InDesign CS4 & IDML & Copy & Paste Bug

Question

Hello,<br /><br />i have build an InDesign CS 4 document with javascript; like this<br /><br />//HelloWorld.jsx<br />//Create a new document.<br />var myDocument = app.documents.add();<br />//Get a reference to the first page.<br />var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);<br />//Create a text frame.<br />var myHelloTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();<br />//Specify the size and shape of the text frame.<br />myHelloTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["6p0", "6p0", "18p0", "18p0"];<br />//Enter text in the text frame.<br />myHelloTextFrame.contents = "Hello World!";<br />var myStory = myHelloTextFrame.parentStory;<br />myStory.trackChanges=true;<br />myStory.insertLabel("innerText1","dbkey2211");<br /><br />var myInnerTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();<br />//Specify the size and shape of the text frame.<br />myInnerTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["6p0", "30p0", "18p0", "42p0"];<br />//Enter text in the text frame.<br />myInnerTextFrame.contents = "ziemlich sinnfreier Text";<br />var myInnerStory = myInnerTextFrame.parentStory;<br />myInnerStory.trackChanges=true;<br />myInnerStory.insertLabel("innerText2","dbkey3322");<br /><br />//Save the document (fill in a valid file path).<br />var myFile = new File("/c/HelloWorld.indd");<br />var result = "saved to:  " + myFile.fullName;<br />if(!myFile.parent.exists && !myFile.parent.create()) {<br />     result = "Not saved.  Unable to create the folder:  " + myFile.parent.fullName;<br />} else {<br />     myDocument = myDocument.save(myFile);<br />}<br />//Close the document.<br />myDocument.close();<br /><br />result;<br /><br />so i get the "HelloWorld.indd" file ... so far so good. Now i load this in InDesign and export it as IDML.<br /><br />I get for example this story<br /><br /><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><br /><idPkg:Story xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/idml/1.0/packaging" DOMVersion="6.0"><br />     <Story Self="ue0" AppliedTOCStyle="n" TrackChanges="true" StoryTitle="$ID/" AppliedNamedGrid="n"><br />          <Properties><br />               <Label><br />                    <KeyValuePair Key="innerText2" Value="dbkey3322"/><br />               </Label><br />          </Properties><br />          <StoryPreference OpticalMarginAlignment="false" OpticalMarginSize="12" FrameType="TextFrameType" StoryOrientation="Horizontal" StoryDirection="LeftToRightDirection"/><br />          <InCopyExportOption IncludeGraphicProxies="true" IncludeAllResources="false"/><br />          <ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/$ID/NormalParagraphStyle"><br />               <CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]"><br />                    <Content>ziemlich sinnfreier Text</Content><br />               </CharacterStyleRange><br />          </ParagraphStyleRange><br />     </Story><br /></idPkg:Story><br /><br />so far so good ... now i package them with "package -c HelloWorld Hello.idml" and load this document in InDesign ...<br /><br />at following i do some copy & paste actions and export the result to IDML and get this story ...<br /><br /><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><br /><idPkg:Story xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/idml/1.0/packaging" DOMVersion="6.0"><br />     <Story Self="u186" AppliedTOCStyle="n" TrackChanges="false" StoryTitle="$ID/" AppliedNamedGrid="n"><br />          <StoryPreference OpticalMarginAlignment="false" OpticalMarginSize="12" FrameType="TextFrameType" StoryOrientation="Horizontal" StoryDirection="LeftToRightDirection"/><br />          <InCopyExportOption IncludeGraphicProxies="true" IncludeAllResources="false"/><br />          <XMLElement Self="di3i8" MarkupTag="XMLTag/Root" XMLContent="u186"><br />               <ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/$ID/NormalParagraphStyle"><br />                    <CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]"><br />                         <Content>ziemlich sinnfreier Text</Content><br />                    </CharacterStyleRange><br />               </ParagraphStyleRange><br />          </XMLElement><br />     </Story><br /></idPkg:Story><br /><br />what the hell ... and find 2 differences <br /><br /> TrackChanges="false" <--- in the original this was true<br /><br />and the label has lost.<br /><br /><Properties><br />    <Label><br />     <KeyValuePair Key="innerText2" Value="dbkey3322"/><br />    </Label><br /></Properties><br /><br />so i think InDesign CS 4 have a bug in the copy and paste facility; only the content will be copied but all additional infos are lo

Answer 1

Hi Bjoern,
I'm not sure that InDesign ever really copies a story, just the text in the story. Since the label and the track changes setting were associated with the story itself (and not with the text in the story), they didn't survive the transfer from one story to another.
It may depend on how you copy/paste--I'd expect the above to be true if you copy/paste with the Type tool, but I'm not sure what happens if you copy/paste all of the text frames in a story using the Selection tool. It may be that the label is maintained in that case.
Thanks,
Ole