InDesign

An indesign file stopped working - it wouldn't load all the way (it's 45pg). I tried opening it over the course of a day, and it kept not loading. Then, it said the file was damaged/corrupted (Error Code 03). When I try to restore previous versions, it says there are none. I tried copying & renaming, and then opening that file but it still didnt work.  What do I do? This file took over 3 months of cumulative work, and I really need to be able to access it.

I've noticed in the last 2 days InDesign has started to import a text box with the file name of any images/files that are imported into a document. So when you drag and drop, firstly you get the image on your cursor then second an automatic text box wants to paste in. WHY?! And most importantly HOW do I turn this awful new feature off? Please help. 

No matter what I do in find/replace in either text or GREP, I cant seem to find a way of getting rid of these hidden characters without manaully deleting. On a 50 page mail merge document, this simply is a real pain.Importing from a cleaned CSV file and can replace other hidden characters.

Is there a way to arch text in In-Design in a similar to how Illustrator allows you to  arch text thru its Envelope Distort feature? (If not, it would sure be handy if a feature like that coule be added to In-Design) Thanks.

I am working on an art book and need to place photos that have been specifically segregated in an album. ID 2025, Mac Sequoia - only the main photo library is accessible. Is there a way to make the albums accessible? I have given ID full disk access.Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

I am considering uploading the contents of plugin_sdk to ChatPDF or similar platforms to ask questions to the AI.Is this action acceptable?

Bonjour la communauté francophone. Je sèche depuis plusieurs heures sur un problème qui ne me semble pourtant pas si compliqué. Je dois faire un livre qui contient le scénario d'une pièce de théâtre en allemand que je dois importer sur les pages gauches du livre, et sa traduction en français que je dois importer en vis-à-vis, sur les pages droites du livre.J'ai bien lu qu'il "suffisait" de créer un gabarit sur lequel on rajoute simplement un bloc texte sans le lier sur la page gauche et sur la page droite, de retourner sur la page avec ce gabarit et de faire importer en n'oubliant de rester appuyer sur la touche majuscule. J'ai essayé 150 fois avec toutes les variantes possibles, rien à faire. Au mieux, le texte en allemand se déverse des pages gauches aux pages droites en créant le nombre de pages nécessaires, au pire, il me créé un bloc texte sans aucun lien et je dois rajouter les liaisons à la main. Comme je suis appelé à refaire ce genre d'exercice, j'aimerais bien

 We use data merge frequently, using the same Excel files and InDesign templates over and over. Over the past week or so, our merges have stopped working, and we get this attached error message. We have removed any placeholders in both InDesign and Excel that are not being used. We have tried creating various .csv files from Excel. What could we be doing wrong, our workflow has not changed. Thank you! 

I have a grid of image frames in an InDesign document. If I select multiple frames and try and place the same image into all of them, InDesign just places the image into one frame and leaves the others blank. How do I place the same one image, mulktiple times into multiple boxes?

Hi Everyone,Does anyone know if it is at all possible to add mutliple hyperlinks at once to a table in a InDesign file? It is very time consuming to upload them one at a time otherwise. Thanks, Giorgia 

Hello!This seems to be a new feature, at least I have only noticed it in version 20.5. The related website https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/export-import-user-settings-indesign.html doesn't tell what is actually exported. For me, it would be important to have a backup of my settings, such as:- Workspace - Keyboard shortcut set(s)- Find/Change queries- The general ID prefs- Added scriptsPractically all what's important in the "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 20.0\en_US" folder. Is that fulfilled by this feature?

Hi!I need to create a book for an Architects' Conference due in 3 days, and it would be nice if it looked good on mobile phones. The problem is that I can create the 10-page Table of Contents in InDesign, but I already have an A4 PDF for the rest, which is also 1,500 pages. I don't have time to design the interior in InDesign; I have to use it as is. The Table of Contents will have links to the internal articles. How do I combine the two files? Is this possible? I'd like to at least make the Table of Contents look good on mobile phones or adapt it to the size, but I don't know if that can be done in PDF format. Can I design the Index or Table of Contents with Liquid Layout? Epub is not universal to all people in the Conference so it is not an alternative. I know this is a lot of information, and maybe I'm not entirely clear about it. Sorry, English isn't my first language. Perhaps there are other options,  that I do not have in mind. Any ideas, tips, or options? Any

Olá, Trabalho em uma instituição educacional e nosso tempo é responsável pela diagramação de materiais didáticos. Os professores nos enviam o conteúdo em Microsoft Word, e precisamos consolidar todo esse material no InDesign. Grande parte desses documentos contém equações e fórmulas. Atualmente, uso o plugin MathType no Word para converter essas fórmulas, já que o InDesign não é regular como fórmulas do Office Math. No entanto, mesmo com o MathType, algumas fórmulas apresentam bugs ou não são convertidas corretamente. Estamos buscando uma forma mais prática, confiável e usual de integrar essas fórmulas do Word para o InDesign, sem perda de qualidade ou necessidade de ajustes manuais extensivos. Gostaríamos de saber se a Adobe oferece algum recurso, plugin ou fluxo de trabalho recomendado para lidar com documentos complexos que incluem muitas equações matemáticas.Agradeço desde já pela atenção.

Ich habe ein Problem beim Öffnen meiner Indesign Datei. Ich habe ziemlich viel Arbeit da rein gesteckt. Jetzt lässt sie sich nicht mehr öffnen.  Error Code 6: Could not complete your request because of a database error.Fehlercode: 6 - Datenbankfehler Die Meldung hängt anbei. Ich nutze Mac M3 Pro unter MacOS Sequoia 15.6.1 und Indesign 2025 20.5 Andere Datei lassen sich öffnen. Die Datei habe ich bereits auf meinem Schreibtisch gespeichert und umbenannt.  Kann jemand versuchen, die Datei zu öffnen und als IDML zu speichern?

Hi,   I am having issues with InDesign. It is constantly freezing for a minimum of 10 minutes before it unfreezes. Sometimes it stays frozen for a lot longer and has to be closed via task manager. This is what I see in Event Viewer ->   Faulting application name: CEPHtmlEngine.exe, version: 12.1.0.5, time stamp: 0x67ab1db9 Faulting module name: libcef.dll, version: 99.2.15.0, time stamp: 0x623cd6bd Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000118c6d1 Faulting process ID: 0x3a88 Faulting application start time: 0x01dc26d404e0df80 Faulting application path: C :\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2025\Resources\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine\CEPHtmlEngine.exe Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2025\Resources\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine\libcef.dll Report ID: 9408738c-b8b8-44e4-b300-df13e2f55f0d Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:   Is there a way to find a fix for this? I have everything (including my drivers) updated. This has b

Hi,I have a very long document in Excel which I have copied into a table in Indesign. In each cell there are a list of words with hyperlinks. I need to make sure every word has its own hyperlink in Indesign. Considering it's a more than 100 pages document, is there a fast way to do this instead of copy-pasting each single url?Below it's an image of how the cells look on Excel and on Indesign. Thank you!

When I purchased InDesign, I suddenly started getting popups on Acrobat saying I needed to buy Acrobat. Is it possible to use the free version of Acrobat while using the paid version of InDesign? If so, how can I disable the popup so it's useable? (I discovered one workaround - I can use Acrobat in my browser. But it would be more convenient if I could also use the desktop app.)

How do I opt out/avoid/unsee/get rid of/never see again thise rather patronising messages?  If I wanted to collaborate effortly with my editors I'd first show them where the kettle is.I don't think InDesign does that.  

Hello everyone,I've noticed an issue in the latest two InDesign updates — whenever I try to add or edit paragraph or character styles, the program becomes extremely slow or unresponsive.Is anyone else experiencing this? Could this be a bug, or is there a known workaround?Thanks in advance!

Je voudrais exporter un carnet en pdf pour qu'il soit envoyer en impression mais l'imprimeur demande un pdf avec déjà déjà la présentation en piqûre de cheval. Je n'arrive pas à imprimer le cahier en pdf ...    

Hi all, I've found variations of this but nothing that hits the spot quite as I need. We use InDesign to design and mockup web page and email designs and subsequently pass on the image assets to our developers to build a HTML page with. Some times we cheat image backgrounds extensions with subtle stretches and re-group, so I need the group to export exactly how it appears in InDesign but as a single JPEG. I'd like a shorcut triggered script that exports all selected objects, including grouped ojects, as individual JPEGs at max quality, at a predefined resolution (in this case @15739213, so 144ppi) and be able to define the save location (though straight to Desktop would be good enough). The below script kind of works but it only exports the groups and breaks the groups down in to individual images. I'd love to learn how to edit this to achieve what I need. Thanks in advance to any that may be able to help.  test(); function test(){ var myDoc = ap

We’ve released LangoAI Translator for InDesign. It lets you translate entire InDesign documents into multiple languages while keeping the original layout. The plugin supports ChatGPT helping designers and publishers save time on multilingual projects. *   *One Click Document Multilanguage Translate** Would love to hear your feedback if you’ve faced challenges with translations in InDesign!   You can find the plugin here: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/255b78e1/langoai-translator-for-indesign

Good afternoon!  I am currently working in InDesign 13 and would like to know if there is some way to globally change the strike through text DEFAULT option for the width of the strike through line. The perfect world answer would be to change the default so if I open a NEW document OR an EXISTING document - the new default I set would apply. If that is not possible - at least change the default so it applies to everything in the document - not just one text box.  Can anyone help? I'd be much obliged.  BTW, interesting that the strike through option on this Adobe webpage is a standard width that works exactly the way I'd like InDesign to work: strikethru

I have a product catalogue that has hyperlinks applied to each product name so the respective webpage for the product will load if the product name is clicked when viewing the exported pdf. Unfortunately the url's have a strange hidden character that isn't always visible - I have found "^p" sometimes when i copy and paste the url back and forth from notepad - so this may be the character I am looking for. But in acrobat pro when I go in the edit url menu there is a visible space that appears after the product number in the URL.Does anyone know a script that I can run in either indesign or acrobat to search for the character in every single hyperlink in the document to remove the character, The document has several thousand hyperlinks so it's a very tedious job to do one by one.

This is something Ive always wondered about but never actually looked into it till I had to put together a 400 page booklet that my client kept rearranging the pages on me which became a nightmare. So I have a PDF booklet in single 8.5x11 pages + .125" bleeds and crop marks.  I drop the pages into a facing pages InDesign booklet 8.5x11 layout with .125" bleeds so they fit perfectly into the bleed margins.  Generally when doing this, I crop down the inside spine bleed so it doesnt overlay on top of the page next to it.  If you rearrange pages, it throws everything out of wack and you have to go back and fix a ton of bleeds on most other pages.  Is there any way to have InDesign to just know not to bleed one page over to the page next to it if it overlaps the inside spine? I figure that if there is a way to have a facing pages layout but have the spreads spaced apart about a half inch instead of the left and right pages being directly butted up againt each o