InDesign

I created a publication based on a previous one. It's in a new folder with the default [fonts] and [lins] subfolders. Preflight shows no linking errors. Since there are numerous unused graphics in the link folder (from the old version), I wish to create a new package before sending to production. I get the above error with no explanation. How do I do this without manually copying every link (70) and font (46)?This is CS3 on Vista Home Premium.

I'm having a really frustrating issue. I am trying to export an interactive .pdf, but when I do there is some color conversion going on. Normally I would mess with the color settings in the export dialog, but the interactive .pdf export dialogue box has no color conversion settings (presumably this means that there is no color conversion going on when exporting this type of .pdf), however when I open the .pdf several of my colors are very obviously and significantly changed. Many of the colors look like they are approximating the "out of gamut" CMYK color coversions of my RGB color swatches - but I don't know why it would bother doing this for an interactive .pdf (which is presumed to be for digital use). Any ideas? I found this thread that seemed to have a similar issue, but the proposed "correct answers" have yielded no results for me. Changing the color settings changes how they appear in the document to me, but the colors are still changing once exported. Here you can see

Indesign 21.3 / OS Tahoe 26.3.1 / Synology servermounting Synology server using SMB protocolLately, I & my teammates have been having an issue where Indesign is dropping its links to the server. Can’t save the file either. Close out of ID file and the server partitions are still mounted and I can navigate them. However, cannot work off the server. ID will open the file again, but links are missing. Closing the file does not remove the ID lock file either. Have to manually eject the partitions and remount the drive. Our IT team (outsourced) tends to be PC people and think that Adobe apps can be overly sensitive to network conditions. We’re on a very fast server & switch. They think moving back to AFP protocol may help. Anyone have experience with this issue? Please don’t say work locally. In 2026 that’s possibly the worst thing anyone can say. :D 

Fonts activated in Adobe Fonts are not visible in Adobe applications, in particular In In Design. At the same time, I have a subscription for fonts, but they don't even appear in the Cloud Desktop list so that I can sync them.How to overcome this problem?

Hi, I am working on my exam (due may 7th) when exporting to interactive pdf my buttons are working but none of my animations work ? Can anyone help me out ? I have attached my indesign file and the exported pdf. Thank you so much, Kristof

The AI upsell popup ad is unreadable in light mode. Especially bad because clicking ‘Turn it on’ will enable a feature that burns tokens.MacOS 15.7.5, Indesign 21.3 

Hi, CS3(5.0.2.640) Windows sp2 I've written about this before, thought it was solved, but it isn't. I inserted grouped images into a numbered list, and anchored them according to instructions; first making place for the group by adding a few plain lines under the numbered item where I wanted the group, then inserting the group, then cutting it, placing the insertion point in the place I wanted the group to appear, pasting the group back, and voila...lovely anchored group. However, I've come to the conclusion that if I do that, I'd better realize it's FOREVER, because I can't seem to extricate parts of the group in case I want to change their order. InDesign Help says to go to Object > Anchored Object > Release but my 'release' is GREYED OUT! Why? and nothing else that I've tried, works. Could it be, that there is a frame around the entire page? I tried to delete that frame but when I try to, everything on the page isdeleted, and when I try to move that frame away, everything

var oPath = "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Photoshop.exe";var nPath = oPath.replace(/\\/g, "\/");alert(nPath); 

Can I recover my old forum account under the name David W Goodrich? Over the decades I've contributed useful information on various technical issues -- CJK, footnotes, metadata -- but now my attempts to login usually get ignored; occasionally I see a message saying the account was deleted or banned.  To my knowledge neither is true, and even if they were I believe Adobe was supposed to send an e-mail explanation, which I have not received.  After long discussion on-line Adobe's general help told me to create a new Community account with a different e-mail to log in and ask the Community -- and I cannot use my old name.  Can someone help me?David W. Goodrich

Hi everyone.I posted a thread on the Photoshop forum about the discrepancy between displayed dimensions and actual dimensions.I always thought that the print dimensions in Photoshop were the actual dimensions, but that’s not the case.I’ve found that Illustrator (ID) has the same issue.For example, in the image below, the ruler in ID shows a width of 100 mm. When I set the zoom to “Actual Size,” the bottom-left corner shows 100% zoom, but when I measure the screen with a ruler, I find that the corresponding width on my physical ruler is 11.5 mm. When I set the zoom level in the bottom-left corner to 88%, the image measures 100 mm in width on the screen. This might be significant. For example, could actual size have an impact on “perceived design”? I suspect this has to do with my monitor’s resolution.So, is there a way to make the width on the computer match the actual physical width? 

I obtained the caret (text cursor) position inside a text frame using ITextCaret::GetCaretBounds(). According to the documentation, this position is based on the pasteboard coordinate system.How can I convert this pasteboard coordinate to a screen coordinate?

Since this post seems to be marked as resolved after the Adobe Community update and it isn’t resolved, I’m creating a new post and linking to the old one. All the relevant information can be found here (at least all of the information that survived the Adobe Community update -- there are several missing posts). Long story short -- when you install Windows Security updates, some system fonts -- Times New Roman for me -- throw a missing font error in InDesign. This error only goes away if you uninstall the Windows Security update. More detailed info can be found in the linked post.This issue has been going on for literally months, since last November, and we’ve got bupkis to show for it -- less than bupkis now that some of the original posts have been nerfed with the Adobe Community update and the original thread appears dead. Adobe. Please. Help. This is beyond frustrating now... 

When using the Data Merge feature in InDesign, I am encountering an issue where the content from my second document (B), which I am trying to data merge into my main document (A), gets repeated multiple times. Specifically, the merged data appears like 'aaaaaaaaab1aaaaaaaaab2' and continues in this pattern for all records of document B. This results in an excessive number of pages—up to 1000 pages. How can I resolve this issue so that the data merges correctly, without unnecessary repetition, and I can achieve the intended layout?

I’m having two issues using Peter Kahrel’s sidenote script:The sidenote_reference style is not being applied to the superscript footnote numbers in the text The sidenotes are retaining overrides. I can remove these randomly, but can’t figure out how to avoid having any overrides.Both issues are visible in this screenshot: Note that the superscript footnote marker has successfully been replaced by the Sidenote anchor+number, but the style has not been applied. The sidenote itself is showing the blue ‘Style Overrde Highlighter,’ showing that an override has been applied The text is imported from an rtf file, and the footnotes appear to import correctly. My Footnote Options are set to the most basic defaults. Has anyone else encountered this? How can I fix this, without manually applying the style to every reference?Indesign 2025, running on a Mac, using latest version of sidenotes.

I wrote a newspaper column using Pagemaker for several years. I cannot access the ones written before 1996. I am hoping to convert the columns into a blog but can’t access the text.I have tried using Indesign but the files are not recognized. I tried opening with Word, but each column (roughly 1000 words each) is roughly 400 pages long as it is filled with formatting detritis.Any suggestions?

I have a bunch of images I’m placing, and doing so by entering file names.When I search, InDesign ignores my OS settings (Mac) and searches my whole drive.Not a huge deal because I’m working from a files that are found easily, but is there a way to limit the search to the last folder from which something was places, perhaps unless otherwise navigated?thanks

I’m facing an issue with Tagged PDF export from InDesign.A single paragraph (with no hard returns or forced line breaks) is getting split into multiple [P] tags — each line appears as a separate paragraph in tools like PDFix and Acrobat Tags panel.Details:Text is continuous in one frameNo soft returns (Shift+Enter) or manual breaksUsing standard paragraph stylesIssue appears only after PDF exportExpected:→ One [P] tag for the full paragraphActual:→ Each line exported as separate [P] tagsHas anyone encountered this? Is this related to composer settings or a known tagging issue?Thanks in advance!

Hi All,  We are an architect company in UK and 2 of our colleagues in the office have updated their 2020 iMac's to OS Tahoe and although their hardware is more than capable of running InDesign & Vectorworks at the same time, since updating, they can't run these 2 programmes at the same time. After doing some reading and Chat GPT, it seems Adobe are having problems with compatibility with Tahoe? Vectorworks (even 2024) seems to be ok with the update. Are there any plans for better compatibility with Tahoe soon? Or any tips in the meantime would be most appreciated. Thanks Roger 

Hello, I’m formatting some text and would like to target characters within a set of parentheses, but only the first set (if more than one parenthetical occurs within the paragraph).Example:word (pronunciation) n. definition definition (second parenthetical); additional context Where only “(pronunciation)” would be styled and not “(second parenthetical)”. I found a prior thread with two strings that work to target all of the parentheticals within a paragraph. However, I don’t know how to only target the first parenthetical. I’ve tried to wrap the expressions in brackets and adding “?” or “+?” but those don’t work, and that’s the limit of my GREP understanding.i.e.((?<=\()[^)]+)+? Is there a way to target only the first parenthetical in a paragraph? If it’s relevant, I’m also using a nested style to target the first word to apply a different style.

Hi there!I create large book files for conference proceedings (the page range varies between 200 - 850 pages depending on the conference type). I am looking to mitigate the amount of time spent revising individual files, the TOC, and relinking images once they are added to a book file.Explanation of my current process:I am having authors add there content (text and images) to an InDesign template and then having them send me a packaged InDesign file. This is meant to ensure they use the correct layout and font styles. As expected, some authors aren’t in tune with InDesign and are either copy and pasting incorrectly or changing settings in the template file. When I receive the files, I also open and review/edit each file. By the end of my review all font styles, figures, etc. are linked properly.Then I create the book file. In the book file I add my interior cover, front matter and the separate author ID files. Once I complete another round of font style and figure link review, I create

How do I move a layer to the top and move an object to a specific layer?For example, I have three layers, and I want the final order from top to bottom to be:A1A2A3.I’d like to know how to use code to move A1 to the top.Additionally, I want to move the selected object to A2.I found this, but I don’t seem to understand it:https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/script-for-object-styles-being-applied-to-specific-layer-880528Thank you.

Hello community. Ive made a document with some buttons to navigate to certain pages, when I export as interactive PDF I get the following warning.  But then I export as Epub, and view it in Thorium and the buttons are working fine.I asked ChatGTP and it's telling me Indesign can export Interactive PDFs, but I'm doing something incorrect. So do interactive buttons function in exported PDF interactive, or this function is only for Epubs?Thank you.PS: I view the interactive PDF in my adobe acrobat reader, where I can see a little hand hovering over my buttons, but nothing happens, if this information helps to solve my problem.

This issue was posted by a user on 9/17/254 in an InDesign-specific forum, which I cannot gain access to via login. User said: "Certain dialogue boxes appear partially off screen and can't be moved back on screen. For example, the Find/Change dialogue box and the Export dialogue box [specifically export to PDF (Print)] have both become almost unusable for me because important sections of those two boxes are located off screen. See attached screenshots. Dialogue boxes that allow you to expand them by clicking and dragging the edges/corners of the box are less of an issue - they often appear partially off screen, but once they're expanded at all, the whole dialogue box pops back into view. The Find/Change and Export dialogues do not allow this kind of expansion so that trick does not work for them. I've tried all the fixes that I've seen suggested for this issue online, including restarting my computer and changing the resolution of my displays, but none have worked. I've even updat

Already an older version of ID had this bug, but years ago the screen was white grey, now dark greay.how to happend: 1. Mac sleep, 2. Mac awake, 3. all ID screen is dark grey, even if refreshing or changing zoom or position. 4. I can select elements, but I see only the blue selectors, not the content or background. 5. need to quit ID and to restart to work as usual. 6. not seeing the content I sometimes do not know If I should save or not – risking to loose the work. 

So here’s a new one to me.I have a Google Sheet that contains content copied from the web so that HTML formatting could be seen in code form. For example:Here is a bunch of copy, <i>and this part is in italics.</i>However, when I copy from Sheets and paste into InDesign, I get this, with quotes added, and the HTML removed:“Here is a bunch of copy, and this part is in italics.”--------------------Now, if I add certain characters immediately before or after the <> in the code, such as Here is a bunch of copy, <i>and this part is in italics.</i>1it pastes without adding quotes… but I tried also doing this with a ~, and it didn’t work.--------------------And by the way - this doesn’t seem limited to InDesign, as it even happens pasting into a text editor… I think it’s something being created within Sheets that’s doing it. Haven’t