InDesign

Are we able to use Adobe fonts to create accessible PDFs using InDesign and Acrobat? If so, then why are they corrupting with a protected error? 

Hi, I have this little script problem that would save me hundreds of hours of work time a year. Could someone help me? The customer delivers a word document with product information, for example, to a 50-page product catalog (more than 400 products). The texts are copied to Indesign on a page-by-page basis and paragraph styles are manually added to the texts. I want to have the text frames divide/split according to paragraph styles and that I can decide which paragraphs they are (for example "Product number", "Price 1" and "Price 2"). Here is an example of which paragraph styles are used in the product information:Product nameProduct SpecificationProduct translationBody textProduct numberPrice 1Price 2 Below is a visual explanation of how I would like the script to work. Is this possible?

Hi there! I have a number of images placed throughout a very large document in indesign. I have used CC libraries to place them all. It seems like it would be fairly easy to automatically create a group or sort my library based on the images I have already placed. However I can't seem to find a way to do that. Yes -  in hindsight, I should have created a group and added the images as I went. Lesson learned. Aside from using my links panel and going through one by one and manually creating a group in the library's panel, am I missing something? Is there a way to automate this? Thank you!!

Uupdated ID this morning. Now I get the blue spinning circle as if exporting to PDF. I can open/close/edit InDesign files occasionally. Other times I have to force quite. Even after quitting ID and restarting computer, I get the spinner. See attached video. I'll probably delete app and install but was curious if this is a bug or something on my end. 

When updating copy in InCopy, it will not hold the formatting in a table that was set in InDesign. Even if it's just adding a period to the end of the sentence. Does any one know how to correct this? I appreciate anyone suggestions.

Hello!    I'm having an trouble the background task feature on InDesign. I downloaded two fonts from DaFont to spice up my magazine, and since then I haven't been able to save or export my document because it is continuously "activating font" under background tasks and isn't stopping. There is no option to delete (see picture). Has anyone had experience with this? I'm afraid to ctrl-alt-delete because I don't want my document to not be saved.    This post from 2020 had a similar issue, but after I did what the commentor suggested (went to Find/Replace Font and clicked "Redefine Style When Changing All" for all the non-normalized fonts) it still didn't work. I'm at a loss as to what to do. 

Bonjour à tous, Je souhaiterai exporter l'ensemble de mes variantes de mise en page d'un meme fichier dans des pdfs distinct. Est ce que quelqu'un saurait comment faire s'il vous plait ? Je ne trouve aucune formulation qui fonctionne. Cordialement,Claire. 

I've been busy putting lots of index markers into a 174-page document. When I finished, I directed ID to generate the index. I got a message saying "Index successfully replaced." I didn't think there was an index yet in the document, but that aside, no index entries of any sort appeared in the document, nor did I have a loaded cursor with which to paste the supposedly replaced index. I have no idea what's going on. Does anyone else have an idea?   ID obviously thinks there is an index in there somewhere, but there is no visible sign of it. In theory, at least, I could delete all the index markers and start over again, but I'm eager to avoid that if possible.   Thanks.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Not sure how best to describe my issue here...But im trying to make a planning for my class and I have formatted the first cell in the style i would like (the pink line will be changed to white prior to printing). Now the "01" and "TUE" are different font sizes and have been center aligned to the smaller pink cell - is there a way i can apply to all other cells so i can simply go in and edit the days for each month with fixing the font style of match? 

Hi all,I’m working on a custom plugin for InDesign using the SDK and am trying to customize the behavior of a 9-grid reference point proxy widget (similar to the one used in the Transform panel). My goal is to display a vertical line spanning the middle column (Top Center, Center, Bottom Center points: 1, 4, 7) when one mode is active ("Height Only"), and a horizontal line spanning the middle row (Center Left, Center, Center Right points: 3, 4, 5) when another mode is active ("Width Only"). Currently, the proxy widget consistently activates only the middle column (1, 4, 7) in both modes, and I can’t get the horizontal line to activate the middle row. I’m using the IProxyWidgetAttributes interface to set the appearance (e.g., kLine, kRow, or kColumn) and the active position (e.g., kCenterReferencePoint). I’ve implemented a custom method to handle the orientation, but it only works for the vertical (middle column) case. Here’s a generalized version of my approach: private:

I am working on a box set up on a two-up, head-to-head sheet. I've attached the template I'm working from. I nearly have the bottom box completed and I'd almost bet the farm that there's a way to take my completed bottom and impose over the top part of the template in one fell swoop --- but of course, I don't have a clue what that might be.Any and all advice is appreciated.Thanks to those who know more than me,Joe

I've created a PDF File using InDesign and exported as an Interactive PDF.When I open and test this using Acrobat, the hyperlinks I've inserted as link to page inside the file or as Interactive elements, they run perfectly fine.However, when I send to client using PC, it seems the PDF opens by default in another PDF viewer and the are not clickable.Any ideas from anyone would be appreciated.Thanks, Lina

I have to confess, I have little understand of color management.My workflow is to create all resident colors in CMYK or Grayscale. The linked images are all in RGB until the document is ready to go to press. Then I convert the images in Photoshop to CMYK and Grayscale and relink them to the document.I had a crash that reset all my presets. Could this have something to do with it?Or is my printer doing something different (with dot gain, for example)? I get an error message upon opening INDD file:Embedded Profile MismatchThe document”s embedded colour profile does not match the current RGB working space. The current RGB colorur management policy is to discard profiles that do not match the working space.Embedded: Adobe RGB (1998)Working: Apple RGBDoes this have something to do with the problem?

Hi everyone! My Adobe tools were updated and all of a sudden, the resizing markers in especially inDesign are not working as usual. The marker for how much of an image is showing - the blue one - is now resizing the image in the same was as the orange one is supposed to do instead of doing what it originally did. I've never had this issue before and I don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks a bunch in advance!  

Dears, I'm creating a pdf files through InDesign, and export it as .pdf file. I choose to fit to height. The pdf file is good at Acrobat Reader. But when people view it using another pdf viewer, they display the page with some parts of the pages before and after it. Is there any way I make other viewers than Acrobat read "fit to height" And about interactivity, is there any way I make my pdf file to be read from any other pdf viewer thab acrobat and read my inner links and hyperlinks. as I cannt force my clients to use Acrobat as I do, they have their own preferred pdf viewers  The files are created in InDesign Thabks in advance,Lina

Use scripts to apply different object styles depending on the number of lines.For example:In the case of two or more lines, "A object style" is applied.In the case of a one-line note, apply "B object style"? Thank you.

I've encountered some unexpected behavior with brackets inside character classes in InDesign GREP and would like to get your expert opinions. Test text: ab a[c] [d] Test results:[a-z[] → matches: a, b, a, [, c, [, d (as expected)[a-z]] → matches: c], d] (two characters together)[a-z[]] → matches: c], d] (same as above)[a-z\[\]] → matches: a, b, a, [, c, ], [, d, ] (as expected) Question: Why do [a-z]] and [a-z[]] produce the same result, matching c] and d] as two-character sequences rather than individual characters? Logically, [a-z[]] should match "lowercase letters OR opening bracket OR closing bracket" individually, but it seems to behave differently. Is this a bug, or am I missing something about how InDesign GREP handles nested brackets in character classes? Workaround: Using [a-z\[\]] (escaping both brackets) works as expected. Thanks for any insights!

I have designed a book in Adobe InDesign and also created the Table of Contents style. However, when I view it in Kindle Previewer, the Table of Contents doesn't appear. I have attached a screenshot. I want the preview to look like that. i used a fixed layout because there are many photos in my book. Thanks 

Hi everyone,I am new to iD so I don't know if this is a relatively standard problem to encounter but I can't figure out how to fix it.I am working on an eBook which comprehends several layers. I added an animation to an object that's part of layer 1, but said animation doesn't work since I added another animation to another object on layer 3.Layer 3 is shown only if a certain trigger/button is clicked; is there a way to mantain the two animations even if they are on separate layers?I hope someone can help!

The default value in the input box is: “Lu Jon”.But after I re-enter "Mark" and click OK,I find that the value I get from "yourName.text" is not updated, it is still "Lu Jon".What's wrong? My friends, help me look, please~Thank you very much.  // Create a new window var win = new Window("dialog", "Nmae"); var inputGroup = win.add("group"); inputGroup.add("statictext", undefined, "inPut Name"); var yourName = inputGroup.add("edittext", undefined, "Lu Jon"); yourName.characters = 20; inputText = yourName.text; // Buttons group var btnGroup = win.add("group"); btnGroup.alignment = "right"; var okBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK"); // OK var cancelBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Cancel"); // Cancel // Button click events okBtn.onClick = function () { alert(inputText); //rwJSON(); win.close(); }; cancelBtn.onClick = function () { win.close(); }; // Show the dialog win.center(); win.show(); 

I need to export a quarterly magazine to HTML in order to create online articles in Wordpress. I have never had any trouble until I upgraded to InDesign 2025 (currently 20.4). Now there is a new choice of HTML5, which is way too fancy for my purpose (too many HTML tags I don't want, text columns separated, etc.). But the "HTML (Legacy)" type keeps crashing. I was able to export a portion of the articles one time (I think that was a fortunate fluke), and I can export a plain document with a dummy text box, but all other attempts (including even a single two-page article with no images) crash InDesign. I tried saving as IDML and reopening to cleanse the document, but no change. I even tried creating a brand new document and copying a few of the text blocks from the magazine to that document, but it still crashed when I tried to export as HTML legacy. Finally I re-installed ID 2024 (19.5.4), opened the IDML in that older version, and exported with no trouble. (ID 2024 is also refresh

Hi!I have two questions regarding e-book production in InDesign that I would appreciate help with. 1. As a designer, I usually create traditional book templates in InDesign (textbooks for printing), templates with various formats, content, etc. Now, I have been asked to create a template that also works for epub export, and I wonder if there is anything technically that needs to be done already in the print book template, to make it easier for the person who later export the finished book to epub? (Other than possibly considering which font etc. to choose.) Isn't the adaptation something that is done later when the book is completed, so to speak? Note that I won't be handling the epub export of the finished books, which will be done by someone with specific epub expertise. I'm only creating the templates.The same client has asked me to create a template directly for Instaread texts, which are read directly on the phone. Are there any "ready-made" templates or specific guidelines f

I'm working on a Data Merge file and it keeps saying when I choose the data source, "The selected data source has one or more empty field names. Please fix the file or select another file." I can't seem to see any blank fields in the excel file. I did save it as a .csv. I've never had this problem in the past. Any advice would be appreciated!

Indesign has a response time of around 15 seconds. Any ideas on how to solve this?

I'm assuming this is an InDesign issue, but am happy to be corrected if it's Acrobat. Either way, the problem is that even though there is alt-text embedded in every linked image's metadata, it's not always exporting into Acrobat. The metadata for every image was edited in Bridge, saved, and the links updated so that's not the problem.  And the alt-text is clearly there in the InDesign file:  But it always doesn't export with the PDF: Adding to the confusion is the fact that the Spanish language version is exporting the alt-text correctly: We used the English version as the basis for the Spanish file, so I'm even more baffled than ever. All of the images are grouped with captions then anchored in the text where referenced, the same for both language versions. They're all tagged as Figures, too, so there's no reason for Acrobat to be treating them like Artifacts. Has anyone seen something like this before? Is this a problem within the InDesign file, a