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Tabs works fine on the first line of the paragraph but when I start using it on the 3rd and 4th line the tabs find diferent locations. Please help.

I've written some JavaScript with the UXP facility to do some formatting. It works well... until I select one character too many. It's infuriating: The script iterates through all the paragraphs in a selection and does some styling; but midway through, the paragraphs are all deemed "invalid" by InDesign... but only if the selection goes beyond some invisible boundary. And the start of the "invalid" paragraphs in the overall collection (in the selection) changes based on how many characters the selection goes beyond the arbitrary one. Every extra character seems to cause the invalid paragraphs to start one spot earlier in the overall collection. Check this out:The farther past the F in "for" the selection goes, the earlier the "invalid" paragraphs are encountered in the collection. Starting with "fo," the 50th paragraph in the selection is invalid. For every non-space additional character I include at the end, the earlier the selection's paragraphs get corrupted (49th, then 48

Hi,I'm trying to create a new note in a text object. The note gets created successfully, and I'm also able to set the author without any issue.However, when I try to create or access the ITextModel to set the text content of the note, it returns nil. I'm not sure what I'm missing here.Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks! UIDRef storyRef = ::GetUIDRef(textModel); UIDRef newNoteRef = Utils<INoteDataUtils>()->NewNote(start,storyRef,documentRef); if(newNoteRef) { InterfacePtr<INoteData> noteData(newNoteRef, UseDefaultIID()); ASSERT(noteData); if(noteData == nil) { break; } PMString AuthorName = "Chetan"; WideString author(AuthorName); noteData->SetAuthor(author); InterfacePtr<ITextModel> noteTextModel(newNoteRef, IID_ITEXTMODEL); 

Hi, I created Navigation Tabs in my Indesign document. I did everyting like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnDOVYl6Jec. I exported as Interactive PDF (like in video) but the buttons are not working. They are there, I can click them but noting happens.  Here's the link to how it looks. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14lCW-AVzXpsxOqDgOWYmpOcrDJESCCCw/view?usp=sharing 

Dear Community, I'm hoping there's a solution to this one within Indesign. I have multiple different sized rectangle picture boxes (objects) on a page and need to resize them all at the same time by adding 6 mm to the height and 6 mm to the width of each. Essentially I have a page of many picture boxes of different sizes which I can add crop marks via the script, offset 3 mm from the object. I then need to add 3 mm around all images. And then I can fit content to frame all at the same time. This will then quickly give me images on the page with crop marks and bleed for multiple sized objects on a page ready for printing on large boards, and then images are trimmed down from the one sheet. I'm trying to avoid manually adding the 3 mm to each of the different sized boxes which I have about 150 images. RegardsSimon

Shift+F2 should be used to search for the next occurrence.I don't know what Ctrl+F2 does. I don't need them, I want to set them for other uses.If I don't cancel them, my newly set shortcut keys won't work.

Hi! I am in desperate need of some tips. My adobe plan was under my university but now that I have gradated the plan has experienced but I have yet to transfer my files. Is there a way to get back into the account and gain access to my files for even a day so I can gain access to my files? Also, once (or if) I can access how do I transfer my files!  Thank you so much!!

I would like to try working with cloud documents in InDesign (I'm a bit sceptical). To do this, I would like to upload a few documents to the cloud. The help text says that I should upload these files via the Cloud app. When I try to do this, I get a message (which I find rather idiotic) saying that Adobe Cloud cannot process this file format (InDesign!). So the help file seems to be wrong. What is the correct procedure?

I am not sure if this is a bug or if InDesign is just lacking the simple and clearly self-evident ability to apply tints to swatches used within a gradient—the same way you would with a solid color object. When I select a node from the gradient bar to which a swatch color has been applied, the tint bar is greyed out. The only workaround I've found is to convert the swatch to CMYK/RGB and shift-drag the sliders to try and maintain hue.Has anyone else been impeded or annoyed by this?Is there a reason for the absence of this ability?

This has been a problem for years. Text in any of my documents will sometimes appear like this. I have to change the view in some way (pan, zoom, etc.) to get it to go away. Anyone know why this happens or how to fix?

For example, my group name is: myGroupIt contains the paragraph style: myparHow should I write this?app.selection[0].texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle = mypar;Thank you. 

My javascripting has come on a long way recently, creating buttons, adding images etc, but I am totally stumped.I have been trying for a while to create a script to add a bookmark to every page within an Indesign document to use in go to destination buttons. I can create these manually, but that is not time efficient when you have to 100+. I haver found script that add to paragraph etc. but not the page. I am totally stumped, I planned to place the add bookmark script within a loop like this:var myDoc = app.activeDocument;var myDocL = myDoc.pages.length;for (i=0; i<myDocL; i++){}Any help would be greatly appreciated

I inherited a file which I made edits to in indd. I deleted a few pages, moved a few pages, added 3 hyperlinks, and edited the TOC. I have saved the file, exited and reopened indd but when I look at the epub after exporting it as an epub, it is the old version without the current changes. I have clicked on to "show hidden spreads" and nothing shows up in pages. Thanks!

I want to delete a bunch of GREP queries from my Find/Change list. But when I select a GREP item and click on the 'garbage' icon nothing happens. I often use GREP queries to clean up Word files before making them into books. I've had no problem until I upgraded to version 20.2.  Now, searching all the Adobe folders on my HD, I can't find one containing the old 'Q' queries. 

Hello everyone,I'm currently exploring the InDesign SDK and I would like to create a custom menu that appears next to a button when clicked. Can you tell me how to do it?

I am not very clear about the current selection object and its hierarchical relationships, especially the representation of the parent level. Could someone clarify these relationships?For example:Situation 1: When the cursor is outside the table    A. When the cursor is in a paragraph with no selection, sel[j] is the entire paragraph.    B. If part of the text is selected, sel[j] is the selected text. (This includes selecting all text within the text box.)    C. If the text box is selected, sel[j] is all content within the text box (including images, text, and tables). Situation 2: When the cursor is inside a table   D. If the cursor is within a cell, sel[j] is the current cell.   E. If multiple cells are selected via drag, sel[j] is the selected cells.   F. If the entire table is selected, sel[j] is the entire table. Thank you very much.

Hi, I have several key words to add to an index. These key words appear on every single page of the document. That's an unavoidable issue. However, can I filter in some way so that the H3 headers with these key words are the only instances to appear in the Index?   

 For example, clicking this @ button will pop up a menu next to it.

Stroke alignment appears to be opposite for the interior of compound pathsStroke aligned centerStroke aligned inside (which is actually aligned "outside" of the interior shape)Stroke aligned outside (which is actually aligned "inside" the interior shape)This is mainly an issue when outlining text that includes an aligned stroke. Is there a way to fix this without stacking shapes?

There are two scripts that I am in dire need of for my current project in ID 2025.Both are from very professional script writers (they are commercial), and they say that their scripts have been tested on many machines and systems with no trouble. But when I run them, they crash ID and have to exit via task manager.Is there some way to debug these scripts on my machine to grasp which part of the code is causing the issues?Very frustrated.....Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

My code.:var sel = app.documents[0].selection; pp = sel[j].parentPage;Now there are three conditions that can identify left and right pages, as well as single pagespp.side == PageSideOptions.RIGHT_HAND pp.side == PageSideOptions.SINGLE_SIDED pp.side == PageSideOptions.LEFT_HANDI now want to handle the first and last pages separately. It would be helpful if I could determine whether the current page is a spread.

Does one need to package a book first before it may be exported for print?Don't remember what I did but I was able to export one time and with file open, Export available. Next time, "Export" was greyed out and not availble. Second time I think I right clicked (don't remember) on the three dots at the top right of the Book Panel and the drop down said package for print, so I did. Both worked out but the second one did not produce a window whereby I could check all that I wanted, such as bleed, margins, make sure RGB changed to CMYK,, use document settings and so on. Is it possible (I'm guessing it is), there is more than one way to go about this. Trying to remember just one seems to be slippery for me.Thanks ahead of time.

I've been fighting the Book Page Numbering in trying to get a Table of Contents to work across 35+ chapters.  Reading every reference I can find on the forums and general internet searches. Nothing is seems to match what I'm seeing.I'm on CC2017 InDesign... Windows 10.I have yet to see an example that doesn't show the pages number incrementing in the Book Panel out to the right of each chapter. In my case, I've never seen anything other than the number of pages in each chapter shown to the right of the Chapter (Document) within the Book.The screen capture below shows the current number of pages in each document/chapter. In ALL examples I see, it would be Chapter 01 would be 1-4, Chapter 02 would be 5-8, Chapter 03 would be 9-11, etc.I've checked and re-checked "Numbering & Section Options" and synchronization and everything I can find over and over... and can't get it to change.We are running into some deadline issues, and it's starting to look a little bleak. After pushing to

It says "an error has occurred. Please try again sometime."  I do notice that it shows that it is activated. However, I am not sure that it is registered. I am posting to see if there is someone has advice. It would be appreciated. Thank you.

Where would I find the Pantone library files??