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Finding Unassigned Glyphs

Participant ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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If we import or enter a text code (e.g. a Katakana character )  for which a font has no Glyph, then Indesign will display an x'd rectangle.

Is it possible to find/scan for these with a script?

Thanks !

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Participant , Jul 18, 2012 Jul 18, 2012

I did finally manage to script a list of all the unassinged glyphs in my document - with .findGlyph().

This sample just writes to the extendscript toolkit js console.

[CS6]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

var myDocument=app.activeDocument;

var allFound = [];

var numFonts = myDocument.fonts.length;

for (var z=0;z<numFonts;z++) {

    allFound = [];

    app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    app.f

...

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Guru ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Depending on what you're trying to do—i.e., is a simple pass/fail enough, or do you need to programmatically do something to each missing glyph—the preflight might work.

Jeff

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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@Pete – just a thought:

if we are looking for all none-white space characters and try to convert  character by character to outlines, and this convertion will fail, would that be the proof that we found a unassigned glyph?

Here an example. Characters that cannot converted to outlines will be formatted with the character style "NotDefinedGlyph", that you have to prepare before running this snippet:

//Very slow. Don't try this on large stories:

var d=app.documents[0];

var sChars=d.stories[0].texts[0].characters;

var sCharsLength = sChars.length;

//Not foolproof!

//False positives with ligatures like "fi" or "ffi":

for(var n=0;n<sCharsLength;n++){

   

    //Do not create outlines on white space characters:

    if(sChars.contents.match(/\S/)){

        try{

            var myOutlineArray = sChars.createOutlines(false);

            try{

            myOutlineArray[0].remove();

                }catch(e){};

            }catch(e){

                //Let's mark it with a character style in case it cannot be converted to outlines:

                sChars.appliedCharacterStyle = "NotDefinedGlyph";

                $.writeln(sChars.contents);

                };

        };

   

    };

Downside: this code would run very, very slow…
And: it's NOT foolproof. There are false positives with ligatures like "fi" or "ffi" etc.pp.

Uwe

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Everybody please head to the feature request page: http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html

I've been asking for script support for this for years, but my feeble voice hasn't had much success.

The more requests, the bigger the chance we get the feature.

Peter

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Participant ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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All;

Thanks for the ideas. I will continue to tinker.

I did add an entry to the Feature requests.

pjb

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Guide ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Hello Peter,

Spec out what you would like to do. I am more than happy to try and write a 'FREE' plugin that your scripts can call.

All the best.

P.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Easy to spec out: a method that works at document level and lists glyphs/characters used in the document which are not present in the used fonts. For example, myDocument.missingGlyphs() would return an object that in some way tells you what glyphs are missing from which font. Something along these lines:

missing = app.activeDocument.missingGlyphs();

for (m in missing)

   $.writeln (m, missing)

So the keys would be the font names (Times-Bold, Arial-Italic) and the values, the missing glyphs in those fonts. But the data model doesn't matter, as long as you get a list of missing glyphs per font.

Would be great if you could write such a plug-in.

Peter

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Guide ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Hello Peter,

It would seem to me that missing glyphs are reported as the text is composed. We could cause the document to compose by faking a print / redraw. I could then capture missing glyphs in the print / redraw process and then report the list back to your scripts.

Quite an overhead and a bodge.

I will give this some more thought.

All the best.

P.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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For CS4 (and hopefully newer): create a preflight profile that checks just the bad'uns, then flesh out the relevant details. The scripting engineers went a little bit crazy on making this scriptable, it seems.

(This code only returns the results after 2 minutes, and it only shows them. So please none of that "plz can u send ur complete script" crap if you plz.)

if (!app.preflightProfiles.item("Check glyphs only").isValid)

{

          glyphsOnlyProfile = app.preflightProfiles[0].duplicate();

          glyphsOnlyProfile.name = "Check glyphs only";

          for (i=0; i<glyphsOnlyProfile.preflightProfileRules.length; i++)

                    glyphsOnlyProfile.preflightProfileRules.flag = PreflightRuleFlag.RULE_IS_DISABLED;

          glyphsOnlyProfile.preflightProfileRules.itemByName("ADBE_MissingGlyph").flag = PreflightRuleFlag.RETURN_AS_ERROR;

}

glyphsOnlyProfile = app.preflightProfiles.itemByName("Check glyphs only");

activeProcess = app.preflightProcesses.add (app.activeDocument, glyphsOnlyProfile);

activeProcess.waitForProcess(120);

result = {};

for (i=2; i<activeProcess.aggregatedResults[2].length; i++)

          if (result[activeProcess.aggregatedResults[2][1]])

                    result[activeProcess.aggregatedResults[2][1]]++;

          else

                    result[activeProcess.aggregatedResults[2][1]] = 1;

alert (result.toSource());

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2012 Jul 17, 2012

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Gosh -- trying it on a hundred pages of text where I replaced all of the body font with Symbol made ID crash

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0   ???                                     0xac8f4630 _XHNDL_trapback_instruction + 0

1   com.adobe.InDesign.Package and Preflight          0x0fd477ec GetPlugIn + 554380

Oh well, better use it "within reasonable limites" then.

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Participant ,
Jul 18, 2012 Jul 18, 2012

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I did finally manage to script a list of all the unassinged glyphs in my document - with .findGlyph().

This sample just writes to the extendscript toolkit js console.

[CS6]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

var myDocument=app.activeDocument;

var allFound = [];

var numFonts = myDocument.fonts.length;

for (var z=0;z<numFonts;z++) {

    allFound = [];

    app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID  = 0;

    app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = myDocument.fonts.name;

    allFound = app.findGlyph ();

    if (allFound.length>0) {

        $.writeln(allFound.length+ ' Unassigned Glyphs in ' + myDocument.fonts.name );

   

        for (var y=0;y<allFound.length;y++) {

             $.writeln( allFound.contents+ '   ' +allFound.contents.charCodeAt(0) );

        }

   }

}

   

$.writeln('--done--');

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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Wow, that is excellent!

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Guide ,
Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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That is very neat!

Thanks, that has let me off the plugin.

P.

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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Brilliant! Thanks very much. I shall use this script a lot I'm sure.

Peter

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Community Expert ,
Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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@Pete – Wow! That is working. Just tested in InDesign CS5.5,

At least with my sample document I put up very fast.

"app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = 0" seems to be the proof…

Just one thing:

Instead of "allFound = app.findGlyph();" I would change the scope to one document:
"allFound = myDocument.findGlyph();"

Thank you a lot!

Uwe

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Community Expert ,
Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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Pete,

It might be useful to display the hex/unicode value of missing characters, like this:

. . . allFound.contents.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)

Peter

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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@Pete – another thing: don't know why, but with that method you cannot find unassigned glyphs in overset texts.

Wheras  in the UI that is possible…

Example inDesign CS5.5:

if you are searching for "ID: GID/CID" value "0" in the UI Glyph search, for a given font you can find all the unassigned glyphs of that font even in overset text.


With your script snippet this is not possible.

Strange…

Sorry. I was too fast in testing…
Same in UI with glyph search: you cannot find glyphs with "ID: GID/CID" value "0" in overset text…

Uwe

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To expand this a bit: In the UI that is only possible, if you define two items in glyph search:

"ID: GID/CID" of value "0" together with a specific glyph will find that glyph in overset text.

Wheras "ID: GID/CID" alone will find all glyphs with value "0" in not overset text.

All tests in InDesign CS5.5 v7.5.3.

Uwe

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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Very nice, works on CS5

It would be useful to be able to find missing font styles as well.

If one of you bright guys could add that to the script it would be apreaciated

Trevor

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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Thanks. I plan to include this in a new extension we are wroking for text-checking files pre- and post- translation.

- pjb

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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In the meantime mark your answer as correct, helps with the forum search.

Good luck with the extension

Trevor

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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This is really great.  I must say I appreciate Peter Kahrel's modification to yield hex if only because that is how I'm used to seeing character codes.  For obvious reasons, "toString(16)" messes up 2nd-plane Chinese (e.g. U+2A64A, available in MingLiU-ExtB), but on my system (IDCS4 under Win7) the console still shows the correct character. 

On the other hand, there are CJK fonts with "extra" chars. that don't have a Unicode encoding but only a glyph ID.  For example, the char. in Adobe Ming Std. that ID's glyph palette reports as "CID: 17382" gets listed on the console as U+001a.  In my work, such cases are few: the same font contains the same glyph at U+8B4C, i.e., a code-point where standard input systems can find it; and the determined ID user who inputs the CID no. will find that ID turns the coding for the glyph into U+0020 when exporting to PDF -- maybe okay for print but not so useful as publishing goes electronic. 

Japanese might be a little different: the Kozuka fonts bundled with ID contain quite a few "hors catégorie" items, and occasionally I have used the circled or squared two-digit numbers.  But these are things I add -- I never see them in the manuscripts I receive -- and I generally apply a character styles to all CJK protect them from accidental stripping of the font attribute.

David

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Jul 19, 2012 Jul 19, 2012

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David wrote:

> For obvious reasons, "toString(16)" messes up 2nd-plane Chinese (e.g. U+2A64A, available in MingLiU-ExtB), but on my system (IDCS4 under Win7) the console still shows the correct character.

Just for added clarification: the "obvious" (grin) reason is that Plane 2 characters consist of not one Unicode, but TWO! And Pete's great discovery -- thinking well outside of the box! -- will probably report them, but it only sees one character at a time.

InDesign correctly handles the two successive Unicode character, although it's weird you can move your cursor "between" the two and then accidentally mess up your text.

For an example w/o being able to read Chinese, Check out the Apple Color Emoji font. You won't see the colors in InDesign, for unrelated reasons, but if you insert one of the icons into ID using the Glyphs palette, you can see it actually consists of two codes.

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Jul 20, 2012 Jul 20, 2012

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Plane-1 and higher characters can be handled as follows. Replace this line in Pete's code:

$.writeln( allFound.contents+ '   ' +allFound.contents.charCodeAt(0) );

with this one:

$.writeln( allFound.contents+ '   ' + get_hex (allFound));

and add this function to the script:

function get_hex (ch)

    {

    function pad (n) {return ('0000' + n).slice(-4);}

    try

        {

        if (ch.contents.length == 2)

            {  // plane-1 and higher algorithm algorithm adapted from

                // http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/utilities/SurrogatePairCalculator.htm

            var H = parseInt (ch.contents.charCodeAt(0).toString(16), 16);

            var L = parseInt (ch.contents.charCodeAt(1).toString(16), 16);

            var s = ((H - 0xD800) * 0x400) + (L - 0xDC00) + 0x10000;

            return 'U+' + s.toString(16);

            }

        // Plane-0 character; pad hex up to four characters

        var s = ch.contents.charCodeAt(0).toString(16);

        return 'U+' + pad (s);

        }

    catch (_) {return 'U+????'}

    }

Peter

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