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@cooldtp There are different memory areas, with your scripting focus $.summary() could be more relevant, e.g. to find leaks in permanent or long running targetengines.

我找到了 app.performanceMetric 检测是否清理过内存，把「purge frequently」、「purge normal」、「purge everything」都试了，只有「purge everything」才让 Memory purge count 和 Memory purge time 的数值有变化。 #ArtOfScriptingInDesign #InDesign #Scripting #ExtendScript #InDesignServer

@cooldtp No surprise, cellType etc. were added with version 11

今天才注意到，在 InDesign CS6 Object Reference.chm中，Cell 里居然没有 .cellType 和 .convertCellType() 这两个属性和方法，应该是 Jongware 整理时遗漏了。使用 myCell.cellType = 1701728329 会导致 #InDesign 崩溃（cellType是可read/write的），但myCell.convertCellType(1701728329) 就正常。

@cooldtp That feature was implemented for CS3 (2004?) and barely touched since. Do you need such long XML documents on a regular basis? How is performance with IDML or tagged text?

@IxtaTypeUI That's good ideas. Yes, chunked processing is necessary when the XML datas is huge, but why can't InDesign optimize the processing on its own.

Adobe InDesign 的 #XML 数据排版，在导入具有数据库特点的数据时，当数量达到一定数量后再成倍增长，排版处理的速度感觉是呈几何级数的下降，这里应该有优化的极大空间。 #ArtOfScriptingInDesign #InDesign #Scripting #ExtendScript

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign Scripting has the same problem, the different types don't show in the font name. For a clean find+change, I had to use a plug-in. Not yet implemented for variable fonts, for lack of an example.

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign InDesign differentiates font families by type, where kOpenTypeCFFFontType and kOpenTypeTTFontType both show as OTF. Very confusing. The icons are worse, showing VAR or SVG even though these are not different types.

Frustrated that @Adobe @InDesign variable font handling still badly broken, over eight years since the original announcement—which Adobe participated in! They REALLY need to understand family v style mapping for variable fonts, & allow replacing family while maintaining style.

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign Here the attribute within the character style

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign When I change the weight to 696, the font style dropdown shows custom, but within a character style, it lists the axes and a different name as description.

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign The axes are all combined into the same font style name attribute. Not really new, stylistic sets are also combined into one attribute.

@ThomasPhinney @Adobe @InDesign Huh, OTF vs TTF variable fonts? Or do you mean old non-variable ones? There it can get even worse. E.g. multiple incompatible OTF types. Also gotchas when using "document fonts". Took me a while, and scripts have no chance.

It took a while to build momentum, but the typo.social instance is now generating a steady stream of type, lettering and design related content. The community feed is so focused that I mostly don’t feel the need to follow individual members.

Twelve years ago, a young type designer created a rudimentary font based on a photocopy of the Kangxi Dictionary. Within months, it was on everything from restaurant menus to propaganda posters. sixthtone.com/news/1011200/h…

Traditional Tatar literature is virtually inaccessible for modern Tatars for a similar reason. Till the 20th c we used to be a Persianate culture, so being "educated" implied a decent knowledge of Farsi (at least) and Arabic (ideally). You needed to be at least bilingual

NEW: Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts bit.ly/3c6s5BE

So steuert man in InDesign mit Bordmitteln (Script) @opentype Zeichenvarianten an: twitter.com/IxtaTypeUI/sta…

@TiroTypeworks @TiroTypeworks For comparison, hwid is specified to deactivate kern, so the mechanism already exists.

@TiroTypeworks @TiroTypeworks If the stylistic set uses gsub to a composite glyph with the original as comp., could that new glyph have a different kern?

@TypographyGuru For Hamburg, see museum-der-arbeit.de/de/staendige-a…

Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts @tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@tiro/https-me… #OpenType #VariableFonts