InDesign

I'm pretty sure I've made a rookie mistake somewhere in this project but I have a document with various sections that each have their own parent page. In order to get the page numbering correct I had to switch off 'Allow Document Pages To Shuffle' but I think it's messed up the layout because when my client tries to upload the print ready PDF to KDP, a bunch of pages at the end have their margins messed up.   When I look at the pages panel you can see all the spreads but then there is a lone page hanging just before these errors begin. I can't remember what I did there because this has been a long and complex project but it looks as though the margins are 'compensating' for that missing page and so, even though the page looks like its on the left in the pages panel it has the margins of a right page. I hope that makes sense.    Any suggestions on how to fix that?  

 I have a font installed and it doesn't appear in InDesign 2025. It appears in all other software, what should I do?

Hello and thanks for looking at this question: I am working with a book manuscript (in Word) — 30+ chapters with endnotes at the end of each chapter. Each chapter's endnote numbering begins with 1. What's the most efficient way to import and work with this? Do I need to place one chapter at a time? How do I keep each set of endnotes showing up in the right place with fresh numbering, without losing the flow of pages from one chapter to the next? The book is only going to be published in print, not an e-book. Thank you.

Hello communityI am trying to auto-number in a foreign language (Nepali), but the auto-numbering only shows परिच्छेद 1 instead of 1 I need १ as परिच्छेद १ please help  

For example:I have a function that adjusts the width of selected table to the width of the textFrame.Now I have selected a textFrame.I used a loop.I want each table to apply this once:tbs[i].tabFitToTextFrame()If you remove tbs[i] and use:tabFitToTextFrame();only the first tab will be modified. I try Like this:It doesn't seem to be working.//var sel = app.documents[0].selection; var doc = app.activeDocument; var tbs = doc.selection[0].tables; //var tbs = getTable(doc.selection); alert(tbs); //alert(sel.tables); if (tbs.length > 0) { for (var i = 0; i < tbs.length; i++) { alert(tbs[i]); tabFitToTextFrame(); } } function tabFitToTextFrame() { var doc = app.activeDocument, item = doc.selection[0]; var myTable = getTable(doc.selection); parentWidth = myTable.parent.geometricBounds[3] - myTable.parent.geometricBounds[1]; factor = parentWidth / myTable.width; for (col = 0; col < myTable.columns.length; col++) myTable.

Hi brain trusted, I’m relatively new and looking to cut down the manual steps of File ->Publish Online across many INDD files. Is there a supported way via script, plug-in, or API to open the dialog, prefill settings, publish, and capture the URL (or update an existing online doc) with fewer clicks? I can't find any relevant commend refernce from InDespign API developer.adobe.com/indesign/dom/api/ Thanks in advance!!Cheng

I know this error has been posted before but I'm at my wit's end with this and I can't seem to resolve it through the previous post's advice. This is the error:Can anybody please help me?I'm uploading an EPUB 3.0 to IngramSpark. What do you need to know to help me?Thanks so much for your time

Here's my main issue: Working on a file given to me by a client. Want to create a new text box by clicking and dragging text tool like you do. However, instead of that, I get a fixed size frame that won't let me type text in it. If I try to make an image box and click on that to convert to a text frame, it also does allow text inside. I checked for auto-sizing of text frames and that the convert to text frame option is on, everything looks as it should. What gives? Other issue: While trying to solve the above, software stops allowing copy/paste or save.Things I tried: - Closing and opening InDesign (usually solves the copy/past or save issue)- Deleting preferences folderThoughts?

i was using windows 10, indesign 2024. my computer suddenly bluescreened and now i cant open said file, no matter what i do. is it corrupted? is there any hope? 

Hi! When I export a book (indb) to fluid epub format, the direction of the pages is reversed. Moving through the book pages from right to left. Curiously, if I export one of the book files (instead of the entire book) the direction is the desired one, from left to right. Any idea or solution?thanks!!       <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hi, I wonder, is it possible to access ExtendScript globals from a c++ PlugIn.  P. 

I am sure this is a challenge we all face at some period: I have been downloading a lot of scripts lately, and my file structure is getting messy. I see that ID looks for scripts in two places: C:\Users\owner\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 20.0-ME\en_IL\Scripts\as well as:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2025\Scripts\Community\Scripts Panel and maybe elsewhere? I want to organize everything in one directory and then break that up into subdirectories. So, where should everything be going? And is there a third-party tool for organizing scripts more efficiently? Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo edit: I would really also be able to add short notes to the script, see if a hotkey has successfully been assigned, and much more metadataAlso, i have some vision challenges and I would like to enlarge all the text in the script panel.

Hi, Grep styles. I would like to detect if a text range has been affected by a grep style. I can detect if the para has grep styles, I am interested in just the text range / run. I have looked at:ICompositionStylecomposeScanner->QueryAttributeAt with kTextAttrGrepStylesBoss These seem to only return paragraph level info. Thanks. P. 

Tengo un problema cuando aplico el atributo "no separar" en cualquiera de los parrafos que uso en mis artículos y es que el texto me desaparece.Anteriormente en alguna otra versión de indesign me pasaba solo cuando aplicaba este atributo mediante estilos, ya sea de parrafo o de caracter.Pero ahora me pasa de todas formas y no se como hacer para que en las columnas el texto no se me separe con el guioncito.Alguien podría ayudarme por favor?

Hi friends!I need to format, within a par style ANY TEXT STRING that has before it - colon and space, and after it a period. So this would be - Yesterday it was: very hot outside. And we stayed insideSo the words "very hot outside." (Including the period but to the colon) get formatted with their own char style. Little by little I will hopefully understand how to do this ...ThanksSF

Hi everyone, I’m working on a multi-page document in InDesign and I’d like to streamline my workflow. Is there a quick way to create a master page with consistent elements like headers, footers, and page numbers and apply it across the entire document at once, instead of manually adjusting each page?

Since I updated to CC2019 I can only Undo three steps.Is there anything I can tweak or is another bug from CC2019?I think I'm gonna use CC2018 till you fix this mess...

Hi all! I am trying to restore a file from an old floppy via an external floppy drive. With a lot of workarounds, i extract something with the help of HxD, Winimage, and more, but I am not sure that the file is not corrupted. Can someone who can open these kinds of files check if I am on the right track? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tSXm3xXzN6Mi_SLEk5haVueiJEJ0rrHX/view?usp=sharing Thanks in advance

Hello everyone,I'm facing a persistent issue with a JavaScript I'm writing for InDesign. I'm trying to duplicate a paragraph style and apply the "Dutch: 2005 spelling reform" language to it.The issue is that I keep getting different errors, and none of the standard methods seem to work.What I'm trying to do :Duplicate an existing paragraph style called "journal_actu_item_1_FR".Rename the new style to "journal_actu_item_1_NL".Apply the "Dutch: 2005 spelling reform" language to this new style.Errors I have encountered so far :When using app.languages.itemByID(96) : "Object does not support the property or method 'languages'."When using doc.languages.itemByID(96) : "Incorrect value for the property set 'appliedLanguage'. Expected LanguageWithVendors, Language or String, but received nothing."When using a language name like "Dutch: 2005 spelling reform" or "Néerlandais réforme 2005" : The language is not applied, and the style remains in French (the default language).This is particularly t

I've spent a couple of hours trying to do something simple. I have a set of documents in an Indb file. All are set to 'Automatic Page Numbering'. I wish to have the numbering start at Page 1 in the Front Matter doc and then continue through to Chapter 1 and so on. But it starts at Page 1 in both the Front Matter and Chapter 1 docs. I want Chapter 1 to continue as a Page 7. How do I get the numbering to start at the first doc and continue through? I thought 'Automatic Page Numbering' would do this? Thanks if you can help

I've come across a specific issue with a placed image in InDesign and I'm wondering if there are any export setings that would fix this issue? An image of the issue is attached—the whole document is in CMYK and this placed picture is a PDF. The white box showing up in the middle of this logo only shows up in InDesign, I've opened the file in Illustrator and it seems to be perfectly fine there.I've also checked the Overprint Preview, and the box does disappear with that preview on, but still prints with the white box. I'd love to try any PDF/InDesign settings to see if they help. Thank you! 

This happened 3 times in the past 2 days. InDesign just freezes when I try to navigate to the Margins & Columns menu. It does not always do that seems to just happen when I navigate to the menu too quickly(?) Meaning, click on Layout and then quickly after clicking on Margins and Columns. Seems kinda weird, but I found an older Post from 2018 which describes a similiar problem, so it seems to be a thing.

Suddenly I'm getting an error when trying to open a shared XD document.  I keep getting the "Editing isn't supported on shared XD documents when disconnected from Creative Cloud" error.  But I'm NOT disconnected from Creative Cloud. This is incredible frustrating. I'm continually having to log out of Creative Cloud. Restart. Log back in, and relaunch CC.  And sometimes that still doesn't fix the issue! 

I have a document with a couple of hidden spreads. The page numbering seems to respect the hidden spreads in that it skips those pages in the numbering. This makes sense. But when I create a table of contents, it seems to insert the page numbers as if the hidden spreads were not hidden.  You will see in my attached images that the page numbers on the bottom left shows page 16 on spread 20-21. This makes sense given that spreads 16-19 are hidden. When I create the TOC it does not do this. It treats page 16 as 20. Is this normal functionality? I sent this to a client and it was wrong. I should have double checked, but still, not good.Is this a bug or a feature?

Hi there Can someone please help me to encounter this issue and solution for this issue. We have a Amazon S3 cloud storage server called Wasabi and our designers are using InDesign. They do all their works from server rather than doing locally. But, we got this error recently and it's recurring. The Indesign is up-to-date and we are using Cloudmounter to connect to Wasabi and the server is not down neither the internet connection is. So, what might be the actual cause of this issue and solution for this issue?Much Appreciated for your helpThanksSK