InDesign

InDesign Menu:File - Open Recent - opens wrong file.App restart doesn't fix.

Greetings!  I have a situation where I can see the thumbnail of an InDesign file in my startup workspace, but when I open the file there are only a few placeholders.  The .jpgs, .pngs, and text are all missing, but the empty frames are there.  The status bar shows no errors.  The file opened and "behaved" fine the past few days, but today it is not.Thanx,Jay

I have an InDesign file that has many master pages. Some of them have to get moved to another InDesign doc. The master pages have many parapgrah, character and object styles. Right now when I move a page, the styles don't move with it. Is there a way to get the styles to move with the pages or do I have to manually load them from the orignal  and assign them?

InDesign 20.xx, PC.I am producing a descent size index. Just a few entries have sub entries. I want the Levels to indent from the left and the numbers to align from the right hand frame edge. 

Hello Everyone,I am trying to print to an adobe pdf file and keep getting this error:%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%%%[Page: 1]%%%%[Page: 2]%%%%[Page: 3]%%%%[Page: 4]%%%%[Page: 5]%%%%[Page: 6]%%%%[Page: 7]%%%%[Page: 8]%%%%[Page: 9]%%%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: readstring ]%%Stack:(› PoÈsKÖn µÐY5Âê2¢ ÷Fmø-êíöYJøR½=Ö¤ark--save-%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%It won't let me print. Please help if you have any idea what this means?

I am laying out a technical manual and need to have the page numbers styled as  "Page 1 of 299"  Each chapter is it's own document and I have them in a book.  Book panel shows pages fine, but when I print the page numbers are inaccurate only showing the number of pages in that section.   Example: Section one has 14 pages  and the next starts at 15 as it should.  However the number of pages just won't  go.  Example:  Chapter 1  Page 1 of 14,  Chapter 2:  Page 15 of 15 etc.  I want it to be  Page 1 of 27, Page 15 of 27.  In each document I used the "Last Page Number" but it is only counting for that one chapter.   How can I make it when I print to have this correct.   I can't hard code the number of pages because it is a living document.  Can some one help please?   Book panel is correctLast page of Chapter 2First page on Chapter 3   

HiI wrote a script that finds all table headers and collects the page numbers they are on. Then I check the page number of the next paragraph (table) to see if the table spans more than one page. And everything works fine until there is no footnote reference at the end of the paragraph with the table header - then the next paragraph is the first paragraph of the thread. Do you have any ideas on how to solve this problem? var doc = app.activeDocument; var toSearch = app.selection[0].parentStory; var myTxt = app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs; function main(){ var tableHeadersPages = findTableHeaders(); alert(tableHeadersPages); } function findTableHeaders(){ // reset szukania app.findChangeGrepOptions = null; app.findChangeTextOptions = null; app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; // nagłówki tabel – numery stron var tableHeadersPages = []; app.findTextP

Hey everyone. I've found some similar threads but no solutions for my issue yet. Well it's actually for a friend, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. She's having issues scaling text within a text box using the cmd + shift shortcut. It resizes the text box, but the text stays the same size. Any suggestions?Cheers

How to operate only on selected cells in a table?Thanks to so many enthusiastic people for the pointers., I've learned that I can operate on the current table accurately.I would also like to know how to operate on the currently selected cell.For example, in the script below, the entire table is now filled with “-” for empty cells.How do I change it to only modify the selected cells.Thank you very much. var cell = app.activeDocument.selection[0].parent; var myTable = cell.parent; for (var i=0; i<myTable.columns.length; i++){ for (var j=0; j<myTable.columns.item(i).cells.length; j++){ if (myTable.columns.item(i).cells.item(j).contents == ""){ myTable.columns.item(i).cells.item(j).contents ="-"; } } }  

Hi!I still wonder, how can I name my link with a much shorter and better name? For example "SussieArlyckePortfolio" and not all the numbers and stuff?https://indd.adobe.com/view/97f2e963-a573-4228-b333-d4602521917d

Hello everyone!In InDesign, how can I use a script to add a comment to an XML object in the Structure, and how can I retrieve the comment content of an XML object?Thank you all!

Hello, My documents are missing link information for embedded images, as shown in screenshot. The images are stored in a folder on my computer and haven’t been copied from elsewhere. This issue never occurred before does anyone know how to fix it? Thank you,Jacob

Recent windows update dont work well with my InDesign. I cant arrange page order or move pictures or text fields, and If I can move text field it jumps 20cm to wrong direction. I cant roll back to older versions of updates any more and I have been doing all "disable windows update permanently" guides that I found from youtube. My important deadlines are on fire right now, so is there any easy solution to this conflict between InDesign2023/2025 and Windows Update Windows11 24H2? Yes, there is "Roll back to recent update" option but it says "this is not in use on this computer". Yes there is also another way to roll back, but only to yesterday´s version that is 24H2 update version that is not working.

Suddenly i started having issues moving object around with selection tools in indesign. When ever i click the selection tools, it's showing free transform symbol and vice versa. I can only move obect around using free transform tool but not with the selection tools.  I had to uninstalled the Indesign software, restarted my laptop and reinstalled it back again but i'm still having the same issue. I have the latest version of Indesign 19.0. Please what can I do to rectify this problem because it's becoming so annoying at this point.

Hello,I have just completed a project with 35 InDesign documents, each one of which has at least one PDF linked to it and several SVGs which are all scattered in their respective folders on my system.I now need to package those and send them to the publishers.Since all InDesign docs are in a single folder, all PDFs in another single folder, all SVGs ... you get it ... is there a script to batch package all those documents? They should remain as separated packages, of course, just I would like to avoid having to manually open each one of them and running "Package" plus staring at the screen for about one hour or so...Thank you!

Dear community,  I can't export to print-pdf anymore. I have tried to update, in different versions of indesign. Or to trying to copy into a new document. Does anyone have the same problem? Thanks in advance, 

Dear community. Is there a way to display the results with FindChangeByList? So how many changes were made, or even a list of each search query and how often it was executed. 

In My Indesign tool sidebar all my T aren't showing - but have a red line through them.  How do I reset my text tool

This script already works very well.Thanks to the author. /************************************************************** Fill Table with Placeholder Text Version : 1.1 **************************************************************/ app.doScript("@JSXBIN@ES@2.0@MyBbyBnABM2SBbyBn0AGJ2TBnASzLjGjJjMjMiPjQjUjJjPjOjTBAEjzNjTjFjMjF\ jDjUiPjQjUjJjPjOjTCfnfnftO2VBJ Other source code is encrypted.It would be nice if the author could share the source code. Just a thought.It would be great if there were two modes.The first one, for the selected cell.The other, without selecting a cell, would run vertically down the column of the cell the cursor is in, to the next cell in the column that has content. Thank you very much.  

Hi all, We have a logo used in our mailer with name "100% NZ Grown.indd", but when we create data using Create Data from InCatalog, the file name is changed to "100Z Grown.indd".  I've already reached out to Em Software, the company that developed the plugin InCatalog for inDesign, and this is their reply: That sounds like it might be an operating system or an InDesign issue, since it was imported correctly, and InCatalog is just exporting what it finds in the pathname property of the graphic. Likely the problem is that "%" in a URL is a prefix for expressing a special character as a numeric value, and it's being "eaten" by internal InDesign processes.We have been using InCatalog for over 10 years, and never had this issue before till we upgraded to inDesign 2025 last week. So I'm just wondering if someone has come across this issue as well? or is this a InDesign 2025 bug?  CheersTao Jiang 

A few days ago I lost the ability to drag a frame around in InDesign. I can still resize with the handles.I also stopped being able to drag groups in the Outliner tray in Sketchup.The two are only linked as they show the same mouse pointer icon when the action is not allowed

I have unistalled and reinstalled indesign 2024/2025 and it keeps giivng me this issue of note being able to drag any object to the left, ot if its selected skews it super far off into the right. There is nothing locked on the page or anythig. I have reset prefrences, the memory on the computer is fine, all other adobe apps are acting fine. This is making me crazy! Has anyone had this issue and found a solution?

Hi - need your helpI was have all kinds of issues with TEXT WRAP dialogue box not viewing properly and I uninstall Indesign 2023 v18....... and was just hoping to reinstall it - Now I don't see it to RE-INSTALL - Yikes I guess I hit REMOVE ( hoping to zap the preferences) instead of KEEP Can someone help me reinstall 2023 Indesign - PLEASE Thanks

How do i apply guides to the whole document and not just one page? 

In InDesign, is there a way to change the width of a CTA button to grow/contract with the amount of copy inside?