InDesign

J’ai récemment eu l’occasion d’utiliser un Mac pour faire du design, et… wow. Ce trackpad est incroyablement bien optimisé pour InDesign ! Je préfère de loin travailler avec un pavé tactile plutôt qu’avec une souris, et après cet essai, je me surprends même à envisager de passer sur Mac.Malgré tous les défauts que peuvent avoir ces machines, j’ai trouvé l’expérience de travail bluffante, que ce soit sur InDesign, Illustrator ou d’autres applications. La fluidité est impressionnante, ne serait-ce qu’au niveau du zoom — ultra fluide et précis, juste avec un mouvement de pincement — ou encore dans les déplacements et la précision globale, surtout pour ce type d’applications.Mais du coup, je me pose la question : est-ce “la faute” d’Adobe de ne pas proposer ce niveau de fluidité sur Windows ? Ou bien est-ce simplement la qualité du trackpad des Mac qui fait qu’aucun PC Windows n’arrive à offrir la même expérience ?

Hi folks I'm using Paragraph Shading to create text boxes in a text frame, by intending the text left and right, and using a top and bottom offset of 1 x leading, and Space After/Before = 2 x leading.   This works fine when the text box is contained entirely within a single text frame. But if the paragraph text occupies the first and/or last line in the text frame e.g. when it flows across multiple text frames, we have a problem.   The only solution I can think of is to resize the text frames on those pages (moving the text frame top edge down by 1 x leading, or the bottom edge up by the same amount). But this cumbersome, and needs to be adjusted back if the text reflows. Parent Pages can help with this, of course, but still clunky.  This is the result after adjusting the bottom edge of the text frame, which is the the layout I'm after (Paragraph Shading clipped to frame, and no text on bottom (or top line): Is there a way to achieve th

Hello everyone, I am trying to do an Adobe PDF INTERACTIVE doc for a project but each time that I export it, my 3  IMG  loose of their quality, whereas on indesign, they are perfect.here are the pictures info: 1st IMG:                      -format: JPEG-Profile: RGB-actual PPI: 300-effective PPI: 300-dimension: 3000 x 2003 2nd IMG:-format: JPEG-Profile: RGB-actual PPI: 304-effective PPI: 361-dimension:  2003 x 3000  -format: JPEG-Profile: RGB-actual PPI: 300-effective PPI: 240-dimension: 3000 x 2003 Does anyone have an explanation, please? I just start in this creative world so all advices are the welcome 🌟thanks a lot in advance for you help! Léonie

Photoshop und Illustrator machen alles richtig - die Fenster auf dem 4k-Zweitbildschirm sind richtig skaliert und scharf:  Anders Indesign - hier sind die Fenster auf dem 4k-Zweitbildschirm falsch skaliert und unscharf:  Was muss ich wo einstellen? 

Today suddenly, I can't see InDesign files or PDF files created from the same on the Finder. They are invisible.  I can't see the docs if I go into InDesign, Open and try to find it; they don't show. If I go to "Recent", it can open them, save them, reopen them. But these new files don't show up on the finder.  if I do "Save As", I can see the missing files in the folder. I was even able to move them, by mistake, into the DRAFTS folder. So the files are there but just invisible in most views. If I got to Outlook or another app to try and attach the PDF, I can't see it. I saved the PDF to the Desktop, and it is visible there. NOTE: On the attachments, you see in the Save As greyed out version, the _Rev1 files show up but not in the regular view. My setup: Mac OSX 15.6 (Updated today after I experienced this issue hoping it would resolve)MacBook Pro M4 Max My files save on MSoft OneDrive and are synced to the Cloud. Perhaps is a OneD

Can anyone recommend how to fix this? I'm missing stroke options in the advance workspace in Indesign, if i switch to essential they appear but I prefer to work with the advance option, I use to have them.I've attached screen shots.

So, I've placed Illustrator files into InDesign.The boxes they're placed in have no fill/stroke/transparency. The Ill files have white backgrounds.In ID there's no halo around the box - at first. Then they show up, and go away on restart, but then appear again.I'm using my GPU performance display - these are set to Typical.So, on the client's PC, these edges in their view of the Acrobat file are GIGANTIC as well as PERSISTENT.What gives? meaning, why are they there? If I put a white stroke (1pt) on the box they go away.What's the fix? How do I stop this cancer gnawing at the root of civilization etc.? I look forward to your collective, always sagacious, council - THANKS! -sno

Hi all,I'm designing a book in InDesign and after placing all the photos I'm going back and adding white borders to them. What I've noticed is, a 6 point white border is coming out different thickness on my photos based on the percentage of scaling I did to place the photo. E.g., a photo that I scaled down to 35% has a thinner border than a photo I scaled down to 85%.  How do I get it where the thickness is uniform throughout the book and not tied to how I scaled the photo?  Thanks!

There's an updated to InDesign 2024 today, version 19.5.2. After installing, it won't open. My system says the app is damaged and should be moved to the trash. Deleting it and reinstalling it didn't fix it. Going back to version 19.5.1 also gives me the same error. What is going on? macOS 14.7

Hello!   Apologies if this has been solved, I couldn't find it.  I have a 6*9 document, with facing pages. I want to have two columns (easy right?) but I need to have two different text flows, since it's supposed to have one language on the left, and the translation on the right. The column in the right should have its own text, and I want to be able to manipulate freely the column on the left, with different text.  I thought I would create two text frames in Master Pages, and link the frames from the even page, to those on the odd page.This will work, but only in that direction. I find no way to make the text flow from the odd page, back to the next even page automatically. Please help! Basically autoflow, of two different text frames.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi everyone, I have been playing with converting PDFs to InDesign; a new feature. Many (but not all) of the graphic frames it generates have the yellow rounded-corner box widget frame adornment in the bottom-left of the frame; not in the upper-right of the frame. And yet the graphic frame is not rotated.  The Control Panel does not show the graphic frame as rotated, yet to get the yellow dot back to the proper position, you have to Flip Horizontal and also Rotate 90 CCW. Anyone else seeing this? Possible bug?

I'm creating an Index in InDesign v20.5 and I need to merge similar plurals and abbreviations into one entry.For example the fllowing all need to come under on Index entry 'Electrocardiogram'ECGECGsElectrocardiogramElectrocardiograms Help please!I'm really struggling to find a solution...

Hi dear all,I am working with the latest version of InDesign. I was trying to change the shortcut for "Zoom in" from Cmd + = (which is impossible to work with if you are on a German keyboard) to Cmd +, to fit all other Adobe programs. Unfortunately, the program won't let me assign the Cmd++ + shortcut as a new shortcut for "Zoom in". I tried to assign Cmd for any other empty shortcut and it wasn't working either, neither when I tried to assign something with Shift + or Option + or Command + ...Can anyone help me with this?Thank you.

I use Indesign to prepare files for exporting to epub format. I want to add a dynamic feature: a buyer's email will be added onto every first page, as part of their purchase licence of the ebook. How can I set this up in Indesign?  

I have selected some text, tables, and images, and I want to apply object styles(exapmle name:"AA") to the images.How do I capture these images?Sometimes they are imported from Word without links. Other times, they may be linked. This is the original code for capturing the table: if (app.selection != null) { for (var f = 0; f < app.selection.length; f++) { var obj = app.selection[f]; var t = obj.texts[0].tables; . . . } 

Hey InDesign World, Cannot create a NEW DOCUMENT. Either through key command or the main FILE drop down. From Main FILE, I'm greeted with this: Command N is no longer offered as an option. I can still open old projects, but apparently can't start new ones. Any ideas? Working with version 20.2 Thank you, jen

Hello, I posted a few days ago about the InDesign program, where I am facing problems with the diacritics in the Arabic language, and the help that was provided to me was not sufficient and did not succeed. I want a radical solution. When I convert the file to a PDF file, the movements disappear or move.

I know there is a problem with fonts missing, but how do I fix this?  If I want to install the missing fonts, will that work?  If I want to substitute fonts, what exactky do I do- Step by step,TIA for any help.  I am admittedly lost. 

I am publishing a print and an ebook version of a book about music. I have occasion to present analytical representations of song lyrics - example attached. I know nothing about InDesign, but that is the tool my book designer is using. She/we are having difficulty getting the alignment to come out right in the EPUB file InDesign exports. I have looked at the html and stylesheet in the EPUB file (using Calibre), and I can see she is flailing. I believe if someone were doing this for a web page, they would use a CSS grid layout. My understanding is that InDesign has equivalent grid functionality, and my instinct is that is what we should be using, but the designer doesn't seem familiar with the grid functionality in InDesign, at least for this purpose. I am posting this to ask what would be the appropriate tool/functionality in InDesign to get the alignment right in the EPUB output. (Feel free to answer using InDesign specific terminology, as I will be passing this on to her anyway.)

I'm logged in with the same account on both systems, but despite claims I've seen to the contrary, a workspace I created and saved on my Windows computer does not appear on my Mac. Presumably there's a workspace file I can manually copy between the two computers, but where do these reside under these OSes? And are workspaces supposed to sync?

Hi friends!I would like to hear input about the best way to automate the following: I have a lot of long footnotes that spread multiple pages. To help the user always continue in the right direction I want that whenever a story, either main text or footnote flows to another page, the first word of the continuation on the next page is printed under the last word of the first page. So the readers know where to continue. So if for example the first page end with the sentence: "President Trump dyes his hair yellow" and the next page continues " every night", the word "every" I s under the word "yellow" (in small print) on page one. And so on ....for footnotes that spanover pages Thanks upfrontSF

Since the 20.4 update, InDesign crashes several times a day! Even when I just want to open another document. It runs on Windows 10.Is anyone else having the same problem?

Hello Adobe Community,   I have a reoccuring issue on InDesign when using tables. If I set the line colours to 'none', obviously the lines change to white and don't show up. However, when I try to undo this and set them to black, they still don't show up. Any tips?   I am doing this by going into: Cell Options > Strikes and Fills > Colour   It shows that the colour is set to black but this does not show up.   Any help would be greatly appreciated!   <Title renamed by MOD>

I have a long document with a detailed index. There are several cross-references that show up as blank in the compiled index. If I try to link to a valid cross-references nothing happens - the cross-referenced topic remains blank.  Whenever I try to delete a bad cross-reference entry in the index list, InDesign crashes to the desktop (Mac OS).  I now get a corrupted file warning when I re-launch after a crash.  I'm pulling my hair out. Is there any way to remove these without causing an app crash or am I resigned to having to delete each bad entry in the compiled index? Thanks in advance for any help. 

Why has InDesign suddenly began to export overly-large interactive pdfs? I've been attempting to export a 23MB InDesign file to interactive pdf, but the lowest it can go is 9.3MB! Before you ask, I do know what i'm doing and i'm very familiar with the process - i've been doing it for years. Interestingly, i've run a side-by-side test with an older InDesgin document of the same size and the older doc compressed as it should (2.5MB). I then ran through the exact same process with the more recent doc and the resulting pdf is way too big.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.