Re: Virtual PostScript Printer on macOS

rob day

Hi Mike, Try this Drop box link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fhnvventjc7vxpzzmft5f/AKwgMb_SlYYf5JUfSfpr2nk?rlkey=e7ruj0dh52vvwku98mqbmbqen&dl=0

rob day · Apr 11, 2025

Here’s the metadata scipt from @Dave Creamer of IDEAS link—I moved it to Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/8qx0xhghw9vmpdooiojxt/AFf99mh2-teh8xn-JdkTtaU?rlkey=gkle0nou69ccakxzdj6qs0cew&dl=0

rob day · ‎Apr 11, 2025

I moved the latest verion to Dropbox (Adobe no longer has a file sharing service). This vesion works with CC2021, have not tested it in newer versions: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fgl2b67v7iuyu701twgc9/h?rlkey=gygixac74tr4mp9l87oa2l1a9&dl=0

rob day · ‎Apr 11, 2025

I can't understand. If you are adding a bleed for print, you wouldn’t want the text to move when you add the bleed to the text frame. This: Not this (which would happen when the text frame is moved):

rob day · ‎Apr 11, 2025

It's moving. That’s what you want, but I would want to extend the object, so the bleed is added without moving the text content. How would Distibute Objects handle the diffent needs?

rob day · ‎Apr 11, 2025

Hi @dublove , In your example do you want to move the selection or extend it to the bleed? Or, consider this more ambiguities example: Should the rectangle be moved or extended? Where? All four sides? One, two, three, or four?

rob day · ‎Apr 10, 2025

Hi @K.C. Taylor , Have you checked if your formula works with fonts that have very different x-heights? In case it isn’t clear, Leading is the measurement from baseline to baseline—the font meterics that might affect white space don’t matter. These two examples have the same 10pt Size and 14pt Leading, but there appears to be more space between the lines because the x-heights are so different:

rob day · ‎Apr 09, 2025

Hi @Andreas Jansson , The metadata problem has been around since at least 2017. This thread has a JS script that clears the ID doc and its placed images: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/is-there-a-script-to-clear-indesign-metadata-redundancy-or-the-clipboard-just-like-photoshop/m-p/12638735#M460299 From 2017 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/file-size-is-too-big/td-p/9370587/page/3

rob day · ‎Apr 08, 2025

when I create a filled rectangle it says the size is bigger than intended Do you mean the size Acrobat reports as the page size in Document Properties? That is the PDF total size not the trim size—here I included a Slug with the 8.5"x11" document trim:

rob day · ‎Apr 08, 2025

Hi @soulbookings , In Document Setup you set the Page Size Width and Height to the final desired trim size. You set the Bleed amount, and whether to include it, in the Print or Expert dialog. There is no need to draw crop and bleed marks in the document:

rob day · ‎Apr 08, 2025

Hi @VADI GRAPHIC , You would have to edit the CropMarks.jsx script with a plain text editor—it should be in your application scripts folder (see: Adobe InDesign 20XX⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts Panel⁩ ▸ ⁨Samples⁩ ▸ ⁨JavaScript⁩). Edit lines 55-57, and 61 to this and save:

rob day · ‎Apr 07, 2025

Hi @m1b , Not sure if this helps but getSpecifier() has 3 parameters (appName, version, locale)—locale might be worth trying. In case you don’t have the complete Bridgetalk API reference you can get it here: https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/interapplication-communication/bridgetalk-class/#bridgetalkgetspecifier

rob day · ‎Apr 03, 2025

Hi Neil, Not sure I can help, but I think there is a big enough difference in the two CMYK profile gamuts, that the ideal would be to convert directly from a large gamut RGB space to the final print CMYK space (not RGB>CMYK>CMYK). When I compare Coated FOGRA39 to ISO Coated v2 300% with Apple’s ColorSync Utility, I can see that Coated FOGRA39 has a larger gamut in the blues. Here is the comparison (ISO Coated v2 300% in white):

rob day · ‎Mar 31, 2025

Can someone explain to me how this difference comes about Hi @franziskaf24503411 , Before you export, check to make sure the document’s Assigned CMYK profile is also ISO Coated V2 300% (see Edit>Assign Profiles...): And also check the actual document color values with Separation Preview panel—it sounds like there was a color converion on the Export to PDF.

rob day · ‎Mar 28, 2025

Hi @wb-40 , Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3l5u1q751w0u2hf2c5vwg/AAgt0RarMfpcyiyiKs8zoMQ?rlkey=vsh4o0c70xoe5krklvngf1cd9&dl=0

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

The snipet I just posted was to test if the new InDesign sees an open document. Something tells me Bridgetalk (the code used to communicate with Photoshop) is broken in the new updates. I’m not going to be able to do anything for awhile.

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

Isn't using invoke() the same? Not exactly, currentTool is read/write, so you can get and set the tool //get the current tool var ct = app.toolBoxTools.currentTool $.writeln(ct) //set the current tool app.toolBoxTools.currentTool = UITools.PAGE_TOOL;

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

User HAVE to be in "Page tool" mode BEFORE he starts changing selected pages You can script the tool selection. app.toolBoxTools.currentTool = UITools.PAGE_TOOL;

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

I have no explanation for knowing why Registration 60 % appears as 100 % in the PDF. Hi @jmlevy , Acrobat is showing the overprint. Try turning on Overprint Preview in InDesign:

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

@jmlevy is right, setting the text to 60% of the [Registration] swatch results in an output value of 60|60|60|60, total ink 240%, not 60% Black (CMYK 0|0|0|6) You need to turn on Overprint/Separation Preview to display the expected ouput color for a PDF/X-1a export on an offset press. Use the [Black] swatch for your Character Style. Also, if you inspect the text in AcrobatPro the Color Space is listed as Separation, All—not DeviceCMYK

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

Hi @johnr54626971 , If you check the Character Style’s font in Find/Replace Font are its Restrictions listed as Normal?

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker , The best you can do is set or get the active page or spread—activePage only returns a single page, not an array of pages: //make page 2 active app.activeWindow.activePage=app.activeDocument.pages[1]; //get active page $.writeln(app.activeWindow.activePage.name) Also app.activeWindow.activePage can still be unreliable—depends on the zoom level—the frontmost page doesn't always correspond to the selected page in the Pages panel,

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

Can you show the alert you get when you run this script from the new version of InDesign? if (app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.saved) { alert("Active document’s file path is:\r" +app.activeDocument.filePath) } else { alert("Please open a document or save the active document and try again.") }

rob day · ‎Oct 23, 2024

I stay a full version behind with ID and PS, so I can't test. Someone messaged me that doing a Save As with the active document to the desktop worked .

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

I installed the fonts you provided in my system before opening the IDML.

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

I wish they supported python in the future? Probably not, the move is to UXP https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

If I install the fonts you attached in the OSX user Fonts folder, InDesign does not load them, and when I open your IDML they are listed as missing.

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

For example this would set all of the highlighting, for all of the open documents to true, without changing the Application’s default settings: var d = app.documents; for (var i = 0; i < d.length; i++){ d[i].textPreferences.properties = {highlightCustomSpacing:true, highlightHjViolations:true, highlightKeeps:true, highlightSubstitutedFonts:true, highlightSubstitutedGlyphs:true} };

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

Hi @Roger Breton , Like most other preferences Composition can be set for the Application, or for an individual document. If you want a default set of Composition preferences for all new documents, set your prefs with no documents open. If you wanted to do something like set all of the open documents to the same Composition highlighting, it could be done via scripting.

rob day · ‎Oct 22, 2024

If you check your document’s Find/Replace Font does the problem font have a valid Path listed under Info?

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