InDesign

I am running InDesign CC v17.4.  Drop-down menus are NOT working. I can sometimes get them to work by both right and left clicking - but any menu item with a sub-menu (spell check for example) will not work. PLEASE HELP! This has been happening for some time and is unacceptable! Tried looking for .plist files to delete, but do not see any for InDesign. 

Over the past few days I've been looking into methods to either set up, generate or manage restaurant menus variably. One of my clients is a hospitality group that owns a few different restaurants, most of which I designed the menus for. However they often simultaneously update their menus and prices for all locations which results in quite a laborious proces that leaves a lot of room for human error. This because theres multiple variants of the same menu in use at different shapes and sizes. (For instance within the restaurant, outdoors on the wall, in front of the restaurant in a display, some have menu's behind the counters etc.) Which makes it quite easy to miss a value or some textual tweak. What I would ideally like to do is hand the restaurant managers an excel sheet that follows a specific format and based off of this generate the individual menus or change details where need be. (for instance containing: menu item, title, type, price, description, etc.) I've bee

I suffer from Adobe InDesign closing suddenly several times, whether when I use the writing features such as bolding the font or inserting text on the next page using the plus sign, or the page freezes and the program closes. Please fix this recurring problem, noting that I have contacted you several times.

Hi,nach meinem Problem mit Photoshop/ Adobe Stock, spinnt jetzt auch indesign rum.Die Schrift ist nach wie vor noch aktiviert (siehe Screenshot), wird aber innerhalb des Dokuments nicht mehr erkannt (siehe ebenfalls Screenshot).Ich bin echt ratlos und kann so auch nicht arbeiten. Vielleicht kann mir ja jemand weiterhelfen. Vielen Dank und viele GrüßeFenja

The new version of InDesign has a terrible bug: when importing a CSV with data merge, it doesn’t import the fields correctly (duplicates images, shifts rows and columns, copies the same cells across entire pages). Every day there’s a new issue with a program we pay a lot of money for, unbelievable...

i am wondering if there is way to increase the font size preview for adding bullet icons. currently, it is so small it's hardly recognizable. using the side scroll is also jumpy and finger scrolling in this panel isn't recognized.

Regular expressions stored in the ID Finder Panel are stored in “Find-Change Queries\GREP” by default.However, occasionally it will be stored in the "Find-Change Queries\Text" directory, under what circumstances will the result be different.It would be great if regular can call "folder shortcut".As far as I know, the script window supports folder shortcuts.

Why when using a paragrph style and I click on the space bar, does it go to the next line instead of just spacing??

Voy a imprimir unas tarjetas de presentación por ambas caras y son 3 cambios, es decir, tarjetas para 3 personas impresas frente y vuelta. ¿Cómo debo de configurar el archivo ( tanto al diseñarlo como al exportarlo ) para que al exportarlo se creen 3 pdf separados, cada uno con frente y vuelta de cada tarjeta? Actualmente el archivo está como muestran estas imágenes: Gracias.   

There is a default spacing between the top of the text box (blue line) and the start of the text. How do I set my preferences so the top of the first line of text touches the blue line? This is super maddening when try to center text vertically. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

How can I get my type on path options be part of the paragraph or character style?

This has been happening for about 6 months now. In the CC Libraries pane, when I try to drag anything into the bin icon at the bottom, the whole inside area of the pane moves/shuffles around (like dragging the scroll bars on a web page that isn't responsive, for example).    This results in me not being able to drag and drop anything into the bin, as the bin icon will always shuffle away from the mouse cursor.   It's bin annoying.                                        <Title renamed by MOD>      

Hi everyone, Hoping someone can help out. I have a document with about 200 references (footnotes). I need to swap the position of the full stop (or period) so that it appear after the footnote. For example, the current layout is:Sentence.Footnote(Or with numbers: Sentence.12)And I need:SentenceFootnote.(Sentence12.) Is there a way to use find and replace to swap these around? I can easily find the instances by using .^Fbut I don't know enough to code the swap. I don't fancy manually searching through 200 references to fix them all! Any help would be very much appreciated.ThanksAndy

I've created a multi-section 350-page book in InDesign. One section has mutliple sub-sections in it, and the running header (set up as a text variable on a parent page) is giving me problems on one single page. I use the section heading paragraph style to populate the text of the running header, and I've set up a character style called running header so that I can choose how much of the section heading text to include in the running header. My problem is that in this one subsection, "Resumes", page one's running header simply says "Resume", but all other pages correctly have the running header of "Resumes". I've checked that all letters of "Resumes" are correctly styled. I'm baffled. Any suggestions? Thank you!

Hi, Dear Friends! I think this question has been addressed before, but I don't recall the final verdict. Is there a way to have a certain PAR style cause the first word of that paragraph to have a certain character style? Or as a workaround to cause ID to format the first word of all, or some, paragraphs with a certain character style. Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

Buenas, acabo de descargar creative cloud de escritorio, estoy probando InDesign versión 18.3, por 7 días, pero cuando quiero exportar en publish online me sale Error # 102. No se puede conectar con el servidor. Compruebe su conexión a internet.Tengo una conexión a internet que es muy rápida y no sé porque me sale ese mensaje de error.Por otro lado, estoy tratando de enviar este error a Adobe InDesign: Errores, pero no se puede enviar, solo me sale un mensaje que dice: Lo sentimos, no hemos podido enviar tu solicitud.

I am hoping someone can help me with a lost InDesign file. I shared a design file for review, but I have since lost the original file when my computer and backup drives were stolen. The link for review only points to the shared version of the file, which is stored in the cloud. Is there a way to recover that file in inDesign or at least download a pdf version of it?

Hi all, I need to start my book so page 1 isn't the first single page but the second page. Please can someone explain how this is done? Or is there a way of just deleting the first single page and starting with a spread? Thank you! 

I'm trying to export my work in indesign to a pdf and the colors of the images always change. The images were made in photshop and are linked to the file, the shape (that looks like a star) was made in illustrator and it didn't chage colors... The first picture below is part of the work in indesign and the second is part of the export pdf. When exported to jpg and epub the colors stay the same. I need my work on pdf, can anybody help me?

So I already have a script that selects all the images in a document and resizes them (see below) which I use all the time. Was wondering if there were some lines I could add to the script (or a seperate script) that would align all the images to the center (both horizontially and vertically) of their respective pages. I'm working with 300-page documents containing off-center images so an automated centering script would save me a lot of manual work. Current script for selecting/resizing all images:var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var graphlength = myDoc.allGraphics.length; for(a=0; a<graphlength; a++) { myDoc.allGraphics[a].absoluteHorizontalScale = 113; myDoc.allGraphics[a].absoluteVerticalScale = 113; } 

Using Data merge, you can merge a data source file (CSV or TXT) to create multiple versions of an InDesign document. It is possible that you encounter error messages in this process. See the table below for the common error messages associated with data merge and how to troubleshoot them.    Error Message  Reason  Solution  The data source cannot be opened.  When the source file (exported from Microsoft Excel as a CSV or TXT file) is still open in the application.   Close the Microsoft Excel document and try again.  The selected data source has one or more empty field names.  One or more field name in the header row is missing. These include blank columns as well which must have a field name.  Check the source file for missing field names.  Remove any blank columns.  The data source file you selected either has no record

Hi, I was given a manual to be updated but it is in PDF (They dont have the original file) So I wonder how can I import the content to Indesign and work from there.There are some plugins I can use but they charge 100 dollarsAny Ideas instead of paying  100 dollars-plugin?

Please see the attached video for a visual representation of what's happening. I've been using ID since the beta version way back in '99. But in one of the recent updates text wrap suddenly acting bizzare for me. Maybe I bumped a dumb setting somewhere? When I turn on text wrap for an image frame, it seems the wrap is applied to the content inside the image frame and not the actual frame - even when I specifically select the frame. That's fine, except when the content inside the frame doesn't entirely fill the frame (again, check the vid to see why this sux). My workaround is that I have to select the frame contents (SHIFT+ESC), cut it (CTRL+X), then set the text wrap settings to the empty frame... Then paste my image back into the box with "Paste into" (CTRL+ALT+V) so it's exactly where it was before I cut it. This doesn't seem normal. Just dumb and cumbersome (Dumbersome?). Is it a bug? Or a weird setting?

For aligning one or two points, the best way is probably to enter coordinate values, but can it be a bit slow sometimes.Wouldn't it be cool to have this feature in the alignment panel.

Does anyone have a script to override and remove master page items on the pasteboard?