InDesign

why is the spellcheck not working if it's on engilish language?? 

why are my pages suddenly not adding as separate spreads??

By a mistake a lenghty document has been based on document paper "legal" instead of "a4". Is there a way to change the paper size without changing the content (apart from a necessary fine tuning of the layout). Thansk in advance Knud, Copenhagen

why is this text box disaappering when I move it to the next page? 

Can anyone tell me if these margins are too much to use for a cookbook?

Hi, Dear Friends!Why is the KB SC not working for my paragraph style?It would seem that there is no conflict, and even if there was I would like mine to override that of ID. How can I get this to work?Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

I make contact sheets of photographs regulary. Doing them in Indesign is preferred method as they sometimes get added to other layouts so need to be very editable. The Photoshop output is just kind of a pain since it is one big jpg file.  I discovered the script ImageCatalog in the scripts folder and it does a great job of automating this process including editable file names under the images. Strangely the images are not in alphabetical order. Any one know why this would be? I dont see anything in the dialouge box. This almost negates the automation as now I have to drag everyting into alpha order. Mulitple page contact sheets become really become a pain. Maybe there is another way to do automated editable contact sheets?  

Hi,I still use InDesign CS6, and I have a question regarding starting new documents. I have sometimes been searching for a solution on Internet, but haven't succeeded.Sometimes when I create a new document and choose Landscape orientation, it is automatically saved as default, so that next time I want to create a new document, the Landscape orientation is chosen automatically. But next time, when I create a document in Portrait orientation, it is NOT saved as default. Why is that? How can I save/keep my preferred orientation as default?

I have been using ID2025 to publish a month;y newsletter, using a previous issue as a template. While preparing the upcoming issue, after deleting prior text, and attempting to add new text, I received an error/shutdown notice. Everytime I restart and open/recover the working document, ID shuts down. How to resolve.

Hi. Using ID 20.3.1 under the revered Windows 11.I'm surprised I have not run into this before... but there is always a first time.Each year, I revise a set of manuals composed as books (that is, I use a book file). Mostly these files stay the same; sometimes there is new material to be placed or text revisions. But mostly they stay the same. This year, I copied all the book files from 2024-manual-file<1-7>, put them into a new folder, and renamed each of them 2025-manual-file<1-7>. Thus, they correspond. I renamed the old art folder in the old location after copying it and, lo!  all the art references in the 2025 files looked to the NEW 2025 art file for their old familiar screen shots from yesteryear. Great. But the cross references in each of the transplanted book files STILL POINT TO THEIR OLD REFERENCES in the 2024 files. That is, "Title x" in 2025-manual-file-1 actually points to "Title x" in 2024-manual-file-1. These X-refs are "perfectly good." They p

Hey, do you know when the beta version of the new indesign will be available for testing?

Sample: Lin YiJuan Jane Pu LuShi Purus Regular expression: (.+? +\w+){1}\K.* I saw a tutorial where he did it in excel.He intercepted the last name. Can it be implemented in ID?Result:JanePurus 

When multiple parentheses are nested, are the groups also nested?This regular expression should only have $1$2. I tried it and it has $3. Isn't $3 empty, or is it an error?Sample file, I want to search all the numbers1. Main events 1.2 Time of occurrence March 25th 1.2.3. Operational steps Replace with :$3Found that $3 even exists? 

any way to get all these fractions to look right without using glyphs? 

I'm creating my first document. When I set it up I didn't understand what "Primary Text Frame" was so I didn't select it. Now I realize that I really want to use it but the option is greyed out. Is there a way to turn this on for an existing document?

I am looking for a function to avoir empty lines at the top of a new page - for long documents. As a writer, I want sometimes no space between paragraphs. Sometimes I want one extra space. Sometimes two...  I want to pause the reading, or signal some distancing between the two texts. A bit like in poetry. Probably this is also due to my rythmic habit from being a filmmaker. You want to insert silences. To force the reader to pause. What I would like is being able - whatever the spacing I chose after a paragraph - to avoid empty lines at the top of next page. Turning the page is enough of a distance, enough of a pause. Is there a function for this ? A way to adjust the workflow for this ?Thanks for your help.

Hi all, For a while, i've been learning Indesign.I'm struggling with my Indesign tabs while making a indent with a symbol.I would like the text to be indented like above, what is the correct way to do this? See image below:

Feels a lot like perl's, and occasionally a little different from js's? I downloaded a RegexBuddy and tried it but it didn't recognize ~K.It's so sad that so many people only know each other.Don't recognize \l\u.

This script find change GREP proprieties. I am trying to do the same with colors by name but can´t find right proprieties, functions and variables. Can you help me?var workFolder = Folder.desktop + "/FC_Moderna";// Função para limpar preferências de GREPfunction clearGrepPreferences() {app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;app.findChangeGrepOptions = NothingEnum.NOTHING;$.writeln("Preferências de GREP limpas.");////alert("Preferências de GREP limpas.");}// Função para carregar e executar queries de GREPfunction runGrepQueries() {if (app.documents.length > 0) {$.writeln("Documento ativo encontrado.");////alert("Documento ativo encontrado.");var grepFolder = new Folder(workFolder + "/GREP");var grepFiles = grepFolder.getFiles("*.xml");for (var i = 0; i < grepFiles.length; i++) {clearGrepPreferences();var grepFile = grepFiles[i];var grepQuery = loadGrepQuery(grepFile);$.writeln("Carregando query de GREP: " + grepFile.name);//al

Hello,I am importing large XML files and creating books. I can create the books fine and index markers.. but when I have tables that seem to be larger than 6 rows, the markers start to show up in random places. I include a very small sample XML and my script and yuo can see even 1 page document the markers start to become random. If no tables, then no issues, but the tables are throwing. can anyone share any idea whats happening. I have tried a variety of approaches and still cant' solve it.  I would really really appreciate any insight. I attach example xml, my index script and screen shot..the code is just simply adding a a reference to the marker parent"var markerText = indexMarker.xmlAttributes.itemByName("text").value;var targetParagraph = indexMarker.parent;var insertionPoint = targetParagraph.insertionPoints[0]; currentTopic.pageReferences.add(insertionPoint);

Hi,I have a 70 page booklet that recently went through edits and needs to have its margins tweaked. How do I resize the primary text frame so that the margins are smaller, and the text frame bigger, without copy pasting the entire document? (I know if I made the margins bigger, and the text frame smaller, they would adjust automatically). I feel like it's a very simple solution that I'm just not seeing.Thanks,Andy

How do you keep ~( \r ~y from being lost? When pasting the contents of the Grep lookup window into the ID window.Do I only have to go open the XML file to copy the full grep?Or write it all over again?Also, the Grep lookup box is too small, it would be nice if the font was a little bigger.

Hola, en Indesign CC2017 me aparecen unas lineas horizontales dentro de los cuadros de texto y de las formas que aumentan en número conforme hago más zoom. He mirado opciones de grid y ocultar guías y nada. Es como si formaran parte de cada uno de los elementos. Me podéis ayudar? Gracias.

Bonjour , lorsque j'ouvre mes fichiers INDesign ceux-ci ne s'ouvrent qu'en mode lecture.Que puis_je faireMerci d'avance

I have just adjusted the page margins of a document in document setup...The text frames did not change though (I don't know if there's a setting to enable this?).So I went to the master page and adjusted the text frames to fit the new margins...I now notice that although the text frames are the right size on the page, they are not correctly aligned with the margins (even though they are on the master pages).I've tried "apply master" to pages in the document but this just seems to insert new blank pages and shift the existing text forward to the next page.I'm going through page-by-page and re-aligning the text frames manually - thankfully it's only 36 pages long... but if it were a long document I'd be a bit stuck!Any advice for future reference? - is there a "right way" to adjust page margins and automatically resize and align existing text frames?