InDesign

I am working through the lessons in InDesign CC 2017 Classroom in a Book. In Lesson 3, we create a master page with a placeholder for a running header. Then, we replace the text that is on the master page with final document text. The instructions are (on page 78):--------------------------- Replacing placeholder text1 Select the Type tool (T).  Hold down Shift+Ctrl and then click within the placeholder text frame on page 2 that contains "Placeholder Text". Replace the placeholder text with Egrets and Herons .--------------------------I cannot get this to work no matter what I do. When I delete the placeholder text, the text frame is also deleted, and I cannot type in the replacement text. I have tried adding a new text frame, but cannot accomplish this. (The text frame is within another element on the master page, but I am not sure what the element is because the lesson had me place the placeholder element as a part of a much larger element with multiple parts.)When I hold down

Boa tarde,O executor do indesign não está abrindo no meu computador e não consigo instalar o app. O que posso fazer?

For years, we've been creating charts in Infogram, exporting as PDF, and importing them into our InDesign reports. The exporting the full report as an Interactive PDF. Just last month, when I export our final report, it has been changing the tracking in the source lines. The charts are perfect when viewed in Acrobat, they're perfect in the Indesign preview, and they're perfect when opened in Illustrator (not only that, but the fonts are OUTLINED(!). However, type is bunching up as though it was tracked too tight during the export.The font is Roboto, and it's active on my system.I am BAFFLED by this! Has anyone seen this?

When I place a photoshop doc to an indeisgn file the image is too small, way too small. The canvas sizes are identical so this shouldn't be an issue. I have used these two applications like this for years and never had this issue. I even tried screen sharing with Adobe techs and they couldn't figure it out.     <Title renamed by moderator>

I have already posted this in UserVoice, but cross-posting here so others can see my workaround. And who knows, maybe suggest a better workaround?I am creating flowcharts within InDesign as it seems to work better for me than in Illustrator. The Layers Panel allows me to do this. But I really, really wish I didn't have to do this workaround. These are my personal notes for future reference:Grouping for complex assemblages of objects: creating a new groupThis is needed because the Layers Panel won't allow you to group items deep in the Layers Panel, only if they're at the top level; you can't create a "Group within a Group."- Use Layers Panel- Keep two objects (doesn't matter what) off the page named "Dummy Object," select them with the mouse, then Menu > Object > Group- Rename this to what you want your group's name to be- Drag TWO OR MORE objects or groups into this group- Drag the two Dummy Objects to the top of the Layers panelto get them out of the group- Drag the new group t

Bonjour à tous,Je cherche un script qui soit capable de créer une nouvelle section dès qu'il rencontre un style de paragraphe nommé.Merci d'avance

  When printing from one particular document I am only having blank pages come through the printer, I have tried three different pages with the same result.   Meanwhile, I can print properly from other documents.   Any thoughts?

when im exporting some of the Brackets look like thissomeone knows why?

i'm migrating an old Indesign script i created to process book documents before starting to work on them.i'm trying to get a list of all documents in the book and open each one, process and save it.i created a UXP plugin, but when i'm trying to access the bookContent properties like the filePath i'm getting back rejected promisses and not valid objectsi already tried adding full file system permissions with no luck.i tried   await book.bookContents.firstItem().fullName   but i'm getting back some kind of Symbol()without await i get a resolved Promise which the result is an "n"...     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, which function/variable gives me the current installed  InDesign version number(s)? Best regardsAlexander

Why is tranck changes not allowing to select my text and track all changes? 

When our cursor is in a table, we definitely want to manipulate the table, and here we should call up the table's panels, but we don't.It would be nice to be able to set up panels to bring up custom combinations. 

how can I get all pages to be side by side including page 1?When I shuffle them they just get more botched up... 

I don't know what I may be doing wrong, but some of my buttons still show even after I click on them to fill the form that's below them. I think I'm following the exact same steps for all of them, and yet some (Month, Day, Year and Background and Context) appear as slightly grayed-out,a dn when clicked won't disapear. Instead, I am typing text in the fillable form over the button text (see Background and Context) All others (like subject for instance work perfectly and the button hides as soon as I click on it so I can type in the interactive text box below it). What mistake am I making? BIG THANKS FOR YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM!

HiI wonder if anyone can help, I'm trying to write a script where I can insert a text varible and also give it a character style highlight so it can be easily seen.This is what I've been trying which does seem to work but I can't believe this is the way to do itvar itemVariable = app.selection[0].textVariableInstances.add({associatedTextVariable:selectedVariable}); var myTextFrame = app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0]; var styleStartIndex = app.selection[0].index - 1; var styleEndIndex = styleStartIndex + 1; app.selection[0].characters.itemByRange(styleStartIndex, styleEndIndex).appliedCharacterStyle = doc.characterStyles.itemByName("Pink");Thanks in advanceAlex

In a multilingual book, all footnotes and reference numbers have been formatted according to English writing conventions. However, in some Arabic sentences, the reference numbers naturally appear on the left. How can I move these reference numbers to the right without affecting the layout of the Arabic text?

We are currently developing our InDesign Plugin using InDesign SDK(C++).Purpose of this post is actually to get suggestions for a tool/toolchain that supports memory leak checking in our product, for both Windows and Mac environments. (Our development environments are Visual Studio 2022 in Windows and XCode in Macintosh)My Idea is we will need to utilize InDesign Debug version as the host for this right?What tools/toolchains you guys usually use?(crtdbg maybe??) We appreciate any insights you can give

Hello support, I just bought Softmatic Barcode Extension for Indesign via Adobe site, but how do I install it or where can I find it?

BEGGING FOR HELP! Need to get this file to client yesterday...😱Does anyone know why one word insists on breaking to the next column?'keep options' is turned off in it's paragraph style; there's not a single character style applied to the word AND columns are set to 'unbalanced' ... it makes no sense! [basic Paragraph] style DOES have 'keep lines together' (At start/end of paragraph  | Start: 2 lines | End: 2 lines are the settings) Is it possibly something to do with that?! See pic for reference... 

I don't know if this is common knowledge, but I thought I'd post it anyway to help others avoid frustration.I've been working in an ID document created in v13.1 for the last few months. It's a simple 32-page product catalog. For the first draft, made several months ago, in v13.0, I produced a TOC from the page headers. The "create TOC" worked perfectly, using my character/paragraph styles as desired.After the latest client revisions this week, more information was added (copy, pics, vector art). When I went to update the TOC, InDesign crashed. It crashed even when I tried to delete the text box containing the TOC. Performing any TOC function caused the program to instantly crash.I tried resetting the program prefs, but it didn't help.What did repair my corrupt file was this:The first approach to debugging an InDesign file that crashes is to save it (export, in versions earlier than CS6) as an IDML. Opening the IDML in InDesign will create a new INDD based on the saved XML information.T

Hello!I was using InDesign on my Windows laptop and everything was working just fine two days ago. I turned my computer off (saved my InDesign file and closed the application). When I turned on my computer yesterday it said loading fonts so I gave it time but half an hour later it still showed the background tasks to be 'activating font' I tried to go on the Creative Cloud desktop app and the fonts page would just show the loading sign.I tried to log out of my CC app and on the InDesign, multiple times now and tried to turn off the auto-activate fonts ( edit>< preferences > file handling)But still, the same issue today, I am not sure what to do. Could someone please help me!! I have attached some images to show you what I mean. Should I maybe remove and re-add the font? But it still isn't loading on the cc desktop app so I'm not sure that will help. ( PS - I tried to see if the font would work on Photoshop but when I search the font the font will not s

Hi! I have been trying to learn how to use adobe fonts but when I try to click the cloud symbol to activate the fonts nothing happens, it just comes up with a bar that says "click to activate font" but nothing happens when I do. I was wondering if anyone new an easy fix to get this working?

Hi everybody out there,I am getting crazy (just as Indesign does):The numbering of the images in InDesign was completely messed up; there was no solution because every time I anchored an image, the numbers got scrambled. Now I wanted to unanchor _one_  image (using the Haesel AllesEntankern script), and all 106 images have become unanchored. The numbering is more or less correct now. But I'm afraid to close the file because when I open it again, everything will definitely be scrambled. I attach a screenshot, so you can better understand what I mean, when I speak about many pictures.Moreover ... from one chapter 35 images have disappeared (I was just about to replace them). The text is there, but the images, image frames, and captions are not.Let alone the text changing page when it pleases to do so... (see screenshot).I save regularly, including in IDML format, but my deadline is approaching, and I'm starting to despair.If nobody can help me here, I would be ready to pay an e

I've a file from a book printing edited in InDesignCC some years ago. Everything is fine, when I open the file with InDesign CC.But if I open the same file on the same machine (Windows 11), it says at the beginning, that 3 fonts are missing. Why? Same file, same machine (and therefore installed fonts).