InDesign

I am trying to drag the bottom edge of the form to align the reference line, but when I do, the view jumps to the center line of the form.

I have used Adobe Garamond Premier Pro for several years in a publication. Now when I open the document only a few of the font styles appear.  I have activated them by hand, but why won't auto activate work? It is selected in preferences.

Hello,I'm working on a newsletter and I want to tell the writers what is the maximum characters they can write for that textbox so that they can know the parameters for how much they write. How do I figure out the maximum characters that can fit in a text box? Or is there a better way to make sure that the their articles will fit in my text boxes?Please help!Kristi

I finally upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 this week, and since doing so, all boldface in the documents I am using are no longer displayed (most of the time), and definitely not exported to PDF. When I View > Display Performance > Fast Display, it still shows the boldface text.  However, when I view > Typical Display, it does NOT show boldfaced fonts in boldface.  Ditto when I export the file to a PDF; it's all vanilla text. Using Sitka and Sitka Text Bold.  I've tried to install the Adobe version of these fonts but cannot; I get an error that duplicate fonts with that name already exist, but I cannot delete them since Windows considers them system fonts. Tried clearing the font cache, but cannot; all *FONTCACHE*.DAT and *FNTCACHE*.DAT files are in use, even when I quit out of all Adobe apps, log out of Creative Cloud, and even force-quit all Adobe and Creative Cloud processes. Tried with Arial Regular and Arial Bold, however, and that

Hi everybody, I want to recreate the image below in InDesign.But i cant figure out how.With the circle tool, i dont know how to take out a small gap as shown above, nor how to add arrowheads.With the stroke/pen tool, i cant draw a perfect circle in freehand mode, so then ill get a wobbly, wonky circle, wich does not look professional. I tried a few things with the different modes of the pen tool on an existing circle, but i could not figure it out nor get anyting good looking. Is it even possible within InDesign? I dont know, but i hope you guys know! Thanks! - Nick 

I haven't seen this before and it's driving me mad. Indesign 20.3.1 on Mac Mini 2020 M1 15.4.1'Document Settings: Intent' is set to 'Print' In the attached screenshot the underlying image (map) is CMYK. It was placed without a box; when I stroked the box black it defaulted to RGB, not CMYK. I changed the stroke to CMYK.I checked 'Intent: Print' again, then created a new box: it filled RGB black.So far every new box is defaulting to RGB. What is going on?  Is there a setting somewhere I've missed?With respect I don't want to trust the RIP or whatever to translate on the fly. This is a print job, how do I make RGB go away?

I am attempting to use Conditional Text in multiple documents that contain the same linked InCopy story, but the Conditional Text is malformed when I check out/check in the story. Is there a way to leverage Conditional Text and synchronize it across different documents that are not part of a book. For example, I have four different models all of which come standard with various options. Some of the models come with additional option and some with fewer. I would like to use conditional text to update the "source" InCopy story for these features so I can update in a single document then update the link in subsequent documents. The issue I've run into is that these Conditional Text values seem to shift of their own accord when the InCopy story is modified in one document then updated in another. I come from the DITA world where conditions were easily used for content reuse - is there any way to tweak InDesign's Conditional Text to function in a similar way?

I'm not sure this is an InDesign specific questions, but as it relates to documents published from InDesign…   Could anyone tell me how I can size the hight of my iframe so that it 'snaps' to fit the content in an elegant way for different screen sizes?   my @36646830 css is clearly not working correctly yet… http://www.wrdmag.co.uk  WRD38 Spring 2025   <Link modified by MOD>

Hi all,In our plugin, we’re trying to serialize text-related settings into IDML. We’ve defined a custom scripting provider like this in our .fr file:Object{ kTextStyleRangeObjectScriptElement }, Object{ kTextObjectScriptElement }, Property{ kSliParaChangesPropScriptElement, kReadWrite }, Property{ kRuleParaChangesPropScriptElement, kReadWrite }, This should expose our properties to text-level objects like paragraphs, characters, and text style ranges.We implemented the scripting interface in our provider:ErrorCode TextScriptProvider::AccessProperty(ScriptID propID, I_SCRIPT_REQUEST_DATA* data, IScript* script) The Issue: During IDML export, AccessProperty() is only called once, and only for one ScriptID. We expected it to be called for all registered properties, especially if the attributes are attached.However, if we switch the Object{} definition to this: Object{ kTextStyleRangeObjectScriptElement }, Object{ kPageItemObjectScriptElement }, then all script ID

Nous réalisons des brochures sur Indesign intégrant des prix. Nous souhaitons les mettre à jour de manière automatique grâce à un fichier Excel. Savez-vous comment lié un fichier Excel avec un fichier Indesign ?

How to add Comments in InDesign and export as PDFs with Comments? If I add a comment in MS Word, while I export as PDF, it allows me to export comments and shows them as comments in the PDF. But there is no such feature in InDesign. Any reason when this will be available as a feature?

HelloIn InDesign, the "Load Styles" window for object styles is very limited for easily making multiple selections. Due to my automation work, I have to manage a large number of object styles.Do you know if there's already a script capable of exporting a series of object styles by specifying a subgroup to consider? The script will handle the content (subgroups and their object styles) and keep the same hierarchy.STRUCTURE EXAMPLE (of course here it's simplified):GROUP_PRINCIPAL- SUBGROUP_ALPHA-- SUBSUBGROUP_1--- SUBSUBSUBGROUP_a--- SUBSUBSUBGROUP_b--- object_01--- object_02--- object_03-- SUBSUBGROUP_2--- object_01-- SUBSUBGROUP_3- SUBGROUP_BETA-- SUBSUBGROUP_1- SUBGROUP_DELTA-- SUBSUBGROUP_1--- object_01--- object_02--- object_03Example of desired copy if i selected SUBSUBGROUP_1:GROUP_PRINCIPAL- SUBGROUP_ALPHA-- SUBSUBGROUP_1--- SUBSUBSUBGROUP_a--- SUBSUBSUBGROUP_b--- object_01--- object_02--- object_03

Hello Guys this Script I made for creating .csv files froms Indesign Works perfectly withIndesign 2025 on Windows but Does Not Work forInDesign 2021 on MacHere is the code#target indesign(function () {var dlg = new Window("dialog", "Generate QR CSV for SmartStream");dlg.orientation = "column";dlg.alignChildren = "left";dlg.add("statictext", undefined, "From:");var fromInput = dlg.add("edittext", undefined, "1");fromInput.characters = 10;dlg.add("statictext", undefined, "To:");var toInput = dlg.add("edittext", undefined, "1000");toInput.characters = 10;dlg.add("statictext", undefined, "Leading Zeros:");var zeroInput = dlg.add("edittext", undefined, "4");zeroInput.characters = 10;dlg.add("statictext", undefined, "Prefix (e.g., https://www.xymo.co/p/078873-05|050725|):");var prefixInput = dlg.add("edittext", undefined, "");prefixInput.characters = 40;dlg.add("statictext", undefined, "Prefix Font Size (pt):");var fontSizeDropdown = dlg.add("dropdownlist", undefined, ["4", "5", "6", "7

Hi everyone, I'm stuck on a pagination issue and can't find a solution online. Hoping to get some help or insights here!I want to show the current page number and next page number on the left page only on a spread. I've been able to do this using the phantom threaded text frame method, but when prepping the book to send to print, the printers require that I split spreads that have images spanning across left and right page to single pages in order to extend the bleed on both pages. By doing this page break or splitting the spread, it breaks the pagination and the threaded text frame no longer works.Appreciate anyone's insight here!

We have a lot of PDF documents flying around, and it's hard to determine who created them when edits are needed. Is there a way to have InDesign and Illustrator automatically include the author in a PDF, when exporting?The only way I know how to include the author's name is to open the PDF document after it's been exported, open Properties, add the name manually and then re-save. This is an extra step that I always forget to do (I just export and send) and it's impossible to have everybody do this. So I'd like to find a way to have this be automatically entered; we're all signed into Adobe, so InDesign and Illustrator should already know our identity.

Hello, I have an issue within InDesign 20.2 where the screen pixelates/glitches. It fixes upon zooming in or out, but it's a continuous problem.Tried setting the display performance at typical and high, the problem still occurs on both settings. I am on a Windows (a brand new computer) so there is no GPU Performance setting.Any ideas? 

I have two sections in a book that isn't combining correctly. When I make a PDF they show up as individual pages rather than a spread (pages 10 and 11). When I open the Numbering and Sections Dialog window, the "Start Section" is greyed/off. I tried playing around with the "Allowed document pages to shuffle", but that doesn't resolve it. Thanks for the help.     

Hi - I'm trying to improve our marketing team's lives.  They often need to repeatedly edit project organizational charts and employee photo directories which involve adding or removing photos and/or text ahead of or between existing content which involves manually shifting all of the existing images/text.   They typically use in-design to create these.  Does in-design or another adobe software have the ability to automatically shift existing content (images/text) when adding a new image or removing an existing one from between existing content?  Quite like how adjusting app icons on a phone works - you can slide one between others and all others will shift.  For organizational charts, they'd need to be able to have groups on the same page interact separate like when adding individuals to one department when multiple departments are listed on the same page - the other names in the department would shift up or down leaving other departments unaffected.&

I have used parent pages since I started using InDesign 4 years ago. I made the latest software update today and am suddenly having this issue:   A-parent is applied to 4 pages (two spreads). A-parent consists of a running header on the top (left and right, centered), and page numbers on the bottom (left and right).   On the first spread, both headers and page numbers appear on the designed page. On the second spread, both page numbers appear, but only the right header appears.   The thumbnail overview clearly shows that the A-parent is applied to all four pages.   I tried substituting a copy of the A-parent to the page that is not showing the header. No difference. I also tried susbstituting the [None] parent. This works, but of course it's not the parent I need there.   I also tried creating an alternate A-parent, moving the header text to the bottom of the page, next to the page number. In this case, both text and page number show up on the designed page. It

Hello everyone. I'm formatting a book with running heads for the chapters (created as a text variable). Some of the chapter titles require a forced line break to fit how I want. Originally, I left an extra space before the forced line break so the generated table of contents would look right (when checking "Remove forced line breaks"). I only just realized that adds an extra space in my running heads that I can't seem to get rid of. I searched for an answer, and either I don't know how to properly frame my question, or there's no good answer. A few search results (from 2018, I think—maybe earlier) directed me toward a dead link with a workaround (that others indicate doesn't work reliably—whatever it is). I'm just curious if there's a way to ignore forced line breaks in running heads when pulled from a source that might have them. Thanks!

Hello,I am having an embarrassing issue: an InDesign document has just vanished from my files.All I have left is the PDF created on March 12, 2025, in InDesign 20.2, as stated in the "Get Info" dialog in macOS. The filename is as I would expect and I usually—if not always—export PDF from InDesign using the same filename as the INDD. An initial search for the InDesign document showed it missing from the usual places where I would have saved it. Setting a Finder search window to filter for ALL .indd on my system returned no result for this document. Plugging in the TimeMachine backup and browsing in it again returned no result. I thought about having used the InDesign cloud documents for this but going to File > Open has "Cloud documents" greyed out. Logging into my Creative Cloud page and looking for the file there again left me lost.  What are my realistic options?I tried to import the PDF into InDesign directly but ... it's complicated. 

I did use our corporate font by activating it from Adobe Fonts. Now, I've bought a license and installed this font locally. That's because I also need to embed that font in Powerpoint presentations. That won't work with an activated Adobe font. I turned off Auto-activation and in the Creatove Cloud desktop app preferences disabled Adobe Fonts entirely. But still it shows up in InDesign instead of the local font. They have the same name, but I can see it in the info-panel for Find and replace fonts. Can I get rid of it any how?

I am using InDesign CC 2017 on a Mac with Sierra. I want to make an Index in a book I am making, and have a list of topics. But InDesign does not recognize the files with the list in all formats I have tried. I have done it in older versions of InDesign, but not able to do it now. The manual for InDesign just says select Impot Topics and the file with the topic. But I am not able to do it.

I have an index for which all of the numbers have increased by 2 in the middle of the book (page 336). The index was created manually, not using InDesign's built-in tools. The book is 848 pages long. I've been searching for a way to do this. However, I don't know scripting or GREP. I'm hoping that someone here may be able to help me with this. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Please can someone help, is there a way of checking if a word has a hyperlink to a Text Anchor attached to it? I've written a script to give me a list of all the words that have a certain character style. What I'm trying to do is check each word for a hyperlink.I've been digging down on the properties of a word but as yet I've not found what I'm looking for.Thanks