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Adobe InDesign 2026 – Document Recovery / File Corruption IssueI have a critical graduation project due in one week and I need help recovering an InDesign document.Environment: Adobe InDesign 2026 macOS Original INDD file size: 254.2 MB Document length: approximately 146 pagesAfter an InDesign crash, the application launched Document Recovery. Recovery was able to display the latest version of my document, including the most recent edits that had not yet been saved.However, once the recovered document appears on screen, InDesign becomes unresponsive. The macOS spinning beachball appears and the interface freezes. The document is visible, but I cannot work with it.Recovery shows the latest document content correctly.The document pages are visible.Sometimes I can briefly scroll or click before the application freezes.CPU usage remains around 100–106% for extended periods.CPU time continues increasing, indicating that InDesign is still processing something.The spinning beachball remains a

I have this simple script that fills a blank page with textframes: function makeLorem(length) { var result = ''; var characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'; var charactersLength = characters.length; for ( var i = 0; i < length; i++ ) { if (i>0 && Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) < 2) result += " "; else result += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charactersLength)); } return result;}function getFrameContext() { fc = {}; fc.doc = app.activeDocument; fc.margins = fc.doc.pages[0].marginPreferences; fc.w_idx = 0; fc.h_pos = fc.margins.top; fc.h_size = 0; fc.addTextFrame = function(t) { var productFrame = this.doc.textFrames.add(); productFrame.geometricBounds = [ this.h_pos, this.margins.left + this.margins.columnsPositions[this.w_idx*2], this.h_pos+20, this.margins.left + this.margins.columnsPositions[this.w_idx*2+1] ]; productFra

I’m experiencing two ongoing issues with InDesign’s Review feature that have been consistently reproducible for the past three months. Issue 1: Review links fail to update on larger documents When uploading a publication for review, I can no longer update the existing review link. A persistent error appears stating: “There was a problem updating the artefact.” This workflow functioned reliably until approximately three months ago. To rule out local issues, I tested the same document and process on a second machine, with identical results. Through testing, I’ve found that if I halve the document size (testing both the first 30 pages and the last 30 pages independently to rule out a problematic element), the review link does update successfully. This suggests the issue is related to document scale rather than specific assets. The publications I work on are graphically intensive magazines, typically around 2.5GB in total size. Images are linked, not embedded, with many PSD files used thro

I want to create new paragraph styles named “a1” and ‘a2’ under the “AA” group.When creating them:I’ll first check if “a1” and ‘a2’ already exist; if so, I won’t create them again, but I’ll move them into the “AA” group.If a1 and a2 do not exist, create them. 

I have a similar problem---cannot open top menu because of spinning blue dial. Cannot open preferences or any other menu item. 

I'm using Indesign 2023 and I'm trying to type Arabic. I turned on the Adobe World Ready option in the Paragraph panel, but the direction of the text is wrong. symbols end up in the opposite area instead of the correct area.  I looked at YouTube videos and the place where they go does not exist in my version, where should I go for this? to make the text direction RTL for a certain paragraph?  Thanks!

I’m creating a Regional cookbook in InDesign. Each document has multiple recipes. There are multiple documents for each region. When I bring the documents into a Book files I don’t see a way to group the 5 different regions.  Sorry, it’s hard for me to explain.Example:Northern region has 7 files (each a different state with multiple recipes)Middle Regions had 5 files. “  ”Southern Regions has 6 files. “  ”When I bring each file into the BOOK project, I don’t know how to differentiate which chapters go with the separate regions. I would like to color code each chapter to show which region it’s in. Is there a way to group chapters or make subchapters, or anything to group things together?

When open InDesign 2026 on a screen with very high resolution, some icons get double size in docke panel: This is only seen on a Mac with arm-processor. When open InDesign on the build-in (retina) screen, everything looks fine.I found the post “InDesign 2023: Big icon in docked panel”. But the solution described there, did not solve the problem.Any ideas how to solve this?

I’ve been using InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop for almost decades now, and I have to say: for the amount of money Adobe charges, it’s an absolute disgrace how many basic things these apps still can’t do.Simple, intuitive tasks just don’t work. I’m genuinely furious right now.I created a book layout using facing pages. Now the design needs to be changed to single pages instead. The moment I switch the document setup, the entire layout gets completely destroyed for no logical reason whatsoever. InDesign can’t even remember the margins, guides, and structure I’ve carefully set up. Instead, it just does whatever it wants and leaves you to clean up the mess.It’s incredibly frustrating. Adobe makes an obscene amount of money, yet somehow still can’t build software that handles fundamental layout changes in a reliable way. Features that should have been solved years ago are still broken, unpredictable, or unnecessarily complicated.This will be my last year paying for Adobe. After all th

I am working on a 550 page book. I have added a Table of Contents and am currently adding extensive indexing. i hear that as I add more and more index entries that InDesign is more and more likely to start crashing. Are there ways to help avoid it crashing?

I noticed my 100K black become transparent when there is a drop shadow object. It shows up in exported pdf and print. The same thing happened with any object effects, inner shadow, outer glow, feather ...  I did find a temporary solution to change the 100K to rich black and the transparency disappeared in print. Or if I change the transparency blend space to RGB and the problem went away. I created the document as a print document and used all CMYK colors, why do I have to change the transparency blend space to RGB?  I never noticed I have to do that before. Is there something wrong with my InDesign setting? Please help, thanks!

This should be straightforward, but I’m just learning InDesign. I want to put the chapter name in the running foot. The chapter name is on a style. How do I do that? Also, as a matter of design, do you have any recommendations on which side of the page to put the title or the page #? I’ll probably do it mirror image for left and right pages. 

Select the range from the first line to the “Only by” line (blue), run the script, and the gap between the bottom text and the bottom of the text box will be essentially the same as before.However, when you select the range from the first line to the “help efforts” line (orange) and run the script, the gap between the bottom text and the bottom of the text box becomes noticeably larger.Where does this discrepancy come from, and how can it be avoided? Even if you change `selLinesNum` to `selLinesNum-1`, the same problem will occur. The goal is to add (or remove) one row at a time.Does the formula look wrong?var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];var zp = app.activeDocument.zeroPoint;app.activeDocument.zeroPoint = [0, 0];var selLinesNum = item.lines.length;// Get the text frame heightvar tsf = item.parentTextFrames;var sb = tsf[0].visibleBounds;var boxH = sb[2] - sb[1];// Get current font size and line spacingvar fontSize = item.pointSize;var ole = item.leading;// Desired n

After the 20.3.1 update, exporting a file to a PDF from InDesign is painful. Ridiculously slow even when the document is fairly light weight, everything is linked properly etc...never mind when it's a larger, multipage document. It is so incredibly frustrating.    So far, I have tried: Restarting multiple times just to make sure it wasn't just these few documents that had the issue Trashing the preferences twice now Complete reinstall Turning off the live pre flight Turning off the GPU   None have worked.    I am using Extensis Connect as a font manager, mostly because I have yet to find an alternative where the auto activation works as well as theirs does. If I found something else, I'd probably switch as it can be laggy sometime but I've used it in conjunction with InDesign for years and years and have NEVER had an issue like this before.    Is anyone else having this issue? If so and you resolved it, how? Taking any and all suggestions. I've never

A curious symbol has appeared at the bottom left of a placed image. I’ve never seen it before. It’s not part of the image. What is it? I replaced the image but it’s still there. It disappears if I remove the image. It does not show up if I open the image in Photoshop. 

I know how to change the units of measurement. Edit, Preferences and then I can change picas to inches or whatever. In the old CC 6, this would become the default. Now, in the online InDesign, every single new document I have to change the preferences from picas to inches. Is there a way to permanently change this? It's annoying as heck!

Today I wanted to work on my Honours project. I am currently making a brand style-guide booklet.I have been using the Adobe Creative Cloud services for years, mainly through my university. This morning when I tried working on my project in InDesign, a bunch of the fonts that I use came up as missing. I thought that it must’ve been a glitch, restarted InDesign. Same problem. Checked my illustrator files that are in the InDesign document. Same problem. I have been using these fonts for ages, never had a problem. I contacted my university and they said that they haven’t revoked any access of any application. I then contacted Adobe who said that apparently, Creative Cloud for Enterprise doesn’t include Adobe Fonts as well as other applications, despite the fact, I was using these exact fonts and services yesterday, the day before, and so on without any problems of the sort. I’d like to know what the heck is going on here. One day I have access to everything, the next, GONE.I’ve done the ba

All the help files and forums say you can anchor an image within a text block eg at the end of a paragraph, and that graphic will read in that order in an accessible PDF (when viewing under the ORDER/Z in the PDF). But I can't get it to order it that way at all – it always drops it to the last reading order on the page no matter where the graphic is anchored to in the text (see screenshot). I just can't figure this out.I've attached the files in case that helps.  

Hello,  This is my 2nd day this week posting a very frustrating bug on InDesign and I consider this one far worse. In trying to figure out a bug with workspaces on Monday, I exported my current settings, reset InDesign preferences, and imported my settings back in.  I did not check the settings. I should have. The generate AI Alt-text box had been rechecked, and I had NEVER manually done that. I have recreated this issue more than 5+ in a row by: Resetting my InDesign preferences to the default and restarting. Reopening InDesign, checking off both Generative AI boxes in preferences Export those settings, reset preferences back to default on reset, and reopen InDesign When you reopen InDesign and import your preferences (they should be default with both Gen-AI boxes UNCHECKED), the “Auto-generate Alt Text when placing images” WILL BE TURNED ON EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL.I have a screen recording of this process working and showing that the boxes WILL check themselves upon importing setting

Hello. When I place jpegs into frames grey lines appear over half the box. I have the highest quality view setting on. Has anyone experienced this before?        <Title renamed by MOD>

I’ve just discovered a bug in which the following workflow causes an error:-Create a layered Illustrator file-Place in InDesign-Select Object Layer Options and change layer visibility-Copy placed file-Paste on next page (file will appear low-res -Adjust Object Layer OptionsI then get the following message: I haven’t iterated through this to try to figure out other errors or a workaround.

I needed to open an Acrobat PDF in InDesign- THEY ARE BOTH ADOBE PRODUCTS.  The fact that it's 2024 and InDesign cannot open an Acrobat file is bad enough.  But what's worse is that they're bragging about a "new Beta feature" that "converts PDFs to InDesign".  But get this: only if the PDF was created in InDesign.It would be comical if it were so mind-numbingly indicative of the total lack of effort that Adobe puts forth these days.  There's "resting on your laurels" and then there's this.  

I’m trying to insert a textframe into a tables cell: for (var r = 0; r<table.rows.length; ++r) { var cell = table.rows[r].cells[0]; cell.contents = ""; cell.cellType = CellTypeEnum.TEXT_TYPE_CELL; var myFrame = cell.textFrames.add(); myFrame.geometricBounds = [0, 0, 20, 40]; myFrame.contents = "!"; };This leads to the error that a “graphic cell cannot contain a textframe” (Error 11310). But I explicitly set it to CellTypeEnum.TEXT_TYPE_CELL, right?How does this work?

I've just been trying the InCopy on the web (Beta). I sent an invite to someone and assigned them a text box as a collaborator to test amending the copy. However, they are saying it comes up with "You don't have access to this file". They have made an account with the same email address and are using Google Chrome. Does anyone know why it is saying they don't have access and what I can try to fix it?

Hanging puctuation in InDesighn does not work very well. Sorry to say, Quark XPress is far superior. Maybe I do something wrong – I do it by the book/manual – and it does not look good. Any tips from professionals?Egil Haraldsen