InDesign

I've seen several posts claiming that you can just go to File/Export and choose text. No; this option does not exist. I have a file that's 20+ pages, all one story. I tried exporting to "InDesign Markup," which is utterly useless because it's not a markup; it's just another binary file format. Then I tried exporting to XML, which is utterly broken. What I got, for a 27-page document, was one screenful of XML with only 11 elements that contain one line of text... text that doesn't appear in the original document! I have no idea where it came from. Then I tried HTML, and got nothing but blank pages... albeit with the master pages' headers (which were graphics). The page count at least looked appropriate, unlike the tiny fragment of XML. At this point I am utterly stumped as to how this tool can be used in any kind of quality-controlled workflow. I need a way to compare the text of two documents and detect where it changed. This is esssential to our work. How are we to

Hello, in my company we had a hacker attack. It took computers to clean and deleted files that I need. they are overwritten with the shortcut "akita" but they still have their importance, I wonder if they still store any original data and can it be recovered, the question concerns indd files and pdfs, it doesn't matter to me which one I recover, as long as it works. I cant drop files here so here is link with them to my google disc: [Link deleted by moderator] Please help

Bonjour, je rencontre des difficultés depuis quelques temps à lors de l'application d'une feuille de style de paragraphe : les couleurs de caractères restent bloqués sur [Noir] alors que la feuille de style spécifie une autre nuance. À savoir que ce problème vient d'apparaître. J'ai fait la dernière mise à jour qui ne change rien. De plus cela fait plusieurs mois que j'ai un autre souci : en sélectionnant un bloc en cliquant dessus, il ne s'active pas, je dois déplacer le curseur de la souris en dehors du bloc pour qu'il apparaisse comme sélectionné. Très usant à la longue…  Avez-vous une idée de comment résoudre ces soucis ? 

((^\s)*)(abc)I originally thought that with one set of brackets, abc should be $2.But in fact, abc is $3 But the expression:([,,\h]*)(abc) Here abc is $2.

I have attached a photo of what I am seeing.  I was working on my document and I pressed something on accident I presume and these white gridlines appeared and I am curious as to how I can get them to disappear please!

Hi, hoping you can help please. I’ve set up my book using layers. All layers are locked except text. I’ve been working through the text layer, adding new paragraph breaks from the start of chapter 8, as I’m working through editing the book. But when I got to chapter 10, the locked photo there has superimposed itself onto the text. Any thoughts on why? It has happened with a few photos and the photo layers are definitely lockec.   

On macOS, we’re fortunate to have a streamlined way to create and email PDF files directly from the Print dialogue. With just a couple of clicks, we can save a document as a PDF or generate an email with the PDF attached—quick, efficient, and user-friendly. Unfortunately, this convenience does not extend to the Adobe suite. Instead of supporting the built-in macOS functionality, Adobe forces users down a less efficient path: exporting the file as a PDF and then manually attaching it to an email. This adds unnecessary steps, wastes time, and breaks an otherwise smooth workflow. Why is it this way? Is there a workaround that brings back the simplicity macOS users are accustomed to? It’s incredibly frustrating when large companies ignore native platform features that clearly improve the user experience.

For some mysterious reason my document is set up to bind on the right, which is causing my pages to export in the wrong order. I can't find where the option is to correct this -- it's not in the document setup dialogue box where i think it used to be. Weirdly, though the document is set up in USA English, when I try to copy a page over into a correctly set up file, everything pastes as Hebrew and the text flows the wrong way. Help!!

Hello to all, I'm making a script to build a new document from some given file and pages. I awe to override pages that have appied a mastepage. When i try to override i get the error value not valid for destinationPage. Page was aspected but Page as given. var originalDoc = await app.open(sourceDoc, false); const pageIndexesToCopy = pages.length > 0 ? pages.map(p => p - 1) : Array.from({ length: originalDoc.pages.length }, (_, i) => i); for (const pageIndex of pageIndexesToCopy) { let origPage = await originalDoc.pages.item(pageIndex); let newPage = await destDoc.pages.add(); if (origPage.appliedMaster) { //check if the master is present in the DESTINATION document let origAppliedMaster = origPage.appliedMaster; if (!destDoc.masterSpreads.itemByName(origAppliedMaster.name).isValid) { let destAppliedMaster = await origAppliedMaster.duplicate(LocationOptions.TO_END, destDoc); newPage.appliedMaster = destAppliedMaster; };

I have used indesign for many years but this has just come up - now I can't see photos, logo and sketches either striped or grey boxes. No errors in links, tried to re-link, tried to un-install InDesign, update and restart. Any one who have a solution?

Hi. I have just completed a book of around 330 pages. I purchased subscription of Indesign and copied word document into Indesign. Things seems ok till now but now the biggest issue i sto have a nice format. I need suggestions for a non fiction book. Its a business book. What shoudl be the best font for the body text ? headlines ? sub headings etc ? Is Aerial a suitable font ? Shoudl I have the same font for all with different sizes ?  

Trying to insert a second cover photo (in this case, the back cover photo) into my InDesign epub. It looks right in InDesign, but when I view it in the Kindle Previewer, it has been cropped and place at the top of the title page. (see attachments)Anybody know a fix for this?

Sorry. it seems to say to merge footnotes with the same content into one lineThere are many such cases, for example:[6] Originally cited in the original article.[7] Originally cited in the original article.[8] Originally cited in the original article. Need to merge the same on the same line. Like this:[6] [7] [8] [7] Originally cited in the original article. It's now possible to optimize it with a script:Convert the "superscripts" in the text to normal superscripts, and then delete the original superscripts?  @Robert at ID-Tasker @Barb Binder 

Hi, I've been researching this issue: when InDesign documents are set to the 'English UK' dictionary, it does not consider "z" words (ex. "compromize", "capitalization") misspelled because both "z" and "s" versions of the words are acceptable. However, since most English UK speakers/businesses prefer to use the "s" versions of these words, is there a way in InDesign to get around this issue and flag the "z" versions as incorrectly spelled? I know you can manually add/remove words in dictionaries, but there's too many different "z" words to add manually one by one. Maybe there's a GREP solution, but I've only found GREP solutions that call out 1 or more words that have a very similar type of spelling and this issue covers a broad spectrum of many different types of "z" spelled words. Is there maybe a different/custom English UK dictionary somewhere out there that can be loaded into InDesign to address this issue? Or another solution?Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, tha

Bonjour,J'ai installé Indesign sur un deuxième ordinateur pour modifier un document déjà existant, le logiciel me dit qu'il me manque des polices. J'ai cherché les polices sur internet pour les télécharger. Je ne sais pas si je ne trouve pas exactement les bonnes polices mais impossible de trouver celles qui correspondent et donc de continuer à modifier mon document avec les mêmes polices. 

Hola;Desde hace unos días, InDesign va muy, muy lento. Piensa hasta cuando copio una imagen. No es problema de RAM o de procesador, ya que tengo de sobra. Es posible que no funcione correctamente desde que llegó macOSCatalina? Un saludo y gracias

I am working on an article that includes Sanskrit text. I have tried two different Adobe Sanskrit fonts (Two Devanagari Sanskrit and Tiro Devangari Sanskrit). I have flowed the text from Word and converted the fonts. I have copied the text from a Plain Text document , pasted it in place, and converted the fonts. According to the widow of the author, in all these cases, the text becomes garbled and unreadable. Must I use a Unicode font instead? Why aren't the Adobe fonts simply converting the characters as they should? I hope others have had and solved this problem.   <Title renamed by MOD>  

All the examples I can find show how to find a table when you're already in one. But I need to be able to find the next table before or after the insertion point, even if it's sitting in regular text. Presumably I need to find the absolute index of the start (and end, maybe) of the table in the story and compare it to that of the insertion point, but something like the following doesn't seem to give an index in the entire story:     var tables = story.tables;    var nextTable;    for (currTable = 0; currTable < tables.length; currTable++)    {        alert("currTable index: " + tables[currTable].cells[0].insertionPoints[0].index);        if (tables[currTable].cells[0].insertionPoints[0].index > app.selection[0].index)        {            nextTable = tables[currTable];            alert("Table found.");  &nbsp

My goal is to translate the original file (.indd) from English to Japanese. My Python code successfully translates the text and updates the fonts and language. However, I am encountering an issue where the translated text overflows the text frames (i.e., overset text).Please advise if there’s any setting or attribute within the .idml file that can be updated using python code to automatically resize the text frame to fit the content.Both original InDesign (.idml) and the Python-processed .idml file are attached for your reference.

The style exists, and if I examine it with .name ==, it matches. But getByName does not. In the code below, it's getByName that's throwing an exception, but the part that raises the "style found" alert works: function styleTable(theTable){    var tableStyleName = "Section heading";    theTable.cells.everyItem().clearCellStyleOverrides(true);    for(i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.tableStyles.length; i++)    {        if(app.activeDocument.tableStyles[i].name == tableStyleName)        {            alert("Style found");        }    }    try    {        var tableStyle = app.activeDocument.tableStyles.getByName(tableStyleName);        theTable.appliedTableStyle = tableStyle;    }    catch(err)    {        alert("Table style " + tableS

I am at a total loss, I have created my design in InDesign, exported to PDF - looks perfect.Then when I come to print, it is printing black lines across the page which are in the same locations as some of my box outlines. I have tried exporting to png and printing and it is printing the lines in the exact same place. The most prominent line being around the rope image which has a transparent backgroundI have adjusted Transparency Flattening to High, I am exporting to PDF/X-4 as I have seen other people suggesting this. I have cleaned the print heads on my printer just in case. (it's a brand new inkjet printer) I am stuck now. I am really new to InDesign. Please help!

I've tried restarting InDesign, my computer, but the problem persists. I double-click a text box to select it, then try dragging and clicking to select some text, and instead of selecting the text it drags and moves the whole box.  The text, IS still text and has not been converted to curves.I also can not resize a text box by clicking the corner handles.. trying to click and drag those resized the WHOLE BOX PROPORTIONALLY.   So if I click a text frame to make it a bit taller (by clicking the middle bottom handle, the whole box resizes with the content. It's NOT a stuck modified key.  No other programs are experiencing this weird behaviour.The text is most definitely not converted to shapes/curves. VIDEO ATTACHED.   

I am having a problem with numbering. As there are multiple sets of numbers I have set the first number to start at 1 and set the rest of that group of numbers to be continuous. So far so good. BUT when I have a subset of numbering within that it all goes wrong. If you look at my example below (1), (2) and (3) are fine. I then have (a), (b), (c), (d) under point (3). They have come out fine using the same principle. HOWEVER when I try and continue the number list (using continuous) it comes out as 5 because it thinks it is following on from (a), (b), (c), (d). How do I get it to follow on from the numbers and not the letters? I have set up paragrap styles and (5) and (6) in the example below are the same paragraph setting as (2) & (3). Is the only way to resolve this by clicking on (5) and going to bullets and numbering and asking it to start at (4)? (1)     ensuring that the parties are on an equal footing;(2)     saving expense;(3)     deal

Hi! I started working with a team and I have seen some unusual highlighting in indesign texts eversince. I'm aware of the highlighting that shows change in tracking, which is a darker green, but I can't say where this one  is coming from. Please, does anyone have a clue about what it is and how to control it?

Generating an ePub file with InDesign 2025 that contains footnotes, and subsequently passing through ePub-Checker, Google Play, or Apple Books multiples errors with footnotes:• OEBPS/9781788946391.Xhtml:237, 664: Error while parsing file: attribute "target" not allowed here; expected attributeIf the same file is opened using ID 2024, there are no errors.I've created a very simple file with little text and one reference/footnote using ID 2025.