Hmmm… I honestly don’t know. What an incredibly frustrating bug! If I were in your shoes, my next action would be to reinstall InDesign all together. I know it’s time consuming but then again, so is dealing with this issue while you are trying to hit deadlines!

I wish I could be more help

Ah yes, to make my solution work, you would need to turn multiline on with — (?m)

Making the complete GREP string:

(?m).+,(?=.+,.+$)\K.+

Hello Amanda,

The way to accomplish this would be to utilize “\K”.

Here is the GREP I used to make it work when testing:

.+(?=,.+,.+$)\K.+

The first bit — .+ matches all characters that fall before the positive lookahead

The positive look ahead — (?=,.+,.+$) matches to a comma, 1 or more characters, another comma, 1 or more characters and then the end of the paragraph.

Now for the really nifty part. The “\K” is used to ignore everything that has been matched by the GREP before it. That means that all of the matched characters from the first part of the GREP string — .+(?=,.+,.+$) are essentially being used to tell the second part — .+ (match 1 or more characters) where to begin.

So the first part of the GREP string (the part before the “\K” actually matches all of the text in your paragraph up until the second to last comma, then we use \K to tell the GREP to apply the style to every character after that match.

Here is a better version that copies the selected image to a new document, dynamically sizes it to 100%, centers it on the page and exports the page to a PDF that is named using the original image name.

// Begin Script ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//set selection as variable
var thisItem = app.selection[0];

//create new document
var myNewDocument = app.documents.add();

//duplicate selected item to new document
var myDuplicatedItem = thisItem.duplicate(myNewDocument.pages.item(-1));

//get image within the frame
var myLinkedItem = myDuplicatedItem.pageItems[0];
//get name of the linked image
var myLinkName = myLinkedItem.itemLink.name;

//strip extension from linked image name
var myLinkName = myLinkName.split(“.”)[0];

//find the horizontal and vertical scale integers
var myHscale = 100 / myLinkedItem.horizontalScale;
var myVscale = 100 / myLinkedItem.verticalScale;

//Scale the image around its center point
var myScaleMatrix = app.transformationMatrices.add();
myScaleMatrix = myScaleMatrix.scaleMatrix(myHscale, myVscale);
myLinkedItem.transform(CoordinateSpaces.PASTEBOARD_COORDINATES, AnchorPoint.centerAnchor, myScaleMatrix);

//fit frame to content
myDuplicatedItem.fit(FitOptions.frameToContent);

//get width of the full-sized item
var dupedItemWidth = myDuplicatedItem.geometricBounds[3] – myDuplicatedItem.geometricBounds[1];
//get height of the full-sized item
var dupedItemHeight = myDuplicatedItem.geometricBounds[2] – myDuplicatedItem.geometricBounds[0];

//get the x coords we need to center the item on the page
var xCoordsCalc = (myNewDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth – dupedItemWidth) / 2;
//get the y coords we need to center the item on the page
var yCoordsCalc = (myNewDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight – dupedItemHeight) / 2;

//set frame bounds in order to center the frame on the page
myDuplicatedItem.geometricBounds = [yCoordsCalc, xCoordsCalc, (yCoordsCalc + dupedItemHeight), (xCoordsCalc + dupedItemWidth)];

//move the image to fit into the centered frame
myDuplicatedItem.fit(FitOptions.contentToFrame);

//Set Name of exported pdf to match the name of the linked image
var myFile = File(“/Users/admin/Desktop/” + myLinkName + “.pdf”);

//export the pdf
myNewDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, myFile, false, “High Quality Print”);

// End Script ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I’m assuming that when you say Adobe, you mean Adobe Acrobat? If I had to guess about your images I would venture a guess that you may be missing a link.

Open InDesign and open the Links panel. Check to see if any of the links have a yellow exclamation point or red “x” next to them.