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Laubender · ‎Jun 17, 2025

It's the same issue with File.execute(). Also not working with InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52 on macOS. But it does with InDesign 2025 v20.3.0. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 17, 2025

Hi Kris, not directly related, but on macOS, not on Windows, the ExtendScript command Folder.execute() is also broken with InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52; it still will run as expected with v20.3.0. See bug report at InDesign User Voice: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/50041245--extendscript-folder-execute-no-longer-works-in Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 17, 2025

Hi Manan, thank you very much! Good to know that the Windows version of InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52 is not affected. Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 17, 2025

Hi Mark, thanks for writing the bug report on InDesign UserVoice. I did the same on InDesign Prerelease. And of course, I voted. Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 17, 2025

Hi together, as the title says, it seems that: Folder.execute() does not work anymore with ExtendScript with the recent version of InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52. It still will work with InDesign v20.3.0. Steps to Reproduce: Execute the following ExtendScript code from the Scripts panel in InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52: //DESCRIPTION:Show Folder of THIS script ( function() { File($.fileName).parent.execute(); }() ); The parent folder of the addressed script file will not show in the Finder. Nothing happens in the Finder of macOS. Expected Result: The parent folder of the script file should pop up in the Finder. Also watch this discussion at the German InDesign Scripting forum at HilfDirSelbst: https://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=589715#589715 What I currently cannot test is InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52 on a Windows machine. I hope, that someone else would do this. Thanks! My InDesign is a German one on macOS 12.7.6 on a MacBook Pro M1 ( 16", 2021 ) . Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 15, 2025

Hi @dublove , why do you not relink the placed image after changing it in PhotoShop? Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 15, 2025

Hi @FarzanaA , another point to consider: an asset from an InDesign libary file could also contain InDesign guide lines. Something that a Creative Cloud library cannot contain. For this kind of asset you have to search for guide objects and not for pageItems after running placeAsset(). Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 12, 2025

Hi @FarzanaA , hm, when you look into the DOM documentation for ExtendScript, you'll see that method placeAsset() will only work with Document or Text as argument. Rectangle is not a valid argument. https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Asset.html#d1e300195__d1e300491 InDesign desktop version: When argument is Document, the asset will be placed on the active spread. When argument is Text, for example an insertionPoint, InDesign tries to anchor the asset. But this will fail with an asset that consists of more than one page items that are not grouped. So in the end you could add a new document and place the asset there. When done move all page items to the desired document and into position. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 12, 2025

@dublove said: "… No need to research this. I solved some problems." Hi @dublove , can you share some code how exactly you did it? Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 10, 2025

Hi @Kati Berwald , as for now until this bug is fixed, use the Properties panel or the Align panel and not the Control panel to align and move objects. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 10, 2025

Hi @FarzanaA , when done not with the SDK, but by scripting with ExtendScript I would look after the highest value(s) for the ID of pageItems. Before and after the import. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 09, 2025

@joshualangman asked: "… Can you confirm that this is a bug?" Hi Josh, absolutely. Peter Kahrel already filled in the details. Working with a table instead of split paragraphs would be the alternative. So go ahead with that workaround. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 07, 2025

Hi @Thomas_Calvin , you said: " … This needs to survive repagination, and yet not take up space when a heading naturally (or deliberately) falls at the top of the page." Well, the only automatism that I know of that could achieve this lies in InDesign's table header options. Skip header in the first frame of a table and show header in the next frame of the same table. That means that every individual topic must be contents of an InDesign table object. However, this table solution comes with a lot of pain points. Every paragraph of a single topic must be part of a body table cell. When a paragraph text exceeds the length of a table cell, two or more lines of text, it cannot be split to the next text frame automatically. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 07, 2025

Hi @joshualangman , please supply an InDesign document where this happens. Could be dummy text, if you do not want to share the original content. Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 07, 2025

Hi @ali_4619 , to snap pages automatically to the spine you need a facing-pages document. Your screenshot of the Document Setup dialog is showing option Facing Pages disabled. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 06, 2025

Hi @dublove , your code will not work. Because it will add a new row before the header row. And that automatically becomes an additional header row. An additional body row must be added after the last header row. Why? A table cannot start with a body row followed by a header row. So what, I have to ask, will you like to do? Converting all header rows to body rows because you want to add a body row at the start of your table? Or do you want a new body row before the first body row and leave all header rows as they are? Please explain. Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 05, 2025

Hi @carloss67 , thank you for testing Acrobat Pro to outline that text. Well, obviously the bad outcome is due to the font designer's choice how to construct or how to define the path of a given glyph. As Dirk Becker already commented, I would contact the font designer and ask for a version of the font where this issue does not happen. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 04, 2025

@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: This is my setting for UI scaling ( small ) on a MacBookPro ( 16" monitor ) : 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: Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 04, 2025

Hi @carloss67 , below a screenshot from Acrobat Pro that is showing the feature to convert text to outlines in a PDF. In category Print Production open Preflight and Single Fix Ups like that: Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎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 )

Laubender · ‎Jun 04, 2025

@Ali Cinki said: "… Also what are those bars behind the parent spreads names and page numbers?" Hi @Ali Cinki , well, I have no idea. Strange. A glitch in the UI when using a darker UI theme? Was that fixed after restarting InDesign? Your screenshot with my "comments": Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 04, 2025

@hendy_5450 asked: " … For example the first page has to be the last, and vice versa how can I do that??" Hi @hendy_5450 , if your aim with InDesign is to export the pages to PDF in opposite order for e.g. a document with 12 pages, you can change the range in the PDF export dialog with: 12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 instead of using the all pages default. You could also use absolute page numbering in the PDF export dialog if your document starts with a different page name and/or has various sections with different page start numberings. For absolute page numbering the scheme is to use page positions with a + in front of the number like that exports a PDF in reverse order: +12,+11,+10,+9,+8,+7,+6,+5,+4,+3,+2,+1 12th page in the document is first, first page in the document is last. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 03, 2025

Hi @OsakaWebbie , thank you for testing my sample. Let's discuss what that can mean: Perhaps "something" is preventing your InDesign to redraw the text? I had missing fonts and did not correct that. So perhaps this issue is font related? One could try to enforce a recomposition of the text frame. How to do that: Select the text frame and use a menu command that is not visible in the UI, but has a keyboard shortcut. In the international macOS version that should be ctrl + alt + / . In my German version, see screenshot below, I think it is Shift + F5. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 03, 2025

Hi @OsakaWebbie , hard to tell why your second attempt with adding a path point to the wrapping path did not work. Find attached my test document where I added the path point: Alignment MWE-PathPointAdded.indd Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎Jun 02, 2025

Hi @OsakaWebbie , thank you for the attached InDesign sample document. I found a workaround for that strange situation. Let's be clear that the situation with text wrap is this, image selected so that the path of the wrap ( 8 mm ) is visible: When I added a path point to the text wrap's path with the Pen tool the text will move to the bottom: I have no idea why this is necessary, but it does work. The trajectory of the path did not change. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎May 30, 2025

Hi @OsakaWebbie , if text wrap is the issue, I would check the image ( first candidate, but perhaps not the only one ) for text wrap. Perhaps you could change the path of the wrap a bit so that your small text frame will not be affected so much. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎May 30, 2025

Hi Simon, strange. With menu File > Open will you see the same behavior, read only InDesign document, when you use the option to open the document as Original or as Copy instead of Normal? Also test a previous version of InDesign 2025 like 20.2.0 or 20.1.0. Hm. Could it be that the connection to the server is a bit lame? I suspect that latency could be a problem. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎May 30, 2025

Hi @aparna_6212 , look up DOM documentation for ExtendScript. There are a lot of similarities between poperties there and IDML / IDMS. https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#TextFramePreference.html#d1e307842 Or look it up in IDMS files (Snippets) you export from InDesign text frames where all the necessary options are enabled. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎May 30, 2025

Hallo @josefh35143105 , I'd not say that there is no issue with the HTML rendering but the size. Well, the size on screen could be an issue, but the more is text composition. Character collision, no proper white space between the words is the main issue: Screenshots from Firefox on macOS. But I see the same with Google Chrome on macOS. Currently I cannot test with browsers on Windows machines. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

Laubender · ‎May 30, 2025

Hi @Diplographia Publishing , contact Pantone with your issue. My guess is that something changed with InDesign 2025 v20.3.1 regarding plug-in compatibility. So an update with a new compiled version is needed. Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )

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