InDesign

Hi all - hoping someone can help with this. I have many documents that I have made where I add frames and insert images, as one does. However, after saving and reopening, if I want to delete a picture but keep the frame, the frame disappears. It is still selectable, but it does not appear as normal with the x in the middle. This is incredibly frustrating as I cannot see where my frames are and cannot plan my document appropriately. Frame edges are set to "show", screen mode is set to normal, all objects are set to be printing. What is even more frustrating is that when I make a new frame, it does have the x in it. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks! 

Hey Adobe Stock,   I so love the idea of browsing Adobe Stock for InDesign templates. Many of the templates are just beautiful. I imagine the great time savings I am about to enjoy.   But then I begin to deal with paragraph and character styles in a state of confused overrides. Individual styles are defined in ways that they shouldn't. Layers are not employed in a consistent, usable way. Color-block frames are rotated 90 degrees for no reason. Parent pages disagree with document setups. Grid and guides need consistency. Frames don't cooperate with grids.   A well-made template might also have notes that warn about the language the template was built in, the color model, the document preference settings, among other things.   Two things are equally important in a template: The beautiful artistry of the layout and also the efficiency of the fundamental building blocks of long-document needs. Otherwise, it can lead a user to take longer to produce a finished piece. And

Scenario 1: When the cursor is in a cell, select the entire column of the table (excluding the table header and footer). Scenario 2: When text is selected within a cell, executing the script will select all cells in this column of the current frame (excluding the header and footer rows).@Robert at ID-TaskerLong time no see. What big things have you been up to lately?He wrote a piece of code that selects based on matching styles, but sometimes the cell styles might differ, so it doesn't work.app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "To Layout! …"); function main() { // Place the Cursor in any Cell: var myCell = app.selection[0].parent; var myCellStyle = myCell.appliedCellStyle; var myColumnCells = myCell.parentColumn.cells; var C = myColumnCells.length, c; var myCounter = 0; var StartRow = 0; var EndRow = 0; for (c = 0; c < C; c++) { // alert(c); if (myColumnCells[c].appliedCe

Is there a way to bulk add a full font familiy instead of the tedium of searching and clicking through them via fonts.adobe.com?  Is there a way to do this from within InDesign to avoid the tedium of being out of the app, clicking through a family font stack, then back again?

Is there an add-on that can help with just having tooltips appear when hovering over the item in InDesign?  This is a basic on many software tools, it feels clunky to get started and going with InDesign.  

Hello,I'm encountering some issue with InDesign while working in collaboration with my colleagues on OneDrive.Up until June 2025 everything worked fine. From July until now everytime I open an InDesign file all the links seems fine (green dot, no error) until I try to export a PDF. In that moment an error window appears and says that some files might be unavailable. Meanwhile in the link panel I cannot choose "Update all link" and neither the "update link in the same folder" option is available. This means that I have to re-link each image/file by hand.Someone might say I could be a slow connection issue but file transfer such as wetransfer is working just fine. I also tried to uninstall & reinstall both InDesign (20.5) and OneDrive. Nothing has changed.I can recognize the broken link on images because they appear like that in the preview mode(see screenhots). Thanks in advance!best - Andrea 

Hi!Problem with my creative suite 5.5 design premium, it says activation limit reached. I have already worked with my new computer over the year. Now it says, that this serial number already installed on 2 computers. Adobe Acrobat X did automatic install some days ago and then it started.

  Development is still ongoing, but if you're a beginner, or perhaps someone who tends to remember birthdays rather than keyboard shortcuts, this might be for you. Pay attention! This powerful tool is in early development and always creates a "Radial Menu" around your cursor, giving you much faster access to all your tools, for instance.The radial menu isn't just for tools—you can launch anything through it: your favorite InDesign scripts, open frequently used folders, create and place custom library elements into a document, launch your favorite playlist, open 10 tabs in Chrome, scrape text from a website, translate selected text in InDesign and paste it directly into the document in the desired language... essentially, anything you can think of.It's possible to create profiles, menu designs, custom sounds, submenus and many other settings.I am not the original author of the Radial Menu; I am creating a modification of it for practical

My current code looks like this, where I'm using 'item.parent.parent'.but it feels a bit clunky.Is there a better way to access `parentTextFrames[0]`?var item = app.selection[0]; if (item.constructor.name == “Cell”) { var textFrame = item.parent.parent; }  

Hello,I'm experciencing something weird with indesign as of today. When I  copy+paste a text or lines from one indesign file to another it gets pasted as an image. How do I stop this from happening? I hope someone knows how to fix this, because it is really annoying!Thank you in advance.Kind Regards,Marlissa{Renamed by MOD}

InDesign 20.5Apple M4 - Sequoia 15.6.1 As per title, Swatches panel not working properly - cannot see the Fill & Stroke portion. It is working on the Tools panel. Seems to be new and possibly related to latest update. See screenshot. Restarted InDesign but didn't fix the problem. Anyone else?

Hi everyone,Our organization is currently evaluating options for storing our Adobe design files in the cloud. We have thousands of InDesign and Illustrator files, many of which contain linked assets. Altogether, the volume is close to 2 TB, and we’re looking to move away from local hard drive storage.We’re considering Adobe Creative Cloud as a potential solution, but we’d love to hear from others who’ve done similar large-scale transfers:Is Creative Cloud a reliable option for storing and managing this volume of design files?Has anyone here migrated a similar-sized library before? Any lessons learned?Is there a way to bulk upload folders (not just individual files) while preserving structure and links?Any insights, tips, or alternative suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Is there any command similiar to "array" (meaning, array selected objects along a line?(i'm NOT refering to Step and repet command)

Hello, do you know if it is possible to search for a specific anchored object? I have a text in which several icons are inserted, but one of them is higher than the others. I would like to apply a vertical offset to it... but only to that one. Thank you for your help! InDesign2024

Hi all, Has anyone had any experience creating invisible endnotes in InDesign? This article was helpful (“Invisible” Endnotes - CMOS Shop Talk), but didn't really tell me how to make the endnotes in text disapear. I could make them tiny and white, but the space for them would still be there so some of them would end up looking like double spaces. Any advice you all have would be great.

Hello Experts, I'm using the InDesign 20.4.1. Steps to reproduce the issues:1. Create a master page containing the multiple text frames.2. Apply the master page to the interior pages (ensure there are at least 5–10 pages).3. Save the document, close it, and reopen it to clear the history stack. Here is my script to undo the overridden textframe by the script: var Doc = app.activeDocument;for (z = 0; z < Doc.pages.length; z++) {page = Doc.pages[z];var count = 0;for (j = 0, k = page.appliedMaster.textFrames.length / 2 + 1; j <= k; j++) {if (page.appliedMaster.textFrames[j].constructor.name == "TextFrame") {try { page.appliedMaster.textFrames[j].override(page); count++; } catch (e) { continue; }try { Doc.undo(); } catch (e) { alert(e);}}}}If there is no undoable data, the process must be routed to catch statement and alert the error message (e).While running the above script, the attached uncaught exception error occurred. Note: I couldn't reproduce the same

Hey, im trying to import an ilustration from AI to Indesign, and no matter how i do it (SVG, AI, PDF, PNG) it ends up pixelated, and if i try copying and pasting this message shows, any help on how to fix it?? i dont seem to find the solution on my own. thank you in advanced.

I am at my wits end. Windows 11. 64 gigs ram, Latest i7 processor, rtx 3080 12 gig. Of late indesign has turned into molasses. Critical areas of concern are updating page number in books, and updating contents page. I am not talking a while, I mean a 40 page document taking 3 mins plus to update. But asides from this the whole interface is just rubbish. In the end I decided the nuclear option and downloaded CC cleaner and acro cleaner and nuked the entire install, everything. Then reinstalled. Indesign back to great, things flying, fantastic. 2 days later, boom back to square one. Is there a fix for this, beyond being told to reset preferences, because this is not the issue and I have proven that? 

where??? EDIT: thanks for the replies, but I am aware of master pages but what I want to do is create a guide on a live page (without having to use master page as I can't see content on the page I need) where that guide will line up with content, then go to next page and see that same guide so I can line up more similar content. And then delete those guides. Using master page is not helpful in this manner. Regarding the "button" here is a search result: 

Bonjour,  Je souhaiterais écrire les numéros de page active en toutes lettres et en anglais (one, two, three, four, etc), y a-t-il un moyen d'automatiser cela ?Merci par avance pour votre aide !  

Hi everyone. I wonder if anyone smarter than me can give me a nudge in the right direction here.... I've put together a script that automatically formats the text of a selected box to general body copy  and then formats the first three paras as headers and one of two intro styles, all using paragraph styles. So far so good. But... Occassionally the text will have some italicised words in it. When I manually set Paragraph Styles it don't disrupt these italics, it just change the font family and the size, but leave the italicisation as it is. The same is not true of the same process when i use this script. I cannot work out why there would be a difference here. Trying to find out more I came across a post that was answered with what might have been a solution by Jongware back in 2012, but his link points to what now seems to be a walware infested site, so i think the sands of time have swallowed that avenue... Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? here's the c

Make the image the same width as the textFrame, then place the image on top and align it to the left.There are two scenarios:the image is outside the textFrame or the image is inserted inside the textFrame.There may be multiple images, but only one textFrame

My friend is working to transfer files from Word & Pages by copying and pasting to format into InDesign software for a book project.Now I bought a PDFMARKZ software to eliminate her task of doing copy & paste for all 60 books to format!Next step I am stuck on is trying to figure out how to use the same User setting that is in the finished formatted InDesign for the PDF files thats transfered to InDesign.Does anyone have recommendations or solutions to my question?

Good morning Everyone,   I am hoping someone can help me.... I've been asked to create a document that would be ESEF-ready. I use InDesign as my favoured document software but this "ESEF" is new to me. If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be a massive help!   Thank you for your time, Rob

Hello! Thank you for your time.  To keep it brief: - making an A5 flyer to send to a print shop- can confirm the page size is 148 x 210mm- have added a bleed of 3mm and margin of 3mm as requested by print shop- when i export to PDF, the document far exceeds the 160 x 222mm, where it seems to have added another 9mm / 4.5mm each side. This doesn't seem to change if I try to turn off one or other or the corner markings.  Please help! Many thanks