InDesign

I am exporting an 8.5x11 document (130 pages) to pdf. There are no bleeds although I had made bleeds at one point and then removed them. The PDF is coming out as 9x11.5. I've never had this problem before.  I tried exporting to Postscript, but that keeps turning the page from vertical to landscape, and I can't find options to change that in the export screen (all grayed out).  Update:  I was able to create a new document and print with no problem. So, finally I exported the file to PDF with a new name and it exported correctly(!!?).  In the original exports, I specified to "replace" the old PDF file, and it seems it kept the very old settings with the bleed size.  I even deleted the old PDF file, and then exported to that same name resulting the same problem. This is a bad glitch.

Hallo Leute,seit über einem Jahr gibt es schon das Problem bei InDesign auf meinem Macbook Pro, bei der ich beim an- und abstöpseln eines großen Monitors ein schwarzes InDesign Fenster bekomme.Beispiel: Ich arbeite mit InDesign an meinem Macbook Pro an einen großen Monitor, danach nehme ich den usbc kabel raus, wenn ich kurz den Raum verlassen muss. Dann wird das inDesign Fenster auf meinem Laptop schwarz und ich sehe mein Layout nicht mehr. Beim Neustarten der InDesign App wird das Layout erst wieder sichtbar. Und umgekehrt das gleiche Problem: Wenn ich auf meinem Laptop arbeite und später den Kabel an meinem größeren Monitor anschließe, dann wird das InDesign Fenster ebenfalls schwarz.Dieses problem betrifft auch viele meiner Kollegen.Das kann nicht sein, dass es bis heute nicht behoben wurde …LG

I regularly create covers for Print on Demand Amazon books. The way this works is that a template is acquired from Ingramspark (see the attached jpg image) as a pdf document. I have been using Photoshop which works reasonably well. Having opened the pdf, I create a marquee around the coloured part - which is the actual cover template - and then trim away the white surround. But it occurs to me that the process might be more efficient with InDesign. The question therefore is: how do I achieve a cropped template in my ID desktop to start creating new layers with images and text etc? I need to save the completed cover as a png or jpg for Amazon. I am told that I can't crop out part of a page in ID but is that right? Can't understand why that isn't an option. Maybe I have to crop in PHOTOSHOP and then open in ID?Any advice gratefully received.

It is as simple as it sounds. When I attempt to option-drag to copy an object, indesign crashes. I can copy & paste, but not option-drag. I recently deleted preferences for some other buggy issue (always annoying to lose preferences), but this issue persists.  I am running InDesign 2025 on an M1 mac, Sonoma, 16 gb ram. 

Description:I am experiencing a recurring issue with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign (both 2025 editions) freezing on startup on my M3 MacBook Pro. I have never encountered this issue before. Restarting my computer temporarily resolved the issue once, but the problem has returned.Additionally, today Photoshop displayed the following error message:“Could not download ‘Party Incap-Death Status Tracker-2025.psdc’ because you are not signed in or there was a problem setting up cloud documents.”Steps Taken to Troubleshoot:• Restarted my MacBook Pro (resolved the issue once, but the problem persists).• Confirmed that I am signed into my Adobe Creative Cloud account.• Attempted to open Photoshop and InDesign separately, but both freeze upon launch.System Information:• Device: M3 MacBook Pro• OS Version: [Insert macOS version]• Adobe Photoshop Version: 2025• Adobe InDesign Version: 2025• Creative Cloud Status: Signed inRequest:Please assist in diagnosing and resolving this issue. If additional lo

Dear Community, I am experiencing an issue when updating linked Photoshop files in Adobe InDesign. After modifying a PSD file in Photoshop and saving the changes, InDesign fails to update the linked image and displays an error message.. 

Hi! Since updating to InDesign 2025 (20.1) I can no longer break text threads without the application giving me the beach ball of death and then completely crashing.  I have tried uninstalling and reverting back to 2024 versions, clearing my preferences, and creating a completely new document... however, nothing has worked.  This is super frustrating, especially when working on books of 300+ pages. Do anyone have any tips? 

I’m using Indesign 2022 17.2.1 on Mac OS Monterey 12.3.1. In the past I was able to place (command D) a Word document and/or image from Dropbox into Indesign. Now when I place (command D) a document or image from Dropbox a "import failed" error pops up. I reinstalled the Dropbox app, still doesn't work. I opened the file in Dropbox so it will download on my Mac then tried placing the file in Indesign, that worked. The problem is I work with alot of files from Dropbox and need the "place"(command D) to work.Thank you 

iMac running Ventura 13.7.3 Everytime I use the keyboard shortcut 'Option' + 'Command' to duplicate elements on the canvas, or indeed duplicating pages, Adobe InDesign crashes. I've used this keyboard action for years and years without any issue. Any ideas out there? Thanks for any help.

How can I fill a table cell with a picture? 

I noticed this annoying issue after switching my main monitor from an iMac with a screen size of 5120 x 2880 to an external monitor with dims of 2560 x 1440. For some reason, now when I open InDesign and use the Fit Page in Window view option the document and pasteboard are both covered on the top and bottom. The only solution I have found is if I resize the whole InDesign window and I use the same view setting, then there is more padding between the top ruler and bottom status bar. I'm not sure why fit page to window is considering the viewable area as within the ruler and status bar... The document when affected by this seems to be sized to the outer edges of both of these panes. I don't mind resizing the window to accomadate this issue, but it seems silly that suddenly with a new screen size this is affected? I have included screenshots of both view (both with the view Fit Page in Window selected: InDesign window scaled to the top of Mac

I am working on a bilingual compilation in InDesign, and I am trying to work on a PDF e-book compilation in Hebrew (RTL) and LTR languages.First, I successfully set it in the opposite direction by referring to the article in the link below!! https://helpx.adobe.com/ https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/make-a-book-with-hebrew-text/m-p/12946172 But the problem is the numbers that go between Hebrew sentences.They are entered as Arabic numerals, but when you copy them from Word and paste them into InDesign, they go in the exact opposite direction of the Hebrew letters.For example, the letters that appear as 58:12 in Word come out as 21:85 when you paste them into InDesign.The paragraph writer for Hebrew, the language I'm currently working on, is 'Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer', but if I change it to 'Adobe Paragraph Composer' to display Arabic numerals correctly, the entire Hebrew paragraph will change, so this also seems impossible. How can I solve th

For example, my fileName is: "myfile.indd".I want to create a subdirectory backup in the current directory to back up a file  that starting with the current  date....\backup\2025-03-02-myfile.inddIf there is already an existing file of the same type, it will be overwritten directly without prompting.Seems like I've seen similar scripts and didn't care at the time.

why are these two so different when I clicked on the same exact stlye??see video

I am working on a book. I have the manuscript in Word with images embedded and/or anchored. When I place the text with images included I see blank pages but I suspect the copy is there as the overset marker is at the bottom of the page. All the images appear (126 of them) in the links panel with the 'OV' overset marker. I suspect the images are so big they are pushing the text out causing the overset. I can place without images but that is not what I want to do. I don't have the original images. I am also aware of a previous post 'How do I remove invisible linked images and overset text in an InDesign file?' Is there a way to grab these images to push them aside, resize or what ever so I can begin to work on the spreads? Or, is there a way in Word to stop them doing this? 

Hi, When i am setting up an index with many levels and numbers its kicking the words away from the numbering, sometimes it does and soemtimes it doesnt. Please help 

Bonjour,Pouvez-vous me montrer les étapes pour écrire verticalement de bas en haut dans un bloc de texte sur indesign? Merci!!!

Why are my pages adding connected to the last pages instead of a new spread?? 

Hello, i'm looking for a solution to unlink all InCopy stories and delete all assignments from an InDesign book after production. Because we might reuse a portion of the content in other publications, which leads to a few challenges… a) We might have to change the textflow because of different font stylings in the other publication, but of course want to keep the original unchanged. b) It trips up designers who don't pay attention to the Assignments panel, as copying assigned stories to a different document hides them in the "Unassigned Content" region of the panel. So they are wondering why they can't edit the text. We have our publication set up as one double page spread per InDesign document, so multiple designers can edit different parts of the publication, all collected in one InDesign book file for the whole issue. Opening each page and manually unlinking/deleting all InCopy content would be tedious. Is there a script or other method which would help with this

Hello everyone, I am working on creating a PDF accessible from InDesign and I am having several problems when I do tests on Acrobat : - When I start the audio playback of the PDF document on Acrobat, it systematically stops after reading 2 pages instead of continuing to read until the end of the document. I tried deleting pages to see if the "blocking" was coming from one of them in particular, but the reader always stops after 2 pages... - In InDesign, I created tags with the article panel in order to define the reading order. Acrobat seems to respect the order of these tags when reading the audio, but yet in the "reading order" panel, the numbering does not correspond to the order of the tags defined in InDesign and I do not know if I should worry about it or consider that my tags are correct... You can see the problem on page 5 of my document. - On InDesign I work with the pages facing each other, and I anchored the image of the red mug on the next page so that i

I'm attempting to set up a data merge to place one photo on each of several pages. After the merge, I notice that the merged image is not being placed in the page's original frame that I identified. Each image is being placed in a new frame. Therefore, I can't return to the Parent page and adjust sizes and other features of that frame en mass. Any suggestions?

This is my version of Indesign, but I can't use the QR code. I use it in China. 

hi, i am getting a crash when trying to duplicate a page via this method:i drag a page eg pg2 from the 'pages' box to the 'create new page' icon bottom right next to trash iconno problems doing this with 2024 version (or any previous version)using Indesign 2025 on Sonoma 14.4.1happens with old files and new files - not every time but pretty regularlyplease advise what to dogetting very frustrated

HiI have a pre-deffined text block which is formatted for a annual report, to reduce the copy and past of lots of little bits of data off a spreadsheet, is there an easy way to bring this data into InDesign and keep flow of this data the same as it flows through the pages. Example of pre-formated data. 

Hello everyone. I have a problem with the line thickness (outline) of text boxes. I have positioned several text boxes directly next to each other.If I now set the outline (e.g.) to 0.25PT, then it is twice as thick at the edges where the text boxes touch each other in relation to the free outer edges. I have already experimented with the settings “inside, outside, center”, but I do not get the desired result. I would like to have all lines equally thick. The text fields are exactly aligned at the moment. The first text box ends at X:70 and the second begins at X:70 Do you have any ideas what else I can try?