@Jan373823687ed1 said: " … I would be okay with not being able to selcect the export-filetype and pnly use, what indesign uses internally."   Well, if you are on Windows, use the script written by Peter Kahrel that was suggested by @aniri5j9ox8tw2ln . When on macOS try Rob Day's AppleScript that can export and link the pasted image data via the Mac's clipboard to PDF:   Link Info missing in Links panel in InDesign  rob_day, Jan 07, 2020 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/link-info-missing-in-links-panel-in-indesign/m-p/10840172#M170126   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @James3669094303ct , please show us the full width of the Control Panel. My guess is, that your screen does not show the table controls because the layout window has no space. Increase the resolution how InDesign is showing the layout window or use a larger screen.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @James3669094303ct , with my German InDesign 2025 on macOS the table widgets in the Control Panel do appear: When the columns do have different widths the width input field will be empty because of the different values. The Input field for Width of a cell will only show you the width of a single cell or for all selected cells if they share the same value for width:   The Control Panel does not show the overall width of a table or the width of a range of selected cells. For that you'll need a script. See @FRIdNGE ExtendScript (JavaScript) code.   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-do-i-find-out-the-width-and-height-of-a-column-or-row-in-a-table/m-p/14987525#M597937   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

HI all, I can see the issue as well. As a workaround you could use the Percentage field for the same purpose. Instead of percentage values you can also input numbers together with measurement units like e.g. 50 mm. InDesign will scale the object accordingly with contrained proportions if the lock is set.   Just tested that workaround with my German InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

Hallo Marcus, weiter oben im Thread hat sich bereits ein Adobe-Mitarbeiter eingeschaltet, @Abhishek Rao . Du kannst ihm eine persönliche Nachricht schicken, indem Du den Namen anklickst und dann den blauen Button Nachricht benutzt.   Gruss, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@Marcus34847139gkwa schrieb: "Es ist eigentlich unmöglich unter diesen Umständen zu arbeiten. Es kann auch keine Schrift ausgewählt werden, da das Schriftenmenü nicht mehr auf klicken reagiert. Siehe angehängte Datei. "   Hallo Marcus, danke für das Video, das den Fehler zeigt. Du arbeitest da mit dem neuesten InDesign 2025 Version 20.0.0. Siehst Du das Problem auch mit InDesign 2024?   InDesign 2024 sollte sich parallel zu InDesign 2025 installieren lassen.   Ich hab's für mich mal mit meiner deutschen Version von InDesign 2025 auf einem etwas älteren MacBook Pro (2021) mit macOS 12.7.1 getestet und kann den Fehler nicht nachvollziehen.   Was Du probieren kannst:   InDesign 2025 ganz runterfahren. Den InDesign Cache löschen. Den findest Du so: Macintosh HD > Benutzer > "Dein Benutzername" > Library > Caches > Adobe InDesign > Version 20.0   Also, den gesamten Ordner Version 20.0 dort löschen!   Danach InDesign 2025 wieder starten.   Gruss, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi together, there is another thread that is showing a bug with InDesign 2025 where the padding values, the zone around the QR code, depends on the complexity of the QR code. Did not check with my German InDesign 2025, but Adobe developers can already see the problem:   Generating QR-Codes in InDesign without padding - Indesign 2025 Problem tom.jaeger Tom said: "… However, the problem in INDD2025 now is that the padding vary depending on the amount of information." https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/generating-qr-codes-in-indesign-without-padding-indesign-2025-problem/td-p/14976572   Abhishek Rao from Adobe said: "I have reproduced the issue on my end as well. Yes, the padding around the QR code is indeed getting more complex depending on the amount of information entered into the code. This seems to be an unintended behavior in InDesign 2025, where the padding automatically adjusts based on the data provided, which might not be ideal in some cases." https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/generating-qr-codes-in-indesign-without-padding-indesign-2025-problem/m-p/14976647#M596947   So, my method I outlined above will not work with InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0, because the value of padding ( InDesign 2024 and below: 10 Pt ) is different for every QR code added. Still, I have to do some tests…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

@tom.jaeger said: "However, the problem in INDD2025 now is that the padding vary depending on the amount of information."   @Abhishek Rao said: "I have reproduced the issue on my end as well. Yes, the padding around the QR code is indeed getting more complex depending on the amount of information entered into the code. This seems to be an unintended behavior in InDesign 2025, where the padding automatically adjusts based on the data provided, which might not be ideal in some cases."   Hi @tom.jaeger , thanks for this thread! That's really bad news. I still have to check, if different padding is with QR code creation with my German InDesign 2025. But I take your word for this. I'll come back after testing this. I have no idea if there is an easy solution for the problem.   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @christinaRicci , I can see the problem. The thing is that the Go to Page controls in the button do not show the page names, but a position of a page in the document. Your document has only 204 pages all in all. It does not start with a page named "1".   Example: Supposed you start your document with page 8, the button's control still will offer 1 as first occassion to go to. The 1 in the control means the first page of the document and not a page with the name of  1.   You can switch the view of page numbers in the Pages panel to "Absolute numbering" to align the numbers you see in the button's controls with the view of page numbering in the Pages panel. The Pages panel will then show the first page in your document as "1" and the last page as "204".   See: Preferences > General > Page Numbering > View: and set Page Numbering to Absolute Page Numbering. From my German InDesign:   Don't forget to switch back Page Numbering > View when done with the button.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@Abhishek Rao said: "Workaround: use ID 18.5 Eng Hebrew version. "   Well, for new installations exactly this version of InDesign ( 18.5 ) is not available in Creative Cloud Desktop App anymore. Changed in October 2024 after InDesign 2025 version 20.0 was released. Only InDesign 19.5 and 20.0 are available for installation.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@mania79 , well, yes. The developers are already working on a fix.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@borbala_1102 said: "I made a file 1 month ago in ID 2024, now I want to copy a textbox from it to a new document, made in ID 2025. I cannot do it, it becomes a pixel image. …"   See my answer from 2023 here in the same thread to workaround the issue: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-copy-paste-the-text-box-it-become-an-image/m-p/13501759#M511791   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Abhishek Rao , I still can see the issue with InDesign 2025 with documents that contain large tables. So it is not fixed. Seems that a lot of CPU speed helps and large memory and of course a M1 chip-set. But it does not go away…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Hebah Alhamwi , double-check if the option to automatically activate Adobe Fonts in the InDesign Preferences is deactivated. If that still does not work, quit InDesign, restart InDesign and see if the option diabled still stick.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@mikeb65293881 said: "yes, it works, but what's about documents.add?"   Hi Mike, hm. Will the code below work for you on InDesign Server ? It does on InDesign Desktop: var doc = app.documents.add ( { viewPreferences : { horizontalMeasurementUnits : MeasurementUnits.PIXELS , verticalMeasurementUnits : MeasurementUnits.PIXELS , strokeMeasurementUnits : MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS // There are some more… } } );   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@MrZZY said: "…can you confirm your're seeing the same issue as me? If so, are you on ID 2025 Mac?" Absolutely. I'm on macOS 12.7.1 with InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0.95 and can confirm the issue.   What is not working for me is a placed and linked PDF that I attached the Alt Text to. Saved the PDF from Adobe Illustrator 2025 as PDF/X4 and placed and linked it with InDesign 2025. The page was finally exported as PDF/X-4.   @Robert at ID-Tasker said: "…Applying Alt Text for a PDF is working fine for me." How was the placed and linked PDF saved? How did you export the PDF from the InDesign page? Could you please attach your sample PDF and your sample InDesign document so that I can have a look?   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Here is the other thread with the same problem:   Data Merge Fields Not Displaying in InDesign 2025 (v. 20.0) on macOS Sonoma John Major Printing, Oct 29, 2024 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/data-merge-fields-not-displaying-in-indesign-2025-v-20-0-on-macos-sonoma/td-p/14949655   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Gurr , hm, this is now the second time the issue comes up in this forum. Could you test my sample document from my German InDesign 2025 on macOS where the issue does not happen at all? Download my tests from my Dropbox account: DataMergeTest_INDD_2025_on_macOS.zip https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uknxjbw34cp1vd461n2b3/DataMergeTest_INDD_2025_on_macOS.zip?rlkey=272ge2981ddzy7ql7azvt27y8&dl=1   As you can see I have no issues with it on macOS 12.7.1:   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @mikeb65293881 , will document.viewPreferences.measurementUnit work for your environment?   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker , my sandwich method is just a workaround for the issue with placed vector graphics. Perhaps I did get you wrong, is your method of nesting frames working? You said: "This is from Acrobat - I'm not including nested version - as it doesn't display Alternative text - so it won't work - but works for the PDF."   This statement seems a bit contradictory…   Let me ask you: How exactly does it work for you?   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )   ... View more

Hi @John Major Printing , just tested a sample source file for data merge with my German InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0.95 on macOS 12.7.1 with a MacBook Pro from 2021 (M1 processor). No issue found. Used a *.txt and a *.csv file as source:     To test with my InDesign document and the data source files, download them from my Dropbox account: DataMergeTest_INDD_2025_on_macOS.zip https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uknxjbw34cp1vd461n2b3/DataMergeTest_INDD_2025_on_macOS.zip?rlkey=272ge2981ddzy7ql7azvt27y8&dl=1   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @MrZZY , indeed that's an issue. My workaround would be a dummy image file with no drawing pixels at all that is stacked above the vector graphic. In my test case a PhotoShop image with transparency only, 100 x 100 px:   Acrobat is showing the alt text of the frame holding the transparent image:   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@michaell2709042 said: "… But essentially in InDesign they look "greyed" out and non-supported but when you right click all the normal functions work accordingly (place linked, place copy and relink)."   Hi Michael, ah, yes. Thanks for the clarification. Context menu's Place linked command is working indeed. Now that I tested again today with a document from InDesign 2022 where I placed and linked a SVG asset and opened the document in InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0.95 all is well and good. The SVG asset is still linked to my CC Library. No broken link at all.   With InDesign 2025 only dragging the SVG asset to a page will not work.   Thanks, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @michaell2709042 , that's interesting, but in what case do you get a broken link? Alright, maybe when you open a document from e.g. InDesign 2022 with placed and linked SVG assets in InDesign 2023 or InDesign 2024.   As far as I can see with my little SVG experiment with an Adobe Illustrator SVG file stored in a CC Library, the workaround for new SVG assets on a page is to use menu command "Select Place Copy". But this will also embed the SVG asset. Are you able to link the placed and embedded SVG to a CC Library asset? And if so how do you do this?   Also imagine what happens to tons of already placed and linked SVG assets from CC Library. A thing that I have to test again; now that I know that placing and linking SVG assets are still working with InDesign 2022.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

@ChristopherVG said: "… In Illustrator the assates still works." Hi @ChristopherVG , it still works with InDesign 2022. Did some tests some weeks ago on macOS.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @InsaneIrish , as I already said some weeks ago, placing SVGs from CC Libraries in InDesign is not possible with InDesign 2023 and InDesign 2024. However it still does work with InDesign 2022.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Andrew24943677v30i , to access anchored objects inside a text cell you first have to loop the page items in the text of a cell. To gather them for a single text cell: var anchoredItemsArray = cell.texts[0].pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); Now loop the array, change the anchor position and release the anchored object: for( var n=0; n<anchoredItemsArray.length; n++ ) { anchoredItemsArray[n].anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ANCHORED; anchoredItemsArray[n].anchoredObjectSettings.releaseAnchoredObject(); };   Note: you could be in trouble if the anchored object is part of overset text.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more

Hi @Maria_FS , to resolve the issue, the reading order of columns in the placed table, do the following: [ 1 ] Select all cells in the table ( select one cell and then do the keyboard shortcut for Select All ) [ 2 ] Run a script on the selected table. The code below is written in ExtendScript (JavaScript) and should be copied to a text-only-file you will save and later rename the suffix to ".jsx" so that InDesign can execute the code in the User panel of the Scripts panel. // A table selected // Change the table direction to LTR: app.selection[0].tableDirection = TableDirectionOptions.LEFT_TO_RIGHT_DIRECTION; alert( app.selection[0].tableDirection );   In case the table direction is alread left to right and nothing changes after running the script, go with this code: // A table selected // Change the table direction to RTL: app.selection[0].tableDirection = TableDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION; alert( app.selection[0].tableDirection ); How to install ExtendScript (JavaScript) files and execute them, see: https://indiscripts.com/pages/help#hd0sb2 https://www.danrodney.com/scripts/directions-installingscripts.html   Hm. All that said, I would suggest to open the text frame holding the table in the Story Editor Window to see if the columns are reversed in a table with direction left-to-right or if your table has the wrong table direction after updating the table:   If your columns show the wrong order, but the Story Editor is showing the right order from top to bottom, your table has the wrong table direction. To correct this see the script code above for LTR.   What could be wrong with your InDesign document or your table's text frame, I have no idea. To test this one needs the Excel file and your sample InDesign document…   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert ) ... View more