Adobe InDesign plug-in (v42) release notes

The latest version of the Adobe InDesign plug-in is 42.0.050 released on 4 September 2024.

We release updates regularly, and our goal is to ensure that our software works well, constantly—that Typefi continues to deliver, every day. Please contact us if you have any feedback or issues. We’re happy to help.

42.0.050–4 September 2024

Requires Typefi Server 8.14 or later
Requires Typefi Designer 8.14 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2024, InDesign 2023, or InDesign 2022

Improvements

• You can now use the script label skip-spill-event to override the use of Spill end scripts on individual Typefi Elements in a template—reducing processing time. For more detail, see the help article: How to skip Spill end scripts for individual Typefi elements.
• Improved the processing of unused hyperlinks to prevent crashing when using movemen MathTools in a workflow.

Fixes

• In Export to CXML
  • Nesting Typefi inline elements inside a character style no longer cause missing content and elements in the output CXML.
  • Characters nested in /Tps:c/tps:style followed by tps:c no longer cause missing content in the output CXML.
  • Fixed an issue where bold tps:style type="bold" and italic tps:style type="italic" soft styles were missing in the output CXML.
  • Fixed an issue where inline elements inside a table cell were missing the TPS Frame Type: TPS Content Frame.
  • Fixed an issue where empty tables in input INDD files were missing in the output CXML.
  • Before, if the Vertical Justification setting was not specified in the Table Cell Options (Table → Cell Options), the output CXML defaulted to Align Top entry valine="top". Now, if the Vertical Justification option is not set, no attributes will be applied to the table cell in the output.
  • Fixed an issue where duplicate section IDs prevented the correct generation of Table of Contents (TOC).
  41.0.961—19 April 2024

Requires Typefi Server 8.14 or later
Requires Typefi Designer 8.14 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2024, InDesign 2023, or InDesign 2022

• Upgraded to Java 21 and Tomcat 10.1 to ensure the security and stability of our services.

40.0.948—22 January 2024

Requires Typefi Server 8.13
Requires Typefi Designer 8.14 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2024, InDesign 2023, or InDesign 2022

• Added support for Adobe InDesign 2024.

39.0.932—1 September 2023

Requires Typefi Server 8.9–8.12
Requires Typefi Designer 8.9–8.11
Works with Adobe InDesign 2023, InDesign 2022, or InDesign 2021

New

• Added a Pretty print output checkbox to the Export to ContentXML action. For more detail, please refer to the Export to Content XML help article.
• Added support for a TYPEFI.pageNumber section field as a CXML-based method for setting the starting page number for a given section. This field is automatically added when exporting to CXML to preserve the custom starting page.
• Exported CXML now uses Content XML 3.2.

Improvements

• In Create InDesign document, improved error logging when a filename is greater than 256 total characters.
• In the Links tab, Search for missing links is now called Additional links path.
• In Export to EPUB, the Equation section under the Links tab now defaults to Ignore when configuring a workflow.
• Improved error log messages to help you detect missing sections in an INDD file. Now you will see a detailed error message, (for example, Skipping section 3 of 3 (BackPage) not in template.)
• Added support for template-based overrides of floating element placement.  To allow a float to place before its anchor, add the string “beforeAnchor:true” to the Script Label (Windows→ Utilities→ Script Label) of the master element.
• In Run InDesign Script, improved handling of improperly escaped parameter strings so they no longer cause jobs to fail. 

Fixes

• Create InDesign document and Create InDesign book:
  • Fixed an issue where a <tps:break> element at the start of a section instead applied after the first paragraph of the section.
  • Resolved a possible missing links error with InDesign templates that had linked images.
  • Fixed an issue where Character-styled content may be omitted when generating a CXML-based table of contents (<toc> elements).
  • Fixed an ExtendScript Unicode issue with glyphs outside of the first Basic Multilingual Plane that cannot be represented in 16 bits (for example, emojis), which could cause jobs to fail (for example, when inserting a hyperlink into a paragraph that has one of these glyphs).
  • Remove Forced Line Breaks (Table of Contents options) are no longer ignored for CXML-based <toc> elements.
• Create InDesign document:
  • Fixed an issue where grouped elements on parent pages failed to place.
  • Fixed a regression introduced in v34 that broke "blocker" frames (areas of the template where floats cannot be placed). To learn more, refer to the help article: Create float-free zones.
  • Fixed an issue where jobs failed if the Table of Contents > Title > Style had an ampersand ('&') in the paragraph style name.
  • Fixed an issue where a local style override applied to a footnote reference carried through into the footnote text.
• Export to Content XML:
  • Fixed an issue where local style overrides within character-styled text weren't preserved (no content was omitted, only style information).
  • Empty sections are no longer added where the Main Story frame is not found on the first page of the section.
  • Exporting to CXML no longer omits <meta> @type attributes.
  • Table cells with left, align toward spine, or align away from spine horizontal alignment overrides no longer export with invalid @Justification attributes. These overrides now export to align="left" or align="justifyLeft".
  • Bullets and numbering style overrides are now preserved.
• Removed legacy support for the showcontrols property from Movie class (discontinued by Adobe).
• In Export to EPUB, removed an incorrectly formatted JSON log.

38.0.927— 17 January 2023

Requires Typefi Server 8.8–8.12
Requires Typefi Designer 8.9 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2023, InDesign 2022, or InDesign 2021

Improvements

• In Export to EPUB, content order is now always based on page layout (InDesign's other content order options, Same as XML Structure and Same as Articles Panel, are no longer applicable to Typefi automation workflows).

Fixes

• In Export to Content XML, URLs added to documents using the Edit Hyperlink panel did not pass through to Content XML unless the Shared Hyperlink Destination was enabled. This has now been fixed.

37.0.915— 27 June 2022

Requires Typefi Server 8.7.4–8.12
Requires Typefi Designer 8.7.3 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2022, InDesign 2021, or InDesign 2020

Improvements

• You can now toggle event scripts on or off.
• Actions are better at determining if a job has failed. For example, if InDesign Server stalls while the job is running, the job will fail instead of trying to continue running.
• Several improvements to specific actions:
  • In Create InDesign document and Create InDesign book:
    • Bold and italic soft styles are now enabled by default.
    • ${variable:indesign-pages} is now {indesign-pages:total}. With this new syntax, you can now use ${indesign-pages:start}, where start is the first page number. (For compatibility, if you have workflows with the old syntax, we’ll automatically remap it to the new syntax.)
  • In Create InDesign document, if Start page numbering at is blank, you’ll now see a warning in the job log. Before, the job would fail with an internal server error.
  • In Create InDesign book, Document naming no longer results in duplicate .indd file extensions.
  • In Assemble InDesign book, if you’re using a custom path for the job output, the output folder doesn’t have to exist before running the workflow. Now, Typefi Server will create it for you on-the-fly.
  • In Export to PNG, the default value for Quality (located in the Image tab) is now Maximum.
  • In Export to interactive PDF, the default value for Open in Full Screen Mode (on the Viewing tab) is now false and the default value for Resolution (on the Images tab) is 150 (it was 72).
  • In Cleanup InDesign EPUB, the deprecated <guide> section has been replaced with support for the landmarks feature when generating a Kindle file.
• In CXML, style="disk" and style="disc" are both supported.
• Error messages for Blinkenlights job failures are now more robust.
• Updated Spanish localisation.
• Added acknowledgments for our contributors, whose efforts over many years have made this software what it is (in the action, click the workflow plug-in version number to view). Many thanks!

Fixes

• Multiple fixes to tables and table of contents (TOC):
  • Table intensive documents are now published much faster. In one test case, a document that took 9 hours to publish now only takes 28 minutes.
  • You will no longer get a There were 0 tables in the story. We expected ## error. This error was introduced in v34 when we fixed the order of sidebar-style Elements anchored in a table.
  • Footnotes in tables no longer inherit the alignment of their parent cell.
  • Tables are no longer pushed outside of page edge when using style="paragraph-indents".
  • Inline images in headings are now passed through to the generated TOC entries.
  • The Remove Forced Line Break option in the TOC style is now carried through to the final output.
• <section startPageNumber=[page number]> now overrides the Typefi Section page numbering mode.
• Files or folders added via the Choose Files or Folder icon now display correctly in the input field. Before, files were shown in a single line separated by commas, and folders weren’t shown at all.
• Several fixes to specific workflow actions:
  • In Create InDesign document, generated pages that include style="page-break:true;" in a table cell now apply the break to that row. Before, the break was applied to the previous row.
  • In Create InDesign book and Create InDesign document, disabled soft styles no longer interfere with nested styles.
  • In Export to PDF, the output location you specified is no longer ignored. Before, the output PDF was always placed in the job folder, no matter which output location you specified.
  • Cleanup InDesign EPUB now finds any instances in the InDesign generated CSS of {height:100%; min-width: width:100%;} and removes the entire CSS declaration and cleans up the remaining white space.
  • Workflows with two Export to Content XML actions no longer fail with a Cannot save to the file output-1.idml, because it is already open. error.
  • Export to Content XML no longer fails when specifying an absolute path for the output.
  • macOS only: Assemble InDesign book from folder no longer causes the assembled files to be in the wrong order. (As a reminder, Assemble InDesign book from folder is deprecated. We recommend using Assemble InDesign book instead.)
• Several fixes to event scripts:
  • Enabled, but empty, event scripts no longer cause warnings in the job log.
  • Scripts in workflows with actions that need to be updated are now run. Before, the scripts would not run until you updated the actions.
  • Script names no longer change to [object Object] after an action is updated
• Multiple Floating Elements on 2-column pages are no longer out of order when published.
• In Typefi Desktop, using ${variable:indesign-pages} in the output filename no longer causes the job to fail.
• Soft styles inside <liFormat> no longer cause an Invalid value for parameter 'familyName' of method 'getBoldStyle'. Expected String, but received nothing. error.
• In book files, equations now display as expected. This error was caused by an internal setting that was set to IGNORE. We removed the IGNORE setting.

Known issue

• If Create InDesign document uses InDesign Server 2020 or later, you cannot insert a video Element in a Typefi Writer document and publish it. If you try to publish a document with a video Element, you get this error message: Error: Request failed because the underlying functionality is no longer available in the current version of the application. This error occurs because Adobe now blocks Flash content from running. There is no workaround at this time.

36.0.915 — 11 March 2022

Requires Typefi Server 8.7.3
Requires Typefi Designer 8.7.3 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2022, InDesign 2021, or InDesign 2020

• Added support for Adobe InDesign 2022
• Updated Apache Log4j to 2.17.1 to resolve known Log4j vulnerabilities.

 

35.0.903 — 7 January 2022

Requires Typefi Server 8.7.2 
Requires Typefi Designer 8.7 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2021, InDesign 2020, or InDesign CC 2019

• Updated Apache Log4j to 2.17.0 to resolve known Log4j vulnerabilities

Known issue

• If Create InDesign document uses InDesign Server 2020 or 2021, you cannot insert a video Element in a Typefi Writer document and publish it. If you try to publish a document with a video Element, you get this error message: Error: Request failed because the underlying functionality is no longer available in the current version of the application. This error occurs because Adobe now blocks Flash content from running. There is no workaround at this time.

 

34.0.875 — 16 September 2021

Requires Typefi Server 8.7.2
Requires Typefi Designer 8.7 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign 2021, InDesign 2020, or InDesign CC 2019

• Significant speed improvements to Create InDesign book and Create InDesign document:
  • Overset stories are now detected faster. Before, these actions looked for overset stories by going down the property chain of the last story frame filled, which caused unnecessary and costly calls to the Document Object Model. Now, these actions cache the main story and last footnotes.
  • Only page items receiving content from the Content XML are overridden. While you can do this manually (select the items on a master page, right-click, and deselect Allow Master Item Overrides), Create InDesign book and Create InDesign document now adjust this setting for you.
• In layouts with sidebar-style floating Elements that are anchored within a table, the Elements in the sidebar are now in the same order as they appear in the table.

 

 

30.0.757 — 17 April 2020

Requires Typefi Server 8.7
Requires Typefi Designer 8.7
Works with Adobe InDesign 2020, InDesign CC 2019, or InDesign CC 2018.

• Added support for InDesign 2020.
• Added support for files or folders as an input in the Assemble InDesign book, Create InDesign book, and Create InDesign document actions.
  • Assemble InDesign book from folder is deprecated now that the Assemble InDesign book supports both files and folders as inputs.
• Updated field labels to be more descriptive.
• Hyperlinks can now be applied to inline graphic frames in addition to inline text frames.
• Fixed an issue where character styles were not being passed to hyperlinks, document links, or cross-references in the Content XML.
• Fixed an issue where empty endnotes could cause jobs to fail.
• Fixed an issue where jobs would fail (and give a very cryptic error message) if an Event Script was missing. The job will now run, but a warning will be added to the log.
• Fixed an issue where a document would go into a continuous loop if a Typefi Section name was used for multiple tables of contents.
• Fixed an issue where the table of contents was missing when InDesign books were used as the input to the Export to EPUB action.
• Fixed an issue where underline and strikethrough style attributes were not being passed to images in the Content XML.
   

29.0.709 — 28 May 2019

Requires Typefi Server 8.6 or later
Requires Typefi Designer 8.6 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2019, InDesign CC 2018, or InDesign CC 2017

• Improved support for Blinkenlights.
• Multiple fixes related to endnotes (requires InDesign CC 2018 or later):
  • Fixed an issue where an empty paragraph is inserted if Endnote Options → Endnote Header → Endnote title is left blank.
  • Fixed an issue where character styles within endnotes were not applied as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where unexpected local styling could be applied if an undefined paragraph style is used within an endnote.

 

28.0.705 — 13 March 2019

Requires Typefi Server 8.6 or later
Requires Typefi Designer 8.6 or later
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2019, InDesign CC 2018, or InDesign CC 2017

• Added support for ) as a delimiter for lists styles when exporting from Microsoft Word. Previously only . was supported.
• Fixed an issue where Search for missing links may overlook files that use the filestore URI.
• Fixed an erroneous Error: A style with this name already exists. Line 306 of () if your InDesign template already contained a TPS On-the-fly style group with TPS Missing paragraph style, TPS Missing character style, or TPS Missing cell style styles and your Content XML referenced a paragraph, character, or cell style that wasn't found in your template.
• Fixed an Export to Content XML issue where footnotes could be omitted from the output Content XML.
• Fixed some missing Spanish strings for Export to EPUB.

 

27.0.692 — 19 February 2019

Requires Typefi Server 8.6 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.6 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2019, InDesign CC 2018, or InDesign CC 2017.

• Added support for Adobe InDesign CC 2019 (14.x).
• Added support for Blinkenlights.
• Updated Cleanup InDesign EPUB action to no longer remove <itemref idref="cover" linear="no"/> as Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 and higher now properly render this attribute.
• Fixed an interface issue with the MathTools menu when viewing in Firefox and Chrome (Spanish version).

 

26.0.667 — 10 September 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

• Table row height maximums are now automatically calculated as 1 pt less than the Main Story frame height (InDesign defaults to 600 pt; see Table → Cell Options → Rows and Columns).
• Multiple changes related to movemen MathTools for Export to EPUB:
  • Updated to support changes in MathTools v3 build 049 (see MathTools v3 release notes).
  • Moved MathTools option to Conversion settings tab and expanded options to a pop-up menu:
    • Ignore — uses InDesign's native EPUB export; default option.
    • Equation Images — exports MathZones as images with MathML ALT text.
    • MathML — exports MathZones as MathML.
• Fixed an erroneous Setting the "Language" PDF attribute requires Adobe InDesign (Server) CC 2105.3 or later error in the job log when using InDesign CC 2018.
• Fixed Error: ReferenceError: Object is invalid Line 304 when a floating element was deferred to a later page and contained a TOC anchor.
• Fixed a cosmetic Export to EPUB bug in Conversion settings → Format where "Before and after image" appeared instead of "GIF" and "undefined" instead of "PNG".
• Fixed Malformed URL and SyntaxError (invalid token) errors caused by angle brackets in Digital Object Identifier (DOI) URLs.
• Fixed a bug where extraneous white space may be added to a generated <toc>.
• Fixed a typo in the Export to JPG workflow log.

 

25.0.658 — 14 August 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

• Added the InDesign Server configuration, host name and port to all action logs, for example:
  

  INFO Windows Server 2012 R2/64 6.3.
  INFO Adobe InDesign Server 13.0.0.125.
  INFO Typefi Designer 8.5.0.892.
  INFO Server config name: configuration_8472
  INFO Server host name: WIN-627A94IQ4TR.typefi.aws
  INFO Server port: 8472

• Multiple fixes for table of contents:
  • Fixed a bug where tabs and TOC bookmarks were omitted if the TOC style did not include a page number.
  • Fixed a bug where bookmarks were created even when Create PDF Bookmarks was not enabled in the TOC style.
  • Fixed a bug where, when using multiple <toc> tags within a Main Story, the TOC bookmarks do not follow the same sequence as the table of contents.
• Fixed a Create InDesign document (book) bug that broke Start page numbering at ____.
• Implemented a workaround for a rare template error: The requested action could not be completed because the object no longer exists. Line 301.
• Updated Export to EPUB to support exporting MathTools equations as MathML (enable the MathML option; requires MathTools v3 or later).
• Fixed a Cleanup InDesign EPUB bug where enabling Arabic didn't set the page-progression-direction (only applies to EPUB 3 files).
• Reverted a change introduced by InDesign plug-in v18: Fixed setting of page breaks (for example, <tps:break type="page"/>) when they are following by an element.

Known issues:

• Export to EPUB → Conversion settings → Format should be [Automatic, JPG, GIF, PNG], but  two options instead appear as unexpected text: "Before and after image" (GIF) and "undefined" (PNG).

 

24.0.648 — 26 June 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

• Added acknowledgements for our contributors, whose efforts over many years have made this software what it is (click the workflow plug-in version number to view).
• Added a warning to the job log when the binding direction of the InDesign template is overridden by the Create InDesign document or Create InDesign book actions.
• Fixed a bug where jobs could abort if an active layer was locked in the InDesign template.
• Worked around changes Adobe made to Endnotes between CC 2018 and CC 2018.1.
• Removed unused Advanced → Optimization level setting (default: 0) in Create InDesign document and Create InDesign book actions.

 

23.0.632 — 3 May 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

• Table rows are now preset with a maximum row height equal to the largest Main Story text frame in a Section (see Cell Options → Rows and Column).
• Multiple fixes for table of contents:
  • Fixed a bug where an empty <toc> (see Content XML 3.1) could cause the job to fail.
  • Fixed a bug where tabs could be omitted from TOC bookmarks.
  • Fixed a bug where the <toc> ignored paragraph styles within a group.
• Fixed a rare crash if the last item in a table cell was a <doclink>.
• Fixed a bug where Project and Section Fields within Inline Elements aren't updated with the specified Field values.
• Fixed an Export to EPUB issue where the Resolution (PPI) value wasn't passed to InDesign (and therefore it defaulted to 72 PPI).
• Removed an accommodation that allowed invalid tables to compose (for example, a colwidth="0%" would compose as if it were colwidth="1%"); these jobs will now fail with an appropriate error message.
• Removed erroneous application label setInlineResizing.
• Updated Spanish localisation.

 

22.0.631 — 1 May 2018

Internal release.

 

21.0.613 — 14 February 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

• Added support for <meta> tags to Export to IDML (see Content XML 3.1).
• Multiple fixes for Export to EPUB:
  • Fixed a bug where InDesign rasterized the first page of the document as the EPUB cover image even when a separate Cover image was specified.
  • Fixed a bug where Additional CSS was not copied into the EPUB (bad file path).
• Fixed a cosmetic bug where Links → Crop PDFs to: Trim appeared as "undefined".
• Updated Spanish localisation.

 

20.0.603 — 16 January 2018

Requires Typefi Server 8.4 or later.
Requires Typefi Designer 8.4 or later.
Works with Adobe InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2017, or InDesign CC 2015.

InDesign plug-in version 20 includes new features, and other improvements and bug fixes.

Event Scripts

Typefi Server 8.4 replaces the legacy multi-file selection input and path-based InDesign event script fields with a new, token-based files input. For Create InDesign document or Create InDesign book actions, this enables events scripts to be uploaded and managed directly within Typefi Server like any other file.

Click Choose File to browse for files on your Typefi Server (click Browse within the Choose File dialog to browse for files from your local computer). You can change the order of files within a multi-file input by dragging a token to a new position.

• To remove a file, click Delete (x) in the token or select the token and press the Delete key.
• As you hover over a token, a tooltip appears to reveal the location of the file.

CAUTION The new token-based files input is not backward-compatible with the legacy path-based InDesign event script fields. Before upgrading to Typefi Server 8.4 and Adobe InDesign plug-in version 20 or later, make note of each script run at each event in each workflow. After you've upgraded, upload your scripts to your Typefi Server (see Working with Files) and then edit each of your workflows to re-select each script for each event.

• NEW Added Package InDesign document action to ensure that all fonts and links are included with your InDesign file for handoff to a service provider.
• NEW Added support for Content XML 3.1, including additional list numbering styles (padded numerals, and Arabic, Chinese, and Hebrew language numbering), and the new <toc> and <meta> tags; for more information, see Content XML 3.1.
• Fixed a bug where a character style at the end of a paragraph may also be applied to the following paragraph when this following paragraph is empty or only contains white space.
• Improved handling of unknown sections (jobs no longer fail with undefined is not an object).
• Fixed a bug where <tps:entry valign="justify"> was ignored (cells defaulted to valign="top").
• Removed erroneous Could not retrieve font style for (_____) family. Will assume (____) entries from job log.
• Fixed a bug where fixed elements could appear twice within a round tripped CXML file (see Adobe InDesign plug-in v18 where element anchors for fixed elements were re-introduced).
• Fixed a bug where the nobreak override in InDesign was not round tripped to CXML.
• Fixed a bug where white space was encoded as %20 in round tripped CXML.
• Fixed a rare bug where combining Unicode accents may not be included in round tripped CXML
• Fixed a bug where section counter fields could revert to Arabic (1, 2, 3, 4…) after the first section.
• Fixed a bug caused by a mismatch between the Admin → Filestore path and Admin → InDesign → Filestore path that could cause jobs to appeared to have completed, but the InDesign outputs were missing from the job folder (see also, My InDesign workflow job ran successfully but the output is missing).
• Reworked the Event Scripts → Parameters in Create InDesign document and Create InDesign book to support any accepted format of JSON notation.
• Removed support for InDesign CS6, InDesign CC (9.x), and InDesign CC 2014 (10.x); for more information, see Typefi Product Support Lifecycle.