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• • November 29, 2017 at 6:44 am #99943
    Erik Terkelsen

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    I’ve found a very strange behaviour when using Javascripts in InDesign on Mac. If you run a script that shows a dialog which prompts you to write some text, you are unable to paste text from the clipboard using the keyboard command Cmd+v.

    You can past by right click and “Paste” but not by using the shortcut. I’ve tested in both InDesign 2015 and 2017 and it works fine on Windows but not on Mac.

    First I thought, that it had to do with the script I wrote, but I found the same behaviour in the standard sample script “ImageCatalog.jsx” that comes with InDesign. If you run that script and try to create a new folder for saving the images, you will see that you are unable to paste a new name for this folder using Cmd-v, while you can do it by using right click “Paste”.

    Anyone else experienced this behaviour and does anyone know a solution?

  • November 29, 2017 at 6:45 am #99948
    David Blatner

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    Erik, I noticed this, too, but I did not know it was all scripts… I thought it was just a couple that I had tried.

    Perhaps it is a bug in the newer versions of Mac InDesign?

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