InDesign

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.

Hi everyone,I’m currently working on a financial reporting process that involves updating Word files using content controls. Each file is then passed to another team, who manually imports it into Adobe InDesign to generate a formatted PDF that aligns with our corporate layout. The issue we’re facing is that the layout in the generated PDF is often incorrect — tables appear misaligned or shifted, when content controls are involved. Unfortunately, I do not have direct access to InDesign myself, so I’m relying on the design team’s feedback and can’t test potential fixes on my own. Here’s what I know: The Word document uses content controls (structured fields for automation).The formatting looks perfect in Word, but gets altered during the InDesign import.The design team mentioned that content controls might be interfering with the table layout in InDesign.Even attempts to flatten the Word document (i.e., remove content control structure before passing it on) didn’t fix the

For CC library assets anchored inline with text, can these be made to accomodate font size choices in reflowable epubs? Jutoh is supposed to be able to do this, but I can't quite get it.So far I cannot see how to make an asset, a tiny image to suit 12 point original font, change if the e reader changes font size.Maybe in a future update?  

First time I've had to use the footnote options in InDesign. I have several pages with footnotes which occur at the bottom of each page in each associated text block. Span across columns is checked in bothe the Footnote Style I created, as well as in the Layout options. The footnotes display correctly on screen as intended. When I print spreads from InDesign to an Epson P5000, the footnotes only print the text that is under the lefthand column. All of the footnote text on the right disappears.Exporting the pages to a PDF generates the file as it shows on screen, and the resulting file prints to the same printer as expected.This appears to be a bug in InDesign's printing capabilities.Anyone have a suggestion as to what is going on?See the two screen shots to see the problem.

Hi everyone!  Is there a way I can rip a pdf that was created at the printers to print double sided bookets?  I need to upload it onto our website so members can print it at home but of course it'll look crazy to them.  is there a way to split the pages in 2, and then I can then reorganize the pages in order?  The person who sent it off to the printers can no longer find their original.  I added a page so you can see what I mean.  Help??##!!  And thank you!

Hello, I am desperately trying to get my InDesign to start without throwing an error message at me. The message that I am getting is: "Some files required for colour management are missing. Please re-install the application to ensure proper functioning"I have tried uninstalling and installing (InDesign and the whole Creative Cloud) again, I used the CC Cleaner Tool several times, I manually added some .csf files to this path "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Color\Settings", but nothing seems to help. I have also downgraded the version and upgraded again, I enabled synced color management through Adobe Bridge, but I can not get Illustrator to work properly. These are the posts I got the inspiration for my "solutions" for. However, none of them helped.https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/colour-managment-files/m-p/11886175https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-2018-quot-some-files-required-for-colour-management-are-missing-quot

I want to make an Indesign book table of contents that includes the chapter title AND a chapter subtitle on the same line, with only one page number. Is there a way to do this? The automatic table of contents stacks my chapter name and subtitle, and I haven't figured out how to have a page number by just one of them.

Hey all. I am trying to wrap text around an image in our paper. We typically divide text into four columns. The problem I'm having is that text wrap seems to create a larger boundary box around the corners of the objects that I'm attaching it to (see the bottom left corner of the image attached). It is very frustrating and hard to work around when I'm trying to keep lines of text even with one another. I've tried to disable the "Skip by Leading" option in Preferences as well as "Align to baseline grid" in the Paragraph window. Neither seem to fix it. Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions?

How to set up InDesign Print File for Horizontal document that binds at the top?  (think of a small Calendar!)  It is currently set up with out Facing Pages - 20 pages total.  Finished size is 8.5 long by 5.5 tall with TOP BINDING.  Full print press, not digital.  Thank you.

I have used these downloaded fonts previously for multiple projects in InDesign, and have never had any issues until now. In the middle of working on this project, InDesign unexpectidly crashed, but when I reopened it, it claimed to have "no errors". Yet, when I go to package the file, it says all fonts are available until it gives me this message moments later, and won't let me "replace" the fonts I clearly have. I've worked on other projects with my downloaded fonts in InDesign since, and this is the only document that seems to have any issues. Any solutions?   

I managed to get indesign to crash when exporting a pdf by impatiently clicking on a layer as it was in the process of exporting.  After several re-boots, several attempts of starting up Indesign and trying to recover/not recover and ignore recovery and waiting forever this to happen - I've come to the conclusion that the file I was working on cannot be opened and is beyond repair.  But accidentally clicking on a layer mid-export really shouldn't be that catastrophic. I'd like to test it further, but I just want to move on. I'm marking this a big, coz it certainly aint no feature. 🙂    

I generated a TOC, and anchored it to a paragraph on the first page of my document. But, unlike every other anchored frame in the doc, the text-wrap options are missing for it. They do not appear in the Properties panel when the TOC's frame is selected. Nor are there any wrapping options in "Anchor Options" for the thing. After more than one Web search, I finally found instructions to dig up the "Text Wrap" item that's inappropriately buried in the Window menu. While I was able to make the page's text jump the TOC as needed, there is no indication as to what you're setting the text-wrap properties of with this thing. Is it the column? The story? The document? Thanks for any insight.

Computer: macOS Catalina v. 10.15.7iMac 2013 I am using InDesign 2022 on a Mac. For the past month or two, the text wrap panel has not been working. The panel is just gray, does not show any options. If I completely uninstall and reinstall InDesign it will fix the problem for about the first timre I open it, and then it's gone again. Is this because my computer is too old?   I don't have the same problem on my MacBook Air, which is running OS Monterey v.12.4. 

Last time Peter Kahrel said that the empty row judgment will fail if the table overflows without displaying.It does happen when I test it, any ideas?The code below, I originally intended to add an empty row as the end of the table if there is no end of the table.Now there is a problem.Sometimes the end of the table already exists, but after running the script, it will still incorrectly add a blank line.Sometimes the last row is not a blank row, but after running the script, the row with content is turned into the end of the table. var cell = app.activeDocument.selection[0].parent; var myTable = cell.parent; if( myTable.rows[-1].cells.everyItem().contents!==""||myTable.rows[-1].rowTypes!==RowTypes.FOOTER_ROW){ dupeLastRow(myTable); } function dupeLastRow(p){ myTable.rows.add(LocationOptions.AFTER, myTable.rows[-1]); } myFooterRow = myTable.rows[-1]; 

Hello, I had someone format my book using InDesign, but they are now unreachable.  I do have the source file, but if I import and export it, everything changes. This is very unfortunate since I need to make edits, and the formatter did such a beautiful job with certain design and flourishes that I fear might have been owned by him. They all disappear when exporting from my computer Is this something I can fix myself by learning how to use Indesign, or will it never be the same since it won't be from his computer? 

Whenever I try to run a spellcheck in InDesign, it's started coming up with the language to check being Indonesian, instead of UK English!Whenever I go to change the dictionary to UK English, no matter how many times I change it and save the settings, spellcheck stays stuck in Indonesian, meaning that it queries EVERY...  SINGLE...  WORD! I've updated to the latest version, quit and rebooted InDesign, shut down and rebooted my Mac (iMac 2019 Intel, running Sequoia 15.5), but it stays stuck on Indonesian! Anyone else experiencing this, and how have you solved it?