InDesign

Anyone have any script to extract hyperlinks from Indesign File with location (i.e with page number) 

Hello, we are currently facing a problem in my team when working with Indian languages using InDesign versions 19 and 20 (2024 and 2025).   This is how it looks when we open the file in 2024 and 2025 versions   and this is how it looks (as it should) using 2023 verision   both files are using the exact same settings, fonts, etc, the only difference is the version of InDesign used. I have tried to download again InDesign v18 but is not available any more in the Creative Cloud. We work in a big team and only 2 of the older members have access to InDesign 2023 and that's a problem for us. Are there any solutions for this? Either fix the bug or provide installation for v18 Thanks.   <Title renamed by moderator>  

I am having a problem where lines of text are highlighted yellow for no reason. I checked paragraph styles and made sure no rules were applied, turned off highlighting for hyphenation and justification, and it still shows. Any ideas on how to fix?? 

I can't seem to figure out how to remove the footnote numbering in ebook. I tried unchecking the box in the settings that says restart every after.... also, the footnote para style doesn't have numbers. This started as endnotes but for some reason indesign can't export maybe because there are 91 endnotes...so I converted it to footnotes and now I have this problem.  PLEASE HELP!

This is a bit of a wierd one and hard to explain, but I'm going to try.I've designed a simple form in InDesign for a client. After testing it, everything looked okay, but the client came back telling me it didn't show the fields.After some serious testing trying to recreate the problem, it turns out that it only works 100% of the time when I first open Acrobat before opening the actual file. When Acrobat isn't active yet when clicking the file in Finder to open it, it doesn't show part of the fields and radio buttons. Which one are shown or not is fully random.It also doesn't matter wether fields or buttons are filled in or not. The info is all there, it just doesn't show untill you click it.I hope it's all clear and someone has a solution for this...Regards, Ralf  

When I place graphic files in InDesign it looks terrible. Normally it works perfect. What is wrong?I tried to change from Mac to PC, but that did not help

Hello,  I work at a University and for certain people, the following problem does not exisist. It seems to only be an issue for some that when printing a booklet, random page numbers (like 3,7,11,19,25) will be backwards while everything else in the book looks good. These people are printing in multiples of 4, checking the box for print blank pages, and otherwise setting their files up properly. I have the issue happen to me (has happened to me since I used Adobe on my personal laptop and the same now happens to me (same Adobe info) but on my work laptop (both Mac).  I figure it is something with the print driver and the version of InDesign people start the document with (they then end up all printing from the same print station at school, also a Mac) but it is weird that it only happens to some and not all. Not sure where the issue is arising but I have admin capabilites and can print direct to printer from my laptop and the same still happens.  Using:Sof

Since updating to 2025, we've run into an issue when using the Find/Change window—if we're searching for something that happens to be in overset text, clicking "find" crashes the program. Has anyone else run into this or found a solution? (The file size doesn't matter; it happens on long books and short books alike.)   <Title renamed by MOD>

Is there a way to have all grep-styles that have been applied by paragraph styles, converted to manually applied styling? This is simply to aid in text exporting, as grep styles don't appear to be honoured in any kind of copy/paste,  or otherwise automated export to rich text.Example: copy some text which has been styled by GREP to contain italics, paste into Mac Text Edit, the styles are gone. Any text in the source text that was manually styled transfers correctly.My aim would be to make these changes, carry out my text exports, then close the file without saving (I don't need to keep the converted styles).

I updated Adobe Indesign recently and now it is not flattening transparency at all. I am getting files rejected by the printer and I've had to go through and turn every single image's transparency to 100%, and every PNG

Why are these missing from the export?This started happening when I uploaded the elements to CC Library.I had to export it 5 times to get it to recognize the graphic.Its happened to 3 projects. 

I am having the same or similar problem as Steve [Edit: branched from Indesign 5.5 displays text with ragged edge.]. I have done my best to research this but I cannot figure it out. I am using a Macbook Pro, 15 inch (late2011) with the normal display. I have Leapord 10.7.3. My InDesign is 7.5.2. The text appears jagged, unless zoomed into 100 percent. Here is a screen shot of the problem at 300 percent: And here is the exact same file when I zoom into 100 percent:here is the same text zoomed even more:The typeface is Baskerville. It prints properly, no jagged edges. I have tried all the display and text optionsAny ideas?Thanks. Also, do you guys think I should I post a new topic?Message was edited by: John Hawkinson

Hello everyone!I've created a catalog design for printing and when I try to export .pdf file so this file disappears after done exporting and I don't get any error from InDesign.. Does anyone knows where can be a problem?Thank you!

Ok so I before I start please don't tell me to use phtoshop for this thanks 🙂 So my issue is RGB's displaying correctly both in indesign and once exported to jpg or png. They work fine if I export to Interactive PDF in RGB mode, so I am curretly exporting to .pdf and saving as a jpg in Photoshop which is annoying and an extra step.  See images the colour on the left is correct #4c11a1Incorrect colour is #502e90 Interestingly when I open the colour swatch it tells me that the colour is 'out of Gamut' and if I click to correct it changes it to a very similar colour to #502e90, which is my theory of what it is doing.  I've tried changing the RGB profile, currently sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and nothing seems to make a difference.  Anyone know what the issue is and why the Interactive PDF is fine and how to fix the Export to jpg setting? 

Hi everyone,In my book layout, I have action steps sections. These sections are designed with two line to clearly indicate where an action step starts and ends. They are set up using a paragraph style. However, for some reason, in one chapter file, the distance between the line and the table appears different from the others. When I paste one of them into another chapter file, it adjusts to match that file’s formatting. I want the spacing to be consistent across all chapters but can't figure out why it changes in a different file.I attached two example ID file. Thank you very much!   

Hi,i am creating an interactive digital magazine with indesign and have paid for the in5 plugin. I want to know what is the cheapest, easiest and best way to publish my magazine online. I only need it to be online for 1 month for college so i dont want to buy a subscription service that youre tied into for a year. I would love a custom domain but if that isnt possible for cheap then thats okay too. please someone let me know! -Keylah 

Tables - can be ANY quantity / size:     This script - modifying ROWS: app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().autoGrow = false; app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().height = 2; app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().autoGrow = true; Will return this:   LAST row in the LAST Table in EVERY Story will ALWAYS be higher than the rest:   But this - modifying CELLS: app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().autoGrow = false; app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().height = 2; app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().autoGrow = true; Will ALWAYS return the correct result:      Plain tables - no header / footer.  

When I placed a b/w dither PDF into InDesign, I now have black, white and gray dots!  Why does that happen?  I don't want the gray dots.  Help!! 

Bonjour à tous, J'ai une problématique assez bizarre : Lorsque mon ouvrage que je mets en page sur Indesign 20.1, dépasse les 99 pages, les numéros de pages à 3 chiffres, affichent le 3e chiffres différement, pour explication voir la capture d'écran.En l'occurence dans mes ouvrages j'ai une maquette avec des numéros de pages en elzéviriens tabulaires, et bien le 3e s'affiche en aligné !j'ai testé plusieurs choses : un style de caractère à mes folios, un style de paragraphe avec style grep sur les chiffres....Si vous avez la solution je suis preneuse, sinon je vais devoir reprendre manuellement 348 pages 😞 

Bonjour !Je débute sur une Indesign et je galère avec les notes de bas de page.J'ai bien décoché l'option et pourtant les numéros de bas de page reparte de 1 à chaque page de mon document ( qui en fait 120...) J'ai essayé manuellement de le faire commencer page par page à un autre numéro mais cela s'applique cette fois pour toutes les pages.Je n'ai pas trouvé de réponses dans le forum. Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider svp ?D'avance merci !

Hello all!I work with Acrobat and Indesign since more than 15 years and never had this effect. There is a one page PDF which was originally exported in A4, then cropped to only show a graphic that is on the page. The page also contains text.  Then it was placed in Indesign, with the boundary box active, so it would also only show the graphic. Then the INDD was exported as PDF. In that final PDF I can search and find text that was used in the placed PDF, but the text neither shows in Acrobat when viewing the PDF nor it can be selected when switching to edit mode. It's only sort of selected when jumping from find result to find result. All that was around the graphics on the cropped and placed PDF is still there, but remains hidden and cannot even be found/highlighted using the content panel. Is this normal?

Hello, i noticed some strange behaviour of the Book Preflight panel. While it shows the current working preflight profile as selected, it will instead use InDesigns [Basic] preflight profile. To actually use your desired preflight profile, you have to open the list of profiles and select it (again). Even though it already shows as selected. To reproduce this error, i duplicated the [Basic] preflight profile, named it "Test Check" and additionally disallowed RGB color under COLOR > Color Spaces and Modes Not Allowed > RGB. I then selected it as working profile in the preflight settings. I then set up a 4 page book file (link to the files below), consisting of 4 seperate InDesign documents, one of them containing an RGB filled object. When i open the books preflight panel, it shows the previously set up working profile as a selected, but won't use it. It will use InDesigns [Basic] profile, which doesn't contain the RGB color check. So the documents all finish checkin

Does anyone know of any way to change the line type of a shape or line in InDesign to give it a more sketchy hand drawn quality, similar to the powerpoint sketchy line tool, and not the pencil tool which is hard to edit? 

Ich muss global in einem Dokument die Zellenhöhe aller Tabellen auf eine Mindesthöhe setzen, ist aktuell bei einem festen Wert und verursacht Übersatztext. Diese Option ist leider weder im Tabellenformat noch im Zellenformat einzustellen, es geht nur, wenn man eine einzelne Tabelle erstellt oder bearbeitet. Gibt es hier ein Scrpit o.ä., was die Mindesthöhe auch in die Formatvorlagen schreiben kann? Danke und VG Anna

Hi, in InDesign, I am trying to change the background color of the white frames to the green background colour you’ll see on the page. So I select the frame – see top left as example. Then I set the CMYK values for the green in the CMYK boxes and select OK. But in my 10 or so attempts, the frames stay white. ISo I tried to change the swatch in the swatch panel. You can see over in the text box my three attempts but it is ignoring the numbers I have put up and coming up with three random alternatives – see swatch panel on right. The same thing happens when I try to add a swatch in the text panel. It just ignores the numbers I am entering. I have restarted InDesign in case there’s a temporary bug.