Scripts cannot *select* pages (that is, make them appear ‘selected’ in the Pages panel).

But “selecting pages” is, on itself, not a useful task. Can you explain WHY you want to have them selected? Do you want to print them, or export, delete, find text, apply a master, or anything else?

Okay, here is something I made up right now. Try to run it only once per document :P as it attempts to ‘clean up’, but hyperlinks may use so many different objects, it’s hard to get that right.

All it requires are objects marked with one of two object styles: ‘prev’ and ‘next’. The objects may appear on any single page, or reside on a Master Page. Only one level deep! That is, not on a master page based on a master page, which in turn is based on a master page … (and so on) … Keep it simple!

After running the script, master page items are overridden, and all ‘prev’ objects will link to the previous page and ‘next’ to the next one. A ‘prev’ link on the first page will not get linked, and neither will a ‘next’ link on the *last* page of a document.

Here is the code; also downloadable from my site as https://www.jongware.com/binaries/linkprevnextpages.zip

//DESCRIPTION:Make Page To Page Links
// A Jongware script 13-Jun-2014
// Do not modify or distribute without permission.

for (p=0; p < app.activeDocument.pages.length; p++)
processPage(app.activeDocument.pages[p]);

function processPage (a_page)
{
var obj, link, e;

/* search the applied master */
if (a_page.appliedMaster != null)
{
for (obj=0; obj<a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems.length; obj++)
{
if (a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle)
{
if (a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle.name == ‘prev’ &&
a_page.documentOffset > 0)
{
try {
a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems[obj].override (a_page);
} catch (e)
{
/* no problem */
}
}
if (a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle.name == ‘next’ &&
a_page.documentOffset < app.activeDocument.pages.length-1)
{
try {
a_page.appliedMaster.pageItems[obj].override (a_page);
} catch (e)
{
/* no problem */
}
}
}
}
}

/* check current objects */
for (obj=0; obj<a_page.pageItems.length; obj++)
{
if (a_page.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle)
{
if (a_page.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle.name == ‘prev’ &&
a_page.documentOffset > 0)
{
removeOldLink (a_page.pageItems[obj]);
link = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.add (app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageItemSources.add(a_page.pageItems[obj]),
app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageDestinations.add(app.activeDocument.pages[a_page.documentOffset-1]) );
link.visible = false;
}
if (a_page.pageItems[obj].appliedObjectStyle.name == ‘next’ &&
a_page.documentOffset < app.activeDocument.pages.length-1)
{
removeOldLink (a_page.pageItems[obj]);
link = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.add (app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageItemSources.add(a_page.pageItems[obj]),
app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageDestinations.add(app.activeDocument.pages[a_page.documentOffset+1]) );
link.visible = false;
}
}
}
}

function removeOldLink (pageitem)
{
var i, hpis = app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageItemSources, l = hpis.length;
for (i=0; i<l; i++)
{
if (hpis[i].sourcePageItem == pageitem)
{
hpis[i].remove();
return;
}
}
}

Andy, hopefully I am wrong, but will all of your tinkering with word and letterspacing not be rendered completely moot with “justified text, with no hyphenation”?

In my professional opinion, there is NO WAY you can use the phrases ‘nice spacing’, ‘justification’, and ‘no hyphenation’ together in a single sentence. I.e., pick 2 — any 2 — but then forget about the 3rd one.

It is a local printer problem; your being able to print it out correctly shows so.

It is not related to overprinting. Something went wrong in the printers’ RIP software (the program that creates a super-high resolution bitmap of your PDF) while decompressing that particular CMYK image. The usual sequence of “Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black” pixels got messed up, and then all went out of sync: the values ended up showing the wrong colors, and parts of your image moved around.

With the right software, your printer can try to apply another kind of compression on this one image, straight inside your PDF. You can also help (a bit): check what image conversion settings the PDF export uses under “Compression”. If it’s “JPEG”, change to “ZIP”; if it says “ZIP” then change it to JPEG and set the quality to “Maximum”.

You don’t have to do anything to your original image! When exporting to PDF, InDesign is going to convert and store your image as it says in the Export dialog, regardless of how you saved it from Photoshop.

Export just this one page — if your printers’ software is not up to specs, flaky, or otherwise contains Bugs of the Unexpected Kind, you might ‘destroy’ other images that were printed correctly before.

You can always try my little script IDentify.jsx before attempting to open a file:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/934429

Up until now it correctly identifies the creator of files, right until CC. I have not checked if it works for sub-versions beyond “9.0”, the point where Adobe introduced single digit updates on a regular base.

> I noticed Corbel has five choices for the each number in the glyphs palette and one works great.

Well, two of those are superior and inferior numbers — I sure hope it’s not one of these that “work great” :)

The other three are identified (just hold the mouse still on one of the numbers) as “Tabular Figures (tnum) + Lining Figures (lnum)”, “Tabular Figures (tnum)”, and “Lining Figures (lnum)”. That means you can access the different styles as OpenType Features.

In your Paragraph Style Options, go to the OpenType Features tab. The bottom of that dialog contains “Figure Style” — use the drop down list to select the particular style you want.

This sure needed a round trip through InDesign’s Document Object Model — hyperlinks, anchored objects, text frames .. the lot! But I think the following will get you started. The following script scans your document for hyperlinks, and creates a new anchored frame to its left on a fixed position. It fills the frame with a placeholder text — how and where would your abbreviations come from? That part wasn’t entirely clear, but perhaps you can fiddle with my script and add it where you wish.

The script assumes the following:
1. An Object Style called “RedBorder”. Please note: make sure this object style does *NOT* define any Anchored Object settings! These will override the ones that I put in my script (as I only found out after some serious head scratching).
2. A Paragraph Style called “RedCaps”.
3. Some texts marked with a hyperlink to an external URL.
4. The baseline of the new box will be aligned to the baseline of your text. I moved it down 1mm, but how much it needs to have the *text* inside it aligned depends (I think) on the font and size of the paragraph style RedCaps. I suppose it’s easiest to run the script once, move one of the anchored objects up or down until it aligns correctly, note down the vertical offset, and then discard your new document and run the script again, with the correct value inserted. I don’t think this step can be automated.

First off, let me show a *short* sample script to illustrate how Hyperlinks work in InDesign. A Hyperlink is an abstract item, only visible in the Hyperlinks palette, which has two important properties: where it *points to* (which can be anything: to another page, to a text location, or — the one you want — to an external URL), and what the *link* item is in your document (this can be a Cross Reference, any clickable Page Item such as a button, or some plain text). The following script changes the font of all of your *text* links that point to *URLs* to something else:

links = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks;
for (i=0; i<links.length; i++)
{
if (links[i].source instanceof HyperlinkTextSource &&
links[i].destination instanceof HyperlinkURLDestination)
links[i].source.sourceText.appliedFont = “Comic Sans”;
}

You see it needs to check the *type* of both source and destination, because not every ‘clickable’ item may have a font, and not every link may point to an URL.

The *sourceText* is where I am going to insert a new anchored object; then I set some properties, so your text can be inserted and the anchor is moved into position, and finally, the same *destination* is applied to this new object — not to its text as you requested, but — hey! — to the entire rectangle. Instant Hyperlink Buttons ahoy!

Here is the full script; after copying, take care to check it for unexpected modifications, such as curly quotes (they should all be straight) and en-dashes (these probably should be two hyphens). Also, make sure the object and paragraph styles exist before running (it won’t work otherwise). Hope it’s enough to get you started!

// Get list of links — the following forces a COPY of ID’s internal list
// That is important, because we’re going to ADD a lot of them :-/
links = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().getElements();

for (i=0; i<links.length; i++)
{
if (links[i].source instanceof HyperlinkTextSource &&
links[i].destination instanceof HyperlinkURLDestination)
{
r = links[i].source.sourceText.insertionPoints[0].textFrames.add();
// initially inline; convert to Anchored Object
r.anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ANCHORED;

// set some Anchored Object properties
r.anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.TEXT_FRAME;
r.anchoredObjectSettings.verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.LINE_BASELINE;
r.anchoredObjectSettings.pinPosition = false;
r.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorXoffset = “5mm”;
r.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorYoffset = “1mm”; // <- Find proper value!

// apply object style. Make sure it *sets* no Anchored Style!
r.appliedObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item(“RedBorder”);

// write some text into it
r.texts[0].contents = “AAA”;
r.texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle = “RedCaps”;
// make sure it has some space left and right
r.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.CAP_HEIGHT;
r.textFramePreferences.insetSpacing = [“1mm”, “3mm”,”1mm”,”3mm”];
// ..first make it *way* too large (hopefully)
r.geometricBounds = [0,0, “10mm”,”100mm”];
// .. then resize to fit
r.fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

// make the entire rectangle a hyperlink, pointing to the same
// URL as the original one
newlink = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.add(app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageItemSources.add(r), links[i].destination);
newlink.visible = false;
}
}