Hi @rgoodrow , what's the exact version of your InDesign? Downloaded the SVG and tested with my German InDesign 2025 on macOS. No issue found in placing the file.   However, when I exported the page to PDF I had an error message that the font Roboto is missing: Well, and that could be a big issue. The message does not tell what version of Roboto exactly is missing.   When you look into the SVG code after "Roboto" I can also see that, perhaps, together with "Roboto" the font "PTSans-Regular" and "PTSans-Bold" is used or is needed. On my machine "PTSans" or "Roboto" are currently not installed, so maybe "PTSans" is not needed for successfully rendering the placed SVG file? Speculations…   @rgoodrow , Roboto is available in different versions, maybe it is already installed on your machine and maybe the wrong version is installed or activated.   I will try to resolve the Roboto issue on my machine with downloaded Truetype font files from the Google Fonts repository; in contrast to the activated version of Adobe Fonts and put the font files to a Document fonts folder so that the document that contains the placed SVG file could see the font.   After doing the message that "Roboto" is missing when exporting to PDF was not issued. However, when opening the PDF in Acrobat Pro I can see that only Arial is used in the exported PDF.   I have attached the exported PDF plus the SVG file: svg_withFontsAddressed.pdf   I'm not sure what to make out of all this.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

Hallo @Herbert32944641gzmh , vorab eine Frage: mit welchem Browser zeigst Du das Dokument an? Hab's gerade mal mit einer Testdatei probiert. Der Textrahmen mit der automatischen Seitenzahl ist auf einer gesonderten Ebene. Die Seite 12 enthält eine Abbildung ohne Transparenz. Das Ergebnis ist wie beabsichtigt: https://indd.adobe.com/view/db9f4393-2c77-448e-ac89-1e62641e351d   Liegt irgendein Effekt auf dem Textrahmen oder dessen Inhalt? Dann könnte das die Ursache sein. Das Flachrechnen des Effekts beim Publish Online bedingt dann den weißen Hintergrund.   Gruß, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@m1b said: "there's usually no difference between app.activeDocument and app.documents[0]."   Hi @dublove , the difference between app.documents[0] and app.activeDocument is a subtle one. It could be that the addressed document with app.documents[0] is a document without a layout window. Not so with app.activeDocument. That is always one with a layout window.   Let's proof that; start InDesign with no document open and add two documents with a different parameter for showingWindow in method add(): // START InDesign WITH NO OPEN DOCUMENT: // Add two documents: var doc1 = app.documents.add(); // showingWindow parameter true is default var doc2 = app.documents.add( false ); // showingWindow parameter set to false alert( app.documents.length ) ; // returns 2 alert( app.activeDocument == doc1 ); // returns true   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@m1b said: "Fortunately it is simple to work around—loop through all the languages and you will find one named "Dutch: 2005 Reform"."   Well, only with an English localized InDesign version, I guess.   With my German version of InDesign you may find nothing, because the German string  for the name is "Niederländisch: 2005 Rechtschreibreform".   To get the version of the string that works for every InDesign version you could ask the applied paragraph style after the value for property untranslatedName: var appliedParaStyle = app.selection[0].appliedParagraphStyle; alert( appliedParaStyle.appliedLanguage.untranslatedName ); If the paragraph style is using  "Dutch: 2005 spelling reform" the alert will return: "nl_NL_2005" A snippet's XML will translate this value to: "$ID/nl_NL_2005"   So, in the end the string that will work in every locale could be: "$ID/" + untranslatedName   For example, if you want to add a new paragraph style with Dutch: 2005 spelling reform you could use the string directly like in the code below that worked in my German InDesign: var newParaStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.add ( { name : "newParaStyle" +"_"+ Date.now() , appliedLanguage : "$ID/nl_NL_2005" } );   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@fierce_Sunset5393 said: "… Are you saying all slash marks need to be removed or only in the headers?" Apparently, not. I corrected myself back then. What did not work is the word table and a simple colon : .   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Kenshiro , thanks for your screenshot: I'd say this is a screen redraw issue. Depending on, perhaps, GPU support on vs off. Check your InDesign preferences if it makes a difference to turn GPU support on or off. Annoying…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

@Barb Binder said in June 2023: "Are they always the same size?" From the perspective of 2023 when Barb asked this, the answer was "yes".   Now, at least with InDesign 2025, the size of the border changes with the complexity of the QR code. So @Angela25876015ammb has a point by using the INDD > AI > INDD route of copy/paste. I have no idea why the developers changed this behavior…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hallo Martin, nur der Vollständigkeit halber erwähnt: Die andere Möglichkeit wäre, dass jede einzelne Eigenschaft eine separate Excel-Spalte bekommt, mit Namen wie "Eigenschaft-1", "Eigenschaft-2", "Eigenschaft-3" etc.pp. Das Template für die Datenzusammenführung würde dann die maximale Anzahl von "Tags" (Eigenschaften) in der gewünschten Reihenfolge enthalten. Aber auch dann müsste nach der erfolgreichen Datenzusammenführung nachgearbeitet werden, da die Anzahl der Eigenschaften von Artikel zu Artikel unterschiedlich lange ausfallen kann. Überflüssige Absatzzeichen müssten entfernt werden.   PS: Marios Idee ist die bessere. Zur Trennung der Absätze in Excel kann auch eine Kombination von Zeichen verwendet werden, die nach der Datenzusammenführung in Absatzzeichen per Suchen/Ersetzen gewandelt werden kann.   Gruß, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@Fred.L said: "I've read about snippets being able to do this, but I haven't never been able to make it work. Data can be imported, but not shortcuts (last time I checked)"   Hi Fred, AFAIK, snippets' XML code can (must) be edited ( also by scripting ) to implement keyboard shortcuts for paragraph styles or character styles. Keyboard shortcuts for styles is not part of the DOM. For "installed" script files you cannot use DOM scripting to apply keyboard shortcuts, I think. You could invoke the menu for keyboard shortcuts, but that's it: app.menuActions.itemByName("$ID/ShortcutsMenuItem").invoke();   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@dublove said: "… That's enough. I'm giving up on deleting the folder." First the folder has to be all empty before you will be able to delete it. All empty also means no subfolders or files are there; even invisible files should not be there.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

Hi @dublove , when the error is "copy is not a function" it might be that fs[i] is not a file. Also check if the extra slash "/" is already part of destinationPath.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@deepak_8153 , check where the missing font that is available in InDesign Desktop is installed. Open the document in InDesign Desktop and go to the Type menu. List all used fonts, in my German InDesign the menu is "Schriftart suchen/ersetzen" and select the listed Open Sans Bold. In my sample below I did that for "Helevtica Neue Regular": More Info will show you the path of the installed font. What do you see for Open Sans Bold that is missing for InDesign Server?   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@Urs Stadelmann schreibt: "Kann man so etwas in ID lösen, "? "   Hallo Urs, vermutlich fällt mein Vorschlag unter "ohne dabei grad weiss ich nicht was zu machen? ", aber Du könntest ein Leerzeichen VOR dem ersten Zeichen des Titeltextes einfügen und dann mit einer negativen Unterschneidung das gewünschte Ergebnis erzielen. Hier im ausgewählten Textrahmen sitzt die Einfügemarke zwischen dem Leerzeichen und dem folgenden "T":   Noch 'ne Möglichkeit mit viel Arbeitsaufwand: Du erstellst Dir einen eigenen Font mit beispielsweise dem Skript IndyFont, das ausschließlich Glyphen ohne (oder für Deinen Zweck angepasstes) linkes "Sidebearing" enthält. Dieser Font wird dann per GREP-Stil dem Absatz zugewiesen.   Zu IndyFont von Jongware und Marc Autret geht's hier: https://indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont   Gruss, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@bcastello , or see into Roland Dreger's: OpenAI for Adobe InDesign https://github.com/RolandDreger/indesign-openai   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @bcastello , look into Eugen Pflüger's MATE for InDesign: https://www.omata.io/mate https://www.omata.io/mate/indesign   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @dublove , look into DOM documentation for object File and method copy(). There you'll see that the argument in copy() is not just a folder path, but a string describing a file's path ( or a File object ). So in essence you have to add the file name to the target's folder path and do: copy( destinationPath +"/"+ f[i].name ) What also should work is: copy( File( destinationPath +"/"+ f[i].name ) ) https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#File.html#d1e6347__d1e6984   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   PS: Edited post. ... View more

Hi @jenniferl20391402 , could you share the empty document; I'd like to see into this very special case. Just attach the InDesign file to your reply using the forum's editor ( do not attach it to a reply by mail; that will not work ).   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Ah. You mean if an menu action in general when visible from a menu can be invoked? Well, when available and activated, yes. But this way of doing things is only reasonable if the action functions without a dialog popping up that one has to answer to get the action done.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @jenniferl20391402 , just a thought: does it work if you duplicate pages with the custom settings and later remove the duplicated contents on the pages instead of adding new pages?   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@dublove said: "… Can the “menu operation” you mentioned in another post accomplish these steps?" Please post an URL of my post you refer to…   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Bilal__ , please provide a sample InDesign document where the expression is successful and one where it is not. Just attach the documents to your answer using the forum's editor ( and not by replying through mail ).   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi Pickory, the character style applied through the GREP Style is not selected, true; but it is visible at the bottom of the character styles panel.   Your sample is the easiest one. You may run into more complex scenarios where more than one GREP Style is defined in the applied paragraph style or in the applied paragraph formatting that overlaps or overrides a given style. Or if other formatting is applied…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )     ... View more

Hi @Pickory , I think this is complicated matter, because, in the end, it's a text composition result, a "phenotype" result out of GREP Style "genes", if you wish. So you could add "marker formatting" like applied color* to the GREP Styles and "see" what the composition engine will do. Sometimes you have to outline a text duplicate to get a clear results in case of applied marker colors.   * other formatting that is not that obviously visible could perhaps work better.   I don't think that text style ranges are the solution.   PS: A couple of years ago we had a discussion on "circular" applied GREP Styles to color individual characters. Turned out in one case that the visible color of one of the characters did not match the color the Swatches panel was showing when the character was selected. So prepare for strange cases…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Thanks Brad for adding the UserVoice entry. Just voted for fixing the bug.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Brad @ Roaring Mouse said: "… The Align to Bleed function works incorrectly for certain bleed situations."   Indeed. I can see this also with my German InDesign 2025 v20.5.0. A different example: If you move a page of a facing pages document down with the Page tool so that the inner bleed will not touch the facing page you see strange things happen:   The object will not move according to the outer bleed value of 5 mm, but to the value of the inner bleed which is 2 mm in the case above when using Align Left. And then it will move not to the inner bleed, but to the outer bleed of the facing page when using Align Right:   Means: Inner bleed does not work at all (facing pages document). Top Align and Bottom Align will work with different bleed settings. Align Top: Align Bottom:   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@Serene_Explorer5310 said: "… Now I need to save files in the PDF/X-4:2008 standard. How can I save them?"   Hi @Serene_Explorer5310 , I don't think it would make a difference if you save to PDF/X-4:2010. May I ask you why you are asking?   I did not try this, but probably you can convert to PDF/X-4:2008 with Acrobat Pro's preflight functionality.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @dublove , I think I resolved your issue. Start out with the selected text frame that is holding the table where the first two rows of the table contain merged cells and should be converted to header rows. Just run the following script on the selected text frame: var textFrameHoldingTheTable = app.selection[0]; var table = textFrameHoldingTheTable.parentStory.tables[0]; var row1 = table.rows[0]; var row2 = table.rows[1]; // Copy the selected table to the clipboard: app.select( table ); app.copy(); // Now work on the two body rows: app.select( row1 ) app.menuActions.itemByName( "$ID/kTablesMenuUnmerge Cells_&" ).invoke(); app.menuActions.itemByName( "$ID/To Header" ).invoke(); app.select( row2 ); app.menuActions.itemByName( "$ID/kTablesMenuUnmerge Cells_&" ).invoke(); app.menuActions.itemByName( "$ID/To Header" ).invoke(); // Finally paste the contents of the clipboard, the table with the merged cells, // to the selected table: app.select( table ); app.paste();   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more