InDesign

My mind is doing a 360 to even try to explain what I want to do, but I will try:I am responsible for making a giant retail catalogue and prices range from 0.⁰⁰ to 0000.⁰⁰  I wish to automate a rule with GREP where it will automatically fill in the decimal after x or y amount of digits. I want to be able to automatically fill in the decimal after 1 or 4 digits, based on the data. so if the price is 34.29. I want GREP styling to see that this spefific speficially has 2 main digits ( 34 ) and should then jump to decimal and fill it (29 ). for a longer price, lets say 2432.28, I want GREP to notice the 4 main digits and then jump to decimals.In short, I am trying to make GREP style see the difference in main digits and decimals and decide what to do accordingly.is this possible at all? thank you very much! 

I have obtained the IControlView of the panel or dialog, and then called the MoveTo function, but it doesn't change the window's position. For the panel, I obtained the IWidgetParent interface through IControlView, and then got the IWindow interface by calling:InterfacePtr<IWidgetParent> myParent(panelControw, UseDefaultIID()); InterfacePtr<IWindow> iWindow((IWindow*)myParent->QueryParentFor(IWindow::kDefaultIID));For dialogs, I created a new dialog using:IDialog* dialog = dialogMgr->CreateNewDialog(dialogSpec, IDialog::kMovableModal); Then I got the IWindow interface through:InterfacePtr<IWindow> iWindow(dialog, UseDefaultIID());Afterwards, I called the SetPosition function of the IWindow interface, but still couldn’t change the window's position. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any guidance or advice from more experienced developers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Does anyone know about Hindi characters in InDesign? We're preparing a children's book with different languages. One page is dedicated to Hindi. We use some words in this language. But every time we copy the Hindi words to InDesign the characters change. Native speakers say that it looks incorrect then. YouTube videos on this matter don't help. So we're trying to have these words: नमस्तेभौ भौकुत्ताBut in InDesign we get something else as you can see on the image.Can anyone help?

Hi,I searched the community and didn't see anything for my specific question. I inherited a file- a large book with several dozen images. Most of the images (I assumed all) are linked. I output the file to PDF and received no warnings. Preflight passed. I found out later that an image was very low res. I went back to verify and found that the image was not in the links panel and, when selected, gives no info. As mentioned, it also gave no warnings on output nor in the preflight report- in essence, it didn't exist at all to ID. I believe this image was copy/pasted into the doc after reading some of the discussions. I now worry that there are several of these images throughout the document. So here is my question- Is there a way to find out how many or which images are embedded or pasted in without having to go through and select each image and verify the link? I haven't come across embedded images in a while. It used to be that any embedded graphic/image would show as such in the links

I am wondering if a file is about 100 pages --text based but with some vector graphics (think basic vector shapes mostly, icons, etc. and all embeded in the file) if it's a recipe for disaster? I can divide the file I guess and do a indd book situation---though I'm anxious to-- but wondering if there are no linked images if there is a point? Are vector shapes going to clogg the file dramtically?  File is 14MB at the moment which seems weirdly large though. I have not added the vector data visualiazions yet--except a few here and there. 

I'm very new to scripting and was using ChatGPT to work through a way to expand the pasteboard size of the current openend document. I found a way to make a script expand the slug area, but that isn't what I needed. Here's the final message I received. InDesign scripting API doesn't give direct access to pasteboardPreferences through the Spread object. Even though pasteboardMargins is editable in the InDesign UI (in Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard), it's unfortunately not exposed through scripting on a per-spread or global level. I just wanted to check if anyone knows that this is true, so I can either stop my quest or keep trying. Thanks!

Exporting document with page size 8.625x11.25" and 0.125" bleed all round, to pdf.Acrobat inspector shows page 8.88x11.5.  Is this because Acrobat includes the bleed in it's reported page size?

Tengo una duda: Es posible que el contenido publicado con una licencia y desde una consola de empresa se pueda migrar o ceder a otra licencia que corresponda a otra empresa/consola?

Hello,I'm using a ID book template that had some pre-designed pages using paragraph styles.The problem I'm having is when I create any new text boxes - then add copy/pasted text or fill text - and apply the same paragraph styles the text disappears. The weird this is if I manually type in InDesign the paragraph styles applies without issues. Has any experienced this problem too - what's the solution? Thanks for your time in advance,Nicole

Hi,I just bought a new MacBook Pro which is macOS Sequaia ver. 15.4. I need to use the older versions of Indesign which are Indesign 2020 version 15.1.4 and 2021 version 16.4. However, the Creative Cloud only has latest versions. Anyway I can find the installers? Minion Thanks. Wes

I have tried multiple different methods and none of which are working- please help! I am having issues changing colors of my transparent images. Everytime I go to Window>Color it adds the color to the background rather than the image itself. I feel like I have exhausted my options and really am not sure what else I can do. I am fairly new to InDesign so I'm hoping its just something I am overlooking, but I'm beginning to doubt its even possible to change transparent image colors. Please help! I am trying to match this image to our brand colors.

For a while now footnotes have been disappearing from my documents--just the actual footnote, not the reference. When enough disappear that text reflows I receive the "Overset Text" error, but recently one disappeared and text should have reflown but did not, and I received no error warning. This was only caught by chance before sending it to the printer.  I have seen others on forums struggling with issues like this, but there are never any answers, from Adobe or from other clever typesetters. This is a very concerning problem. Please let me know if there's any way to at least make sure I am notified if footnotes disappear!

Test File is here   It seems to be a bad idea to collect examples of this, because you see that it's not normal, but it might be normal on a different computer. OTF - TTF font problem  Font Problem (OTF)  Font missing; TT OTP font-  So haven't been able to find a fundamental solution. I've seen a couple of posters on the web discussing it, and ultimately nothing. There is no solution.   Some sham-missing words can be found and replaced, some are stubborn and cannot be replaced.   I originally thought it was the ID fonts pointing (in C:\window\Fonts also Document fonts) that was messed up, but the fact that it was only a specific few fonts that were having problems suggests that the fonts themselves were the problem. Let's all get together, look around, and see if changing the ID settings, or modifying the font parameters, can fix it.   After you restart your ID, maybe some of it is normal again.Some people have been prompted to clear the font cache,

I have same problem, after reading all replies. i just closed all chrome browers. BINGO. it works

Hi All, first post here. Hope someone can help. Re. Mac OS M1 Max - Sonoma 14.7.5 – InDesign 20.2 I have an Indesign book comprising 10 individual indesign files. All links in all the files are good. When exporting each individual indesign file by themselves, the resultant PDFs are all good with no poor quality images. However, when exporting the same files using the "Export book to PDF" command from Indesign's book palette, I get the warning: "Some files/URL(s) are not accessible..." [attached] and some of images on the resultant PDF are poor quality as if not linked. Having done some troubleshooting, I've made sure that my system settings allow full disk access for all abobe software, especially Indesign. The "Files and Folders" setting clearly shows that access to my iCloud drive, in which the project files sit, is allowed.  To elimate any concerns with iCloud, I have packaged the same book to my local drive (outside of any cloud), and tested the "Export boo

Hi InDesign 2024 version We are creating Accessible PDF and for reading order we used Article option in InDesign. We have used Anchor object  and while creating accessible PDF the content sides and angles not coming in tag. I attached InDesign file and output PDF for your reference. While selecting the root document that content is not selecting.  

Dear Adobe Team,As Persian speakers, we face significant challenges when using Adobe software due to the lack of a dedicated Persian language engine, which is currently intertwined with Arabic language support. While Persian and Arabic share some similarities, they have distinct differences in typography, punctuation, and text behavior, which causes issues in Adobe's applications like After Effects, Illustrator, and InDesign.The current Arabic engine does not fully accommodate Persian text rendering and typographic nuances, leading to errors and inconsistencies, especially in Right-to-Left (RTL) scripts. We, the Persian-speaking users, represent a considerable user base worldwide, and we believe that introducing a separate, dedicated Persian language engine would vastly improve the usability and efficiency of Adobe products for our community.We kindly request that Adobe consider the development of an independent Persian language engine, separate from the Arabic one, to enhance the expe

Hi everyone, Hope you're having a great day. I'm running into a strange issue with Adobe InDesign. Every time I open a file, all keyboard shortcuts stop working. I can't use basic commands like Save (Ctrl+S), Copy (Ctrl+C), or even Close (Ctrl+W). The only shortcut that seems to respond is Alt+W, which opens the menu bar. However, once I manually interact with the interface—like zooming in/out using the mouse or adjusting something like opacity in the control panel—the shortcuts suddenly start working normally again. So far, I’ve tried clearing preferences and cache using Ctrl + Alt + Shift on startup, but it didn’t solve the problem. I haven’t reinstalled InDesign yet. It's becoming quite frustrating to deal with this every time I open a file. Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance.

For some days I get this Error message regular (several times per day). I could not really reproduce it. Very annoying. MacOS, InDesign, all newest versions. 

Well, I have another mystery. When exporting my documents to Epub Reflowable, some of my footnote numbers in the endnotes aren't superscripted, and it looks very messy. I noticed that the these footnotes numbers looked like Oldstyle for some reason, so I restyled the "Superscript" Character Style's OpenType Features as Proportional Lining and removed all the other OpenType options. I've tried everything else I can think of but to no avail.I've attached the Epub file, the InD file, and screenshots of one of the too-big footnotes plus the Character Style OpenType Features and Basic Character.Thanks!Susan

I am unable to reach my first three dropdown menus in InDesign. For example, when I click on "File" the drop down menu shows, but as soon as I move the cursor it opens another menu. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I thought it had something to do with my computer but tech department at my work told med to bug report it to Adobe.This is when I click to open the menu, with the cursor still at the menu barThis is how it looks when I move the cursor down a bit and another menu opensSo, does anyone know why this happens? Any solutions? Is this something I need to bug report?Best,Julia

I'm having a problem that I found several previous posts about, but none of them solve my problem. Three chapters are missing from my TOC (Abstract, Intro, and Chapter 1), and I can't figure it out. Here's what I've done after reading the posts:1. Checked the paragraph styles, which are all correct. I synchronized the book using a chapter that is included in the TOC just to make sure2. Checked that the text in the naughty chapters aren't on hidden layers and selected "include text on hidden layers" just to be extra thorough3. I have no style groupings in this book, so that's not the problem Attached are screenshots of my TOC creation box and the test TOC, plus a shot of the book file with the missing chapter highlighted.I'm happy to share the TOC file and one naughty and one nice chapter.Thanks for any help!Susan

When using Adobe PDF [Press Quality] for my InDesign CS6 file, the display format gets changed(see the InDesign and Acrobat pictures and also the Edit > Preferences > Display Performance settings below)

I am going to be traveling for a week or two.I have a laptop that I am bringing with me.All my InDesign files are on my main computer.I want to be able to work on my book while I am traveling on my laptop. I know I can use the packaging feature in InDesign and then I can work on my book while traveling using the package that I created. However, I want to leave all my files where they are on my original computer because I have a method to where they are each located. I know I could create the exact same directories and files on the laptop that are on my main computer and that would work, but that seems like a lot of work to do that. If I work on my book with the packaging that I create, all the edits will be done in the package directory that I created.I can’t really do a one-on-one compare when I get back because the packing will change everything once I put into a package. Does anyone have any advice of how I could work on my laptop while I am traveling and st

What font size should I use for A4 brochure?1. font size for header2. sub header3. body4. captionsThanks