InDesign

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of invisibles that they could share? 

Hello, I've just reset my InDesign preferences (in case that was the source of my problem) but that did not change anything.Every time I go in "edit > shortcuts", InDesign immediatly stop to respond and I have to force-quit it....  Im on Mac OS Sequoia (and i've just upgrade my OS a few days ago, maybe it's because of this?)Anyone having the same issue ?

Hello there, im working on a file in InDesign where ich now switch all linked images to our CC Libraries. For this i created Libraries in Adobe CC with subfolders for tne different labels and images Now when i want to place from the CC Libraries in InDesign it shows me only the Parent Folder and throws everything in the subfolders together. It looks like a mess and i want to know if this is intended or am i doing something wrong? It does not feel like a good workflow for me to search with my eye for every single image. How do i get the same Folder with subfolders visible in InDesign? Thanks.

Hallo zusammen, ich habe ein Problem. Ich kann seit kurzem nicht mehr aus Indesign pdf´s auch keine interaktiven PDF's exportieren / erstellen. Indesign 25.Vielleicht liegt es am System, derzeit MacOSVentura 13.7, sollte ich auf Sequoia 15.4 updaten?Oder was könnte das ExportProblem aus Indesign sein?Danke vorab für Unterstützung!Beate

InDesign is giving me an Error 39 when publishing online. I have updated my InDesign, tried publishing different files and tried multiple networks and computers (PC and Mac) same error.

Thanks to FRIdNGE, the great original script provider! There's also Robert at ID-Tasker who has been quite helpful.It is now suitable for the case of one caption for one picture, allowing the caption to be quickly pasted close to the picture.The original post seems to have sunk.I'm trying to modify it to a situation where multiple images share a caption, but I don't know how to traverse out the textframe and image with a loop./* _FRIdNGE-0766_ImageCaptionAlignment.jsx Script written by FRIdNGE, Michel Allio [02/11/2024] */ //https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/script-to-match-object-sizes-and-align-captions-in-indesign/m-p/14941759 app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Image And Caption Alignment'); function main() { var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var myRulerOrigin = myDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin; if ( app.selection.length != 2 ) { alert( "Select 2 items!") exit();

Hello voici l'erreur : 2 problèmes (1 échec) ont été détectés avec les tâches en arrière-plan:Impossible d'exporter le PDF. Cela peut être dû à des problèmes sur certaines pages ou certains actifs. Veuillez vérifier et réessayer.La cause possible de l'échec est présente sur la planche avec le numéro de page "81".or mon fichier n'a que 80 pages.Merci de m'aider

Basically what the title says. I have 24 out of 28 pages with textual information, but i am unable to package the document, and my file shows 0 links 

For example, Arial, my fonts Regular, bold, and Italic may come from different versions or providers.Sometimes, in ID, they don't even appear under the same option.So my font management is confusing.I'm all for keeping only fonts from the same version now.Is there a site that packages them together like this, free would be best.Much appreciated.

I am researching a way to streamline a process. I will get a data file with up to 300 columns and over 400 rows in excel. I need a couple of things to happen:Each column needs to be its own page with the corresponding rows info. For the sample, I can do this by creating separate pages and manually putting the data fileds in, but cannot do this for 300+ pages.Can we have the column title (name) information show in said entry? I have attached the pdf sample of what I am looking for, salmon highlight is Column, pale yellow is the row. I have also included the data files I am using. Any help wouled be appreciated.

InDesign removes the last character from every text box when exporting Hebrew text with InDesign 2024 and 2025. How can I resolve this issue?

What is the special use of “Direct Copy” under the Edit menu?Is the offset of the copied object randomized,Or can it be set?

HiI would like to know which one of the following spaces in InDesign is a non-breaking space: Em-SpaceEn-SpaceHair SpaceSixth SpaceThin SpaceQuarter SpaceThird SpacePunctuation SpaceFigure SpaceFlush Space I am in need of giving a non-breaking space but its width is too sless. I need atleast quarter space width non-breaking space. I was thinking of giving a character style to actual non-breaking space and setting its width to 200% but its my last preference. Thanks

For a multi-line edit box control, once the control gains input focus,  within the control or on the screeis there a way to get the current caret (text cursor) positionn? I’m not looking to get the cursor position in the text flow, but rather the cursor's position within the control or on the screen.The kTextEditBoxWidgetBoss includes an ICursorRegion interface, but I’m not sure how to use it. From the functions provided by that interface, it doesn't seem to offer what I need.Has anyone had experience with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am a graphic designer for a printing company and I process a LOT of mailing files (barcoded imprint files which must be kept in order by the end of production). Years ago I found an excellent script which allows me to import multiple pdf pages in whatever position on a page I need them. This has been very helpful because I can export the barcoded imprint files as a pdf and import the pdf and keep it in order so that when the files are printed and cut, the imprint files are in order for sorting into trays:i.e. a 5 x 7 postcard with 400 addresses prints 4-up on 11 x 17 stock; when this is printed and cut to size, I want to have addresses 1-100 in position 1 (upper left corner) so that the first stack is the first 100 postcards; position 2 (upper right corner) would have addresses 101-200, etc. This works perfectly for PDF files which I can import using the script; however, I have recently been asked to use EXCEL files rather than pdfs and while I can do a data merge with multiple

Love the table interlocking coloring, but the spanning of the rows isn't very pretty.It's a lot of volume and not regular, can you automate it? Can you share the styles you were able to fill out? 

I have a really unusual issue, and I was wondering if anyone here had run into this before.  I am using Adobe InDesign 2021, and trying to use the Cross Reference function.  The process itself works fine.  My issue occurs with the Cross Reference Format. The format selections are all in a foreign language.  I was able to set up the reference, and the text itself is in English, as that is the language my InDesign is set too.  However, the reference is formatted following the punctuation rules of the foreign language- so the quotes do not follow English formatting.  I cannot find how to change the options for this dropdown, and every language option I can find are all set to English.  I have even uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign, with no change.  A co-worker does not have this issue. Image capture below.Any assistance is appreciated, and thanks in advance!

Hello, I have been tasked at my company with editing our emplyee training handbook. This will require massive editing, moving, placing, and deleting of large chunks of text and pictures. I am trying to at first just put the document into the program so I can explore some editing options, however I am running into an issue. I have created a new document with the Primary Text Frame and I am trying to Place the document into the main text frame. It comes out, jumbled (though I figured this would require clean up), but only the first 30 pages. This is about a 300 page document. I wanted to see if anyone could offer some insight as to how I would go about getting my entire document into Indesign. Thank you so much for your help!

SOLVED: I've struggled with this issue many times, and I've finally found a new solution! You can break up your work into separates, smaller files (Indesign does this when its internal undo/snapshot system has glitched). There's a way to move individual pages to a fresh, uncorrupted file:   (1) Make 6 new documents of the same dimensions with one blank page each.  (2) Go into the pages panel in the original file and click the hamburger. (3) Go to "Move pages". (4) Insert a range (eg. 1-50) and then "Move to..." your fresh document. (5) Repeat this a few times (50-100, 100-150, 150-200...) until you get to 300.       For 300 pages, it's probably best to break it up in 50's.   This should allow all of your links, swatched, layers, etc to transfer to the new document without having to copy+paste or export.

Hello everyone, I'm trying to understand why the code I attach works perfectly with InDesign 19.x and does not work with Indesign 20.x (see image)Both versions of InDesign are on MacOS Ventura 13.7.5. Is it perhaps a bug in the latest version of InDesign?Is it a bug in the latest version of InDesign or a stupid mistake of mine? Thanks to all.Here is the code: function createFolder(folder) {    var script = "";    script += "try\r";    script += "do shell script \"mkdir \" & quote & item 1 of arguments & quote\r";    script += "tell application id \"com.adobe.InDesign\"\r";    script += "tell script args\r";    script += "set value name \"success\" value \"true\"\r";    script += "end tell\r";    script += "end tell\r";    script += "on error\r";    script += "tell application id \"com.adobe.InDesign\"\r";  &nbsp

Help I am working on a product catalogue and I use datamerge. Everything went well untill i started to use text frames ( the black and white textboxes ). it seems that after the merge, Indesign adds some bullcrap empty space, it looks like literal empty non-breaking-spaces. Whenever I change a random setting it suddenly randomly jumps to it's intended position, this makes me feel like it's a bug or something.the empty space seems to be pushing the inline items away. I didnt put anything like this in the template and the data merge file is clean. anybody have any idea what's going on? This problems prevents me from using datamerge effectively. see linkhttps://imgur.com/a/RFc8fE9

My mind is doing a 360 to even try to explain what I want to do, but I will try:I am responsible for making a giant retail catalogue and prices range from 0.⁰⁰ to 0000.⁰⁰  I wish to automate a rule with GREP where it will automatically fill in the decimal after x or y amount of digits. I want to be able to automatically fill in the decimal after 1 or 4 digits, based on the data. so if the price is 34.29. I want GREP styling to see that this spefific speficially has 2 main digits ( 34 ) and should then jump to decimal and fill it (29 ). for a longer price, lets say 2432.28, I want GREP to notice the 4 main digits and then jump to decimals.In short, I am trying to make GREP style see the difference in main digits and decimals and decide what to do accordingly.is this possible at all? thank you very much! 

I have obtained the IControlView of the panel or dialog, and then called the MoveTo function, but it doesn't change the window's position. For the panel, I obtained the IWidgetParent interface through IControlView, and then got the IWindow interface by calling:InterfacePtr<IWidgetParent> myParent(panelControw, UseDefaultIID()); InterfacePtr<IWindow> iWindow((IWindow*)myParent->QueryParentFor(IWindow::kDefaultIID));For dialogs, I created a new dialog using:IDialog* dialog = dialogMgr->CreateNewDialog(dialogSpec, IDialog::kMovableModal); Then I got the IWindow interface through:InterfacePtr<IWindow> iWindow(dialog, UseDefaultIID());Afterwards, I called the SetPosition function of the IWindow interface, but still couldn’t change the window's position. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any guidance or advice from more experienced developers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Does anyone know about Hindi characters in InDesign? We're preparing a children's book with different languages. One page is dedicated to Hindi. We use some words in this language. But every time we copy the Hindi words to InDesign the characters change. Native speakers say that it looks incorrect then. YouTube videos on this matter don't help. So we're trying to have these words: नमस्तेभौ भौकुत्ताBut in InDesign we get something else as you can see on the image.Can anyone help?

Hi,I searched the community and didn't see anything for my specific question. I inherited a file- a large book with several dozen images. Most of the images (I assumed all) are linked. I output the file to PDF and received no warnings. Preflight passed. I found out later that an image was very low res. I went back to verify and found that the image was not in the links panel and, when selected, gives no info. As mentioned, it also gave no warnings on output nor in the preflight report- in essence, it didn't exist at all to ID. I believe this image was copy/pasted into the doc after reading some of the discussions. I now worry that there are several of these images throughout the document. So here is my question- Is there a way to find out how many or which images are embedded or pasted in without having to go through and select each image and verify the link? I haven't come across embedded images in a while. It used to be that any embedded graphic/image would show as such in the links