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Sep 08, 2025
04:27 AM
Hi. There is more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak. You should speak to the typesetter ('layouter') to see what tehy prefer. Newer versions of InDesign support endnotes but older versions do not. Perhaps it might be easier to stick to footnotes in Word and ask the typesetter to make any changes necessary in InDesign. On the other hand, it can be useful to have the Word manuscript presented as desired in the final design so you could also go with this option. There is not that much in it and someone familiar with InDesign should be able to handle both scenarios. The designer might make a decision based on whether there are likely to be future updates. In this case thenotes could be kept dynamic whearas if future changes are unlikely then the notes could be kept static and there is no need to use the InDesign endnotes feature. In the past I have found it useful in certain cases to rely on the numbering features of Word (e.g. notes, cross refs) but then convert these to plain text in InDesign so they become static.
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Jul 09, 2025
07:01 AM
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Thank you @Abhishek Rao for your support. I found out what the problem was. Short answer: a few words of outlined text in a table ... as soon as this was removed from the ID document the document could be exported to EPUB with no problems (both with style and without) Long answer: as mentioned, ID was failing at the same place everytime; each time I attempted to export an EPUB a series folders and files would appear at the designated save location ... it was clear these were the internal files of the EPUB that never quite made it to completion (i.e. being packaged inside an EPUB file). My document included a series of images in between all the text and these were exported one by one until the export routine reached a particular image in the document and then the next image would not be exported. It was always the same result for each export attempt. I could see that the next image in the image export sequence was a few outlined words in a table. As soon as this outlined text was removed the EPUB export was successful. I have no idea why this particular outline was causing a problem as 19 other outlines, at positions both before and after in the document, and with similar table contexts, exported without issue. So, to come back to the original question, here is an updated list of things to check when exporting to EPUB or HTML: remove all cross refs and links remove all no break formatting export to IDML and re-save in INDD format remove discretionary hyphens remove outlined text
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Jul 04, 2025
09:02 AM
Could you give the path for where the effects are in the menu please.
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Jul 02, 2025
04:31 AM
At the time of writing, Adobe Firefly includes: 124 effect presets 9 colour and tone presets 9 lighting prests 10 camera angle presets Are these presets also available in Photoshop or do they have to be recreated manually?
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Jul 02, 2025
04:25 AM
...1 year on from the original post, here are a couple of links that I found useful https://knowledge-tower.com/en/adobe-firefly-effect-settings-guide (last updated 22 Aug 2024) https://www.panosfx.com/photoshop-tutorials/explore-all-photoshop-firefly-effects (excellent resource but only covers artistic generations (not photo generations))
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Jul 02, 2025
03:38 AM
Its a good question that is getting attention in other threads on the forum https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-firefly-discussions/product-placement-image-in-firefly/m-p/15183838 https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-firefly-discussions/firefly-composition-object-not-showing/m-p/14838096
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Jul 02, 2025
03:36 AM
The problem appears to be that users with the enterprise capability are making tutorial videos about the feature ... not realising that their non-enterprise viewers do not have the feature. Cross referncing other threads on this theme: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-firefly-discussions/product-placement-image-in-firefly/m-p/15183838 https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-firefly-ideas/using-firefly-as-a-styling-filter-for-existing-photos/idi-p/14392873
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Jul 02, 2025
03:33 AM
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I am curious why this feature is only available to enterprise customers. Maybe it is part of rolling out? Starting with enterprise customers it will then make its way to the rest of us? Maybe it is because enterprise customers are considered more responsible in working with images of real-world items? For now it seems like a big gap in Firefly capability ... Firefly is good for brainstorming ideas but lacks a crucial function of working with a real-world image e.g. producing a corporate head and shoulders portrait from a passport photo or stylising an image of a product.
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Jul 01, 2025
02:32 AM
Hi @Abhishek Rao Actually, there was no opportunity to send a crash report. ID just closed after about 10 secs without warning. A 1KB EPUB file would be created and an associated EPUB directory but all the subdirectories would be empty apart from a few of the images (always the same images). I take your point about breaking the document up into sections but that is not straight forward, as you know and unfortunately I am not sure how to specify a page range for EPUB export and I note this question on the topic remains unanswered after 5 years.
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Jun 30, 2025
09:12 AM
Hi, I am looking to develop a list of common reason why InDesign might crash when exporting to EPUB. Looking in the community I see that endnotes and hyperlinks might be a problem. Any other common things to look out for? I appreciate this may seem an open-ended question and some crashes may be to do with processing power and file corruption, but I am just asking for common problems outside these areas as I am not able to share the file. Here is a scenario: I am working on a lenghty ID document (600+ page plus) with images, tables, multiple fonts, bi-directional text, etc. The export to EPUB consistently crashes, even with basic export settings, seemingly after just the first few images are exported. However, previous versions of the document (backups before finalising) do not crash when exporting to EPUB. So, my hunch is that there is some small type of formatting that occurred in the last phase of the project which is causing the crash (nothing fundamental like adding endnotes or changing the page size). What could the cause of the crashing be? Here are some things I have tried... remove all cross refs remove all no break formatting export to IDML and re-save in INDD format remove discretionary hyphens any other ideas?
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May 02, 2025
03:31 AM
Thank you for the replies. I couldn't find a way to show the centre of the bounding box in Illustrator. That would have helped me overlooking the difference between the centre of a geometrical shape and the centre of the bounding box. In InDesign the centre of the bounding box is at least shown when the object is being dragged.
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May 01, 2025
09:28 AM
Thank you for the reply. The next question then would be "why does the pucker and bloat tool not give radial symmetry?". If it does not work symmetrically or with a predicatable path then it seems hard to understand how it does work.
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May 01, 2025
07:30 AM
Hi. I am trying to use the bloat tool to create a 5 petal flower from a regular pentagon. In the Illustrator menu I navigate to EFFECT > DISTORT & TRANSFORM > PUCKER & BLOAT. However, as shown in the screenshot, the result is not symmetrical. The red stroke is the pentagon stroke to which I am applying the effect. The other shapes are just to show alignment. The stroke is not aligned to the pixel grid and so it should be free to be drawn. We can see that the different petals are different shapes. Admitedly, I am using CS6 but is this the problem? Is there something I am missing. I like the bloat effect for the type of flower I am trying to create but it needs to be symmetrical. Is there a better way to create the symmetrical 5 petal flower without drawing it?
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Apr 29, 2025
05:03 AM
Thank you for taking the time to revisit this Wael. I agree that a version that opens the export dialogue would be useful. However, I am afraid your script did not work for me with ID CS6 on a 700+ page doc which needed a PDF for each 20 pages. ID crashed and closed without giving an error. I tried this twice. First time: I tried to extract from page 40 onwards in batches of 20. Second time: I started my page list from 1 with no gaps in the sequence. The script by @rob day worked for me very well. I pasted a list in the pop-up box "1-20, 21-40, 41-60..." and PDFs were exported to the working folder of the document. After each PDF is exported it is opened which means a lot of PDFs were opened! Lastly, there is another thread in the community on this topic which has a Github sin-off: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/script-export-page-ranges-to-multiple-pdfs-fast-export-workflow/td-p/14849389 https://github.com/MoebiusSt/exportPageRangesToPDF.jsx
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Apr 28, 2025
07:34 AM
Hi there @Kindra21954255ukh9 , which version of InDesign are you using? I see @Laubender reproduces the issue with a recent version of InDesign. However, apart from font substitution, are any minor changes made to the text to force recomposition e.g. adding and deleting a space in order to force realignment? I experenced a quirk of InDesign (as detailed here) but turns out I was using CS6 and the problem did not occur in recent versions of InDesign. Your post caught my attention because, in addition to previous experience, I am getting issues with alignment of an Arabic font I have been experimenting with. Sometimes, as you say, it looks fine in InDesign but after exporting to PDF I see there are some misalignments. In my latest case the issue seems to arise from fully justifified paragraphs.
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Apr 28, 2025
02:53 AM
InDesign is much easier to use, especially if you set a text with floats. By @Peter Kahrel "Float" i.e. TeX term for floating elements -- in InDesign, a text box or some other independent insert on a page, right?
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Apr 25, 2025
04:40 AM
Are you looking for a way of finding those "white rivers" in the InDesign? By @Robert at ID-Tasker No. Just wondering whether TeX etc. is as good as InDesign, typographically speaking.
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Apr 25, 2025
01:31 AM
Hi. InDesign may have many advantages (user interface, community support, suite of related products, etc.) but specifically in terms of typography, we are taught that it is page composition and kerning algorithms that place InDesign ahead of word processors. For example, a page of text in MS Word will have rivers of white and there is no optical kerning feature for fonts which need a bit of extra help. My question is whether alternative page layout typesetting software such as Tex and Quark can replicate, rival, or surpass InDesign with regard to typography, either out-of-the-box or with additional configuration? Coming back to the MS Word example, out-of-the box, i.e. using default settings, a page of text will have rivers of white flowing through it. But with some configuration of justification settings and hyphenation a designer might get better results. Was just wondering the situation with Tex, Quark, and others.
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Apr 24, 2025
08:29 AM
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Thanks Peter, this works for me on an index using "Latin digits" (Arabic numerals of Latin script) (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). However for an index using "Arabic digits" (Indian numerals of Arabic script) (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩) there was no change. Now, in this Arabic index, I notice that the digits were "hard coded" such that changing the language preferences in the paragraph settings did not change the style of digits (even though the preferred digits were available in the font). Of course, there are different styles of digits in use in languages which use the Arabic script (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, Urdu) and there are many other styles of difits around the world. I do not suppose that a simple script can account for every form of "hard coded" digits where we have the correct glyph for a digit but it is not necessarily recognised as a digit by the system (e.g. Windows, Mac) and/or the software (InDesign). So, for these alternative-language digit adjustments, first we have to replace the digits then we have to use the adjustment script, then change the digits back again. I just thought I would mention it here for posterity.
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Jan 23, 2025
08:58 AM
I looked at the YouTube video you linked above. I understand the 6 steps and the idea that IDT just works through the manual steps taken by the user. In IDT I can see how to load and select the required text frames. However, what is the pathway for "select contents of the TextFrame" How to you switch to another the document to paste the contents of the clipboard? How do you switch back to the InDesign document? How do you loop a routine and then tell IDT to stop?
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Jan 23, 2025
06:33 AM
So if there is a story that flows across multiple pages, IDT can still copy the text page by page? How is that specified. Do you need to break the threads between the text frames first?
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Jan 23, 2025
05:50 AM
Yes, that's right, as you said it: the text exported from InDesign needs to be searchable e.g. for manual indexing (I am not looking to use InDesign's indexing feature)
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Jan 23, 2025
03:42 AM
An indexer needs searchable text and to see pagination but not necessarily formatting. I am sure others can suggest applications where this priority is important and that my own application is not completely idiosyncratic such that we need to worry about the manner of producing the PDF or the method of the indexer. For example, if the text of a novel, scholarly book, or legal document goes into a databse for archiving the format would be less important but the text would need to be searchable and pagination would need to be identified. So the question is, when PDF is not a suitable option, how do we get paginated textual output from InDesign?
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Jan 23, 2025
03:20 AM
Yes, I think exporting each page as plain or rich text separately is the way to go. The problem is collating the information. Say, if I have a 500 page document and each page is exported as a separate text file. Then I have to run a separate operation to put all the text together in one file, but clearly demaracted with page numbers and/or separators. If I use a script or ID Tasker, can I export text from an InDesign document page by page or does it have to be frame by frame or story by story? If story by story it would mean I have to break the threads between the frames which is not a good option. Thanks for the InCopy suggestion but that would also mean the indexer has to license the font also.
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Jan 23, 2025
03:07 AM
Hi @rOB . I appreciate the input. The output to PDF definitely renders the InDesign text as text and not as outline. In fact I even tried running an OCR on the PDF to see if it would help but the error was that the "page contains renderable text".
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Jan 23, 2025
03:04 AM
Hi Mike. I could go into the details of how the PDF was produced but it might be a bit of a distraction as the post is asking how to work around the issue that might be experienced by different users in different ways. In my case it does indeed seem there is some restriction in the font with regard to embedding. But for the sake of completeness, I tried making the PDF in different ways i.e. exporting to PDF, printing to Adobe PDF, printing to Microsoft PDF, printing to Postscript. Subsets of the fonts are embedded as shown in the PDF properties. On one iteration I reduced the percentage from 100% to 1% in File>Export>Export Adobe PDF>Advanced. The font designer says that due to the complexity of the font (an Arabic font), InDesign makes some internal changes. I imagine this to be for stylistic alternates, ligatures and justification characters (kashida) as mentioned in the original post. For my case it is interesting to copy a few words directly from InDesign as plain text (it is from the first line of the Arabic placeholder text): لق البرناول بالترغب لا خلا الطبالتستطيع The same string copied from the PDF is as follows: عطت�ست ب�ال طل خ لا ا ب لا غ� ر ال ت اول ب ن ر ال ب ل ق By Unicode font, I mean a font which uses Unicode mapping for the glyphs.
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Jan 21, 2025
07:18 AM
Hi! The problem... I have an InDesign document which 100s of pages and different text stories. I can export or print a PDF document which looks just fine. However, the text in the PDF is not searchable. I am not sure why. Maybe it is down to embedding restrictions in the font or the way the PDF engine is handling stylistic alternates as I do not get this problem with other fonts. The font is a Unicode font, by the way. The issue... Although the text can be viewed as a PDF, it needs to be indexed by a 3rd-party without InDesign or the fonts. Ideally, they would be able to work from the PDF searching for words and phrases using the search feature and then noting the page number. A solution? For the purposes of creating an index what would be the best work around in lieu of a PDF? Exporting to rich text or plain text would be an option if the page numbers could be noted. But what would the procedure be for a script? Possbile procedure in words... Export to text file Create text file Write "---Start of page n---" in file, where n is the page number Export text of page n to file Write "---End of page n---" in file Write "---Start of page n+1---" in file, where n is the page number Export text of page n+1 to file Write "---End of page n+1---" in file etc. until end of InDesign document Exporting text to a text file is easy through the user menu but, of course, the pagination is lost so I am trying to retain a sense of the pagination.
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Dec 23, 2024
05:19 AM
Thank you @Peter Kahrel , worked for me in CC2025. But raises the questions as to whether your pre-CC2018 footnote to endnote script could be modified to convert SELECT FOOTNOTES BASED ON GREP MATCH ONLY, rather than coverting ALL footnotes. I did take a look at the script but couldn't figure it out myself.
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Dec 23, 2024
02:41 AM
Thank you, and I am glad to see you dealt with this 3 years ago ... but you give no clues about the script! Would you consider sharing or at least describing? 🙂
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Dec 19, 2024
03:11 AM
Hello, The latest versions of InDesign CC have the functionality for converting endnotes to footnotes or vice versa. This conversion can be for all notes in the document or select notes. My question is whether specific notes can be found in the document based on formatting (e.g. with a GREP search) and then the found note is converted. Consider the following footnotes in a document... 1. Bla bla note one. 2. [Lorem ipsum note two.] 3. Bla bla bla bla another note here. 4. [Eeny meeny miny mo.] 5. Ip dip do the cat has the flu. So, I want to find the footnotes in square brackets. I know I can do this with a Grep search which would be something like: Find: ~F\t\[.+\] Find format - Paragraph style: Footnote paragraph The question is whether it is possible to covert the found text into an endnote other than manually through the right click options or TYPE > CONVERT FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES options. Does this require a script or can it be done through Find/Replace? If only there ws a way to select all of the required footnotes then the menu option could be used to convert them to endnotes. This would also work.
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