InDesign

Hi everyone, I'm dealing with a recurring bug in InDesign's online correction module,once the corrections are encoded, they appear in the proofreading window and in the online proofreading link, but they are not visible in my INDD working documentA while ago, the corrections to be made were automatically visible with a yellow line when I was on "W" modeI've reinstalled indd, deleting all my settings, but nothing changes.here is two screen, the indd version and the Online mode where the corrections are highlighted...Thanks for your Help

I am using a macbook air M3 up to date, and last version of Indesign.Before the recent updates, the text to image tool worked fine. But recently, i cannot use it at all, for as soon as I open this tool, it makes indesign crash.I tried to install the previous version, but did not make any difference.Would it be a conflict between IOS and indesign ?Other than that, Indesign works fine, as long as I do not open the text to image tool.Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi There, Can I ask anyone's help in writting a script for me? I know nothing about code and need to do something that seems accessible only through script in Indesign. I would be more than happy to pay for your time and expertise and helping me setting it up.  I am building an interactive presentation in Indesign to be viewed once published online. I am making a template now so I can fill it in with all of my pictures and text with Data Merge each time I need to update this presentation.And I would need help in writting a script that would : Once merged, add an hyperlink to each page opening up this specific page only in a differents tab ( as a cheap way to select an image showed on this page ). I can add a shape to the template to be made into a button once merged. If anyone is interested in helping me out it would be great !! Thank you so much ! Maria 

Habe mir mehrere KI-Bilder generieren lassen aber doch keines final verwendet. Verwende jetzt ein Stockbild. ABER das generierte KI-Bild wird weiterhin im Verknüpfungsfenster aufgeführt.Wie kann ich dieses entfernen?Habe versucht das Originalbild zu löschen - habe jetzt aber nur ein rotes Fragezeichen, dass das Bild fehlt. Toll!Danke für einen Tipp.

Ich habe einen neuen Rechner mit Windows11. Ich drucke auf einer Canon IP C800 über die Command Workstation. Bei den jetzt neu installierten Versionen von InDesign und Illustrator erscheint aber wenn ich auf Einstellungen gehe nicht das Einstellungen-Fenster der Command Workstation sondern ein Druckermenü von Windows. Das tritt aber nur bei Adobe Programmen auf. Dieses Menü erscheint jetzt. Wenn ich links unten auf "weitere Einstellungen" gehe kommt das richtige Menü (2. Bild). Das Problem ist aber dass die Einstellungen die ich dann dort mache nicht bleiben. Wenn ich dann auf Drucken gehe habe ich zu 80% Fehldrucke.Weis jemand wie man dieses "Windows-Menü" ausschalten kann? Wie gesagt bei anderen Programmen wie Word etc. tritt das nicht auf. dort komme ich sofort in das richtige Menü (2. Bild). 

Hi, all -- I made a quick vid asking my question. This is re adjusting text box properties for all text boxes using a parent page. Link. It's my personal site:INDD question Thanks!Ben INDD question

Beim Starten von Indesign auf dem MAC bekomme ich die nachfolgende Fehlermeldung. Ich kann leider mit dieser Meldung nichts anfangen. Ich habe einen IMac.Vielleicht kennt jemand das Problem.

I have a lengthy document, with many articles called "Boxes" that can run for several pages.The first page will say, for example, "Box 1.1. This is the title text."I want every threaded text boxes on pages 2+ to have "Box 1.1. (continued)" automatically appear at the top, followed by the uninterrupted flow of the narrative text. The continued title should not show up on the ToC.Is this possible? (Feels like it should be.) I have tried searching online for a tut, but suspect I am not using the proper terminology.

Hi!I was hoping one of the scripting geniuses around here could lend a hand. I stumbled on the Script below in another forum and it almost does exactly what I need. Essentially if I have an Indesign document with Layers A, B, and C, the script will look through the linked .psd and if there is a Layer with the matching name in the .psd it will turn on that layer. This is perfect but I'm usually using .ai files more often than .psd so I was curious if anyone knew how to modify it to do the same thing in Illustrator. My coding knowledge is basically non existent for reference haha.Best,Matt Original Link: https://creativepro.com/topic/automate-change-object-layer-option/ // Select an InDesign layer. Check for any Photoshop images on that layer in the document.// If so, if the PSD file has a layer with the same name, set it visible// set all other PSD layers that match with other InDesign layer names invisible// Any non-matching layer name in PSD remains untouched (which usu

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.