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I’ve been working on medium sized branded documents (20-30) pages and every time, EVERY TIME, I open indesign I have to troubleshoot the activated Adobe fonts. Every time I open the document - the font’s aren’t activated, so I have to spend sometimes 30 minutes trying to activate them by restarting both Indesgn and Adobe CC. I find this system and process ridiculously clunky and sub-par to the price users pay for CC. Why is this happening and what is the fix? 

Tengo un archivo de indesing en la nube el cual no me deja descargar.- Me tira error.-Cuando quiero abrirlo en el programa lo abre y luego lo cierra.- Necesito recuperarlo porque es un archivo en el cual tengo que seguir trabajando![Moved to InDesign by a moderator］

My InDesign hangs and shows a spinning cursor whenever I edit the formatting of a paragraph; it essentially freezes and just keeps spinning. I am using the latest version. This issue only started occurring after I updated to the new version.

I’m looking for a way to read the value app.findColorPreferences.findWhat, and find out what swatch it’s currently looking for. It gives the error 30615 The property is not applicable in the current state.I am able to set it:app.findColorPreferences.findWhat = app.activeDocument.swatches.item("SWATCH_NAME")Is there a way to read what swatch is currently selected in the dialog, similar to findGrepPreferences and findTextPreferences?

I’ve tried using the “open a PDF in InDesign” feature, but every time it puts each page into a separate alternative layout. This makes opening multi-page PDFs kind of worthless. Is there a fix for this?

It's not working letting me page number automatically or do I manually page number for Adobe InDesign I put the master pages for my imported PDF this is a PDF I made in Adobe Acrobat and I took the page numbers off cuz I'm trying to give it to you for books it's single pages. 

I recently expanded a font family i use regularly. At first the regular was missing, and then when reinstalled it now shows up as blank. Unfortunately everywhere it used to appear is now just a blank text box. I’ve also attempted to upload it to Adobe Fonts, and install it as a cloud font and nothing has worked.  I use the font on a day to day for very important material, so i cannot have random blank spaces

I'm having a lot of trouble with InDesign over the past couple of weeks. I have two subscriptions - one for work and one personal, using two different machines. Both are having the same issues. InDesign works for the first five minutes, then lags, tools and functions stop working - can't even undo. Freezes or crashes after that. Using Windows 11, have reinstalled, on latest version. Nothing works. Extremely frustrating and causing significant delays in being able to do my job.

Just experimenting a bit & wondering how to accomplish this, if possible, while minimizing manually editing each time. I haven’t done a lot of tricky TOCs, but haven’t been able to figure this one out yet. Example below… Even better would be if the story title could have its own formatting automatically as well.The issue is that what’s shown here as “Author Name” is a style that has a hard return after it in the body. I assume nested styles may be the answer, so I’ll have to read up on that a bit. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hi everyone,After updating my MacBook M3 Pro to macOS Tahoe, Adobe InDesign has become completely unusable.I’ve tried both the newest InDesign update and an older version, but the issue persists with both.Documents open extremely slowly, most times if it’s a bigger file it doesn’t open at all, but once opened the file lags so much that I can’t work at all, typing, selecting objects, or moving anything is delayed or frozen. The whole program feels unresponsive.Before updating to macOS Tahoe, everything worked perfectly fine on the same machine.Has anyone else experienced this after updating to Tahoe? Is this a compatibility issue, or is there a known fix?I rely on InDesign for work, so this is quite urgent. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you!

The new feature auto generates pornographic alt text in pictures it cannot seem to identify. It does seems to work ok on real photos but all complex icons have nude people and body parts described. It seems to me instead of giving a warning that it can’t identify a content it correlaties it to pornographic content. I don’t know if there was no introduction/pop-up to this new feature or if I simply missed it, but auto generating nsfw text is not okay. Why is there no filter that stops it from doing so?   

I used copying and created paragraph style B based on A, but found that NextStyle also changed to A.At this point, I don't want to change it. I want to set it back to the same style, but I've been searching for a long time and haven't found any usable code.How to set the next style to the same style in properties?styleB.properties{}  

 This seems different from the object style, there is no Reset to base option here.The following code only copied an empty style B and did not inherit the data from A. var baseSty = app.documents[0].cellStyles.itemByName('A'); //alert(baseSty.parent); //exit(); newSty = baseSty.duplicate(); newSty.name = 'B'; newSty.basedOn = baseSty;But you commented out this line://newSty.basedOn = baseSty;Discovered that B can inherit A's data, but based on 'none' Manual operation also has the same effect.This may be the difference between manual "direct copying" and "based on new creation".I don't know why they can't have both? 

I’ve seen this problem mentioned in the InDesign Community a few times in the past, but has anyone recently had problems with Share for Review comments unmapping from their pins? 

What is the recommendation regarding the use confidential text with InDesign's Style Packs Auto Style feature?The feature works well, but I’m curious from a technical standpoint whether the AI Auto Style/Style Packs feature transmits selected text or derived representations of that text to Adobe or any subprocessor? If yes, are there encryption controls, and what are the retention periods, logging, backup handling, and deletion schedules?Also, is the text used for product improvement or model training?I don't have any evidence of this happening, but the “processing on cloud” message compelled me to do my due diligence before diving fully into using this feature.

Hallo Community, wir haben folgendes Problem. Wir haben ein Objekt und möchten die Farbe ändern, über die Farbpalette.Wir klicken das Objekt an und dann die Farbe, dann ist das Farbfeld kurz aktiviert und dann sofort nicht mehr.Wenn wir ein Objekt anklicken, versetzt es sich um ein paar Millimeter.Wenn wir einen Schriftzuauswählen und die Schrift ändern möchten, ist die andere Schrift in der Vorschau zu sehen, dann geht es aber nicht weiter.Chaces und Preferenzen haben wir schon zurückgesetzt, das hat nichts gebracht.InDesign 24, Mac Studio. Vielleicht hatte ja jemand ein ähnliches Problem.Danke    

Since updating to 21.4 there’s a strange shape over the left upper corner of the screen, rendering the X-value of the transformation panel more or less inoperable.MacMini M1, Mac OS 26.5.2  

I also tried finding the missing files and placing but not sure what folder they go in exactly. 

If I only knew:myStyleA=  app.documents[0].objectStyleGroups.itemByName(groupName).objectStyles.itemByName("A");Is it possible to directly obtain the same level 'B' path from myStyleALike this:myStyleB=myStyleA.parent.itemByname("B");Instead of rewriting it completely: myStyleB=app.documents[0].objectStyleGroups.itemByName(groupName).objectStyles.itemByName("B"); 

I'm running InDesign 2022 17.01 on a Macbook Pro 2019 OS Monterey V 12.1.  I use indesign on this computer every single day with no issues, but today, I am unable to save my projects or use undo/redo. I restarted indesign earlier to address the undo/redo problem and it worked for a while, but eventually was disabled again. At the time, I was able to save my files so I felt comfortable restarting the program. But now, both save and undo/redo are disabled. I was however able to succesfully export, which requires saving. Very strange.  other things that may or may not be related:- Text boxes in one of my projects are creating duplicate edges and I have to double click them for the text to readjust inside the new parameters. Usually the text adjusts while I drag the box. This is only happening on one of my projects open, while the other is normal. - Zooming with my fingers on my trackpad is randomly disabling and I have to relaunch the program to fix it. Zoom on tr

Hi, It would be extremely helpful if one could set a font not only to metric and optical settings but also to AI. An AI that optimally balances character spacing would be very helpful, for example, in logo lettering. Best,C

Hi everyone.​Is there no corresponding code for the Reset to Base option?There is no information in the script manual, and only I have asked about the relevant content in the forum.For example, the basic style is A, but after running, B is not completely based on AOriginally,  @m1b  wrote a function, but now I have found that the outer major items have been selected(inherited), but the internal values have not been inherited.Pay attention to the changes in the style of object B, which was originally based on "TrueNone".In fact, every time based on it, it needs to be reset to the bese. But the relevant code is missing for some unknown reason.var A = app.documents[0].objectStyles.itemByName('A');var B = app.documents[0].objectStyles.itemByName('B');B.basedOn = A;resetObjectStyle(B);function resetObjectStyle(style) { var baseStyle = style.basedOn; var oldName = style.name; if (!baseStyle.isValid) { return alert('Object style cannot be reset due to missing base style.');

When I go to update a review link in InDesign, I keep getting this error message "there was an error updating the artifact". After that, the link does not work for most people. I am signed in to Adobe. Everything is up-to-date.... But this issue still persists. Can Adobe please fix this issue? It's emarassing when I go to send the review link to my leaders and they just get an error message when they try opening it.   <Title renamed by moderator>

Any idea when the fix for the flyout boxes is going to be fixed? It has been months now and still not working.

Hi all. I am trying to export a PNG file that is only one line of text with an outer shadow effect. No other layers or elements. Just the text with an effect. When I first created the file I tried a drop shadow. But when I exported it, I realized it didn’t look good and I continued working on it. However now every export looks like the version with the drop shadow despite all the changes I’ve made in the software. This has never happened before.The design exports fine as any other file type (PDF looks fine). But it has to be PNG because I need a transparent background. When I add additional lines of text they show up in the PNG, but the drop shadow never goes away.I’ve restarted my computer (MAC), uninstalled InDesign, reset preferences, I’ve even recreated the entire design from scratch using a new file name and the same image shows up whenever I export a PNG. I am losing my mind, please help.