InDesign

I am using Excel to process the catalog, sort it and turn it into an index.In the catalog these entries with the same name must have appeared in sequential order, although not in the same position.After sorting with Excel, 76 might just be bigger than 1(20)? And then it changed.Can it be set up in Execl to resolve this?Or is there a script in ID to fix it? The catalog looks like this:Overview24Overview 36Overview76Overview120 After sorting in excel, removing duplicates and then merging:It might look like this：(         content followed by ~y      spaces between pages ~(        )Overview　　120 76  24 36 It should be a small page number in front:Overview　　 24 36　76　120 

Hi together, as the title says, it seems that:Folder.execute() does not work anymore with ExtendScript with the recent version of InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52.It still will work with InDesign v20.3.0.   Steps to Reproduce: Execute the following ExtendScript code from the Scripts panel in InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52:   //DESCRIPTION:Show Folder of THIS script ( function() { File($.fileName).parent.execute(); }() ); The parent folder of the addressed script file will not show in the Finder. Nothing happens in the Finder of macOS.   Expected Result: The parent folder of the script file should pop up in the Finder.   Also watch this discussion at the German InDesign Scripting forum at HilfDirSelbst:https://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=589715#589715   What I currently cannot test is InDesign 2025 v20.4.0.52 on a Windows machine. I hope, that someone else would do this. Thanks!   My InDesign is a German one on macOS 12.7.6 on a MacBook Pro M1 ( 16", 2021

It's clogging up exporting pdfs and such and I can't seem to get it to go away.  I've completely closed down Indesign and then when I reopen it, it starts back up again.

I want to load Benjamin Moore swatches in the palette, but it keeps loading them into folders instead of the normal view of all the color boxes. Is there a way to load custom swatches to show up without them being in folders?

When I open 'Character Style Options' I get a huge list. Is there anyway of deleting these styles in this box?Thanks

I'm doing some processing of multiple paragraphs. If any of them is a table, I need to save it in an array for handling after I'm done with the other paragraphs (so the paragraph count of the selection doesn't change while I'm iterating through it). This seems to work; but when I iterate through the table array, all of the Table objects in it are "invalid." I've even checked the constructor name of each, and found it is "Table." So WTH? The code is below (and WTH Adobe, why don't you fix the "code" formatting option in the editor on this page? How many times do we have to bring this up?).    paras = app.selection[0].paragraphs;    var lastParaType = "";    var emptyParas = [];    // Keep track of empty paragraphs to remove.    var tablesToProcess = [];   // Keep track of tables (probably notes) to deal with.    for(paraIndex = 0; paraIndex < paras.length; paraIndex++)    {        curr

I have a multi-page document published online via Adobe and all of a sudden, three pages of it will not load and simply have a message that says [ "message": not found. ] These pages were working fine until just recently. There have been no changes to the document or files. It comes from a packaged project that has barely been touched. What is going on???? 

I have had my technical support team uninstall/reinstall all Adobe products, and we've removed CC libraries from appdata/roaming. This resolves the issue temporarily, but it always comes back. Is there a way to permanently resolve this and keep my CC library from disappearing?

Hello! I'm struggling to columnize my resume. I want the dates to appear in the right-hand text frame, but no matter how I position it, it doesn't fully line up with the other column's text---even with the same leading. I also know there is probably a better way to build this than I'm aware of. Something to do with split columns or tabs maybe? Someone help me do it properly!  Thanks!

(The page is longer than the others in the deck) When I export it, the content gets squished to the top of the page. Screenshots attached: one image as how it looks in InDesign, the other, what it looks like in the pdf in Acrobat. 

Hello. An error occurred on the SSD drive, which caused the disk to format. I managed to restore the original file, but the program reported that it was corrupted. The download button was not available on Adobe's servers, so I turned to the community for help. I would really appreciate it if you could restore the file to at least 60% of its original size. The file is larger than the specified maximum, and I have attached it to Google Drive.​​ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J3N4AKuUzrjfbXLAVg8j7MzMsPFLKT7C

There are several posts related to transparency flattening in the community. However, I am having issues in both InDesign and Illustrator for the last few months. And I believe it is a change in the software that is causing this. For example: I am attaching two exported PDF files that are identical in creation. One has some text updates that were made this year. All other settings remain the same. When the 2025 file is printed it has transparency boxes issues. The 2024 file prints fine. In looking at the details in Acrobat, the only thing different is the version of InDesign. Version 20.3 vs Version 19.5 (Macintosh)What changed? Can I revert back to test and see if I am correct? I am on Creative Cloud. Can Adobe fix this issue? It is causing me so much trouble.Also, so that you know I read forums.... I saw fixes like this: https://creativepro.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome/But I don't want to have to do extra work to get it to act like it did in 2024.

Hi! Need some help. I'm using Indesign CC and when I try to select any object it jumps down and to the left without me actually moving it. Anyone experience anything similar and figure out a fix? It only happens once in a while but once it starts, I can't work within the document anymore. HELP!

I have a large book with facing pages and multiple chapters. The page numbering is set to automatically generate each page number in the top margin. I hid the page number from the first (title) page of each chapter. After creating all chapters, I needed to add 2 pages to the end of chapter 16. Now, I need to make chapter 17 begin (and follow through) with a different page number. I tried editing thee forst page number at File/Document Setup/Start Page #,  but this did not seem to change anything.  How do I change the page numbering to the subsequent chapter 17?Do I also need to manually change the number of pages to chapter 16?

Hallo zusammen,ich versuche über ein csv Datei und die Dateizusammenführung die Produktbereiche eines Kataloges (Produktbild, Produktname, Artikelnummer, VP, ...) zu "füttern". Alles funktioniert so weit gut bis auf die Bilder. Ich habe noch keinen Weg gefunden wie ich mit einer csv Datei 900 Fotos in den dazugehörigen Bereich setzen kann. Es wird in allen Bereichen (Bildrahmen) immer das gerade in der Datenzusammführung gewählte Bild angezeigt. Kann man sowas über IDs steuern? Habe dazu noch nichts im Netz gefunden. Wie macht ihr das mit den Bildern in einem Katalaog, ich bin doch nicht erste, der so etwas macht 🙂 ? Danke für jeden TippLjubomir 

Holle! m1b everyoneThis script opens the image in Ps, but the image in the ID is not updated after the changes are saved.　It's a bit of a workload to update hundreds of images manually.Is there any way to solve it?Thank you very much.I came across this posting and it's a bit too long to read.another post/** * Open Selected Links In Photoshop.js * * Opens the selected linked file(s) in Photoshop. * * m1b * 2025-03-08 * @discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-open-images-with-different-default-applications-in-indesign-and-resource-manager-windows/m-p/15197180 */ (function () { if (0 === app.documents.length) return alert('Please open a document and try again.'); var doc = app.activeDocument, items = doc.selection; if (0 === items.length) return alert('Please select a linked graphic frame and try again.'); // collect paths for each selected item var paths = []; for (var i = 0; i < items.lengt

Hello gang! Im trying to get cells which have lots of long paragraphs in them to split across multiple pages. Currently it takes the entire row across and is making lots of large gaps in my document. For the life of me I cannot find a 'split row across page tick box' in the propeties panel or anything similar, here is a Sample. Im really grateful for any help.. 

I wish Adobe would launch a HEX color window under the fill and stroke icons, so I wouldn't have to enter every color, copy the hex code, exit, and continue... Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator - every one of them!

I wonder, after all these years, why InDesign still loses his knowledge weather if a dialog had its preview switched on or not, reverting everything to no-preview after a (minor) update. Maybe too much to ask...

For example, the following code:mynewLink=decodeURI(lst[p]); alert(mynewLink);The output is:file:C:/Users/dublove/Desktop/PDF/6688.PSDHow does this determine if 6688.PSD really exists?if(mynewLink.exists){ .... }This doesn't seem right.Thank you.   

Is there a GREP etc way to find quickly all pages in a doc in which the text boxes have been manually shortened

I need to save a PDF with pages laid out for booklet printing, so that it's ready to be printed. Unfortunately, the "Print Booklet" option doesn't allow me to save directly as a PDF, and when I try saving it as a PostScript file, I can't choose the orientation or other settings properly, and the result comes out misaligned.Is there a way to do this directly from InDesign? Thank you!

Hi I am creating my first Kindle e-book. I can’t for the life of me get a page break after the editor name on my title page. You'll see it sitting on the second page below instead of at the end of the first page.  I have created styles. For the editor name, I ticked split document. That didn’t work. So I created a style on the line under the editor name and  ticked split document . That didn’t work.  I don’t just want to insert a page break as I believe that’s not good practice for EPUB? Any idea of what's going wrong? Thanks in advance.      

Hi,We're extension developers and our extension is running on older InDesign versions without problems. The panel opens an website from an server, the site is made with Vaadin - and with CC 2021 I get an "Cookies disabled" message from our site. My CEFCommandLine is: <CEFCommandLine> <Parameter>--disable-features=SameSiteByDefaultCookies,CookiesWithoutSameSiteMustBeSecure,NetworkService</Parameter> <Parameter>--disable-site-isolation-trials</Parameter> <Parameter>--allow-file-access</Parameter> <Parameter>--allow-file-access-from-files</Parameter> <Parameter>--enable-nodejs</Parameter> <Parameter>--mixed-context</Parameter> </CEFCommandLine>Anybody here with a similar problem? Is there a way to access the settings in the Chromium engine?ThanksKlaus

Is it possible to create a downloadable, interactive multimedia PDF?What's the best way to include features such as GIFs and audio? Plus, I would like the user to answer questions by inputting text into multiple (9) chapter pages, then for all of those answers to be automatically populated into a 2-page PDF form in the conclusion. I would like users to be able to use the free version of Acrobat to edit the PDF. Is it better to use HTML5 export with InDesign 2025 or something like In5? https://ajarproductions.com/pages/products/in5/  Thanks