InDesign

I’m using the font “36 days ago BRK” that is free to use for any purpose, yet InDesign insists on replacing it as i export my PDF because of “licensing issues”. I’m not using Adobe Fonts, I simply downloaded a free-use font off the internet. I don’t want to start using Adobe Fonts or find another font to replace it. What’s really annoying is that it used to work on older versions. I don’t know why this is an issue now.

Since Indesign version 2025 all the time a whole textblock suddenly disappears. It still exists, but is not shown.  It happens in different situations: when i scroll, want to start typing, etc. I already switched of the gpu-modus, but that does not help.I am using Windows 10 on a Imac 4K intel core I5.

Tenemos un cliente que todavía usa Adobe Indesign 2021 (16.x), como la versión está descatalogada no se puede descargar desde la creative cloud, y por migración de pc, se ha perdido la aplicación y ahora no se puede instalar.

Hallo :) Ich arbeite gerade an meinem Portfolio und möchte ein Bilder-Karussell im PDF einbinden. Beim Klick auf einen Pfeil soll das nächste Bild erscheinen, ohne dass eine neue Seite geladen wird (also keine Sprungmarken). Bisher habe ich dafür den Objektstatus und Schaltflächen mit entsprechender Funktion genutzt. In der InDesign-Vorschau funktioniert das auch aber leider beim Export nicht mehr. Die Schaltflächen werden zwar angezeigt aber funktionieren nicht. Ich arbeite mit der neusten Version von InDesign und auch von Acrobat. Ich habe auch darauf geachtet, dass ich als interaktives PDF exportiere aber leider klappt es nicht. Ich befürchte, dass diese Funktionen nicht mehr unterstützt werden aber vielleicht hat ja jemand einen Tipp oder eine Idee, wie ich den Slider anders umsetzten könnte. Danke schonmal und liebe GrüßeLena 😊

 I understand what they're there for, but Its really distracting when Im trying to layout a page. I know I can hide them when I hide my guides - but I need my guides to work with. Thank you.

HiI am using Adobe Indesign 2026 and recently discovered that none of my documents open when clicked on in the Home screen. I tried clearing up space on my computer (over a GB of storage was freed), but that didn’t solve the problem. When I click on the desired files in my Finder window, nothing happens either.Can anyone help me troubleshoot this issue?Thanks in advance,Joey

HELP!  I am unable to print my InDesign document.  The error message states 'This document contains links to files/URL(s) that are not accessible. Please check your network connectivity or the original source of content.'  When looking at the links page, there are no errors issued.  Preflight shows no errors.   I've gone to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Privacy/Files and Folders, and verified that 'Document Folder' is checked under Adobe InDesign. Any other suggestions?  Thank you!TR 

Tearing my hair out with this one - trying to export hi res print pdf but keeps failing. Thought maybe it was a dodgy link so created new blank doc and getting the same error. tried exporting as png and jpg which doesn’t work either. Any ideas? 

I’ve been wrestling with Adobe Fonts for several days now, and none of the workarounds have fixed anything. Creative Cloud shows that Adobe Fonts are synced and installed, but none of those typefaces show up in InDesign or Photoshop. All apps are up to date (including CC), I’ve tried disabling fonts, logging out, and enabling them again, restarted my computer multiple times (2019 iMac running Sequoia 15.7.3), clearing the font cache in Terminal, validating fonts in FontBook—basically anything that I’ve seen suggested, I’ve tried, and nothing has worked. Typefaces outside of Adobe Fonts are all working perfectly fine.I currently can’t work on any existing InDesign documents because it has “adding fonts” as a never-ending background task. I’m once again (thanks adobe!) paying for software that’s locked itself.Is there some other magical workaround I’ve overlooked? Ideally something that you don’t have to do every time you launch a program. 

I am working on a project in Indesign and flipping back and forth between it and Lightroom. Everything was fine at first, all images looked good in Indesign, then something happened and now all of the images are overly saturated in Indesign. I don't remember changing any settings, but may have hit a hot key that changed it? Any help is appreciated! (First image is the Indesign photo, second is Lightroom)

It seems like the focus is lost after the update.I was hoping for a simpler solution:if (app.selection[0].constructor.name == “Image”) {var image = app.activeDocument.selection[0];var imagePath = image.itemLink.filePath;}if (LinkStatus.LINK_OUT_OF_DATE === image.status) {image.update();}But I didn’t quite understand what the body of ‘update()’ was supposed to be. Later, I found the code snippet below, but while it updates the image, the focus is lost and the code doesn’t continue. It seems it needs to keep the selection.var graphics = getGraphics(doc.selection);// Create paths and link objectsvar paths = [];var links = [];for (var i = 0; i < graphics.length; i++) { if (graphics[i].hasOwnProperty(‘itemLink’)) paths.push(graphics[i].itemLink.filePath); links.push(graphics[i].itemLink);}if (0 === paths.length) alert(‘Image appears to be missing!’);for (i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { if (LinkStatus.LINK_OUT_OF_DATE === links[i].status) { links[i].update();

We (a team of 11 people) are using INDD 2026 desktop version and are working directly from a wind 2025 server. What we are looking for: which kind of database  works quite well with INDD and would be best for storing some 10,000 or more INDD files. The final goal is to start working locally and using the server for what it’s build for, storing things.

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on a 200-page report, meticulously checking all text threads to ensure the reading order is correct. However, after exporting to an interactive PDF, about 55% of the document still has issues with the reading order in Acrobat, even though it passes the Acrobat check. My goal is to make the PDF as accessible as possible. All other accessibility issues were resolved after the latest export, but the reading order still seems off during visual inspection. Currently, I’m exporting via File > Export > Interactive PDF, which seems to be the standard advice I found online. Am I missing something? Is there a better way to export for accessibility? Any advice would be greatly appreciated—reordering elements in Acrobat manually is taking forever! Thanks!

I've just started noticing random hyphens appearing in text I'm pasting from Word into InDesign. I'm pasting into a series of InDesign docs in a journal that get updated every year, and I've never had this happen before. I just pasted in a 900-word story, for example, and there are 12 hyphens inserted into seemingly random words with no pattern I can detect.Hyphenation is turned off in both Word and the InDesign paragraph style, so there should be no hyphens. They’re definitely not discretionary hyphens. I have Invisibles turned on in both Word and InDesign and everything looks completely regular. The words are all followed by a space (blue dot) and there are no special characters. The screenshot I've attached shows the text in InDesign with the source text in Word below.Anyone else seen this?

I frequently create brochures, and at some point in the project without fail the share for review link stops allowing me to update content. The review links are an integral part of our workflow, and for my non-brochure work they are fine (although I have to update those less frequently), but with my brochure documents it will allow me to create a new link, but after that I can no longer publish any changes. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign, turned off and on countless times, ensured the document I’m updating is the only one open, packaged then opened the idml and re-saved the document to indd. It just doesn’t work, and it’s really frustrating to explain to our clients that their comments have gone because we had to make a new link (or they get confused, comment on an old link and we don’t make the updates). Any ideas?

I have experienced this error (0xc0000142) when attempting to open InDesign and illustrator several times over the course of a few months now. There is a fix that I found through the Adobe forums that involves repairing the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable program files and it works temporarily, but after a few weeks the problem reappears. I have tried installing several versions of both programs to see if it is just affecting a specific version, but it does not appear to make a difference.Any help toward a permanent fix is appreciated, as I require authorization from my company’s tech support department in order to perform the fix every time this problem occurs and it is interfering with my job. Thank you below is the fix I have had to do if anyone is interested. again it works but only temporarily for me: 

What are the things to take note when using word document that contain both text, tables and pictures into indesign report? what kind of formatting must be done in work because indesign cannot handle it?Take two examples that I was told by someone else :placement of tables in word document.  The plan is just place the table near the text and let indesign reposition it for best visual.  For e.g. we might need 4 columns of text and let the table stretch across two columns before the text using indesign.  But we were told that indesign cannot keep the table as “whole”, the table will get broken into pieces when attempting to place it in different place. Font type, font size and font colors.  We might need different font type, font size and font colors for best visual.  The plan is to keep simple formatting for font in the text in the word document and later let indesign handle the change for best visual.  We were told this will not happen because font formatting changes need to happen in

Indesign 20.5 Marguee Zoom has stopped functioning the way it used to and now sometimes functions like Step Zoom. I sometimes want to zoom in as far as I can on a specific spot. I use the Marguee Zoom for that. However, if I draw a box that would zoom it greater than the max zoom of 4000%, it functions as a Step Zoom. It sometimes takes 10 Marguee Zooms to zoom in. This is a change from previous versions.Is there a fix in the works?

Just received the above error message.I understand I have to wait, but in “sometime”?! Please can someone at Adobe change this to “some time later” or “in a few minutes”. Anything other than the above grammatical abomination!

First of all: All apps and Windows 11 are updated. I checked RAM, Graphic Card and much more.My problem: When I start working with InDesign it can work smoothly but suddenly InDesign doesn’t react anymore. I can’t close it. When I try to end the task with the Taskmanager it won’t close either. After maybe 5 - 10 seconds I get a “Blackscreen” and Windows shut down the PC and makes a restart.I don’t use InDesign Plugins. I’ve already tried to uncheck the GPU-Box. I uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign already.Has somebody the same problem or even better - the solution?PS: I never ever get a Blackscreen when I don’t use InDesign.Kind Regards, Oliver

I paid my suscripción but I can not use In Design because I have MacBook Pro Late 2013, with MacOs Big Sur 11.07.11. 

Hello! Hoping someone can shed some light on this for us. We have a series of JSX scripts we use in InDesign that were working in MacBook Pro Intel but not in MacBook Pro M4. Same verison of InDesign too. When we run the scripts in Intel they execute but when we run the same scripts in M4, they do nothing. Are we missing something here? We also tried the Open In Rosetta option which did not work. Please advise.

When I select "Setup" in the InDesign print dialogue, it takes me to another dialogue which is apparantly a Windows 11 setup, which resets everything to defaults, including the system default printer (which I am not using for this job.) Then I have to select "More Settings" and make adjustments there from the traditional printer settings dialogue. My other Adobe products don't go through this. And searching online for a fix did not come up with a simple solution. Is there a way to bypass this stupid step? If not, can Adobe fix this?Version 20.5 x64Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100 

Hey, y'all. This may be a couple of different problems, so please bear with me. I'm working on a MacBook Pro with an M1 chip and Ventura. I'm trying to print booklet at 6x12, which I have done plenty of times before, but not with my current OS. I have the printer set to PostScript file and when I choose Device Indepentent as the PPD, all of the page adjustment options are grayed out. When I set the PPD to any other printer, I can adjust the page size/layout to what I need, but the PostScript files and resulting PDFs have been coming out at 8.5x11 instead of 6x12. I think I used to have the option to set the PPD as Adobe Acrobat, but I believe I read (in trying to trouble shoot this issue) that Mac has removed support for the Adobe PPD. If this is true, has anyone found a work around for this? Or some other PPD that allows for PostScript files to generate PDFs that actually stay the dimensions you set the page to?