InDesign

I'm creating a book index, entering all the topics first before I begin to mark references. Some main topics have multiple sub-topic level-1 entries. I can create these "by hand" by typing the main topic, typing one sub-topic, and entering, repeating the process for as many times as I have sub-topics. Is there a way to enter multiple sub-topics under the main topic at one time, separated by some sort of marker that InDesign recognizes as a "new line" character in the sub-topic list? For example, one main topic is Abstention. It has five level-1 subtopics: Burford, Colorado River, Pullman, Thibodaux, and Younger. Below is a sample of what I'm trying to do: Main topic: AbstentionSub-topic: Burford [new line], Colorado River [new line], Pullman [new line],  Thibodaux [new line], Younger [new line] So that when I generate the index, it would line up like this:***********************************************************************Abstention  &nbs

To quote Adobe: "Now every document will remember its last export format."In our experience this has not been working at all. As far as we can tell, InDesign simply remembers the last exported format and applies that to whatever the next document you work on is. This is the behaviour InDesign has always had… and a frustrating behaviour it is too!This is not what we understood the feature to be. The feature appeared to be promoted as the last export setting of an individual document being remembered by that document and travelling with it. So if I, or anyone else, open that same document in a months time I can export it and it will export with exactly the same settings as it did previously. If this could work it would be very useful.Or are we misunderstanding what this feature is supposed to do?

Hi everyone,I'm experiencing an issue with InDesign's Publish Online feature with New links and Updating Existing links– When publishing a new document, the option to download as a PDF appears, but clicking it opens a new window with a "[Not Found]" text in the top left of the browser. When updating older published links, the same issue occurs. This is a new (to me) issue, and I haven't changed anything in my process (that I’m aware of). Troubleshooting Steps I've Tried:Uninstalling and reinstalling InDesignChecking for software updates (Mac OS) Ive attached a video ref (speed up the uploading time) to show exactly what I mean.  I also reached out to Adobe Support via chat twice, but the chat ended with no response.I have also read the following threads and tried to implement changes based on the 'solved result' but dont feel like I have a clear answer, or I might just not understand? Thread 1Thread 2Thread 3Thread 4 I rely on Publ

I have this black border around each page, and it prints out. I NEED IT TO GO AWAY. I've tried several options, including reducing stroke to 0. Suggestions VERY welcome.

I would like to add an export range to the script for exporting pdfs.There are a lot of scripts on the internet for exporting pdf's, and it seems that they can only call templates, and do not set the export page.Is there similar information can be recommended to me? 

Has anyone researched how images or frames fit across pages (including bleed)Not many, it seems.I couldn't find any references.

Hi there![Windows 11 Pro] Any chance that I could keep my Workspace Prefs while switching from an old computer to a new one? Would also be a switch from ID 19.5.4 x64 to 20.5 x64.Thanks

Uncertain if this a question or feature request.   Basically I have this problem with alt+scroll: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-can-i-stop-the-alt-key-from-activating-the-application-bar-windows-11/td-p/14426715 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/zoom-using-alt-scroll-wheel/m-p/10495434   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.   However. I notice this does not happen in Illustrator or Photoshop. In those the menu underlining occurs only whilst the alt+scroll keys are down, it ends immediately on key-up. If I tap the alt key on its own the underlining persists, which is fine and I think the expected behaviour. Although in some software (Acrobat) alt doesn't underlin

Hello, I’m working with an InDesign file that contains duotone images—one 100% black channel and one additional Pantone spot color (Pantone Black Process). In previous versions of InDesign, exporting to PDF for print preserved only the Black and Pantone plates, without generating any CMY separations. Since updating to the latest version, the exported PDF now includes CMY plates as well, which shouldn’t happen...! Could you help me understand what’s causing this and how to ensure only the Black and Pantone channels are used in the PDF output? Thank you,F. 

Use a script to determine which page the image is located on based on the majority of the page. For example, if most of the image is on the right page, even if b[1] crosses the center line, I still want to assign the image to the right page.Conversely, if most of the image is on the left page, even if b[3] is on the right page, the image should be assigned to the left page.Thank you very much.

It seems that exceeding the geometricBounds has no effect.I tested this:var sel = app.documents[0].selection; var pb = sel[j].parentPage.bounds; sel[j].geometricBounds = [-10, -10, pb[2], pb[3]]and found it to be very wrong.

Prompt: getCn ,GetCsp is undefinedThe dialog box has been bothering me.Can this mm be entered like this? How can I make the value in this dialog box be mm? Thank you very much.var getCn, getCsp; makeDialog(); alert("columns:" + getCn) alert("spacing:" + getCsp) function makeDialog() { var theDialog = app.dialogs.add({ name: "Column number and spacing settings", canCancel: true, minHeight: 600, minWidth: 400, }); with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "number of columns:" }); staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "spacing:" }); } with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { var getCn = textEditboxes.add({ editContents: "4" }); var getCsp = textEditboxes.add({ editContents: "6mm" }); } if (theDialog.show() == true) { //dialog results preset and page range getCn = getCn.editContents.split(','); getCsp = getCsp.editContents.split(','); theDialog.destroy(); } } 

Hi basically the title, Ived tried shift + command (I cant find the Preferences > General and Uncheck Enable Legacy Free Transform feature in the settings either) but to no avail 😞 Any would be appreciated!! (this is for macos btw)

Anyone seen these yellow lines before? Can't figure out what they are, and how to toggle them on/off. (Id 19.4)

Hi there! I'm a complete newb when it comes to InDesign, so I'm sorry if this comes across as a stupid question I wrote and formatted a document in Word and then sent it to InDesign, where I wanted to make the pages look better and improve upon the formatting.The problem I have is with the headers I've created in Word (they are written in an 18px uppercase Montserrat), which I want to define as a specific paragraph style so I can further edit them in bulk. However, these headers have the same paragraph style as the body text but simply override it. Is there any way I could select ALL the 18px Montserrat Bold text inside the document, in order to define a new paragraph style, so I could bulk edit this header font, given that the body text is written in a 12px Montserrat? Worst case scenario, I'll proceed to doing it by hand - but it seems that this nugget should be hidden somewhere in the software Thank you very much!

Hi community, I am trying to write a script that includes anchoring an object to a pre-existing Note in Indesign.I can get the anchoring to work, but I cannot figure out how to find the actual position of the Note within the parent textframe/Story, to use the Note as the anchor insertion point. I have tried checking various properties of the Note, but note.insertionPoints[x] appears to return insertionPoints within the Note text, ditto note.characters. Note.storyOffset appears to return the beginning of the parent story. Note.parent returns a story object, nothing positional.  If it's not possible to anchor to the note itself that's ok,  getting the neighboring text would be good enough, but I'm not sure how to get there? Thanks in advance for your advice!    

I'm trying (and failing) to diagnose what is causing the last line of this paragraph to be further away from the previous lines.I tried to change paragraph styles, even going back to [Basic Paragraph Style], but they all seem to behave the same way. Any idea of what may be happening here?Thank you!

Hello, I was having no problems using this script.  Unfortunately when i reached page 133, i ran the footnote breakline script so i can move a footnote and make it inline.An error box appeared and all the text disappeared!I pressed undo but that didn't solve the issue.I tried force recompose, again that didn't solve the issue. Any solutions?

A client sent us a pdf of something that they wanted us to print for them. They later sent us a new copy with some changes that had been made. So we completely deleted the old files and saved the new ones to the same folder. The new pdf opens the way it should in Acrobat, Photoshop, internet browsers, and the preview in File Explorer. But when I import it to InDesign, it pulls up the old version of the file every time, even though they have been deleted and didn't have the same file name anyway. So I deleted the contents of InDesign's cache folder and used the shift+ctrl+alt shortcut on startup to delete the preference file. I also tried it on a different computer. I also saved the files from the email from the client to a different location and imported that copy. All to no avail. Is this a problem with InDesign or could it be something in the way he made the changes to the pdf? Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I searched for some information. Is this it?WhenScalingOptions.ADJUST_SCALING_PERCENTAGFor example, if I select an object like this, how should I write it?var sel = app.documents[0].selection; After moving and zooming the image multiple times, the frame becomes misaligned. I want to clear it. 

I used:var sel = app.documents[0].selection; sel[j].visibleBounds = [sb[0], lcb, sb[2], rcb];to control two charts.I noticed that sometimes 00001 is placed at the front, and its height is used as the standard for changes. But sometimes 00002 is placed at the front, and its height is used as the reference.These are not based on which one was originally at the front, but seem to be based on the order of the filenames 00001 and 00002. Is this random? It doesn't seem so.How to ensure that the initial top-ranked item remains the standard reference and continues to rank first. That is, make it sb[0]. 

Two versions of InDesign, how do I switch to the default application for Indd files? Sometimes when the higher version is unstable, I would like to keep the file opened by default with the lower version.Prevent being opened by the higher version and trying to regret it too late. I tried using the default app with win11 and realized it was locked and could not be changed.Then I realized that the later installed version was the default app. So it didn't work, I re-installed it all over again in order.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Is there a way too have Indesign pull images from subfolders when using data merge?I have 6,000+ images in multiple folders, to help keep them organized. eg. H:\Images\JKL\K02501.psdMy InDesign file is on my local computer.

Hi,I'm building a UXP plugin for Adobe InDesign. I want to get the full file path of the currently open document. I tried this:const doc = app.activeDocument;const filePath = await doc.fullName;  // fullName returns a Promise But I get this error:Error: Could not find an entry of 'file:///path'at l._getEntryImpl (uxp://uxp-internal/webfs_scripts.js:2)Even when the document is saved, it still fails. How can I get the file path of the active document in InDesign using UXP?Is there any working methodThanks!

For a book cover, I have created the images in Photoshop but assembled the final thing in InDesign to work with the text more easily. A small part of a scifi character overlaps the book title to add depth, so I need to keep the background graphics and foreground graphics separate so that the title layer can be between them. I didn't think that would be a problem. But the semi-transparent fur of the character, which has highlights to indicate rim light from glowing objects in the background, ends up with dark edges in InDesign (and the resulting PDF), and I can't figure out why or what to do about it. Originally I was saving a TIFF file from Photoshop, but after I noticed this problem, I placed the Photoshop file (with only the needed layers for this character) directly in InDesign. I even tried merging all the layers first, in case there was something about the darker base layer that was coming through the rim light layer due to the reduced transparency in that area of the image.