InDesign

I would like to suggest, specifically within the paragraph style options, the addition of a confirmation checkbox for an option that automatically creates character styles. For example: when we import a fully formatted text with italics and bold, and we need to change the font, these character styles change automatically.

I have a document containing of one paragraph of text in 26 languages, among which Russian, and Greek. I placed the unformatted text in a clean Excel file and saved it from there as a tab delimited txt file (I need it to be tab delimited, because of specific layout settings in InDesign.The texts in Russian and Greek show without issues in Excel, and the font set I'm using in InDesign has the full range of characters for 26 languages. When I straight copy-paste the text in InDesign there are no issues.When I import the tab delimited txt file in InDesign the error message tells me that the document contains characters that cannot be encoded, and in the preview all the text, except for the ones in non-latin alphabet (they appear in all underscores). The same happens with a number of (but not all) characters with accents on or under them. I'd appreciate any tips or pointers to solve the issue, if anyone knows.Thanks!

Can't find the original post.Sorry to the original author.I'd like to add to the original script that automatically generates the stringer line, the spine line.But for some reason, I can't recognize the variable “myMouthWidth” for the stringer. //Drawmouth myDrawLine([myY1, myX1+(myMouthWidth), myY1-(myCropMarkLength), myX1+(myMouthWidth)], myCropMarkWidth, myRegistrationColor, myNoneSwatch, myLayer); //myDrawLine([myY1, myXCenterA +(20/2), myY1-(myCropMarkLength), myXCenterA +(20/2)], myCropMarkWidth, myRegistrationColor, myNoneSwatch, myLayer); 

  Both of these problems occur in my workflow because of switching between MacBook Pro and an external display (HDMI). Which happens multiple times per day. That makes this really uncomfortable:   1) Invisible Pages and Objects/Designs. Every time I switch beween Mac an external display the whole pasteboard turns grey. Only solution that I found for this is restarting Indesign.    2) Auto-Resizing of the application. Indesign jumps back to some earlier application size. Maybe from the Macbook or the big display. I don’t really know what’s happening. Happens especially when switching to presentation mode and back (Shift-W).   Short screen recording attached   Is this community the right place to let adobe know about these problems? Or does anybody have the same problems? Or a solution?   Thank you.     <Title renamed by MOD>

I am having problem with tables and text disappearing in some of my InDesign-documents with more than 50 pages. The textframes are still there, but all text or tables are gone (as you can see on the screenshot). Has anyone experienced this and know what to do? Adobe has guided me to save on Adobe cloud, and so far it works, but I have all my work on Dropbox and would like it to work there as well. The content always disappears on a page that I am not working on at the moment, so I can only see that it has happened when I scroll through the pages. Once it happened in a document with 246 pages, and suddenly on approx. 10 of them, and only some of the frames on each page.

Hi, I am very new with InDesign but I've been tasked to create a school magazine and I encountered this problem after exporting to PDF: The exported PDF doesn't scroll thru nicely. I'm not sure if it will be a problem when I sent to the printers. Please refer to video to see what I'm referring to. Do let me know what info u might need to help me.

Good day all does anyine know why everytime I start my laptop Indesign openes automatically and takes me to a previous project i was doing. every time this happens thank you.

Hello, everyone. Hello @Peter Kahrel.I Use a script to get the current mouse-selected rows and repeat them.I  Saw a posting above on "creativepro.com" , at the bottom of the page, where Peter Kahrel gave a solution at the end.I mimicked one and for some reason it prompted an error.https://creativepro.com/topic/get-selected-table-rows-with-extendscript/  Help me look at it.Thank you very much. Below is the code I cobbled together.　　There's also an attachment.    var cell = app.selection[0].parent.parentRow.cells[0]; var myTable = cell.parent.parent; var selectedRows = myTable.rows.itemByRange(cell,myTable.cells[-1]).select(); //var myTable = cell.parent //firstRow = myTable.rows[0]; if (firstRow.rowType !== RowTypes.HEADER_ROW) { dupeTopRow(myTable); myTable.rows.add(LocationOptions.BEFORE, selectedRows); /** * duplicate the first row af a myTable * @ param the myTable * @ return void */ function dupeTopRow(t){ var newRow = t.

I've tried pipetting so many parts of A without sucking up the style effect.Suddenly!B will still be inexplicably swallowed by A and become A's background?gbbl upWhere did B go? Hidden under A ......Do I have to set the suck item for the straw? Leave only the siphon object style?ID 2024 19.5

I keep having this issue where some of the page spreads have a huge vertical space between them, and I'm not sure how to get rid of it?? I've tried setting the vertical pasteboard options to zero, but this only resets the ones that are currently spaced correctly already.    

Please see screenshot. What I did: I applied a paragraph style containing "split column" options to some text.What happened: one of the several dynamic footnotes in the text frame jumped to above the multicolumn text. Only the note whose reference occurs before the multicolumn text moved.What now: I am stuck with a renegade footnote in the middle of the text flow, separated from the other notes at the bottom. I can't get it to rejoin its friends.What I wished had happened: Not this. Footnotes should stay at the foot of the page. Thanks for any help. Josh

Our TOCs pull headings from the document that are in all caps, but we don't want the TOC entries to be in all caps. I've seen examples of grep styles that can apply a character style to make letters capitalized, but I don't think I've seen the opposite. Is it possible? 

I'm new to scripts in InDesign, and need a script to switch selected images Clipping Path to type NONE. I have found a great script that switches the clipping path on if there is a photoshop clipping mask saved in the image, but I don't know enough to back engineer it. Any help greatly appreciated. Here is the script to switch clipping paths on:function main(){for(var i = 0; i < cur_obj.length; i++){try{if(typeof cur_obj[i].graphics[0].clippingPath.photoshopPathNames[0] != 'undefined'){cur_obj[i].graphics[0].clippingPath.appliedPathName = cur_obj[i].graphics[0].clippingPath.photoshopPathNames[0]}}catch(e){}}} try{var cur_obj = app.selection}catch(e){exit()} if(typeof cur_obj != 'undefined' && cur_obj.length != 0){app.doScript('main()', ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'clip')}

Hi I already checked this https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/data-merge-with-special-characters-on-mac/td-p/11217158 but for a manual it does not work. I work with many languages that uses special characters.Is there a csv export that indesign allows which keeps this special characters?Or is there an easy way to replace the characters in numbers for something indesign understands? If it cannot be solved, is there a good alternative for Data merge? like a plugin?    

As a retired journalist I need to update a book I edited in InDesign many many years ago. Currently I have no Adobe system installed (except, of course AdobeReader). Which zip files I should download for Win10 from among the many listed on the Support page if I need only InDesign? I have all the old CS2 Premium discs) Thanks for any advice András Hirschler

Pantone Connect plugin doesn't work on InDesign (20.3.1), doesn't show up at all in swatches panel, as it used to. I've already uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin, but the problem persists. Any help, please?

Hallo zusammenIch bin gerade dran eine Vorlage mit Absatzformaten aufzubauen und möchte die Füllzeichen anders formatieren als den Text (andere Farbe). Aktuell habe ich das Dokument so aufgebaut: Text........Text Dieser Aufbau ist mit Tabulator aufgebaut, also, die Punkte werden als Füllzeichen im Tabulator dargestellt. Nur, wenn ich es so aufbaue, kann ich die Punkte nicht separat anpassen. Ich würde diese nämlich gerne in einer anderen Farbe darstellen, damit sie etwas weniger dominant sind. Und dies alles im Absatzformat intergriert. Aktuell habe ich es mit einem separaten Zeichenformat nur für die Füllzeichen zu formatieren, gelöst. Super wäre es, wenn alles im Absatzformat intergriert ist. Ihr habt sicher eine Idee, wie ich diese Dokument so aufbauen kann? Vielen herzlichen Dank euch schon im Voraus. Viele GrüsseNicole

How to make GREP directory also support shortcut links?I know the script directory supports shortcut links. I really hope that I can customize these settings paths in the future. I want to make them all in a "Data" directory.This does not need to be reinstalled once, and it will not be easily lost easily.This should not be difficult to achieve and safe.

Hello,I need to link two existing text frames together, but InDesign appears to not handle this correctly.  If I have a text frame with existing text in it and then I have a second text frame with text in it and I try to link them together by clicking the arrow and selecting the box which gives me the text icon to drag to the second text frame it does not work.  It actually appears to place a second text frame on top of the first rather than linking them.  If the second text frame is empty it works fine (just line examples I've seen), but if there is text in the second frame it does not work correctly.  Has anyone else experienced this?

Hello,I've been having this issue for a while now and it doesn't look like anyone has had a similar issue like mine. I've searched over the Adobe Support Community, the InDesign subreddit and the Adobe subreddit but the only similar issues were all fixed by a conflicting program. I don't think I have any startup programs that could conflict with InDesign, and I already tried starting InDesign before any other application on startup.I am using a new laptop and have another issue with Windows, but I'm pretty sure it's unrelated.Here's a small list of things I tried:Restarting InDesignRestarting the laptopResetting InDesign preferencesStarting InDesign before any other programNone of these helped.

I used to be able to place multiple images in pre-made image frames and keep the original location and scaling, but scince a couple of updates ago, the new image just reverts to 100%, aligne to middle of frame. Say I have a frame with a template image, on multiple pages. I used to be able to select multiple images and when I option-clicked the template frame, it would automatically scale and position the new image in place. Has the key combination changed, or am I misremembering it? Any help is appreciated.  

My company uses Teams now for networking.  I run prepress and print production in the printshop.  When i open a INDD file that is inside the teams network, the IDLK appears on that folder in teams and the sync tries to manage it.  This causes a major lag in operation.  Is there a way to disable or move the the IDLK or disable teams sync on the IDLK file so there is no conflict ?  Running latest InDesign as of today. please help.

Hi,I’ve translated a book originally designed in a right-to-left (RTL) language into English (left-to-right, LTR). I updated the document settings in InDesign accordingly.However, I'm still facing two issues:When exporting to EPUB, it's treated as RTL — the page spreads appear in the wrong order.When exporting to PDF, I can’t set it to display the first page as a cover, followed by left-to-right facing pages.I’ve already changed the document setup to LTR (binding: left to right), but these problems persist.Could you please advise on how to fix this?Thanks in advance!

I have a strange new issue that I've never experienced before. It doesn't matter what video I place on the first page - it will not auto play. (Yes I have the correct settings in the media panel) BUT, if I click through to the second page and then go back to the first page, all of a sudden it works!The videos on all other pages work fine - it just seems to be whatever is on page 1. I even tried duplicating the page before exporting. Page 1 didn't work, but the IDENTICAL page 2 did.I've tried viewing it in different browsers (Chrome on my Mac and Microsoft Edge on my PC). The issue is the same regardless of browser.Any ideas?

Desde hace varios días, al exportar, importar, guardar como... se me abre una ventana MAXIMIZADA en la pantalla y no puedo reducir el tamaño. Es muy incómodo porque a veces quieres ver otras partes de la pantalla pero esta ventana lo tapa todo. Es absurdo pero no sé cómo solucionarlo.