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Hello everyone.I have three versions of Photoshop, and sometimes I need to use one version to work better.I have always wanted to open the image from the ID using the specified PS version.Does anyone have a solution?Or can we never avoid the constraints of new BridgeTalk()?var item=app.selection[0];var paths=item.itemLink.filePath;openPathsInPhotoshop(paths);unction openPathsInPhotoshop(paths) { const DELIMITER = '###'; var photoshop = BridgeTalk.getSpecifier("photoshop"); if (!photoshop) return alert("BridgeTalk couldn\'t find Photoshop."); // send script via BridgeTalk var bt = new BridgeTalk(); bt.target = photoshop; // our variables bt.body = '(#FN#)("#P#","#D#");' .replace('#D#', DELIMITER) .replace('#P#', paths.join(DELIMITER)) .replace('#FN#', openPaths);}; 

Hello everyone,I'm experiencing a serious hyphenation issue in Adobe InDesign while working on a 100-page editorial publication written entirely in British English.The problemDespite having the text and paragraph styles correctly set to English (UK), InDesign continues to produce word breaks that follow American English hyphenation conventions rather than British English ones.For example: “democ-racy” instead of the British English “demo-cracy”. “lab-oratories”, which also appears to follow American rather than British hyphenation patterns. What I've already tried Verified that the language assigned to the text is English (UK). Checked the language settings within the paragraph styles. Changed the dictionary and hyphenation settings. Switched between the Hunspell and Proximity hyphenation engines. Unfortunately, neither engine has resolved the problem. Switching to Proximity corrected some word breaks, but others, such as “democ-racy”, remained unchanged.Why this is a serious i

Hello,I am creating an interactive fillable PDF form and need to use a custom checkbox.I am aware as to how I add my 'Icon' to the Sample Buttons and Form Box, but am having difficulty when attempting to alter the appearance states 'Normal' or 'Rollover' or 'Click'.It seems that when I turn my button into a checkbox, as soon as it becomes selected, it puts a god awful default tick inside it as opposed to allowing me to choose my own 'Normal' state.Please help.M/

The post a few days ago was messy and lost.As shown in the picture, this is the source of constant and unchanging statements.How to read it?Previously, various statements obtained through geometricBounds conversion were not reliable.Every image, even those made with Photoshop, has this value.Hi ​@m1b ,Would you be willing to help me take a look? I remember in the code that generates static captions, you can read 'XMP File Info'. 

Hi everyone,I'm migrating/building an existing InDesign plug-in using the InDesign SDK 21.2 on macOS.While compiling the project, I'm encountering the following error:MacFileSystemIterator.cpp:139:35No member named 'IDFileToFSRef' in 'FileUtils'Existing code:void MacFileSystemIterator::SetStartingPath( const IDFile& fileSpec){ FileUtils::IDFileToFSRef(fileSpec, fStartingFileRef);} It appears that IDFileToFSRef() is not available in the FileUtils class in SDK 21.2.My questions: Has IDFileToFSRef() been deprecated or removed in the newer InDesign SDK? Is there an alternative API to convert IDFile into FSRef? If this API has been removed, what is the recommended approach for updating MacFileSystemIterator.cpp to work with SDK 21.2? Is there an updated implementation of MacFileSystemIterator available? Development environment Component Version macOS Tahoe 26 Adobe InDesign 2026 – v21.2 InDesign SDK 21.2 Xcode

I received the following warning in an SEC filing:WRN: INVALID_PDF_TAGMSG: In xxxxxx.pdf: found an invalid PDF tag (ATTACHED EmbeddedFile OBJECT/EXECUTABLE (EF in COSDictionary)).If I regenerate the PDF, the warning disappears. The file was originally exported from Adobe InDesign 2021.Could you explain what causes this warning, and how I can prevent it when exporting a PDF from InDesign?

There seems to be some agreement that ID's indexing feature is kludgy at best. I am not an experienced coder or script writer, but I thought of an algorithm that might make the indexing job easier. I'm posting this so you all can tell me that I'm nuts. (So stipulated!) Suppose index markers came in two flavors, start and end. If ID assigned marker numbers (not replacing the levels of index entries) and marker-end numbers, indexing would become far more flexible. So, for example, the first index entry would have "Index Marker 1" (IM1) and would generate "Index Marker 1 END" (IM1_END) for the user to place in the appropriate location in the text. So when the user marks the beginning of an index reference (with whatever levels the user specifies), pressing "OK" would generate a pop-up saying "place index end marker(#) at desired point." Then the user would not have to bother with all of the approximations (e.g. Next # paragraphs, Next # pages, etc.) that ID has now. If I'm right

I selected a cell in a row, but I found that its minimum height is not determined by itself, but by the cell with the most text lines in the row.How can I use a script to find the cell with the most text lines in this line?The minimum height of the red cell in the sample file below is 30pt. It seems that there is still an error in the calculation as follows:CellH=14+14+2*1.417=30.834>30pt。Another question, how to calculate the total height of the table columns in the current text box 

Hello everyone,I have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and I'm trying to install InDesign on my iMac (Late 2013), running macOS Catalina 10.15.8.Unfortunately, the latest versions of InDesign are not compatible with my operating system.I have already contacted Adobe Support, and they successfully provided me with older versions of Illustrator and Photoshop, which I was able to install.However, I haven't been able to obtain the correct installer for InDesign.Does anyone know how I can download an official version of Adobe InDesign 2020 (15.x) or 2021 (16.x), compatible with macOS Catalina?Thank you very much for your help!

I have been using Adobe express, not the app but the inbuilt quick action or from the contextual task bar in indesign, I have been using the feature for quick photo edits instead of opening photoshop or Express app, I only noticed now that the option is greyed out for some reason I dont know why. I need help please.Attached below for reference  

 My Command Console III plugin for InDesign is now ready for testing.It’s fitting that I announce it here first, as this is where it all started: the very first script I shared with the community, on the old InDesign scripting forum, was a primitive, ScriptUI dialog-based version of it: https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/indesign-command-box-859385. A version of this tool has been my constant companion throughout my scripting career, and this is its newest iteration.A few more details in the YouTube video: So, what is it? A developer tool running directly in InDesign as a UXP panel, offering a REPL-like environment where you can quickly test and inspect your script snippets live, with full history and all the conveniences you would expect from a modern developer tool.You type a bit of ExtendScript or UXP, hit Enter, and the answer comes back in the panel, complex results as a tree you can click open. On ExtendScript, modern JavaScript works, it’s translated down to ES3 with Babe

This has been a constant thorn in my side for the last year, it’s definitely an issue with recent updates as I have changed nothing about how I use these tools in the last 16 years.Every time I need to add some illustrator artboards to indesign to create a concept deck, there will be a few artboards that import in with something missing.I go back to illustrator to check to make sure there’s no hidden layers, no unusual settings differing between elements. Nothing. It’s completely random in what it decides it will show and what it will hide when imported into illustrator. This is what is in the illustrator file: This is what happens when I import the file to indesign as an artboard. I’ve tried everything I can reasonably do to fix this. Even creating entirely new files to put the artboards into. Deleting them, saving and then putting the text back and saving again so the file updates in InDesign. I’m at my wits end with this.

Hello everyone.I have been searching for the width to height (W/H) ratio of the image before it is deformed in InDesign.Today, I suddenly discovered a genus named Dimensions,Unless modified in Photoshop, this value will not change in Indeisgn, right?I only found item.HorizontalLayoutConstraints in ExtendeScrip; I don't know how to use it.How to obtain this value using a script?Thank you. 

I used Pagemaker 6.5 and upgreded to Indesign CS5. My computer recently crashed and I am trying to reinstall the software but it is asking me for the Pagemaker serial number which I don’t have. 

The tick boxes/interactive text rearranging whenever you edit any saved indesign document

My InDesign document got many hyperlinks, which are generated through automation when it is exported accessibilty pdf the link tag is selecting previous link. For the whole document it is happening like this, why it is happening & how to fix this.  The  Link-OBJR under one link tag is selecting another link as shown in the images below     

Not long after compiling 47 chapters into one file, I noticed the following unwanted behavior after going back and inserting an additional page spread in the middle:1. A few items newly placed on the pasteboard in subsequent chapters  are now one spread off in sequence. 2. Running chapter footers (intended to appear after the initial spread of each ch., so I simply cover them with a white box on the first spread of each ch.) are also now visible, perhaps due to this sort of recollating. 3. On the page spread just before the newly inserted one, a pic with a bounding box set to 1 cm text wrap now pushes or covers the footer when moved close to it . Items with text wrap do not do this to running footers anywhere else in the doc.It may already be clear what's happening but this also might be related: on the pages panel, there's a new blue line or box showing up on the spread preceding the newly added spread:Thank you

I just had a scary incident where I imported native InDesign pages into a file for imposing the pages 2-up. The original files were created by me and modified by another designer who preferred Palatino for her font rather than the Adobe Caslon Pro that I had used. The ligatures in question were the “ffi” and “ff” ligatures in Palatino—both regular and italic. Both appeared correctly on screen and when sent for proof in a pdf but disappeared when output to my HP5000 laser printer. Very frustrating after printing 125 12-page booklets that had to be fixed and reprinted: all under deadline, of course. Her Palatino was a 2006 truetype © Apple which seems to line up with what I have installed in my system (MacBook Pro 2018 running OS 15.7.9 and InDesign 21.6). I replaced the Palatino with the original font I had selected—Adobe Caslon Pro—and everything worked fine. Might be time for me to retire… Any solutions or explanations?

I have been using InDesign for nearly 30 years, and the app is just getting worse to work with! Full of bugs! So this is a suggestion to the developers -STOP using all your energy on fancy new AI features and make the app more stabil for daily work! I’m growing tired of conferencing with AI all the time to solve all the bugs. Such as - the marker becomes a spinning wheel - the app freezes and I must force it to stop - my personal work space is always putting in windows I have removed a billions of times! The view is not currently updating. Etc etc….Please make the app reliable again - PLEASE!!!!

I am working in the latest version of InDesign (V21.6) on PC. I have noticed that when I export to PDF recently that InDesign is taking a very long time to complete the export. Has anyone else had this issue? 

Hello! I have read previous discussions on issues when the smart guides options gets grayed out due to accidental selection of "snap to document grid". I am wondering if there is a possibility for other commands to deactivate my smart guide. I have retrieved an idml layout file from work and it does not work for that file. My smart guides are working for my other indd documents. I am also curious what the green boxes grids are? Thanks in advance to any help!

For example, I want to open the "D: \ AA \" path by default and select A1. indd by defaultvar defPath ="D:\AA\";var myFile = File.openDialog("Select File");if (myFile) { app.open(myFile);} else { alert("No file selected");} 

A long time ago I had a tab open that explained how to find a font that contained a specific glyph, but it’s been lost to too many updates. Who knows how to use InDesign to find a font that has a specific (semi-obscure, an asterism) glyph?

Where do i find InDesign JSX script that balances the two columns according to the actual heights of the rows?

  Hello everyWhen the paragraph style is not applied, the following two sentences (Leading) return "AUTO", but I want to know the actual value. How to modify.It seems that when applying the [Basic Paragraph] style, Leading also returns AUTO.var item = app.selection[0];var curFirLeading = item.textColumns[0].lines[0].leading;var curStyLeading = item.lines[0].appliedParagraphStyle.leading;alert(curFirLeading);alert(curStyLeading);I found a complicated method online to obtain the magnification of auto relative to the font size and calculate the Auto value in reverse.