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Hello, I am exporting a book to EPUB. Before I did so I opened the style source document and ensured that all paragraph styles had a unique class name under "export tagging". Then I synchronized the book and tried to export it to EPUB. I keep getting this error: CSS name collision : 88 detected.Paragraph Style "Chapter Subtitle" and "Chapter Title" generate conflict css name "ch"Paragraph Style "Chapter Title" and "Chapter Subtitle" generate conflict css name "ch"Paragraph Style "Paragraph - Beginning" and "Paragraph - First" generate conflict css name "p"Paragraph Style "Paragraph - First" and "Paragraph - Beginning" generate conflict css name "p"Paragraph Style "Paragraph - Last" and "Paragraph - Beginning" generate conflict css name "p"Paragraph Style "Paragraph - Next" and "Paragraph - Beginning" generate conflict css name "p"Paragraph Style "Paragraph - Only" and "Paragraph - Beginning" generate conflict css name "p"Paragraph Style "Title Page - Author" and "Title Page - Titl

Ich will ein interaktives PDF aus Indesign (ID 2025) erzeugen. Die meisten Felder funktionieren, nur eines macht Sperenzen:Ich habe es als Kombinationsfeld angelegt.Das Ereignis ist "Bei Klick"Die Aktion ist "Schaltflächen und Formulare ein-/ausblenden"Die Aktion ist Druckbar, nicht schreibgeschützt, nicht erforderlich und die Elemente sind nicht sortiert.Die Listenelemente habe ich zuerst in einem Textrahmen in 3 Zeilen mit hartem Umbruch eingegeben, dann diesen Gesamttext kopiert und als neues Listenelement eingefügt.In Acrobat Pro sieht das gut aus, aber in Acrobat Reader verlieren die Listenelemente die Umbrüche. Was kann ich tun?Ich habe versucht, den 3-Zeiler als Tabelle zu formatieren, das geht nicht.Ich habe statt einem harten ein weiches Return eingegeben, das ändert nichts.Ich habe beim Export des PDF die Option "Struktur für Aktivierreihenfolge verwenden" ausprobiert, leider ohne Erfolg. Mehr fällt mir grade nicht ein.

Sorry to be curt, but why are tables so terrible? How is it that the market leading software package in layout design has such awful table functionality?It's so haphazardly put together - you have to click very carefully to navigate around the table, depending on whether you wanted to type in a cell or just select it, the tools for adjusting the appearance of cells, columns etc. are so difficult and unintuitive to use, and the greatest insult is that if you happen to be inside the table window, but not in a cell, and you type a letter (like, I don't know, if you were planning on using the keyboard shortcut to select another tool), you actually type a letter into a line above the table, shifting it down a bit. Who on earth thought this was acceptable? Are tables just elaborate text boxes? Is that how this happened?Why is it not possible to simply click one or two buttons to make all your rows or columns have a uniform width/height? Why, when I adjust the width of a column, is there not

Hi, I have a load of photoshop PSDs with Layer comps. Can Indesign label the file name using the 'Caption' labels but also include the name of the layer comp used.. latest CC  

Hi, I've been trying to get two pages next to each other. But they remain split. (See the attached screenshot) Would anybody know how to achieve this?  Thank you!

How can I get the text to go to the second tab each time there's no place & the text moves down see below. 

Hi. I'm testing using the Multi-Find/Change plug-in in my documents to apply about a dozen queries in one go. But there's one stage I've been doing manually which I can't figure out how to represent as a GREP or query, meaning I can't include it in the set of queries to apply.Basically during the process I'd select the first line of text, and right-click on the appropriate paragraph style and select 'Apply "xxx" style then next syle'. How can this be represented as a query or GREP please? Or even apply first style then next, as I know the name of the style would need to be specified somewhere. Thanks!

Hi, I have 220 page, 6x9 softcover book, mostly text but some pics and the proof back from the printer shows the text is 2 or 3 characters outside their yellow line margin, pretty much on all pages. The printer gave me this answer when I questioned whether it would be safe to print.. I have had a scan through as the text elements are only slightly beyond the safety margins they should still be seen once printed. The text is at most a few letters over the safety margin and as everything is still a good distance away from the magenta trim edges there shouldn't be any issues.  I am still a little worried so would like to get it all correct.What is the best way for me to make the margins better so the text is all inside please? Thank you    

At first , I thought it was a conflict with other software, but I closed all other software several times and it still didn't fix it.At first,  it was fine, but after some time of use it failed.When you restart the software again he is fine again.It seems to happen a lot since version 19.4, but "V" and "ESC" work. Anyone interested in helping to try it out?

I have a map that gets updated by location. I've been asked to make the locations alpahbetic and whenever a new place gets added it messes up the structure. Is it possible to link these locations below to the numberical points on the map, so that it will keep the format structured after editing? It would save me a lot time in future  🙏 

I have a series of paragraph styles and character styles. When i go to create a new text frame, it defaults to a specific paragraph AND character style. I don't know why it started doing this but I want the default characters style to be "none." How do i do that?

Hi all,Today, I needed to run InDesign 2024 on my Mac, and no matter what I tried, it would always 'hang' during launch (showing a 'what's new screen' and giving me the spinning beach ball). Resetting prefs and all that did not help.I managed to get past the problem by temporarily disconnecting my network (I am on Wifi, so I just turned off the Wifi for a minute), then launching InDesign 2024, and then re-activating my Wifi connection.I suspect that InDesign has some deadlock issue when it is trying to reach out to Adobe's welcome screen servers. Any which way - hope this helps!

In a series of documents that I'm working on, there are short boilerplate paragraphs, which are separate InDesign files that are linked and embedded as anchored objects in the text. Everything seems to work as expected, except that there are large spaces (gaps) in the spacing between whenever one of these boilerplates is followed by regular text. These gaps are indicated in the image below by the magenta (pink) arrows on either side.   I've been trying to determine what is affecting/controlling these gaps, because I want to make them smaller. I have eliminated the following:The spacing is not due to text wrap (text wrap is set to zero).  (The spacing between boilerplates is controlled by the text wrap, usually 0.125 inches. But I've set the final boilerplate text wrap to zero to reduce the space, but that is not working to reduce the space as desired.)It is not due to the paragraph "Space before" or "Space after" settings, both of which are zero.It is not due to the

I've created a master page but it isn't appearing on the page when I exit master pages

Here we have a map of locations, each numbered. The following page will include the name of the locations. This map gets updated regularly with new locations, and subsequebtly, the list of locations regularly gets updated too. So for example, if a new location is added which needs to be 'number 1', I'd have to change the order of all the numbers on the map and all the locations on the list, which is a bit of an ordeal.I'm wondering if there's a function/method within any of the adobe apps of achieving this job in a simpler more automated way i.e. making each amendment non-manually? These designs will need to be printed out, so I'm thinking InDesign is the best application for this, though feel free to correct me on this.

I've automated the RH of long documents by putting a user-entry box on the pasteboard of the master page. User enters title, lesson number, anything else. This single point of entry gets picked up and placed via text variables. Standard stuff. I like to pick up from this source in case the title needs to get shortened in RHs.  Designer has a new sort of "breadcrumbs" design for the RH. I made a custom font for the glyphs. Now, how to automate. It's a different strategy from regular pickup RH text variables. I could, for example, make my custom font so that the "Off Day" (circle number) is a lowercase letter, then define the uppercase as the "On Day" pill. Then they can be changed by changing char style. But I'm not sure if this can be triggered by a text variable, or grep, or a nested style. I have literally thousands of pages to do this on, so it really needs to be a lightweight, elegant solution. Since I have fellow production colleagues and InCopy editors, having to r

Pretty self-explanatory, I want to copy an element (text box, if that matters) and paste it in place on every page in my indesign document. Does anyone know how this is done?

Hi Steven Wareham.Are you here?https://github.com/stevenwareham/numberAdjuster/blob/master/number_adjuster_1_2.jsx  This script is mainly for catalogs, and can do calculations for all numbers in a selection.At this point the numbers are sorted by size.But now that I have an index, the size order of these numbers is disrupted.Such as:Because of the page count adjustment, the page numbers have been reduced by 1 page from 119.This reduces all page numbers greater than 119 by 1.And these pages may be distributed throughout the text box, they are unordered.So, the request is to add another condition, something like this: \d+>119Thank you very much.

I would have inserted before b1 to become the new b1.I had no choice but to insert it after a1 and then adjust the content. 

Why isn't the paragraph shading allowing me to go any lower?? 

Any suggestions on why a PDF exported from InDesign 2025 shows "Adobe InDesign 20.3 (Macintosh)" as the Author when viewd in Acrobat, even after editing the File Info in InDesign? I tried updating the Author in Adobe Acrobat as well but no luck.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, I am having some problems with paragraph styles (when I export to html or epub) where I use grep style.To convert grep styles to local character styleshttp://in-tools.com/products/scripts/I use (Apply Nested Style). But here, my extra underlined words on the paragraph are not visible.Does anyone know another solution? Thanks in advance for your help. 

One of my clients is a book publisher. The editor annotates the PDF book layout, then returns the PDF to me to make the edits. She knows how to properly use Acrobat editing tools and is consistent in her usage. For the most part, our process works great. However, one weird and aggravating thing happens multiple times in almost every book we work on. When the Acrobat edits are imported into InDesign, some number of the "insert" edits will come in as "Accept" while others come in as "Resolve." The editor is using the same tool in Acrobat for all the inserts she marks. We've talked this over, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason why InDesign would import some inserts as "Accept" and others as "Resolve." The edits flagged as "Resolve" do not show up with easy-to-spot blue symbols in the InDesign document, the way the ones with "Accept" show up.  Because of this, I have to closely follow every PDF I work with as I make corrections so that I have a visual of the page/para/line

Hi,I'm editing a book containing four chapters (individual documents) and an introduction which includes a table of contents.The ToC displays the contents by looking at the heading styles of the four chapters as required no problems - 1234.but looking at the numbers of the chapter headings i get 1567.When i go to the chapters, chapter 1 is fine but chapter two heading style shows as "5" not two and the subsequent chapters follow on from that. if i remove the ToC, chapter two heading number reverts to 1.Its like the heading in chapter two is getting its number from the end of the ToC and not chapter one as it should.I've tried various fixes, used a different style for the ToC entries, re-applied styles, checked section breaks etc.Can't for the life of me get to he root of the problem.Help appreciated.thanks.

How do I stop this annoying overlay from appearing in my document?