Can you share/attach a few pages from the document? ... View more

Hi @MikePost , Can you show a capture with Hidden Characters turned on? It’s not likely an align to baseline grid setting because I can see in your capture,  your text colunms are not aligned to the same baseline.   Make sure you are not creating space between paragraphs by adding returns—use Space After in your Paragraph or Paragraph Style setting with no extra returns:   ... View more

Both support Layer Compositions,   Hi @Willi Adelberger , I'm not using the latest ID version, but if I place a TIFF Object Layer Options... is grayed out   ... View more

It seems like InDesign files that have a lot of Photoshop files added to them are very large and take a long time to load   Are you linking or embedding your images? Any placed image format that is Linked would be previewed with a low res flattened preview image. If your linked PSDs are creating load or file size problems it’s probably some other problem like excess metadata. https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/inflated-jpg-file-size-photoshop-document-ancestors-metadata/td-p/8055434   Is there a good reason to do one over the other?   PSD’s have the Object Layer Options feature, which lets you turn the PSD’s layers on and off without leaving InDesign.         ... View more

Regarding the "button" here is a search result:   AI hallucinating? ... View more

Next time "Export" for sure, now that I know the difference between the two.   Hi @George DeLuca , If you Package, the printer would have the obtion to fix problems—the document might include page bleeds, but that doesn’t mean an image is actually bleeding off the page. The printer might be able to fix the bleeds without asking for a new package   PDF’s are not easily edited—if you exported a PDF with no bleeds the printer would not likely be able to fix that problem. ... View more

Hi @Giddy_Dreamer9221 , The Link Info panel gives you Status, Color Space, Color Profile, and resolution info for a selected image. Effective PPI is the scaled output resolution when the page is printed at 100%:   ... View more

I may have misunderstood some things.   You will need to get the group’s geometric bounds in order to set the rectangle’s bounds and position it relative to the group. ... View more

text flows without (or at least a bare minimum of) special characters in them.   Hi @Thomas_Calvin , It is the reason for the Indent to Here character—seems like a real handicap if you can’t use ID’s special characters:   ... View more

With AcrobatPro you can set and save the intial view for PDFs exported as  pages:   ... View more

Do we just tell people we can't work with canva pdfs?   Just to clarify, the InDesign file has placed images that were saved as Canva PDFs (not in an image format)?   Can you package the problem InDesign file and assets and share? ... View more

Hi @Lisa Dorn Design , Just to clarify, is your PDF intended for screen viewing only, or will it be printed and bound? If it will be printed, you have to export pages not spreads—the pages will be imposed and the printer will need to have pages not spreads in order to setup the imposition.     ... View more

it is currently only happening with 1 file.   You might start by looking at the placed assets’ formats. I’m guessing if you opened all the images and resaved them as .PSDs, and resaved any vectors as .AI format in Illustrator, that might be a fix. Avoid EPS if you can. ... View more

Hi @tiffanykustwan11 , Does Print Engine failure happen with all documents—if you create a new document with just default fonts and no placed assets do you get the error when printing separations? ... View more

I did miss that you were trying to assign a Gray profile.   Just an added note—InDesign does not have a Grayscale mode—if you place a Grayscale it is previewed as it would print on the CMYK Black plate when Separation/Overprint Preview is turned on using the assigned CMYK Profile. In your case you can set Photoshop’s Gray Working Space to ISOnewspaper26v4_gr, and InDesign’s CMYK Assigned profile to ISOnewspaper26v4:         ... View more

Hi @vincentb22853398 , Do you by any chance have Advanced Mode unchecked in Color Settings?           ... View more

Sometimes I need to input 8mm, so I set the unit to mm.   If by input you are referring to InDesign’s native dialog’s measurementEditboxes object, it returns Points—doesn’t matter what you have your ruler units, or measurementUnit script preferences set to. But it’s easy to convert the returned Points to Millimeters. ... View more

I've also seen you use this before—it should have the same effect as app.activeDocument, right?   I never set the rulers for my scripts anymore—always use app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit to set the scripting units, and usually use POINTS   These all should return the same result:   var d = app.activeDocument; var dd = app.documents[0] var ddd = app.documents.item(0) $.writeln(d.name) $.writeln(dd.name) $.writeln(ddd.name)         ... View more

Also, if you are going to change the user’s ruler units, you should reset them as a courtesy to the user—@brian_p_dts is doing that in his example ... View more

You can set ruler units for the application of a document. Or, you can set the script’s measurement unit, which ignores the user’s ruler units—you would have to watch out for the few methods that always return points. See @brian_p_dts and @m1b  replies   //sets the application’s ruler units—the ruler units initially used for any new documents app.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; app.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; //sets the ruler units for the active document app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; //sets the measurement units used by the script ignores the current ruler unit setting //a few methods always returns points you would have to coerce points to millimeters—multiple by 2.83465 app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; ... View more

Sometimes it doesn't always work   There are some methods that by default return the native POINTS—like the dialog’s ambiguous MeasurementEditbox, or  transform(). For that reason I generally prefer to use POINTS when setting a script’s measurementUnits   ... View more

Hi @audrey_0447 , Does the problem happen in InDesign if you set your Appearance of Black Preferences to Dispay All Blacks as Rich Black as @Fred.L suggests. Depending on the document’s Assigned CMYK profile the the difference can be significant.   Also, Source Sans Pro Light is a particularly light weight font and the display of small point sizes would be affected by the monitor’s resolution and anti-aliasing technique used. Acrobat has a Page Display>Rendering Preference that can have an effect on the display of small texts   ... View more

»perfectly« justified type   I’m guessing you'll find little agreement on what makes justified text perfect—Justification and Hyphenation settings are a set of preferences. ... View more

Hi @GeeK Reverse , Not sure if this helps, but here is a visual illustrating @Jeffrey_Smith , and @Abhishek Rao suggestions. How to create a Gradient Swatch, set the needed transparency stops via Gradient Feather Tool, and set its Angle and Type via the Gradient Swatch Tool panel.       Set any number of transparency stops:     Set Type and Angle, or drag out to set the gradient angle and length:       I think InDesign’s more complex approach is because, unlike AI and PS, an ID doc can contain a mix of RGB, CMYK, and Lab colors. The other apps have a single color space.   ... View more

when we change the Fill Colour of the equation in Typeface Properties in the Math Expressions panel, we should have the option to pick a CMYK colour   I don’t think that’s possible with SVG fonts—SVG is an RGB only format.   but when you have to edit an equation?   I think you would need a script—a script could convert the equations to outlines, export the PDF, then revert. Not all SVG font characters can be converted to outlines, so you would have to check. ... View more

Hi @Nikos Vardakis , Another work around might be to convert the SVG math texts to outlines where you should be able to fill with CMYK 0|0|0|100 black.   Converting to outlines can be scripted, so a script should be able to convert to math elements to outline, set the color to black only and export the PDF. ... View more

Right, the advantage of a function with a returned value is you can call it with a single line of code as many times as needed. ... View more