InDesign

Hi everyone,I’m looking for guidance from experienced InDesign mentors. I want to learn how to correctly import product website data into InDesign using XML. Could anyone explain how I can learn the full process—including not just the InDesign import steps, but also how to create XML data file for practice and learning?I’ve already watched several videos, but most of them only show the InDesign side of the process, not how to properly prepare or structure the XML. Any help or resources would be greatly appreciated! best regardsTanvir

Since using my Brother DCP-L2627DWE printer on macOS 15.5 Sequoia, I can no longer print vectors correctly from Adobe apps (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).The “Print as Bitmap” option is always forced, both with my Brother printer (AirPrint) and my Canon printer (AirPrint as well).Result: text and vector lines are rasterized and print jagged.Unchecking “Print as Bitmap” has no effect — it resets or is ignored.Background:Brother confirmed that on macOS 15+, Apple no longer allows Brother-specific drivers, only AirPrint is supported.AirPrint does not support PostScript or PPD, so Adobe apps cannot send correct vector print jobs.Tried:Reinstalling Adobe appsReinstalling printer drivers (AirPrint)Resetting settings and preferencesPPD is not selectableSaving PDF → printing from Preview works, but is cumbersome Question for Adobe community:Is this a known limitation when using AirPrint on macOS 15+?Are there any recommended workarounds to print vector output directly from Adobe apps

When I export a PDF, it looks correct but when I print it theres extra boxes of colors behind my design. What would be causing this? When I print straight from InDesign, it prints correctly. the background should be the darker green color. 

In the past if I had a style override in InDesign, the overriding text would appear inside <span> tags in the PDF. That no longer happens. The text with the override appears as it's own object (cardboard box) instead of the usual line by line, but that's it. Wondering if anyone sees the same behaviour and knows why. Here is the text with multiple overrides: a different font, pink and pink+bold Here over in Acrobat, no <span> tags.   In the past, I would have expected aomething like this (in this case I manually added the <span> tag): 

I am working on a poetry book that has more than 100 images in it. I am trying to split columns for poems that are long but I have to change it because the author wants the last line not included in the 2-column text. I tried to unsplit the columns again but it crashes. If I am able to unsplit, the problem is I cannot split it again. This is so frustrating.

I have a pie graph that I made in illustrator (.ai file) that Im trying to put into indesign but when I do I'm getting a grayscale almost duplicate of the chart showing up in indesign, although the two narrowed slices in greyscale dont extend out like they do in the color graph that actually exists in illustrator (this also shows up in an exported pdf). I've tried resaving and relinking the file but nothing is getting the greyscale almost duplicate to go away. The illustrator file is in cmyk and the illustrator file was set up for print. Any idea on how to fix this? Top screenshop is the graph in illustrator, bottom screenshot is in indesign.Thanks   

Hi everyone,  I've been having issues importing PDF comments into InDesign. Initially, I had this popup But I managed to bypass that by importing the comments in parts and some comments just don't work.   However, now InDesign crashes every time I try to import comments. Has anyone know of a solution or what's causing this?   Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Almost everyday, I have an issue where the top of the InDesign window is off the screen, which means I can't move the window around to position it properly on my monitor. The solution I've found is to use Mission Control to shift the InDesign window on to another monitor, which typically shifts it down just enough to be able to click the top of the window and drag it down more. Sometimes resizing the window will cause it to pop back on to the screen properly, but that doesn't always work. I'm flagging this because it doesn't happen with any other Adobe programs, and it's consistent enough to be really disruptive to my workflow.As an aside, multiple-monitor performance across Adobe programs is quite poor in general; pop-up windows for things like exporting, effects, etc. often appear on different screens at random, and still do so even after being repositioned in a prior use. I really wish Adobe could fix this. I use a Macbook Pro (16-inch, 2021, M1 Max, 64 GB RAM) for work. I

Hi. Is anyone else having the issue of shortcuts not working after updating to the 2025 version of InDesign. Some examples:Holding down shift key while resizing does not do anything anymore.Copy elements with the option key doesn't work.Even switching between tools is laggy and doesn't work each time.And more. Everything was working great last time I opened InDesign and there have been no changes on my end. Solutions I've tried.- Restarting the program- Restarting the computer- Unistalling and reinstalling the program- Test different keyboards I can't revert to older versions as the projects I'm working were created on this version.Please, if anyone has some advice, share it with me.

Hello community, I recently had to format an old iMac 2017 and reinstall system 10.14 Mojave. I was running inDesign 2018 on it just fine. I came to find out that Adobe doesn't hold any versions prior to 2023 anymore ( which does not work on Mojave ). And the support could not give me a download of their old version, referring me to this community. If anyone happens to still have the dmg file of the installer from the 2018 range or know a place where they still hold them, that would be really appreciated. Thank you everyone.

Hi guys,(using a new account, for the time being, until my "real" one is being fixed by Adobe) I'm into a new script to create/ manage Xrefs via tagged texts and I'm floored to see that F/C (grep tab obviously) seems not being able to find Anchors text (~I in grep)- A copy/ paste form a textframe into the F/C does show the correct character, nicely saying that it should be possible to find it.  I'm assuming I do something wrong. @Peter Kahrel did create a script to manage Text anchors (https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/text_anchors.html) so it's definitely possible to do something about them via script.But what about via F/C? Any experience on the matter guys?Thanks for your lights PS: Why I'm asking?Because I'd like to check/ remove conditionnal text that may be applied on them. It'll be simple enough via F/C window. 

I have been using English/Arabic regional version of InDesign for a while now, specifically because it includes the LTR/RTL options. The Paragraph panel un until recently included the Right-to-left toggle, which allowed me to work in both RTL and LTR copy. In version 17.1 of  InDesign 2022 it was there, however in version 17.2 it has disappeared. I had updated my version of InDesign, but, had to downgrade it in order to regain this crucial feature.  Are there plans to return this this toggle? For those of us who work in multiple languages this is essential (even when working in Arabic, it is necessary).  

My InDesign file is 5mb.  When I export it to a PDF, it becomes 80mb.  Compressing the file didn't work because it is too large.  I don't think it is the images in the document--when I used the Optimized PDF function with Adobe, much of the issue was "x object forms" (taking up 90% of the file size).  Any thoughts?

I am working on indexing a >1,000 page, 18 document book. I would like to have ALL index terms from all documents in the Index pallette regardless of which/how-many document(s) are open. Currently, only the index terms from the open documents appear in the index pallette. How can I get that done? The book container .indb is open. Having all >1000 pages (with LOADS of large illustrations) open makes ID slow and crashy (iMac 18 core 64 GB RAM: not a hardware limitation). Having all terms available is important for consistency and to be able to search for existing index entries. Thanks for letting me know.

Hello,I have read multiple posts on working with mixed text and am pretty experienced with it myself but this time Im just stuck! I am working with a doc (coming from word) that has mostly english text with hebrew salt and peppered throughout. Im using world ready par composer, middle eastern indesign, left to right text direction and even have paragraph styles for english and then charachter styles for hebrew- but- some of the text is still getting jumbled/ out of order. Attaching screenshots below. 1 is from indesign, 2 is from word where the hebrew words are in correct order. (The real file is a large booklet....)Happy to send a file to anyone who thinks they can help. Much appreciated!!    

Hi!  I'm new to indesign and trying to use data merge (multiple records feature). All the information from my excel sheet is transferred correctly, however even with margins at zero everything is shifted slightly down and to the right.  My master page has a margin of .15 and I have a bleed of .125 all around, and what happens is the top left corner of my design, which is normally on the top left corner of the bleed, shifts down to the top left corner of the canvas. This is also how it shows up on preview. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I have been racking my mind for hours trying to figure this out. I used various Open Ai sources to no avail too. Please refer to the screenshot above: You see, when I type the address, the number portion of the address automatically places itself at the end of the sentence. No matter what I did, even making a new paragraph style did not work. In one of the online solutions I was following, I turned on number only to find out that this too only appeared on the right hand side of the composition. Any punctuation marks I made then shows up to the left. I checked the indent tab, I looked for invisible elements, under character, I changed the language from Hebrew to English USA, and countless other things and I am at my wits end. Hopefully someone here knows the answer and can help me to solve this. Thank you so much in advance! 

I work on long documents. They are comprsed of an InDesign book, about about 50 or so different InDesign documents. Most of the InDesign documents have (and are supposed to have) an even number of pages. But at the back of the book are engineering drawings. While some contain an even number of pages, some contain an odd number of pages.    I've recently started experiencing an issue where InDesign automatically is adding an extra blank page to the documents containing an odd number of pages. This happens across dozens of InDesign documents, used in about 2 dozen InDesign books. I have tried manually removing the pages, but they just keep reappearing.   I have tried exporting all the documents as IDML, then reopening them as INDD. But the issue persists.   I've been working on various iteriations of these documents for over a decade, and this problem just started last month. My workflow has not changed. I am using InDesign 2024.   What might cause InDesign to st

I am trying to draw curved lines indicating movements on a map using the pen tool in In-design as instructed in the manuals and online help. This seems to be limited to 's' curves. How can I draw a simple 'c' curve, with one curve in between points?

As you can see from the screenshot, when I add a new text box using the type tool, it is adding weird spacing in between the words so they are being spaced into these groups of words. I've tried adjusting the default paragrpah setting, changing the spacing between words, see if there's a rule page issue, but nothing has worked. Everything else on the page looks fine it's just when I add a new text box. Please help! 

Hello beautiful Adobe Community!I'm using a PC with latest InDesign.I discovered that InDesign's Transparency Flatten will never stay on high quality. Always changes back to Low quality. Even when no document is open or closed.A business card we always do got rejected because the drop shadows and transparencies are low quality on export. I have tried exporting use Press Quality with correct compression settings. I have tried High quality and I have tried PDF/X-1a2001 (<---this usually always works). No matter what I do it is always low quality on export. It just the transparencies though. Other images are always good vector or raster. IThoughts?--------------------I have tried many different PDF versions. I am missing something. Chatgpt AI's thoughtsSince you said “It just the transparencies though” and “flattener always resets to Low,” you're probably exporting to a PDF version that ignores the flattener setting, and the flattening is ha

When there are many columns, dragging them can be a bit troublesome.I want to automatically generate column lines. 

Hi everyone my Adobe took an update last night and now when i go to print in any Adobe application i get my usual print screen  but when i go to the setting of my spacific printer i get this white screen that looks like an adobe print app this never use to be like this and when i usually go to the printer setup it would go directly to my printer setup, has adobe changed to this new style or an i the only one this is happening to. 

Is there a script that it can make Overflow text automatically routed Next？（Not the main text frame）when I run the scrip,Overflow text can auto Typesetting to the next page？thankS Supreme~

Some windows cannot be closed by pressing Esc.Is it possible to add code to make it simpler?If it's too complicated, I'll give up. As in this script, pressing Esc has no effect.https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_editor.html