InDesign

Hi everyone,I’m working on a 44-page InDesign file and I need to convert all text on all pages to outlines. I know how to do this manually via Type > Create Outlines, but that’s very time-consuming for a document of this size.Is there a way to automate this process?Ideally via a script or some kind of batch operation?I’m using the Dutch version of InDesign, and I have no experience in comfortable running scripts. Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance,Frans

Whenever I try and save as my work to my laptop is freezes and I cant close the application unless I close it in task manager. It is version 20.4 InDesign on a windows laptop

I'm doing a layout for a book that is primarily in English but also has some passages in a dozen other languages. No problem with any fonts from the original Word doc for most of the other languages, except Nirmala UI (Hindi) and Malgun Gothic (Korean) - when I place the chapters that include passages in those fonts, I get an error message saying Adobe doesn't support them, and the characters appear as pink blanks on the screen. Does anyone have any suggestions for alternate fonts for these languages that Adobe does support? I'm running inDesign 20.0.1MacBook ProOS Sequoia 15.2 

I've read a few clever answers now on how to clear Paragraph Style overrides, thanks!My question is: where do these overrides come from? I work with many product catalogs that all use the same paragraph styles. Seems that no matter how careful I am at creating clean styles and using them consistently, whenever I copy-paste text from one document to another, or move pages from one document to another, or even save a document one day and open it the next, Overrides are applied to Paragraph styles.These are typically overrides that seem obscure and don't affect the appearance of the text, e.g. "drop cap align left edge - drop cap descenders" or IdeoSpaceBehavior diacritic" so clearing overrides has no affect on the appearance of the document, but I don't want to just ignore it. Any ideas?

HiI have doc with 20 sections with some section prefix.How to export this section into 20 individual pdfs, if possible, with section prefix as name of new pdf?thanks

The book I'm working on is coming along. I've imported the chapter files and gone through the entire thing making cross-chapter hyperlinks, always opening individual chapters from within the book panel. In the last edition, which was in ID but which I did not do, I sent the publisher what it called External Assets. Those are files predominantly in pdf format, though some are docx. (I can always convert those to pdf.) I want to have hyperlinks in the book to those documents but do not want to paste the documents themselves into the text, so Place is inappropriate. Can I import those documents into the indb file and then just hyperlink to them as if they were material in another chapter? If not, how do I set up the links? (I suppose it's always possible that the publisher uploads them to its web site, so the hyperlinks go to a URL, just as many of the hyperlinks in the text do.) Many thanks.  

Hi everyone, I am trying to execute the following method to load AdobeXMPScript library. This perfectly works in Indeisgn CC 2020 and console 'success' which is expected behaviour but unfortunately in Indesign CC 2021, it gives an alert 'Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library'   function loadXMPLibrary() { if (!ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript) { try { ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript'); } catch (e) { alert('Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library!'); return false; } } return true; } var myFile = app.activeDocument.fullName; // check library and file if (loadXMPLibrary() && myFile !== null) { xmpFile = new XMPFile(myFile.fsName, XMPConst.FILE_INDESIGN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE); var myXmp = xmpFile.getXMP(); } if (myXmp) { $.writeln('success') }   What are the reasons behind it? Is there any change to load these libray in latest version? OS Version : MacOS BigSur      

I'm a photographer and primarily use Photoshop and Lightroom. I've used InDesign since its first release (and Pagemaker before then) so I'm not a total newbie. I primarily use InDesign to custom-print promos from my Canon PRO-1000 printer. It's been a good 9-10 months since I printed anything. The past couple of days I've been working on some new promo pieces with InDesign 2024. I updated my Windows 11 probably about two or three months ago to the most recent build. I was surprised when I went to print the promo piece. Instead of bringing up the usual interface, there's a brand new one. Though I had chosen my Canon printer in InDesign, the Windows print interface still showed my default printer, my Ricoh laser.  Through that interface, I had to reach the Canon printer driver. I adjusted my settings as needed and printed.  I didn't like the results, so I hit CTRL-P again, and the Windows print had reverted back to the laser printer. As a result, I had to reselect the

When I open the Place Dialog Box of InDesign 2025 and type into the search field, the search parameters automatically switch from the selected folder location (see screen shot: Place dialog box_1) to "searching... This Mac" (see screen shot: Place dialog box_2). Is there a way to set up or lock the search parameters of the Place Dialog Box? This worked when I was using a PC, but on my Mac (OS Sequoia Version 15.4.1) it no longer works. Thank you in advance.  

With the help of Grok, I wrote a small script to convert CIE Lch to CIE Lab and store the result in the Swatches palette.  Adobe has never wanted to support CIE Lch in any of their applications. Yet, I find it invaluable, especially for teaching color concepts. The code is available here :Convert CIE Lch to CIE Lab (with Debug code 2025 06 18).zip I left the debug information in the file in case it helps anyone.You don't have to remove it to execute the script.  

2-spaltige Überschrift fügt Raum unter Bild in der 2. Spalte ein, damit es mit der gegenüberliegenden Zeile auf Schriftlinie steht. Ohne das alle Zeilen auf Register ausgerichtet sind.Wird die Überschrift nur 1-spaltig angelegt, schließt der Text unten direkt an das Bild an.

Hello, We are trying to export a book of almost 7000 pages, this one is divided in 24 indd, the thing is, when is time to export the book:book.exportFile (ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, {filePath}); It takes 25+ hours, so i am not sure if this is normal behavior or if its something needed to improve this exportation time.

I found a certified adobe instructor that is asking $150 for an hour of live instruction, she's going to help me edit my novel which is currently in pdf form.  She can upload my pdf into her computer and show me how to edit and export on my computer over ZoomThe reason I need to do this is my original formatter has gone missing, and I need to learn how to use Indesign for the specific task of editing it.   If this is too much or not ideal, where can I find live instruciton for something like this?

Hello everyone, is it a way to delete the Registration Marks in the script menu and keep only the Crop Marks ?

Hi please can you help with the second to last action before I approve the proof of my uploaded Amazon KDP book. I want to move the photo you can see on p126 below to p128 but for the first time of me using InDesign I can’t select the photo and/or caption to move it. It isn’t anchored. The layer isn’t locked. I have tried the direct selection tool and the black selection tool but all I can select is the whole text frame. I closed and restarted Indesign. If I click the photo’s page number in the links panel, it allows me to delete the photo itself but not the caption or the frame surrounding it, (ie. the frame I created using stroke). I can’t ungroup the photo and caption. As mentioned, I can’t release anchor as there isn’t one. It isn’t on as master page. I’ve tried other google solutions but nothing works. I’m sure it’s a simple fix. Please first see the screenshot below showing the threads then a links panel screenshot.     Layer screenshot   

Bonjour, Sur indesign, la barre des tâches en arrière-plan tourne sans arrêt, avec "Ajout de police".  Je ne comprends pas ce qu'il se passe. Mon fichier Indesign bug et je ne peux plus ajouter des typo via Adobe Font.  J'ai déjà quitté Indesign de force, supprimé l'application, me suis déconnecté et redémarré mon ordi. (je suis sur mac).  Merci d'avance pour votre aide ! 

Hi, I have designed a cover and spine for my Amazon KDP book. Screenshot below. You can see in the screenshot that the full size is 12.57 x 9.25 in which Amazon wants. But when I upload it to KDP, it says the file submitted is only 12.338 x 9.000 in. I contacted KDP help and they said that the size of my book is changing on the transfer from InDesign to PDF. Do you know how to fix this please?  This is my document setup which is where I might be going wrong. The margins and bleed are correctly set to KDP's requirements for this size.   Here’s what KDP previewer shows     

From what I know, this is a magazine production planning solution, and if anyone has experience with integrating Ad Orbit / MagBuilder with InDesign via plugin, I am looking for your thoughts and comments. TIA

Hi 🙂für Fußnoten brauche ich ein script, dass in einer Textzeile nach dem errsten Zeichen einen automatischen Abstand von 3mm generiert (für den gesamten Absatz in jeder neuen Zeile). Weiß jemand wie das geht?Vielen Dank! 🙂

Does anybody know how to create a leader with an elbow, something like this: 

For as long as I've used InDesign, shift+return has been a soft line break. It still is on my work computer, a PC laptop. On my mac at home though, it shift+return enters a page break. The only way I can figure out how to do soft line breaks is to do a funky combination like "++" find and replace it with a soft line break, and then copy and paste them from there on out.Is there a way to correct this?

Hello guys I've a problem with an exported file. InDesign have changed the cmyk values of an imported PDF I recorded a video here to explain the various step that I madehttps://www.loom.com/share/a4db5431aab149e28f1a9396af739457 As you can see in the final exported file the cmyk values of "warm grey" spot color has changed, so when I converted into CMYK the final print result it was different.I also attached the files. I don't understand why InDesign do that.... Any idea?Best 

Hi,I'm having a specific issue with a caption generation script in InDesign 2025 v20.4. The script can read image descriptions but not credit lines.My situation: Claude wrote me a "Better Captions" script that automatically generates captions from image metadata (credit lines and descriptions) — then styles and sizes them properly, saving lots of extra steps. It's suddenly not reading the credit tag. The images definitely contain the metadata - I can verify this by going to Object > Captions > Generate Static Caption which works perfectly and creates the caption I expect. I can also see using the Links panel > XMP File Info... > Raw Data that the <photoshop:Credit> tag. All my metadata is created in Bridge, which I also just updated today What's working:Description extraction via ExtendScript (dc:description) - works fineUI caption generation (Object > Captions > Generate Static Caption) - sees both credit and description perfectly What's broken:C

HiI'm experimenting with Indesign, trying to use the data merge toolI have a CSV file with multiple records, with each row being a unique product and each product having SKU, description, price etcI want to merge this information into a table in Indesign with each row being unique. However when I try it it just duplicates the first row of the CSV file into every row on the Indesign tableIs there a way to make each row in indesign use a specific row in the csv?

There are example scripts that come with InDesign that create dialogs, but I can't find any documentation on the methods and members available when creating them. You see stuff like     myDialog = app.dialogs.add({ name: "DifFest" });    // Add a dialog column.    myDialogColumn = myDialog.dialogColumns.add();    borderPanel = myDialogColumn.borderPanels.add(); Where is the reference material that tells us what's available?