InDesign

I would like to understand why the new Generative AI options for inDesign that cost credits, were on by default?Briefly, I have ended up with an annual medical report full of hundreds of unwanted, incorrect alt texts that I have had to remove.To add insult to injury, these unrequested alt texts cost credits! There is no simple way to strip these out (tip: please add this feature) I have had to resort to a python script to clean this document This could have been avoided if my inDesign update had offered me this feature via an opt-in dialog.

Hi,I'm having issues with InDesign. At random times, I'm all of a sudden unable to save my document. I can't save, save as or undo anything. All these options are "grey" in the menu, and all I can do is close the document and hope for the best. First I thought it was because I had an old iMac, but recently I bought a brand nye iMac with the latest version of InDesign,  but the issue is still happening, with several different documents pretty often.   Working with a lot of books and deadlines, this is very stressful and extremly annoying. I always use the shortcut for saving, but then I realize nothing has been saved for a long time, and I have to start all over again.  Is there a way to fix this?  

I'm placing 300dpi cmyk jpgs. They look fine when placed.The problem happens when I re-open the file. Nothing has changed, but the images are striping.What's happening?Would a re-install of inDesign fix this issue? 

Ever since the update in November last year we have not been able to successfully export any files that contain placed InDesign files to PDF. I placed a post in the community forums last year where multiple other people experienced the same issue but now that post is gone without being addressed so I am posting it here again.Last year the exported PDFs resulted in low resolution images regardless of what export settings were used. Now we aren’t even able to generate a PDF with constant errors.The reason we used placed InDesign files is so that if any changes are made to the original we’ll know because the file will show as modified. I do not want to copy and paste the InDesign file or place a separate file like a PDF or JPG as that doubles our work and doesn’t guarantee us that we will make sure all files are up-to-date. We’re using InDesign 21.2 on a 24 inch M1 Mac - everything was working fine until the latest update and we can’t afford to revert back to the previous versions now.I n

When open InDesign 2026 on a screen with very high resolution, some icons get double size in docke panel: This is only seen on a Mac with arm-processor. When open InDesign on the build-in (retina) screen, everything looks fine.I found the post “InDesign 2023: Big icon in docked panel”. But the solution described there, did not solve the problem.Any ideas how to solve this?

Just clean installed on a new Mac. I used to be able to use my Microsoft bluetooth numpad keyboard to bind shortcuts to paragraph/character styles, but InDesign doesn't want that anymore. The field will stay blank, but the shortcut still works… 

Hello everyone,I'm seeing a critical issue with my (new) PC: Adobe apps like InDesign are freezing because they are only detecting 4GB of VRAM on my RTX 5090.However, all my system diagnostics (NVIDIA Control Panel, DxDiag) correctly show the full 32GB of VRAM.I've already done a full driver wipe with DDU and a clean reinstall of the latest Studio Driver.This looks like a major bug between Adobe apps and the new NVIDIA 50-series GPUs. Has anyone else experienced this, or found a workaround?My Rig:PC: Alienware Area-51 AAT2250GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 285KRAM: 64GB DDR5OS: Windows 11 Home

Hello! Opening illustrator files from InDesign, working on them, saving them and going back to InDesign. The links are all updated, but sometimes it’s leaving anomolies, like double shadows of the figure in. Friends are having the same problem, one had the cursor x/y measurements from the illustrator file appear in InDesign - which wouldn’t even have saved into the file? Anyone else had this problem?Pictures - show the x/y (illustrator on the left - inDesign on the right) and the double calendar which is most definitely not there in the illustrator file! 

We have all quietly noticed that the colour picker in Indesgn used to pick up whatever color you hovered over within the document. We feel it stopped working like that a few updates ago - it now picks up whatever is in the top layer, and that is not interesting to us, as its often part of a text box above the image we are trying to pick the colour from. This issue leaves us going back and forth between photoshop and Indesign just to single out colours, which works against us in our workflow.

I have created a book with full bleed art on the left-hand page and no art on the right-hand page. If I create a pdf with crop marks and bleed, no problems. The pdf shows that the art is placed correctly and it trims were it is supposed to.But if I create a pdf without crop marks or bleed, a sliver of the art from the left-hand page shows up on the right-hand page. The picture box is created at the right size and is placed correctly in InDesign, so I know that’s not the issue.It also happens if I create a pdf with crop marks but without bleed. I create PDF files without crops or bleeds to submit to clients for approval all the time, and this problem has only occurred on this particular book.You can see the issue in the attached screen grabs. What is happening? 

Hi,I'm hoping someone can help with an issue I'm having when converting PDFs to Word using Adobe Acrobat.I generate PDF’s, then I drop them into Word.The problem is that the resulting Word document sometimes contains random duplicated words or sections of sentences that were not duplicated in the original InDesign document or PDF.I then have to go through the entire document manually and remove the duplicated text, which is extremely time-consuming and ultimately unnecessary. Is there a issue that can be fixed? 

“Whenever I use the alt key with scroll to zoom, the top menu becomes underlined. That's a built in windows fetaure from the days before mice. The difficulty is, if I then press V for Selection, it instead opens the View menu. I have to be careful to hit escape after zooming this way, which is inconvenient.” I have seen a few posts about this, this one from two years ago: This one from 2021:https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=87332 This is something I imagine many many users run into, I did not even understand why this problem was happening (only happening after I used alt+scroll to zoom) until today, but this issue has come up and been very frustrating for many months. Seems like something that is very worth fixing. 

So not sure if its just me - or I going slowing mad with this, but following the latest update 25.5.1 when I open pre update files and resize a text box all the text shifts down. This happens in both EN and FR docs that I’m using. I’m trying to edit a catalogue with multiple SKUs and text boxes in both languages where everything was lined up and now following text edits its not. Have the adobe gremlins been at work again?

Hallo Zusammen,wir bringen von Zeit zu Zeit Kataloge raus. Teilweise bis zu 500 Seiten stark. Diese werden meist in den Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch und Französisch veröffentlicht.Bisher liessen wir das mit ChatGPT übersetzen, wo wir auch unser Glossar mit unseren Fachbegriffen einspielen können.Nun ist es so, dass das Ganze ja auch noch eingespielt werden muss. Gibt es da ein Plugin, Skript oder etwas anderes, wo man sich das tausende Male copy paste ersparen kann? 

Con las últimas actualizaciones del programa, si o si y constantemente, cuando coloco, inserto una imagen en mis documentos, el cursor empieza a dar vueltas como si estuviera realizando algún proceso. No cambia, no se arregla, puedo seguir manipulando objetos y textos, pero estos no aparecen, ej, copio y pego un texto y pareciera que se realiza la acción, pero no se despliega nada.Cierro el documento y el programa se queda congelado, no se puede cerrar normalmente y tengo que resetearlo desde el administrador de tareas. Solo así se vuelve a resetear y funciona bien hasta que tengo la necesidad de colocar otra imagen y pasa lo mismo y lo mismo y lo mismo.😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

I've followed all the suggestions made by the virtual assistant and other AI, but my InDesign still freezes whenever I place an image. Any image, large or small, png or jpeg. I have reset all preferences and checked RAM and CPU - all good. 

I was wondering if we are the only ones in the world experiencing this.6 workstations, each with different settings/customizations, yet all 6 have the same problem.InDesign starts showing the loading circle, as if it is doing something, and we are unable to select any object. Some parts of the application are still somewhat usable.We find ourselves restarting the app 10 times or more per day, and, of course, restarting the application is not as simple as pressing the "X" button in the top-right corner because it doesn't do anything. We need to open the Task Manager and force-close InDesign every time. We restart, and here we are: after a whopping 10 minutes of work, we need to restart the s***t application again.We've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, deleting all preferences and scripts, and installing it under another user account.

Since version 21.4.1 it doesn’t take long and an InDesign session won’t work without problems anymore. I drag an image in a window or change text in a textfield and the cursor turns into the “busy” symbol (revolving circle). It doesn’t turn back into a normal cursor anymore and all functions seem to be restricted. The program seems to be busy with something.I also cannot close the app the normal way. There is a warning window opening up when trying to do it via menu. But this window closes itself after a second and I cannot read what it says.The only way to shut down the app is by opening up the task-manager and close it with “end task”.I am working on a windows 11 x64 system.

This is happening all the time i’m running the most up to date version and most up to date version of windows. I acces files on drop box could this be causing the issue?

InDesign is doing this semi freeze thing when I place or replace images. Random images and random formats. The background task hoop turns on and I can do somethings sometimes but not always. If I close everything then close the program there is a message but it's up for a half a second, disappears and then a new start window opens then refuses to do anything else. I have to "End Task" to get it to close. I've deleted tempfiles, uninstalled and reinstalled, turned off GPU, and did that Ctrl + Alt + Shift thing.

Hey gang,I’ve been meaning to ask this question for 26+ years: In Preferences > Advanced Type > Character Settings… why are Superscript and Subscript size settings set to 58.3% ? Is that size arbitrary? Is there any typesetting history behind that oddly-specific size choice?

Affects: Indesign 19.5 and 20.0.1 (across iMac and Macbook Pro)Steps I tried to resolve issue:Reinstalling latest Indesign (20.0.1), restarting my iMac, reverted to a previous version of ID (19.5), copied the file to my desktop to open from there, started a fresh document and tried to create new Styles (doesn't let me), opened another document which has styles that worked (they also don't work any more), deleted preferences, and finally I have updated my iMac and that hasn't fixed it either.Expected result:Font Styles panel should work as it should be (and as it did 3 days ago before the weekend. Have no idea what has changed!) in that you click on a Style and it applies it instantly. I should not have to Right Click/Apply Style. Actual Result:Cannot select or apply styles from the Style panel. Clicking on the style in the panel makes the selected item flicker, but nothing gets selected or applied and it stays the same default font. I can only change the style if I right click on

According to the stars, Master pages as a name is unacceptable. Who in their right mind cares about it?

I want to create new paragraph styles named “a1” and ‘a2’ under the “AA” group.When creating them:I’ll first check if “a1” and ‘a2’ already exist; if so, I won’t create them again, but I’ll move them into the “AA” group.If a1 and a2 do not exist, create them. 

All quotes in my text are made with right doble quotation marks on either side of the quote. How can I change them into 66 99?See image attached :) BIG thanx in advance to all you clever and kind people!