You're re-inventing the wheel: this one does all you mention you want to do: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/batch_convert.html   P. ... View more

> You are talking about a good idea.   Good! Go and implement it: watch the videos, buy the books.   > Can it be achieved?   Absolutely!  ... View more

@dublove -- Do yourself a favour and learn about InDesign. You'll then be able to answer many of your questions yourself and you'll see that many of what you call unscientific bugs are in fact things you misunderstood or and simply good features. There are bugs here and there, of course, but when you know more about InDesign you'll be able to tell the difference between bug and misunderstood feature.   Some suggestions. There's a lot of material on Linda.com, all nicely organised in videos. You could also buy yourself two books: Classroom in a Book, and Real-World InDesign. These books are still in print. Classroom in a Book deals with the basics, Real-World InDesign is a reference book that provides a full description of ID. It has a good table of contents and an excellent index, so you'll always find what you're looking for.   The two books don't cover the latest InDesign versions (CC is the last version covered by Real-World InDesign) but that doesn't matter: hardly anything has changed. Most (if not all) of your queries here about pretty basic things, the two books are perfectly fine for your needs.   Peter ... View more

Forgot to mention that the copied frames will be unthreaded, you'll have to re-thread them after duplicating them. (Turns out that when you copy and paste them, the frames remain threaded. But that works only on a single page/spread.) ... View more

Mark's point was (I think) that you shouldn't try to select those frames and go through menu actions, but refeerence those frames directly.   To copy the frames on the Nomes layer to another document, use this: app.documents[0].layers.item('Nomes') .textFrames .everyItem() .duplicate (app.documents[1].pages[0]); This assumes your one-page document. To copy the frames on a given page, collect the frames on that page on that layer and duplicate those. Placing them on a particular layer in the target document requires an additional step. ... View more

Yet another possibility is that the space in I am isn't a plain space but e.g. a non-breaking one. To get around that, use a GREP replacement rather than a Text replacement, using a catch-all for the space:   grep {find what:"I\\ham"}   where \h stands for 'horizontal space', that is, any space.   ... View more

Please place your code in a code box (use </> from the toolbox at the top of the message window). People might then in fact read the code ratherthan just glance through it.   To find the first instance of a test word, use InDesign's GREP, not JavaScript's -- it's much easier to code and probably quicker too.   Instead of reading/applying overrides, why don't you use a paragraph and/or a character style? Makes life really easy.     ... View more

I don't see this problem in Windows 10. Maybe it's something to do with Windows 11. ... View more

Absolutely, haha! Thanks. ... View more

Kasyan (@kas) would be best placed to deal with this. ... View more

Eugene exaggerates!   You generate the index in a separate document, which is part of the book file, and you checked the 'Include book documents' in the Generate Index dialog -- correct?   If you did, what's the difference between Jos Smith on p. 3 and those on the other pages?   As Eugene mentioned, it's hard to see what's wrong without seeing the files. ... View more

If you don't use inDesign's ME version (which supports left-to-right and right-to-left binding), then you can use this one-line script to change the document's binding direction: app.activeDocument.documentPreferences.pageBinding = PageBindingOptions.LEFT_TO_RIGHT; ... View more

You're in right-to-left mode, you need to change the binding direction.  ... View more

As I said, the way your document is now I don't think a script is feasible. ... View more

You need an entirely different script, and I doubt that it's feasible with the state of your document. For instance, the rectangles that should be clickable are not marked up at all. So for any rectangle, how do you know which date it is? Furthermore, on the target pages the dates are in a group and in the [Basic Paragraph] style, so you won't be able unambiguously to find the correct pages. ... View more

Your script works fine over here, not sure why it doesn't work at your end. Maybe you could post the file.   Your script can be made more efficient as follows. Functionally it's the same as your script, it's just more efficient:     var _currDoc = app.activeDocument; var _errorHyperlinksDoc = []; var hlinks = _currDoc.hyperlinks.everyItem().getElements(); for (var i = 0; i < hlinks.length; i++) { var _hyperlink = hlinks[i]; if (_hyperlink.source instanceof CrossReferenceSource && _hyperlink.destination == null) { _errorHyperlinksDoc.push ( _hyperlink.source.sourceText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name ); } } alert(_errorHyperlinksDoc);   ... View more

You can apply a character style to all cells in the PREZZO/PRIX column, then use the price adjuster to change numbers in that character style.   First create a character style called Preis and don't apply any formatting. Then to apply the character style you could use the following script: cstyle =app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item ('Preis'); app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = 'PREZZO/PRIX'; f = app.activeDocument.findGrep(); for (i = f.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { column = f[i].parent.parentColumn; column.cells.everyItem().texts[0].appliedCharacterStyle = cstyle; }   ... View more

It probably still works in 2024. Maybe drop In-Tools a line and ask them about it. ... View more

Not really. Cross-references are underlyingly huperlinks whose source is a CrossRefereceSource. So you'd have to check those hyperlinks (they're not visible in the Hyperlinks panel).   If the cross-ref's source is deleted, the hyperlink is deleted as well. If the cross-ref's destination is deleted, then the hyperlink's destination is null.   That's about all you can determine as far as I know.   P. ... View more

This is a bug. Add your vote to this bug report: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/42424051-add-track-changes-also-to-foot-notes   The bug report is 3.5 years old so don't expect the bug to be fixed any time soon. ... View more

For customTextVariablePreferences use variableOptions instead. ... View more

You can use InDesign's window system to create an alert in UXP:   function alertUXP (title, content) { var w = app.dialogs.add ({name: title, canCancel: false}); w.dialogColumns.add().textEditboxes.add ({ editContents: ''+content, minWidth: 300, }); w.show(); w.destroy(); } ... View more