InDesign

Unfortunately, for the first time in six months of using InDesign, I am suddenly getting an error message every time I export my book as a PDF for a final proofread. It says either: "Error failed to load PDF document." OR: "We can't open this file, something went wrong." I have tried 20 times with different versions of the book. I regularly save new versions to creative cloud and have only had the problem today after uploading my CMYK pics. Yesterday they were RGB so I had to change them for the printer. I have restarted my computer. Uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign. Also suddenly InDesign won't accept me changing the units from inches to mm. It l ets me do this once in document setup and I save the change. But when I go back to document setup  to double check, it has reverted to inches. When I try to change to mm in a specific document, it allows me to enter mm only in the width box and then when I move to the height box, it reverts back to inches. I did not have this pr

I want to create a pop-up panel that appears when a button is clicked. This panel is different from regular panels — it has no tabs, cannot be docked, and it automatically closes when clicking outside of it (i.e., when clicking elsewhere in the application window).Currently, I'm facing the following issues:What type of panel is this?What panel type should I use to dynamically create such a panel?How do I position the panel on the screen after creation?For example, I want it to appear next to the button that triggered it.How can I make the panel automatically close when clicking outside of it?What mechanism is used to detect this and close the panel?If anyone has experience with this, please kindly share your insights. Thank you very much! 

Hello,I'm a french user of Indesign and have been battling this for 3 hours without success. I'm trying to import text from data merge in indesign, using a perfectly fine .CSV file showing accents properly in any app (excel, google sheet etc.) But in indesign, all accents are broken and display weird characters. I've tried all the encoding options in indesign without success. It is definitely an indesign issue. Please fix this in the next release

Hi everyone - I have a 200 page InDesign file with text, pictures, and EPS file embellishments on every page (see attached). I am trying to send this to my printer but they are telling me the file is too big and I "need to flatten some objects and pictures".  When I flatten the entire document, I am left with light grey traces of the background that I cannot have at print (see attached). I got these by exporting my PDF as a "PDF/X-1a:2001" and by editing my "Transparency Flattener Presets".  

Hi everyone,When hovering over the Type size tool in Properties panel, I used to be able to scroll through different text sizes and spacing options by clicking and holding over the symbol and moving the mouse left and right; without manually typing in the amount or pressing the downward arrow to select the setting manually. This used to work great, as I could see the change in my text as I made the changes.This function still works on Photoshop, but is no longer on InDesign. Have I messed up a setting or is this happening to everyone?Thanks 🙂 

I have a 100+ page InDesign file that has tons of overrides for the 20+ paragraph styles. How can I use Grep to clear these overrides? I tried doing the following but it's not working:Find / Change > GrepFind what and Change to blankFind Format > Style Options: Character Style - Any; Paragraph Style set to specific styleChange Format > Style Options: Character Style - [None]; Paragraphy Style set to style specified in Find Format.  

I started working on an index yesterday and when I opened the document today, all the entries have disappeared. Doesn't Indesign save all the changes automatically?

I'm replacing English text in a finished layout with text in another language. There are about 100 text styles in the book. Is it possible to change the language used in all text styles at once so that I don't have to go through all the styles one by one and so that the hyphens remain correct, not English.

Cross posting as I created a UserVoice ticket for this as well. Place an image or a PDF in an InDesign fileCreate a text frame/shape/any objectSelect the object you just created with direct select tool (keep it selected)Move your mouse to hover over the link so that the center circle link highlight shows. Do not select the linked image, just hover over it.Press and hold an arrow key to try and move object. In CC2024 19.3: If I hover over a link with my mouse, the selected object moves as expected with the arrow keys. In CC2025 20.2: If I hover over a link with my mouse, the selected object does not visually move with the arrow keys. Only when I move my cursor off the link will the selected object move (or jump to catch up to my previous use of the arrow keys). You can see the moves registering the History panel, but the layout does not match until I move off the image. Frame fitting invoked with keyboard commands also do not visually apply if mouse is hovering on a

 How can I get rid of the gray box and ID Publish Online link? It's very frustrating and looks awful. <iframe style="border: 1px solid #777;" src="https://indd.adobe.com/embed/831ef780-ae91-49a6-a464-8bc34806dfe2?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true" width="900px" height="638px" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> This is the landing page: https://mknorthamerica.ac-page.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-selecting-the-best-conveyor-system-to-meet-your-needs-general?test=true  

Hello, I have tried to use the alleged new InDesign Beta feature of converting PDF to indesign files.I have followed this tutorial: Convert PDFs to InDesign files in InDesign (Beta) app Unfortunately, after clicking File -> Open and then selecting a PDF, nothing happens. I don't even get an error message. The file I'm trying to open and convert is under 4 MB and just one page. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello all, Attempting to export a flyer from InDesign to an accessible PDF.Text effects like stroke, fill, and drop shadow export as separate tagged instances of the same text.Is there any way correct this in the export settings, or do I just have to export to an interactive PDF from InDesugb and then artifact those duplicate instances of the text in Acrobat Pro?

Hello I haven't used indesign before I am making a photo book using letter page in half. I know that it has to have multiples of 4, but for some reason it either makes the cover page and back cover page disappear or it just orders everything incorrectl I even tried it on a test book. 

I am working with a set of InDesign documents that my team and I have maintained and updated for years. These documents contain various table of contents, and up until early March 2025, I was able to export these docs to PDF and the TOC and TOCI tags were exported properly. Starting in early March, these tags are no longer being exported. These InDesign docs have remained unchaged since mid-February 2025 (at which point everything was exported as normal), and the only thing that has changed is an updated version of InDesign. My InDesign auto-updated yesterday (4/3) to v20.2, and prior to that I had v20.1, but I am not sure when that was updated from 20.0 or 20.0.1. Is it possible that TOC/TOCI export was broken in version 20.1 of InDesign?Is it posible to revert back to a specific version of InDesign?

Hi everyone, I'm asking for help with a problem involving a text box with a stroke and inside I have text with paragraph lines in Indesign.The problem is that the paragraph line is below the edge of the text box, and not above as I would like.If I apply a fill to the text box, the paragraph line covers it, but the same thing doesn't happen for the text box line.Basically I would like the paragraph line to cover the text box line, and avoid using two objects, like a text box and a rectangle.Can anyone help me?

I recently tried to download Indesign on my laptop but it fails to launch. Following other forum advice, I restarted my laptop and relaunched CC, updated my OS (to the most recent Sequoia 15.4)--but nothing works. Now Creative Cloud won't even get past the intialisation stage when opening. I've tried relaunching, restarting etc. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Creative Cloud but it won't let me, as I still have apps such as Photoshop installed--which I can't uninstall as Cloud won't launch. Basically I can't access my Adobe account or apps through Creative Cloud at all. It's hard to see why you should pay for a service that gatekeeps apps from its users.  Feels like I've been wasting my time for days on this very basic access issue when I just want to use the service I am paying for. I have an Apple M3 Pro running Sequoia. Any help appreciated!

Hi everyone, I'm dealing with a recurring bug in InDesign's online correction module,once the corrections are encoded, they appear in the proofreading window and in the online proofreading link, but they are not visible in my INDD working documentA while ago, the corrections to be made were automatically visible with a yellow line when I was on "W" modeI've reinstalled indd, deleting all my settings, but nothing changes.here is two screen, the indd version and the Online mode where the corrections are highlighted...Thanks for your Help

I am using a macbook air M3 up to date, and last version of Indesign.Before the recent updates, the text to image tool worked fine. But recently, i cannot use it at all, for as soon as I open this tool, it makes indesign crash.I tried to install the previous version, but did not make any difference.Would it be a conflict between IOS and indesign ?Other than that, Indesign works fine, as long as I do not open the text to image tool.Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi There, Can I ask anyone's help in writting a script for me? I know nothing about code and need to do something that seems accessible only through script in Indesign. I would be more than happy to pay for your time and expertise and helping me setting it up.  I am building an interactive presentation in Indesign to be viewed once published online. I am making a template now so I can fill it in with all of my pictures and text with Data Merge each time I need to update this presentation.And I would need help in writting a script that would : Once merged, add an hyperlink to each page opening up this specific page only in a differents tab ( as a cheap way to select an image showed on this page ). I can add a shape to the template to be made into a button once merged. If anyone is interested in helping me out it would be great !! Thank you so much ! Maria 

Habe mir mehrere KI-Bilder generieren lassen aber doch keines final verwendet. Verwende jetzt ein Stockbild. ABER das generierte KI-Bild wird weiterhin im Verknüpfungsfenster aufgeführt.Wie kann ich dieses entfernen?Habe versucht das Originalbild zu löschen - habe jetzt aber nur ein rotes Fragezeichen, dass das Bild fehlt. Toll!Danke für einen Tipp.

Ich habe einen neuen Rechner mit Windows11. Ich drucke auf einer Canon IP C800 über die Command Workstation. Bei den jetzt neu installierten Versionen von InDesign und Illustrator erscheint aber wenn ich auf Einstellungen gehe nicht das Einstellungen-Fenster der Command Workstation sondern ein Druckermenü von Windows. Das tritt aber nur bei Adobe Programmen auf. Dieses Menü erscheint jetzt. Wenn ich links unten auf "weitere Einstellungen" gehe kommt das richtige Menü (2. Bild). Das Problem ist aber dass die Einstellungen die ich dann dort mache nicht bleiben. Wenn ich dann auf Drucken gehe habe ich zu 80% Fehldrucke.Weis jemand wie man dieses "Windows-Menü" ausschalten kann? Wie gesagt bei anderen Programmen wie Word etc. tritt das nicht auf. dort komme ich sofort in das richtige Menü (2. Bild). 

Hi, all -- I made a quick vid asking my question. This is re adjusting text box properties for all text boxes using a parent page. Link. It's my personal site:INDD question Thanks!Ben INDD question

Beim Starten von Indesign auf dem MAC bekomme ich die nachfolgende Fehlermeldung. Ich kann leider mit dieser Meldung nichts anfangen. Ich habe einen IMac.Vielleicht kennt jemand das Problem.

I have a lengthy document, with many articles called "Boxes" that can run for several pages.The first page will say, for example, "Box 1.1. This is the title text."I want every threaded text boxes on pages 2+ to have "Box 1.1. (continued)" automatically appear at the top, followed by the uninterrupted flow of the narrative text. The continued title should not show up on the ToC.Is this possible? (Feels like it should be.) I have tried searching online for a tut, but suspect I am not using the proper terminology.

Hi!I was hoping one of the scripting geniuses around here could lend a hand. I stumbled on the Script below in another forum and it almost does exactly what I need. Essentially if I have an Indesign document with Layers A, B, and C, the script will look through the linked .psd and if there is a Layer with the matching name in the .psd it will turn on that layer. This is perfect but I'm usually using .ai files more often than .psd so I was curious if anyone knew how to modify it to do the same thing in Illustrator. My coding knowledge is basically non existent for reference haha.Best,Matt Original Link: https://creativepro.com/topic/automate-change-object-layer-option/ // Select an InDesign layer. Check for any Photoshop images on that layer in the document.// If so, if the PSD file has a layer with the same name, set it visible// set all other PSD layers that match with other InDesign layer names invisible// Any non-matching layer name in PSD remains untouched (which usu