In other words, a "speedy fix" would have to consider and modify each action. Specify the particular action "check out" and tell what it is supposed to address. When the panel is minimized or closed (so there is no in-panel selection), should it address the selection? If so, differentiate by selection type - text selection in galley view or within the notes panel, xml item in structure view, empty selection in the layout window, could mean all. Do you really mean that, or would a "check-out" across the entire document be undesirable? Furthermore, actions are scriptable, not only the scripting-backed actions. You can find them by ID.. You can look at them for their name which may refer to the targeted item, and also to their enabling, you can even invoke them. If you change semantics of the action, you may break things somewhere. ... View more

@James Gifford—NitroPress is right. Beyond scripting, the callback methods for the menu actions receive a pointer "widget" to the related widget, and work their way down to determine the actually referenced object. Another considered parameter is the mouse location, e.g. for a layout hit-test. UpdateActionStates() is the equivalent to "beforeDisplay" - check/uncheck, enable/disable or rename the action. DoAction() is "onInvoke". If the action is tied to a panel, it may look up the selection of the panel's listbox - that can even allow for multiple selected items. This works beyond the panel selection: you can directly hit an unselected list item with a context menu click (passing the list item as widget) and address that instead of the panel's selection. Think about panels where you can have multiple instances - library, book.   ... View more

Try an IDML roundtrip first, it could be sufficient. ... View more

There is no difference in the preferences: tell application id "com.adobe.indesign" get properties of preferences end tell   Looking from the plug-in side, the command is kSetUIScalingPrefsCmdBoss working on "InDesign Defaults". As you have to restart InDesign anyway for "changes to take effect", I'd try the brutal approach and swap that file with differently scaled copies.   ... View more

On some platforms, clipboard operations are available from the platform scripting system. var text = app.doScript("the clipboard as text",ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE); On other platforms, search recommends to use the HTMLFile object. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19696308/how-can-i-use-clipboard-in-vbscript ... View more

The "Common Files" … folder is the location where application installers place static OMV.xml There were also "Scripting Dictionaries CS4" and so forth. The InDesign family can run versioned scripts using older terminology, and it creates the plenty versioned OMV files dynamically because plug-ins can also add their share. ESTK fetches these files from a running InDesign and stores them in the "Roaming" path. ... View more

There was a recent discussion with the same kind of script. If this is not about homework, maybe borrow some code from there. https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/save-only-one-fontfamilyname-in-a-dropdownlist/m-p/15091056#M605888   Anyway a script should not crash InDesign. Share the crash log (pastebin?) and provide a link here. As you're dealing with fonts anyway, a bad font could be a reason. Disable user fonts by temporarily moving them somewhere else, then retry. ... View more

InDesign copies the metadata of placed images to the document. That copy is used for the PDF export. With a plug-in it is possible to modify the in-document XMP copy pre export, and revert when done. As you say, non-destructive to the linked images. I use that approach for an image accounting plug-in that rebuilds missing / corrupt XMP from IPTC info, adds own data such as tracking info from the DAM and so forth. ... View more

InDesign keeps an own clipboard "scrap". Clipboard externalization is a costly process, similar to an export multiplied by the number of supported flavours. Not sure what triggers externalization, as your switching to WhatsApp (deactivating InDesign) apparently did not. Or did you forget to activate WhatsApp?   Alternatively, ask the search engine or AI of your choice for a program in the environment of your choice (VBScript? Powershell?) to load the exported png file into the Windows clipboard. When I did, the vbscript would use the user32 dll with commands such as OpenClipboard, while the Powershell script would rely on ImageMagick. I did not test either, typing this on a Mac. For comparison, the Mac clipboard is directly scriptable. ... View more

@Eugene Tyson no Magnet. No beach ball.   ... View more

Had the same problem for a first time today. Version 20.0 GM release build, no plug-ins yet. No extra fonts.   Preceding activity: Working on a cloud-based document. Text editing, copy paste text across applications, apply text styles. Edit hyperlinks. Glyphs panel. More text editing.   The bad state was triggered by a mouse click for text navigation. Noticed because I missed the flashing I beam caret. Selection did not work.   Then, more clicks around and attempts to use the keyboard navigation / shift select resulted in a crash. Crash log smells of memory corruption, something writing where it should not. Unfortunately I haven't yet prepared this version 20 for plug-in debugging, so no more details.   After restart and reopen the document had lost recent few edits, but selection works again. Not yet repeated. ... View more

Coming from where? If you have any object in the same publication (document), use the root UID from the ::GetDataBase(any) If you mean the active document in UI, you may be tempted to start from IActiveContext. On the other hand that often means participating in the selection, thus you'd add to the matching selection suite, where you'd find it in the target interface of the concrete selection boss. ... View more

That doScript still feels slow. In a larger project I've turned to using plug-in code to query the fonts. One trick to speed up things: when you build your unique map (actually not a set), assign an array instead of the true. Then push all found font styles into that array as they come along on the first turn.   ... View more

UXPScript yields the same results, its modern javascript just has a very short way to get the unique values. Set(array) creates a Set (what you did with the object) automatically removing duplicates. [... mySet] creates the array and initializes it using spread operator. ... View more

You can invoke UXPScript from ExtendScript. var fontFamilies = app.doScript('require("uxp").script.setResult([...new Set(require("indesign").app.fonts.everyItem().fontFamily)])',ScriptLanguage.UXPSCRIPT)   require("uxp").script.setResult() is the convoluted UXP way to return a value to doScript. require("indesign").app is the way to access the app object. ... View more

Collection is the term for these plural objects "fonts", "documents" that behave similar to an array, where you also have the item(), itemByName(), everyItem() and so forth functions. In the quoted AI code it should have used the fontFamily property instead of the name property.   Outcome is similar though to your change, you still have to make the result array distinct and sort, or convince the AI to do that.   Problem with AIs is they produce "clean" modern javascript using bells and whistles that ExtendScript does not have - a Set class, forEach() and so forth. So if you're into this to learn scripting, find matching older books and follow them. Otherwise if this is an exercise how far AI can get you, better switch to InDesign's UXPScript which is modern Javascript. In that case you have to forget about ScriptUI (all your UI code above) and work more HTML-ish. ... View more

Fonts are complicated. The AI is missing that the font family is not distinct within the fonts collection. Ask it to produce a distinct set of font family names, sort that and populate the family dropdown from that.   If you intend to get closer to the UI: this still misses document fonts, also the edge case where InDesign under the hood uses an extended concept of font families called font groups - multiple font groups can have the same family name but differ in font type. ... View more

Add some logging, e.g. using $.writeln() when your debug the script in VSCode or ESTK. One way to describe the document is doc.toSpecifier() which produces a string regardless from the document being saved.   One guess is that your new document is not seen by the afterActivate event handler so it does not receive its own afterPlace handler. Maybe use the afterNew event for that. Be prepared that it also happens for Link objects. Even better – avoid to listen to every document, afterPlace bubbles so one listener at the application should be sufficient. ... View more

A bad font should still not crash the app. If you can track the offending one down, please share it with the team. ... View more

As you say "all of my Apps are crashing", that could be a hardware problem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102550 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102334   ... View more

Untested idea: Wrap the condition changes and search into a function. Remember the findings somewhere for later. Execute the function with an app.doScript and appropriate undo mode. As last step within the function, trigger the undo to revert the condition changes and pagination. Outside, work thru your findings. ... View more

Sounds simple, until you get to the details. Still doable.   ... View more

you don't initialize myTable. Also you are passing OverrideType.ALL to clearCellStyleOverrides() instead of true or false. Besides the separate try-catch that you eliminated in the other thread still make sense, as you write it InDesign will only execute until the first error line and skip the others. Without doing anything about the exception e from the catch(e), you won't even know where the script fails. ... View more

The parameter is a boolean. Use true or false. That (Optional) means you can leave the parameter out, as you initially did. Unfortunately the description does not tell whether true or false is the default. ... View more

Not sure whether that solves your problem, but clearCellStyleOverrides() has an optional argument.   ... View more

The crash report is missing the interesting part. E.g. use pastebin.com to keep the forum readable. ... View more

Sounds like a repost of your original question, slightly modified. AI bot? ... View more