Since updating to InDesign 20.4.1 the other day I'm getting very, very long save times involving the colourful beachball of woe. How can I, and is it safe to revert to a previous version? ... View more

This is one of those "surely other people need to do this", and "surely InDesign can do this" but "I have no idea what keywords to hit google with to get an answer" type things! I'm working on a book that has a digitally downloadable version of exactly the same document but with six additional pages. I looked into Alternative Layout and Liquid Layout and those tools seem to be about different page sizes and orientations rather than a book with additional pages in some scenarios.    I also tried 'hide spread', but that seems to be to only make editing the book easier and didn't obey a rebuild of the Table of Contents to _not_ show the hidden pages (so I didn't even try to create a PDF to see if hidden pages are output, I suspect they are).   How would you go about producing a book which has two versions, identical except for one has six extra pages and the necessary Table of Contents and page number adjustments to make it happen?   Maintaining two different documents isn't appealing, though it might be what I have to do in the even there are no better solutions. ... View more

I've been able to get alt text to display in PDF for JPG/PNG using 'Object' > 'Object Export Options' > 'Alt Text Source' > 'Custom', but any vector images (AI, SVG, EPS) in the same document doesn't show the alt text in the resulting PDF.   Is this normal?     <Title renamed by MOD> ... View more

I'm trying to match the following in a couple of grep styles in the same, single paragraph style:   Format: Artist Songname (date) Lots more text that needs to be unstyled like the date above.   text + endash + text (date) text   Example: Bob Dylan I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Have Never Met) (1964) I can't understand She let go of my hand And left me here facing the wall   I'm trying to style the 'singer' name with this (seems to be working fine): (?s).*~>   and the song title with this (but I don't think it's right): (?s)(?<=~>).*(?<=\()   How do I capture the song title, which could contain parentheses, but not the parenthesised date?    I also keep accidentally capturing the opening parenthesis of the date in my positive look ahead.   I was thinking along the lines of a positive lookahead that includes \([0-9]{,4}\) but it doesn't seem to work. Any and all help appreciated! ... View more

I'm wondering if there are any scripts or tricks available for the following scenario. I've tried googling but haven't found anything – of course that could mean I'm just not using the right search terms.   I often have 10 to 15 documents open at a time, all relatively similar but distinct, discrete documents. When I want to do large scale editing across them all, I have to go to each one, put them in 'normal mode', choose whether or not to show baselines, text threads, ruler, grids etc. etc.   In an ideal world, I could set up my chosen 'view style' in one document, and apply that to every open document with a script – has anyone written anything like that? Or perhaps, is there anything that offers recall of a 'view setup template' so you can recall a specific set of options without having to go through 5 or 6 shortcuts for each open document? ... View more