InDesign

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); 

When I'm trying to export an interactive indesign file, it says that "One or more interactive elements are clipped in ways that PDF files cannot reproduce. Those elements will be adjusted in the exported PDF."After this message pop up InDesign software it's get automatically close.What am I supposed to do? How do I find those elements and how do I fix that so they will be reproduced?What does that even mean? I'm so confused.

Hi Experts,   We have some issue where our team having an intermittent issue when opening an InDesign's files, they're doing their workflow via server,the issues was everytime they tries to open a file, they will receive the following error "you may not have permission or the document may be open already", but it will work again on the 2nd attempt, when it closed and re-open, it won't open again, and so on... The problem is happened only on inDesign files and on the network, not other files, and this happens to all users (around 6 users), this actually also working perfectly fine before, what i have done so far, was clear preferences and caches folders multiple times, but obviously, it didn't help.   any solution for this highly appreciated! Cheers! OS: Mac InDesign version: CC2019 (v.14.0.3)

Hi,I would like to add colours to alternative numbers so that it is easy to read like this:12 (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) Brackets needs to be where it is placed.Does anyone one know how I can use GREP so that it is applied to the document? I find GREP so hard to understand! Many thanks for your help.

Using InDesign v17.2.1, text typed on a path becomes distorted when converted to outlines. As you'll see in the attached before/after images (overall comparison, detail of problem area), the converted text is mostly okay, but the last few words become almost illegibly small. The characters also become reoriented relative to the path ... some characters are vertical, others upside-down. I've tried changing fonts, creating new documents, and typing on paths of different shapes, but the problem persists. I was hoping that this problem would be addressed in the latest update, but it wasn't.  I'm running Windows 11 v10.0.22000, build 22000.

Hi, I have a book file with different chapters (all separate files). Is there a way to have footnotes numbering continue across the different chapters instead of always starting at 1?Thank you!

Hey I am urgently in need of help!I have to print my paper next week and the only thing that is left is correcting the quotation marks.My paper is written in german so "these" quotation marks are mandatory, but sometimes my files uses the french ones «these» and I can't change them.I already changed them in the dictionary in preferences but when I then try to change them in the document they just put the same ones. Sometimes in the document the german ones work, so I try to copy paste them but they change to the french ones again. This is really bugging me especially because the vary over the whole paper and I do not want to print like this.Someone please help.Thank you.

Hi everyone,I’m working with linked text frames in InDesign (v2025) and trying to keep content synchronized across multiple frames. The problem is:Whenever I update the source text, the linked text frame also resets its paragraph style to match the original – but I want each frame to keep its own style (different font, size, etc.). I already tried the “Linked Content Options” and enabled:•☑️ Appearance•☑️ Frame Content•☑️ Warn when local changes are overwritten Still, the paragraph style from the source frame replaces the one in the target, which I don’t want.Maybe somebody having a solution

As per the title, using keyboard shortcuts is second nature and Command+W to close a window has been crashing indesign ever since updating to 20.1 and 20.2. I deleted my preferences which didn't help.This morning I uninstalled 20.2 and reinstalled 20.0.1 and the problem has gone away.

   Hi all, how to set up the year (scroll down) in interactive pdf form preperly?after i did put in the year options under list box,  the text is not white color as i expected in the final PDF, and the text box is hard to be centered. How to fix the color and the positon? and also the date, it is alwasy left aligned, how to make it centered? Thank you so much

I am trying to format an art and literary magazine, but many of the images are not showing up in InDesign no matter how I place them. I have tried using frames, dragging them from my desktop or a specific folder, using "Place", relinking the images, turning them into .psd files, changing them from jpegs to pngs, and nothing is solving the issue. At first, I was able to resolve the issue by making the image file sizes smaller, but since I updated InDesign that fix has not been working. I am not sure if the files are somehow corrupt, but I do not know how to tell or fix this. I have attached an example of how the images are showing up. When the images show up this way, they also say that they are linked to the Pasteboard rather than the page that they are on. Any help with this would be great, because the magazine needs to be finished sooner rather than later for printing. 

I have an in design script and part of it is to export selected images to PDF. I want to set the PDF output color conversion to none so there is no color conversion happening, but I can't seem to find the right code to make that work. does anybody know the proper way to do this?with (app.pdfExportPreferences) { pageRange = pageNumber; acrobatCompatibility = AcrobatCompatibility.acrobat6; exportGuidesAndGrids = false; exportLayers = false; exportNonPrintingObjects = false; exportReaderSpreads = false; generateThumbnails = false; try { ignoreSpreadOverrides = false; } catch (e) {} includeBookmarks = false; includeHyperlinks = true; includeICCProfiles = false; includeSlugWithPDF = false; includeStructure = false; interactiveElementsOption = InteractiveElementsOptions.doNotInclude; subsetFontsBelow = 100; colorBitmapCompression = BitmapCompression.NONE; colorBitmapSampling = Sampling.BICUBIC_DOWNSAMPLE; colorBitmapSamp