Laubender
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Laubender
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2 hours ago
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Hi @OsakaWebbie ,
thank you for the attached InDesign sample document.
I found a workaround for that strange situation.
Let's be clear that the situation with text wrap is this, image selected so that the path of the wrap ( 8 mm ) is visible:
When I added a path point to the text wrap's path with the Pen tool the text will move to the bottom:
I have no idea why this is necessary, but it does work. The trajectory of the path did not change.
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‎May 30, 2025
07:48 AM
Hi @OsakaWebbie ,
if text wrap is the issue, I would check the image ( first candidate, but perhaps not the only one ) for text wrap.
Perhaps you could change the path of the wrap a bit so that your small text frame will not be affected so much.
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‎May 30, 2025
05:43 AM
Hi Simon,
strange.
With menu File > Open will you see the same behavior, read only InDesign document, when you use the option to open the document as Original or as Copy instead of Normal?
Also test a previous version of InDesign 2025 like 20.2.0 or 20.1.0.
Hm. Could it be that the connection to the server is a bit lame?
I suspect that latency could be a problem.
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‎May 30, 2025
05:31 AM
Hi @aparna_6212 ,
look up DOM documentation for ExtendScript. There are a lot of similarities between poperties there and IDML / IDMS.
https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#TextFramePreference.html#d1e307842
Or look it up in IDMS files (Snippets) you export from InDesign text frames where all the necessary options are enabled.
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‎May 30, 2025
05:10 AM
Hallo @josefh35143105 ,
I'd not say that there is no issue with the HTML rendering but the size.
Well, the size on screen could be an issue, but the more is text composition.
Character collision, no proper white space between the words is the main issue:
Screenshots from Firefox on macOS. But I see the same with Google Chrome on macOS.
Currently I cannot test with browsers on Windows machines.
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‎May 30, 2025
04:13 AM
Hi @Diplographia Publishing ,
contact Pantone with your issue.
My guess is that something changed with InDesign 2025 v20.3.1 regarding plug-in compatibility.
So an update with a new compiled version is needed.
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‎May 30, 2025
04:09 AM
Hi @tbledsoe ,
I would export the page the following way:
Standard: None Compatibility: Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)
Output > Color > Color Conversion: Convert to Destination Destination: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Profile Inclusion Policy: Include Destination Profile [ x ] Simulate Overprint
Important: If you are using any spot colors in your document, do NOT convert any spot colors to CMYK with the Ink Manager. Leave them visible as spot colors in the Ink Manager.
Note: The settings above do not match settings that are neccessary for CMYK printing. Do that only for PDFs that should be viewed in browsers and other PDF viewer apps that are not Acrobat Pro or Adobe Reader for macOS and Windows.
Speculation: A white rectangle is set to "overprint" inside your PDF.
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‎May 30, 2025
02:47 AM
Hi Harshika,
you assume right. And I already voted for fixing the bug. And also did some comments in 2021.
Now did a new one.
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‎May 30, 2025
01:06 AM
Megan said: "… I cannot use text box anchoring. It is not at all practle for my needs. The icons needs to be inline with the product title, and move accordinally if the text changes."
Hi Megan,
it's also possible that anchored objects, not inline anchored ones, will move with the text.
All depends on their anchoring settings. See this example from my German InDesign where the x-position is set relative to the anchor in the text, not to the text frame's left edge (default):
Sample document is attached to my reply.
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‎May 30, 2025
12:53 AM
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Hi @OsakaWebbie ,
will the text align to the bottom of the text frame if you move the text frame to the pasteboard?
If not check the inset values of the text frame. Set them to 0 for the bottom.
Also check if there are items on the page or applied parent page with text wrap enabled like it seems to be the case with the image inside the circle .
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‎May 30, 2025
12:07 AM
This bug is still not fixed. Here the link to a thread from May 2025 where I also can confirm the issue with the OP's InDesign document:
Wandering text across columns when using decimals in line height or space after sndrmllr, May 28, 2025
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/wandering-text-across-columns-when-using-decimals-in-line-height-or-space-after/td-p/15344032
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‎May 29, 2025
04:53 AM
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@jethika27020132be9l said: "… Because in our case, if we explicitly call recompose() on each .indd file in the book before exporting, the missing images show up as expected in the final PDF. This suggests the UI might be triggering something internally that we need to replicate via script. Would love any insights on whether that's expected behavior or something specific to book automation."
Hm. The question is if your workflow with your custom plugin that handles image rendering requires a recompose() before the export to PDF. I would test a sample that does not require the custom plugin first to see if the plugin is a factor.
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‎May 28, 2025
09:09 AM
Hi Dave,
indeed. Well, I can remember a bug with the Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer, have to look up the details, where turning off "Tagged Text" was the solution. So sometimes you cannot escape situations…
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‎May 28, 2025
08:55 AM
Hi @sndrmllr ,
well, yes, it's a known bug with InDesign.
What's your exact version of InDesign and your operating system?
The issue was certainly discussed here in the forum some years ago.
At first glance it seems to be the bug described in the thread I linked to below; maybe there is the same root cause:
Text in tables not aligned after exporting to PDF Laubender, Apr 28, 2025
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/text-in-tables-not-aligned-after-exporting-to-pdf/m-p/15293336#M622507
But your document is showing no InDesign table but more a "tabular" object, a text frame with 13 columns. The more columns, the more paragraphs are running through the text frame's columns, I think, the more the bug is visible.
Also for this kind of object the bug in PDF Export is known. I have to go back some years perhaps to find the relevant thread here in the InDesign forum. Ah, finally found the one from November 2021:
Problems with PDF Export in Indesign maehrchen, Nov 05, 2021
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/problems-with-pdf-export-in-indesign/m-p/12501088#M451973
See my test files still available on Dropbox:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/problems-with-pdf-export-in-indesign/m-p/12501527#M452019
Discussed in English:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/problems-with-pdf-export-in-indesign/m-p/12501851#M452043
And indeed, the solution (the workaround) was to export to PDF with the option "Tagged Text" enabled.
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‎May 28, 2025
08:14 AM
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Hi @sidneydavenport ,
could it be that the document contains a customized object style where the position of the frame is defined?
And if this is the case this custom object style is defined as the default one?
Just like this in my German InDesign where position is defined. Drawing out a new text frame under these conditions always will create one 20 mm and 10 mm away from the page edges:
As soon as this object style is not the default anymore I can draw out text frames as I'm used to it without any restrictions on position. The [T] icon is not positioned at the right of the style's name anymore. If this is the case with a custom object style in your document, just drag the icon to the object style for text frames in brackets like below:
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‎May 27, 2025
06:23 AM
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Hallo @natalia_4191 ,
meine Wahl wäre es mit Dropbox zu arbeiten.
Alle Dateien, die zum Projekt gehören liegen in einem Verzeichnis, dem Projektverzeichnis auf der Dropbox, das für alle Parteien freigegeben und zugänglich ist.
Die Abbildungen liegen in einem Unterverzeichnis mit Namen Links, die benötigten Schriften, sofern es Schriftdateien sind, in einem Unterverzeichnis Document fonts. Die InDesign-Datei direkt im Projektverzeichnis.
Es ist darauf zu achten, dass beide Parteien die InDesign-Datei nicht gleichzeitig geöffnet haben, um diese zu bearbeiten. Da sollte man sich absprechen. Was noch wichtig ist: NIEMALS Dateien und Verzeichnisse als "Nur Online" spezifizieren, denn sonst kann es Ärger mit geöffneten Dateien in InDesign und anderen Programmen geben.
Gruss, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )
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‎May 27, 2025
06:10 AM
Hi @jethika27020132be9l ,
thank you very much for the additional information.
Hm. That is hard to test without having a document at hand.
Well, could you prepare a test document with only one image where you see the problem and make it available here? ( Attach the InDesign document and perhaps the image to your answer. )
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‎May 27, 2025
05:08 AM
Hi @jethika27020132be9l ,
what is the exact version of InDesign, InDesign Server and the versions of the corresponding operating systems?
Do you see the issue with all book documents?
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‎May 27, 2025
03:13 AM
@Robert at ID-Tasker said: "… .. but in VBA - when you update link - it "ceases to exists" - so you need to do relink via a reference to parent..."
Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker ,
do you see that with all kinds of placed file types or perhaps only with placed Illustrator files and PDF files where layers' visibility of the placed objects have been changed?
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‎May 27, 2025
02:53 AM
Hi Kasyan ( @Kasyan Servetsky ),
while testing reinitLink() I came accross a big surprise (at least for me).
When working on the itemLink of one single instance of a placed image and used reinitLink() on this one instance ALSO all other placed instances will change. Documented in this thread initally from 2019:
Exploring Link.relink() function in Javascript and COM Michael_Rosenstein, Dec 13, 2019
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/exploring-link-relink-function-in-javascript-and-com/td-p/10799764
See my reply from today:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/exploring-link-relink-function-in-javascript-and-com/m-p/15342037#M626251
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‎May 27, 2025
02:36 AM
On with my tests:
If there is yet a different image is placed with the same name, this one will not change with my script snippet.
Just the other instance of the same placed file.
Before script run:
After the script run:
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‎May 27, 2025
02:16 AM
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Hi @Michael_Rosenstein ,
I'm also testing the then ( InDesign 2018 ) new experimental method itemLink.reinitLink( linkResourceURI ) .
With InDesign 2025 in DOM documentation it's still mentioned as "experimental":
https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Link.html#d1e301019__d1e301757
To my surprise there is a perhaps not documented feature ( or bug ) with reinitLink() .
If one graphic is placed more than one time, my tests are showing that if I use reinitLink() on one single instance of the graphic's itemLink the itemLink.linkResourceURI value for ALL OTHER INSTANCES in the document will change as well.
In my test case I had 2 pairs of images placed.
One pair of images share images with the same name but with different contents.
In one of the two pairs I wanted to "assign" a new linkResourceURI with reinitLink(), the one of the other image's linkResourceURI. To test if the image will change status. So it did. From NORMAL to OUT_OF_DATE as expected.
What was not expected by me was that the corresponding image in the other pair of images changed as well to OUT_OF_DATE with a new linkResourceURI. That behavor bears some dangers when using reinitLink() to graphics and images that are placed more than one time in a document.
Details from my German InDesign 2025:
Running this code on my selection of images:
var linkResourceURI1 = app.selection[0].allGraphics[0].itemLink.linkResourceURI;
var linkResourceURI2 = app.selection[1].allGraphics[0].itemLink.linkResourceURI;
app.selection[0].allGraphics[0].itemLink.reinitLink( linkResourceURI2 );
Result where also the other instance of the image has changed, not only the selected one:
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‎May 26, 2025
03:19 AM
@leo.r said: "The current version of InDesign is supported on Monterey. …"
Well yes. I'm on macOS Monterey v12.7.6 and I have installed and running InDesign 2024 v19.5 and InDesign 2025 v20.3.
And I do agree, one reason could be that the amount of your RAM is not sufficient to run InDesign 2024 or 2025.
Nevertheless, the Creative Cloud Desktop App should show the 2024 and 2025 versions of InDesign.
However, it will not show versions below 2024.
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‎May 26, 2025
02:38 AM
@Peter Spier said: "… Keep Option set to Start on next Odd Page."
Hi Peter,
well, that could be indeed the cause. In the moment the text frame's center crosses the spine InDesign regrads it and its content positioned on the left page of the spine; and then a keep option like Start on next Odd Page will cause the overset.
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‎May 26, 2025
02:34 AM
Hi @hendy_5450 ,
could you attach an InDesign document with the two pages you are showing in your video?
That would help to identify the cause of the problem.
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‎May 25, 2025
10:24 AM
Hi @marcin_7992 ,
I think you can do when you follow this link and select the individual program you are looking for:
https://www.adobeprerelease.com/#
There was an article "How to join the Creative Cloud Prerelease Programs" on medium.com, but now I see that it was taken down.
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‎May 24, 2025
01:37 AM
To filter the export event, script should be executed only when PDFs are exported, see this script code snippet by Manan Joshi:
#targetengine "session"
app.eventListeners.add("beforeExport",
function ex(e){
alert(e.format)
})
See source:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/an-event-listener-before-exporting-to-pdf/m-p/13020413#M481591
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‎May 22, 2025
03:13 AM
Hi @aafrempong ,
there is no below.
Just post a link to this thread.
I hope you see that this thread here started in March 2012.
At this time InDesign CS5.5 v7.5 was the most recent version, I think.
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‎May 20, 2025
11:30 AM
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Hi @Jambo_88 ,
to add something to @Robert at ID-Tasker 's wonderful solution:
I can see a set-up of elements on the page where the "legend" of the map can be updated semi-automatically with an InDesign menu command:
First of all think of full paragraphs in every circle element that contain the whole information. The auto number of a list plus the location in plain text. The location part is formatted as "invisible" with a GREP style in the applied paragraph style. Point size 0.1 Pt, character scaling set to 1% and fill color "None" of the applied character style.
To edit an item use the Story Editor window.
Then do a Table of Contents with a distinct TOC Style that uses a separate paragraph style that pulls all the information to a TOC that you can update after making changes to the threaded text frames on your map.
See screenshots in no particular order from my German InDesign and the attached file MapLegend-SemiAutoUpdateWithTOC.idml.
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‎May 20, 2025
10:44 AM
Oh, I forgot one option that could be useful as well when converting spot color inks to process:
// If you want to use the LAB colors of a spot for the conversion process:
// Ink Manager check box: [ x ] Use Standard Lab Values for Spots
app.documents[0].accurateLABSpots = true ;
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