I have still no idea how to get rid of the tons of old links in the existing documents, other than to recreate the documents from scratch. At least with the createLinkToXML set to true, we seem to get no new XML link orphans. This internal storing of xml data had caused the documents to grow, from about 1-2 MB to 5-10 MB, and the multitude of orphaned (invisible) links caused indesign CS5 to respond slower. Since there is a setting to let InDesign store imported data inside the document, shouldn't there be a way to reference and delete these links as well, since they are not deleted when the XML-structure is cleared? I think it should. ... View more

I've uploaded a video to demonstrate that InDesign sometimes can keep references to links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoQOSIlfYl4 It's obvious that there are thousands of "orphans" in the documents. All XML files ever imported are kept in some way... The links (or the names of them) are obviously not removed from the document when deleting the Element in the XML Structure. Since the communication of the code with a database is built around XML import, the number of imported files is very large. Can these orphaned link references somehow be removed? When manually checking for missing files, InDesign loops though all of the XML files as seen in the YouTube video above, but ends up saying that there are no missing files. The next time I do the same check, all links are looped through again. Perhaps we should "link to file", using .xmlImportPreferences.createLinkToXML = true This propery has not been explicitly set, and therfore = false. But is there any way to get rid of all the old link names that's inside the document somehow? CS4 does the same thing, but there is "no 2 second lag time" switching from another application to InDesign CS4 with this kind of document open. ... View more

Hi! Use the Adobe Bug Report Form, if you haven't described the issue there yet. The more attention the performance issues with CS5 gets, the better. https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform Best regards Andreas ... View more

Yes, it's the same: <![CDATA[ ]]> Thanks. It doesn't bother me too much. Just good to know it's the same for everyone else, and that this is not specific to my environment. Best regards, Andreas ... View more

I think I just discovered a bug. I'll file this as a bug at Adobes dedicated Feature / Bug report page: 1. Create new document 2. Import XML (as merge under root element - "create link" is NOT to be checked.) 3. Place an image on page 1. 4. Remove the XML file from the structure by pressing Delete on the top-most imported node. 5. Send the imported XML file to the trash can. 6. Select the image on page 1. 7. In the links palette, press "Relink" while holding down Alt, to relink all missing links. 8. Now InDesign asks for the XML file... the one that I previously imported as a non linked file. I would expect no relinking of an XML file that was never linked. This links collection is still "1", and that's the real image. No sign of the xml file there. app.activeDocument.links.length Result: 1 I have no idea if this relates to the slow kind of documents that I experience. This simple test on a bland document did not result in slowness. I can still switch quickly from other applications to InDesign. [Bug report filed 20110120 15:50] ... View more

This is extremely annoying. This is a fairly new error: for certain queries the subject name is not showing, and the links in the so called result leads to the unfiltered forum roots. I get it as soon as I search on more than one word, but also on searches like INDESIGN\_MARKUP (the underscore has to be "escaped" by a back-slash character). Perhaps the same goes for searching on words ending in digits, like your mp3 search. Searching for "mp" only, returns a more normal looking result. Adobe, please do something about the search function! I have a shortcut to page limiting the search to the InDesign scripting forum, and that works fine, but it's not user friendly to let the users build their own solutions just to search in your forum threads. I've read that people develop plugins for firefox just to be able to make a normal search in a forum. Please Adobe, prioritize this! Adapt the forum to what the users want. Talk to the company behind the forum code, and pay them to make it good. And most importantly pay attention to pure errors like this: ... and fix them. Best regards, Andreas Jansson PS. I just filed this as a bug in the Feature Request/Bug Report Form. ... View more

I just found a difference in the results from allPageItems, in CS5, which I have to code some kind of exception / condition for, in my scripts before upgrading them to CS5: allPageItems now includes "contained" objects (images and other linked objects, that reside inside rectangles and such) in CS5. As a simple test, placing an EPS on an empty page in a new document, I run the following code in CS4 and CS5 respectively: CS5: app.activeDocument.pages[0].allPageItems Result: [object Rectangle],[object EPS] CS4: app.activeDocument.pages[0].allPageItems Result: [object Rectangle] As you can see, we get the container rectangle only, in CS4, while CS5 is returning the object contained as well. In a larger result set I get the following objects included in the allPageItems in CS5 (not present in the same call in CS4): [object Image] [object EPS] [object Polygon] [object PDF] -- Andreas ... View more

1. That depends on what you have developed... User interface elements are no good in server code, for example. 2. I guess the best way would be to become an Adobe partner http://partners.adobe.com/. But: there is a trial version if InDesign Server: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=indesign_server 3. InDesign server and desktop are essentially the same. Primarily I would suggest developing on the desktop version. Logging to file, and starting InDesign Server with a console open are two ways of debugging on the server. Message was edited by: Andreas Jansson. Adding info since I just noticed that there is a trial version of InDesign Server. ... View more

This was accidentally marked as question (closing). ... View more

Yes, I already did that - with a link to this thread. Thanks, Andreas ... View more

Great, then it's not just on my computer. The Indesign team ought to take a look at this bug... Best regards, Andreas ... View more

> because that might get picked up by some XML processing mechanism. That's my best guess as well. The quotes doesn't matter. (Debugging... hmmm... I shouldn't talk loud about that here, should I? 😉 Normally I use my Remington typewriter, and send the code to the office for OCR - no bugs, ever - just this CS5 upgrade thing...) ... View more

Hi! The undo functionality can probably not be turned off, but have a look at this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2233313#2233313 and especially Harbs's comment about using  doc.documentPreferences.pagesPerDocument instead of looping. I think that will help you a lot). Best regards, Andreas ... View more

About linking to the same file... what does the Links palette look like. Is there only one header row, with the total number of links, like this: [Image from CS4] ... or is there one link per placed object? If so, do the links look the same? As far as I know, and if I understand your question correctly, the links in InDesign are "soft", unless the images are actuelly pasted into the document - then they would have no link to image on disk. Message was edited by: Andreas Jansson ... View more

You should be able to use the VBScript code samples and scripting documentation, and do the same calls using COM. "In the beginning" I used VB6 (COM) for building a user interface and automating some things in InDesign. (Nowadays I only use javascript.) ... View more

I suggest you put a breakpoint in the relinking script that you've tried out, and examine the path that the code is really trying to relink to. If it works when you do it manually, it should work in the same way from script code. What kind of changes have been made in the environment. Are the files simply moved (copied) from one place to another, and nothing else touched? Best regards, Andreas ... View more

I'm glad I was able to help you! About the ppi, just make sure to assign a default value if you are dealing  with vector graphics, such as illustrator ai files, vector EPS images and likewise. Vector graphics has no ppi, since they can be set to any size, and that's why you would have to decide the ppi or size by yourself when it comes to exporting that kind of files to jpeg. Best regards, Andreas ... View more

Nevertheless: it's there, and it's possible to use it. For creating jpeg representations out of any file format supported by InDesign exportFile is a very simple solution. Quality is not always top prio when it comes to creating a jpeg. Just to be able to show all images on a web page might be good enough. ... View more

As you probably know, you can export images as JPEG from InDesign, using the exportFile method like: newImage.exportFile(format=ExportFormat.JPG , to=jpgFileName); You would probably have to know what size you want the new image to be. That might be your real issue here, but I'll post this as well: I had some problems with getting only a part of the image as the exported result. Perhaps you will run into the same problem. I found this comment in my code:     // In CS4 latest desktop version the size of the container does not seem to matter for the export size taking place in the main code.     // However, in CS3 and in CS4 Server there seems to be a bug, not exporting the whole image, but only a part of it. A bug unless there is some sort of setting, that differs between the versions. Setting the image container to an area large anough (or fitFrameToContent) seems to work well. I ended up with placing the full image on a new place, making sure that the image content is fitted within its container, exporting it, and then removing it from the document. var newImage = placeImage(newDoc, fullPathToOrigImage, pixelHeight); newImage.exportFile(format=ExportFormat.JPG , to=jpgFileName); function placeImage(doc, fileRef){ //, desiredHeight){     var desiredHeight = '100mm';     var desiredWidth = '100mm';     imageRect = doc.pages[0].rectangles.add(doc.layers.item(-1), undefined, undefined, {geometricBounds:[0, 0, desiredHeight, desiredWidth], strokeWeight:0, strokeColor:doc.swatches.item('None')});     var placedImage = imageRect.place(File(fileRef), false)[0];     // The following line is vital for (some) larger images, since they will be     // cropped in CS3 and CS4 Server. (Probable bug). Works without setting the     // containter size in CS4 desktop with latest version update.     imageRect.fit(FitOptions.frameToContent);         return placedImage; } (In vital code one would also have to make sure that the layer is not locked, or even create a new layer...) I hope this can be of some help. Best regards, Andreas ... View more

You might want to look at the doc.modified property instead. It reports whether the document is dirty. The saved property reports whether the document has been saved (ever). ... View more

"markup" is still a valid method for selections in CS4. I think your error might be caused by the fact that a single word (or characher or whatever) can not be tagged without its container being tagged as well. You can see that if you make the same thing "by hand". If you make sure that the container object, your textframe, is tagged before tagging the selection, it seems to work. My test code: var myWord = app.selection[0].getElements()[0]; myXmlStoryElem=app.activeDocument.xmlElements.item(0).xmlElements.add("Story"); myWord.parentStory.markup(myXmlStoryElem); myXmlSelectionElem=myXmlStoryElem.xmlElements.add("test"); myWord.markup(myXmlSelectionElem); Andreas ... View more

This might be an even better starting point: app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle ... View more

This will give you applied paragraph styles for textframes on a certain page n: app.activeDocument.pages .textFrames.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle But grouped objects will not be included.... You might be better off by looking up the paragraphs and associated styled from app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().textContainers, and then looking at which page each paragraph of those text frames belongs to. Both of these hints won't find texts in table cells. Just pointing you in some kind of direction... You will find lots of advise in other threads on the forum. For example: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2717858#2717858 Andreas ... View more

Wow... From CS1 to CS5 is quite a step! It seems that there are big changes to the label property and associated methods. As I read quickly now (editing my first message) it seems that there is a "name" property to use instead. "All scripts that use item("label") to get at stuff will have to be rewritten." See http://forums.adobe.com/message/2800152?tstart=0 There is also code (javascript) describing how one can still get items by label, by using versioning and getElements(). Andreas Message was edited by: Andreas Jansson ... View more

This code resets much of the transformations: var myMatrix = app.transformationMatrices.add({clockwiseRotationAngle:0}); myImage.transform(CoordinateSpaces.PASTEBOARD_COORDINATES, AnchorPoint.centerAnchor, myMatrix,    new Array(MatrixContent.rotationValue, MatrixContent.shearValue,              MatrixContent.scaleValues, MatrixContent.translationValues )); The Array parameter determines the transformations to clear, when a new transformation is added. One visible difference I've discovered yet (compared to selecting the graphics object and right clicking "Transform" / "Clear Transformations") is the location of the object: When there are transformations such as rotation, flip and shear, the graphics object is "displaced" into different locations using my code compared to manually clicking the Clear Transformations in the popup-menu. I guess it has to do with the Coordinate Space and Anchor Points... Andreas ... View more