Find missing glyph

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Find missing glyph.

InDesign crashes when handling documents containing tables.
It doesn't crash if you set it to the paragraph and cell level.
Documents containing overset text also crash.

Is this an InDesign bug?

app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = -2;
alert(app.activeDocument.findGlyph()[0].contents);

rob day

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Hi @KohakuNekotarou , Running from Visual Studio Code I get an error—wrapped in a try statement

try {
    app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = -2;
    alert(app.activeDocument.findGlyph()[0].contents);
}catch(e) {
    alert(e)
}

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leo.r

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Hi @KohakuNekotarou , Running from Visual Studio Code I get an error—wrapped in a try statement

Interesting… On my Mac your code crashes InDesign just like the original one. Maybe it depends on the document somehow?

macOS 26.5, InDesign 21.5

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rob day

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I’m running from VSCode, not the ID scripts panel. In any case the code doesn't do or find anything.

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leo.r

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Yes, I can confirm that this script crashes InDesign.

The document I tried doesn’t have either tables or overset text.

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