Yes, that's exactly what I was missing. It's a layer of a layer. Seems so obvious now! Thanks! ... View more

Thanks, Mark. I dunno what I was missing that didn't work for me yesterday, but it works now! ... View more

There's a bunch more to what I'm trying to do with this script so I only included the part I got hung up on. I got it to work with a second array, but really it was the if (i == 0) bit that was tricking me! Now it seems so obvious 😕   Thank you!   ... View more

Yes! Thank you! It didn't occur to me to try to edit the workspace directly. This worked for me, too. Notes: You may have multiple workspace xml files so be sure to edit the the one you are currently using. If you're not sure, go back to InDesign and save a New Workspace...  The id, origin, and size values vary by installation. The key part is the "app-container-control-bar". There will also be one that just says "control-bar," but you don't want to hide that one! ... View more

Try duplicating it where it sits. If even that doesn't work, the file is probably toast and you'll have to go back to your last good backup. And watch out for that drive, it might be on the verge of failure. ... View more

I've had this problem off and on for years and just ran into it again in CC2019. The easy fix that worked this time: Create a new, blank page at the end of the document, use the pages panel to select all the other pages and delete them, leaving just that one blank page. The swatch became deletable since there was nothing else in the document, and undo to brought all the pages back. The swatch came back too, but it was still deletable! If you're really desperate and if none of these other tricks work, the surefire way to get rid of those swatches is to export to IDML and edit the XML to remove the swatches or tag them as editable. I don't remember the exact chunk of code you're looking for, but an app like BBEdit makes it easy to search for and fine the swatch lines by name. ... View more

I'm still using Acrobat XI and all is wonderful. I check back in on DC every once in a while to see how it's coming along.  This delay on opening the commenting tool is now down to about 6 seconds on my machine. The bug where new comments always insert the first character last still exists. (type "REPLACE" and the comment says "EPLACER") These two issues are enough trouble to make DC unusable for me. It looks like they've fixed the bug where you couldn't double click a word to select it for commenting but instead had to click+drag. That's progress, at least! ... View more

My testing machine does the same thing with that same setup. How awful! Thankfully, I still use 10.11 and CC2015.3 on my main machine. With text selected… I can't click and drag to select a value to be changed. I can't click and cmd+a to select the whole value to be changed. I can't click in the field and arrow up/down to make an increment change. I can't click in the field and type to do math. (I will often type something like "+p6" at the end of the exisiting value to add 6 points to it. If I try that with this version, I end up with "0p06p+". It types the characters in backwards order? What? And when I hit return, the text that was selected is replaced with a return.) Note: you do not actually have to have text selected to use any of those paragraph settings as you're doing in your video. If your cursor is just sitting in the text, you can change any of those settings and they function exactly as expected. Similarly, if you're trying to make changes to the character settings, it seems to function exactly as expected. Trying doing any of that stuff in the character side of the Control Panel. Works fine, right? That said, you definitely shouldn't have to DEselect text to make changes to the paragraph values. And, on second thought, you MUST have text selected if you want to make changes to multiple paragraphs, so just placing your cursor in text to make paragraph changes is not an option. In messing with this, I noticed that this functions as expected if you first click in a value that you don't want to change before clicking on the value that you do want to change. For example: if you want to change the First Line Left Indent from 0p0 to 1p6, first click in ANY other box, and then click in the First Line Left Indent box, type "+1p6", hit return, and it will function exactly as expected. Also, if you just use the paragraph palette this works fine. The problem is only in the control bar. Aaaaand now none of my palettes will open. Great to see that bug still isn't fixed. 😕 ... View more

It will make no difference to the end product. The actual crop position does not change, no matter what settings you use for weight or offset. As long as your actual trim size is set correctly in Document Setup and you're using enough bleed for whatever your output is, the position of the crop marks is only a visual reference for where the actual trim box lies. Do note, however, that if you are sending this to an outside print vendor, you should be using their specs. Everybody has different preferences, so just do as they ask. ... View more

Excellent. I love easy fixes! ... View more

There's something goofy in the metadata. I used bridge to add a keyword and that single change made it placeable. What's the history of these files? Are they all from one source? Did they come out of some sort of asset manager? ... View more

Acrobat DC under a new user account worked last week, but now it's unusable again. I was able to get Acrobat XI reinstalled on my main machine and it works flawlessly. I guess I'll be getting rid of Adobe Acrobat DC on my secondary machine now, too. Good riddance. ... View more

Of course everything is all up to date. I had already ruled out a user account issue since I see this behavior on both of the production machines I use regularly. I had also already tried deleting preferences (quite a few more than just the ones mentioned in your link) without success. So I was grumbling under my breath as I begrudgingly followed your suggestion of creating another user account. The problem seems to be gone! ...or, at least minimized. There's still an annoying lag of 2–3 seconds to open the commenting pane every time I open a file, but not the downright unusable lag of 15 seconds I was facing hundreds of times a day. I wish I knew what the root of the problem is, though. There must be some other, non-obvious, preference file or support file somewhere in that User Library folder. If I knew which it was, I wouldn't have to lose hours of productivity recreating and rebuilding my user accounts on both machines. ... View more

I gave up my Adobe fanboy membership a long time ago, but I'll side with them on this one. Even casual users need to anticipate and be prepared to deal with potential problems stemming from ANY significant hardware or software upgrade. In this case, even a small bit of due diligence would have revealed that this hardware upgrade would be incompatible with your  critical software. I'm all for early adopting on my personal machines, but know that when you live on the cutting edge you're going to get cut once in a while. Stick with tried and tested setups for your money making rigs. ... View more

The text box absolutely should appear on any pages that that master is applied to. Maybe you're not applying that master to your new page? Each page in the Pages pallette shows a letter corresponding to the master applied to it. If no master is applied, it will show no letter and the page won't have your master items. ... View more

This just happened to me and I found tons of posts saying it was related to this application or that application...for me it was Firefox. A quick quit/relaunch of Firefox and everything is back to normal. Why? I have no idea. Try quitting your other apps one at a time. Maybe you'll find your own culprit. ... View more