Javascript insertionpoint.place fails in Indesign 2020

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November 11, 2019
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Hello,

We have a script importing files in Tagged Text format into a Indesign document, we did it in CS4 and it has been in use since then.

In Indesign CC 2020 it fails, Indesign "runs forever" and needs to be forced to quit.

The script gets the current insertion point and place a file, like this:

        var ip = app.selection[0];
        ip.place (File(fileToImport),{ autoflowing: true});

The place function never ends. It still does not work if I remove "autoflowing".

What has changed in CC 2020?

Thanks,

Rolf

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L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Rolf,

interesting to see that a paragraph formatting prevented the placement of the tagged text format.

Is that new to InDesign 2020? Would it work with the same circumstances in InDesign CC 2019 or below? Could that be a bug? I'd report this behavior with a precise description what happened. Together with a sample document of the issue, a sample document of the solved issue and the tagged text file: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

Best come back if done that and post the link of the report so that we can vote for fixing this.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Rolf,

yes. I ran this script snippet below on Windows 10 InDesign 2020:

var fileToImport = 
File.openDialog
	(
		"Eine Tagged Text-Datei auswählen:" ,
		"All files:*.*", 
		false
	);
	
if( fileToImport == null ){ alert( "Something went wrong!" ); exit() };

var ip = app.selection[0];
ip.place (File(fileToImport),{ autoflowing: true});

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

R

RolfClAuthor

Participant

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the help and thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

After we investigated the problem further, we found it was due to a paragraph format set to Single column in the Indesign template. The paragraph was immediately after a paragraph spanning columns. As soon as we changed the paragraph format from Single column to Span columns, the place function works as in previous Indesign versions.

Thanks again,

Rolf

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Just tested this by scripting and found no problems placing a tagged text file to an selected insertion point.
I'm on Windows 10. The tagged text file was exported with InDesign CC 2019 on the same machine.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )