Strange boxes in Indesign

Alright, finally I found a way to make that layout grid invisible.

Export the document to IDML and edit the Preferences.xml file inside the IDML container.

<CjkGridPreference ShowAllLayoutGrids="false" ShowAllFrameGrids="false" MinimumScale="50" SnapToLayoutGrid="false" ColorEveryNthCell="10" SingleLineColorMode="true" ICFMode="false" UseCircularCells="false" ShowCharacterCount="true">

Set e.g. ShowAllLayoutGrids to "false" like I did in the code above.

If you are on Windows 10 you can open the IDML file with e.g. 7zip and edit the said XML file:

After saving the edited XML file inside the IDML container open the IDML file with InDesign as document.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

How to install the CJK version of InDesign with an English GUI:

Adobe InDesign Tips: Japanese/CJK Functionality + English UI—Redux
By Dr Ken Lunde, Nov 5, 2019
https://ken-lunde.medium.com/adobe-indesign-tips-japanese-cjk-functionality-english-ui-redux-539528e295c6

Dr Ken Lunde said:

"I published a CJK Type Blog article in April of 2017 that enumerates nine specific steps that allows one to expose Japanese text layout functionality in Adobe InDesign while preserving an English-language UI. These steps have proven to work time and time again, with each subsequent major update of InDesign, which, like clockwork, torpedoes my preferred working environment. Though the nine-step process works, it is arguably convoluted.

The good news is that there is a much easier way."

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

FWIW: It's no accident or error if you get a InDesign document template that was originally created with a CJK version of InDesign ( Chinese/Japanese/Korean). This kind of grid, the "layout grid" is necessesary or useful for Japanese typesetting

Don/t know if it's worth the effort to get rid of it.
Simply create a new document with a non-CJK-version of InDesign and copy over the contents to the new document.

Cannot tell if this will work, but it's worth a try to remove all named grids using ExtendScript ( JavaScript ) :

app.documents[0].namedGrids.everyItem().remove();

EDIT: Well, I tested this line of code on a Japanese InDesign document and it did not work as expected.

Possibly there is a different control for this kind of grid or my German InDesign cannot handle this.

It seems that I have no access to property gridView of gridData of any page in the document.

Error: 30615 "Diese Eigenschaft ist im aktuellen Status nicht zutreffend." ( $ID/kScriptErrNotApplicable )

So you need the CJK version of InDesign to change the view of that grid, I think.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

I agree, that these are found only in an Asian version. Once I got these only by an accident and error. I had to install the Asian version to get rid of them.

These seem to be layout grid, available only in the Japenese version. See the details below

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/layout-grids.html

-Manan