AHA! Thanks very much! — In the course of preparing a bare bones demo document + script, I realized my elementary scripting error! Thanks again! ... View more

This may have nothing to do with it, but is your [Basic Paragraph] style completely unchanged from its default [No Paragraph Style] + next: [Same style]? ... View more

In the InDesign user interface,  double-click on the name the object style to open "Object Style Options". In "Basic Attributes", click on "Frame Fitting Options" and in "Content Fitting" make sure that "Fitting" is set to "Fit Content Proportionally"   In a script, use something like this: myObjectStyle.enableFrameFittingOptions = true; myObjectStyle.frameFittingOptions.fittingOnEmptyFrame = EmptyFrameFittingOptions.PROPORTIONALLY; ... View more

I should have added that I've tried several PDF reading applications: Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Firefox, etc. on both platforms. ... View more

Hi Mike — thanks for the reply.   I'm always careful to be sure that the "Bookmarks" and "Hyperlinks" check boxes are checked in the "Include" section of the PDF export settings.   I'm using InDesign 19.4 × 64 on Windows 11 Home Version 23 H2. I've also tried the export using both InDesign 19.4 and 19.1 on a Mac mini (Late 2014) running OS Monterey 12.7.4. No luck!   However, overnight I think I might have stumbled upon the source of the problem. I'll need to do further testing today, but if I'm right, I'll post details to the forum. I know that other InDesign users often run into problems with hyperlinks to text anchors.   Thanks again! — Jeremy ... View more

Yeah, just ran into this problem. I haven't exported a document with endnotes to EPUB before, and endnotes were my number one suspect. Thanks for the advice! ... View more

You wouldn't believe the amount of time I've spent looking for the syntax of simply inserting a text variable instance! Yet again, thank you so much! ... View more

I had a very similar problem yesterday with an InDesign book ( = INDB, which contains about 40 individual INDD documents). I checked the pagination, but it was all correct. In the book panel drop-down menu, I clicked "Update Numbering" > "Update All Numbers", and then ran the "Preflight Book…" > "Scope: Entire Book". After that, I re-generated the Index and it seemed to fix the page numbers problem. ... View more

I'm delighted to tell you that my problem is now solved! (In no small part to IDML.)   I uninstalled InDesign 19, removed all traces of id19 I could find from my machine, and reverted to InDesign 18.5. I made a new book, which wasn't a huge deal with all those new IDML files, then exported to PDF (as I have been doing at the end of most working days)… and it all looks good. Hyperlinks seem to be working.   Thanks very much for your input. I'll probably send you the whole project once it's published (which we hope will be in about a month) so you can use it as "real life" raw material.   I'll definitely have a look at ID-Tasker. But I won't go near InDesign 19 for quite a while.   All the best, and many thanks — Jeremy ... View more

That's extremely decent of you, and I'll ask my employers, but this is such a big project (~900 pages, 20+ fonts for various languages from Arabic to Tibetan, etc.) that I'm reluctant to "inflict" it on you! ... View more

Yes, I've just tried that — quite a chore, as the book contains 39 documents! This time, InDesign did not crash, and it appeared to generate the PDF. But the end result was an unreadable file:   ... View more

That's exactly what I was looking for, and now my script is working perfectly, thanks very much! ... View more

That's good to know, thanks! I'm a fan of XML and look forward to taking my next docx document apart! ... View more

I've using 18.5 × 64 in Windows 11. But the very same thing happened about a month ago, and I may have been using an earlier version then. As a rule, I use the latest version available. ... View more

Aha! That worked — all 254 footnotes are importred, unlike the 232 that were imported with Word. Unfortunately, I've already done so much work on the InDesign document from Word that I'll probably just cut and paste the 22 missing footnotes. It's a pain, but a bit easier than starting over. Thanks! From now on, I'll be importing RTF only, and I'll be avoiding Word with even greater distaste than before. ... View more

I brought it in using "Place" and a preset which I've used many times before. I tried "Place" without the preset, but the missing footnotes are still missing! ... View more

This is great stuff, thanks very much for making it available. ... View more

Hi Manan,   Unfortunately, I get the following error message when I try to install that:   By the way, I greatly appreciate all the help everyone here is giving me. Thanks to all! ... View more

Hi Uwe,   That sounds great, thanks, but unfortunately when I click on the link for the Mac OS version of the ESTK, I get an "access denied" message. Any ideas about how to get round that?   Jeremy ... View more

I just did a clean install of Mojave in the hope of using the ExtendScript Toolkit again, but as far as I can see, it's no longer available. When I right-click a script in the InDesign Scripts Panel, and choose "Edit Script", nothing at all happens! Any suggestions as to the least bad alternatives? If I edit my scripts using BBEdit (say), can I get InDesign to launch it when I choose "Edit Script"? ... View more

(Works beautifully too, by the way — thanks again!) ... View more

Hi Uwe, That looks very useful too, thanks very much! I'm sure I'll use that approach in future. For what it's worth, here's the code I was using before I decided the slice method was easier: var myRegex = new RegExp(myYear + "-" + myMonth + "-" + myToday + "_\\d{6}\\.jpg"); var myFile = findFile("Macintosh HD/Users/jeremy/Pictures", myRegex); myPage.place(myFile, [36,36]); function findFile(myFolder, myRegex) {     var myFiles = Folder(myFolder).getFiles("*.*");     for (var i = 0; i < myFiles.length; i++) {         if (myFiles.name.match(myRegex)) return (myFiles);         }     } Jeremy ... View more

I found this very helpful, thanks! I scan the crossword every day and use a script to place it in InDesign, create a matching grid and so on, to do the crossword on screen. I wanted to use the scanner's default choice of folder and filename, which is something like "15-05-2019_103515.jpg" (from today's date + time). Although I didn't use a wildcard in my mask, I used the slice method to remove all but the date. ... View more

I think you have to explicitly specify the attributes of each object style you create, as well specifying which styles are based on another style. Then changes to a basic object style will propagate to any object styles based on it. For example, using JavaScript, the inset spacing and paragraph style of the second style below (myObjectStyleO) change automatically when changes are made to the first style (myBasicObjectStyle): myBasicObjectStyle = myDocument.objectStyles.add({name:"Red", fillColor:"RD", gradientFillAngle:0, strokeWeight:0, enableParagraphStyle:true, appliedParagraphStyle:"Numbers", enableTextFrameGeneralOptions:true}); myBasicObjectStyle.textFramePreferences.insetSpacing = [1,0,0,0]; myObjectStyleO = myDocument.objectStyles.add({name:"Orange", basedOn:myBasicObjectStyle, fillColor:"OD", gradientFillAngle:0, strokeWeight:0, enableParagraphStyle:true, appliedParagraphStyle:"Numbers", enableTextFrameGeneralOptions:true}); myObjectStyleO.textFramePreferences.insetSpacing = [1,0,0,0]; ... View more