InDesign

What is the content collector tool used for?

I accidently x out of indesign without saving the file I was working with. Is there a way to retrieve it?

I would like to be able to use both straight and "curly" quotes within the same sentence or paragraph without having to go into the app preferences change it, type the text, go in and change it again, etc. Typical example of a sentence I would need to do this for: The IRT's platforms are 510' long, and each car is 51'5". Can I create a character style that forces straight quotes when the default setting is typographer's quotes? I would say I need straight quotes maybe 5% of the time (if that), but when I need them, creating them is a royal pain. Even copying-pasting doesn't work as the pasted versions are curly.Thanks in advance.

We are printing a black-and-white book on IngramSpark. The book is all text except for an author photo on the about the author page. The photo was taken with an iPhone, so is high resolution and RGB to begin with. To prepare the photo, I used Photoshop. I cropped and converted the photo from RGB to grayscale. My understanding is that Photoshop deletes any color management profiles when it changes a photo to grayscale.At the 2 inch wide size of the photo, the resolution was 1171 PPI. IngramSpark requires 300 ppi. I I left that high resolution and let InDesign lower it to 300 ppi using the PDF/X – 2002 adobe preset export filter.->Should I have used  Photoshop's automatic resample feature to bring the PPI down to 300 before placing the photo in InDesign?I imported the photo to InDesign at same size (2 inches wide). I exported the book using PDF/X2002. Results  in the printed proof from IngramSpark are pitiful. No help from customer service although they did ap

Hello. I would like to know if there is a way to delete all of the buttons in a document. I'm creating a print version of a digital file so all of the checkmarks and text fields need to be removed. Currently, I can only select one at a time and I have over 80 in the document. I even tried selecting them all on layers on each page, but when I do that, the delete button is greyed out. Is there a way to delete multiple buttons at once?

Hello, I have 2 indd documents (A,B) A is big (180 pages)B is small (90 pages) The both have their character and paragraph styles. When moving the pages of B in A the character styles of B are messed up. So, once the pages were moved, I import the character styles directly from the B.indd document and I use the option "auto-rename" for the overriding styles.  Unfortunately I does add "copy" to the styles without applying them to the text. Indeed when using "use incoming definition" it mess up the styles of A. It's very annoying because I have multiple sentence and words with "bold" style and I need to revise everything again and again.  (everytime I add some pages to the main file) Any suggestion? Thanks Matt

Hi my printer sent me instructions on how to provide my InDesign book files for print. I've done 90% of what they asked for but just got stuck on a few things below. As always, I have tried to self-resolve via research. It's the weekend now in my location so I can't ask these questions of the printer so hoping you may be able to help so I can get them the files first thing Monday. Many thanks!   QuestionsAnswers: Question 1.When I send the Package to the printer (via Indesign File> Package), do I need to first save the linked photos in a OneDrive folder or similar which I give them access to before sending the package? Or will they have all the jpgs inside the Package folder as standalone files?AnswerQuestion 2When exporting PDF – in the ‘marks and bleeds’ dialogue box, under ‘all printer’s marks, do I tick only the ‘bleed marks’ check box, or do I also tick  ‘use document bleed settings’.AnswerQuestion 3When exporting PDF, in the output dialogue box, what d

I am trying to export an epub 3 reflowable but I keep getting the message: Error Formatting image '1.png'. The system may be low on memory or disk space. How do I fix this? 

Working on a catalog with 200 individual paragraph entries that need to be styled the same.There are 3 different styles within each paragraph which consists of 4 lines each.I have followed the directions in several YouTube tutorials but I'm obviously missing a step somewhere because I can't get them to work. I think the problem may lie in the drop downs for "up to" and "through" as well as the final drop down of choices to finish the line. I have tried to set up both Nested Line Style and Nested Style and neither work for me. I have done this catalog in the past by highlighting each line and selecting the style for it but that is incredibly tedious and time consuming.Anyone have any pointers?

Hi,I was wondering if someone could let me know whether the three images in this PDF have sufficient resolution. In InDesign, they're showing as 1321 PPI (effective), which should be more than enough—but in the PDF, they seem a bit blurry when I zoom in slightly. I guess it should be fine since a reader cant zoom, but I wanted to confirm in case I might need to make adjustments.  Thank you very much 

Ive just spend my whole day getting rid of two bugs i ran into when exporting EPUBS.For some strange reason i got an error message when exporting, telling me that i may have low memory or disc space "Error Formating image "xxxx.png"...." and an error about a text anchor. The text anchor problem was easy:I copied some text (including a URL linked word within that text) from an older version of the document into the new one. That text somehow referenced the URL link from the origin (the older version of the project) when exporting as EPUB and couldnt make sense of it, so it gave an error. So to fix it, i had to go to the Interactive/Hyperlinks and delete the link and create the same link again. Looks the same, is the same.. but works now The Formating image error was harder:I did a lot between the new and the older version that didnt give me an error so i tried to find out were the faulty page was. First i tried deleting pages and exporting epubs to see if the error stays.. i e

I have a question about the exact behavior of the Ctrl+Alt+N shortcut in InDesign.According to the official documentation, this shortcut creates a new document using "the last used document settings" without showing the New Document dialog box. However, I'm finding inconsistencies in how this actually works. My specific experience:I created a new A4 document and modified several settings (changed the number of pages to 5, set the bleed to 10mm, and the slug to 50mm). After working with this document and closing it, I used Ctrl+Alt+N to create a new document.What I observed was that InDesign only remembered the document type (A4) but did not retain any of my custom settings - it just created a new A4 document with default settings rather than keeping my modified values. My question:Does the Ctrl+Alt+N shortcut only remember the basic document type/preset (like A4) but not retain custom modifications? Or should it actually remember all modified settings from the last document?I

Any reason why the buttons are not consistently positioned?

I saw a lot of questions about this but they are older, so I am hoping to maybe get a different answer this time! 🙂 I have an InDesign document with layers.  One of the things on the digital layer is set up that when someone usin the Interactive PDF clicks on an answer in the Review, it shows the second layer with the correct answer and feedback.  This works great, but we would like to have audio that explains the feedback.The first one I did, I test and it seemed to work so I added the second one, now neither work. I deleted the second one, and now even the first one won't work.Any idea would be appreciated.  I do not have the option of doing an EPub, so if this doesn't work I will have to abandon the audio aspect.Thanks,Wendy

Hello, I'm looking for ways to increase the utility of data merge on indesign, and the project I've come up with is I'd like to set a different background color on each page of a merged document (lets say around 200 pages, all unique colors, kind of like a swatch booklet). I have a spreadsheet and each row has a color column (hex or rgb, whatever works best). I've been having chatgpt help me write some code, which it seems to have given a decent starting point, but of course comes up with errors. Those don't scare me, but I am having the hardest time finding any documentation to give insight on how to come up with a solution. Couple of questionsIs what I'm doing possible? (editing page of document as it's being merged, so at the end of the day each page has a different color, end of story). Where are the best resources/documentation for indesign scripts on data merges?  I'll post the chatgpt code for reference, but it doesn't work (error 55: object do

Hi all.I'm trying to understand the formatting of some docs I've inherited, and I'm new to InDesign.I don't understand what I'm dealing with in the attached screen shot. There appear to be three columns, but the text frame has only one. The area(s) containing the text are part of the text frame (they disappear when the text frame is hidden or deleted), but can't be selected in the layer view. And, as you can see, the mystery area exists outside the text frame itself. What might this be? Note: The other objects in the layer list are on a facing page, out of view.

I'm in search of a way to get InDesign to keep my original paragraph styling (color, font, justification) once I export my file to an interactive pdf. I know you can change the font and the size, but there is nothing for color or justification. Is there a way to do this in the native program or can it be done in Acrobat? Please help!

I have a document with the Main layer everyone sees and a digital layer which holds interactive items.  It works mostly BUT One of the things is an example in a Q&A format.  on the main layer (used to create the printed book) both the question and answer are visible.  On the digital layer there is a prompt to think about their answer and then click to reveal the answer.  Unfortunatley, even though the  Digital layer is presumably on top of the Main layer, the text on the main layer is showing through the prompt on the digital layer.  Is there a way to make the digital layer 'cover' what is on the main layer on page load so the answer doesn't show until they click the prompt?   It works if I put the answer on its own layer and print one layer or the other. I am trying to avoid the additional 2nd layer.   Thanks! Wendy   <Title renamed by MOD> 

Immediatly after installing the latest InDD release, the app began crashing randomly, specially after saving and closing a document.This happens 4 out 5 times, which means I'm constantly having to re-open the app.InDD was already displaying several performance issues in the previous releases, but this is more than I can take.

Hi everyone,I have some graphics in my book layout. However, whenever I view it as a PDF in Acrobat, the letter "I" seems to appear bold. This is not the case in InDesign or the AI file. When I zoom in on it in Acrobat, it disappears. Why is this happening, and will it print like that?

Wir möchten in einem in Indesign erstellten Katalog automatisiert die Artikelnummern austauschen. Grundlage der neuen Artikelnummern ist eine Excel-Datei. Wer hat dazu eine Idee bzw. kennt ein entsprechendes Plug in?

I have the Surface Pro with the Snapdragon X Pus processor. I read that the minimum requirement for In Design is the X elite version. can I still use InDesign even if it will go slower?

Problem in Indesign with converting text to outlines.If I convert the text to outlines, a copy remains with the original text. If you view the pdf in acrobat, you will see that the letters are also bolder. If you then edit the file, you will indeed see 2 layers with texts. Is this a bug?

I have several issues with the Malayalam language used in Kerala, India, particularly because all my work is in Malayalam. When I use the Bullets and Numbering option, the text does not display correctly. Additionally, when I type on a path, many texts and glyphs are missing.

In a document i have inserted a textframe and added myTextFrame into its Script Label.When trying to get it by js using doc.textFrames.itemByName("myTextFrame"); is says the object is invalid.When trying doc.textFrames[0] i get a textframe with label myTextFrame.Having same issues with rectangels -> var rect = doc.rectangles.itemByName(rectName);