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I asked in another post about uncompiling a binary javascript and was informed not to go down that path...OK. I accept that. I have found a way to add the fuctionality that i need. I think using grep. But i know more about Quantem mechanics than i know about GREP so i am going to need help here also.here it is:Search for any text formatted with par style "sty1". this string we will call (for now) "txt1"replace that string with "I love to eat" && txt1Format that entire string with par style "sty2"Format the last word of the new string as bold. Can this be done? I am so appreciative to those who help me here! SF

I feel quite guilty about asking for help with this.  I know that the noble members of this form are not here to do work for me.  But I'm really stuck and ChatGPT just can't cut it.  In my line of expertise (life coaching)  I give a lot of my time away for others. I would be happy to do so for anybody here who needs assistance 🙂The following script works fine on one selected text box. What I would like to do is alter that it should loop through **the entire document** and execute the same for any text box that has a text overflow. The insertion text in the new text box should not be altered. If someone could assist, I would be most appreciative.Thank you, and have a good day!Susan FlamingoPS If somebody could create a third version that would do the same for the frames of the **current story** I would be ecstatic 🙂 so:1. current version2. Every overflowing text frame in the entire doc3. Every overflowing text frame

Hi, I'd like to ask for help solving a problem. I received the files for repair. Unfortunately, they are corrupted. I can open them, but I can't work with them. Copying elements or even deleting the character style causes the application to crash. Even deleting all elements in the publication doesn't change the situation. Deleting the character style causes the crash. Attempting to save to *.idml is also impossible. Has anyone found a way to fix this? 

Hi there ... I am trying to resize a 24 page document just a little bit smaller. I'm using the current Indesign CC. There is one master page with not much on it. Anyway, when I try to resize the layout in Document Setup, it keeps failing because of an error. And, it says "object is locked" and a page goes blank, but there are no objects locked on the spreads. Any ideas? Thank you!

I recently updated Adobe InDesign to the latest version (20.4.1), and since the update, most of the dropdown menus in the application are not functioning properly. When I click on a dropdown, it either freezes or doesn't respond at all.This issue is significantly impacting my workflow. I’ve already tried restarting the application and my system, but the problem persists.Could you please suggest a fix or let me know if this is a known issue in the latest version?

Good Morning 🙂Sometimes it's easier to ask here than to search all over for an answer especially when the search options in adobe discussions is so poor and I always prefer to hear your thoughts about it. My favorite and so far always and forever font manager application was the discontinued FontExplorer. I moved to Extensis Suitcase Fusion even before FontExplorer was discontinued, when it started to have various problems and I didn't have time to deal with it. I never liked the way Extensis Suitcase was handling things but I could live with it. But now I can't. Now they took away the option to keep the font linked to a folder on the desktop (I always unchecked "copy to vaults" option as I hated the vault and wanted to "Reveal Font in Finder" when needed) and "forced" me to use the vault and to store on the cloud.  I do believe this option should be mine to decide. I did wrote to them about it hoping other will too and that will bring this option

I do the layout for a scholarly, weekly newsletter, and sometimes the schedule is very tight. The NL, for printing purposes, has to be exactly 4 pages. But sometimes, alas, it comes out a little longer, which will not fly. So I go back and tighten here and tighten there, and decrease font size and leading here and there. Very tedious. Is there a tool that could do this automatically, where i input the page number and boooom it does it magically while adjusting important things only minimally. There is a function in MS Word similar so I guess it is possible.Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

I would like to automatically command all of my text boxes to align to the page margins as set up in the page masters. My book has 750 pages, so I do not want to do this manually. See screesnshot. Thank you.

I have a graph that is generated through datylon studio web directly (not the plugin). The graph is then dowloaded as an SVG from datylon. (done this way because graph is used in multiple places).When I add the SVG to InDesign, there is a weird issue where some text is getting bold. It's random on every placement, including copying and pasting the element within InDesign itself. You can see in this screenshot how there are bolded sections of font (yes, it's a mess, it's just to illustrate the point of placing the same SVG multiple times within a document is yielding different font results).This is also present when exporting, so it's not just a rendering issue when looking at it in InDesign. SVG looks fine in browsers, as well as Illustrator.I have run out of ideas on what to edit within the SVG, or if I'm doing something wrong when placing it into the InDesign document, in order to have the text display consistent according to what's defined within the SVG. Link to SVG itself for refe

Hello everyoneI would like to integrate a workflow into my company that enables seamless collaboration between editorial and layout teams. Until now, we have been using an external editorial system, but we will be discontinuing it at the end of the year.My goal is to have all communication run through InDesign. The editorial team should be able to place and correct their texts, while the layout can be changed or supplemented by the graphics department.Is there anyone who has experience in this area and can help me with this?Many thanks in advance!

I have downloaded two TrueType fonts (39 Smooth and Smooth Fantasy) to my Adobe fonts folder but I am unable to access them in InDesign. Can anyone help please?

I couldn't write a JavaScript if my life depended on it, so I am forced to bother you all friends if someone can assist me with this: I need to scan the current doc and pick up every text string with the par style "sty1" then dump all those instances into a new text frame at the end of the doc with a acsemi colon between them. But there is a little tricky issue here: these strings will always be in the footnote area. Now on many pages there are two text frames, on the top A and on the bottom B. Each one could have FN with that par style. But it is crucial *that the order be by entire page*, so it should scan the FN of text frame A on page 1 and then text of the FN on frame B on page 1 and then proceed to page 2 and repeat again etc.   So if on page 1 in text frame A, we have a footnote (again in frame A) with the formatted text "I love cheesecake" and another formatted FN "I love soda" and then in frame B (on page 1) we have in the FN the formatted text "I love walnuts " and then

I have a par style with a grep style to format the last word of the paragraph of that style (hebrew/arabic). I set teh correct char style and then used this grep code:[[:alnum:]]+[[:punct:]]?$(Don't think i know grep. I got from ChatGPT)It absoltlrly refuses to obey. I admonished Chatgpt and is gave some others but they all refuse to commit, Why is ID refusing to follow orders? Thank youSusan Flamingo

Is the numeric 11 position smaller? Yet in English mode, it remains uniformly wide overall.Sometimes Chinese text aligns properly too, but I'm unsure what factors determine this.

Regardless of the level, one can directly access the text box layer.There's no need for multiple levels of navigation like .parent.parent.parent.For example, cell.parentFrame or contents.parentFrame?

I have a completed design file packaged. I've received an order from my client to an upgrade from the original design.  I want to save the original to a new project ID but have never been able to make it work as the links remain tied to the original. Is there a way to make a completed INDD file to a new one with links tied to the new file? Thanks to those who know more than me,Joe

Hi, I'm writing a climbing guidebook where the climbs are described by drawings, where the routes are drawn inn with lines on those drawings. Next to those there's some text with info and grades etc... I made the drawings in Illustrator and created different layers for the drawing, the route and the text. I then place the Illustrator file directly into Indesign and draw over the lines and text - this because I sometimes have to change the size of the immage, and otherwise the route line thickness and font sizes would differ from page to page. I then end with "shutting off" some layers in the illustrator file (from indesign). The problem I'm runnin into now is that the transparency of the .ai files is lost. My page number boxes get blocked by what should be a transparrent part of the layers in illustrator. Is there a workaround here or am I opening a can of worms that my limited experience will not be able to work with?  Attached a picture of the guide

Hey there, today I’m looking for a solution in this case. I got a book with 500+ pages with hundredsof headlines. This document contains just a paragraph style for the headlines and one forfollowing copytext of each chapter. Now I want to apply a new paragraph style "subtitle text" to every first paragraphafter the headlines. The second one is normal copytext until the next headline. I tried to:Working with "next style" in the paragraph style option, but it is necessary to mark the paragraphs to utilize the function. This doesn’t work so smart, because I have to mark it for every occurrence.Searching with GREP-styles (lookahead for example) combined with the paragraph"find-"selection But nothing worked very well. Do you have an idea?

Buonasera, ho un problema con Indesign. Quando inserisco un'immagine o sposto un testo, mi compare, nella parte inferiore delle schermo una stiscia nera tutta criptata.Qualcuno sa come risolvere?Il programma è aggiornatoGrazie

Hello, I am having a strange problem with Adobe. When I create a new document, OR resize an existing document, the new size frequently randomizes. For example, if I put in the WxH of 4x6, it might turn into a 3x12, or a 7x2, or anything else for that matter. I'm being very careful typing it in, and it will read correct until the moment I press the "OK" button, when I will see the new random size flash into those boxes for a split second as the window closes. I usually have to size it two or three times before the correct size "takes". This happens in Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Any ideas?

If someone could guide me on this (remember you are talking to a total dummy!)I have successfully created a few scripts with the help of AI that I use often.I want to add some functionality by getting input of certain parameters of the script.I would also like to be able to run them easily by clicking a button.So in Microsoft Word, I know I would create a form with buttons and text boxes for input.But how do I do this with ID?Here, ChatGPT has been hallucinating for the last few hours, wasting my time by trying to teach me development tools incorrectly. As I said, all I want to do is to create a floating panel that allows input of some power meters and buttons to run the scripts.Not too much to ask, right?Thank you!Susan Flamingo Update: I followed the instructions here: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/plugins/getting-started/ EXACTLY And all it shows when I load the plugin is:While the instrcutions say it should look like this:&nbs

Hello all.I can find grep commands that do some of these things, but I need one that does all of them. For some wild reason, after spending hours online, I cannot find the solution. I appreciate your help. No, nested styles do not help here. I need a command in my paragraph style that does this:- applies a character style up to AND INCLUDING a colon, ONLY if there's a colon in the paragraph.- Ideally this goes up to just the first colon. If that's not possible, I need to set a word limit (let's say 10 words for example) on how far the search goes into the paragraph.Thank you.

Just created a new document and placed an image. Whenever I try to move the image it is copied instead of moved. I inserted a text box and when I try to select the text to change the format, the box moves as though I was using the Hand tool. None of the tools are doing what they normally do or are supposed to do. I reinstalled an older version. Same problem. At the moment InDesign is unusable.   <Title renamed by MOD>

The tagging of Arabic glyphs is incorrect in my pdf. (Please note that English is not my first language, I apologize for any mistakes!) What I've done so far:I installed the ME version of the application, made sure all of the paragraph styles are in Arabic + RTL and used the world ready composer. I'm using a font that is intended for Arabic script (Nassim Arabic). During pdf export I made sure that the document language is set to Arabic. When I view my document in Acrobat I can see that the language and binding are set correctly in the document properties. But if I view the tags for the paragraphs, the glyphs in these tags are all wrong. The tagged glyphs seem to be actual glyphs from an RTL writing system, just not the ones intended. When I copy-paste text from the pdf it does paste correctly, so the problem is only in the tags. What could this be?

Good morning, I've spent time going through the forum here with issues pertaining to the Indesign Data Merge feature not working properly. And, I have tried just about all the suggestions I could find. I normally save the file as Comma Separated Values. So I tried saving the file as a MacInstosh Comma Separated and MS DOS Comma Separated. I opened the Comma Separated Values file in a text editor too. No results with this. Then I started over from scratch with a new Excel report used to create direct mail imprints. Got rid of any blank columns and saved it as Comma Separated Values file. Same results. Then I created a new InDesign File with new data fields. And this didn't work either.In all these attempts, the CSV file is there, but when I go to select it and click okay, nothing happens. Please note I perform this task regularly and it's fortunately the first time I've run into this issue. I'm actually working on another project with no issues at all. < scratching my head, wond