InDesign

I make a change to the photo in PS then go back to the selected photo in InDesign. InDesign immediately crashes and shuts down. I figured out that if I deselect the photo I want to adjust in PS then ID does not crash. I have InDesign 20.1 and PS 26.4.1. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix or a better workaround? Thank you

I have a very repetitive task of replacing the images inside existing image boxes with images that I don't have on my computer, but that I right-click > copy image from my web browser. Is there a way to directly replace the image with the contents of my clipboard? Currently I have to just paste the clipboard onto the page, creating a new image box that I then have to move/resize to fit on top of the old one, and then deleting the old one, which is quite inneficient.Thank you!

I turned on dynamic spelling to see potential mistakes in the text, but it is asking me to change all first letters of words to uppercase, even when they are not at the beginning of a sentence. This has been really annoying because there is so much underlined text that I can't really pay attention to the red ones, which are actually potential grammar mistakes. Has anyone else experienced this problem and knows how to fix it?The graph style is set to my language. Only that came to my mind is that InDesign thinks it's all names because it has bad vocabulary in my language, so it asks me to change the first letter to uppercase so the word makes sense to the system. But that would be so stupid, why wouldn’t it underline those words in red instead?  

When defining a character/paragraph style, for instance, for captions, where only the initial word is to be set in italics or bold and the rest set regular, how's this done? E.g.: "Above: Schematic for Bronson House, Altadena, California, 1947". Thank you.

Hallo Zusammen,ich habe einen 380 Seiten Katalog gemacht mit mehreren Index.Ich möchte diese so verlinken, dass man wenn man sich das PDF ansieht der User direkt zum Produkt kommt.Bei der epub Version ist das möglich. PDF anscheinend nicht. Zumindest nicht direkt aus dem InDesign raus. Ich habe es dann direkt im PDF gemacht, was ich umständlicher finde.Oder gibt es in InDesign die Möglichkeit doch nur finde ich sie bloss nicht? 

My master page contains a text box, which is supposed to be editable. However, when I create page based on that master, inDesign does not allow me to edit content of that box. If one of you can show me how to do this, I would be grateful.

Im using InDesign CC 2025 on a Mac Mini running Ventura 13.7.3I'm trying to work a job that is using the OpenType version of HelveticaNeue, that appears to be conflicting with the True Type version that is in the system folder.Its not working with the Document fonts folder in the same folder as the InDesign doc & loading them with Connect Fonts isn't working, eiher.How do I fix this?Thanks!

Hope someone else benefits from this. It adjusts every number that matches a particular character style.Useful when static references are used and client adds a new one in!If anyone wants to improve it by, say, specifying at which number the adding begins, that's great.Successfully used on one document so far. -- Renumber (+1) based on char style - findChange a story at a time -- Built with ChatGPT 5 March 2025 tell application "Adobe InDesign 2025" -- Clear previous find preferences set find grep preferences to nothing -- Set GREP find preferences set properties of find grep preferences to {applied character style:"_LOCAL-ITALIC REF# CAPTURED", find what:"\\d+"} -- Get all stories in the active document tell active document set allStories to stories -- Process each story separately repeat with s in allStories set foundItems to find grep of s -- Process numbers in reverse order to prevent indexing issues repeat with i from (count of foundItems) to 1 by -1 set t to item i of

Hi,I have a 300 page doc with hundreds of pictures. When I try exporting to PDF, i encounter 2 issues:1. "This doc contains links to files that are not accessible" error message. However, i relinked all images. Images in orange means it's good to go yes ? 2. "Failed to Export the PDF file.Possible cause of failure is present on spread with page number "22". Usually, when replacing the images by drag and dropping images from files to indd, it works and the next spread with error is a higher page number (eg.: next error is on page 23). Sometimes, it's a lower number (like 4).  Wondering if anyone can help me with this... THanks 

I have a load of scripts used to produce different PDF's. These will not work in the New InDsesign 2025. Attched screenshot of error message. This is one of the codes which I have used for over 10 years until the new version. tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"   set _NoCrops to PDF export preset "No Crops" set _Crops to PDF export preset "Crop NO Text" set _dest to path to desktop as string tell active document set _Name to name if _Name ends with ".indd" then set _Name to text 1 thru -6 of _Name end if set noCropPath to _dest & _Name & " PROOF" & ".pdf" set cropPath to _dest & _Name & " PRINT" & ".pdf" export format PDF type to noCropPath using _NoCrops without showing options export format PDF type to cropPath using _Crops without showing options end tell end tell   tell application "Finder" set label index of file noCropPath to 7 set label index of file cropPath to 2 end tell     <Title renamed by MOD>

Greetings!  I teach InDesign in a public high school.  I am creating a collaborative assignment where one student creates a page in InDesign, their partner edits text in InCopy, and then the text is placed on the InDesign page.  We have no shared server due to security and privacy issues, so the file portability will be via Google Drive or emailing as an attachment.  Here's my InCopy/InDesign question:  Is there a way to make the Paragraph Styles created in InCopy work properly in InDesign?  When the formatted InCopy text is placed the styles created in InCopy show up in the InDesign Paragraph Styles panel, but when clicked they do not change the text.Thanx,Jay

Hi all, don't know if this is a known issue or not:I'm am setting up numbered lists and want to save them as a paragraph style. The weird thin: As soon as I save the style, all numbers in the list switch to 1. Even if I just use the default settings from InDesign and then just try to save these as a style. What am I missing here?

How do I OPEN the master page to change the date on an ongoing newsletter?

I can't get the cursor to load on placed text. I'm placing a docx file, and I've done this a hundred times with no problem. What could possibly keep the cursor from loading?ID CC, Windows 10.

Hello everyone,i want to embed the Images in around 500 InDesign Templates i have, to send each in one file with all the images included.So i have 500 InDesign files where is all included.There is no batch processing in Indesign i think and the Script i found, don't include the embedding of images.If you have a solution for this problem, I would be very happy about an answer.Thank you

I recent designed a magazine for a school, which included a one-page advertisement that was provided to my by the client. When I export the entire magazine file to PDF/X-1a:2001, two lines of text disappear from the ad. But when I export the entire magazine to the Adobe PDF present High Quality Print, the error doesn't happen. Looking for insight as to why this is happening. I have always used PDF/X-1a:2001 for file to be professionally printed, and never had a problem. Thanks. 

Doesn't matter how often I go to my Prefs and specify English (Canadian) for Dictionary and AutoCorrect, the next time I launch it, it's reverted back to US. Any idea why this migh be happening? I'm wondering if it has something to do with some setting that our IT Overlords Dept. have somewhere (as they deploy and administer all software). Would anyone even know where I would tell them to look, in order to change it? Thanks in advance.

We are using InDesign 2025. When we are creating pages for our publication, InDesign will frequently shut down. Once it happens if we don't restart the computer the crashes will become more frequent. We are working on a smb local server that stores our files, we connect to it to work on files and save out work. We have 4 in office computers connected and one off-site computer connected via VPN. Please let me know if a fix has been issued. This has been happening for the last 3 versions of InDesign, every update has done nothing to resolve this issue. Getting very frustrating.

Hi people, Until today and on all platforms, the low-level ExtendScript method Folder.prototype.create() was able to create a full path of non-existent subfolders within some root folder. For example, with the code    var myFolder = new Folder( Folder.myDocuments + '/dir1/dir2/dir3' );   myFolder.create(); you were obtaining the creation of all required subfolders (dir1, dir2, dir3) in case of non-existence. This behavior was consistent across all versions of ExtendScript that we knew of, and on all systems. As of InDesign 20.1 (not 20.0.x), and specifically on macOS, the above code will not always produce the desired result. In fact, only the dir1 folder will be created (if it does not exist), or only dir2 (if dir1 exists but not dir2), and so on. In other words, myFolder.create() only creates the highest missing folder in the hierarchy—so it will only work correctly if all parent folders were already existing. A particu

InDesign 2021, Big Sur 11.4, Font Explorer Pro 7.2.6I have a text box that contains a single character (the letter "a"). When I try to change the character, delete it, or delete the text box that contains it, InDesign flat out crashes, disappears. I can reopen the document to it's last saved state with no problems and re-save and continue working. It's a 60-page magazine so re-doing it in a new document is not an option. I can live with the text box stayting there forever but it's bugging me.There used to be a paragraph in there but I narrowed the problem down to this one character.Any advice?

When I open a document with ID (20.2) with a placed PNG that was created with an earlier version of ID, only a pixelated preview is displayed. The only workaround I have found is to relink the PNG file.Does anyone know this behaviour of ID 20.2?     <Title renmaed by MOD>

Why does InDesign insist on saving change to book files when I've done nothing to the book file itself? This behavior has been going on ever since I can remember, and still happens in 15.0, the very latest version. I open a book file, then I double-click a document file inside the book panel.  I work on the document file, save my work, and then close the document file. I've done nothing to the book file itself, yet if I try to quit InDesign, it always presents a dialog box asking if I want to save changes to the book file. Huh? I didn't change the book file, so why does InDesign ask  me to save "changes?" To make matters worse, if I click Save, it doesn't just save the file. Nope. InDesign then presents a Save As dialog box, defaulting to the same book file name and location.  So then I click Save again. But of couse, that's not going to work, because the file by that name already exists in that location, so I must click Replace.&n

I've made a product mockup psd with different labels as layers in a psd. Then using Object Layer options in InDesign to turn on the right layer for the product. When I add a new label/layer to the psd all the placed items in InDesign lose their layer options and are blank. Is there a way to add additional layers and for Indesign to remember the layers for items already placed?  ThanksWayne

How do I get rid of the utterly useless font filter panel that has popped up on my screen, obscuring all the panels I need to use? It will not let me close or move it and serves no purpose whatsoever. The only way I have found to get rid of it is to close InDesign but then it randomly decides to return.

Hello everyone,I am developing a UXP plugin for InDesign (version 20.1.0) and I am trying to retrieve the master spreads of the currently open document. However, I am encountering an issue where app.documents is undefined in my UXP environment, even though a document is open.My Code: import { app } from "indesign"; const getParentPageObjects = async () => { try { console.log("🚀 Starting getParentPageObjects..."); if (!app.documents || app.documents.length === 0) { throw new Error("❌ No InDesign document open!"); } const document = app.activeDocument; console.log("📄 Active document:", document.name); const masterSpreads = document.masterSpreads.everyItem().getElements(); console.log(`📄 Number of master spreads: ${masterSpreads.length}`); let masterPageNames = masterSpreads.map(spread => spread.name || "Unnamed"); console.log("📜 Found master sprea