Adobe Indesign CC 2019 / Apple MacOS Mojave 10.14.5

[seanf33852861]

Hello, I really hope somebody can help me with this issue I am having. I hope I can explain it correctly, if you have any questions please let me know :

First of all this is a question about accessibility

My document ( INDESIGN 2019 ), has little .eps file in my indesign document. Its how the document was conceived.

My Job is to convert this document into a accessible document. Just to make it short, I have to convert all the .eps into a OUTLINE format.

But this is what Happens :

1. I am in my indesign document ( 2019 )

2. I right click a .eps and open it in Illustrator

3. TO give you and idea what are my .eps I have attach and image, If I dont convert it in outline, I get a Character encoding problem in my PDF, which causes big problems in a accessible document. Its basically a Symbol ( MATHTYPE )....I really hope I am explaining myself corectly.

4. When My .eps is converted to outline in Illustrator and then...I save it

5. Go back to indesign, then it updates the link I GET THE WHEEL of COLOR OF DEATH ROLLING for 12 to 15 seconde per .eps. you know what wheel I am talking about.

now. I have tried about everything to try to make this wait shorter and shorter, but no go. So this is why I am putting my question on the Adobe Forum, are you having issues with the new operating system MOJAVE with Indesign. Is their a update I need to do to Adobe!...

If you have a solution, this will help me a lot, cause its causing my a lot of time waiting for it to update.

[seanf33852861]

I tried just one page....itself..and the laguing was not their, so Progress....Its the high volume of .eps...so if I convert all .eps to .ai you think this will help me!. I am going ot try a 5 page. eps and then in .ai...see if it works!

[rob day]

so if I convert all .eps to .ai you think this will help me!

It might, but there's no guarantee.

I don't have many documents anymore with placed eps files, but I do have an AppleScript that will convert an ID document's EPS files to AI format and update the links. I can post it if you want to give it a try.

[seanf33852861]

OMG Rob, you have a script indesign, that it will convert all .eps in my indesign document into .ai in my indesign document.

Right now, how I am doing it:

BATCH illustrator converting .eps to .ai.

then relink in Indesign to the .ai files....

thanks Rob if you have the script as a .jsx

thanks

[rob day]

It is an AppleScript not JavaScript, but it should run on Mojave. Here it is saved in a zip archive—unzip and copy it into your ID scripts folder:

http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/ConvertEPStoAI.zip

Make sure you have a backup of your ID doc before trying the script.

Open your ID doc. The script will ask you to choose a folder for the .AI files, it will open every link that is EPS type, do a Save As in Illustrator format to the selected folder, and relink to your ID doc.

700 links might take awhile, so I would test on a doc with a few pages first to see if it working as expected.

[seanf33852861]

Ok I will try it, right the way I am doing it!

1. Illustrator : BATCH .eps et ai. and action outline.

2. then Relinking indesign with the Same Folder option by extension.

Is this what the script does Rob!

would it be more eficient threw the script whats the difference, thank you for the continue help

[rob day]

The script does not convert text to outlines. I thought you had already done that?

[seanf33852861]

Yes I already did that!

But the resave to .eps to .ai is done threw Indesign! and replace at the same location, this script!

[seanf33852861]

Rob, it work perfectly...

Is their a script that makes the images all 100% SCALE.

is it the Scale Graphic.

also my images are all INLINE and ANCHOR

thank you

[rob day]

This should do it:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
    tell active document
        repeat with x in links
            --the image
            set i to parent of x
            --the frame
            set f to parent of i
            set vertical scale of i to 100
            set horizontal scale of i to 100
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

This would scale to 100% and center:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
    tell active document
        repeat with x in links
            --the image
            set i to parent of x
            --the frame
            set f to parent of i
            set vertical scale of i to 100
            set horizontal scale of i to 100
            fit f given center content
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

[rob day]

That I agree with you, but I tried .ai and a pdfx4, and I am having the same laguing issue!....

So you converted all 700 eps files to a different format and updated the InDesign links?

[rob day]

Also, it's possible it is a single placed file or page that's causing the problem—maybe you added some things after you moved to Mojave? You can try making a copy of the document and start dividing it until you find a problem page.

[rob day]

I'm curious too, what problem would an .ai file cause that a PDF/X-4 would prevent? Seems like it would require saving two of everything:

[Dov Isaacs]

From my perspective, one of the ​worst ​decisions made by Adobe marketing in the late 1990s was to make believe that a .AI file was a .PDF file. The .AI content is actually hidden as ​Pieceinfo ​inside a generic PDF file. Edit this type of PDF file in Acrobat and re-open in Illustrator and the Acrobat edits are lost.

Proper and safe workflow does in fact dictate that if you are working on Adobe Illustrator artwork, you should save it as a .AI file and then ​save as copy ​to a proper PDF file without the Illustrator Editing Capabilities. It's an extra step and less than 30 seconds extra work, but a safe, proven, and reliable workflow. The resultant PDF file is really publishing quality that can be placed directly into InDesign with highest quality results.

               - Dov

[seanf33852861]

I will try it tomorrow! if it works, I can just do a batch in Illustrator and save them all as PDF/X-4 ( i got a lot of them ).

Its not cause of the MOJAVE on my MAC and indesign CC2019, causing this lag. Cause before I had indesign 2019 but my operating system was was SIERRA..and I did not have this long laguing issue.

thank you

any other recommendation Dov.

[seanf33852861]

Thank you Dov Isaacs, yes I would say this document is a rare occassion. I am doing this all for accessibility.If I save it as a PDF/x-4 you think I should get Character Encoding issues in my PDF accessibility Check. I will try it and let you know.

[Dov Isaacs]

I don't believe you will get any character encoding issues since the font embedding rules are pretty strict for PDF/X-4. But please try it and let us know.

          - Dov

[seanf33852861]

Hello, I am new to the script, and using them. How do I save this as a .jsx file for my indesign ( MAC ).

thank you again!

[rob day]

It's AppleScript not JavaScript.

In your Applications Utility folder look for the Script Editor application. Copy the code, open Script Editor, create a New file, paste the code, and Save with the File Format as Script into your InDesign Scripts folder. Open your doc and double-click the script, which should show in your Scripts panel. It will loop thru all of the document links and set them to 100%

[seanf33852861]

Is giving this error msg when I ry save it...I have indesign CC 2019..by the way...I change it in your script and it did not work!

thank you

[seanf33852861]

It work

[seanf33852861]

Rob, I think with the oversized document, its causing a problem, but the script does work!

Wondering if you can adjust the scrip just the 100 % scale one, so When I run it it does just one page, the one I have the page selected in the page panel, is that possible.

[seanf33852861]

Its giving me this msg when I run the script indesign, Its because its a ducment of 119 pages
If I can just do it for ONE page selected, I think that should work!

[rob day]

This would skip any links that are causing the error

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
    tell active document
        repeat with x in links
            --the image
            set i to parent of x
            --the frame
            set f to parent of i
            try
                set vertical scale of i to 100
                set horizontal scale of i to 100
                fit f given center content
            end try
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

[seanf33852861]

Would you have a script also that TAGS all the images : IMAGE

[rob day]

Not sure what you mean by TAGS, but probably not.