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

Guide ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 2025

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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Community Expert , Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 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 Lau

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Community Expert ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 2025

Agreed! Thanks for making the request. I voted.

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Guide ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 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.

 

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Community Expert ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 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 )

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Guide ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 2025

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

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Community Expert ,
Jun 04, 2025 Jun 04, 2025
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@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:

Bildschirmfoto 2025-06-04 um 19.34.21.png

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

Bildschirmfoto 2025-06-04 um 19.34.51.png

 

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:

Bildschirmfoto 2025-06-04 um 19.37.34.png

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

 

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