do you have any extension (CEP) panels open that might trigger externalization? There could also be different applications that request such an externalization in order to perform changes on the clipboard.  Never heard about them, but search points to Maccy, Flycut, CopyClip, ClipMenu. Does any of them sound familiar? Maybe a new security annoyance, or something to hand over the clipboard to a mobile device?   Instead of copy paste, you could also try drag and drop as its externalization is triggered in different ways (external windows). Any change there? If you drag your page items to the desktop, does that produce a snippet or also the picture?   ... View more

On the other hand, widget functionality that was once implemented with OS controls is increasingly moved into "Drover" and the emulation keeping our old boss objects alive has plenty optimizations. If you look deeper at the docs, they explicitly mention event handlers. Could be one of those cases, and your adding an event handler triggers a slower emulation mode. ... View more

What part of it does not work? If you watch the control from an observer, are notifications missing? Or is it visual feedback - your code not considering whatever flag is used to differentiate the state? Did you set a breakpoint in the Draw, is it reached? Does it consider  IID_ITRISTATECONTROLDATA? ... View more

InDesign differentiates between OTF-CFF and OTF-TT . You likely have a mixture.   There are some incomplete attempts where InDesign finds the other font when the family names match. E.g. the pink indicator is more strict than the composer, so you still see the intended output. There can also be differences to the worse when you use the document fonts feature.   Reinstall a consistent set of fonts, and follow the typical instructions to purge font caches.   ... View more

Can you tell more about the font? Is this repeatable after IDML roundtrip, or maybe with a snippet that you could share? Woud either "Find/Change" or "Find/Replace Font" be an option?   ... View more

Thanks for the example document.   On a sidenote: You were originally using STIX Two Text (OTF), while my Mac 13.7.5 has STIX Two Text (OTF). The difference is the former is OTF CFF, while the latter is OTF TT, and a variable font at that.   Back to the substituted glyph: InDesign preserves composed text to avoid reflow even across versions. This "wax" (internal name) is not accessible by scripting, but the Symbol font is showing there. Was the U+2265 available in the original OTF-CFF? I haven't checked but I doubt, after looking at the original wax from the 2020 composer.   Using a plug-in with an own, very simple composer that exercises the supported OpenType features, I can also clearly see the missing glyph. Another todo item if I ever get back to that project – figure out how InDesign decides to use Symbol, and show it the same way as with the faux Superscript.     So what would you do if you could detect such substitutions, deep within the bits and bytes of the document? Turn it into another pink overlay, or a preflight rule? Is this too esoteric, or a frequent case just missed because nobody is looking for it?   ... View more