@Todd_Morgan said: "… where is this Apply Guide Globally button that I see in all these search results??" Show us a screenshot of the interface you have in your search results.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )     ... View more

Hi @Todd_Morgan , Im not aware of a button like that in InDesign. At least not one that has an effect on all spreads of a document. Maybe your search results are showing a script with its interface? Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Todd_Morgan , for guides that should show up for all spreads and pages put them on the parent pages that are applied to the document pages. Perhaps make sure that they are on its own layer…   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Below the link to an InDesign library file *.indl where I placed the rectangle with the 12p6 inner glow as asset. If you drag out the asset you'll see the bug: the inner glow's size is reduced to 7 Pt:   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w608gjmg6w9p1j2n35bdn/Innerglow-12p6.indl?rlkey=eyuusydw4ycpt2o4w4gtf1y3k&dl=1   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

The bug is with the export module. I can already see the wrong value for Inner Glow in the code of the IDMS file that the size shrank to 7 Pt, Size="7", that translates to 2.469 mm in my German InDesign. Code snippet from the IDMS file: < InnerGlowSetting Applied="false" BlendMode="Screen" Opacity="75" Noise="0" EffectColor="n" Technique="Softer" Spread="0" Size="7" Source="EdgeSourced" /> Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

One can also see the bug when you export the object to the snippet format *.idms and place the snippet again.   Download my sample IDMS file from my Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mm2m4370e7nfzl6lxnfjw/Innerglow-12p6.idms?rlkey=ui2d8b1st6ec647vd4kv16fp1&dl=1   Note: This bug is also present if you store objects with inDesign library files *.indl and Creative Cloud Libraries, because the snippet file format IDMS is used for this kind of storage.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Under S. , if you want to get rid of all unused paragraph styles, list all the unused styles in the Paragraph Styles panel and drag them to the bin to delete them. However, it could be that you are confronted with a message like the one below (from my German InDesign): Remove Paragraph Style Delete style "style's name" and replace with: [ List of paragraph styles ]   This is because in this case the other unused style is based on the one you currently like to remove. You would not get the message if you first remove the other style. So don't be afraid to replace all the unused styles with the basic paragraph style named [Einf. Abs.] in my German InDesign.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @ganesh_2836 , confirmed with my German InDesign 20.5.0.48 on macOS. Inner glow set to 12p6 showing as mm in the screenshot below:   Exported IDML opened and saved in InDesign:   Attached are the original InDesign document, the exported IDML file and the opened IDML file opened and saved with InDesign 2025.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@ArnoEnz0 said: "… When I copy the frame / object to another document, it changes to 2014-2018. If I copy it twice, it becomes 2014-2019. And so on."   Hi @ArnoEnz0 , I see this as well. We have this behavior since the introductions of button objects in InDesign CS5 v.7 ( around 2010, I think) : Do a new document, add a button that is auto-named Button-1, copy the button to a new document and the pasted button in the new document is renamed, unnecessarily, to Button-2.   If you have custom names like "2014-2018" for buttons InDesign treats the copy's name the same. The algorithm sees a row of digits at the end of the name and adds 1 to the resulting number.   How InDesign should react instead: InDesign should check if a button with the same name exists in the target document and if not, should not renumber the pasted button. Or, perhaps better: leave the name alone. Could be a toggle option in InDesign's preferences. So it would be totally up for the user to organize things.   FWIW: It's possible to have more than one button in a document with the exact same name. Just rename a button to see an example. No problem at all, InDesign will always know which button is which by internal unique ID-numbers.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

"Note I've no idea about the op's layout."   Hi Michel, well, the OP's layout is done in InDesign CS3. FWIW: Back then feature Conditional Text was not there.   But: "Underline" was possible. "Strike Through" was possible.   Both could be combined easily with a character style.   "Custom Line Styles" were possible and used with both features from above. And gaps in striped lines could be filled with color.   Should be enough for a mix of features to do what the OP wants to do.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Anubhav M , I see this bug is fixed with my German InDesign 20.5.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@dublove said: "… Sometimes I need to input 8mm, so I set the unit to mm."   You could use a string like "8 mm" for input. It will translate to the current set of ruler measurement units. Example: app.documents[0].rectangles.add ( { geometricBounds : [ "0 mm" , "0 mm" , "8 mm" , "8 mm" ] , strokeWeight : "0 mm" , strokeColor : "None" } );   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@dublove said: "I am asking how to solve this problem. Because the “paste inside” function is also commonly used."   Hi @dublove , if a nested structure is selected, a group perhaps or pasted inside objects, you can get all the graphics inside with: app.selection[0].allGraphics In case there is only one image the length of the returned array is 1 and direct access is: app.selection[0].allGraphics[0]   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi together, the benefit of using "Load Paragraph Styles…" is that you can single-out individual styles and also you can determine in case of a "clash" if the incoming should overwrite the one that is present in the target document.   Not so with the synchronize styles feature of a book file. There it's all or nothing… ( Also check what else other than paragraph styles will synch with that feature before. )   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Oliver3393457818k5 , I can see the issue with your attached files. Also tested with your InDesign document: exported to IDML and see the error in the Hyperlinks panel in my German InDesign 2025: With the original InDesign document the link is ok:   Hm. No idea why this happens. Kind regards from Würzburg, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Abhishek Rao , also exported my test document to IDML, opened the IDML file as document with InDesign 20.6 (Prerelease) and exported to PDF/X-4. Same result. Image in table header of spread 2 is missing.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Abhishek Rao , my test files are still available and also attached to my post here in this thread. So you can test as well. See where a valid link to my Dropbox is there and also the attached files from InDesign 2024: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/table-header-disappear-when-exporting-to-pdf/m-p/14741554#M581151   I just opened my InDesign-Document from July 2024 as a copy with InDesign 2025 v20.6 (Prerelease), saved it to my desktop and exported to PDF/X-4. The image in the table header on page 2 is still missing!   So the bug is NOT fixed in InDesign 2025.   Screenshot from my German InDesign 2025 on macOS:   Screenshot from Acrobat Pro on the same machine:   To see the bug in the second text frame of the story the text frame must be positioned on a different spread. When one of the threaded text frames of the table is on the same spread with the start of the table, there the image in the table header is NOT missing. See my post from 2024 here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/table-header-disappear-when-exporting-to-pdf/m-p/14741623#M581158   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @dimitri_cas , if you want to export an object to PDF in InDesign, you will always export the whole InDesign page. The workaround would be to duplicate the object to a new InDesign page, resize the page to the dimensions of the duplicated object and export the PDF from there.   However there are practical problems with that if, for example, a drop shadow was applied to the object and you want to export to PDF with the dop shadow intact.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi@dublove , Use a transformation matrix after you calculated the new scaling factor… See: [AS/CC]Resizing a box and its contained image Laubender, Feb 08, 2014 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/as-cc-resizing-a-box-and-its-contained-image/m-p/5792748#M298806   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@dublove said: "… How can I identify and avoid applying it to these cases?" Well, one text frame contains a single line of text without a table, the other one contains multiple lines of text without a table and the 3rd sample contains a table only.   The if statements for the 3 cases could contain:   myTextFrame.texts[0].lines.length == 1 && myTextFrame.texts[0].tables.length == 0   myTextFrame.texts[0].lines.length > 1 && myTextFrame.texts[0].tables.length == 0   myTextFrame.texts[0].lines.length == 1 && myTextFrame.texts[0].tables.length == 1   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Fred.L , I would suggest a different algorithm:   Export the frame as snippet file ( *.idms ), that would automatically include the whole group if the frame is part of a group or a more complex object like a nested group of objects or pasted inside a graphic frame. Place the *.idms file in a new document's page and export it from there to JPEG.   In case you do not want the group, just do a duplicate of the frame and export the duplicate to JPEG. Remove the duplicate after done.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Silke said: "… I  have tried to edit the PDF and redefine the page frame in Acrobat, but this was not possible and the error message still appeared. "   Hi Silke, could you give us a sample PDF file? I think, that editing the PDF in Acrobat Pro should be possible. For example you could try to convert it to a PDF/X standard using Acrobat's preflight functions.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @dublove , assign both property/value pairs at the same time like that: var selectedItem = app.selection[0]; selectedItem.textFramePreferences.properties = { autoSizingType : AutoSizingTypeEnum.WIDTH_ONLY , autoSizingReferencePoint : AutoSizingReferenceEnum.LEFT_CENTER_POINT };   Or change the order of assigning the values like that: var selectedItem = app.selection[0]; selectedItem.textFramePreferences.autoSizingReferencePoint = AutoSizingReferenceEnum.LEFT_CENTER_POINT; selectedItem.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.WIDTH_ONLY;   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @dublove , if you select an object, a graphic frame for example, that is anchored to text, you will get the anchor character with: app.selection[0].parent If you'd select the image inside the graphic frame, then do: app.selection[0].parent.parent The anchor character's first or second insertion point could be asked to reveal the text frame: app.selection[0].parent.parent.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames[0]   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

Hi @dublove , did you analyze my script code above? As you can see, I started with a single selected cell and then added other cells to the selection.   FWIW: what did not work for me was to apply the array of cells to app.select( ArrayOfCells ). So it seems that the order of cells is super-important when you select cells with app.select() and use SelectionOptions.ADD_TO as second argument of the method.   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @leo.r , I suppose the question is about Adobe Illustrator. ( Suffix *.ai )   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Darling_0124 , below my scripting solution from this other thread written in ExtendScript. I did a lot of comments there. Please read them before trying the script code.   You have to edit the code and insert the right names for the source layer and the target layer. Both names could be the same. Make sure, that you change "SourceLayer" to "TheNameOfYourLayer" and do that also with "TargetLayer".   /* IMPORTANT NOTES: The code below works with ONLY two documents open. sourceDoc : the active open document targetDoc : the other open document Make sure that the target document has the same number of pages like the source document. Make sure that the target document has the named layer you want to duplicate items to. */ // The open, active document is the source: var sourceDoc = app.documents.itemByID( app.documents[0].id ); // The second open document is the target: var targetDoc = app.documents.itemByID( app.documents[1].id ); // The name of the source layer: var sourceLayerName = "SourceLayer" ; // The name of the target layer, that must be already there in the target document. // Both names could be the same. var targetLayerName = "TargetLayer" ; var sourceLayer = sourceDoc.layers.itemByName( sourceLayerName ); var targetLayer = targetDoc.layers.itemByName( targetLayerName ); // Here comes the workaround for the problem reverse order of elements after using duplicate: var tempDoc = app.open ( targetDoc.fullName , true , OpenOptions.OPEN_COPY ); var tempLayer = tempDoc.layers.itemByName( targetLayerName ); // That produces a reverse order of the original stacking order of elements: sourceLayer.pageItems.everyItem().duplicate( tempLayer ); // That re-produces the original stacking order of elements in the target document: tempLayer.pageItems.everyItem().duplicate( targetLayer ); // Close the temp document without saving: tempDoc.close( SaveOptions.NO );   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Darling_0124 , we already discussed the issue a couple of years ago with a scripted solution by @heatherw6960836 here:   InDesign Script: Issue - copy layer items (using Duplicate), in target file layer items reordering @heatherw6960836 , Nov 22, 2019 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-script-issue-copy-layer-items-using-duplicate-in-target-file-layer-items-reordering/td-p/10756588   See my comments to circumvent the problem, that in scripting with duplicate() the stacking order of elements in the target is in reverse order. My solution: "Simply" duplicate the page items of a layer first to yet another document and then duplicate the layer's page items from that to the final document. https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-script-issue-copy-layer-items-using-duplicate-in-target-file-layer-items-reordering/m-p/10762682#M165713   Or look into @heatherw6960836 's solution, that would perhaps not directly suit your needs where Heather is using copy() and pasteInPlace() spread by spread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-script-issue-copy-layer-items-using-duplicate-in-target-file-layer-items-reordering/m-p/10764471#M165857   Kind regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi Rob, well yes. But I'm really not sure what exactly is meant by "when the cursor is in a cell".   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more