InDesign

Adobe is padding updates with AI and other “features” - your description, not mine. These are causing crashes and freezing and generally disrupting the users’ workflow, which is counter productive. Given the cost of Creative Cloud it is inexcusable that users are losing time and money trying to work this nonsense. Designers are quite capable of deciding what that want to do with their documents without Adobe forcing buggy options into our work. Kindly STOP this practice - or perhaps Adobe is prepared to pay us for lost time. If you’s like examples, simply read through the MANY posts detailing these issues.

I currently have these print settings and, as you can see, the print preview is showing it should print on 2 tabloid pages, however, it prints 6 pages.  I haven’t tried with 0 overlap, but I would like a little to line up on as we all know printers can shift 2mm.The canvas is configured as about 10 mm less than 11x34 with 4mm margins.  

Hello everyone!I was told by Adobe Review Team to try and post my question here. I’m not entirely sure If it is the right community, because in their email they refered to “Adobe Developer Support Forum” and provided link to this forum.Issue:I’ve developed a plugin which integrates spellchecking API into Indesign. However, the API is from a Russian app, and plugin only works with Russian language. For plugin review to be successfully completed, It must support English language. I had no problem translating UI into English, but since plugin works with non english API, errors which are sent by an API response are in Russian language and the whole text annotations are also in Russian. I don’t have an access to their server/code to translate every possible error. I didn’t ask devs about this, but let’s say It wouldn’t work… Is It possible to do something about this localization issue? May be there is an easy way to do it? Assuming that non english text errors (from API response) is part of

We recently installed the new 2026 update (20.0) and now on one of our computers we are unable to open any new files/documents and the window that contains suggested files sizes does not appear either. I've tried updating the Microsoft C++ but not having any luck with that fix. It is on a computer that is a little out of date (nothing crazy) but now when I reinstall 2025 it is doing the same error of not opening new files/documents. 

Still an issue in InDesign 2026Graphical elements on a masterpage labeled as aftefact are not checked in PAC 2024 and 2026.Solution in Adobe communityInDesign to Acrobat issues with links on master page | CommunityThey say, don’t place links on a masterpage but only in the document pages.This is strange. A link or a graphical element is a generic element for all the pages. When you have a document of about 100 pages, you should place 100 times a link on each page to get no failures in PAC 2026.I found two other posts in the InDesign community, but both are not the solution.They suggested: Override the masterpage itemshttps://community.adobe.com/questions-671/pdf-accessibility-master-page-items-artifact-by-default-how-to-change-901854?postid=3135202#post3135202Remediate in Adobe Acrobat Preflight is not a structure solution what should be done in InDesign and pdf export as a tagged pdf,https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/how-to-ensure-parent-page-items-are-properly-tagged-in-an-ad

I create very large catalogs, between 100 and 600 pages. I initially create them in Spanish and English, with short descriptions of the references. There are about 200 or 300 different references. Once my catalog is ready, we translate it into French and Italian. I’ve a library with the translated references, and I use Command+F to change the text. My question is, is there a faster process than doing it manually? I already have all the translated references; I just need to change them. Can anyone help me?

I have just updated to the 2023 InDesign, and now suddently my documents are read-only and I cannot save the file, but have to make a save as version and give the document a new name everytime I have to save my work.Do you know why this is happening? And how to avoid this?

Lately, I’ve been working on the ‘share to review’ concept within my design team. One of the questions that came to mind was whether it’s possible to export the  comments posted in the indesign file in some way.Is there anyone here who knows a bit more about this?

Hi all! I’m working with InDesign files created using software that converts PDFs into InDesign files. I am having an issue that’s driving me crazy. Text is showing up lower than it should in the text boxes. I have made sure the Vertical Justification is set to “Top.” Baseline shift is 0. There is no inset spacing (all 0). The font is all the same size (I did “Command A” to be sure). What else would cause text to be lower than it should be in a text box? I’m out of ideas. Thank you! 

I am assembling a quarterly magazine and just place an article as a Word document. The article laid in OK except for the footnote separator lines which are inconsistently spaced throughout the article. See attacment. I've worked with InDesign since 2002 and this is the first time I've worked with footnotes so I do not have a clue as to how I might fix this spacing issue.Can anyone tell me how to adjust spacing around footnote separator lines?Thanks to those who know more than me?Joe

I have CS5.  I'm working on a multipage document in InDesign and I want to bring in a multipage PDF document into that InDesign document.  For some reason, when I do File>Place, it brings in the first page of the PDF (with perfect formatting) but the other pages do not come in.  Is there some other setting that I'm missing to capture all pages of the PDF to transfer into the same number of pages in my InDesign document?

I have an issue with InDesign. On my parent pages I have a text box which contains the marker 'current page number'. The numbers are viewing as expected up to page 99. When we get to page 100 and above, the third (last/units) number displays as non-lining when the rest are lining numerals. Why is this happening? Screen-shots attached. This only happens when using the typeface Newzald… and not if I replace that typeface with something like Minion.The para and char style both state tabular lining.

My InDesign has been running extremely slow and keeps showing the spinning wheel while working on files, since the last update of InDesign(late November), I am running this on my iMac with MacOS 14.7.2. Any ideas or recommendations to troubleshoot this, please. Is anyone else also having these issues? Would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions please.Thanks 

Recently, I noticed that InDesign sometimes replaces certain ligatures (fl, fi) with other special characters.The problem is resolved by closing and reopening InDesign, but it can still cause serious errors if these incorrect characters go unnoticed.

I placed an SVG of a bar chart into an Indesign file, and Indesign is rasterizing the SVG rather than keeping it as a vector. When I export a relatively low-quality PDF for web viewing, this makes the chart look awful. What’s worse, Id is even clipping some of the bottom pixels from its own rasterization. I want this graphic to be vector, because that’s the only way it’s going to look decent--why is that so hard? PDF works great with vector graphics, so it makes no sense to me that Id would rasterize this.I made the SVG in Inkscape originally and further modified it in Illustrator. It is all paths and (outlined) text--no raster image anywhere in it. I have checked through my Export to PDF options for anything relevant, so I unchecked “Compress Text and Line Art” but that did nothing. Any advice much appreciated.  

I work for a book publisher. We are a team of three, all working remotely. We are currently using InDesign 20.5.2 on Macs running Ventura 13.7.6. (Our Macs are older and won’t run the latest OS). Currently we connect to a file server via VPN. Management wants to shut down the server and move our files to Google Drive. I have concerns about this.My two co-workers are used to working on the server. I know some people say you should never work on the server, but they’ve been doing it for years and haven’t had any problems. What I need to know is if it’s possible to use Google Drive the way we use our server—open an InDesign file, work on it, save it. Make an .indb file, preflight, create a TOC, export to PDF, all that kind of stuff. I suspect that the answer is “no,” but I need to explain to management why it won’t work and propose an alternative.At my previous job I managed the transition from local server to Box and it worked flawlessly. I was able to set up Box so that it worked exactl

Hi, I am not sure how I set this up or what it is. Is this a good way to create consistent spacing between a caption and an image frame above? If so how do I adjust it? Thank you,Charlie

These steps are supposed to be tried only after the basic troubleshooting as mentioned on this help document has been performed.Once you have tried the steps shared in the above document, please try launching InDesign:    Launch InDesign If it still doesn't work, please try the steps shared below: MAC users  Testing in Safe Mode  Booting the system in Safe Mode starts your system in a manner that it performs certain checks and prevents third party software/services from automatically loading or opening.  Follow the help document to know how to boot the system into Safe Mode.   If InDesign launches fine in the Safe mode, then there are some third-party services or applications like antivirus, plugins or web extensions which are conflicting with the launch of InDesign. You’ll have to disable them on your user account and then launch the app.   2. Testing in Root account  The root user accoun

The document I am working with, the author wants spaces between the paragraphs, not indents. As a result, the book is getting too long and I was wondering if there’s any way of reducing the spacing between the paragraphs and still not losing the text alignment with the baseline.Kindly see the revised file...thank you so much again

Does anyone else have this issue? before the update, my file was working perfectly. Now, the same file freezes every time I open the paragraph style. I tried closing the app, restarting, and in a new file in InDesign and another in Illustrator! Any ideas what to do?

Hello, please look at this very short video that describes my problem.File is attached.Thank you very muchDaniel

Hello,I'd appreciate your expertise here, please.I have a 250-page book with two-page spreads.Some of the pages have an image, say, on the left side that bleeds Top, Left, Bottom and extends to the gutter. Problem: it bleeds into the gutter and onto the next page.My printer said my bleeds have to be the same on all sides, to trim the pages correctly, so I set my bleeds at 0.125" Top, Bottom, Inside, Outside.Problem: when I adjust images away from the gutter by a point or two, to potentially correct the bleeding over, they still bleed across. I should not have to do this, but it's a limitation of InDesign..Any suggestions, please?Thank you,D 

Hi everyone,I’m running into a font issue and hoping someone here has seen this before.I have Freight Sans Pro installed on my computer, and in InDesign it appears in the font menu as Freight Sans Pro. However, when I check the font in the Adobe app / Adobe Fonts, it appears simply as Freight Sans.The problem came up when we sent a packaged file to a printer. They told us they couldn’t access the font because Freight Sans Pro is discontinued. On my system everything still works and displays normally, but on their end, they’re saying it’s a Type 1 font that Adobe no longer supports.So I’m trying to figure out: Why would InDesign still show Freight Sans Pro if Adobe now lists it as Freight Sans? For context: Font shows as Freight Sans Pro inside InDesign. Adobe Fonts / Creative Cloud shows Freight Sans. Printer says Freight Sans Pro is discontinued and unavailable on their end. Has anyone dealt with this rename/version mismatch before? Thanks!

They do not appear in my Creative Cloud files or among my cloud documents. Could you please help me locate or recover them? These documents are very important for my work, so I would really appreciate any help in locating them.

I'm not even sure if this is possible. I've been asked to create a newsletter template for others at my job to be able to edit themselves, with sections about new employees, upcoming events, workshops, etc. I can easily lay out the design with the content I was given, but I'm not sure how to go about creating reformattable sections that align with the variable length of the copy that would be changing weekly. They would like it to be designed to our brand standards rather than a simple text document. Not to mention, anyone else who would be editing and adding to these newsletters will have near zero experience with Adobe/ID and most likely only be editing it with Acrobat. They intend to add/remove photos and update copy (of which the length could be all over the place). Is this something I can even do?