InDesign

I'm getting ready to order some initial review copies of my picture book documentary. It's 120 pages, landscape 11x8.5, with 141 photos, with .5" to 1" borders, so no bleed issues. I've been packaging the file for my own review of the PDFs. All photos are PS (jpgs), 300 ppi or greater. Ok, there's a single color map (think Google maps) that's 288 ppi. My understanding is that I should do the CMYK transition myself before sending the PDF. I intend to derive the final PDF from a packaging operation. Am I on the right track? Obviously the quality of the photography is paramount as the colors are vivid and sharp.

There are three images attached.In the first image, I have a screenshot from the InDesign document.In the second image, there is a PDF of the same document, for proofreading.In the third image, there is the PDF that was sent to print (which I had no reason to check anymore, since the InDesign document hadn’t undergone any changes). Instead of the hyphenation, an “a” appeared.After various attempts, I disabled “Optimize for Fast Web View” and “Create tagged PDF.” The error disappeared.

With the new feature in InDesign, I have a file containing about 124 hyperlink URLs. Each of these hyperlinks includes alternate text (ALT text). I want to extract this ALT text. Is there any way to do this, perhaps with a script? 

Whenever I creat a new text box it appears with a black border which I then need to manually remove. Can I set a default to creating a text box without any border.

I am wondering if anyone has an explanation of how to remove these shaded grays areas that print behind these words when I print directly out of InDesign or as an Adobe PDF from my Windows 11 computer to my Canon imagePRESS printer. There is nothing visible on the design but no matter what I tweak it always prints these shaded gray areas. Is there a setting you can turn off? 

The thing that slows us down the most at our company is font issues. We have auto-activation turned on, but even today, we couldn't get a font to auto-activate or manually activate to get a job ready for print. The font we were having trouble with today was "PF Videotext". However, this is a persistent and ongoing issue that is worsening. When any Adobe app tries to auto-activate a font, it sometimes gets stuck, and there is no way to stop the process, which means I have to quit the application and reopen it, and sometimes even restart the computer if the issue persists. It's an absolute nightmare. We are using new Mac Studio machines with 96GB of RAM. We shouldn't have these issues at all. Please help fix the font issues.

Dear all,I am giving the finishing touches to a scholarly publication on classical music. The document will include a conspicuous musical part and extensive editorial and critical notes both at the beginning and at the end of the book. Now, I am aware that aligning to baseline in multiple column works gives them a cleaner look but, in this specific case, with several images and quite a few section titles, I feel that doing so makes everything look a bit colder and encyclopaedic. It certainly look fine but I wonder if you could give a look at the two pdfs attached below and tell me both what you think of it and any additional feedback I could have overlooked.  Right now the body text is 11pt in size and the leading is 16.5 (150%). I have set up the baseline to repeat every 16.5 pt (correct?) as anything less would make lines appear one every two baselines (it took me a while to understand this). Of course, this causes all other paragraph styles (whose spacing was governed

Is there a maximum file, not document, size for an InDesign file?

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could help with a problem I've been experiencing in Indesign. I have some files I have linked from an illustrator (.ai) file in Indesign and whenever I save changes on the illustrator file and attempt to update the links on the indesign file I am met with the following error message. This file is already open by another user or another application. This file may be stored on a network server and cannot be opened until the other user closes it. The files are stored on my own hard drive and I'm the only computer with the file open. Looking through similar threads I have tried deleting my cache, deleting the .idlk file, restarting my computer and uninstalling InDesign. Anyother suggestions would be helpful. Many thanks

After generating a table of contents in InDesign (v. 18.1). I noticed that the page numbering is out of sequence. I've asked InDesign to include in the TOC all level 1 and level 2 heads. The generated table of contents lists everythng from the beginning of the document in linked text boxes, front to back, correctly. But after the highest page number, the numbers continue again, but from lower numbers. A good example included in my screen capture images is that there are two TOC entries on page 14, but then after that the TOC shows two entries for page 7. There are several 'sidebars' throughout the 18-page project file. The out-of-sequence page numbers all belong to H1 or H2 heads contained in those sidebars. So what InDesign is doing is listing all of the 'main' items first in the TOC, and then going through again and listing all of the sidebar H1 & H2 items.Is this a bug? Is there a fix? (Please see both attached screen capture images)I'm using a Macbook Pro on OS V

Hi,i wanted to share this indesign script i wrote. I would be happy if people give me feedback. The script finds and applies conditional combinations(!) of paragraph styles comfortably in almost any kind of selection. _____________DESCRIPTIONThis script is good for finding and replacing applied paragraph styles comfortably, especially for finding consecutive combinations of styles. I use it in early design phase to quickly try different typographical layouts and very often to change subheadings or the paragraphs following subheadings._____________SOME EXAMPLES- Simple case: find each paragraph with style 'X', change it to style 'Y' (less clicks than the find/change-dialog)- Conditional case: find each occurrance of 'Head followed by Sub' and change it to 'Head2 followed by Sub4'- Use the 'autoReverse'-setting to compare two style combinations back and forth quickly.- Use the 'quick test'-setting to do serial runs of layout variations: after a run it will a

Hello Adobe Community,I'm pleased to share my PDF export script with everyone. "exportPageRangesToPDF.jsx"https://github.com/MoebiusSt/exportPageRangesToPDF.jsx Description:This InDesign script (Adobe InDesign CC 19.5 currently) exports page ranges to separate PDFs. It provides a fast way to export multiple page ranges from your InDesign document to individual PDF files and reduces file-naming and handling for you. It's become my standart PDF export routine used daily. See screenshots attached.         Version: v2.08, Date: 2025-08-11From Version 2.02 to 2.08: mostly bug fixes but one significant added feature is the ability to customize your pages prefix in the file naming schema. Features:Export multiple page ranges to individual PDFsSpecify export folder and PDF preset to useManually input page ranges and labels/identifiers for each rangeRetrieve a list of page ranges from:- Previously exported PDFs in the target direc

I'm using InDesign CC v15.0.1x64, Windows 10. When I create a new style and give it a paragraph rule (let's say Rule Below, 1pt, Black, Offset 0.125in), then when I go back to edit the style, the paragraph rule can't be edited. It shows as if there is no paragraph rule applied, yet it's right there. The Rule On checkbox becomes mysteriously unchecked but the rule is showing. If you click the checkbox on, it creates a new rule style over the existing one that can't be edited or deleted. I've tried creating new styles, creating new documents, restarting, rebooting, and nothing is solving the issue that I can't edit a Paragraph Rule after I create a style for it. 

Problem:I'm working on an Arabic educational book using Adobe InDesign. The Arabic text includes full diacritics (tashkeel), and everything looks perfectly aligned inside text frames that are placed within decorative shapes.However, once I export the file to PDF, the diacritics become misaligned — especially when the text is inside shapes or grouped with other design elements.I've already tried the following:Enabled Adobe World-Ready Paragraph ComposerUsed supported Arabic fonts (like Adobe Arabic and Amiri)Ensured Right-to-Left paragraph directionDisabled Text WrapTried "Fit Frame to Content" and reset text frame options (zero inset spacing)Exported using "Embed All Fonts" and PDF/X-4 presetYet the issue persists: the diacritics shift or appear outside their intended positions when viewed in the exported PDF.✅ Text appears correctly inside InDesign❌ But gets distorted or misaligned in the final PDFHow can I preserve diacritic positioning exactly as shown in InDesign when

Hallo, is it possible to change the font used for creating mathematical expressions?

I'm trying to create something like the below for all the titles and possibly subtitles in a book. There is no way I'm aware of to do this using a paragraph style. At the moment I think my best bet would be to create all the titles in illustrator or photoshop and export them as pngs, then anchor them into the text boxes - especially as the line under the title text would need to be an anchored object too. Checking if anyone has a better, easier to edit way to do this? Maybe there is some crazy script out there that someone knows about or something. Or just a different way of going about it than the only one I can think of.   Thanks!  

I just updated my CC apps such as Ps, Ai, Id, etc. All seem fine with the exception of the current Id file on which I'm working that won't open. Other Id files open but not this one. It's some 87 MBs but I'm able to open other ones as large or larger.I had quit the app before updating. I have also since restarted my Mac.Any insights would be much appreciated.

I've got a 400-page document, one spread. There are several instances where I've applied a condition to one word or sentence. Since my INDD file is so large, I saved it as IDML to clean it up. When I resaved the IDML as INDD, the condition had been applied to several pages following a word or sentence that was conditional. It did do it everywhere, just a few places.  I searched for the condition and reset things to unconditional, but I'd like to figure out why it happens, and maybe not have it happen again.

My InDesign display colors incorrectly than the exported PDF. Indesign showns more desaturated and pale.I have tried - turn off GPU preview; color setting to North America General Purpose 2 and s RGB; document setup to Web; Transparency blend to RGB; set swatches to RGB color; turn on and off proof colors but still doesn't work.   

Note: Text frames are not linked to external sources.Video: Text frame reverts to unedited state 

Last year Adobe released a version of InDesign (I think it was 17.2) that randomly wouldn't recognize particular fonts. The fix was to revert to an earlier version of InDesign until they release a bug fix version. It seems this has happened again with 18.1. I create a document in InDesign and send a proof to a customer. Several days later, the customer responds with changes to be made, I load the document into InDesign and it tells me one of the fonts I used is not available. I check to make sure it is activated in Connect Fonts, and sure enough it is. I de-activate and re-activate it several times for good measure. No dice. The font is active in other applications, but NOT InDesign--which is the only application I want it to be active in.  This has happened a couple of times lately. Today's non-loadable font is called Apex New Bold. It's an Open Type font.  What are your suggestions?

Good morning! My links panel is showing a modified link, but without any page number. I try relinking and it doesn't work. I wish I could delete it but I can't even do that. Any advice on how to fix this?I am afraid it's damaging my file, because I have got an alert about a damaged file. Thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hiya - So I have a document with many hyperlinks that link to an anchor or a website. Unfortunatley these are not working. I did a test document - and when I made a new link - I was able to link the to page I need. However I am not able to change the link with the documents text.  Any idea how to fix? I am attaching an indesign + Pdf - Youl will see that the link works on the lower text - but not on the underline text. This occurs many times thoughout the document so I am hoping for a fix for all fo them.

Seit der Aktualisierung auf das neueste Betriebssystem Sequoia 15.6 funktioniert in den ebenfalls aktualisierten Programmen InDesign, Acrobat und Illustrator die Leertaste nicht mehr. Bei zweimaliger Betätigung schließt das Programm vollständig. Was ist zu tun??

Hello, I'm trying to make a PDF document with pop-ups made directly in InDesign. This document will be viewed in-house and not online. Since this is my first time, I looked for how to do it in online tutorials. I managed to make one but when I add the following ones, I have display bugs. I followed all the steps and checked myself several times. Is it because it's a feature that is not yet stable with bugs or because it is designed more for online use?