Hi,   I was just wondering the same thing. There is currently no way to run preflights via the API, is there? Are there plans to make this possible? I am thinking in particular of correction preflights, such as setting the PDF/UA marker (Accessibility) and the like. Roland ... View more

Thanks for the clarification, Joel! ... View more

I'm not going to try pagedjs after what you've written. Margins and page-break-before, - after is working fine. Maybe Adobe will extend this at some point. ... View more

Thanks for the answer and your experience, good to know. ... View more

No special settings. Only Interactive PDF and “Create PDF with tags”. You get the same result, don't you? ... View more

This (I'll call it) bug is certainly a rare case and apparently only occurs with documents that previously contained an XML structure.   But there is also a practical relevance. If this is not dealt with, a check (in this case PAC) results in an error: "Alternative text missing for 'Figure' structure element"     But of course, curiosity also plays a role here. ... View more

Define "not normal".  By @Robert at ID-Tasker   Normal is perhaps the wrong term. But look in the layer palette, there the two rectangles differ in their automatically assigned names. The tag behavior is different when exporting. If you create an IDML and open a document from it, “Rectangle” appears again in the layer palette. So they are obviously different, but not in the script properties. And I think that's strange. ... View more

Here are some screenshots But don't do too much work. It's a special case. And I'd just be interested to know how you can identify these special items. ... View more

In principle, I just want to identify these specific spline items. I get an unknown document, loop through the items and analyze them. These items that are not “normal” should be listed.   The reason is that they are treated differently when exported to a tagged PDF. InDesign:   PDF     ... View more

Hi Mark, hi Eugene, thank you for your investigation. My use case: Before the PDF export, it should be checked whether a tag (tagged PDF) is exported for an object. I would prefer not to change anything in the document during this check, otherwise it could potentially irritate the users.   But for an action to correct these issues, this is a good idea. Possibly also check whether an XML element is still associated with the object.   Roland ... View more

Thank you for your answer.  That's right, you can convert it back to its original state. But what I want to find out is how these two states of the rectangle can be distinguished at script level.   Both are rectangle frames, both have (it seems) the same script properties and are the same in IDML. Only one rectangle was tagged once (XML) and the tag removed again.   Background, why I want to find out: one rectangle is tagged when exporting a PDF, the other is not. ... View more

Hi Sunil, I know I'm late to the party. But as a separator of group and style in the aid:pstyle attribute you can use the Charater U+E00B   A requirement for the correct assignment is that the group and the style already exist in the InDesign document, i.e. InDesign does not create the group by XML import if not. Works for me in InDesign 2024.   An example is attached. Roland ... View more

With PDFjs from Mozilla you can get the ALT texts: Page.getStructTree()   https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js   But: The paths that PDF Extract API provides correspond to the reading order in the PDF. With the getStructTree method from PDFjs, however, you get the tag structure tree in the PDF. The order does not have to match.   Roland ... View more

Sometimes it helps to check with “properties”, e.g.   Cell.properites.overflows   or using Cell.recompose()   ... View more

I have discovered the same issue and I would also say that this is a bug in the generated code.     https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/345/333/359/158/515/original/1840a96d5408b89e.mp4  https://mastodon.social/@rolanddreger/112345356612982742   Roland ... View more

Hello,   the namespace was the right hint. The elements here are in the default namespace. Alternatively, you can also set it:   setDefaultXMLNamespace(xmlData.name().uri);   and then reset it e.g. in finally:   } finally { setDefaultXMLNamespace(""); }     Roland ... View more

Hi Mike You can only read out what the font manufacturer has written in. Font manufacturer and foundry may not always be the same. You can try it yourself with your fonts here: https://fontdrop.info Roland ... View more

Hi Manan, in UXP, the font file can be read as an ArrayBuffer and parsed with a special library, e.g. opentype.js.   Roland ... View more

You can also read out additional information via the font file. However, not all entries are available for every font.   Example: Myriad Pro Bold Font Family: Myriad Pro Font Subfamily: Bold Full Name: MyriadPro-Bold PostScript Name: MyriadPro-Bold Unique ID: 2.102;ADBE;MyriadPro-Bold;ADOBE Version: Version 2.102;PS 2.000;hotconv 1.0.67;makeotf.lib2.5.33168 Manufacturer: Adobe Systems Incorporated Manufacturer URL: http://www.adobe.com/type Designer: Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly Trademark: Myriad is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Copyright: © 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. License URL: http://www.adobe.com/type/legal.html   But I don't know any existing script either. That would have to be created individually.   Roland ... View more

Thank you for sharing your story Andrea, this is really a great inspiration and motivation. Roland ... View more

Hello, you could try appliedParagraphStyle.jsx or appliedFont.jsx for your purpose. The scripts are written for CS6, but they should also run in the current versions.   Roland ... View more

What about WordPress as CMS? There are already open source solutions for this use case, e.g. press2id. Here an short article how to connect the CMS Kirby with InDesign. With EasyCatalog you can connect InDesign to a database.     Roland ... View more

Hi, unfortunately no. The script is already quite outdated. I would have to adapt it to the current InDesign versions and rework the Word transformation.   Roland ... View more

Addendum: My version of the workaround works for single replacements via UI but unfortunately not with changeGrep in the script. 🙁 ... View more