InDesign

Hi there,My Indesign's Control Panel used to show paragraph border and paragraph shading in the topright. Which was very convenient for fast access.Since last week i lost these options? Anyone know how i can get these back up there? I know these options differ a bit when you use different screen sizes, but these are unchanged.  Regards, Ed'

Why is the same exact style (I even imported the stlye from the one that's right) looking differently on all of  these documents?see video for claritythe first one shown is correct, the way I want it to appear.  

All forbidden characters:? \ |":*/<>/ \r \n Why doesn't this work:myName.replace(/[\?\*\/\:\|\<\r\n\>\"\\]/,'') And separating one at a time works:myName.replace(/\? /, '').replace(/\r/, '').replace(/\*/, ''); 

I want to enter some characters in box 1 and then calculate it by some formula and display the result in box 2 after clicking Get button.then:Click the GET button to display the results in Box 2 and copy the results.Tap the CLEAR button to clear box 2.How can I modify the code?Thanks a lot.// Create a new window var win = new Window("dialog", "Key Input Dialog"); // Group for keySymbol input var inputGroup = win.add("group"); inputGroup.add("statictext", undefined, "keySymbol:"); var keyInput1 = inputGroup.add("edittext", undefined, "@"); keyInput1.characters = 10; var myResult = keyInput1.text + '&&'; var keyInput2 = inputGroup.add("edittext", undefined, myResult); keyInput2.characters = 20; // Buttons group var btnGroup = win.add("group"); btnGroup.alignment = "right"; var okBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "GET and COPY"); // OK var cancelBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "CLEAR"); // Cancel // Button click events //okBtn.onClick = function () { // v

Hi, I am trying to find a way to data merge images (primarily icons) into Indesign templates from our  Brandfolder (Digital Asset Management library) from a .csv spreadsheet. We use CI HUB as the connector between Brandfolder and Indesign, so I would presume that CI HUB holds the solution, but have not been able to figure it out? We can store the images on the local drive and the link work,s but I need to find away to get the .csv to draw from Brandfolder and place into Indesign Templates? Any ideas?

Hi,  I downloaded a font online and created a few paragraph styles for my document. Everything was fine originally when I had placed placeholder text, now I am trying to add the words in now and everytime I try to add an S the letter does not appear and instantly turns the paragraph into the heading.  I've tried looking at GREP, Nested, I can't override the paragraph styles. I am under a strong deadline; could anyone please offer any advice? 

Hi, I have just received my paperback print proof from Amazon/KDP for my first book that I designed in InDesign. I followed their online specifications for a book of my size and page numbers, including margins. Unfortunately, with the proof copy they’ve sent me in the mail, it's very hard to read the text on the inside pages next to the spine as the margin isn’t big enough.  Also, the outside margin looks unprofessionally small. When I designed my book, it started out as 6 x9 inches with 144 pages. I set the top and bottom margins to 0.5 inches. Then I set the other margins as per KDP's online guide (screenshot below): inside 0.375 inches and outside 0.25  inches. There’s no bleed as my content doesn’t extend over the margins. I don’t have columns. When KDP online wouldn’t accept the book when I uploaded it, I spoke to a KDP agent in chat and he told me to increase the book size to 6.13 x 9.25 inches and to leave the margins as I had them. After receiving the proof,

Hello! I am trying to paste text from a Photoshop document into InDesign, but it isn't keeping the formatting. I made sure the Clipboard handling "All Information" is checked. I've tried pasting without formatting, etc. but nothing is working. I am attaching a sample bit of text with how it's supposed to look vs how it is pasting into InDesign. I can PM you a page of the document if needed. Font is Acumin Pro Condensed - 8pt and 9pt leading. The "Class Name" is bold font with the 1st and 2nd place text lines in regular font. No Spacing. There has to be an easier way to do this without having to manually reformat 50 pages. I hope someone can help! I don't know alot about formatting from one to another.

HelloI have a text layer with effects like strokes created in Photoshop cc 2018 , I want to copy and paste it into indesign with capability of editing text without losing any of the effects in indesign How can I do that Please ???Thanks

Hi, have been trying to apply photoshop clipping path to images via scripting. But after long process of trial and error finally got to conclusion that ClippingPathTypes:PHOTOSHOP_PATH is not getting recognised. So made a script to see what all are supported, attached screenshot looks like only ALPHA_CHANNEL, NONE and DETECT_EDGES are getting recognised. When i try PHOTOSHOP_PATH, its throwing invalid parameter.Is this an indesign restriction or bug? any way to solve it?Appreciate the help if anyone can. Thanks!

The cNum is taken from my.json.Is it a string? But then it can participate in arithmetic.“cNum”: 24. Here (cNum>6) seems to work, even though checkCode(); has been executed, cNum still increases by 1.cNum keeps increasing whenever you click on it! And it will add two 1's (+1+1),I checked elsewhere without the same setting. if (cNum <= 6) { readwriteJSON(); } else if (cNum >6) { checkCode(); } function readwriteJSON() { var myJSON = readFile(pathToMyJSONFile); if (!myJSON) return alert('Could not read JSON file.'); myJSON = JSON.parse(myJSON); cNum = myJSONObject.cNum; myJSON.cNum = cNum + 1; alert(cNum); var f = writeFile(pathToMyJSONFile, JSON.stringify(myJSON, undefined, '\t')); } 

Hey guys! For some reason I can't uninstall the older and beta version of InDesign. I've tried trough the CC, normal storage uninstall section from Windows and even Control Panel and they are still on the app section for some reason. I've tried checking the older versions of Indesign on the Cloud but I've only got the most recent one installed. I attached some pics for reference. It's taking storage from my pc and I need it! Any help?

Whether it's an object or a path is indistinguishable. I don't want the dialog to open, I want it to open the file pointed to by the path by default, what should I write?var file = File.openDialog();alert("file:" + file);Below is the result after I choose to select "my.json": If I don't want to do it manually, it it directly opens this path “pathToMyJSONFile” (pathToMyJSONFile = File($.fileName).parent.parent + ‘/PubLib/my.json’;)How do I change it?var file = File.open(pathToMyJSONFile);This seems wrong. alert(pathToMyJSONFile); results in this: 

Ich habe ein aktives Indesign-Abo. Wenn ich die ID-App starte, soll ich aber ein neues Abo abschließen und zahlen. 

I have written about 10 books (print) and several online presentations (web) and have never had the problem I'm having now. I have a document set up with NO FACING PAGES.  Whether I set it up as a printed document or a web document, the same thing happens.When I try to insert a page it addes the page like it would for a facing page (beside the page), but I don't want that...I want it to show up as the next page (underneath the page).  All other pages set out correctly when I started the document; however, this anomoly happens when ever I try to add a page.I must be missing something in my set up, but I've done this so many times before without this problem.  Is there something in these newer releases that I'm not aware of?Any ideas for me? 

So, I've created an inner stroke to frame an image but what I'd like is for this stroke to knock out the top image and allow an underlying image to show through - is this possible?I've created this example by making a compound object and placing the underlying image into it to achieve the result, but I'd like to know if this same effect can be created by using an inner stroke and masking/knocking out the top image? 

For example:There are two files my.json and aa.jsx in the same path.I have a code in my.json that looks like this:{"oldCode": "60068"} I now want to use var changeCode="10020" in aa.jsx to change the value of oldCode.How to achieve it?Thank you very much.

I am using InDesign CC 2018 and my swatches palette has suddenly stopped showing the document colours. They can be seen when I look at other palettes which use the colours however not in the actual swatches palette.I have:a) Rebuilt my InDesign preferences and;b) Uninstalled the app and then reinstalledNeither of these things have worked. Has anyone found an alternative solution to this problem?

I've run into this occasionally, but it would appear every once and a while, I'll get a corrupt font in the Document Fonts folder. I deleted the corrupt font, but the corrupt font kept sticking through IDMLs and closing reopening and deleting styles.Ultimately, with the font deleted, I rolled back a version, reopened and the correct face was showing. Does this bug sound familiar?Was hoping there'd be a way to fix it without restoring an old file.

When I open a document I get a warning that three links are missing. Nothing is indicated as missing in the links menu. 

Found a great way to work live, on the iPad, from the computer.BUT, Adobe being Adobe, it's not perfect.If I click to "Edit Original" and then edit, and save, I must switch back to InDesign before it actually does the update.  That's problem 1.  I'd really rather not have to make that switch back.  Any way around that?Second, haivng switched back to InDesign to get that "live" update, if I [Command + Tab] back to the editing app, the "live" updating link is lost, so the next change I make I must go back to InDesign and use the TINY little button at the top of the screen to find the Update Link choice.I'd much rather a Keyboard Shortcut for Update All Links, rather than having to deal with this.Better yet, constant live updates would be epic.  Anyways to do this?    

Whenever I select high-quality display performance it makes my image super pixelated. The image is high res and the settings under display performance are set to high res and high quality. I also have preserve object-object level display settings and enable anti-aliasing checked. Nothing is making sense.

I have a price sheet that I built in InDesign.  I want to pull data from an excel spreadsheet.However, I want to pull specific  cells into my single page in InDesign AND still have them linked to the spreadsheet.That way when the prices change I can open the InDesign page and jusr reflow the data.So far.  It's been a bust.I can pull specific cells into InDesign, but they are no longer linked to the spread sheet, so I we update the spreadsheet, it does not propagate to the InDesign file. Or, I can't just re-link the data. How do I do this and have the data remain linked?

Hi everyone,I recently purchased a new Mac mini with the M4 chip, but I'm encountering significant lagging issues in InDesign. All other Adobe products seem to be working fine, but InDesign is very "laggy." This is especially noticeable when I zoom in on an image or simply scroll through pages. I often have to click somewhere else to get it to refresh or render properly.I've read online that I need to enable GPU Performance, but as you can see in the screenshot below, it's unavailable for me.Could this issue be related to my monitor setup? I'm using a Samsung Odyssey LC24RG50FQI XCI monitor and an XPPen Artist Pro 14 (Gen 2) graphics tablet. Everything is connected with high-quality cables (Samsung via HDMI to HDMI, XPPen via Type-C to Type-C).I have the latest native version of InDesign installed. I've already tried clearing the cache, reinstalling the program multiple times, and even reinstalling macOS (the latest version,Sequoia 15.5 (24F74)) – all without success. I bought suc

ok, the frame inside the image is a simple box transparent with 1pt black strokein the stroke types windows i can't find this typethere is a double thin line but i don't want the external onesanyone know if exist a script or plug-in to create this type of framethanks