InDesign

Hi, Is it possible to split a single cell into two columns? I have several cells containing a large amount of text that need to be divided into two columns. How can I achieve this? The reason I need it to be in a table is that some text will have frames, some will have a background, and some will be plain—all while maintaining a continuous flow. Thank you in advance! 

I can open a new document and all is ok, then if i open a new or existing document I have noticed my document 'status bar' has changed to have 2 lines of copy at the top and t 'status bar' at the bottom with document information has vanished.This change remains if I close all windows down to one and only re appears when I open a new document. I do not use the application frame and all seems fine when using the frame.I have uninstalled and gone back to InDesign 20.1 incase it was an update issue, the same results, I've also reset my Adobe InDesign preferences.Any ideas or am I going mad.

HI, Indesign is not loading placed photos after packaging, it just show a gray box. The photos are in the linked files. There is no "?" on the gray box and there is no yellow triangle in the link files. Display in preference is on high quality as well as under object and under view. All are on  high quality. I have turned GPU on and off in preference. I have reinstalled the operating system (Monterey 12.2.1) have reinstalled Indesign several times. It works fine if I go back to CS6 which I have loaded on another computer. Any ideas, this is driving me nuts. Thanks!   [subject renamed for clarity — was "Hi, Indesin"]  

Hello Indesign Community, We have been using Indesign for our work research paper for 3 years now, we have to export it to pdf and upload on our website to make it publicly available. However, we have the font error problems, in this case we mostly use fonts in Thai Language. After exporting, everything looks perfectly fine like in the pic.  However, if we copied&pasted it elsewhere or try to use ctrl+f funtion to look for keywords. We coundn't find a single match as all the fonts are in the wrong orders and abnormal styles as attached some lines,  This causes us lots problens as we want to spread knowledge and info to all audience, but our work has never been showed up on the web browser as it cannot find the matching keywords from the engins to our works.  I tried changing fonts but still have the same problems, FYI, we never have this problems when we use just Microsoft Words and English Words are not affected.  Looking forward to you

Hi all: my manuscript is in Google Docs.  I am downloading in .docx format and then placing that file in InDesign.  In GDocs I used several heading styles in the hope that I could map those to InDesign paragraph styles upon import.  So, for example, on the Import dialog> Style mapping> I'm telling InDesign that "Heading 2" should map to the paragraph style called "Section Title".  But when InDesign brings in the text, Heading 2 does not display as Section Title.  Instead it comes in as Section Title+.  Do I have to go through the whole document, manually select all Section Title text and click "Clear overrides"?  Or is there a quicker way to do it?  For example, is there a way to select all Section Title text in the whole document and clear all overrides with one click?

Previously created documents do not show up on the screen. I can choose the document; it asks to find links; the tool windows open on the desktop, but the document does not. Same thing if I try to open as a copy, or create a new doc. I have uninstalled IDCC and then reinstalled. No changes. Photoshop and AI docs open just fine. Thoughts?

I have a 100+ page InDesign document. I only need to create a pdf of part of it. When I go to the Export Adobe PDF window, the range field does not allow me to insert a page range. I can only export the entire document. I'm new to CC. Older versions provided a range. Am I missing something here?Any help will be appreciated.

I tried to update the software the other day and I'm having issues. How much space is needed to update Adobe Software? Do you need more than 2.5 gb free to do updates?  

In Design spacebar closes app instead of creating a space.  This only in InDesign as it works OK elsewhere

(I've placed this post under InDesign since it's the app I use most often, but it also happens in Illustrator)• At random times (sometimes when I first launch InDesign CC or Illustrator CC and other times after I've been working in the app for a short while) two things occur:• The cursor changes to the hand tool and/or I'm unable to type a space in any Adobe app. So, except for moving the document around with the hand tool, I'm completely unable to do anything. I can't use any of the tools to make image frames, text boxes, etc. AND I can't select any objects, nothing!• The only way I can get use of any tools is to restart my iMac (a brand new Mac, so could be an OS issue (12.0.1.) Then, if I'm lucky I can use the tools for awhile, otherwise, I'm retsarting again and hoping for the best.• I even went so far as to buy a new keyboard, but that hasn't made any difference.As you can imagine, it's frustrating having to keep stopping midway through every project and restarting. ANY help would

Good evening,I can no longer use my space bar to mark spaces between words when I type. I can manually insert a punctuation space but I can't get a space with the space bar. I must have made a wrong setting, does anyone have any ideas?Thank You !Valerie

Hi, newbie here. Please would you mind letting me know if I have set bleed correctly - see first screenshot attached. I dragged the black background to the red line  Am I meant to drag it past that line though? And for the white page on the left, do I to drag the white background out to the red line too? On all my white pages, I don’t have any images sitting close to the page edge so not sure if I need to? I also attach the bleed settings in Document Setup. I set slug to zero as I don’t have any extra info for the printer. I hugely appreciate your help.

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I'm writing a big book of stories, adventure prompts, and optional rules for a popular board game. It's going to be offered as an untagged PDF, a hardcover book, or a softcover book. I'd like to include (as part of the digital PDF purchase) a tagged PDF. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to assign tags to different page elements. Let me explain how I currently think it's supposed to work, based on what I've scoured from the Adobe InDesign User Guide, Adobe Acrobat User Guide, W3C and WCAG website, PDF Association website, Section 508 website, and ISO PDF 1.7 Specification documents. Then, please explain to me how I've gotten it wrong. I'm sure I have, I just don't know what.The PDF 1.7 file type uses tags to help machines know how to convey different kinds of text (among other things) to readers. This is especially good for assistive technology, like screen readers for people who are blind or dyslexic.I can add Tags in manually in Acrobat Pro

Hi After change namespace in indesign from "http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" to ""http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/2024/", InDesign not recogize the tables. If i made any mistakes in xml, if yes please decribed.<Table xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/2024/" aid:table="table" aid:trows="2" aid:tcols="1"><Cell aid:table="cell" aid:theader="" aid:crows="1" aid:ccols="1" aid:ccolwidth="442.7142857142858" >Some cell content</Cell></Table>Thanks 

Hi, What is the CEP version supported in InDesign 2025?I have the following which does not work and gives error "Unsupported InDesign Version" with "11.0". With "12.0" the extension doesn't even load.   <ExecutionEnvironment> <HostList> <Host Name="IDSN" Version="[20.0,20.9]" /> </HostList> <LocaleList> <Locale Code="All" /> </LocaleList> <RequiredRuntimeList> <RequiredRuntime Name="CSXS" Version="12.0" /> </RequiredRuntimeList> </ExecutionEnvironment>   Even on the official CEP site I can't find if it supports 11 or 12 for InDesign 2025. https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/blob/master/CEP_12.x/Documentation/CEP%2012%20HTML%20Extension%20Cookbook.mdPlease suggest. Thanks

(This post is related to but different from another question I'm asking as a separate post. This is intentional.) I'm in a bit of a pickle. I'm writing a big book of stories, adventure prompts, and optional rules for a popular board game. I'm publishing the untagged PDF and print versions. I'd like to offer a "flexible format" style PDF too, which would be a PDF file format that meets the following criteria:It's mobile friendly. The page is the size of a mobile phone screen instead of a normal sheet of paper. The font size is still legible! It's just got a lot more pages now than the print version does.You can navigate the PDF easily without using bookmarks, relying solely on internal hyperlinks (to text anchors) and buttons (that On Release or Tap will run a "Go to Previous Page" or "Go to Previous View" action). Some of these are in parent pages as a de facto footer, some are inline with meaningful content.It's assistive technology friendly. The PDF has a logical tag structure u

Hello: I created a basic interactive element within InDesign using the "button and form" option. Essentially, I created 3 buttons with the idea the user would click a button and a popup window would appear and when they select X the popup dissapears. Once created I tested it using the EPUB interactivity preview and it worked however, when downloaded as an interactive PDF, it no longer works. Did I do something wrong?  Thank you! 

Hi, I'm using the new Indesign 17.01 and I found something strange in the selection & direct selection tools regarding their symbols: I expect to use the black arrow for the selection tool and the white one for the direct selection but they are inverted as can be seen from the screenshot.  The white one on the left activates the selection tool while the black one on the right the direct selection. Is it normal due to any new update or is something strange?  

My indesign file won't save my filename below unless I save it to desktop. Also can't export PDF unless desktop. FILE  NAME:Importance of Comprehensive Eye Examinations for Adults and Children Postcard Reminder V1.2

Hello, i am looking for a indesign script that opens all images that are placed on 1 or more pages/spreads in Photoshop. We are running indesign CC 2021.

Hallo, wir haben eine Indesign Datei von der Agentur bekommen, bei dieser ändert sich bei fast allen Textfeldern der Versatz vom Text. Aber dieser wird nirgends angezeigt. Wenn wir das Textfeld kopieren oder auch nur verschieben, rutscht der Text nach unten. Wenn wir im Textfeld in einer 2ten oder 5ten Zeile im Text etwas ändern, bleibt der Versatz so stehen, aber wenn wir in der 1. Zeile auch nur ein Leerzeichen einsetzten rutscht alles nach unten. Laut Agentur haben sie so etwas noch nicht gehabt und sie haben genau diese Datei auch einer dritten Person geschickt, bei der hat alles einwandfrei funktioniert. Wir haben hier 4 Personen, bei denen es immer passiert. Die Agentur und auch wir arbeiten mit der neusten Adobe Version und auch das Betriebssystem macht hier keinen Unterschied. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn uns jemand helfen könnte. Vielen DankViele GrüßeMartina

I used to have an old script that would open any image from InDesign in Photoshop in one click.However somehow, with the newer version of InDesign, none of the scripts that I had or found online, work. (I am on Mac, InDesign 2023 and Photoshop 2024).I am not a scripter, so I've asked ChatGPT to write one. After about an hour of several unsuccesful attempts we have finally managed to produce a working Java Script! So here I share it with you. You are welcome to improve it.imagesToPS(); function imagesToPS() { if (app.selection.length > 0) { var selectedPageItem = app.selection[0]; // Assuming the first selected item is a page item if (selectedPageItem.constructor.name == "Image") { var filePath = selectedPageItem.itemLink.filePath; openImageInPhotoshop(filePath); } else { alert("Selected item is not an image."); } } else { alert("No items selected."); } } function openImageInPhotoshop(filePath)

Liebe Comunitiy,Ich wollte mein Dokument von Doppelseite auf Einzelseite ändern, da kommt die Fehlermeldung: Durch den anfeforderten Vorgang würde ein Objekt zu klein. Stellen Sie sicher, dass die Konturstärken nicht zu groß sind. Ich weiß nicht welches Objekt gemeint ist. Wie kann ich das herausfinden, oder auch trotzdem die Seitenformatierung ändern?Ich hoffe, auf baldige NachrichtVielen Dank, Dagmar

Hello I am using indesign on my 14inch macbook pro apple m1 monterey. Each time I move an object the artboard & background workspace flashes. I have checked and both my indesign & macbook softwares are up to date.  I have noticed it seems to happen when I drag the indesign window from my main macbook screen to my seperate monitor. That seems to activate the glitch and then it flashes each time I move an object on both my macbook & monitor screen. Hoping theres a way to fix this thanks 

I am using Mac M1 Chip Mac OS Sequoia 15.3.1, Adobe Indesign 19.4. Recently while working in World Ready Composer Language Malayalam the shaping rule does not get applied in the bullet and numbered list. I ad applied the Harfbuzz script but in vein.  Could you offer a solution at the earliest.