If the reorganization has to change a template, the frame content is no longer transferred correctly. The error occurs for frames with continuation only.

The problem is fixed.

Using the function bookmark::level generates the cScript error "Unknown identifier".

Oh, great, an 14 years old bug. We have forgotten the internal function signature. This is fixed now. The same applies to bookmark::position.

The content of friendly frames is no longer taken over when changing templates during reorganizations.

The problem is an unexpected side effect of the fix of case 31735 (v4.1.8 R30323, 2. march 2022) and is fixed now.

We still habe problems with the encrypted passowords in URLs of Web Images. The fix of case 32406 is working: BUT : If the encrypted pwd ends with a slash itself, you will get 4 slashes and your method with the three slashes around the encrypred pwd will fail.

What a hassle. We would most like to write the password unencrypted into the document. But okay, we solved this problem too.

I have an Web Image URL containing a user name and a password. The password is kindly encoded when writing to the document. But apparently the encoding can contain characters that break the URL, e.g. some additional /s.

This bug is fixed now. Encoded password are enclosed in /// now automatically. Here's an example:

http://paul:///AU+mn2/87c/Ppm8=///@priint-grid-mediaproxy-service:80

The following situation leads to a crash of InDesign®:

1. Open document with Previews panel open and select any frame
2. Close the Preview panel
3. Close the document
4. Re-open the Previews panel
5. Crash

This problem is fixed now.

Sometimes it can be necessary to add further information to a URL in the so-called HTTP header. To support HTTP Headers, the handling of Web Image URLs has been extended. See here for a detailed description.

Image URLs may contain session IDs and other time-limited information. To support these specifications, the handling of Web Image URLs has been extended. See here for a detailed description.

In case of empty documents, the context menu "Behavior in Template->Hide All" crashes InDesign®.

FXD

If the URL of a Web Image contains the word 'type', the image cannot be loaded.

The information about the Web Image is stored at the image frame in the document. Among other things, the type of the link (link or embedded) is also stored there. Unfortunately, when searching for this information, we found the 'type' in the URL and not 'our' type information.

The bug is fixed.

Calls to linklist::collect surprisingly sometimes result in changes to document frames.

The problem is the internally resolved repair of placeholders that extend beyond table cells. This correction is not necessary in the Sync case and is not done there now. This solves the problem.

For spreaded frames (that is, frames that go across left and right pages), it is not clear which document page their left side should align to. The frames can be oriented to the right side (the default) - then they change their position during adaptations. Or they orient themselves to the left side, then they change their sizes. There are good reasons for both.

Therefore, you can now adjust the orientation of the left frame edge by SHIFT-clicking in the nail of the left side. See here for more information.

FogBugz 32126 

It would be kind of nice if I could do the image exchange of the Previews Panel also with drag and drop into the target frame. So far this is only possible with the buttons in the list.

The image exchange now also works with drag and drop :-)

FogBugz 32124 

After an image of a frame has been exchanged via the Previews panel, the Layout Rules "After Load" of the frame are now executed. If necessary, the magnet distances are also corrected again afterwards.

If URLs of Web Images contain the @ character, the @ is misinterpreted as a separator for authentication and the image cannot be loaded. Here's an example

http://www.hi13.de/images/ab@cd.jpg

Unfortunately, we had overlooked this character combination. The bug is fixed.

When creating a hyperlink using hyperlink::frame_create_pagedest and providing an empty string for the name, the name should be generated from the text content. It is however always the default name 'Hyperlink'.

FXD

When trying to create a hyperlink (e.g. with hyperlink::frame_create_pagedest) from a new, unsaved document to another document, the resulting link always points to the same document instead of the provided one.

FXD

I could have sworn we fixed that a long time ago. But somehow we overlooked the whole direct select branch in the sync call. The problem is fixed.

We need a general timeout for urllink images that can be set via the prefs cscript class. This would be the --max-time parameter of curl.

We can already set the connection timeout (--connect-timeout in curl) via prefs::set_urllink_timeout(), so ideally there would be a similar method to set the complete timeout, or an additional optional parameter.

Maybe we should keep the current default (infinite?) to ensure backwards compatibility.

I don't understand what this timeout is supposed to do. In the best case the timeout does not prevent the download of an image. And to make the waiting time for non-existing images not too long, the previous connection timeout is sufficient. After that nothing works any more anyway.

But anyway. Here's what I did:

1. NEW. All three functions return a float with the old value:
   • prefs::webimage_connect_timeout
   • prefs::webimage_header_timeout
   • prefs::webimage_timeout
2. DEPRECATED
   1. prefs::set_urllink_timeout

And, uh, of course we keep the old timeout of infinity :-)

In the panle lists of priint:comet plug-ins you can navigate with the cursor keys even before. But for that the list must have the keyboard focus. This is not always easy. (You have to place the text cursor in a search field and then press the TAB key until the list is selected - or rather, until no other control in the panel is selected.)

Yoi now can use the following (additional) key in the search fields:

• ENTER : Start search and reload list
• Cursor Down : Focus the list
• Cursor Right :  Reload and focus the list

Attention : The panel Products of Document and ToDos change the document selection and still do not support list navigation via cursor keys.

book::repaginate does not work for all documents of the given book.

The works now.

The last thing I see in the log is:

# Work around tagged text import error that crashes InDesing in case of text lengths of 255s multiples.

After that, InDesign® crashes. Not always, but more and more often.

Uuh, I cannot count to 11 :-( The problem ist fixed now.

InDesign® crashes reproducible when checking-in multiple checked out publications.

The problem is solved now.

My URL images are always mark as "Out of Sync", although they have not changed at all.

The same problem as with FogBugz 31904. The problem is solved.

If URL links are placed at > 100%, they are resized on update. This happens with the panel flyout as well as with document::update_url_links and itemlist::update_url_links.

This was a side effect of the fix of FogBugz 31509 and affects SVG and EPS images only. The problem is solved.

If a product has several frames with the same label, the frame contents will be passed to the other frames even if the frames have no continuation set at all.

The problem is caused by the fact that labels within a product template must be unique. Nevertheless, we have built in another check so that frame content is no longer adopted in the cases mentioned above.

Please note, however, that the requirement for uniqueness of labels generally still applies!

The CScript function hyperlink::find does not seem to evaluate the 'findInBook' parameter when searching for anchors.

Fixed

I was working with a customer today on a screen share and they were not seeing the blue text indicating which template is assigned in Product Pool.

Fixed

Since v4.1.8 R29511 InDesign® crashes sometimes when I build up repeating elements. The problem happens only under Windows.

FXD (Internal Note : See "Turkish iI")

I am looking for a cscript method to hide these template behavior UI elements. I searched in the frame and page classes but did not see anything that might work.

As an alternative would it be possible to have the visibility choice of these elements persistent, in the same way placeholder visibility is "remembered" when you open templates. I find myself constantly turning these off so that I can work at small scales, as they block everything.

We have added the new entry Always Hide to the Context /Show menu Template Behavior: If the menu Always Hide is activated, the display is switched off globally (and also after a restart) for ALL frames ind ALL documents. The other entries lose their meaning and remain deactivated until Always Hide is deactivated again.

Please note the following two things:

• Always Hide is NOT a document setting but a global InDesign® setting! This is due to the fact that for technical reasons templates are not opened as documents, but are inserted into new empty documents.

• The disabled items are removed from the submenu as long as they are disabled. This is standard InDesign® behavior and we don't need to discuss it.

It would be very helpful if the AreaBuild panel would show the number of elements.

The number of elements is now shown at the bottom right under the element list.

With staggered elements, the previews in the AreaBuild Panel don't look so nice : The previews are simply screenshots of the bounding boxes around the elements. But in this rectangle are of course frames of other elements. This makes it almost impossible to see the individual elements.

The problem is solved. Only the respective element frames are shown now.

All previous versions of the priint:comet plug-ins contain a serious bug that can cause your entire hard drive including all mounted drives to be deleted.

Although the error only occurs in the following situations you should urgently replace older priint:comet plug-in versions.

• Calls to cScript function document::update_url_links

• Calls to cScript function itemlist::update_url_links

• Fly-out menu Update All Web Images of panel Web Images

If you can not or do not want to update the priint:comet plug-ins, you should at least remove the plug-in URLink from their installation!

The problem is solved with R30000 of the plugins, see also FogBugz 31604.

If a repeated template contains grouped frames, the link to the parent frame is not restored correctly when snippets are inserted.

This problem is solved now.

Unfortunately, the list::gettext function does not return any results for the entries of the Page Templates panel.

Yes, this is because the function is not implemented at all for this panel. We have now extended the function and list::gettext can now also retrieve information from the Page Templates panel. We have also extended the documentation - it now states which panels are supported by the function.

Unfortunately, the placeholder::reload_panel function does not work for the Page Templates panel.

Yes, this is because the function is not implemented at all for this panel. We have now extended the function and placeholder::reload_panel can now also reload the the Page Templates panel. We have also extended the documentation - it now states which panels are supported by the function.

The idtypellist::alloc function apparently does not support the Page Templates panel.

We have now extended the function and idtypelist::alloc can also be used for the Page Templates panel since now. We have also extended the documentation - it now states which palettes are supported by the function.

We've have found an unexpected behavior with the elementlist::get_area_built_elements function : If the repeated element contains normal frames and InDesign® groups, the result of the function is incorrect, groups and frames are each counted individually.

This problem is fixed now.

FogBugz 31645 - Very long names for Web Images in panel

FogBugz 31634 - file::remove with given alias removes the original instead of the alias itself

FogBugz 31536 - Wrong lower/upper of Turkish İ resp. ı

FogBugz 31514 - Unexpected element change with row-wise build-ups

FogBugz 31513 - Spacing in 1:N side elements is not applied correctly

FogBugz 31512 - Expected min size of template ignored sometimes

FogBugz 31510 - Outdated embedded Web Images not updated

FogBugz 31509 - Missing embedded Web Images are not reloaded

FogBugz 31508 - frame::embed_url ignores image alignment

FogBugz 31504 - frame::embed_file doesn't work with URLs anymore

FogBugz 31501 - Crash while importing Korean text

FogBugz 31465 - Error while importing <ul><li class="abc">...

FogBugz 31386 -  string::replace_all does not work with Strings

FogBugz 31354 - The Fit Image layout rule does not work with 'fill proportionally' anymore

FogBugz 31325 - Unknown red dots

FogBugz 31307 - Text layout rules not working with 'prefixed' placeholders

FogBugz 31303 - How to get the text position of an inline?

FogBugz 31286 - Some people cannot work with the 'Do NOT filter templates' menu

FogBugz 31274 - Frames of a Comet group cannot be grouped together

FogBugz 31272 - Issues with frame::insert_macro on InDesign® Server

FogBugz 31259 - table::cell::get_box returns wrong results

FogBugz 31258 - Error in Cscript documentation: Anchor parameters

FogBugz 31256 - Little Helpers like xmlquery not working on Mac

FogBugz 31227 - Long Web-Image Downloads

FogBugz 31196 - ☢ Crash while moving a frame of a template

FogBugz 31005 - Multiframes "forget" their child elements when placed as a snippet

FogBugz 31150 - Snippets with layer do not work

FogBugz 31139 - Incomplete placeholders.xml of metadata

FogBugz 30820 - Error: waiting for file system to finish document open operation (538628)

FogBugz 30885 - table::merge_equal stumbles over already merged cells

FogBugz 30980 - string::token failed for UTF-8 delimiters

FogBugz 31038 - strreverse and string::reverse return wrong results for strings containing UTF-8 letters

FogBugz 31115 - Path to original image missing after W2ML import

FogBugz 31113 - Embedded Images missing in panel Links

FogBugz 31012 - ☢ Reorganization Failed

FogBugz 31000 - $ALIAS not resolved in #includes of scripts

My srcipt contains an include like this:

#include "$DATAFOLDER/abc.c"

Unfortunately, this path cannot be resolved, but $DATAFOLDER is defined and abc.c exists in this folder.

This feature is supported from now on.

FogBugz 31000 - = - placeholders disappear in the ToDo list

I have set some placeholders as overriden in the ToDos panel (= - State). That works. But when the reload the ToDos, the placeholders are still shown as "Changed" and when I click the update button, the = status is removed again.

fxd

FogBugz 30599 - Issue with Path Translations Using the Repository Table

We are using the feature path translations with the repository table to translate the path between Pubserver Linux and InDesign® Server Windows and have this issue.

I tracked this down to the InDesign SDK level and found different behaviour in the IDocumentCommands.Open method between SDK 15.x (ID 2020) and 16.x (ID 2021):

The following C++ code works in InDesing® 2020 but not in InDesign® 2021:

const char * 	path 	= "/Users/ChristophS/Desktop/document.indd";
IDFile 			file 	= FileUtils::PMStringToSysFile(path);
UIDRef 			docRef;
ErrorCode 		status 	= Utils<IDocumentCommands>()->Open(&docRef, file);

There is no hint in the SDK documentation, that the behaviour of the "Open" command changed, nor is there any documentation for error code 90881 (9088x errors generally seem to refer to document, file, path problems or similar). I doubt, that the automatic resolve feature in former InDesign versions is a reliable solution and widely supported in the InDesign environment. However, we will emulate this behaviour in future versions of the 2021 Plugins.

This is done!

FogBugz 30937 - New display name of Web Image not shown in panel

If I create the priint_URLDisplayName attribute in the Frame Tags panel, shouldn't the associated Web Image show this name? But the name is not shown until I change the new entry again afterwards. 

FXD. The new name is shown immediately now. By the way, it is better to change the name using the context menu (either on the frame or in the panel).

FogBugz 30918 - No respond at frame::set_blending

Opacity changes made by frame::set_blending function are applied only after the opacity has been manually changed once.

fxd

FogBugz 30887 - Did table::merge_equal create any new cell range?

Is there a way to find out if table::merge_equal has created at least one new cell range or if the table has remained unchanged?

The new parameter counter of type int* now contains the number of newly created merges after the execution of the function.

FogBugz 30886 - table::merge_equal only searches for equal cells starting from the start cell

If table::merge_equal is to search for identical cells row by row, this is done in all columns of the specified range as expected. But always only starting at the start row. However, areas of same cells below the start line are no longer found. In the following example, only the both cells with 'aaa' are merged together, but the 'bbb' cells are not merged:

aaa
aaa
bbb
bbb
ccc

The same applies accordingly to column-by-column merging.

If the (new) parameter flags of the function contains the value 2, identical cells are now also found below the start cells. But default is the old behavior (flags = 0). 

FogBugz 30885 - table::merge_equal stumbles over already merged cells

If I have a merged cell with the text 'abc', table::merge_equal cannot merge this cell range with the cell 'abc' under this range.

The function now has the new parameter flags. If the value 1 is set there, cells hidden by merges are now ignored. This solves the described problem. However, the default setting is flags = 0 (i.e. the old behavior).

FogBugz 30820 - Error: waiting for file system to finish document open operation (538628)

I cannot check out one of my publications. In my log I see the following message : 

Waiting for 20000 milliseconds for file system to finish document (\\demucsrfs04...\2008720711.indd) open operation...]]

fxd

FogBugz 30855 - Multiple 'Default' entries in function variables

I have a function variable with the name Default.

pragma var "configId//Config Id" "default//Default"

In the popup of the possible values of this variable, the entry Default is displayed twice since R28004. Before, the entry was there only once.

Yes, that is correct, see case 29078 for more information.

I can't just remove the Default entry again, then we lose functionality. And renaming only shifts the problem : If I name the entry e.g. 'Reset' and a function variable has a value 'Reset', then I have two Reset entries in the popup. To distinguish the data we now do the following now:

#pragma var "configId//Config Id" "default//Default"  --> results in Value of "Default" 
#pragma var "configId//Config Id" "default2//Custom"  --> results in Value of "Custom" 
#pragma var "configId//Config Id" "Default"  --> results in "Default" 
#pragma var "configId//Config Id" "Custom" --> results in "Custom" 

FogBugz 30809 - Issue with the translation of parameter of the layout rules between EN and DE

We have given a parameter of a Layout Rule the value 'yes' in an English InDesign® version. This value is displayed as 'no' in the German InDesign®.

The problem were conflicting definitions of 'ja' and 'nein' in the configuration of the data pool used.

We have built a workaround around this situation in the plugins now: If no matching key is found, a second search is performed where only the Built-In Key/Values are searched. This solves the problem.

FogBugz 30806 - Wrong result at string::find

string::find returns wrong results in case of UTF-8 letters.

The function string::find expected a byte position for the parameter fromPosition and ended up in the middle of one of the characters in your example. This has been fixed and the function now expects the character position.

FogBugz 30830 - x-position at link::left is read incorrectly

The x-position at link::left is read incorrectly.

The problem always arises once you have changed the page size (and remains even if you reset the page size again.) InDesign has introduced another coordinate system in the process since CS6 or so. To solve this problem, changes were needed in over 5 dozen places at that time. Now one more place has been added. Starting from this release it will work properly.

I also took the opportunity to insert the missing offsets for frame strokes.

FogBugz 30797 - Beep at double clicking the blue cloud symbol in the Web Images list

Web images can be checked or updated by double-clicking the cloud symbol  in the list. But with the blue cloud I unfortunately only get a beep.

FXD. Double-clicking the blue cloud tries to update the image now.

FogBugz 30793 - Double clicking the cloud symbol does not update all frames with same URL

When I click the cloud icon of a frame and thus update the Web Image, all other frames with the same URL should actually be updated as well, right? But in the list these frames keep their old status.

Yes, that is correct. We have changed the behavior accordingly and the list entries of the same URL are now also all updated.

FogBugz 30596 - Indesign client cannot move image frame

Whenever I move or resize a frame with a Web Image, the image status is automatically checked and the image is reloaded from the web if necessary. This slows down 'normal' work on the document enormously.

I have now changed the corresponding source code and deactivated the automatic reloading. This should solve the problem.

Attention: The fix also means that static Web Images from templates are no longer automatically reloaded when inserted. But static Web Images in templates should be avoided anyway.

Paste in Place

FogBugz - 30646

The following two new menus allow Comet Groups to be inserted at their original position: by Copy/Paste

• Edit -> Paste in Place as New Comet Group
• Edit ->Paste in Place with Analogous Comet Groups

For more information see here.

FogBugz 30593 - ☢ Inline images always inserted as embedded images

Inline images are always inserted into the document as embedded images.

Ooh, that is of course wrong. But the bug exists since v4.1 R21112 (Dec 1, 2017) - so it doesn't seem to be that bad. The bug is fixed now.

FogBugz 30579 -Placeholder postfix not working correctly

Applying the postfix of a placeholder does not work the first time you load the placeholder from a template. If you update the placeholder later, it works.

FXD

FogBugz 30582 - Cannot create continuation template

In very rare cases it can happen that no continuation templates can be created. Instead, a new template is created with the continuation. It is noticeable that the log file says the following:

# Pageitems for new pages : NO

But the element pageitems.pageitem.spread.continue exists for each entry.

Very strange that this has not been noticed so far. The elements pageitems.pageitem.spread.continue are now recognized correctly. This solves the problem.

FogBugz 30580 - About delete_parent property of multiframe

I even checked this with some local data and it works (nearly) as expected. The only issue I found is that only the first frame of the area chain is removed. I fixed this and the complete area chain is removed now. 

FogBugz 30577 -Text on Front Row panel gets cut off

Currently the name of items in the Front Row panel gets cut off if the name is longer than 12-15 characters regardless of the panel's size. This can be problematic when items have similar names.   It would be helpful for the Front Row panel to have more space for the name to be displayed —perhaps a second line, or other UI display options. 

The labels are now somewhat wider and can be up to three lines long.  Of course, we know that the problem of identical parts of the name can also arise here - but sorry, you should do something too.

Please note : Longer names are NOT ellipsized (... at the end). This is an InDesign bug. If this bothers you, please contact Adobe.

FogBugz 30561 -  ☢ string::lower and string::upper convert Unicode characters to <0x00FF>

The string::lower and string::upper functions change Unicode characters to <0x00FF> notation. The result of strupper ("äöüddd") for example is "<0X00E4><0X00F6><0X00FC><0X00DF>DDD". But I would have expected "ÄÖÜDD" (apart from the fact that <0x00E4> is a lower case ä).

Yes, that is certainly completely correct, but wrong for years without any of you noticing that. We have changed that accordingly. The capitalization of "äöüddd" now results in "ÄÖÜDD".

FogBugz 30546 - Make new tables as wide as the frame

Is it possible to create the table on frame width when creating a table with table::create - like InDesign does when I create a table manually?

You may use a call to table::broaden_to_frame to do that. But we now also interpret a column width of 0.0 as bringing the table to frame width.

FogBugz 30545 - Table style for new created tables

It would be nice if when creating new tables with table::create we could also specify a table style.

The table::create function now has a corresponding new parameter. If nothing is specified, the base table style is used.

FogBugz 30481 - Cannot set staticLink property in w2 tag

The property can be set with the placeholder::change_tags function and the "StaticLink" slot. We have also extended the specification of w2 tags with the keyword static_link (0 | 1).

FogBugz 30532 - StaticLink not shown in the Attributes popup of Placeholder Options

With the Attributes popup at the very bottom of the Placeholder Options panel, you can view individual values of a placeholder. This all works great - only with StaticLink nothing is displayed. 

The value is also shown at the top of panel in the Static Link checkbox - so no problem, you can see the value. But of course we fixed it for the Attributes popup too.

FogBugz 30531 - NewsAndBugfixes dialog

FXD

FogBugz 30440 - Cannot change Function Variables

Yes. The error only occurs on the Mac and only from Mac OS Big Sur. We have been searching for the cause for a week. The problem occurs whenever the panel contains other visibleText Edit fields. The following panles are affected:

• Placeholder Options
• Table Composition
• Frame Tags

The Translations panel still works correctly because it does not contain any visible Text Edit field. We have already reported the problem to Adobe. But it is feared that the fix will firstly take a while and secondly will only be done in InDesign® 2021. We have therefore implemented a work-around that is executed exclusively in Mac OS Big Sur. In these cases, all other edit fields of the panels are hidden when a line is to be edited. At stop editing, the text edits will become visible again. This doesn't look very nice - but there is no other way until Adobe fixes the main problem.

FogBugz 30466 - New methods for image layout rules

Yes, this is true. We intentionally did not base the implementation of our Layout Rules on the built-in InDesign® methods, because these methods themselves contain a lot of errors. But if they achieve better results in the cases mentioned, you are welcome to use this methods. We have integrated these built-in methods into the layout rules for this purpose now:

Place Image, parameter X
  left
  center
  bottom
  -
  Center Content

Fit Image, parameter Proportionally
  yes
  no
  fill proportionally
  fit to frame width
  fit to frame height
  -
  Fill Frame Proportionally
  Fit Content Proportionally
  Fit Content to Frame

In all cases, the new (red marked) methods ignore the settings of all other parementers of the layout rules.

FogBugz 30435 - Image alignment ignored for Web Images

When placing web images, the alignment is ignored. If I use a local image in the same call, the alignment is correct.

FXD

FogBugz 30424 -  Error with @ in the URL of Web Images

Web images are placed in the same local file if the URLs contain an @ and are the same after the @.

We have long searched for the reason why all the images of one were the same. The problem is now solved.

FogBugz 30421 - Justify to/away from binding missing in cell justification

With table::justification the cell content can be aligned horizontally. Unfortunately, the options to justify the content to/away from binding are missing.

The possibilities already exist, they were just not mentioned in the documentation. You can use the following keywords too already:

• kJustifyToBinding
• kJustifyAwayBinding

The documentation was extended accordingly.

FogBugz 30394 - table::cell::insert image does not accept URL images

I can easily insert images into table cells using table::cell::insertimage. But if the image is an URL, I get the error fnfErr.

At the beginning of the function, we test whether the file exists. Of course, an URL will return 'false' in this situation. FXD.

Workaround

In the meantime you can do a simple workaround : Use table::cell::insert_taggedtext with the inline in the tagged text. Here's my test:

#include "internal/types.h"

int cell_image (Table T, int col, int row, char * path)
{
	String		tt 		= string::alloc ();
	float		w, h;
	int			result 	= 1;
	
	while (1) 
	{
		if (!string::length (path))  	{ result = -50; break;  } 	// paramErr
		if (!table::is_valid (T)) 		{ result = 11; break; } 	// tableErr
	
		result = table::cell::get_size (T, col, row, 1, &w, &h);
		if (result) break; 

		string::set (tt, "%%!TT<w2inline: %f, %f, '%s', 5, 0.0><w2inline:>", w, h, path);

		result = table::cell::insert_taggedtext (T, col, row, tt);

		break;
	}
	string::release (tt);

	return result;
}

int main ()
{
	Table  		T 		= table::alloc ();

	table::get (T, gFrame, 0);
	cell_image (T, 2, 1, "http://www.hi13.de/aaa.png");	
	
	return 0;
}

FogBugz 30316 - Wrong result for placeholders with inlines

It took a long time for the error to be noticed : The bug exists since v4.1.6 R26010 (Sept. 24, 2019)! The story behind this is too long to explain. The short version is: The new inline used the wrong placeholder in the text. The problem is now solved.

FogBugz 30353 - Wrong result in Layout Rule 'Position Frame'

FXD

FogBugz 30245 - Trouble Opening ZIP File

To unpack zips we are using the standard tool ditto on Mac OS. But sometimes we get invalid (or better : incomplete) zip files. The problem is the ZIP creator at PubServer side - it sometimes creates incorrect ZIPS. We can not solve this problem. But we have a workaround: We make a second attempt with unzip. This works. I already fixed this problem in the past. But unfortunately the ditto error code has changed since then - whoever did it and whenever. I don't know. We now also note the new error code. This solves the problem.

FogBugz 30326 - Multiple meaning of Control key in Placeholder panel

O, that's true. We have therefore removed the support of the Control key for the context menu here (So the context menu will only be opened when right-clicking. Left click + control is no longer supported here). The same applies to the following panels:

• Publications
• Templates
• Page Templates
• Products
• Placeholders

FogBugz 30202 - statistics.xml generates error message when starting InDesign®

The file $PREFS/werkii/statistics.xml stores the last used objects of the panels Placeholders, Templates, Page Templates, ... . With ALT-click of the magnifying glass these entries can be loaded. If the file does not exist yet, it will be created automatically. Unfortunately, however, a corrupted (or empty) file caused a read error of the XML. This error is fixed. Erroneous statistics.xml are replaced.

FogBugz 30091

We would like to selectively de-activate (and re-activate) layout rules. This way we want to prevent manual geometry changes from being preserved during reorganizations.

For this purpose there is now the new function system::suppress_layout_rule.

FogBugz 30094

1. Crash when opening the document
2. Copy/Paste of frames no longer works

With previous releases everything works as usual.

The problem was caused by the newly introduced CESU-8 support and has been solved.

This is fixed.

I added a new parameter, optional and with a default that keeps the old behavior. But if the parameter is set to 1, the function now returns the expected 0 for empty strings.

In the attribute inputdocumentation of the actions one can specify a definition for which situations a layout rule is allowed. But this information is apparently not evaluated at all.

Yes, unfortunately. But now the error is fixed.

Layout rules that are turned off are not automatically reactivated when a connection is disconnected. But actually all properties are reset when logging out?

The suppressed execution time points for layout rules are now reactivated when the data connection is disconnected.

These are the panel statements 100 - 105. We have expanded the doc accordingly.

Since at least R27144 we have had strange behavior with the publications context menu "Check-in all checked-out out documents".

This is a quite clear description. And it is not made easier by the fact that the action described is a configurable script of the data connection.

To solve the problem, we implemented the following: The script command publication::checkout_by_id now allows to convert the document automatically (without a dialog) or not automatically. The default behavior is Convert automatically. We assume that this will also be desired by the customers - especially since displaying a dialog can hardly make sense for script-controlled check-ins from a third-party application.

FogBugz 30056

See here for information.

FogBugz 30055

1. The elder ("Version 1") is based on SwA for binary data transmission
2. The newer ("Version 2") is based o MTOM

Using the new keyword service-version in the soapflags.ini file you can define you favorite service. See here for more information.

FogBugz 30055

We have implemented the new function table::mirror and the layout rule "Mirror Table" for this purpose. But please note the restrictions described in the table::mirror documentation!

FogBugz 30054

For this purpose, you now can use the new functions

• table::move_rows
• table::move_cols

We have completely reprogrammed the function using NextStep. Now it works again.

FogBugz 29922

We now support also 4-byte UTF-8s: 

• InDesign® Plug-Ins
• Illustrator Plug-Ins
• comet_pdf

on

• Mac
• Windows
• Linux

FogBugz 29920

CESU-8 is now evaluated during text input and converted to valid UTF-8. This solves the problem.

• InDesign® Plug-Ins
• Illustrator Plug-Ins
• comet_pdf

on

• Mac
• Windows
• Linux

int main()
{
	char 	* 	buffer	= alloc (4096);

	strcpy (buffer, ".indd");
	if (strstr (buffer, ".w2ml") == buffer)
	{
		showmessage ("equal");
	}
	return 0;
}

Surprisingly, the script always gets into the if branch and shows me the message?! What is wrong here?

O, a big thing. The comparison of char* == char* in the cScript interpreter was wrong. This is fixed now.

This is fixed. The required date format DD.MM.YYYY is now also accepted for other system settings.

For this, we use publication::checkout_by_id("12343424“). This works so far for for the newer version. Unfortunately, when the script is run with an older version of InDesign® and we try to checkout an document of a newer version, the method returns 0 (no error). Behind the scenes, the document is released on the server and the document file is deleted on the local machine, the document, however, is still marked as checked out in the local checkout.xml file.

Calling publication::revert() or using the UI to do so afterwards fails, as there is no document file anymore (cf. fogbugz case #24397)

This leads to the situation, that the document cannot be used on the local machine until one adds a dummy document in XCache or cleans up checkout.xml.

Would it be possible to have the following when opening the document fails?

Done like suggested.

This is fixed.

The description explicitly says : Search the subtree. For me, that is actually expressed clearly enough. It is rather the name of the function that is misleading. We have therefore renamed it to publication::get_subnodes.

FXD

There will be a new function productlist::is_in_build for this purpose

Is there a cScript function that can be used to check whether a variable is defined in a cScript or not?

To do this, use the new function declared.

Is there any way to assign custom names to the Front Row actions of local scripts?

Currently, the file names are used as names for the actions of the panel. Using the new tag 

@@LABEL your label

anywhere in the script you may give them different names. See here for more information.

Is there any way to sort the file script in the front row panel?

As of the next release, the following keywords can be defined in the file:

@@SEQ : sequence number (after the buttons of the data pool)

See here for more information.

One can see it immediately and it was described in the New Features and Bug Fixes dialog, but there was criticism that the change is not described in this file. What has been done with this. The spelling error Texte instead of Texts in the Engllish version was also worth a BUG message of level important to someone. Also corrected.

We have a document with single sided masterspreads and documents spreads with facing pages. In this case, localized master frames are shifted by half the page width .

This is solved for the cases 1:2 and 2:1. Other combinations like 1:3, 3:2 or 5:8 are not supported - for document spreads wider than 2 pages you have to use master spreads of the same width (or you fix the horizontal shift of these special cases yourself).

Our implementation of XPATH supports version 1.0. These two functions are not normally included in this version. We have implemented them anyway, see here for more information.

Can I somehow find out whether an XMLNode is defined as an element or as an attribute in the XMLTree?

Implemented as xmlnode::is_attribute.

Implemented as xmlnode::root.

Yes we can. Licene orders are written to log too now.

Das ist gefixt

Is it possible to get the color information for an Excel cell using cScript? e.g. border colors and background colors?

Implemented as excel::get_color.

When using the cScript function excel::read to get styled text out of an Excel cell as HTML, the color values sometimes contain invalid values like rgb(0, 144, 3464575665).

FXD

We have the cScript function excel::get_colwidth - however the results are not precise and only yield a relative size to the entire table. Is it possible to get an absolute width for a column?

This is now possible using the cScript function excel::get_colwidth_pt.

Is it possible to determine the area of a merged cell from an Excel sheet inside cScript?

This is now possible using the cScript function excel::get_merge

If placeholder values such as Infos1, layout rules or function variables contain the characters < or >, incorrect TaggedText will result during export. It does not matter whether the text is exported using standard or Comet methods.

Yes, this seems to be a misbehavior of the InDesign® TaggedText import : Also in strings of tag attributes the characters < and > have to be escaped with \:

Wrong <w2: ... 'functionvariables ''checker" "id>0" "3"' ...>
Ok    <w2: ... 'functionvariables ''checker" "id\>0" "3"' ...>

 We therefore now also escape these characters during export.

After a call to placeholder::set_funcvar_val my placeholder becomes two placeholders.

FXD

When you start a new release for the first time, a dialoge with the current new features and bug fixes is now shown. We hope this information is helpful. Please note that the headlines are clickable hyperlinks to the according descriptions in documentation.

You now can set the XCache by preference even for InDesign® Desktop. See here for more infomation.

The latest release lacks the Mac version of the Comet Tests.

The CometTests plugin is now included in the installers again.

Every attempt to create a Smart-Template in the PubServer fails. It simply does not work!

The problem has existed since v4.1.8 R27515 (15/09/2021) - so quite a long time without anyone noticing it. It#s fixed now and you can create Smart Templates even on PubServer again.

When using the example for dialog::listen from the documentation, it does not work - the listener callback is never called:

dialog::dialogbuttons(dialogSpec);
dialog::listen("kOk", handleOkButton);

However, it does work with:

dialog::listen("kOK", handleOkButton); //Uppercase K in 'kOK'

Thats fixed now.

I have an URL like http://aaa.bbb.ce/imageURLabcdefg. Since the last version, this URL no longer works. It only ever tries to load abcdefg. The text in front of it is obviously cut off.

Thats fixed now.

I have a Comet Test which uses tokens in the script and document path, e.g.

$DEFINITIONFOLDER; or $DOCUMENTS

When I try to edit this script through the edit dialog, nothing happens.

Fixed

Name your Web Images

Web Images can now be given their own names that are independent of the image address. See here for more information.

You can now use local files as script files for the panel Front Row. This saves the cumbersome insertion of test scripts into the current data environment. You can find more information here.

Line Height 23

All priint:comet panels with standard lines now have a uniform line height of 23 points. This corresponds to the line height that Adobe uses for their panels.

Help texts moved

Whenever it was possible and made sense, we moved the help texts from the list entries to the list heading. This way, these texts do not always flicker when you move the mouse over the list.

Re-Design of To Dos

Web Images in ToDos

In the hope that the panel is now clearer and easier to use, the To Dos panel has been completely redesigned. In addition to placeholders, the panel can now also check and update the document's Web Images. The so-called database tasks have been removed from the panel. The remaining functions have been completely retained.

There is only one little thing: the column for the names of the Comet Tests could be a little wider.

Okay.

Running a Comet Test reliably crashes InDesign® 2021 / Mac.

The problem was a change in an internally used library on the Mac, which had to be renewed for ID 2021. In the next release, Comet Tests will also work in ID 2021 Mac.

InDesign® 2021 / Mac crashes reproducibly when loading a URL image into a frame.

The problem was a change in an internally used library on the Mac, which had to be renewed for ID 2021. In the next release, web images will also work in ID 2021 Mac.

In the new context menu of the placeholder panel there is an About menu. That is nice. For variants, could the name of the variant be added there?

Ui, nobody knows the variants, but of course, yes, we add the variants names now.

The function hyperlink::delete_all always creates the new layer $$_Comet-Testebene_4011961_$$.

In fact, that is not necessary. The problem is eliminated.

If an image placeholder contains a Web Image and the image from the placeholder is to be replaced by a local image file, an error occurs. The image is replaced shortly, then the web image is loaded again. The same happens when the image is removed: The image is removed for a short moment, then the web image is loaded again.

The error is fixed.

When importing W2ML into InDesign®, multi frames do not properly get their RepetitionParent set. The 'Area Build' panel does not show the established frames. When inspecting the RepetetionParent attribute using the Placeholder values panel, it seems there is a UID mismatch.

We now properly sort the layout frames before the elements and restore the repetition parent in the import order.

When importing a W2ML which has established multiframes, InDesign® crashes.

This was just a wrong error message which occured during Multiframe import (See case #29151). Both the import and the error message are fixed.

Is there a cScript to clear overrides from cells and tables?

As of now, yes:

• table::cell:clear_overrides
• table::clear_override

InDesign® Server does not start with priint:comet plugins.

FXD. The Server IDs 2021 Mac now starts properly.

Using cScript I can set some information into tables and table cells (table::set_info1/2, table::cell::set_info1/2). But I can't find a place in the plugins where these values are displayed.

The information is now shown in the Table Composition panel - and can also be changed there.

If I change a cell property using table::set_cellinfo and the cell is currently displayed in the Table Composition panel, the panel should update afterwards, right?

The function now has an additional parameter that activates the updating of the panel (if the panel is currently displaying the corresponding table). The same applies to all similiar fuinctions working on the table composition.

ATTENTION: Due to backwards compatibility, the parameter is switched off by default.

I set new group memberships for a table cell using table::set_cellinfo. The result is apparently correct when I compare it with a following call to table::get_cellinfo. But I don't see the new groups in the Table Composition panel.

Groups must also be entered in the table itself. This was omitted until now. The error is now fixed.

As of R27722 (10 Nov. 2020), the fit frame layout rule no longer works for inline frames. The same applies, of course, to the function frame::fit_better and frame::fit.

This is fixed.

Is it possible to move pages across another document with page::move?

From now on - yes.

Is it possible to insert pages from another document with page::duplicate?

From now on - yes.

In the panel Product Pool, there is a pop-up menu at the top right with the available templates. This list can quickly become confusingly long. With a script, this list can now be shortened so that only those templates are shown that are defined for the document and make sense. See here more information.

Default buttons added to a dialog using the csript function dialog::dialogbuttons sometimes cannot be set visible, invisible, enabled or disabled with e.g. dialog::setenabled("kOk"); Instead, dialog::setenabled("kOK") must be called.

Though this isn't particularly a bug, the behaviour is other than documented and handling different IDs on cscript side depending on, which button is the default, involves unnecessary complexity.

Therefore, on cscript side "kOk" and "kOK" can be used as synonyms. The same applies for "kCancel" and "kCANCEL".

Is there any way to show me the local file of a web image in Finder/Windows-Explorer?

This can now be done with the context menu (right click) of the panel now.

Is there a way to copy the image path and the local file path of a web image to the clipboard? Maybe with right click - like in the other panels?

You can do that now.

FogBugz 29102 -  Copy IDs to Clipboard

In the templates panel there is the fly out menu Copy ID to Clipboard. This is very helpful. Can you do something like that in the other panels too?

The following panels now support a right-click menu to copy the IDs to the clipboard:

• Placeholder

• Templates

• PageTemplates

• Product Pool

• Publications

In the list of function variables in panel Placeholder Info the state of each variable is shown in the first column (+, √, !). When I edit a variable, however, this status remains unchanged and is only updated when I Alt-click the red lock button. Could the icon not be updated directly?

It can :-) The icon is now adjusted immediately when changes are made.

The entries of the menu Help -> More Help still pointing to the old publishing.priint.com pages. But these pages are apparently no longer updated.

Yes, these pages are no longer updated. The menu items now open the current docu at kb.priint.com/comet.

In the lower area of the panel Placeholder Info you can see the current values of a placeholder. The "FunctionVariables" slot, however, always remains empty (and is not called FunctionVariables but FunctionVariables Grid).

FXD. The slot now shows the correct values.

FogBugz 29078 - Reset Func Vars to default

Is there a way to reset the value of a function variable to the default? Until now, all default values are transferred to the placeholder when the lock is pressed once. The background is that my placeholder calculates the value of the variable in a script (here 1234)

#pragma var "myVariable" "##1234"

But if the placeholder already has a configured value, this value is used of course and not the new value of the script.

We have changed two things:

1. There is now a new entry "Default" in the values pop-up. This can be used to reset the value.
2. Values are only transferred to the placeholder if a value has actually been changed (automatic transfer of all values has been removed!).

Multiframe placeholder always shows "kChanged" even with initial loading.

We fixed the problem now

Workaround

Add the following line add the end of your build script: placeholder::set_state (1);

Recently, it has happened again and again that a template can no longer be saved on the SOAP/PubServer. Can you please check this?

Phew, this problem is solved. Saving templates should now work permanently again.

We have a template and unfortunately I can't identify what is causing the InDesign® to crash when saving. Unfortunately it’s very urgent and we would loose a lot of work.

The problem is a frame that consists of several paths. This is not a problem in itself. But the problem is that one of these paths has 0 (zero) points. The graphic designer has gone to a lot of trouble (and InDesign® has also saved this nonsense). Thde problem is fixed now.

When loading publications from a PubServer, InDesign® crashes reproducibly under Mac OS Catalina.

The problem has been solved. Publications can now be loaded without errors again.

I read in a list of function variables from the PIM via a cScript with the call

#pragma var "attribute name" "##900"

Where "900" is the action that triggers a server script in the PIM.

I noticed that this script is not only called when assigning the the value to the function variable via the "Placeholder Info" panel (which is understandable), but also every time the placeholder is loadedf. I would have expected that the parameter would be stored somehow in the placeholder inside the document and a renewed call of the the action 900 is no longer necessary.

You are absolutely right - when loading the placeholders, the values only have to be read if they are not configured in placeholder values. If the value have been set manually, the value from the placeholder is sufficient now and the script in not called anymore in this situation.

When I save a template, the list of templates is (almost) empty afterwards.

The problem was the double use of the ALT key for Save and Recent Entries. The problem has been solved.

The scroll bar of the Doc/DB texts in the ToDo list scrolls the text way too far up. 

FXD

The column headers of the priint:comet panels have been redesigned a bit:

1. Slightly higher
2. Help texts in the column heading and, if possible, no longer in the list
3. New arrows for the sorting direction

The licence order automatically sets an expiry date in three years, e.g. 04.01.2024. With an English Windows operating system, this date is rejected as "Incorrectly formatted".

FXD

The panel Products of Documents was re-designed a little bit:

1. The selection for page templates / templates of the panel is now activated and filled according to the list selection. This hopefully makes the panel a little easier to understand.
2. The settings for loading the list are now buttons (and no longer checkboxes).
3. The Special Cases part can now be hidden

We hope this has made the palette clearer - less would be empty. More information can be found here.

In the grace period and with a Basic licence, only one page can be set up or reorganised at a time. It would be nice if a warning is shown for this. Otherwise, you might spend a long time looking for a mistake.

When trying to build or reorganise products over several pages, a warning is shown now.

Attention : In order not to be unnecessarily annoying, this warning is only shown once per InDesign® start.

The button to save the placeholders at the bottom of the Product Pool is firstly totally rarely used and secondly also quite dangerous. Besides, the action can be performed via the fly-out menu "Save the products ...". So the button can go away.

I removed the button now. You may use the fly-out menu Save the products ... to save your placeholders.

The askstring dialog should be resizable, hm? Especially with multiline edits.

For multilines, the dialoge can now be resized.

If I save a search method in the Product Pool panel, all search field labels are lost. And that means that all search fields become deactivated/invisible.

FXD

The button + and - next to the search methods popup of the Product Pool are slightly unusewd and can be removed therefor.

The buttons are removed now. To save your own searches, use the fly-out menus of the panel:

• Search Methods ->
•     New Method...
•     Change Name...
•     Save Search Values
•     Edit Statement...
•     -
•     Remove
•     Remove All

See here for more information.

FogBugz 28839 - Crossref-Button of Product Pool is mostly unused

Crossref button of Product Pool is mostly unused and should be removed therefore.

The button is removed now. You still can insert cross references by using the menu Miscellaneous -> Insert Cross Reference at the panel fly out and at Plug-Ins -> Produkt Pool.

Hide Search Fields

FogBugz 28838

The search fields of the Product Pool are now automatically hidden if all four search fields are unused.

Calls to prefs::set_urllink_folder does not handle $ALIASSES at the beginning of the folders path. The same applies to gDestFolder in panel statement 141 (the statement to set the urllink folder by script).

It's done now (for both cases).

Currently I can store unnamed Comet-Notes as templates for Comet Notes. But of course that's not such a good idea. Is it not possible to prevent the saving of unnamed notes as templates?

Yes. we now check that all notes have a name before saving.

Is there a way to delete templates for Comet notes (other than editing the xnotetypes_notes.xml file)?

We now have the menu Delete Comet Note template in the flyout of the panel.

The file xnotetypes_notes.xml containig the templates for Comet Notes is located in the same folder like the plug-ins. Users may not have write permission for this folder.

The file is now stored in the user preferences ($PREFS/werkii). Any existing file is automatically taken over. You can find more information here.

When the clouds of Web Images are displayed in the document, the image frame loses its background and frame colour. If you hide the cloud symbols, the colour appears again.

FXD

I have the following xmlquery statement 

xmlget label
   node layoutorder.spread.offer.stylepromotion where comet_id = 228056984
   node keyattribute where . = \"A_FURNITURE_TYPE\"

This used to work in the past and now unfortunately not anymore, now I get the error 

# Error in condition parser : 'syntax error'

Yes, this has to do with case 27165. There we have extended the notation for XML names with some effort. Unfortunately, the single point (.) as a self-reference to the value of the current element has been overlooked. That's fixed.

The Placeholder Options Info panel is no longer needed and can be removed.

Done. The panel is removed.

The labels of the cScript dialog framework are not translated automatically. It would be nice if this would be done.

The labels of labels and buttons in the framework dialog are now automatically translated. Contents of text input fields are of course still not translated.

If you call the run_javascript function with the invokeDebugger option, InDesign® falls into an infinite loop.

This is because Adobe has finished the support for ExtendScript Toolkit. The fact that InDesign still tries to run this tool is an error of InDesign®. We therefore ignore the invokeDebugger option now.

Images that require a Self Signed Certificate are sometimes not loaded from Web Images.

Yes, the certificates sometimes require a check of the host address (i.e. the address stored in the certificate must match the URL). We have solved this problem.

Yes, we habe it now. We support the following shortcuts:

• "-", "INSECURE" : Insecure download
• "+", "SECURE" : Secure download

Regardless of how the download options are set, shttps can be used to force a secure download.

shttp://www.hi13.de/aaa.png

If frame::get_anchor does not find an inline frame, the out parameters of the function (out_type, out_frameRef, ...) are filled with apparently random results.

That's fixed. If no inline is found, only the parameter out_pos is changed now.

Is there a way to disable unused search fields in the Product Pool?

Currently not. But we changed the behaviour a little bit: Search fields with the following labels (untranslated) labels are disabled automatically now:

• Unused
• unused
• -
• Empty string

I have configured my Product Pool search so that the search fields have their own labels. Unfortunately the labels are not translated into the current InDesign language.

This is done now. We supporting the following languages:

• German
• English
• French
• Japanese

English is automatically used for other language versions.

The function layer::name (index, str) always returns the empty string.

FXD

Is there a possibility to scale inline images larger than 100%. It seems that 100% is the maximum scaling.

Yes, this is possible with the following information in the <in:> tag

<in: ... , i_final_align fitcontent>

This allows the image to be enlarged as desired. Wenn die Skalierung auf einen bestimmten Maximalwert begrenzt werden soll, kann das neue Schlüsselwort fitimage verwendet werden:

<in: ... , i_final_align fitimage iPlacement fSize fMaxScale>

See here for more information.

Is there a cScript function that can be used to request the SessionId of the current pub server connection?

We have implemented the function system::session_id for this.

It would be nice if we had an instruction tag that gets the SessionId of the current PubServer connection.

<sessionId> will do the job. If no PubServer connection is active, the value is empty (""). See here for a complete list of supported tags.

The script functions system::macid and system::tcpip are crashing InDesign® if they are called with String parameters (and not with char*).

FXD

The W2ML export of even an empty document leads to an immediate crash of InDesign® 2021.

Unfortunately this is a bug in InDesign® 2021 - but we were able to find a workaround. The W2ML export works again now.

file::download fails if the requeseted downloads needs a self signing certificate.

Yeah, that's right. In the used functions of the respective operating systems such information cannot be set. We have therefore extended the function file::download so that CURL and its options can be used. More information can be found here.

file::download ("http://www.hi13.de/index.html",
	"your_path", 1,
	"SSL_VERIFYPEER", 1,
	"CAINFO", "$DESKTOP/my_certificat.pem");

In the order dialog of the Windows plugins, the Expired-Date always shows a strange date, e.g. 12.04.2123.

FXD. The Expired date is now always set automatically three years later.

When importing a W2ML, I get a message that the font 'Textschriftart Textschnitt' is missing. What does this message mean?

If no extra font is specified for bullet points in a bullet list, InDesign® enters in that the font of the paragraph should be use for the bullet points. This is correct so far - unfortunately this specification is translated into the current user language (hää?)

We circumvented this problem with a workaound and keep the font attributes empty in this case.

When importing W2ML, a warning is shown if fonts are missing. This warning is also in English with a German InDesign®.

FXD. The warning is now translated.

I want to insert page breaks in my product builds. For this purpose I have inserted some page templates into my list of products. This works perfectly. But if I have a document with single pages and the PageTemplate is supposed to create a left (or right) page, I fall into an infinite loop. More and more new pages are created - probably because none of the new pages has the matching page type.

This problem is fixed now. In single page documents a new page is now simply created and the page type is ignored.

The function publication::checkout produces an error if it has only one call parameter. But the documentation says that the second parameter is optional.

We have changed the parameter check according to the documentation. The function may now also be called with one parameter only. The same applies to publication::checkin, publication::revert, publication::aftercheckout and publication::aftersave.

I cannot find any documentation for the function publication::revert Does this function not exist?

The function exists and is now also described in the documentation.

We proudly present the support of Adobe CC Libraries through the priint:comet plugins in this release. To place an image from a CC Library in the document, you only have to define the image path (e.g. in frame::image) accordingly:

"CC Libraries: libraryName/imageName"

You can find further information here.

Die Funktionen sql::call und sql::calln funtionieren nicht unter Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) mit MSSQLSERVER.

Dieses Problem ist gelöst.

With Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) I cannot connect to a MSSQLServer Unicode.

The problem is solved.

We recommend the ODBC driver version 8 from OpenLink for connections to MSSQL.

Please note: On the OpenLink page, the supported operating system is Mac OS X 10.7. A newer version is not available, but in our tests this version also worked on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina).

With an active PubServer InDesign® crashes if you let InDesign® rest for a few minutes. The problem occurs on the Mac only and only since Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina).

The problem are connections to a server that disconnects after an idle time specified by the server. We could solve this problem.

Workaround

Insert the following line into your soapflags.ini

keep-alive=no

We have documents that were created with German Umlauts in 4.1.6. This has worked very well so far without problems. Now with Comet 4.1.8 the folders are created correctly with umlauts, but the InDesign® document is not. The problem occurs only on the Mac.

In other words : file::duplicate does not work with German Umlauts on Mac - instead of Ä we get √Ñ. This problem is fixed now.

I know we can create QR Code with image::barcode. Is there also a function to generate QR Codes directly from InDesign® (like in the menu Object -> Generate QR Code... )?

You can now use the new functions

• image::qrcode
• image::qrcode_gettype
• image::qrcode_getcontent
• frame::is_qrcode

Some of the URL functions like frame::get_url_filedate are crashing InDesign®.

You are absolutely right: get_url_filedate, get_url_importdate and get_url_importresult returning char*-strings. The parameter description was correct, but the function signature is wrong. But because the signatures come directly from our source code, it is also wrong there - and the functions lead to a crash. This is fixed in the next release (see below).

Using Mac OS Catalina I can no longer connect to a MSSQL Unicode database.

The problem was a changed byte width of the text characters. The problem is fixed. Under Catalina, the ODBC driver Lite Edition (single-tier) ODBC Driver Installer Archive for Sybase 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 15.x and Microsoft SQL Server 6.x - 2017 on Mac OS X 10.7.x (Universal) and Higher -- Amazon S3 HTTP Depot version 8 can be used.

It seems that the app.comet.getElements function is not executed at all.

Yes, for some mystical reasons the command does not work under this name anymore.  But obviously nobody was missing that. Therefore the command will be called app.comet.getElementsXML in the future.

The docu of the cScript module document is incomplete and stops at "Number of pages in the document"

This docu file is fixed now, see here.

In some mysterious circumstances inline frames are so small that they are not visible (0.01 pt). Is there any way to get the UID of these frames out?

If the text cursor is placed on an inline, the UID of the inline is now shown in the panel Comet Admin -> Comet:

And, by the way, the mysterious circumstances are not mysterious: But you should avoid adding wide tables in three-column pages with the option Layout -> Margins and Columns : Fit Layout turned on.

When downloading many images for the icons of the Product Pool by URLs, InDesign® crashes. Unfortunately there is no system crash log for this. InDesign® is simply terminated.

Once (out of more than 20 tests) the Mac OS delivered us a crash log after 12 hours (!) after all (see above). This log shows that the problem is apparently caused by extended security checks of the Mac OS (Thanks, Apple!)

We have changed the download from Applescript to curl - this fixes the problem.

When downloading images for the icons of the Product Pool, strange and possibly not rule-compliant file names are generated, e.g:

d5cfca48fc0a03b100f8828cd89b9188.png?CSTicketID=2e4f330ffb3abe44db7bf095f7c152f7

We create an MD5 hash from the URL and try to add the file extension of the URL to this name. But we overlooked the fact that the URL can have additional information in the component. This is fixed (and in the above example png will now be used as file extension).

If you click on the warning symbol of changed images in the document, the image is automatically updated. Is it possible to do something like this with Web Images too when the cloud icon is clicked?

Yes, this is now possible by double clicking on the cloud:

• Green cloud : Check image

• Yellow and red cloud : Update the image

Web servers sometimes check the UserAgent of the client of course. But some web servers are so extremely stupid that they only check if the UserAgent is not empty. If it is empty, they reject the query. If it is not empty, nothing matters.

It is not difficult to trick these servers (it was more difficult to find the problem.) : We now send the UserAgent " " (blank). This solves the problem (and reasonable checks certainly include the blank).

Web Images with redirects receive incorrect ETag info for status checking. Apparently the info from the first call is used instead of the info from the resolved address. In the example, text/html is used as Coent-Type instead of image/tif:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
	Server: nginx
	Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:55:06 GMT
	Content-Type: text/html
	Content-Length: 162
	Location: https://www.rittal.com/imf/none/2_34875/
	Connection: keep-alive
	Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
	Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
	X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1

	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	Server: nginx
	Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:55:06 GMT
	Content-Type: image/tiff
	Connection: keep-alive
	content-disposition: attachment; filename="2_34875.tif"
	Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
	Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
	X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1

This is fixed now and the last information are used.

The new cloud symbol of the Web Images is partly hidden by the frame edges.

Okay, okay, I moved the cloud symbol a little bit ...

I’m looking for a way to get the display name of the current document via cScript. (I want to use it in a showmessage to the user about the document). I’ve found the document::set_display_name function, but it does not look like there’s a “get” version. We did find the ‘name’ function (document::name) but that returns the physical file name (doucmentID.indd).

To do this, I just implemented the function document::get_display_name.

All priint:comet plug-ins are available for InDesign® 2021 and InDesign Server® 2021 now. Test plug-ins are available from our support.

In the log file I can see a lot of error messages like this:

#Cannot compile regular expression ...

What does that mean?

This error is fixed.

The search in the documentation shows the German text "Suche" in the English version.

We change it to Find. See the upper right corner of this document.

A function to set the front document by path/name would be a fine thing.

Okay, we are nice : document::select_by_name makes the desired.

Yes, I know, we already have the functions document::count and document::get_nth. But document::get_nth returns 'only' the path or name of the document. Can I also get the ItemRef?

We have added an additional optional parameter to document::get_nth in which the document reference is returned.

Is there a way to extend document::select for InDesign® Server? Up to now the error notForServerErr (1273) is always returned. But the function would actually be quite useful.

We have extended the function so that it also works for InDesign® Server.

Note : In Javascript the document can be brought to the foreground by calling app.comet.documentOpen again.

I call layer::select on InDesign® Server. But even if I execute layer::front_name directly afterwards, the name of the current layer remains empty.

FXD

Sorry, I'll be back: The reader asks for a license in the new release as well.

One of 12 versions was still broken: InDesing® CC 2019/Mac. That's fixed.

In the priint:adjust Frame List panel, the status field on the right is cut off in InDesign® 2021.

FXD

Using the panel entry of a Web Image I can select the corresponding frame in the document. The current frame selection will be replaced then. Can I add the frame to the current frame selection?

Hold down the SHIFT key to extent the current selection :-) By holding down the ALT key you can remove the frame from the current document selection. We added a tooltip with these information to the 'GoTo' link now.

The colored band at the top of the Web Images unfortunately covers a good part of the image. Couldn't this be done a bit more discreetly?

We have removed the URL from the display and  only show the small cloud symbol as it is used in the panel now.

It would be very nice if I could check or update the Web Images by clicking into their panel entries. Currently I always have to find the frames in the document first and can use the context menu then.

Checking and updating the Web Images can now be done by double-clicking the clouds buttons on the panel.

I have several frames with the same Web Image. When I check one it, the other frames remain unchanged. Shouldn't these frames correct their status as well?

Yes, it is done now. The same applies to reloading.

Even if the status of a Web Image does not change, obviously the frame itself is changed (or an info behind the frame). You can see this when you check the status of an image: Even if the status of the image remains unchanged, the document is marked as changed.

This has been changed accordingly. Frames are no longer changed if the Web Image status remains the same.

I have a document timer (started by timer::document_start) that checks the Web Images of the document every 10 seconds. After the check is done, it is impossible to do an undo in the document. In the Undo menu there is always the command "Set script tag" - but not my actions anymore.

Fixed. Undo is possible again.

If the server is busy, a timeout may be sent when checking a Web Image. The image is then marked as faulty - although everything is actually in order.

In case of a timeout we try the test again with an increased timeout value now. We only give up after 100 timeouts.

The new timer function timer::document_start is very nice. Could you add an option that the timer is only executed for the current front document. This could take a lot of load out of the program.

The function now has a corresponding additional parameter.

When I install CometReader with the installer on the Mac, CoreService [XML] is installed (instead of CoreServlett) - and unfortunately this requires a license.

It is correct that CoreService [XML] is installed here, wrong was the license request. This is fixed.

The Reader still requires no license.

FYI: The reader also works with CoreServlett. But unfortunately the Mac installer must not contain an object called CoreServlett. Apple rejected to notarize the software in this case.

We need prefs::enable_panel for URL Link panel please.

FXD, use kPanelURLLink (421) to disable/enable this panel.

When I created the template, saved, and in the meantime Tomasz did the same, after refresh my template disappeared (or Tomasz’s one), probably depending on who saved first. It means that two (or more) people cannot work at the same time, at least if we mean templates.

It only happens, if

• on both work stations, the "New Template" dialog is shown at the same time

• in this case, the user who submits last wins

Fixed now.

FogBugz 27956 - Script Error : Symbol table full

Symbol table full

raises. Apparently the default size of the script buffer is too small.

We have increased the size of the script buffer a bit to1 -16 MB. So the default size is 8 times larger than before. This should be enough.

FogBugz 27957 - run_applescript not working with InDesign® 2020

The run_applescript function results in an infinite loop if the AppleScript should do something in InDesign® itself:

tell application "Adobe InDesign 2020"
...
end tell

This is all strange - it is also not an infiniteloop. If you drink a coffee, the call is finished afterwards - but it hasn't done anything (and doesn't return an error). After we had to change the behavior of run_applescript for CC 2019 (see case 24688), 2020 can use the previous implementation again. Apple only knows why.

FogBugz 27958 -  CometTest for AppleScript not running for InDesign® 2020

I have a CometTest for AppleScript there the keyword $$APP$$$ is used. Unfortunately this key is translated into Adobe InDesign® CC 2020, but the program is called Adobe InDesign® 2020 only (without CC) and my test fails.

Indeed, thats wrong. The bug is fixed now.

As InDesign® user I want to see the description of a placeholder. This should help me to select the right placehoder during my template work.
It would be very helpful, if I see the first 255 characters of the description in the tooltip of the comet placeholder panel.

As creator of the plugins I implemented the requested tooltips

The descriptions can be translated into the current InDesign® language using the usual translation mechanisms (e.g. message_enDE.xml).

<br> within the text is translated to system-typical line separators.

FogBugz 27777 -
Javascript app.comet.use does not respect client parameter on direct login

When the Javascript command app.comet.use a direct login is possible by providing server address, client etc.. directly in an option string.

The client parameter however seems to be ignored.

fixed

FogBugz 27842 - AEM
Error on image drops

AEM image drop down does not work nearly every 10th time. In the log file I can see, that the error 401 (authentification error) occurs.

A small but serious error in the random encryption of the password. The bug is fixed now.

FogBugz 27853 - AEM
404 Not Found

AEM does not return error 404 for syntactically incorrect URLs. Instead, an HTML file with the content 

404 Not found

 is returned. This error is apparently not detected when downloading XML files.

Oh, my goodness. I fixed this error.

FogBugz 27918 - Reader version writes log file

If I had installed a full version and the logfile was activated, then the reader version also writes logfiles (and I can no longer turn it off).

This is fixed. Reader will not write log messages any more.

FogBugz 27917 - Empty submenu 'Logfile' in Reader Plugins

In the reader version the following two menus are available but empty:

Plug-Ins -> Logfile ->
Plug-Ins -> Publishing Server Configuration ->

We have removed these menus from the reader version now.

FogBugz 27843 - View -> URL Link -> Show Frame Markers

The URL Link panel is now called Web Images. But in the View menu the entry is still called URL Link.

The entry is now renamed to View -> Web Images State.

FogBugz 27825 - What is the = button of the ToDoList panel?

What is the = button of the ToDoList panel?

This is the "Overwritten" button: The placeholder can have a different content than in the data pool. As long as the placeholder text and the value in the data pool remain the same, the placeholder is no longer marked as 'Changed' in the ToDo panel. Only placeholders with the default sync action -1 can be overwritten. Placeholders marked with blue cannot be overwritten. There are further hints in the tooltip of the button.

FogBugz 27824 - Sync-ID in ToDo list

How can I see the sync-actions IDs action in the ToDo panel?

Sync action IDs are shown in the tool tips of the entries now. Additionally, the names of entries with their own Sync Action unequal -1 are highlighted in blue.

FogBugz 27812 - Last column of ToDo List too small

The last column of ToDo List is a little bit too small.

We have made this column a bit wider and corrected the column headings a bit.

FogBugz 27833 - Duplicate adjust properties

Is there a way to transfer the priint:adjust properties of one frame to another frame?

Yes, there is the button for this at the bottom of the panel. Unfortunately the clipboard of the button could not be reset. This is fixed. Additionally implementations:

• Nails are now also transferred (but magnets are still not transferred for obvious reasons).
• For the three actions Copy/Paste/Reset of the button there are now menu commands
  • Panel Fly-Out -> adjust Properties -> Copy ...
  • Plug-Ins -> priint:adjust -> adjust properties -> Copy ...

FogBugz 27799 - TT-Export with Placeholders over several paragraphs

I have a placeholder that goes over several paragraphs. This text is exported as tagged text. Then the tagged text is edited a bit and imported again. After that, each paragraph has its own placeholder - so one placeholder has become many placeholders.

Yes, character properties above paragraph boundaries are realized in the TT by restructuring the line delimiter (see here for more information). But that stands in a conflict to the autocorrection of the line delimiters by the priint: comet text import. To solve the problem, we have introduced two pseudo-tags:

<add_para_delim:>
<rm_para_delim:>

See here for more information.

Interactive PDFs

FogBugz 27234 - How to create an interactive PDF using cScript?

Is there a way in cScript to create interactive PDFs?

The script commands document::pdf_export and document::export_ have been extended so that they can now also create interactive PDFs.

FogBugz 27773 - disable "Cache Publishing Server Configuration"

I have come to understand that with the 4.1.7 R27017 Comet Plugins a new “feature” (Case 27247) was added to the plug-ins menu called “Cheche Publishing Server Configuration”. The idea was that it would speed up log-in to the publishing server. The release notes for that comet version state It requires a 4.1.8 server otherwise it has not effect.

I request this feature be turned off by default and we rethink how this is implemented.

We've set the default to "off". The menu is now implemented as a sub-menu with the three entries

• Write
• Show in Finder
• Delete

FogBugz 27747 - AEM passwords with äöü... not working

Unfortunately I cannot log in to the AEM with a password containing German umlauts like äöü.

FIXED

ATTENTION: Nevertheless, it is not possible to use arbitrary Unicode characters in passwords. Passwords may only consist of characters from the Windows Ascii character set 32-255 with the exception of the @.

FogBugz 27736 - Missing tool hint on Product Pool

How does a template change work in panel Product Pool? Unfortunately I can't find any hint in the tooltip - but somehow it works?

The answer is ALT-SHIFT click to the status button of the product. But my tooltip was too long and InDesign® limits the text for tool hints to 255 characters. I shortened the hint accordingly now.

FogBugz 27735 - Layout rule : Has Frame Label

It would be nice if there were a layout condition for checking a frame tag.

There is now the Layout Condition 'Has Frame Tag' in the standard conditions

FogBugz 27729 - Menu More Log Output

What does this menu mean? What 'more' log messages are written?

Until v4.1.8 R27362 additional information about frame::fit and frame::fit_better was written with it.

Since now:

• Additional information about frame::fit and frame::fit_better
• Additional information about importing tagged text with priint:comet features

See also prefs::set_logstate. The setting is reset when InDesign® is restarted.

FogBugz 27708 - Where is my log file?

Is there any way I can find out where my log file is?

Use the new menu

Plug-Ins -> Logfile -> Show in Feder/Windows Explorer

This command shows the log file in the OS (Finder resp Windows Explorer). For more Information see here.

FogBugz 27706 - How to set a customized folder for the log file?

How to set a customized folder for the log file?

The new menu 

Plug-Ins -> Logfile -> Write...

sets the log file path to the default /Users/name/Documents/idlog_cs15.log. If the menu command is executed with the ALT key, you will be asked for the folder. For more Information see here.

FogBugz 27705 - Mac styled line delimiters in Logfiles

Line delimiters in log files are always in Mac format only (\n). It's a bit difficult to read that on Windows. Could Windows use Windows line delimiters (\r\n) instead?

Yes, we changed that. Under Windows, \r\n is now always used as line delimiter in log files.

Attention : Also line delimiter within single text pieces sent to the log are converted.

FogBugz 27703 - Menu to clear the log file

It would be nice if I had a menu command to reset the log file.

This is now possible with the new menu

Plug-Ins -> Logfile -> Clear

For more Information see here.

FogBugz 27619

The search fields of the product search can now also be configured as combo boxes. To do this, the start search value in the find statement must only contain line separators. Each line of this value becomes an entry in the combo box. See here for more information.

Document Idle Timer

FogBugz 27646

With the new script functions timer::document_~ you can add idle time functions to documents.

FogBugz 27868

Next to the search methods there is a new search field now. This search field is used to filter the results after getting the list of publications from the server:

Only results whose name begins with the value given in the search field are included in the list. Use an asterix (*) at the beginning for "containing".

Here's a screeshot:

FogBugz 27686

The following panels now can show the recently used entries by ALT clicking the magnifier glass . See here for more information.

In the Templates palette I can limit the search to one area. After that I have to press the magnifying glass to get the result. Can the list not be loaded immediately?

Sure you do. We now perform the search directly after the domain has been changed.

Draging an image from a Web browser over a document doesn't draw any response. Couldn't you somehow mark the frame in which the image will be inserted?

The target frame under the mouse is now selected in the document.

I have a text frame. Above the text frame (Z-Order) is an image frame. Now I place want to an image from a web browser by drag and drop in the frame (see Palacing URLs). Unfortunately no image is inserted. Instead, the image URL is inserted as text into the text frame at the back.

Yes, the problem is known at Adobe since at least 2018 - and can only be solved by Adobe. See here for mofre information. But finally we have succeeded in implementing a workaround. So now you can insert web images into image frames via text frames.

ATTENTION : But you can no longer insert URLs as text by drag and drop.

I need a function for packing documents that shows the normal dialoges for packing. I know that with document::export_ (.., "package", ...) I can set all options of this dialog. But combining the settings would result in at least eight different scripts. I would like to avoid that.

The function document::export_ was extended accordingly.

Is there a function that I can use to get the path and name for a new file?

file::select_file has two new (optional) parameters now :

• askForNew : Should I be asked for a new file?

• suggestion : Suggestion for the name

Please note, the function is called select_file. But what you do with the received path is of course determined by your script. The path can also be used for folders.

In the Publications panel, you can display the documents that you have just checked out. Unfortunately, only the name of the local document is shown here - that's the string ID of the publication usually. It would be nice if we could also see the name of the publication there.

Newly checked out documents now also show the name of the publication.

The documentation says that the time parameter of prefs::set_urllink_timeout is optional (and is then set to 300). But if I omit the parameter, I get an error. With time parameter everything is fine.

The problem is fixed (and the default is of course 3 but not 300).

With CMD+ALT I can change the preview of a template only. This works. But unfortunately I only see the new preview after reloading the complete panel.

fxd

If you try to to resize a note in the document after moving it, a wait wheel appears briefly, then InDesign® crashes.

The problem was caused by a very special frame setting and is fixed now.

The installers for Mac OS have been completely revised and are all notarized now. Die folgenden Installer stehen zur Verfügung

• InDesign® CC 2017 - 2020
• InDesign® CC Server 2017 - 2020
• Illustrator® CC2019, 2020

FogBugz 27312

The search fields of the panel Product Pool can now be pre-filled with pop-up lists. See here for more information.

The message that you can only edit scripts with a developer license is showing a wrong current license.

fxd

Is it possible to reorganize only the page on which a certain frame is placed by cscript?

Yes, of course. You just have to specify the page in thisPageOnly of productlist::reorganize. With the (new) page specification -2 the page number can now be calculated internally.

I have the following constellation:

• A total of 3 products fit on the page

• There are 4 products on aleft side.

• 1 product has the fitting template for the left side

• 3 products were moved from right to left manually and have the template for right pages

Now I reorganize this one side only.

The page is reorganized correctly. The overcounted product is moved to the next page. So far everything is correct. But unfortunately, the other two products on the page remain and are also moved to the next page. So the products with the 'wrong' templates are doubled.

Wow, very special. Fixed now.

Some things fixed for the priint:comet ID plugins basic license.

fixed

Unfortunately, the reorganization seems to have stopped working for some time now. The last working version is R26535. Comet groups that are moved to another page type lose their content. Only the new template will be inserted and linked - but existing content from the old products will no longer be transferred.

Surprisingly, the error has existed for half a year - and nobody has noticed it.

The reorganization is now working again.

The expiry date of license orders is sometimes "Today".

We now check if the date is syntactically correct and larger than "Today". Additionally, the input fields of the license order have get tooltips describing the expected input.

Please note that time unlimited licenses are usually LIMITED to 3 YEARS when ordering!

This limitation will in no way reduce the period of validity of the licences you acquired. It serves exclusively for quality assurance purposes and you will be able to get a new license at any time after expiration.

The list of Web Images is loaded even without a valid license. The entries are disabled, but actually the list should remain empty, like all other lists, right?

Yes, sure. Without a license, the list remains empty now.

The new language excelquery to support Excel queries is available.

Here's an example

"$DESKTOP/aaa.xlsx"
select "Our price %s%s<cPosition:Superscript>%s<cPosition:>" with
    tt "My Sheet"!B1 int and
    tt "My Sheet"!B1 value "." and
    tt "My Sheet"!B1 cent   	

See here for more information.

All 500 Excel fonts used at our machines checked and the FontDB was extended accordingly. See here for more information.

The tools are also notarized well now and accepted by the Mac OS gatekeeper:

• crpt
• soapzilla
• soapquery
• xmlquery

run_applescript doesn't return any result anymore, but it used to work before.

It's going to be all right now again.

In xentities.xml I can make different settings for xmlquery queries. I can specify that a property (e.g. the data type of an XML-attribute) should be valid for either for all or only for a certain file. Can I also make a selection with wildcards or something comparable, e.g. all files that start with data_ follwoed by a number (data_1.xml, data_456.xml, ...)?

You can use regular expressions as file names here now. Please note, the syntax of regular expressions is different from console wildcards. In the above example, the specification would be data_[0-9]+.xml.

file::setdatafile should only change the active entry. Is there any way to do that?

You may do that by using the id of the entry. But the function also has a corresponding parameter now that can be used to specify that exactly the active entry should be changed.

file::setdatfile fails if there are several entries with the same name in datafiles.xml. Unfortunately, there are often different paths to one alias name (e.g. for changing data files).

This is fixed.

The plugins for Mac OS are now completely notarized by Apple. The statement

sudo spctl --master-disable

to switch off the checking of third-party software (gatekeeper) is no longer required. Please choose App Store and identified developers in your Security & Privacy of the System Preferences:

The Gatekeeper requires an active Internet connection the first time new plugins are started. Unfortunately, the so-called staple procedure (with which the gatekeeper can check new software even without an Internet connection) can not be performed with plug-ins because stapeling is not supported for plug-ins by Apple.

Alternatively the plugins can be fetched from quarantine with the following instructions:

cd "/Applications/Adobe InDesign 2020/Plug-Ins/priint.comet version revision"
sudo xattr -r -d *

Please note: The process of notarization is very complex and can take up to 4 days. Hot fixes and intermediate builds can therefore not notarised. Similarly, plug-ins that you receive before the actual release date may not yet be notarized.

When checking in publications, errors occur from time to time. The local documents are completely valid. But after check-in and check-out the documents again , the documents are corrupt. The error occurs only with documents from certain volumes and only on the Mac.

This is a server side problem. Apparently not all unzip applications can properly handle archives created by the Mac. The errors always occur when documents are stored on a hard disk partition not formatted with Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Journaled (e.g. Mac OS AFS+, Mac OS APFS, but also all Windows or Linux partitions).

To work around this problem, we have changed the ZIP procedure in the plugins. With the changed implementation, the problems no longer occur. The changes also affect the cScript functions file::zip and file::unzip

With the latest plug-ins R26955, InDesign® 2020 on the Mac crashes immediately.

That's fixed.

FogBugz 27247 - Cache SOAP configuration data

The Plugins for InDesign® and InDesign Server® and the pdf renderer now support client side caching of SOAP configuration data.

Note: this requires PublishingServer version 4.1.8. With previous versions of the PublishingServer, this option has no effect

With InDesign® Desktop, caching can be activated by choosing 'Cache Publishing Server Configuration' from the Plugins menu. If clicked while the Shift key pressed, the cache folder used for the current connection is shown. If clicked while the Ctrl key is pressed, the cache folder of the current connection is deleted.

With InDesign Server®, caching can be activated by adding the option "config-cache:true;" to the option string passed to the use method call.

With pdf renderer, caching can be activated by the command line argument '-config-cache true'. Also, the cache (aka 'Xcache') path should be specified starting with a bang (!) character in this case. This ommits creation of a folder for this distinct process and allows the cache folder to be found, when pdf renderer is run for the next time. See the PDF renderer reference for details.

Beside caching, a number of improvements help to speed up login process, particularly to SOAP services such as the PublishingServer:

• reduce string.lower() operations in xmlquery
• lazy initialization of panels, particularly the "Detail search" of the Publication panel
• processing of custom translations (labels shown in UI and translated via cscript function call)
• call the login method of SOAP service based on the "old" specification as second choice (also reduces error reports on server side)

License files specified by the -cometlic server option are not found.

The problem happened with the implementation of the new licenses and is now solved. If the license is not found at this point, the search will now continue at the standard locations:

• All w2~.lic files in the folder of the priint:comet plug-ins
• All w2~.lic files directly in folder Plug-Ins

It would be nice if the xmlquery program could also display the structure of an XML file.

That can now be done with the command describe. Additionally, ls (or dir) can be used to list the contents of the current XML folder. For more information see here.

The 'Little Helpers' (xmlquery, soapquery, soapzilla and crept) only accept the old licenses, but not the new ones.

The programs now also accept the new priint:comet pro and comet:pdf licenses.

The little helper 'xmlquery' does not work on Windows because it cannot open the XML folder.

That's fixed now.

According to the XML specification, the names of elements and attributes may contain any Unicode letters and hyphenations. This is apparently not supported by xmlquery. Obviously only a-zA-Z are allowed here.

The names may contain now  any Unicode letters and hyphenations in xmlquery too. Please note, that names with hyphenation characters and periods must enclosed by `..`. (but names that only consist of letters are not). For more information see here.

Since the period (.) is used as to be the path delimiter in xmlquery, the period can not be used in the names of attributes or elements of the XML. 

To support periods (.) in names, the names of elements and attributes can now be enclosed with ` (Accent Grace) in calls to xmlquery. For more information see here.

Starting with this release we support Excel and CSV files (see below) as data sources for placeholders. (See the new script functions datapool::excel::~ and datapool::csv::~ for more information.)

Mac OS

The necessary additional software is directly integrated in the plug-ins for Mac OS. No additional software is necessary.

Windows

Windows does not support this solution. The necessary additional software is provided in the new folder priint Resources here. This folder must be located in the same directory as the priint:comet plug-ins. Without the priint Resources folder, the plugins cannot be started. If the folder is missing, an error message is displayed at the end of the startup process.

Again : Under Windows the folder priint Resources must be installed, otherwies the plugins will not start anymore!

We can now read and write the contents of Excel and CSV files using cScript. For more infos see Excel functions and CSV functions.

Is it possible that the file soapflags.ini can also be placed directly in the Plug-Ins folder (as w2.lic recently did). Then wewouldn't have to take extra care of it for new installations.

Yes, it's possible. The file may now also be located directly in the Order Plug-Ins.

Sometimes the panel Web Images fetches headers correctly but stores a quasi-empty file in the 'etags' folder next to the document.

This happens when the keys in the header are in lower case, e.g.

'last-modified', 'etag', etc...

This causes the file to be downloaded on each update even though it may still be up to date.

We now do case-insensitive checking for header data.

When downloading the files on Mac on an AEM connection, curl first tries to resolve the name via ipv6 until a timeout occurs and then tries ipv4. This of course makes the download quite slow. Is there a way to suppress the ipv6 attempt?

To do this, the entry ip-resolve can now be defined in soapflags.ini.

ip-resolve=ipv4

We have implemented a new script command system::fontdb_check - this command may help you.

Sometimes Web Images with password do not work, but I can't reproduce it. With the same password it works sometimes and sometimes not.

The problem was that we encrypt passwords internally and the character @ can occur in the encrypted password. But this is the separator between the credentials and the address of th link - and then the address of the URL was determined wrong. This is fixed.

The following simple script will show a wrong result for the second wlog:

int main()
{
	int 		i = 2147483647000990000;
	char 	* 	j = "2147483647000990000";

	wlog("", "%d\n", i);
	wlog("", "%d\n", val(j));

	return 0;
}

With smaller numbers the script will work.

This is fixed.

Unicode letters in XML elements not supported.

Here is an example:

<Adresse>
	<Straße>
		Amselweg 14
	</Straße>
	....
</Adresse>

We have always felt that this is not XML compliant. Well, obviously it is. We now also support Unicode letters in element and attribute names of XML.

If the font DB contains no entries for italic, the unknown style [Regular] is used.

fxd

With the new licenses, no new pages can be created under Windows. Not even if the license is OK and accepted.

Oh, big mistake! fxd

If an HTML text only contains a style change (like <b>) but does not set a font, HTML2Tagged will fail.

fxd

An HTML formatted text with a font is to be inserted. But at the insertion pointa fnt styles is set that is not defined HTML font then this font will be inserted with an incorrect style.

Here is an example: At the insertion point a font with the cut BdIt is used. But the font in the  HTML does not have this style (and does not set one itself), then the HTML font with the unknown style [BdIt] is inserted.

fxd

When creating repeating elements e.g. through document::place_items, the repeating element members get one comet group each. The expected results is them all belonging to the same comet group.

fxd

A granted license that is about to expire (min. 7 days) creates a wrong information in the "About" section.

It was just a mistake in the display. The licenses worked fine. The display error is fixed.

The PDFlib license for PDF annotation support must be located in the same folder as the plugins. If I reinstall it, this license must also be reinstalled. It would be nicer if the license (like the w2.lic) could be placed directly in the Plug-Ins folder.

The PDFlib license may now be located directly in the Plug-Ins folder.

New License Numbers

FogBugz 26664

The time has come: After more than 15 years we are changing to new license numbers. All old license numbers become invalid!

There are now four license types:

• Grace Period : 30 days. Building/Reorganizing products is limited to one page. priint:comet cannot create new pages.
• priint:comet basic : Building/Reorganizing products is limited to one page. priint:comet cannot create new pages.
• priint:comet pro : Full functionality
• priint:comet developer : Full functionality + Script editing is possible

We recommend the Pro license. Licenses can be ordered using the menu

    InDesign -> About Plug-Ins -> Order Software ....

NEW

• License files must be located in the same folder like the priint:comet plugins or directly in the folder Plug-Ins of your InDesign®. We recommend the folder Plug-Ins.
• InDesign Server now also has a grace period of 30 days.

For more information please contact license@priint.com.

SOAPServer Name Identification

We have a strange problem connecting from the Comet Plugin to our Webserver when there is a proxy in between. Looking at the issue I suspect the client does not support SNI which is causing issues with proxying through Cloudflare as you are currently presenting SSL certificates that are SNI only.

The problem was firstly a faulty SSL library in Mac OS X. We replaced this library and included it statically into our plug-ins (or in other words : you don't need to replace this lib at your site). And secondly, the gSOAP implementation was missing a few important lines on server name recognition. With these changes the SOAP connection should also work under the conditions mentioned below.

Dialog Framework

The cscript dialog framework now supports fully dynamic dialogs. Also, some flaws have been fixed when closing a dialog by hitting the ESCAPE or ENTER key.

For details and examples, refer to the dialog class documentation.

The list of placeholders is obviously limited to a certain number of entries, right?

Yes, folks, there are actually people who have more than 3000 placeholders! Imagine that! And take this as an example of the enormous intellectual power behind it.

We bow down!  And ashamedly we remove the previous limit of 3000 entries!

The color of PDF notes exported from InDesign® Comet notes is taken from the INDD file. This is very nice. Does it work backwards? That the comet notes get the color from the PDF?

This is now supported now. But please note, the colors of the labels of Comet Notes are indexed colors of a built in color table. For the labels we are using the index color best matching the given color from the PDF.

For more information see here.

The anchor position of PDF notes exported from InDesign® Comet notes is taken from the INDD file. This is very nice. Does it work backwards? That the comet notes get the anchor position from the PDF?

This is now supported for page notes and new notes. Frame notes and group notes are still positioned relative to the frame/group (i.e. they remain unchanged).

For more information see here.

Notes in PDF can be displayed transparently. Can this property be taken over (and returned) from/to the Comet notes?

This is being done now.

I cannot open the page templates of an XML folder from the panel and no error message is shown.

This error only happens under Windows and whenever the destination path of the intermediate file in the XCache becomes longer than 255 characters. InDesign® cannot open files with a path longer than 255 characters under Windows. We cannot fix this issue, but we now show an error message in this case now.

The documentation of keyvalues::alloc refers to keyvalues::release. But this function does not exist (or the documentation is missing).

Yes, I forgot the documentary. FXD.

Background color of changed placeholders in ToDos panel is very har to see: The first text change is mark red on (nearly the same) red background.

It looks better now :-)

FogBugz 26918 - Editing cScript includes from PubServer

[pubserver]/placeholderUtils.h

Yes. it is possible now. But don't forget: All changes will be lost at logoff!

When configuring a paragraph bullet list to use a glyph from a certain font as the bullet character, the .w2ml sometimes contains the glyph in escaped hex form, e.g. <0x0019>. This fails on import and the bullet character is wrong.

FXD

frame::reimport_all does not work with inlines.

FXD

I have installed a new font and extended my fontdb.xml for this font. Unfortunately these settings are completely ignored. The error occurs only under Windows. If I do the same on a Mac, it works.

The problem is solved.

FYI: The problem was this: Before we accept extensions to fontDB, we check if the font is actually available. On the Mac, InDesign® answered this question correctly with "Yes, is installed". On Windows, the answer (somewhat confusing) is: "Font was re-installed". We now interpret this statement as "Yes, okay" :-)

With v4.1.7 new license numbers are required. All previous plugin and comet_pdf license numbers will not work anymore!

To ensure a smooth migration to the new licenses, you can order new licenses from today on. To do so, open the order dialog while holding down the Shift key. In the appearing order dialog you can now order new licenses:

• priint:comet ID desktop basic : Full access but only one document page can be created at a time and the creation of new pages via comet functions is blocked.

• priint:comet ID desktop pro : Full access

• priint:comet ID desktop developer : Full access including the editing of scripts

• priint:adjust ID desktop : In addition to the always available nails and magnets, entire documents can be adapted in their page sizes.

• priint:xcell : Transfer contents from Excel tables without changing the table layout

Select Server in the order dialog to obtain licenses for InDesign® Server. To ensure that the license contains the correct license code, you must either be on the same computer as InDesign® Server or enter the license code of the server in the order.

The newly obtained licenses can be copied next to the existing license in the Plug-Ins folder and will be used automatically if they are needed by new plugins.

The function itemlist::revert obviously does nothing.

FXD

system::time_diff doesn'n work on Windows.

FXD

The function prefs::install_image seems to stop working.

Yes, the function was implemented for CS6 but was not prepared for the different colored UIs of CC. Instead of 2 images, 12 images are needed now.

The function can now work with CC, more information can be found here.

The placeholder attributes Infos1 and Infos2 can now be defined directly in products and via the product pool. When building or placing the products, these values are transferred the automatically to the placeholders of the product template. The values are set before the placeholders are loaded and can be used for loading therfor. You can find further information here and in function product::set (search for Infos1 there).

In the order dialog of the licenses I have to enter a valid email address. Couldn't you preset this with my AdobeID account?

This is how it's done now.

I try to connect a Comet Note with a new frame or Comet Group. To do that, I select the destination type in the panel Comet Notes. The cursor is now changed to an anchor. Then I should click the destination frame in the document. IF I do that this way, everything is okay. BUT if I miss that, the anchor cursor is retained until InDesign® is restarted.

But can't you remember two steps to work, hm? Okay, we fixed it. You don't have to anymore.

Comet groups are sometimes not drawn completely. When moving frames, artifacts of the old group frame remain. This is not bad, but it looksa bit nasty. You can reproduce it that way:

• Turn on Show Comet Groups",
• Turn Off
• TurnOn again
• Now move a frame of a Comet group.

FXD

When I select a frame of a page template in the document, the corresponding entry is selected in the list of page elements. Unfortunately, the list is not scrolled to this entry and the entry may remain invisible.

FXD

For Briefing&Planning I want to give names to the elements of page templates. But if I do that, InDesign® crashes reproducible: Select an element, rename it, select the next element without leaving the text edit field -> CRASH.

This is fixed.

I use the SF fonts from Apple in HTML. But if there is a <b> there for example, a stronger font should be used in the tagged text. That works too - but for this I have to extend my local font database. Couldn't you please insert these fonts into the default font DB?

Done :-)

On the Mac, the company license check no longer works.

That's fixed.

Is there a Javascript function with which I can determine whether a document is a page template or not?

We have newly implemented the following functions:

• doc.getTemplateID
• doc.getTPageTemplateID

%!TT_html_<span style="font-family:Arial.ttf;font-size:14pt;">AAA <b>BBB</b> CCC

If I insert this text with frame::replace into an empty frame at position 0, everything is correct. In a non-empty frame, CCC is displayed in the wrong font and font size.

This is fixed now.

The About dialogs of the plugins say that the legal notes can be found in the folder

.../Plugins/enEN/...

But they are not there.

And the menu command Help -> More Help -> Legal Notes points to a website (publishing.priint.com) for which you need a password.

FXD

First of all: thank you for this awesome feature to design customized dialog windows!

The text field option is currently limited to one-line text fields. An additional possibility to create multiline text fields would be great in some cases. Moreover, a scrollbar will be helpful, if the content doesn't fit in the defined dialog window dimensions, for sometimes it is not possible (or advisable) to enlarge the dialog window.

It would be great if you would considering these two ideas.

We added multi line widgets and automatic scrollbars to the dialog framework.

Documents created with the priint:comet plugins will show a warning that the Embedded Link plugin is missing when opened without plugins sometimes.

This problem is fixed.

Please note: The solution means that new documents will no longer show the "EmbeddedLink Missing" message. Old documents will still show the warning!

Please also note: When editing priint:comet placeholders without priint:comet plugins installed, placeholder information of the document can be destroyed!

The optimizations made for comet_pdf also affect the plugins. The increase in performance is not quite so obvious here, but it can be as much as 10%.

The frame you get from frame::textframe causes InDesign to crash when used in frame::fit_better, for example.

Yes, the reference obtained here points to an object whose geometry must not be changed directly. Since this object is for internal use only, the function frame::textframe is now marked as DEPRECATED. Please use the function frame::parent instead.

I have saved the username "Närrisch" in a login. If I want to use this login again, I get the name "Nörrisch".

FXD

Using cScript wlog in a Javascript will create a lot of

< Result : 0

messages in th log file. Is there any way to suppres this?

You can now set the new option suppress-log in app.comet.eval and app.comet.exec :-)

The parameters can now be used.

What do you think that means? RefPoint surely, doesn't it? The documentary is corrected.

Yes, this always happens when a frame protrudes beyond the spread at all four corners. InDesign® then tries to assign the frame to the 'nearest' page. But that changes when you sync pages. This may cause the image to end up on a page that will be deleted later.

The problem can also be reproduced manually. The spread A | A (striked through red) was deleted from the master So we move the all pages before the first A. But in the last screen shot we see that the grey picture frame falls on spread A | A - and the pages of this spread are deleted immediately.

The problem was solved with a lot of work.

FXD

Pages with pages in in the master document are no longer deleted, even if the page in master is empty. See here for more information.

Text frames with automatic size adjustment are marked as locally changed always.

Yes, the problem is that the automatic resize also sends resize events. Unfortunately, it is not possible to distinguish these events from other resize events. Therefore we suppress the setting of local geometry changes completely for text frames with automatic size adjustment.

If a resize is to be registered anyway, the CMD key must be held down during resize.

See here for more information.

Yes, frame::scale does a scale by. We therefore implemented a frame::scale_to.

The Comet Notes panel shows all notes of the document, but when I click on an entry in this list, the note is not selected in the document. I'm sure it worked in the past.

Yes, the bug is in all plugins from v4.1.6 R26010 (24.9.2019, about 1/4 year ago).

The error happened as a side effect of the fix of case 25852 and is fixed now.

FogBugz 26351 - 

document::sync::remove_empty_layers also deletes layers defined in the master

document::sync::remove_empty_layers also deletes layers defined in the master. But layers that are defined in the master should not be deleted in the variants.

Layers which are defined in the Master are not deleted anymore in the variants. Not even if they are empty.

FogBugz 26350 - 

document::sync::pages goes wrong if the document is not allowed to re-shuffle pages

Oh my God. What do you want?! Reorder pages but forbid reordering!

Okay, we work around this situation now. FXD

FogBugz 26349 -

dcument::sync::pages fails for pages without master page

Yes, there is such a thing : Pages without set master page. You can (but don't have to.) Anyway, these pages are erroneously deleted at document::sync::pages.

This is fixed now.

FogBugz 26297 - crpt, soappzilla et al. not running under Catalina

Under Mac OS Catalina, the utilities crpt, soapquery, soapzilla and xmlquery no longer run.

Yes, all four Mac versions of the applications were still 32Bit applications. That's changed. All four applications are now 64Bit.

Although the current font is known, HTMLToTagged writes things like <cTypeface:@Weight700Italic> to the tagged text at <b> and <i>. This will be replaced by the plugins later, but you could also write it into the output.

Done now.

But please remember: If no font is specified in the HTML, the key @Weight700 will still be used. This key will then be replaced by the name of the Bold font of the current font.

HTMLToTaggedText incorrectly replaces &#xa; characters or does not replace them at all.

Yes, we had that implemented for uppercase letters only. The error is fixed.

FogBugz 26333 - Missing information in Placeholder Values Options

The following information cannot be queried in the Placeholder Values Options panel:

BuildUsage, FunctionVariables, HashValues, ImageInfos, LayoutRules, StaticLink

These values are now also supported. The entries are also supported in the functions placeholder::change_tags and placeholder::get_value.

As you can see: The functions for determining the values of a placeholder have not been renamed.

FogBugz 26317 - 'Placeholder Values' panel name change to 'Placeholder Options'

At the request of priint Americas, the Placeholder Values panel was renamed to Placeholder Options in the English version of the priint:comet plug-ins.

Here is the complete story:

Please consider the following change request to the following Comet InDesign® panels:

Summary:

The priint Americas team is formally requesting the “Placeholder Values” and “Placeholder Values-Info” panels be renamed in the US English localization of the Comet plug-in GUI.

Background:

While working on refining the US English localization of the plugins, we began looking at the panel names to make sure they accurately convey what the panel is and it’s intent. We feel the current names of these panels is misleading to the average user. In an effort to bring greater usability, clarity and remove ambiguity, the names should reflect what the panel does. In consultation with both Gabi and Paul, we confirmed that these panels do not actually show what the user would colloquially understand as “the value”. Paul pointed out that the panel shows the ‘value’ of the placeholder which in this context is different from the ‘content’ (in other words, the value/content the user sees on the page. In this case, the two terms would be understood to be synonyms in common American English vernacular.).

Paul also pointed out it would not be accurate to say the “Placeholder Values” panel is for configuration of the placeholder as there are a number of configuration tasks that are done in ISON. With that in mind, we propose “Placeholder Values” becomes “Placeholder Options” as the pane allows the user to view and set a number of options about the placeholder. At the same time, we recommend the “Placeholder Values-Info” panel change to simply “Placeholder Info”. (Both names follow “Title Case” where each word is initial cap.)

Again, the intent is to convey information to the user without introducing ambiguity. Changing the name the names of these two panels does that — especially for non-technical users in InDesign®.

The panel itself and its content and behaviour remain unchanged.

Please contact Andrew Mannone if you have any problems or questions about the renaming.

In the Placeholder Values panel, the individual values of the placeholder can be displayed at the bottom. Unfortunately the text is cut unnecessarily - it could be shown up to the right edge of the panel.

This is done now.

The frames for the build area of repeating elements can be made invisible. This is a good idea. Unfortunately, the frames are so completely invisible that the (blue) edges and placeholder adornments cannot be seen either. In short, not only the frame is invisible, its meta-info is also invisible.

Is there anything you can do about it?

Yes, we can. The Adornments and the (blue) handle frame now remain visible.

The frame chains of the repeating elements are sorted by a sequence number. This number can be made visible at the top left of the frame. But unfortunately this is almost invisible.

Better?:

If the area of an area build placeholder is too small to hold all assigned templates, only part of the templates are build.

Currently there is no notification about the missing elements. The placeholder status might show this (then a new sync state is needed), or another way, but the user in InDesign® should be notified somehow.

After placeholder sync, incomplete repeating elements are given the status "Changed": 

In addition, a red mark with the number of missing elements is now displayed at the last frame of the chain:

Further information see here.

The result of function frame::doclink::get_path is wrong for links to text frames. In these cases I always get the path "1287684" or something like that.

Yes, that's wrong, of course. We now return the empty string in case of text frame links.

Please note: The additional internal link of type 0 that InDesign® creates for each text frame link gets the UID of the text frame as path (as string or char*!). 

Text frame links have an additional internal link in addition to the actual link. I also get this link by calling document::get_links. But if I ask these links for their frame, the result always is 203 - but this frame does not exist.

Yes, these links have no frames of course. The function frame::doclink::get_frame now returns a 0 for these links.

There are at least two different types of document links:

1. Normal images
2. Text Frame Links created with the menu Edit -> Place and Link

Both link types can be contained in the list of links of document::get_links. Can I ask the entries in this list for their types somehow?

Now you can: frame::doclink::get_type

FogBugz 26297 - crpt, soappzilla et al not running under Catalina

Under Mac OS Catalina, the utilities crpt, soapquery, soapzilla and xmlquery no longer run.

Yes, all four Mac versions of the applications were still 32Bit applications. That's changed. All four applications are now 64Bit.

Quotation marks in the path disable unpacking of a ZIP archive, e.g. when checking out publications.

FXD

Please consider the feature request(s) below:

1. Remove All Nails; Magnets: As a bucket template creator (or editor) I would like the ability to remove 1. all nails, 2. all magnets, or 3. both all nails and magnets from a template.
2. Template editor preferences: As a bucket template creator (or editor) I want the template editor to remember my settings or have a preference method to set my settings to:
   1. Remember my setting for “color placeholders”
   2. Remember my settings for “Template Behavior” visibility
   3. Remember my settings for “Nails and Magnets”  visibility

Very charming call, huh?

Point 1 : Use the ground button of panel Nails & Magnets to reset all nails an magnets.

Points 2.1 and 2.3 : Done now.

Point 2.2 : This is a frame setting, not a document setting. In the template editor, the display is still activated for all frames. And you can't even praise me as much as I get insulted by others when I change that. However, in the future the presentation will be more discreet:

The black highlighted number is the sequence number, the red one is the frame label. Please remember:

• The Sequence number is used for the order in which the frames are loaded.
• The Frame Label is used for the order in which the layout rules are executed, which are not executed while creating or load inga the frame

Sometimes a server-side packaged (zip) document cannot be unpacked by the plugins at checkout. The error only occurs under Mac.

We investigated at such a ZIP. We use the Apple standard tool ditto for unpacking zip files, which is also used in Safari or when double-clicking on Zip file in Finder. This program is certainly beyond any doubt about its functionality. I'm sure you'll agree? But if I take the zip from you and try to unzip this file with ditto, ditto will reply with the message:

ditto -x -k /Users/paul/Desktop/537263540.indd.zip /Users/paul/Desktop/qqq
ditto: 537263540.indd: No such file or directory
ditto: Couldn't read pkzip signature.

After a long search we found out that the error is caused by the ZIP of the PubServer. There, a Java implementation is used for packaging, which is obviously not completely error-free. The PubServer development has to take care of that.

On the plugin side, we were able to implement a workaround: If we encounter the error Couldn't read pkzip signature during unpacking, we start a second unpack attempt with the tool unzip. That works then. This does not solve the error, but does not lead to errors on the plugin side.

Today I find a magic thing in function string::compare() and want share with you.

I have a very simple like this

#include "internal/text.h"
								
int main()
{
	String	strTest	= string::alloc ();
	int 	result;

	string::set(strTest, "hello")
	result = string::compare("hello", strTest);
	wlog("", ":::Result ==> %d\n", result);

	return 0;
}

Maybe you guessed it , the result I expected is 0.
However actual result is -3

Yes, see old docu: The first parameter must be String (not a char*, but "hello" is a char*), the second can be both, String or char*.

But anyway, I fixed it.

When using the cscript function html::to_tagged et al., some HTML entities like "&OpenCurlyQuote;" etc.. are not properly replaced and stay like they are.

We now support replacement of all html entities listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references.

In the dialog framework of cScript I can also define checkboxes. But for some reason checkboxes initialized with the value 0 (i.e. to be disabled) are shown with a minus (unclear state).

That's fixed now.

FogBugz 25219 - cscript commands for create, edit and delete of notes

For a better integration of Comet notes into the Planner there are some new functions for the treatment of Comet Notes:

• document::notes::find
• document::notes::delete
• document::notes::show_note
• document::notes::hide_note

When you create a note in the comet plug-ins, it should automatically be visible in the Comet Notes panel, even if the panel is only opened after the note has been created.

See also JIRA PLUG-56

That's how it is now. In addition, if a note is selected in the document at this moment, this note is also selected in the panel and its settings are displayed.

It is nice that the function textmodel::select exists. But the length of the selection is unfortunately ignored.

Fixed. There is also an additional parameter that can be used to specify whether the new selection is to be placed in the visible window area.

If a page is moved in a variant, all page frames between the start and destination positions of the page are marked as locally changed. These frames will of course no longer be updated during subsequent synchronizations.

When moving pages, InDesign® fires a lot of geometry changes. These have been misinterpreted as local changes. The bug is fixed.

In the documentation is an example for XPATH (cscript/xmlquery.html#send). When I execute this, I get a different result than described in the documentation. Obviously it is not right that you can make queries for incomplete elements.

That's okay now.

But please note : Elements can only be returned in columns (| operator) if all elements have exactly the same parent node in the XML file.

When I export one or more templates in InDesign® desktop via the palette menu ("hamburger" menu), I get an error message for every template that is exported, it states that an xxx.shapes file cannot be downloaded (see screenshot). After clicking ok, the export continues an it looks complete.

FXD

Placeholders with umlauts in the tagged text get a wrong ID in the document. Instead of äöü we get √%√#√$ and something like these.

The error occurs only with the option 'Do NOT use placeholders from tagged text'. Unfortunately the StringID is converted twice here - once too many. The bug went unnoticed since v3.4 R8567 (Aug 1, 2015) and is now fixed.

My document contains layers that are only used by master pages. Unfortunately these layers are deleted by document::sync::remove_empty_layers during synchronization.

FXD

This is a serious bug : Placeholders in TaggedText have not been loaded in R26111 and R26262.

Oh, the error is a copy/paste error during fix of bug 26011. The error is fixed now.

A frame of my sample document has an object style that uses a gradient color. When syncing styles, this gradient is duplicated each time:

• Gradient 
• Gradient 1
• Gradient 2
• Gradient 3

After a while you can have a lot of gradients.

Thanks to InDesign® - a bug again :-( But we found a workaround: Please call document::sync::cleanup before you finish the synchronization.

document::sync::swatches does not sync gradients.

This is a very difficult problem. We have solved it.

Removing Frame Tags in panel Frame Tags is not undoable.

It's all right now

I want to remove the marking of a local geomtry change of a frame. Therefore I delete the entry priint_syncChanged in the panel Frame Tags. But this does not reset the marker. It only works if I remove the content of the tag priint_syncChanged.

Removing the marker now works even if the tag is deleted.

However that could happen: A master document contains frames that are marked with a local change. (This cannot actually happen. Documents defined as patterns cannot enter local changes.) But somehow it happened.

However, if a variant is created for such a document, the marks of the changes are also entered there. And that's really not good.

This seems to be a user error when creating the master. However, we no longer transfer such markers to the variant (if you using document::sync::create_variant).

My master pages contain column titles that adapt to the current content of the pages. When such a document is synchronized, the column titles always automatically get the marker that they have been changed locally (and are then not updated again).

An idle timer changed these frames again AFTER synchronization. Because synchronization was already complete, this change was incorrectly marked as a local change. This bug has been fixed.

document::sync::pages does not delete pages deleted in the Master.

That's what's being done now. Pages that have been deleted in the master are now also deleted in the variants.

Please note. The pages will be deleted even if they contain local changes or locally created frames!

It would be a great help if the current frame UID could be displayed directly somewhere.

The frame UID is already shown in the panel Layout Rules. To make it easier, we now show the UID in the panel Plug-Ins -> Comet Admin - >Comet as well.

FXD.

The problem was a bug in InDesign®-Javascript: Umlaute like ä, ö, ü in paths of documents are given as so-called combining characters (for instance a o is given as the o itself followed by two above dots). But the names are given as UFT8.  In string comparisons these two strings are different of course.
We were able to avoid this error.

The functions document::sync::styles, document::sync::masterpages and document::sync::remove_empty_pages are only working, if exactly one document is opened.

FXD

Importing the attached text using the "Read placeholders from TaggedText" option will crash InDesign®. The error occurs on Windows only. Mac is okay.

Crash log says:

pcre.compile
pcre.compile
... thousands of times
pcre.compile
ImportTagged::Do

We were able to find a workaround around this problem. The import now also works under Windows.

document package does not work anymore for CC2017 since R23666 (21.8.2018)

This is a side effect of case 23660. Fixed

The function document::set_pasteboard always returns error 1272 and seems not to work.

document::set_pasteboard and document::set_pasteboard_size are deprecated now. Please use document::set_pasteboard_gutter.

If I create a new note in InDesign® and then assign it to a frame in the "Comet Notes" palette, for example, the cursor is permanently assigned the anchor symbol. The anchor symbol disappears only after an InDesign® restart.

FXD

This is a feature request for the Comet Plugin. In the English version, we would like to see the panel names standardize on capitalization. There are a few panels which already follow the English language convention of Title Case, such as “Product Pool” and “Layout Rules”. However there are a number of panels which follow an Initial cap convention, like “Page template” and “Template behavior.”

We would like all panel names, menu items, and tool names to standardize on the Title Case capitalization method. This is the standard used in rest of the Adobe InDesign® UI in English.

Additionally, we would like to have the word “Placeholder” standardized as a compound word in English. It is treated as both two words and as a compound word in the entire Comet. For example, the “Place Holder Values & -Info” vs the “Placeholder” panel names. Also in the Placeholder panel, the word is written as “place holders” in the UI Element check-box “Show place holders in flat list”. 

The translations were completely revised by native speakers.

The formerly undocumented cscript function linklist::delete_toc_entry didn’t work like (not) documented: all placeholders were deleted except of only placeholders contained in the placeholder list provided as parameter. Now the function is documented (see linklist::delete_toc_entry) and allows to delete only toc entries of certain placeholders.

CAUTION: This also affects the behavior of linklist::insert_toc_entry. In former versions, calling linklist::insert_toc_entry caused deletion of all toc entries of the actual document, now only table of content entries based on placeholders contained in the list provided as parameter are deleted.

To achieve the former behavior, cscripts must be adapted e.g. like follows:

LinkList placeholders =linklist::alloc (1);
					
// delete all toc entries of the current document before inserting
// new ones by providing _empty_ list:
//
linklist::delete_toc_entry (placeholders, kDesignateDocument);

// insert placeholder Ids of interest:
//
linklist::insert (placeholders, 123456);
linklist::insert (placeholders, 789101);

// insert new toc entries based on certain placeholders
//
linklist::insert_toc_entry (placeholders, kDesignateDocument);

CAUTION II: Filtering by placeholder Ids requires PublishingServer 4.1.6 >= build #2611 or PublishingServer 4.1.7

Function variable definitions and settings for a placeholder can now be exported with the placeholder.xml. To activate, add the option "function-variables:true" to the appropriate function call (e.g. priint::create_metadata or server::get_placeholders). Default is false, except for metadata generated for templates and page templates, when activated by prefs::add_metadata_to_templates.

The meta data of templates and page templates can now optionally be saved with templates, see prefs::add_metadata_to_templates for details.

Meta data of a template is a zipped folder containing a couple of XML files (placeholders.xml, elements.xml etc.) and previews. To enable or disable, use prefs::add_metadata_to_templates or prefs::add_w2ml_to_templates (typically in login script). Default is disabled.

Document synchronization

A new script based document synchronization was developed. See here for more information. To get the script discussed, please contact our support.

FogBugz 25999 - itemlist:: chained does not work correctly in loops

If the given frame of itemlist::chained is a graphic frame, it has, of course, on text chain. But in this case, the function tries to take current script frame. And if this frame is different from the given frame, the function may returnthis (wrong) chain.

FXD

FogBugz 25991 - item:: define not working for undefined UIDs

If I try to set an ItemRef to an non-existing UID, the function will fail. That seems fair to me. But isn't there still a way to set an unknown UID? I need this to search later in another document.

The new checkIfNotExists parameter can override the UID check.

FogBugz 25982 - Error message on menu "Select frames"

When executing the menu "Select Frame" of panel Product Pool  I get an error message about a stackoverflow in the script engine.

It's not an error. You must use thepanel Windows -> Comet Admin -> Comet to increase the script buffer. Then everything will work.

FogBugz 25977 - page:: get_size - parameter for document missing

page::get_size will only work on the current front document. Can you please provide us an additional paramter for a document?

Yes we can :-) See current documentation.

FogBugz 25974 - Name of variable or function in cScript

Is there any way to get the name of a given variable or function in cScript at runtime? We could need this for error messages.

Try symname :-)

FogBugz 25972 - We need the UID of a given page in cScript

We need the UID of a given page in cScript.

page::get_uid will do the job.

FogBugz 25971 - Search for an entry of an idtypelist

I know I can go through the list. But is there an easier command to find an entry in an idtypelist?

I would suggest idtypelist::get_pos. But what he really wants is a function, that searches for an ID1 and find the according ID2. So he can use the IDTypeList as some kind of mapping.

For this we have idtypelist::find and idtypelist::find_id2 now.

FogBugz 26002 - Unlink a frame from a text chain

Is there a way to resolve a text chain?

If you set the destination frame in frame::link to 0 now, then the text string is resolved.

FogBugz 26010 - Red text '# Empty or wrong style names ...' while importing TaggedText

Backslashes in paths of <in> tags will lead to an error in the currently released version.

Yes, aslo an error on auto-converting <in> tags into <w2inline>. This is fixed.

FogBugz 26047 - URL redirects

Is there a way that URLLink can also load Web Images from redirects? 

Yes, you can do that now.

ATTENTION: The links generated by the Google image search, for example, are not redirects. The links usually point to the PAGE that contains an image, not to the image.

FogBugz 25950 - Document relative paths in inlines

Is there a way to specify the image paths in inlines relative to the document?

Yes, you can do it now. Relative path (e.g. paths not beginning with /) are resolved relative to the current document,

FogBugz 26011 - Error in placeholders in tables imported via TaggedText

FogBugz 26012 - Red text '# Empty or wrong style names ...' while importing TaggedText

FogBugz 25893 - Additional #'s while importing <in:> tags

If inlines are created via TaggedText, it sometimes (but not always) happens that a # occurs before the inline. The problem occurs only in tables and the probability increases with the number of inlines.

FXD

We are working with Comet Notes for our project. We see you can assign the note to a person. However, this is just a text box and leaves a lot of room for human error when trying to type a user name.

Is there a way to change the text box to a drop-down list of users to pick from?

At the same time, is it possible to assign a note to more than one users? Or to a team of users?

Next to the field Assigned To of the Comet Notes panel there is a small circle button now. This button opens a dialog with a list of defined names. The selected name is entered in the field Assigned To. If Assigned To is not empty, the new name is appended comma-separated.

To fill-in the list of available names, you can use the new cScript function idtypelist::get_responsibles.

For more information, see here.

There is a bug in comet plugins for PC and Mac, at least revision R24777, possibly older.

Under the right circumstances, Comet will not display a warning to the user a document has not been saved prior to check in, thus the user will lose all work done on the document.

Steps to reproduce:

• Check out document from Publications Panel; perform changes.

• Change the “Search Method” dropdown from “Tree Search” to “Checked out documents”

• Click the Magnifying Glass to find checked out documents

• Click the red check-in arrow.

• Document will check-in without prompting the user doing so without saving will lose work done in the document.

The issue does not present if you leave the search method alone. In that case, attempting to check-in a document without saving your work with show the appropriate dialog warning.

FXD

I have a <in:> tag with pointed brackets in the StringID. As a <in:> tag this value also arrives correctly in the document. If I use the same StringID in a <w2inline:> tag, the inline no longer gets a StringID.

Yes, the problem is, that <w2inline:> is directly read by InDesign. And Indesign does not allow un-escaped < and > in TaggedText, even not in strings. The same works for the <in:> tag, because this tag is filtered out by the Priint:comet plugins before, InDesign will never see it.

The solution is, escape the < and >. But we now do this automatically: All previously not escaped < and > in w2inlines are now automatically escaped.

Since R25777 my table cell texts are incomplete after importing a table using TaggedText.

Yes, the problem is a direct side effect of the fix of bug 25837 : Hidden cells must be handled in a very very special way. We fixed this problem now. 

But plz note:

Surprisingly, InDesign adds the content of invisible cells as a new paragraph to the contents of the anchor cell. Apparently the merges are done after the actual import.

The problem is that we can then no longer decide whether an empty paragraph at the beginning of the anchor cell came from a hidden cell or was an error of InDesign. Therefor, if an anchor cell is empty, the contents of its subcells will not be imported. See here for more information.

I have a simple wlog in my script:

wlog ("", "'%s'\n", str);

If str is longer than 32765 bytes, I will get additional trailing characters in the log file:

'ÿðcontent of str'

The trailing characters are random. Shorter strings are logged correctly. 

Yes, its was a simple problem in the log function and is fixed now.

FogBugz 25909 - Frame UUID

We strongly need globally unique framework UUIDs. These UUIDs may be based on the document ID.

Okay, if you want. Here are some new functions for that:

• frame::set_uuid
• frame::get_uuid
• frame::reset_uuid

We need a cScript function to re-order the master spreads shown in panel 'Pages'.

We implemented the new function document::move_masterpage to do that.

Is there any way to remove a master spread from a given document by cscript?

You can use the new function document::remove_masterpage to do that.

Using document::get_masterpages returns the list of requested master spreads in a very comfortable way: Entries are sorted by 'based on', that means, masters that are based on other masters are always later in the list.

Unfortunately I need the result list sorted by their positions in the 'Pages' panel.

You may do that now. document::get_masterpages has now the new (optional) parameter sortedByBasedOn. Setting this parameter to 0 will sort the result list according to the panel 'Pages'.

Would it be possible to get a list of unsused master spreads of a document?

You can use the document::get_masterpages for that now. If you set the new parameter unusedOnly to 1 you will get only the unused master spreads.

Using document::import_masterpage I can import a given master spread from another document. You are kind enough to import all 'based on's as well. But if I would like to import ALL master spreads, this could mean, that a lot of masters are imported multiple times.

So is there any way to import ALL master spreads in one single call?

document::import_mastermages will do what you want.

Is there a way to get the current color name (Stock Color) of a given layer by cScript?

layer::get_ui_color will do the task.

Is it possible that the documentation for frame::store_magnet_distance is not correct? According to the documentation, the return value should be 0 if successful.
For me it looks as if he was 1.

No, I made a small mistake in the function itself. The return value is always 1 (error). This is fixed.

How can I set import options for PDFs in my scripts?

There are very many import options for the individual formats. We don't plan to support all these options via cScript. But this is easy to do with Javascript, see frame::image for an example.

The tags <nl:> and <snl:> in the tagged text of a placeholder cause the placeholder to always be shown as out-of-sync in the task palette.

This is fixed now.

In the ToDos panel I can choose to set the text focus to the new frame after creating a new note. But that doesn't seem to work.

FXD. The text focus is now set to the new note, if you choose this option.

InDesign® may crash while creating a new Comet note:

1. Create a new note

2. Login into database or PubServer

3. Create a second new node -> Crash

Very surprising that no one has noticed that :-)

FXD

InDesign® crashes while importing a specific W2ML.

This is a very strange behavior of the C++-STL on the Mac. We were able to fix the problem on our side.

Is there another way to remove the XML folder setting from the plug-ins than moving or deleting the folder? And unfortunately theXML order is not deactivated permanently - the same message appears again when restarting.

Yes, that the message is shown at every restart should not be. I have fixed this error now. To bypass the automatic connection to a previously set data folder, there is unfortunately no other way than to make the folder physically inaccessible.

Since today you can reset the XML folder permanently directly in InDesign®:

• Menu Data folder ... + ALT : Show the current XML path

• Menu Data folder ... + ALT + SHIFT : Reset current XML folder

The auto-correction flags %1TT, ... %9TT are obviously evaluated incorrectly. 1 and 2 do not work at all, the rest is always 1 too small.

Furthermore, the flags do not work correctly if a table cell contains a single <ParaStyle:...>. In this case, InDesign® sometimes inserts an additional paragraph separator into this empty cell. Of course, this is an error of InDesign®. But we want to correct that mistake.

FXD

Are there script functions for getting and setting the default settings for frame scalings?

Since now, yes:

• prefs::get_transform_settings
• prefs::set_transform_settings

The frame::get_size function always returns only the 100% size of frames.

We have checked that and can confirm your statements. However, we are of the opinion that this correct - i.e. scaling should not be included in the determination of the actual frame sizes. Yes, InDesign® actually displays the values including the scaling. The skew angle is also included in the size calculation. However, rotations on the other hand are then strangely ignored.

If you need the displayed frame size, you can easily do this with frame::get_scale.

The prototype for server::count_session_args in header/server.h is wrong:

class server
{
		public :
			static int 	count_session_args (char * option);

If a double page document uses different settings for the inside and outside margins, the frame on the left side of the double page is not docked to the margins using function frame::create.

FXD

If a Table modules group name of a table cell contains any Unicode letter like ä, the group is not activated on re-importing an IDMS snippet containing this table.

FXD

If I set at least ONE of the table module string attributes (e.g. a group name) to a value containing < or >, InDesign® will crash, if I re-import the TaggedText of this table.

FXD

If I set at least ONE of the table module string attributes (e.g. a group name) to a value containing < or >, InDesign® will crash, if I re-import the TaggedText of this table.

FXD

If I set Info1 of a table cell by table::cell::set_info1 to a text containing for instance an ä, the Info1 in table will get √$ instead.

Same applies to

• table::cell::set_info2
• table::set_info1
• table::set_info2

FXD

I have a string containing an UTF8 ä. If I send this string to string::unescape, this letter is changed into √$ on the Mac.

Yes, this was an error.

FXD

The standard XML parsers from Apple and Microsoft contain some errors which we unfortunately cannot correct. Therefore we have integrated another parser some time ago, which fixes these bugs and is system independent.

It would be nice if this parser is set as default. 

Yes, the Rapid XML-Parser (aka fast parser) is the default XML parser for InDesign®, InDesign® Server, comet_pdf und Illustrator.

See here for more information.

XML entities in the text of XML are returned differently, depending if they are given in attributes or in elements. The error only occurs on Mac using the XML parsers Classic or Optimized.

FXD

If a text placeholder contains a single quota, this placeholder will always appear in the ToDo List panel.

FXD

You should do this by using JavaScript. But because we are nice, we have implemented the following functions:

• book::count
• book::get_nth
• book::get_path
• book::get_by_path
• book::get_current
• book::set_current

I have a strange behavior on plaecholder variantes:

• Connect to data pool
• Create new document
• Create a text frame with a few lines of text
• Load placeholder list ("Show placeholders as flat list" and "Show variants" activated, search for name "key" - for simplification)
• Open Placeholder Values Panel
• Set a placeholder variant, for example, "Product Name
• The values of the function variables are not displayed, even when a placeholder is loaded, they are not defined (or set to default setting). And, strangely enough, when changing the text selection, the correct placeholder variant is still selected in the placeholder panel.

FXD

In my batch jobs I strongly need the current setting of the target machine. Is there any way to get it?

You now can use the global variable gBatchMachine to get the target machine of the batch job.

Please note: gBatchMachine is read only and only defined in batch jobs.

How do you do? I just tried to create my own dialog with the class "dialog". On this dialog only int-entry fields are used. However, these are not displayed to me.

FXD. int edits are visible now also in the case you only have int edits.

The function book::close may crash InDesign® if the given reference does not point an InDesign® book.

FXD

FXD.

ATTENTION: Unfortunately, we cannot react to Undos. Unfortunately, the InDesign® API doesn't give that away. In these cases a reload is mandatory. To reload the panel, please use the reload button at the lower left corner of the panel.

Is it possible to set the XML parser with cScript?

Not before, now yes:

• prefs::set_xml_parsertype
• prefs::get_xml_parsertype

When checking in a document with multi columns of text, InDesign® crashes. The same document with single-column text works fine.

The error occurs when creating the metadata. The multi-column text used here has a property that tens of thousands of other similar texts did not have. We fixed that.

The documentation says the second parameter of frame::get_group is optional. But I have to specify it anyway, otherwise I get an error during execution.

FXD

In cScript ew have the function textmodel::set_insets. But I can't find the function textmodel::get_insets?

Now you have it. See textmodel::get_insets.

The function textmodel::scale_text can adjust text very nicely to the current frame size. But an additional parameter for scaling the insets would be nice. 

Done now, see here.

With the "Scale Text" layout rule, text can be adapted very nicely to the frame size. It would be nice if the insets could also be scaled.

The "Scale Text" layout rule now has a corresponding option for setting this.

Description of %!TT prefix ‚aotoload‘ is missing in the English version of documentation.

Done now, see here.

Waiting for the implementation in ISON?

But we also implemented a work around: Use the new function prefs::set_urllink_folder. 

Please note : The path set by this function is only used if panelstatement 141 is empty and is reset to "" on logoff time always!

FogBugz 25508 - Temporary setting of a path definition

In my project I have to define the alias definition $MYIMAGES differently in server and desktop. How can I do that?

The function file::setdatafile has a new optional parameter for the stage of defined alias names like $MYIMAGES. One option is the temporary creation of your own definitions. See here for more information.

Float numbers are always shown in red color (means 'changed') in the Settings panel, Furthermore, float numbers with integer values like 14.000 are shown without the zeros behind the decimal point (e.g. like 14. only).

Not a big fault, hm? But fixed now.

If a placeholders text contains a <0x0020>, it is always marked out of sync in the ToDo panel.

Yes, that's true, because <0x0020> is not a supported TaggedText letter! Only letters with an Unicode greater 127 have to escaped and \n and \r can be escaped, the blank (<0x0020>) not. But anyway, we support the escaped blank in sync now.

For InDesign® Desktop magnetic users guidelines can be very helpful. We would like to create them via a cscript command.

We implemented a set of functions supporting the guide lines, see page::guides::add ff.

Are there some string function to crypt and decrypt strings (passwords) without having the password inside an URL?

We implemented the following function for you now

• string::crypt

Please note: For security reasons, decryption by cScript is not supported.

I cannot find a cScript function to create files :-(

Yeah, you can't find a function because there isn't one.

We now implemented file::create to do that.

I have downloaded some assets from my local AEM running on a VM. Thats okay.

The problem is,  if I change the network settings of my computer, the VM will get a new IP. In this case I run into an infinite (or very long) loop, when I try to check or update some URL-Links because the original URL is no longer valid.

Yes, CURL has a connection timeout of 300 seconds. So every check of an URL image will take at least 300 seconds. Too long, hm?

We therefor set a timeout of 2 seconds for the connection. The download time is left untouched. 

There is also a new function, prefs::set_urllink_timeout, to locally set your own connection timeout.

When importing a W2ML which has table styles with alternating cell fill colors defined, the first fill color is not imported at all, and the second one has the supposed value of the first.

FXD

When Importing a W2ML which paragraph styles which define a bullet list character, these properties are not properly imported but contain scrambled characters and wrong fonts.

W2ML import should now properly import bullet characters and their fonts.

There is a scenario when the W2ML import crashes:

• Create a new document

• Create a frame on a master page containing a simple table (can be 1x1)

• Override this frame on a normal page

• Export to W2ML

• Import from W2ML

-> Crash

FXD

When importing a W2ML with a default paragraph style which is not the "Basic paragraph style", inherited styles may be wrong. Additionally, a style called "NormalParagraphStyle" is created which shouldn't be there.

The 'is_default' was wrongly interpreted during W2ML import, leading to wrong style resolution order.

Saving continuing templates only (fn/caps lock on Mac, space key on Windows) will work in 'normal' document windows only but not in template editors.

Template editors are opened by double clicking an entry of the Templates panel and mark by little icons in the upper left corner of the pages:

Holding down the fn/Caps lock key (Mac) or Space bar (Windows) will now update the continuing templates only in template editors too.

Please note: In 'normal' document windows the behavior is like this:

• Currently selected frames are on a left page : Update left continuing template
• Currently selected frames are on a right page : Update right continuing template
• Currently selected frames are on both pages : Update left continuing template

Adobe prohibits further support for InDesign® CS 5.5 and InDesign® CS 6, so this release is the first that does not provide priint:comet plugins for these versions of InDesign® anymore!

Manually overwritten sync state does not work for images.

FXD

When converting HTML -> TaggedText any paragraph nodes (<p>) not containing an explicit class attribute (style) get the "NormalParaStyle" attribute in the result text (<ParaStyle:NormalParagraphStyle>).

This leads to the problem that the para style at the insert position is not used, but always the default style.

We should use an empty para style tag and let the plugins determine the style at insertion time (<ParaStyle:>).

We now always write <ParaStyle:> when no style is explicitly set.

FogBugz 25307 - Comet plugin image placement changed (R24700 vs. 25255)

Serious bug!

As far as I can say it now, the images are not placed into the frame as they are (autoscaled) rather than placed with factor 1.0.

This is a serious bug!

The error is a side effect of the fix of bug bug 25106 (image::clippath). Who would have thought that? The bug is fixed.

FogBugz 24833 - Two placeholders unintentionally merge to form one

I have two identical text placeholders that differ only in the values of their function variables. Unfortunately, these two placeholders are always merged into one placeholder.

Yes, that's right, see here. However, we have now added an additional check that ensures that the same placeholders with different function variables are treated as different placeholders.

Please note: This test is experimental for the time being!

I tried to implement a string compare script of an auto-sync placeholder. I created the attriibute styleid in my table placeholder and set its value to my action - but I cannot see the action in the placeholder.

Sorry, the documentation was wrong here, the name of attribute must by CharacterStyleID in case of ODBC. I fixed this in the documentation.

The distances in vertically justified page elements are not calculated correctly.

The vertical distances in 1:N elements are now calculated correctly. 

If I choose an 1:N page elements with 'Vertical justify center' and bigger minimum distance, say 20mm, InDesign® will crash.

This is fixed now.

Would it be possible to show the page elements too in build traces? This would be very helpful.

Choosing the option "Show frame UIDs" is renamed now to "Show frame UIDs and page elements" and will exactly do that.

The recording of the product building sometimes still contains old images.

FXD

Adobe prohibits further support for InDesign® CS 5.5 and InDesign® CS 6, so this release is the last that provides priint:comet plugins for these versions of InDesign®.

When creating custom dialogs using the cScript dialog framework, the dialog size (if any) is not properly set when UI scaling is active. This can lead to dialog options being cut off because the heigth or width cannot be properly set for every configuration.

FXD

When importing W2ML with multiple styles which depend on a single style, the style dependencies may be lost.

There was a partial fix implemented for case #22803. Unfortunately that fix did not hold for more complicated situtations. Should be fixed now.

The composition with 'Build products' leads to an unexpected result. It seems as if the bug just happens when the page template uses horizontal or verctical justifications.

FXD

If a document contains any other InDesign® document with images, the function document::export_ with error 2204 while packing.

Yes, the problem are the images inside the placed InDesign® document insode the document. This is fixed now.

Using the export provided by the Templates panel will cause the error

downloading data for .... 345.shapes

when exporting templates from a SOAP service.

FXD

Using the fast XML parser, the function stringlist::from_xml does not work. If I use the classical XML parser, all works correctly.

FXD

ATTENTION: The same error affects other functionalities such as the evaluation of the program options of comet_pdf and the calculation of product lists from items.xmls in the product structure. It is therefore a serious error.

Actions of an XML offline project are always encrypted. Is there a way to decrypt the scripts without editing them in InDesign®?

Yes, you can use the app bin/crpt inside the documentation folder.

In addition, you now add the hint

#pragma plain

at the very beginning of your actions to prevent them from encryption. See here for more information.

In a script a insert some tagged text containing an inline. The inline is linked against an image placeholder and this placeholder use image::barcode to place an EAN barcode inside the inline. In the log I can see, that the Postscript code of barcode is created well - but no barcode is inserted into the inline.

FXD. image::barcode now also works on inline frames.

FXD, scaling should now be properly applied

The script error warning also contains a line number where the error occurs. Unfortunately this line number is wrong in most cases.

Scripts are translated into a fast executable intermediate code before execution. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to determine the correct line number from the intermediate code. Therefore, we will omit the line number now.

I have a smart template, which should always start on a left page. Unfortunately, new pages are also created with each continuation, so that each continuation starts on a left page too. This is unexpected: we do not need that empty page, the comet group should only be on two pages.

Yes, it also seems to me that this is an error. I fixed that in this next release. I'm not quite sure whether this bug was exploited in some projects. But that's the job of QAD, ProfServ and Help Desk :-)

Scale Text doesn't work on texts completely in overset.

It works in versions prior v4.1 R24333. But unfortunately this implementation contains an error (see case 23466). When fixing this error, the error with the completely invisible texts happened as a side effect

This is fixed now.

When reorganizing, the Z-Order of the frames sometimes changes.

No, the problem was an inline frame of a text frame with no intersections with other frames. Such text frames do not have any Z order. In the case of reorganisations, frames have to be moved back and forth between layers several times. Since the frame does not have a defined Z-order, the Z-order cannot be used here as a criterion for the processing sequence. We therefore use a different sort criteria that solves the problem.

image::clip path does not return any result in some cases.

Yes, this happens whenever the frame is adapted to the clipping path (clip frame to content). In this case, the clipping path is the same as the frame. In this case we now return the bounding box of the frame.

The function image::setalpha2 works properly on InDesign® but unfortunately not on InDesign® Server.

Yes, we had slightly changed the behavior of the function. Unfortunately, the server variant of the function was not changed. The problem is fixed.

The new feature of the placeholder variants does not seem to work yet. If I want to show the variants, nothing happens.

Ooh, the feature was commented out until release. We forgot to reactivate it. It's fixed now.

Under specific circumstances the W2ML import crashes when the the W2ML import file is not well formed and contains inline frames in table cells.

The import no longer crashes, but the result will of course be wrong when the input is malformed.

InDesign® crashes with image::barcode and a wrong EAN-13 code.

Yes, we do not check the validity of the barcodes! And we never promised that either. The wrong barcode apparently returns a Postscript code that later causes InDesign® to crash. But, as described in the documentation, we do not assume any liability for the generated Postscript code.

Nevertheless, we have now implemented a check for the very common EAN-13 code. Erroneous EAN-13 codes now lead to an error of the image::barcode function, but no longer to a crash of InDesign®.

The Comet++ palette is rarely used. But if it is, it is still too flat. Unfortunately, some fields of the palette are invisible.

FXD

Inserting a w2inline with pageitemID != 0 creates the inline correctly but always adds a * to my text.

This only happens if the option "Read placeholder from TaggedText" is deactivated.

FXD now.

I have a frame with one line of text and a rounded top right corner. The frame is to be fitted to its content. To do so I use the layout rule fitframe. Strangely enough, the rule only works sometimes. This depends on the XY position of the frame. Sometimes it works, sometimes the frame just gets very very wide.

Yes, this is an InDesign® bug (one more in the big collection of fitframe bugs). In the screenshot you see the frame in its orirginal size:

In th second screenshot you can see the result of a double click into the left top corner:

If you don't believe me, ask me for the document (paul@priint.com).

Fortunately I was able to find a workaround so that the problem at least in our fitframe does not occur anymore.

pStyle "styleName" in placeholder pre/postfixes doesn't work. It seems that this information is simply ignored.

FXD

I have some text placeholders with function variables with values like:

max . 20°

If I export this to W2ML, the string max 20° is converted into

max. 20<0x00B0>

Generally, this is no problem. BUT if I try to load the placeholder, the placeholders load command will use exactly this string - and is therefor executed wrong, because the database (or PubServer, or XML-query) expects exactly  max . 20°, and not  max. 20<0x00B0>.

FXD

Every time I scroll my function variables in panel Placeholder Values, all changed values are loosing their even set values and reset to "Custom".

FXD

Bit confusing, but sometimes I can't put alternative magnets on a frame. It also doesn't help to reset all magnetic properties. We always have to create new frames in the template.

This behavior is now also corrected when resetting the magnet properties.

Is it possible to access the template ID of the parent entry in Findstatements?

Since now one can use <pageitemID> to do that.

Start of live cycle 4.1.6

End of life cycle 4.1.5

Fixed a bug which caused wrong translation of numerical entities (such as &#13;) to InDesign® Tags in results from soap requests.

These entities are now translated to normal characters (utf-8 encoded, if required). If a application relies on InDesign® Tagged Text translation, this can be activated adding the line entities-to-tags=true to the soapflags.ini file in your Plugin installation folder.

Note: this bug is also fixed in 4.1, in 4.1 the default behaviour is to use (fixed) Tagged Tags translation.

Several fixes in the ToDo Panel:

• use correct function variable definitions for loading / comparing old value

• use correct function variable for new value display in panel

• compare encrypted URLs for images inserted with URLLink

Also, for custom compare scripts, 2 new cscript functions to encrypt resp. decrypt URLs containing credentials are available.

The option parameter of all scripting commands now supports a key to apply XML attributes to the document before running the command.

Format of the parameter is a XML string using the KeyValue schema.

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<keyvalues>
  <keyvalue>
    <key>country</key>
    <value>GB</value>
  </keyvalue>
</keyvalues>

We have (on a trial basis) implemented a possibility to close documents immediately. Further information can be found here.

The C-Script function encode_base64 currently only processes strings up to the terminating zero. If you read binary data and want to encode it, it doesn't work properly. It would be desirable to have a second parameter which can be used to specify the string length / size in order to also cover these use cases.

encode_base64 and decode_base64  now have additional parameters for handling binary data.

Manually trigger layout rules

FogBugz 23044

Paste image path to clipboard

FogBugz 23042

Menu to insert images by path

FogBugz 23041

Menu to insert %!TT-text

FogBugz 23040

FogBugz 24573 - Placeholder at a certain text position