InDesign

All of the InDesign work I do requires both English and Japanese in the same document. To access the Japanese text features, paragraph settings, and print options, I need to install the Japanese version of InDesign. However, I work much more efficiently using the English interface.In the past, I was able to install the Japanese version first, then uninstall it and reinstall the English version. This left the Japanese features and settings available while allowing me to use the English interface. Unfortunately, this workaround no longer seems to work with the current versions of InDesign.Is there a new method for achieving the same result?I'm currently using Windows, but I'll be switching to macOS next month. If there's a macOS solution, I'd be happy to hear about that as well.

Blijkbaar heb ik één keer een telefoonnummer kunnen vinden voor hulp. Toen hebben ze mijn PC even overgenomen, en van alles verwijderd, waarna ik één keertje bij mijn account kon komen. Blijkbaar kan het allemaal niet werken met een PC waarop ook een VPN is geinstalleerd, ook al gebruik je die niet. Ik kan toch niet de enige zijn die een VPN-programma op de computer heeft staan, en met Indesign wil werken (zonder VPN, dus). Ik kan niet eens mijn abonnement beëindigen, omdat ik nergens bij kan komen. Hoe bereik ik dat onbereikbare bastion van Adobe???????

Hi everyone,I'm having trouble opening an InDesign document and keep getting the loading circle (‘the wheel of doom’) for an extended period, with the file never opening.So far, I have:Updated InDesign to the latest version (v21.5) Restarted my MacBook Tried re-opening the file directly from OneDrive Downloaded a fresh copy to my desktop Tried opening the backup files, but they are experiencing the same issueUnfortunately, none of these steps have resolved the problem 😣I'd really appreciate any advice or suggestions on what else I could try. The project deadline is at the end of this month, and I'm becoming increasingly worried that I may have lost months of work!!Thank you in advance for any help! 😊

I want to find all instances of the glyph (with unicode value \x{f067}) which appears before and after glyphs that have a red character style.I want to apply a character style to it

The problem - the debugger starts but breakpoints aren’t being triggered.  More so - the debugger panel doesn’t launch when debugging starts.   After hours of searching - the problem was indesign was not launched with sufficient permissions to allow the bridge between it and VS Code.After confirming your launch.json and //@target and //@targetEngine are correct - make sure you launch both VS Code and the Adobe app, Indesign in this case, are run as administrator on the Windows side.

I have three things that annoy me on a daily basis.1. There are constant white flashes - I have tried changing GRU performance.2. The blue circle that runs at the top and shows the document is saving keeps on running (see attached illustration).3. When I have to import an image into an InDesign document I can no longer switch between alphabetical order and last modified. Can anyone help with some of these problems?  

No permite que se actualice dropbox por la existencia de archivos temprarios de indesign. Los pase a otro carpeta donde no se sincronizan pero toma mucha memoria y no puedo trabajar. Es necesario si o si usar cloud? Muchas gracias

One of my coworkers set up an Indesign table for the area circled in red. I am unfamiliar with Indesign’s table feature, and I need to delete the row highlighted in black. Would someone explain how to do this function? Also, how would I add a row if needed? Thanks! 

I would like to be able to calculate row- and column totals automatically within InDesign if this is possible.One one page of a large/complex document I have one table formatted exactly the way I want it to look, with numerical values that update regularly. There are column headers along the top, row headers on the left, column totals on the bottom, row totals on the right, and the grand totals in the bottom-right cell. All the cells inside the table contain only numbers or no data. The row totals on the right also require footnote references (*1, etc) that are detailed in text below the table.For the last 25 years I’ve just been updating the numbers manually and using a calculator, but I have made mistakes on occasion. I’d rather not mess with Excel and importing/linking/etc; just a very simply way to add top-to bottom and left-to-right. Is it possible to do this? Please and thanks. Here is the table.  

Presumably yet another bug but great news we now have more AI no one asked for.Examples: MaximiseAppetising Are now flagged as spelt wrong with American options offered. Language is set to UK, language on computer is set to UK, this literally happened today with your wonderful new update. 

I have experienced this error (0xc0000142) when attempting to open InDesign and illustrator several times over the course of a few months now. There is a fix that I found through the Adobe forums that involves repairing the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable program files and it works temporarily, but after a few weeks the problem reappears. I have tried installing several versions of both programs to see if it is just affecting a specific version, but it does not appear to make a difference.Any help toward a permanent fix is appreciated, as I require authorization from my company’s tech support department in order to perform the fix every time this problem occurs and it is interfering with my job. Thank you below is the fix I have had to do if anyone is interested. again it works but only temporarily for me: 

Hi everyone,I am working on a rather complex JSX script for a multi-section publication. I’ve hit a wall regarding InDesign’s native footnote engine behavior, and I’m hoping someone here might know a hidden trick or undocumented DOM property.The Context: My script processes a continuous text flow. When it detects a specific paragraph style (acting as a section divider), it physically splits the TextFrame at that exact paragraph. It breaks the threading, resulting in two completely independent, unlinked Stories sitting on the same page or spread.The Problem: Even though the text is now split into two separate, unthreaded Stories, InDesign's footnote engine continues the numbering across them. If Story A ends at footnote 12, Story B (the new section) starts at footnote 13.I need the footnote numbering to restart at 1 for Story B.What I know / What I've tried: I know that doc.footnoteOptions.restartNumbering only accepts Page, Spread, or Section parameters. It completely ignores Story bou

I've been exploring more of InDesign recently, and I'm curious which features other designers rely on the most.Which feature has improved your workflow the most? Are there any hidden shortcuts or tools that more people should know about? Do you use GREP, Data Merge, Object Styles, Scripts, Variables, or another productivity feature? What's one InDesign tip you wish you had learned much earlier?I'd love to hear your favorite time-saving tricks and recommendations!

have been using InDesign pretty sure over 20+ years. before that I used Quark Xpress & recently wanted to rotate an image around a circle & remembered Quark had something called Super Step & Repeat. I’m not as fluent in Illustrator so hoping there’s a way to do that same thing as easily in InDesign as it was in Quark so many years ago. Thanks for helping me figure out how to do this task.

Pretty simple and unusual bug. I haven’t noticed a pattern yet, but I have set a custom workspace at least 5+ times in the past 2 weeks and CC Libraries and Style Packs keep getting added. I have never added those and manually removed them multiple times (and then saved that workspace.)I have deleted the workspace and made a new one, overridden it, seemingly tried everything. This is such a small thing that is driving me crazy. InDesign 21.3 on Mac Tahoe 26.2. Before telling me to update to 21.4, I will not because of the bugs breaking simple layout and selection things :)

Hi AllI used to be able to scale a text box with cmd and shift and the text would scale with the text boxNow using Indesign CC this doesn't happen.I think I need to change the settings in the Text Frame Options window.What do I need to change to scale the text with the text box.

I tried clicking the left mouse button repeatedly, but that didn’t seem to work.It seems that only double-clicking to select a word or triple-clicking to select an entire line works.However, when adjusting a specific column or page, it can also be useful to select the text in the current column or on the current page. 

I’ve designed two reflowable ePubs in the last 48 hours with same image alignment error. I design them all of the time, so it’s not me. Images are not center aligned though I’ve selected align center layout and even manually added object export custom alignment center to the image with same result of left alignment. Please advise. Thank you.

InDesign was working fine last night. This morning, when I tried to export a PDF, it became unresponsive. I Forced Quit and tried again. After this second try, after it loads, I get only a grey screen and am unable to even access preferences. On top of that, it seems to be using significant energy. I tried uninstalling and installing other versions, to no avail. 

I have currently selected multiple images, and I want to use a script to generate captions. After generating static captions, automatically select the captions as the operating objects.In the future, I will make other adjustments to the captions.  

I have been trying to generate styles using scripts for a long time.Suddenly realizing that this is a thankless task.Perhaps importing styles can be easily implemented. If my script is located at: ../scripts/myScript/aa.jsxMy style file can be found at: ./scripts/styles/myStyle.inddIs there a script that can import all style structures (including group names) with one click?One click import of all, no need to select.

I used InDesign professionally, every day of my life, from v.1 through 2014. I've gotten out of design and print production, but have kept an old copy for random use and access to my old files. Just last month I upgraded to an Apple Silicon Mac, and so got the latest Creative Cloud apps.    I'm finding the current InDesign SUPER annoying to use. When I try to grab certain elements, particularly picture boxes, it seems to be completely random if the cursor grabs the frame or the content. I'm always using the top arrow (item selection tool). This used to be enough to guarantee that I'd grab the whole item and not the enclosed image. But no longer.    Is there a setting that can restore the old (logical) behavior? Has Adobe's UX team, in its cruel efficiency at tormenting its users, added an arbitrary step here? Please help.    <Title renamed by moderator>

Find missing glyph.InDesign crashes when handling documents containing tables.It doesn't crash if you set it to the paragraph and cell level.Documents containing overset text also crash.Is this an InDesign bug?app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = -2;alert(app.activeDocument.findGlyph()[0].contents); 

Since updating to the 2026 version, InDesign has been working slower and slower for me, primarily on my iMac. Launching the app takes almost two minutes, the spinning wheel appears roughly every 30 seconds and lasts for up to a minute, and it’s become impossible to. I’ve restarted, updated, and cleared my iMac, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and nothing seems to help. Is there something I’m missing?

Is it possible to create dynamic QR codes? I know you can create static QR codes but I would like it to change midway