InDesign

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?

Please refer to Images 01-03.01: I have an author's name and book title on one line.02: I wish to put the book title down 1 line but when I hit return it drops down 2 lines.03: The paragraph style set-up does not include a "space before."I have forgotten why this happens. Assistance will be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Hi, Everywhere in my text there is a numbers 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 to 999:1, 999:2, 999:999The text in the picture is BOLD, but i already removed this. Which means that the text is normal like the other one I want to remove every text before the colon (:) for example:Every _1:1_ to become _1_Every _99:99_ to become _99_I want with one search to catch all single numbers, double numbers, and triple numbers before the colon and remove them, plus the colon in front of them.And every single number, double and triple numbers, after the colon to stay One very important thing. there is a lot of other numbers in the file and i need to selec only this numbers where have colon in front of them (single numbers, double numbers, and triple numbers)

Recien, ya hace un dia actualice Indesing, pero ahora me sale error al importar imagenes. Existirá alguna solucion? Podrian apoyarme? Gracias.

Hi! When I copy text from a Word document into my InDesign document, I manage to keep the external hyperlinks (such as URLs) and text formats (blod, italic), which I want, but the problem is that it also seems to keep some kind of trace of the hyperlinks that where linked to other part of the word doc (such as clicking on "Part whatever" would take you to the actual Part whatever in the word doc. I do not want those in my InDesign doc, as I'm going to rebuild this (or not) later. Problem is that once the text containing such hyperlinked is copied, not only they obviously don't work anymore, but there's no option to add an hyperlink to it myslef if I want to later. I hope this is making sense to someone, my doc is 150 pages long and I'm in a bit of a rush so can't waste too long on this... Thanks a lot!

Hi,I have one more problem and i need GREP to help me.I have document witn more that 760 pages and everywhere there is a number in brakets [1], [2], [3]I want to select them all and remove the brakets and the space around it.For example from _[_1_]_ i want to stay only _1_. And this to happend with single number and double number.  Can you help me

Hello. I would like to use a glyph as a bullet (the opentype digit 3 of Adobe Caslon Pro - an acorn). In the paragraph style box for my "Bulleted list" style, I am trying to add the bullet. When I click "add" and then click "ok," a standard round black dot appears in my list of bullet characters to choose from. If I try to add my preferred glyph (or any of the other opentype glyphs from the font's set, for that matter), the program tells me: "The selected bullet already appears in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box with this font and style association. Specify a different font or style, or select a different bullet." In short, adding a glyph as bullet is not functioning. Could anybody suggest a solution to this problem? Thank you. 

Hi,  I have a Bible book in which the word "LORD" has to be formatted very strangely throughout the text. Everywhere the word "LORD" is in capital letters. (1) I have to make the last 3 letters smaller than the first one (2).I try Title case but then all letter are with same size. Is there any way to make this with GREP and how? Thank you

Hello, everyone.I want to put a notepad "name.txt" in the same directory as the scripts.The style names used in all my scripts will read the ones set in "name.txt".This way I can change them uniformly at any time.Is there a way to do this? For example, the content of my notepad looks like this, one style name per line.In parentheses ( ) are the style names:paraStname(mypar)charStname(title1)tabStname(mytab)footerStname(footer)objStaname(mypic) Thank you very much.

Solving Arabic Flipped Numbers Entire document In Indesign, Placed from MS word

I tried, with a script to export all pages.However, when I manually export a single page (say page 6) from File>>Export>>.Then, I run the script and it still exports page 6.The 2nd time I run the script, it exports all pages.Is there a cache? How do I clear it? Seems like someone on the forum mentioned this, The problem does not seem to have been resolved.https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/problems-with-pagerange-allpages-reliability/td-p/3536073The next sentence is the same. 2nd entry into force.app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = PageRange.ALL_PAGES; try { if (myDialog.show() == 1) { var myPDFExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item(myDropdown.selection.text); myDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, myPDFFile, false, myPDFExportPreset); app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = PageRange.allPages; } else { alert('Export canceled'); } } catch (e) { alert("is OPEN……") } 

Devo ricollegare delle immagini ma con estensione differente (da .ai a .jpg). Vorrei che si ricollegassero tutte insieme non una ad una. Come posso fare? Grazie

Hi all, I'm having trouble when exporting my digitally fillable form from indesign, I am saving it as interactive the boxes just don't pop up. Does anyone know how to fix it? I've attached a pic of it.   

InDesign document has two columns, a table is placed in the 2nd column/ right column, InDesign tagged it as normal text instead of tagging as table structure.  It is a bug. placed screenshot for reference. Can Adobe InDesign  team look into it to fix.  

Hello all! I'm hoping that someone can help me figure out how to create a set of lotería tablas (similar to bingo) using a set of 54 images distributed randomly across 100 pages.Requirements:100 total pages, each with one gridImage grids will be 4x4Each page must have a unique arrangement of imagesAny one image should be used only once on each pageSpacing and placement of the grid must be consistent across all pages.I have a notion that this could be solved using scripts, but I have almost no experience with creating or using those myself. Any help would be appreciated! I have attached an example of how I'd like for these tablas to be laid out for your reference. Happy to answer any questions you may have if it helps me get to a solution! 

Hi I am hoping you can help. I thought I had set up the cover and spine I designed for my first Amazon book as per the KDP cover calculator. But KDP has rejected it saying it is the wrong size. My book is 152.4 x 228.6 mm (6x9 inches) with 142 pages. The calculator says the front cover is 152.4 x 228.6 mm, with 3.17 mm margins and 3.17 mm bleed all round. I assumed the back cover would be the same. So I created a three-page spread with facing pages unticked. In document setup, I put 152.4 x 228.6 mm, and bleed and margins of 3.17mm all round. Once the document was created, I unticked allow pages to shuffle and docked the three pages together. Then I changed the spine to 8.24 x 228.6 as per the calculator. Amazon rejected this when I uploaded it, saying it was only 6x9 inches. I uploaded it as one PDF with front and back cover and spine. Please can you tell me how I fix this in document setup after selecting adjust layout. I looked again at the KDP calculator and it says the f

Hi People, Wondering what is happening with the new InDesign PDF Import option. Even when I attempt to import a PDF which was created in InDesign (V20.4), it fails with the message "Some features of this PDF are preventing it from being converted". A useless feature if it can't be used I feel. The only app in the CC collection that appears to have no problems importing my sample document is Photoshop. I've attached a sample file. Regards Andrew  

Hi, this seems basic but I can't seem to find anything. Is there a way to change the default setting of Object Layer Options – the "When Updating Link:" dropdown default is "Keep Layer Visibility Overrides". I would like it to always be set to "Use PDF's Layer Visibility".  Any help would be appreciated, thanks ☺️ 

Hello. Is there a way to configure a preflight setting so it olnly checks visible objects and layers, excludes hidden objects and turned of layers? Best regards MattiasTeamleaderStibo Complete ABSweden 

Does anyone know of a script to merge all pre selected tables in an indesign page and merge as one table, keeping each table as a individual row in the merged table?

Hello all, I have heard that since the latest update (October 2023) it should be possible to compare texts from two files. Is this correct? Can someone explain to me where I can find the function? Thus far, I have only been able to find (old) answers from 2020 on this topic, which recommend exporting the files to PDF or using a script. However, I would like to compare the texts directly in Indesign. Many thanks in advance!