InDesign

I’m working with a table in InDesign and trying to create the appearance of a vertical line with gaps at the top and bottom between rows.Here’s what I’ve tried:Added a narrow column and applied a cell fill to mimic a vertical line.Added top and bottom cell insets (padding) via Table > Cell Options > Text.Tried adding spaces or soft returns inside each cell to force the padding to take effect.But the fill still runs full-height, and I can’t get the padding to create visible gaps at the top and bottom of the fill area.Is there a better method to achieve this effect using native table features (no manual lines)?See orange line below, I'm trying to create this with stroke, not add in manually. the arrow head I can add in manually.

Hi there! I am learning InDesign on my own for work, and we have a large text based report coming up that I will be putting together in InDesign. It will be mostly text, however there will be tables and graphics throughout as well. Previously, I have made some strategic reports, which were very graphics heavy.Are there any tips for the following: Long text input (likely coming from google docs, but it can be turned into a word document as well if needed)--I've noticed a lot of great ways to input the entire document, but what if I don't want it all to be connected to the same text box? Do I just need to copy+paste each section as I go, or is that too tedious?Do you find that it's better to have the content/text as complete as possible (minimal edits to content) before placing it, or do you work with edits as they come in? Any tips for updating content when edits come in? I've just been copy and pasting sections as I go, to make sure I don't miss anythingFor Tables, I haven't

I've tryied some options during the years and lately I'm using Keynote>Illustrator>Indesign to create graphs that are easily adjustable and cratively enhanced for my works. Isn't it about time to have one proper tool at our disposal? What are your thoughts?

I'm utilizing the VS Code ExtendScript Debugger and already have to use the Intel/Rosetta version of VS Code to run the extension which makes the application slow. The newest update of VS Code must have changed something that now makes using the application with Rosetta agonizingly unbearably slow (nigh unusable). My team reverted back to the previous version of VS Code to try to continue development but this is just a quick fix that may quickly expire as the industry continues moving forward. It would be amazing if the extension could be updated to work on Apple's Silicon chips. I read the Known Issues section for the debugger but this most recent update to VS Code seems to require that an update be made soon to continue the ease of scripting. Has anyone else noticed this issue?

It seems to me that hard-coding page breaks in your text is a bad idea. If you publish your document in a different format, it's going to be a mess. Wouldn't it be better to adjust page breaks by resizing the text frame and forcing the story to flow onto the next page where you want it to? Or is there some other strategy people employ when they want to deploy to different-sized media?

My character palette isn't loading properly. I've tried all the basic stuff: restarting my system, making sure my software is up to date, etc. Is this a known bug? How do I fix it? 

Hi! I cannot get InDesign to recognize the RTX 4060 I have installed. Do you have any tips? Here's what I've done so far:Updated InDesign to the most recent versionUpdated graphics driversSet InDesign to use dedicated graphics in the NVIDIA control panelSet InDesign to use dedicated graphics in Windows settings Thank you!

I created a large document in InDesign 2025 that I need to send off for translation but when packaging it fails to created the .idml file which the company needs in order to do the translation. Has anyone encountered this issue? I've tried to convert the file to Indesign 2024 so I can package it from there but seems to fail converting back. I'm not sure how to resolve this issue.

I got the error:Map does not have a constructor on this simple line:copyMap = new Map();Isnt map included since 10 years or so? id i do something wrong or do I really have to implement is myself?

Does anyone know of a workflow that would allow me to update data in an InDesign table from a linked Excel spreadtsheet WITHOUT changing any of the existing formatting in InDesign? If I make changes to the Excel file, and then refresh the link, I lose all my formatting to the data text in the InDesign table.

Buongiorno, ho una vecchia versione creative suite 3  design premium per Mac originale, da 3 giorni ricevo questo messaggio, ma i link e i telefoni non sono operativi.Allego messaggio.potrei sapere cosa è successo? grazieroberto rubino

I'm working in InDesign v 14.1.3 on Windows 10. I'm trying to copy and paste without formatting text within my InDesign document. When I try to use the keyboard shortcut nothing is pasted and the option is greyed out in the edit menu. I can work around this issue by undoing my cut action and then cutting again and pasting without formatting.

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Hello, I'm in the process of publishing some documents online. I was able to publish a bunch of documents online late last week, but all of a sudden I started getting Error 18 (network connectivity issue) when attempting to publish documents online. I've been trying all weekend and it's the same issue. I've also tried different network connections without any success, which leads me to wonder if the issue is on the end of Adobe's servers. Is there any ETA for when this issue will be resolved? Or is there anything else I can do to get these documents published online? Thanks.

The following code is supposed to scan thru all textframes. app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\{\{[^:]*\:[^}]*\}\}"; var frames = app.activeDocument.textFrames; for (frame = 0; frame < frames.length; ++frame) { currentFrame = frames[frame]; try { var hits = currentFrame.findGrep(); for (var i = 0; i < hits.length; i++) { hits[i].contents = hits[i].contents.replace(/\{\{([^}]*)\}\}/g,lookupEntry); } } catch (e) {} } app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeGrepPrefe

Hi everyone, I'm facing an issue with InDesign find and replace and hoping someone here can help.Trying to insert a discretionary hyphen before a specific pattern in the text. I use a positive lookahead regex pattern (?=\w+~_) to find the target position and insert '~-', but this only works for the first occurrence in a text frame. To work around this, I tried switching the approach to use a matching regex: (\w+~_) and then use the replace string as ~-$0~k. However, when I give changeAll with this, I'm losing the character formatting (e.g., bold text gets reverted to Roman). Interestingly, when I use change one at a time, the formatting is preserved.Has anyone encountered this issue or found a workaround to keep the formatting intact while using changeAll? Or Am I missing something in the positive lookahead pattern.Thanks in advance for any suggestions! 

Help!  I'm having issues with InDesign which is making want to lose the will to live and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong (if anything). Basically I am making a page spread which will contain 10 thumbnail images. Each of those images is a button which will then pop up an embedded YouTube video. These videos will fade in and then have a close function which fades out wheh pressed. I have created all the thumbnails and applied the animations/buttons/timing/etc  which work fine (for reference I have been following this video: Learn how to create an interactive pop-up video in Adobe InDesign) Everything seems to work fine however when I publish the document online, I play the first video which works correctly, however when the video has closed, it fades out but for some reason it remains on the document - just invisible which menas I can't select any of the other buttons as when I click it just interacts with the embedded video - I re

Hi, I’m on the final step to get my first book onto Amazon KDP. Exciting! But I’m stuck on changing the text on the spine to vertical. I’ve tried all the suggestions I can find online.   Object > Transform > Rotate 90 degrees changes the orientation of the text box, not the lettering.   Object > Transform > Flip vertical just pushes the text box up off the page and doesn’t change the lettering to vertical.   When I try type on a path, I can draw the line fine but when I go to type on a path, ‘Options’ is greyed out.   Also, the text on the back cover has suddenly gone all blurry and I have done nothing to create that effect. I have been working on this cover for about a month with the text looking fine, and regularly save new versions including today. I am using this setting: View > Display Performance > High Quality Display.   This will almost certainly be newbie error so I appreciate your patience. Screenshot below has hidden characters show

Can the "Copy show" feature be designed using Indesign?

I've used InDesign for years, but haven't needed character styles or paragraph styles for several versions and when I did they were workarounds for pretty specific systems. I would always build character styles first, base paragraph styles on that, then nested styles, table styles and so on that all drew from character as the base, but it looks like that's not a best practice anymore. Question - (1) what's best practice for building styles for a heavily used template, from the ground up so I can build everything in the right order? Looking for a sequential order, and (2) are character styles completely irrelevant now? It sounds like they don't relate to paragraphs at all and if they're not the root I won't waste time building them. Help?  Any advice appreciated.

Hello All,I am trying to place an object from InDesign Library file on the document. I am trying to Import the object via ISnippetImport. It gives success but am not able to find the object on the InDesign document. What do I need to do to get the object. Thanks & RegardsFarzana

Hi, I have set up a 150-page book with a primary text frame throughout. I am trying to add four pages in different parts of the book that have only one photo on each of them and no text. I haven't been able to find instructions on how to do this, and have experimented with all the ways I can think of but nothing works. As one example, I used File/Place to place a photo in a blank page inside the primary text frame and anchored the photo to the top of the following page of text. (I also tried anchoring the photo to the end of the previous page). But no matter what I do, when I make changes elsewhere in the document, the photo moves somewhere other than where it should be.  There is no apparent logic to where it moves for the significant number of times I tried to achieve my objective. Sometimes it moves off the design altogether to the side. Other times it places itself over text in other parts of the document. Or the photo moves up so half of it sits on top of the primar

When I click on Place to add an image to an InDesign doc, the files appear in order of last opened and I have not found how to change that. Anyone have a solution?Thanks in advance!

I have a style override that I actual prefer to the original style. I can't figure out what the difference is and need to see what the rules are for the style override so that I can change everything to that style.  Thanks in advance for any help.  Misty

Auto-fit is *NOT checked. When I use the selection tool (black arrow) on placed illustrator artwork and drag the frame handle it now resizes (squashes it) rather than crops. I would never want to resize a placed object that way, ever. I am not holding down any keys, but even if I do it causes resizing and not cropping. It is maddening as there is no longer any way to crop Illustrator art that I have copied and pasted into Indesign (version 18, 19, or 20). How do I get the ability to crop artwork back? Auto-Fit is *NOT checked and I have reset the preferences for Indesign. Still not working.