InDesign

I work for a newspaper, and while exporting a layout proof some pages with ads appear blank even though the ad is there. I normally place indesign files and for whatever reason when I export them the ads are missing or the images in the ad are distorted. If I place a high res PDF in for the ad it's fine. I have never had an issue placing indesign documents before this update.

I am using the most current version of InDesign and Acrobat on Windows 10. To create an email hyperlink in InDesign I choose URL and type mailto: in front of the email address with no spaces. I am not using Shared Hyperlink Destination. When I export to PDF the email links don't work correctly. Instead of opening the email application, they try to open a web page. In InDesign, even though I specify URL and put mailto: in front of the email address when I re-open the Hyperlinks panel and choose Edit Hyperlink, the link has changed back to Email and the mailto text has disappeared. I have not made this change -- InDesign is doing it automatically behind my back. How can I create an email hyperlink in InDesign that actually works in the exported PDF?

Hi all. I am having a problem with some fixed layout epubs exported from Indesign when they are opened in Adobe Digital Editions. These are displaying fine (in fact v good) in Apple Books and Kindle Previewer but for some reason in ADE, when the reader advances the page, the new page usually (not always, but usually) doesn’t display, and won’t until you click a three of four times on where it should be. This is the same with both fixed layouts that contain images (eg facsimiles of historical documents) and fixed layouts generated from text (eg poetry). I tried png as well as jpeg in the “conversion settings” tab in Indesign export dialogue but it doesn’t seem to help. ADE is used in the catalogue booksellers look at, so we have no choice but to make the file work with it.Happy to edit the epub in sigil if anyone knows what edit is needed! Any advice very very much appreciated. Thanks!(ps ADE is also ignoring the TOC and not showing the front cover in the library, but these are rel

When extracting article directories, the following scenarios may occur:Title only Title + Subtitle Title + Author Title + Subtitle + AuthorIn such cases, you must include page numbers for every style. Then manually remove duplicates. You may need to format it as follows:TitleSubtitle.........Author　Page NumberRegular expressions can be used, but this approach seems quite cumbersome.Is there a simpler way to script the removal of duplicate page numbers and ellipses (.......02), while moving the author to the end (though this seems unlikely)? Regardless of how many identical page numbers he has, retain only one.Merge the last entry after the second-to-last one. Of course, this assumes only one heading per page.

For as many versions as i can remember, RGB indesign export to JPEG makes an error and does some internal cmyk conversion when it shouldn't. This means a web intent indesign document will export a RGB pdf with the correct colour no problem, but export to RGB jpeg will destroy the colour. (see attached) Yes. RGB transparency blending is enabled. Europe general purpose colour settings, with RGB embed profile.It's RGBs-to-RGB, so no gamma or out of gamut  problems are relevant here.  Why is this still not working  - am I the only one who uses this feature?

I'm working on an index that requires a lot of manual formatting to include the articles and sections, but I can't figure out how to force a line break the reference after a set number of characters (I'm thinking 32 would work).

Hi all, I've recently gotten into scripting for InDesign thanks to the fantastic book Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript written by Peter Kahrel. This helped me to successfully write a couple of scripts, however, I need my scripts to work within Data Merge, and I can find precious little information on how to script Data Merge and unfortunately it wasn't covered in the book. What I want to do is simply perform a script on all the records without affecting the template file. The data is of different lengths for each record. For instance, record 1 may contain a table of 80 rows while record 2 may contain a table of 100 rows. I figured out how to write a script to delete the empty rows, however, I want to delete them for that record only. I figured that a way to do this would be to merge the data of each record into a new InDesign file, and run the script to delete the empty rows in there. However, when using the mergeRecords() function, I only seem to get the fi

I've observed that the script below selects the column in two separate steps.selectCellForCurrentFrame(); function selectCellForCurrentFrame() { var item = app.selection[0]; var col = item.columns //Cyclic column for (var c = 0; c < col.length; c++) { var cel = col[c].cells; //var textFrame = app.selection[0].parent.parent; var rangeOfCells = cel.everyItem().getElements(); //Look here carefully—each column has been selected. alert(rangeOfCells); var cellsToSelect = []; for (var n = 0; n < rangeOfCells.length; n++) { if (rangeOfCells[n].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW ) { cellsToSelect[cellsToSelect.length++] = rangeOfCells[n]; } }; app.select(cellsToSelect[0]); for (var n = 1; n < cellsToSelect.length; n++) { app.select(cellsToSelect[n], SelectionOptions.ADD_TO) }; } };

Bonjour,Y a-t-il un moyen automatique pour vectoriser touts les textes présents sur plusieurs pages d'un document Indesign ?Merci de votre aide.

Creative Cloud Files extending to all kind of filetypes beyond adobe files, beeing able to store and use files like word needed for the project in one place. We are currently working with local indesign files and photos, documents etc. - wish we could move to an all cloud document workflow including all media or project related files from clients in one place from Adobe.

We're getting messages that a Lenovo with an Intel i5-1335 (10 core), 16GB RAM, 256MB laptop (2023 build) is incompatible with the latest InDesign. All the specs are within Adobe's specifications. I do only have 35GB free HD space, though. Could this be the problem?

Hello. I apologize for my English im from Russia! I wanted to ask how I can write a regular expression in InDesign that will find values ​​like 14th and change the th to superscript mode.I did Find(\d+)(th)Replace to$1–$2 and I added a superscript at the bottom, but it didn't work. The number itself changed, but I only needed to change the letters.

Is there a way to sync paragraph styles, character styles, and other design assets across multiple InDesign projects? I’m working on several documents that need to maintain a consistent look, and manually updating styles in each file is time-consuming. Are there any built-in tools, libraries, or best practices to streamline this process?

Hi,While typing in a table, in InDesign, how to use tab key within column?For example, if I have the text which have tab alignments (as given in example below), how to type them using the tab key because pressing the tab key shifts the cursor to the next column.1.  Who jumps over the lazy little dog.     cat          fox     lazy         dogPlease note that if I can define tabs within column then how to use them with tab key?

Hi, the problem that the some paragraph -in just in 1 page- disappears after exporting the file to pdf - ArabicI see a normal view in Indesign, but when I export the file to adobe pdf format some paragraph disappearsimages and file attached

It would be great if all strokes were default-selected when wanting to hide all cell strokes of a table. Currently, the middle cell line has to be manually deleted. Thanks!

Many times I'm working with several libraries. A main one and a holiday for instance. I'd love to be able to have both open at once vs. flipping back and forth.  Shawn Kearney - Max 2025 - Target

I am having an issue with the latest version of InDesign (currently running 20.0.1) where hitting 'save' results in anywhere between 5-15 seconds of spinning beachball of death. I've tried with and without font management software, tried on a clean Mac user account, completely uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign, but nothing works. I also tried saving as IDML but to no avail. I am saving to my iMac HD, not the cloud, although it is no better if I do save to the cloud. A new document with nothing in it saves instantly, and adding images and non-text items has no impact. I imported a large chunk of 'Lorem Ipsum' text in the Minion Pro regular font, and that also had no effect, but as soon as I start adding different font styles and weights, let alone other fonts, saving gets really slow.For example, just changing three words to Minion Pro Semibold Subhead means the document takes a full second to save (with a brief flash of the spinning ball), and once I have added 4 other versions

My catalog files are quite large and looking for a way to edit the file quickly. It can take some time to make simple text changes.

I've decided that having one text flow per document is too problematic to retain, because even small changes to styles may case significant repagination; so every style change requires a tedious re-check of every single page in the book. So I'd like to break text flow between frames as it stands right now, so any repagination that requires more space will generate an overset-text error. But I want to keep one story; not have a separate story on every page. Is this possible? The flow-breaking scripts in the samples collection both break the story.

I am building a fitness book for a client, and she would like to have a collaborative file to replace images in sections with others.I managed to create a project and upload a zip folder with the links, etc. I noticed that I am unable to open/upload the InDesign file to invite her to share. I then saw it's a supported file format issue, so I tried to save the cloud (it has a green checkmark), but it doesn't show up in my "files" section in the Creative Cloud Desktop App to share with the client. Then I tried sharing the file from InDesign (Invite to edit), but it has been showing this notification since yesterday. Is this normal for larger image-rich files? Also, if someone could guide me on best practices for sharing and collaborating on files, that would be very helpful, as this is my first time.  Please help the newb.Thanks a million. 

After a recent update, my InDesign is now showing all these stupid pop-ups the whole time. Screenshot attached.  To be absolutely clear, I am talking about the entire dialogue box, not the tool-tip illustrateed in a section of the dialogue box shown.   How do I kill them off once and for all ?  I've looked through Preferences but canot spot anything obvious.       <Title renamed by MOD>

Not sure if anyone has experienced this issue before when looking at the object layers for a linked illustrator file? where you end up getting duplicate layers being displayed (See linked images). This issue seems quite random, the only work around I've found so far is if you turn on every version of the layer you want, this is fine until you suddenly have about 7/8 duplicates to deal with! any help would be appreciated!

For the past week or so, InDesign has been freezing for 1-2 minutes when I make a change to a paragraph style (try to change the font or color or something). It will eventually get going (i.e., not crashing ID), but it's making my workflow VERY slow. InDesign version 20.2Windows 11, version 24H2I saw some earlier posts about a similar issue. 

Hello. When I place jpegs into frames grey lines appear over half the box. I have the highest quality view setting on. Has anyone experienced this before?        <Title renamed by MOD>