InDesign 19.0 (2024) (Windows): Defaults to Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer

[vnh68]

Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer has now become the default for paragraph styles, but I have noticed two errors that do not occur when using Adobe Paragraph Composer:
(1) Optical Margin Alignment does not work.
(2) UXP Scripting: error 30495 occurs when trying to get the value of the "bulletsAndNumberingResultText" property of the Paragraph class. If the composer is changed, the error disappears. 

[Barb Binder]

Hi @vnh68:

My English version of InDesign 2024 (19.0) is still defaulting to the Adobe Paragraph Composer for new documents. What language version did you install and is this happening in a new document, or in existing documents? 

~Barb

[vnh68]

Hi Barb!

I use the English version of InDesign 2024 (19.0).
The existing documents work fine, the problem only occurs when the file is
created by the latest version of InDesign. Then the World-Ready Composer
becomes active by default, but I have not used it before.

This issue has occurred since version 18.5. I've now started updating
legacy scripts for a scientific journal and decided to switch to UXP.
And then I ran into error 30495. At first, I thought it might be a UXP
problem, but the error didn't occur on documents created by older versions
of InDesign.


VH

[Barb Binder]

Hi @vnh68:

This is not happening to me in either version: 18.5 or 19 so I'm guessing a default was changed along the way. This is easy to fix:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-setting-and-removing-defaults/

Details are in the link above, but basically in both apps, close all open files, and change it back to Adobe Paragraph Composer. This will impact all new documents. You could also completely reset all the defaults in both applications if you want to. 

~Barb

[vnh68]

Hi Barb

I was reinstalling InDesign 19 from scratch.

Now, for newly created documents, Adobe Paragraph Composer appears as the default for [Basic Paragraph] style. 

Before reinstallation, Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer was installed when creating a new document in the [Basic Paragraph] style, as well as for other new styles. 

Perhaps some error occurred during installation. 

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Hi @vnh68:

Since some variation of this may occur down the road, it's worth noting that we do run into incomplete installations that require a reinstall, but most of the time, rebuilding cache and preferences will have the same effect of straightening InDesign out when things get wonky, and it is a little quicker.

The default installation of a new version will try to import preferences from the previous version—I always disable that—so I'm still not convinced that InDesign didn't copy the inadvertent Composer default forward from 18.5, since you said it was happening in both. (Though this process has been widely reported as buggy in 19.)

At this point, it really doesn't matter though, because the most important thing is that you are back on track. 😊

~Barb

[vnh68]

In any case, I thank you very much. Reinstalling InDesign solved a bunch of problems!

VH

[baruchgorkin]

I have not encounterd the second problem, but the Optical Margin Alignment really doesn't work. 
Starting with InDesign 19.0 version 19.0 (October 2023), "Harfbuzz" is the default text shaping engine of the Adobe World-Ready Composer. Setting InDesign back to legacy text shaping engine fixes the bug.
Here is how: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/shaping-engine-world-ready-composer.html