InDesign

I would like to be able to select two objects (usually a text frame and a shape) and align by BOTH vertical and horizontal centers with one click and/or keyboard shortcut. I letter comics which involves centering text over a speech balloon/text box repeatedly. Having to align twice each time a change is made to either one is really inefficient. This user seemed to be looking for the same exact solution as me, and posted a solution, but InDesign doesn’t recognize the script when I save the text as a JSX file. It is from several years ago so I don’t know if my attempt to use the script is incorrect, or if it’s outdated somehow. If someone knows a script that can do this, or can help me troubleshoot using the one above, that would be amazing!

After a very, VERY long list of new bugs that appear in the Adobe suite like copy and paste not working, constant crashing and instability, indesign is coming to a new low. Since the last 2 updates I can't even seem to close Indesign without using force close in the Windows task manager?! How can I get this program to close without having to resort to bashing it with the Windows banhammer every single time.Running the latest version of CC and indesign, no background tasks active and  everything works except every single native option to close the program!And with a 14th gen i7, 16GB CPU and 64GB DDR5 it's not a performance issue.Strangly when using the free Affinity tools there are none of the horrible and inexcusable bugs that a billion dollar company can't seem to fix.

Hello, recently I bought brand new Asus ProArt laptop and when I tried to use Indesign app it was unusable. the scrolling speed with trackpad is EXTREAMELY FAST both horizontally and vertically. in the same amount of movementwith trackpad on other Adobe apps i move so slightly, while on indesign i skip FULL PAGES.Even when I tried to use external mouse it was too sensitive compared to sensitivity on Illustrator, both on 100% view ; not in the same insane speed while using the trackpad, but still brutally fastIn the Now, before you suggest me for a solution let me tell you what I already did:- I tried closing the app and reopen it- I tried restarting my computer- I checked for updates for my Indesign app; I have the last version- I checked for updates for my Windows version and mouse drivers- I tried reinstalling Indesign- I tried to downgrade all the available versions of Indesign on creative cloud app In the attached video I demonstrate the problem, and compare the scro

InDesign 21.6 Bug: When place a (Interactive-) PDF in a InDesign document, transparencies are wrong visible, when View → Display Performance → High Quality

I have created a small magazine in InDesign and am ready to export it to a PDF for the printer. When I export it using the Adobe PDF Presets High Quality Print a random sentence comes out underlined. I have checked the text in InDesign multiple times and there’s no extra formatting on it so I’m not sure why this is happening.This is the text inside InDesignThis is from the PDFI have played around with all types of different settings and it always exports the same. Anyone ever have an issue like this?

I am working on a large book and the author would like the text to be in one column and the footnotes in 2 columns. I have done a few volumes of this book in the past and I have used a script to detach the footnotes from the text so that they can be set up in a separate 2 column text box. I was just wondering if there is any new feature in Indesign that allows this to be done without the script?

Bonjour, comment supprimer les tâche en arrière plan d'activation des polices ? Depuis plusieurs jours ça mouline sans résultats et je veux déactiver cette fonction. Comment faire car je suis bloqué et ne peux générer mes PDF qui restent bloqués derriere l'activation des polices. Merci.

cmd+z indesign not working. it will work when i first open the doc but switch off at some point. have to restart the software to resolve it. edit>undo also appeared greyed out and unclickablei'm running on macOS tahoe 26.6, and indesign 21.4.1. I have also disabled generative AI features in my indesign preferences. i have uninstalled and reinstalled the software and that didn't work, restarted my machine, reset my program preferences and nothing i’ve been trying seems to solve it. I have been dealing with this issue on and off for the past 8 months - it seems to happen randomly, but possibly more often on gigantic files. 

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Hi,Our CC libraries does not work properly in InDesign. It will work on initial opening of software, but then freezes. We are running the most recent updated versions of all software. Could anyone advise? This issue has persisted for at least a year.  Thanks, 

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I installed the latest update to version 21, and InDesign won't launch. It doesn't give any errors, but it won't start. It doesn't do anything at all. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but that didn't work. Version 20 works perfectly, even the beta version 20.6. I tried reinstalling it by deleting the preferences, but that didn't work. I tried reinstalling the Creative app and reinstalling InDesign, but that didn't work.Bridge does the same thing, but it gives me error OXC0000142. InDesign, on the other hand, doesn't have any errors. Old Bridge works, but the beta version doesn't I have windows 11 last updatedWhat can I do?Thanks a lotNicola

I have a Mac Studio at work and an iMac at home. When I open indesign documents at home that I have created at work, all the image previews are distorted, see image. Anyone with the same issue and hopefully a solution? I have talked to Dropbox support at length, they are pointing towards Adobe.

I have a saved my workspace and it still keeps showing panels I did not ask for: style pack, tags, data merge, cross reference, buttons and forms. I closed these and created a new workspace again, and again, and again, no luck.What is going on?

Hoi, Ik heb een probleem met het plaatsen van Arabische tekst in een indesign document.Sommige tekst en tekens moeten ertussen geplaatst worden (ze worden gekopieerd vanaf een PDF), maar het teken komt steeds rechts van de tekst ookal heb ik al op rechts uitlijnen geklikt. Ook zet indesign teveel spatie tussen de O17 (O   17) die ik niet wegkrijg door alleen op backspace te drukken. Weet iemand hier een snelle oplossing voor? 

I have developed an interactive PDF in Adobe InDesign and exported it using Adobe PDF (Interactive). The PDF contains multiple buttons that use Show/Hide Buttons and Forms, layer visibility control, page navigation, and objects set as "Hidden Until Triggered".The PDF works as expected when opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader, where all interactive buttons correctly show and hide layers and perform the assigned actions.However, when the same PDF is opened in Microsoft Edge, the interactive functionality does not work correctly. Some buttons are visible but do not respond, and the show/hide actions are not executed.My questions are:Does Microsoft Edge fully support InDesign interactive PDF features such as Show/Hide Buttons and Forms and Hidden Until Triggered objects? Are there specific export settings in InDesign that improve compatibility with Edge? Is this a limitation of Edge's built-in PDF viewer, or could there be an issue with the PDF export itself? Has anyone successfully deployed an

I export a PDF using the following statement, but sometimes there are exceptions. Later, I found out that a PDF with the same location and name is open.Like this:var myPDFFile = new File(desktopPath + "/" + exPDFname + "/" + getpRange + ".pdf"); //if (myPDFFile.isOpen) { // alert('Please close the PDF with the same name first'); //}myDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, myPDFFile, false, preSle);Or more scientifically:Automatically close the 'myPDFFile' currently open in Acrobat.

hello all, i attached below my parent page snapshot. i want to create more than 500pages using same parents page but the real problem all normal pages are had different contents i want to pick from word document. so any one can assist me to get a easy solution without overriding method. i have deadline only 5days 

I have an indesign document with a ton of different images, 1 on each page of the doc. I’ve updated a few of these links today and the newly linked updated images have this icon on the bottom left corner which I’ve never seen before. Any idea what this is or what it means? These are not text boxes, there are no primary text frames in this document and no threaded text.It is definitely attached to the linked image and nothing else, as it moves around with the image when I move the image.   

I am trying to open files on Indesign and they load and load but do not open. They will address if there are links that need to be updated, which I have selected don’t update, and update modified links, and the files will still not load. I thought it may have something to do with box.com where I stored the file, so I transferred it locally onto my laptop and still no luck. 

Anyone else fine this strange? Yes, I know I can obviously make my own, or make presets, but it’s still pretty silly, isn’t it? Can we petition for an update? 

(05/08/2026, version 21.5, updated yesterday) Glad for the option to delete all AI generated alt-text... if only it would work properly. The remove all button doesn’t recognize the generated alt-text and pretends there is nothing to delete. This document has 208 pages and there is several pictures on each of them. Having AI generated descriptions on our images erodes the trust our clients have in our products, and I had to find roundabout techniques to delete them directly in the exported PDF because as a professional, I can not afford the time to delete them all by hand, one by one in InDesign. Thus, neither me or my colleagues have touched the descriptions : they are as they were generated (without our consent) when this feature was pushed without notice. So the feature should recognize them as AI generated text to be deleted, and just does not. I keep being dissatisfied with how this whole situation have been handled since it’s been reported month ago.  Dialog box says “No AI-genera

Hi, why is my workspace when opening a indesing file always going back to 'Essenstial' setting?This is an issue I have for a year now.Very annoying.thnaks BAS       <Titile renamed by MOD>

I recently upgraded to Mac OS 27.0.1 Golden Gate. ID is 21.6. I have a file that has a very odd color rendering. It has a gray overlay on it. The PDF created from it (any settings) looks fine. OS file preview looks fine. File color settings are the same as all my other ID files that are fine. It looked fine before the OS upgrade. Tried running the file through the IDML route - no change. Any ideas?Indesign viewpress PDFOS file preview 

Hello everyone.This composite font is really confusing, I can't collect it, nor can I take it away.There used to be a script that didn't seem to work with compound fonts. Has anyone really researched it?https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/font-packaging-script-error-in-indesign-892434For example, can you collect the fonts in the document below into the Document fonts directory?Sometimes packaging can be collected, but sometimes packaging is not ineffective for many fonts.