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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

Hello all. I've created an index for a 90 page document. It updates and generates a new index with no problem, but when I place the index in my document, it only goes to 'S' and there is still room in that space to be filled and shows that there is overset text. When I click on the overset text box, and place it in the next column, only the next 'S' entry appears. What the heck is happening and how do I fix this? Thanks in advance! 

This is exhausting. Let me try and be as clear as I can in describing this issue because its a nightmare. I write fantasy novels, and I am 3 books deep and still have no idea how to fix this tab issue.In my paragraph style options all my indentations are set to 0, yet my tab is still .5 inches from margin. When I try to readjust tab settings to .25 (desired setting) it moves the entire margin over. When I try to adjust the First Line Indentation it moves the entire margin over. I went into bullet options and click on the double arrow symbol and that indentation setting seemed to actually work on my First Line Indentations but I cant save the change. The most basic question really is why when I press tab it repeats or is .5', and why is it so so so hard to change? And is there a way to save my bullet option tab dimension?Thank you for help, ahead of time. I cant wait to get back to actually writing and not have to worry about this.

Good afternoon InDesign support community, so basically Im designing an interactive magazine about Black Cats for my college class Layout And Publishing In InDesign and one of the requirements in Paragraph Styles now 2 major things. 1.  they're easy for me execpt when I created a new paragraph style for one of the articles and it looks like this(see image 1 below) so heres the settings or preferences i put the paragraph style as (see images 2 and 3 below) and heres what the paragraph style is supposed to look like(see last image at the bottom of the images 1,2 and 3) so as you can see it doesn't look like that and when i did the exact same thing in a new document it worked perfectly.  2. When I select a piece of text like a article title or something that I want to be a heading or a subheading etc... and I click on the paragraph style that I created after I added all the text to my pages of my magazine it adds the paragraph style to all of the text instead of just t

Hello, I'm laying out a bilingual, Traditional Chinese + English document. I'm using the client's house font, Noto Sans TC. For some reason my Indesign is using half-width characters for all the punctuation in the Chinese text, which is messing up their line-breaks and layout. The font definitely includes full-width punctuation (because they have used it on other documents), and chaning to another Chinese font displays the same punctuation correctly as full-width, but not the font I need to use. Can anyone advise on what might be causing this problem? Thank you so much!

Can the script distinguish if I'm selecting an image or a text box?For example, if I select an image, it returns: you selected image 1.If I select both, it returns: You selected image 1 and textbox 1. 

Hi I'm hoping you can help with problems I’ve run into with paragraph styles for an ebook I'm designing. I've tried the usual fixes like uninstall/reinstall, restart computer, reset preferences. I have also retyped affected content on new inserted pages. And tried other documents. I have a brand new, high-powered computer (Omen gaming laptop) that meets all the InDesign specs. I didn't import or paste any of the content from Word. I'm not using soft returns (ie. I'm pressing enter not shift + enter). Additional background:  I spent over 3 hours in Adobe chat and on the phone with them a few days ago (I timed it), in one session trying to get resolved other problems I've been having that just randomly cropped up after having worked fine previously. Eg: not being able to package documents or use find/replace. I get error messages every time I export documents as PDF or epubs to the latest version of Kindle Previewer. The Adobe agents kept escalating to other engineers

Bonjour,Je connais dernièrement des problèmes au moment d'appliquer des styles de paragraphes à un texte importé : seulement une partie des paramètres du syle choisi s'applique (par ex: un retrait de paragraphe) et pas l'autre (par ex : l'italique ne s'applique pas). Le logiciel semble néanmoins considérer que le style est appliqué, car aucun surlignage n'apparaît. Je ne peux pas non plus "forcer" l'application du style avec Opt+É.Avez-vous déjà rencontré ce problème ?C'est très problématique pour mon travail d'édition de texte...Merci ! Léa

Buongiorno,scusate se scrivo in italiano ma non conosco l'inglese. Spero qualcuno mi possa aiutare.Sto impaginando un libro scolastico dove sono presenti le soluzioni agli esercizi che devono essere spostate su un livello a parte. C'è uno script che possa consentirmi di automatizzare lo spostamento di queste finestre e non doverlo fare manualmente? Nel volume sono presenti tantissimi elementi da spostare e vorrei poterlo fare in automatico, magari attraverso criteri di ricerca. Esiste uno script del genere da acquistare? Grazie mille se potete aiutarmi. 

A file I'm working on in indesign suddenly stopped working/When I try to open it, apop up window appear saying:It does not matter what I press (yes/no/cancel) It closes the progrem.*this messege apear even when I just open the progrem or a different file.How can I recover this file.Any advise will be helpful"

I tried In Design and found it a pain to place photos to create a print ad, so I used Microsoft Word instead. It is cake to resize images in MS Word - a far easier design tool to use. I guess In Design is for people who don't have MS Word. Again, I don't see any value to In Design, which comes off as a half baked app.  What am I missing? 

I'm working on a book. And I've got all the material in a Word file.And I've made 150 pages.- but now I find out that the Quotation Marks are in English Quotation Marks.But they shouldn't be inEnglish Quotation Marks.! - they should be German or Danish. - so that the apostrophes start at the bottom og the line and end at the upper - see example here:these are in English:  “Quotation Marks in English”these are in Danish:  „Quotation Marks in German or Danish” - and I want the whole book with Danish „Quotation Marks"!How can I change this with just one click?I've watched this video: https://youtu.be/VEObBdR4qgI?si=qK0rwJgNn0jaqm3b , - But it didn't help at all.Can anyone help me?Thank you very much! 

I have set all the Table and Cell strokes to Color=NONE and Weight=0 but these lines keep showing up when I export the image.  I was originally thinking of White border which is why White cell border persists but cannot get rid of it. I am trying to export the graphic create graphic for retractable banner and need to get rid of these cell outlines. I have searched every possible tech note on tables and borders and nothing works.  Help!  

Is there a reason/setting that InDesign automatically changes the kerning on ending quotation marks? Sometimes it happens and sometimes it does not, but it ends up putting the quotation marks directly over the ending punctuation.  When I set it to zero, it looks a lot less squished.Is there a way to get it to not do this? 

Hello, I am working on a set of construction documents with a table that has a ton of hyperlinks set to text anchors throughout the document. We need to be able to create new versions of the document with the file name updated. Each time I do this, it breaks the destination link because it still points to the old document name. Is there a way to set it up differently so the hyperlink is always pointing to the current document rather than a specific file name? Or am I stuck manually changing hundreds of text anchor destinations every time we rename the file? Thank you!