InDesign

When placing PDF's into a document and printing them, InDesign seems to randomly cause some items to be removed from the layout. It seems to be mostly Canva PDF's that are affected. Screenshot 1 - my client's Canva PDF is dropped into our printer (Fiery Command Workstation). Everything is correct in the preview.Screenshot 2 - I need the document 2-up on a sheet so I lay that out with InDesign and print to the Fiery. Now there is a bunch of text missing in the tan colored box. I can even make a PDF of this 2-up layout and it removes the items from the PDF. This problem started with InDesign 2023. I still have 2022 installed for this very purpose because these files print fine from 2022. I've been burnt by this problem several times now and keep hoping a new version will fix it. 2023, 2024 and 2025 do not fix it.

I am using a macbookair with OS 15.5 and InDesign 20.4.1 Typically, I write in both Japanese and English and for English input I use what is called ABC-Extended that lets me add macrons and such to the letters. This works in all apps (Word, Mail, Safari, etc) but it does not work in InDesign. InDesign does not recognize the ABC-Extended input and so I need to use the "Keyboard Viewer" to manually add special letters. How can I get InDesign to recognize ABD-Extended input?

I have a document that I set up with primary text frames from the very start of the workflow. I'm using it as a template for all the documents going into a book.    However, I've gotten almost to the end of formatting the pages for the current section in one particular file and it's suddenly decided to switch from primary text frames to normal ones, so the final page has overset text instead of continuing for the 2 or 3 more pages required.   I've checked the master pages and the primary text boxes are still set up and present. I tried to re-apply to master page to the pages in question but that just gave me new primary text frames under the ones I already have. Is there a way of fixing this that doesn't involve cutting everything and pasting it into a new document?   I don't want to jsut manually create text boxes on some new pages as that will presumably mess up any reflowing which will inevitably happen during editing and defeat the point of using the primary tex

Hi, I'm having trouble importing pdfs to indesign. Files under 3mb easily get imported but files over 5mb take forever to import and I just cancel the import beacuse it justs loads for over 2mins and I lose patience. I thought the file was the problem but I tried different files and it's the same problem. I even tried on another device, my macbook, and it works perfectly fine on that device. There's a problem on my windows laptop for some reason even though it's much more powerful than my macbook air. Are there any settings I have to change etc. Any suggestions please?

Hi, my Company is thinking about using One Drive instead of our onsite storage, we have sometimes 5 designers working on multiple files at a time & perhaps doing corrections to these files throughout the day. Can the InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop files be openedd from One Drive without having to download these files to our own desktops & uploading without any issues? If so what is the best way to do this. I use One Drive for sharing files with others but have never worked on files only downloaded them & saved on our Network? We have PC Windows 11. cheers Leanne

Bonjour, J'essaye d'exporter mon fichier indesign en pdf mais ça ne fonctionne pas puisque indesign essaie de télécharger une police adobe fonts dans les tâches en arrière-plan, je ne peux pas supprimer la tâche. Aussi, je n'ai pas accès à adobe fonts, mes accès sont limités. J'ai essayé de me deconnecter, de redémarrer mon ordinateur mais ça ne fonctionne pas, ça reprend la recherche à chaque fois. J'ai la version 18.1 d'indesign et je suis sur mac. Merci par avance!

Why are my paragraph tags splitting into individual lines (all in their own tag) when I export out of Indesign CC to an accessible PDF? I've tried both with and without using the articles panel. It makes for a much more complicated document structure in Acrobat when you need to make some changes. Have checked all of the proper buttons such as "Use for reading order" in the articles panel, and editing the export tags, etc.

Has anyone else been having issues with the baseline grid since the last InDesign update?When I align text to the baseline grid, it suddenly jumps around or doesn't align properly—even though I've set the option correctly in the text settings panel.

I 'd like to use the new Indesign option to insert MathML for equations. I have a Word document with a lot of equations that I need to convert to MathML on a Mac. Anybody who has done this before and knows how to do this?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi Community,I'm venturing into new territory and trying to place an .XLSX table into my .INDD class syllabus. I have watched a handful of videos and read a few threads. I must be making a BEGINNER'S mistake somewhere. To troubleshoot, I made three different .XLSX files, descending in complexity from my desired file, down to a test file with only single digit integers and no formatting.  I have create links to placed files turned on.I have import options checked. After the import menu, there is nothing loaded on the cursor and it's as if I didn't use the Place function at all. Exactly NOTHING happens. Bleep blorp bloop. I'm attaching SS of the .XLSX in Excel, the destination .INDD, and the Import options menu as it populates for me (mostly greyed-out, allowed to set cell-range, table style, that's about it.) *also: I realize the cell range does not match the test dataset, it does match the desired dataset in screenshots further down the post). Your he

I have always shared my creative cloud with my wife. She only uses indesign and acrobat and now there are requests for her to update and sign in. How and why does this happen? 

Why is that, it says the findWhat property setting is invalid?What it should say is that gre doesn't have any data I originally got it right by writing it directly like this:var res = getGrepSearch("@", app.activeDocument); gre = new RegExp('@'); main(){ var res = getGrepSearch(gre, app.activeDocument); } .　.　.　..　. function getGrepSearch(fp, s) { app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null; app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = { includeHiddenLayers: true, includeLockedLayersForFind: true, includeLockedStoriesForFind: true, includeMasterPages: true } app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = fp; //return app.findGrep() return s.findGrep() } 

I have a document with page numbers on the master. If I data merge to a ID file everything is good. If I export directly to a PDF my page numbers get whacked. If I pull the page numbers off the master it works fine both ways.The pages should go i, ii, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 when they go wonky I get i, ii, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1 And its like this in 3 files so something is whacked.  Any ideas other than the obvious answer to just put them in the doc??

I discovered an issue with a PDF file exported from InDesign. The document contained a text object with a gradient, partially overlaying a photo. So essentially, a text element with a transparent effect placed on top of a pixel-based image.The PDF was exported using the PDF/X-1a preset, so I expected the file to be fully flattened. Visually, the file looked fine, and PitStop Preflight reported no issues. The next step was to place the file into Kodak Preps for imposition for offset printing. At that stage, everything still appeared correct.However, the imposed PDF exported from Preps showed the text object without the gradient. Instead, the text was filled with just one of the gradient colors. After testing and replicating the issue, I found that it did not occur if I flattened the PDF a second time in Acrobat, or if I removed the photo underneath the affected object. Another workaround was converting the text to outlines.My conclusion is that a text object with a gradient over a photo

I need to create a aphorism in the first chapter using the paragraph Then, in Chapter 2, I want to start automatically in  10The problem is that I have 35  chapters to include. Thanks Jorge Ribeiro  

For example, a character in my regular is determined by using a certain character on the filename.It may or may not be @.But that doesn't mean you can use @* for either case. It's not an assumption, it's that I have to determine which case to use based on whether the filename has the @ symbol or not. afterTheAtSymbol = /\@(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/, afterTheAtSymbol = /\^(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/,  

The code below, which I tested with alter,The left popup is "empty".　The right popup is  [objet charater]. This shows that there are  difference.    Since it is different, the choice can be judged. But when I use if(!qz===''),  It always prompts (!qz===‘’) with a result of false. What do I have to write   "if (   )"  to get it right? Another problem:If an @ is found, and there is only one, also execute the subsequent code.If the loop does not find an @, it prompts alert(“No one @”).How  to write this?Thank you very much.  for (var h = 0, k = 0; h < sa.length; h++) { if ("TextFrame" == sa[h].constructor.name) { if (sa[h].overflows) { sa[h].fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT) } //alert(sa[h]); var qz = getGrepSearch("@", sa[h]); alert(qz); alert((!qz === '')); //for (var k = 0; k < sa.length; k++)

Recently updated to InDesign 20.1. When I click on any box or shape, text or picture it takes 10-15 seconds before it shows that it is selected. Sometimes I can move/edit the box although it doesn't have the blue lines indicating it is selected. Other times, I can not. Selecting multiple items often crashes InDesign. Today I selected to text boxes and a picture. Crash. As a result to the time killing aspect of the update, I have had no choice but to revert to InDesign 2024. (19.5.2), which you might imagine, is also an inconvenience.  I am running Sonoma 14.4.1 on M1, 2021 iMac with 16 Gb Ram. 

I have installed the beta version of InDesign to try the feature to convert PDF to InDesign files.When trying to open any PDF, InDesign won't do anything. In my team, one of my coworkers can open a PDF, while the other has a similar problem. It starts to analyze the file, but after that, it closes.There is any reason why it works for some of us, but not for the rest? 

Hi , how are you allI want a script that cut selected text from me , and paste it in a new text frame at the exact place of the selected text without changing anything in its format or placeThanks

Bonjour à toutes et tous,Depuis ce matin, inDesign n'arrête pas de planter après quelques minutes d'ouverture. La dernière version est installée sur PC. J'ai déjà effacé les préférences et redémarrer le PC, je ne vois trop quoi faire d'autre. Je travaille un simple documents A4 de 3 pages !Merci pour votre aide

Hi everyone, I'm self publishing and my first epub reported the following when trying to upload it into Draft2Digital...any thoughts how to resolve in InDesign?:EPUBCheck Summary Validating using EPUB version 3.3 rules. Check finished with errors Messages: 0 fatals / 1 error / 0 warnings / 4 infos  EPUBCheck - Hide Errors ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/toc.xhtml(9,9): Error while parsing file: element "ol" incomplete; missing required element "li"

Hi, I received this message when uploading my reflow epub file to Draft2Digital. I don't even know why it is encrypted or how to remove it...any thoughts?Warning - You have submitted an encrypted ePub. Encryption is not fully supported across the publishing industry and may delay or prevent publication at certain digital stores.

 If the character you're looking for is in the overflow text, findWhat won't help.Any ideas? var queries = [ { findWhat: '@', objectStyleName: "CapCenter"}, ];Maybe have the overflow text expand first in the same text box?

I've been trying to solve this very annoying issue all afternoon. I'm working on a document that we update annually, so the file I'm working from is a 2019 file. I wanted to use the new review feature to let other memebers of my team know which information I needed them to update for me. Unfortunately, all my comments show up on the web portal as "unmapped", even though show up as linked to the annotations in my InDesign document. A previous thread suggested saving to an IDML format and opening the IDML so the document can be a 2020 file. That workaround did not work for me. I decided to create a new document, upload it for review and test to see if I could get comments to link. The blank document successfully took annotations and pins, so I copy and pasted the first two pages of my document in and tested the comments again. Again, the annotation linked to the comment, so I added the other 20 pages of my document, updated the link, and tested again. The third test annotation linke