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Too Much Pain and Harm: InDesign Find Interface Input Boxes with Too Little Font

  • June 4, 2025
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Too Much Pain and Harm: InDesign Find Interface Input Boxes with Too Little Font
I've been testing the regularity for the past two days and realized that too small a font is too painful.
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Correct answer Laubender

Hi @dublove ,

look into Peter Kahrel's scripts for GREP:

 

A GREP editor

by Peter Kahrel, last update: 30 June 2019

To say that the Find what field in the Find/Change dialog's GREP tab is a tight place is an understatement. It's not very convenient for entering and editing GREP expressions of more than a dozen characters.

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_editor.html

 

And even more GREP utilities:

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_matters.html

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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Community Expert
June 4, 2025

Hi @dublove ,

look into Peter Kahrel's scripts for GREP:

 

A GREP editor

by Peter Kahrel, last update: 30 June 2019

To say that the Find what field in the Find/Change dialog's GREP tab is a tight place is an understatement. It's not very convenient for entering and editing GREP expressions of more than a dozen characters.

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_editor.html

 

And even more GREP utilities:

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_matters.html

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

    dublove
    dubloveAuthor
    Legend
    June 4, 2025

    Thanks, this one works for me too. It's also very small.

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    Community Expert
    LaubenderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2025

    @dublove said: "… It's also very small."

    Hi, hm, note that you can change the height and width of the UI's frame when dragging a corner:

    This is my setting for UI scaling ( small ) on a MacBookPro ( 16" monitor ) :

     

    Try a different scaling factor of InDesign's User Interface in the preferences of InDesign.

    The text in the head of the ScriptUI window will not scale, but the rest of the UI will:

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( Adobe Community Expert )

     

    m1b
    Community Expert
    m1bCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2025

    Agreed! Thanks for making the request. I voted.

    - Mark

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      Pickory
      Legend
      June 4, 2025

      Not an ideal solution.

      A script as a palette could be open at the same time as the find / change window. The script would have two editable fields that would mirror the find / change, find what, change to fields. We would need a set and get button for each field.

       

      P.

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