Re: Image edges leaking from placed Ill files?

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

This has always happened—it’s a screen resolution artifact and should not show in high res print. The lines in my example do not print from my laser printer at 1200dpi. Setting a centered stroke alignment would be the safest approach

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Hi @Scott.Olling , Try setting your [Paper] or white stroke alignment to either Center or Outside

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Can I look down to the child? No—there’s no child property You can get the object’s properties—this gets the first pageItem’s properties as a text list var p=app.activeDocument.pageItems[0].properties.toSource(); alert("Properties:\r" + p)

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Hi @ann_0586 , Watch out for the InDesign Print dialog and the Printer... dialog, which is specific to the selected Printer. For example here I have a Brother laser printer selected as Printer, but if I want to change a setting specific to the Brother printer, I have to click through to Printer... in order to get to the printer’s settings like Destination Paper Size, Scale to fit paper, etc. Those settings could have changed with a print driver update

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Also, you can get the pageItem’s graphics, which is a Collection: var g = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().graphics.everyItem().getElements() alert(g.length)

rob day · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Watch out for the difference between an Array and a Collection, they are similar but not the same—allGraphics returns an Array, while pageItems returns a Collection: //allGraphis is an array not a collection var g = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().allGraphics //pageItems is a collection not an array and can be converted //to an array by adding everyItem().getElements() var pi = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().getElements() alert("Story 1 has " + g[0].length + " graphics") alert("All document stories have " + pi.length + " page items")

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

Hi @sean_3289 , It seems like a common denominator with Adobe Font activation problems is with fonts Adobe Type will activate via the Add Font button conflicting with free fonts with the same name that have been installed in one of the Sytem font folders. PF Videotext can be activated (activation does not install the font in a local font folder) at Adobe Fonts: Or it can be downloaded from various free font sites and installed in a system font folder—don’t do both:

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

This is too complicated. What is making it complicated— in your post title you write there is no selection, but in your last post you have 3 text frames selected. If there is a selection you have to test what it is, which does make it much more complicated.

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

If I select a framework So there is a selection? If so: //make sure there is a selection try { //the parent of a text frame’s text is a story var s = app.activeDocument.selection[0].texts[0].parent //all of the paragraphs in the selection var p = s.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements() //all of the cells in the text’s tables var c = s.tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements() alert("An array of " + c.length + " cells in this selection") alert("An array of " + p.length + " paragraphs in this selection not included in tables") }catch(e) { alert(e) }

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

Sorry, it should be “AA.” That also throws an error—wn[i] returns the character A

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

What is [AA]? var wn = [AA]; throws an error: If it’s supposed to be an object style then it needs to be this: var wn = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.itemByName("AA") And if it is an object style there is nothing to loop thru object styles have no length property:

rob day · ‎Aug 12, 2025

Hi @grahamjp140459 , Could be from placed vector files, which don’t compress, or excess metadata in placed files. Check the PDF’s Audit space usage in AcrobatPro:

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

They consider ExtendScript deprecated. Not sure who they is, but ExtendScript is being maintained —the API for version 20.0.0.95 is here: https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Application.html

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

I don’t understand, when I apply the style to your sample with my script I get this

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

I believe syncing was gone 10 years already... Hi @Frans v.d. Geest , Do you mean the Creative Cloud Files folder? The discontinued CCF folder was Adobe’s version of Dropbox, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc. I don’t think any of the file syncing services let you sync folders in the system folder, which is where the Workspaces XML files live.

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

It seems that the object style has not been applied successfully. It is in my example—it’s been set to your AA object style. Note that it has to be: sg[f].appliedObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.itemByName("AA"); A string like this doesn’t work sg[f].appliedObjectStyle = "AA";

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

Hi @David26224806zcjd , Use the Swatches Panel to create a new Gradient Swatch where you can set each Stop’s Color and mode bt selecting the Stop: Use the Gradient Feather tool to affect the Opacity of the Gradient Stops for the curent selection

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

//a selection’s graphics as an array var sg = app.selection[0].allGraphics alert("There are " + sg.length + " graphics in the selection") if (sg != null) { for (var f = 0; f < sg.length; f++) { sg[f].appliedObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.itemByName("AA"); } }

rob day · ‎Aug 11, 2025

If no objects are selected In your first post you wrote there is no selection

rob day · ‎Aug 10, 2025

Text paragraphs outside the table. Cells inside the table. var p = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements() var c = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements() alert("An array of " + c.length + " cells in this document") alert("An array of " + p.length + " paragraphs in this document not included in tables")

rob day · ‎Aug 10, 2025

You will run into problems if you assume the selection includes a table. If I wrap the selection in a try statement : try { alert(app.selection[0].tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().texts[0]) }catch(e) { alert(e) }

rob day · ‎Aug 10, 2025

The constructor.name here also seems uncertain. You have more than a word and less than a paragraph selected so its constructor name is Text The constructor name depends on what is selected: alert(sp.constructor.name)

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

You can get the parents of a selection like this— a selected word in a table cell var sp = app.documents[0].selection[0] alert("\n" + sp.constructor.name + "\n" + sp.parent.constructor.name+ "\n" + sp.parent.parent.constructor.name+ "\n" + sp.parent.parent.parent.constructor.name+ "\n" + sp.parent.parent.parent.parent.constructor.name)

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

This changes the properties of the insertion point’s paragraph //the paragraph the insertion point is in var sp = app.documents[0].selection[0].paragraphs[0]; //change the properties of the selection’s paragraph sp.properties = {pointSize:15, leading:20, fillTint:40}

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

should I use something like "aftereffects" or "afterFX" instead of "indesign" You are not writing Extendscript for InDesign?

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

Did you restart VSC and ID after changing the launch.json?

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

Hi @Batkillulu , The error makes it seem like you need a hostAppSpecifier. There are lots of ways to set up the launch json—I use something like this: { "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "name": "Main", "type": "extendscript-debug", "request": "launch", "hostAppSpecifier": "indesign", "engineName": "main" } ] }

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

cursor is only on the line and nothing is selected If you want to change the selection to the paragraph containing an insersion point it would be this: //a selected insertion point var sel = app.documents[0].selection[0]; //select the insertion point’s paragraph app.select(sel.paragraphs[0], SelectionOptions.replaceWith)

rob day · ‎Aug 09, 2025

Testing the side doesn’t tell you if it’s a first or last page—the document could be setup like this: You can use the page’s document offset to test for first or last like this: var sel = app.documents[0].selection[0]; if (sel.parentPage.documentOffset == 0) { $.writeln("Selection is on first page") } if (sel.parentPage.documentOffset == app.documents[0].pages.length-1) { $.writeln("Selection is on last page") }

rob day · ‎Aug 08, 2025

Not sure what you are trying to do, but if it’s convert the first 2 rows of your example to headers, that throws an error var t = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements(); $.writeln(t[0].rows[0].rowType) //returns BODYROW t[0].rows[0].rowType = RowTypes.HEADER_ROW //error cannot set row type

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