InDesign

When I create a table in InDesign 21.5.1 for an accessible PDF, IDs are not automatically generated. In Acrobat, the ID fields remain empty. In tutorials, however, I see that these are automatically filled in. Am I overlooking something?

win10, indesign，after v21.2, When layers of different types are grouped, copied to a new document, and then ungrouped, layer‑remembering functionality will fail.

At some point of the work, InDesign randomly stucks at a “checking” state. It doesn’t effect the work, the app works fine, only the cursor is “loading” which is really annoying. ALSO when I finally lose my patiente, and try to close the app, it won’t close. I have to use task manager, to close it. 

InDesign 21.4.1 on Mac Studio M1 Ultra Tahoe 26.5.1. Pretty simple and annoying bug. I am unable to stack/group panels on my workspace. This only pertains to the bottom 1-2 for some reason. You are able to place more panels below  I would confidently assume this is a reproducible bug. This has been present for the past few versions but I am just now reporting it. The workspace panel is one of the most important features for InDesign workflow and this is the second (albeit, not as annoying) bug I found that I didn’t even need to try to find…   From the gif you can see it seems like the bottom 2 groups cannot be stacked. It doesn’t seem like it matters what panel you grab.

Hello, I’d love to have the separator line align to the grid but when I apply the first line to the grid it creates this random spaces between footnotes like between footnote 5 and 6. is there a way to align the separator to the grid but always have the footnotes with no space between them as 7 & 8?

Hello all,Today I am facing a completely new issue, at least for me: my boo document is open, I work on it, add some body text and photos, but when I try to save, Ctrl-S doesn’t work, and when I open the File menu, all Save options are grayed out.InDesign knows that my document has been modified, as you can see from the little asterisk in the attached screen captureA.When I try to close the document, InDesign asks logically if I want to save it, but when I click Yes, it tells me that it “cannot save the document”, without any explanation (see captureB attached).I am quite puzzled and would love to hear your ideas and suggestions.Many thanks in advance.Dominique

Ho cambiato il computer e scaricato Creative Cloud per scaricare il pacchetto dei programmi disponibili e a me utili. Avrei bisogno per il mio lavoro (impaginazione con diverse case editrici) della versione 18.0 (18.5) meglio ancora, di Indesign che su Creative Cloud non è più presente. Qualcuno mi può aiutare a scaricarla?

I just tried to start CS6 - Indesign, but I'm told, that my license is used on more than two Computers. When I login to my Adobe-Account, the Licensenumer is not shown and when I try to register it, it is already registered. When I try to add the same licensenumer while startig the software, the numer is not valid. What can I do?

Hi Community, It would be really helpful if Adobe would integrate an automatic starting 'timer function' to every design i'm working on in InDesign/Illustrator etc. This way, I can easily track my hours and share them with my client.  My feature request: An automatic timer that starts automatically every time the document is opened - with an easy export function that exports date/hours/minutes to a .txt file - Actual working time (based on cursor movement)- Idle time (file open but no movement from cursor) BR Dennis

Hi,I’m currently creating a poster for a client but now the linked images don’t display correctly in ‘High quality display’ mode. See attached images showing the difference between ‘High Quality’ and ‘Typical’ modes.The GPU setting is on and this happens on my home Mac and work Mac, and not just when using this particular file.I’m wondering if it’s a Mac OS issue as it’s a relatively new problem.Any help would be really appreciated.CheersSteve

(InDesign 21.5.1, Windows 11 Pro)There have been (are) several problems with InDesign’s Undo feature, to which a new one (as far as I know) can be added: when you Save As a document, the undo stack is no longer removed. This is a problem because over time, a document’s size can increase enormously. Reported here:https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/51605780--save-as-doesn-t-clear-the-undo-stack

I just closed my mac without turning it off, and when i opened it the next day, i could not do anything on my document. I can open new documents, but all menus are gray, like there is an opened window that does not exist. Also, i cannot quit indeisng, nor click on "about indesign".... I triesd to delete preferences, caches, et reinstall it, nothing has worked... 

I have used the tabs panel on indesign to set regular sized tabs to create a middle aligned table. However, no matter what I do the first column is always aligned to the left even when the text box is set to be middle aligned. As soon as I press tab the first column always wants to be next to the text box. Does anyone know how to make the first column middle aligned?

Admittedly, it has been some time since I have used data merge, many years ago for a particuarl client, lately not so much. To get up to speed again, searched online for a few answers... most notably answers coming from people struggling to get it to work properly. And finding answers on non-Adobe pages with tips on how things break and what to do. Frustrating. I have a book prohect that has lists at the back of items that are formatted in a table format with about a dozen cells. The cells are not just columns, that would have been easy, can't do it that way. I have two wider cells that are split horizontally to place content - see attached. I got the data merge set up to work - placing the tags from the .csv headers is the easy part. Where things exploded is when I actually merge the document. If I have one table set up and merge the .csv file, even with "multiple records per page" selected as the option to import, I get 495 pages with just one table per page.&nbsp

Hi all,Apologies if this already exists on the forum somewhere, if it does I have been unable to find anything that helps. I'll list all the facts that I have below. Hoping that someone out there knows something!My Indesign is displaying colours as faded/washed out. This is happening with whatever documents I work on. I have checked and double checked that the documents have the correct colour break-downs - when I export to PDFs (or JPG or whatever else) the colours show correctly, so I know that the problem is not with my Mac screen. Document colours also display correctly when my colleague opens and works on them on his Mac, so I deduce that it the problem lies with my Indesign.My indesign is fully up to date and the problem persists no matter what display performance I chose. Indesign is displaying faded on everything both created in indesign and assets imported in from illustrator however imported JPGs seems to be okay. So maybe the problem is with how swatches are displayed? (agai

 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! 

We generate in-store A3 landscape signs automatically from our ERP: a JSON job feeds an ExtendScript that drives InDesign 2026 and exports the PDF, with no manual step. Each sign holds 2 or 3 uppercase lines (the product name) whose length varies a lot from product to product. Design goal: the largest possible cap height (these are read from the street), the text block filling the sheet, and no distorted type. What the script does today: it sets the point size from the height each line gets, then raises horizontalScale until the line reaches the frame width. That lands at 115-130%, which is visibly distorted, so this is clearly the wrong tool. Questions: 1. Is there a scripting equivalent of Illustrator's Type > Fit Headline in InDesign, or is adjusting tracking the accepted way to make a short line fill the measure? 2. For a line that is too long, is switching to the condensed cut of the same family the recommended automated fallback, rather than reducing the point size? 3. Is Line

For more than a week, InDesign has been stuck on startup, either on “Calling Late Initializers” or, at other times, “Starting Panels.” I have to force quit every time. I'm on the latest version, 20.4.1, running on a MacBook M3 Pro with macOS Sequoia 15.5.I’ve tried everything I could find online:Resetting preferences at startupResetting all fonts, removing fonts, removing any Adobe fontClean installs, older installs, reinstalling Creative Cloud, even using Adobe Cleaner to remove everythingStarting up in root user, starting up in another Mac user account, startup in safe modeEmptying every cache I could think ofRunning First Aid via Disk UtilityTried talking to adobe support 'We look forward to helping you during our open hours.'How is it possible that software essential to so many graphic designers simply stops working?I run a graphic design business, this has a huge impact on client work. I have print and magazine files that I can’t even open, let alone edit or render out. At the ver

Hello allI have an image in PS; 72ppi. See screen grab.When I insert it into Indesign, the actual PPI is 72 as I would expect, but the effective PPI is 144.The scale is 50%. Why has it been scaled to 50% and not as 100% as I would expect?I can easily rescale in Indesign to 100% but wondered why was it inserted at 50%?Just seems odd to me??Thanks all 

I have developed an InDesign plugin using SDK and C++. The built plugin needs to be placed in Plug-Ins folder. We generally use pkgbuild and productsign on MacOS terminal to prepare the package / pkg. However, I am unable to upload this package in Adobe Exchange approval for distribution. How do I create installable plugin to be uploaded for Adobe Exchange distribution?Also, need to understand whether I need to have any security to be implemented for subscription of this plugin or Adobe will handle its expiry?Please advise.

I am working with an InDesign file that includes a separate, linked InDesign file. Both files have correct tags and reading order in the structure and when I export them separately to PDFs.But if I export the main file including the linked file, only the main file’s tags and reading order are in the structure and exported. The linked file is treated as one frame/object only. None of the individual objects from the linked file appear in the structure or the exported PDF.Is there a way to include a full-featured linked document inside an InDesign document that preserves all the original objects, tags, and reading order?

For quite some time now my InDesign has been taking a long time to open. I think it started doing this a couple updates ago. I have been dealing with it, but now it has become annoying.When I open InDesign, it takes over 30 seconds to open.In the past it opened in less than 10 seconds.What has changed is causing this issue.I am running Windows 11 Pro.I have an I9 processor with 24 cores.With 64 GB of memory.The hard drive is 2 TB and I am using about ¼ of that, so there is plenty of space.What can I do to get this to open quickly, like it used to? Rick

I have the latest Indesign version. However I don't have the option Open PDF to convert PDFs into Indd files... How is it possible?

Hi everyone,I am developing an InDesign C++ SDK plugin that features a custom UI panel containing an EVEColorListDropDownWidget. My goal is to keep this color dropdown widget automatically synchronized whenever changes occur to the document's swatches—including adding new swatches, deleting existing ones, or modifying swatch properties (such as color values or swatch names).I am implementing a custom CObserver class attached to the active document (kDocBoss) via ISubject. However, I am unsure about the exact PMIID protocols required to reliably catch all relevant swatch events.Specifically, I would like to ask: Which PMIID(s) should I listen to? Should I attach my observer using IID_ISWATCHLIST,  or a combination of them? Where should I attach the Observer? Is attaching to the document's ISubject (kDocBoss) sufficient, or do I need to attach directly to ISwatchList / kSwatchListBoss? Command Filtering: In the Update() method, which ClassIDs (theChange parameter) should I handle to