InDesign

I encountered a couple of unexpected problems when placing linked content in my document. First, "Place and Link" creates an identically-named object in the document, with no indication that it's linked to anything. There's no symbol next to it in the layer list to indicate a dependency, and not even "(linked)" appended to its name. Do you seriously have to rename every instance of the item manually, in order to track dependencies? Second, I can't find any option to update the linked instances automatically when the parent changes. Isn't automatic revision the primary reason for linking? Sometimes a tiny yellow triangle will appear on an instance of the item when the parent changes (but this is not at all reliable), or you'll see an "error" indicated in the status bar if you look. Then you have to manually trigger an update. Must you really baby-sit every change? Thanks for any insight.

The title of the TOC I've got set up in my document is picking up the character style applied to the first entry in the TOC. If I remove the character style from the section heading being pulled into the TOC as the first entry, the TOC title goes back to its proper dark gray color, but as soon as I reapply the character color to the section heading being pulled into the TOC as the first entry and update my TOC, the title changes color to blue. Is there a way to fix this?Or maybe there is a different way to accomplish what I'm going for. Each section of my document is color coded, and I'm trying to pull that color coding into my TOC. Here is how I'm currently accomplishing that: Each section heading being pulled into the TOC is white text on a colored background. I've made the section heading paragraph style have a character color of gray but at 0%, so it appears white. Then I've applied a character color on top of the fake white to change the text to match the color coding of the secti

Hello,I have an InDesign document with several pages. Now a script should always save 2 pages in a new document (page 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 etc.).In InDesign 2025 (20.2.) everything works perfectly, but unfortunately not in 2024 (19.5.3). There the empty pages are not deleted correctly. The function removeEmptyPages is probably not working properly.Can anyone help? I have attached a sample file.if (app.documents.length > 0) { var doc = app.documents[0]; } else { alert("Kein Dokument geöffnet!"); } extractPagesInPairs(); function extractPagesInPairs() { var doc = app.activeDocument; if (!doc.saved) { alert( "Bitte speichere das Dokument zuerst, bevor das Skript ausgeführt wird." ); return; } var docInfo = pageinfos(); var totalPages = docInfo[0]; var docPath = docInfo[6]; if (totalPages < 2) { alert("Das Dokument enthält weniger als zwei Seiten."); return; } var exportFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Wählen Sie einen Zielordner"); if (!

Hello there,  I've noticed an odd occurence recently, where my imported JPGs are doing fine in InDesign, even after closing program multiple times. Then suddenly, I open the project and it's distorted with a glitch/artifact looking image (still attached).  If anyone has any pointers, it'd be greatly appreciated. I've tried to re-install the program. I started with TIFFs intitially, then downsized to JPGs.  Thanks, 

Hi there,  a few months ago I posted about a problem I had been having with indesign constantly flickering whenever I tried to move any assets. I was never able to fix it, and as such have had to use Illustrator for all of my file handling since.  Last night, I was absolutely sure I had managed to permanently fix it but this morning I checked and it's back to being dodgy. I was rather sleep deprived so please excuse any stupidity. I believe I 'fixed' the problem last night by turning off GPU Preview and switching to CPU. I cannot for the life of me find it on Indesign, but can on Illustrator so my best guess is a sleep deprivation induced hallucination. If there is a way to replicate this effect on indesign please let me know as my unparamounted joy last night went right down the pooper this morning.

Bonjour,Je suis sous mac (dernière version de sierra) et j'ai indesign CC 2017.Je travaillais dessus quand tout d'un coup le logiciel se ferme par accident. Je le ré-ouvre et là il m'affiche un message d'erreur en me disant que mon fichier est endommagé (code erreur 5). Impossible d'ouvrir mon fichier... Je relance le logiciel mais rien ne se fait, j'ai même téléchargé la denrière version de indesign cc 2018 mais rien y fait..  Quelqu'un aurait une solution pour récupérer mon fichier... Ficher très important.Merci à vous !Alexia

I'd like to type straight single quote (vertical apostrophe) rather than a curly apostrophe by default. Aside from unchecking the optinon under preferences > Type > Type Quotes > Use Typographer's Quotes or typing typing with alt + ' for windows or command + ' for mac. Are there other ways that would trigger my single quote to show vertically rather than curly? Thanks!

Hi, since the past week, we can't convert some templates we have to make pages with a version 15 or 16 to Indesign v14.03, creating conflict in some cases and in others sucesfully creating the file after try for a couples time. The question is if this conversion tool has been removed or not, because is a process from creative cloud as i understand, and if it has been removed can some other tool replace it. 

Hey everyone, With Ramadan coming up, I’m looking to create a clear and accessible Ramadan timetable PDF for prayer and fasting times. Since many people rely on these schedules, I want to make sure it’s easy to read and works well with assistive technologies. Does anyone have tips on:✔️ Best fonts and layout for readability✔️ Tagging tables for screen readers✔️ Handling Arabic text and multilingual content✔️ Keeping the PDF high quality without losing clarity I also found a useful Ramadan timing resource here  and thought it might help others too. Would love to hear any advice from the community on making this as user-friendly as possible! Thanks!   [Link removed]

I want to change the settings here permanently, where can I do it? Example: Length 7 Offset 12 Stroke 1 Reg Mark Non Click. Tnk you for help.

Hello Community,   We edit an Indesign file with many pages in A4 vertical format. Each page can be divided in 2 (up part R1 and down part V1 for page 1 and so on for page 2, 3, 4,...) I need to print R1/R2/R3/R4 in a front A4 page horizontal format, and V1/V2/V3/V4 at the back of same A4 page as V1 is at the back of R1, V2 is back of R2, V3 is back of R3, V4 is back of R4. Does somebody have a solution with Indesign, Pdf file printing or else?     <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hi. When I go to Share for review I don't have the option to choose public link, only to invite specific people. Anybdoy has an idea, why and how I can fix this?InDesign is updated to last version. ThanksNicole

Hello dear Adobe team I'd like to have the page number format with 01,02,03,04... in my layout instead of 1,2,3,4. However, I want this only visually because with the other page number format a third party plugin does not work. Just adding a 0 before the page number variable won't work because 10, 11, 12 … should be 10, 11, 12 and not 010, 011, 012 etc.Now I would have wanted to solve this with GREP, but then realized that "current page number" is exactly one character and you can't use {2}, {3} etc. here. Otherwise I would have just done a find-replace (to the correct paragraph format, of course):FIND: \d(?!\d+)REPLACE: 0$0Is there any way to solve this differently?Thank you very much for your inputs. Regards,Noel Bürgler

Hi Adobe, I'm having this issue where I have to restart InDesign every time I publish my document online to check if the animations are updated. This is incredibly annoying, as I have to restart InDesign every time I need to make changes to my animation but the PUBLISH ONLINE WINDOW won't appear.  Can you tell me a short-term fix for this issue? 

I was trying to set up a kindle digital and was exporting from indesign to epub. All of my fonts are changing. If I look at the file with Calibre - it's perfect. But if I view with Kindle preview, all the fonts have changed. Have I messed up a setting?

ich arbeite mit der aktuellen Indesign Version. Datei erstellt, PDF Export, Porzess startet, keine Fehlermeldung. Nach langer Zeit, ist die Dateigröße des PDF immer noch 0 kb.  Jemand eine Idee voran es liegt?

I am having a book printed on coated paper. All of my photoshop images are coated SWOP but my printer has asked for FOGRA39 coated in the pdf export settings. Do I have to convert every image in photoshop to FOGRA39 or can I just export as FOGRA39 and leave the photoshop files as SWOP?

Does the expand feature work with placed images in InDesign or only images generated by AI? Whenever I try to expand an image the command is grayed out. Help!

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?