InDesign

I just wanted to ask if anyone knows why this is a thing. I create a US Letter sized document in InDesign, create the document based on the guidelines provided with a standard bleed, and when I go to print the design does not fit onto the letter size paper in the printer. For the past 20 years, my fix was just "Scale To Fit"... but why? Why is this a problem? Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to create a document specific to each printer's margins? Or is this just the nature of the beast?

Hi everyone, i am having masssive problems with Indesign. Im on Windows 11  and am running the latest version of InDesign. I was having some issues with InDesign and read that resetting the preference might be the answer. So i used the ctrl+shiftr+alt method and reset them. Since then it wont open at all. The splash screen appears for a millisecond then dissapears. I then found another article that suggested renaming the Indesign folder to Indesign.old but that hasnt worked either. All other programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Acrtobat etc are all working fine) Its really frustrating and i need InDesign for my day to day work. Can anyone helpo me with other possiuble solutions. Thanks. David

I have a strange glitch with Indesign. I often reference layered Illustrator files into Indesign, then use the 'object layer options' to toggle frames on/off. I have turned off content aware fit under Preferences/General, and I have 'Preserve Image Dimensions When Relinking' checked in File Handling preferences.On a current file, if I switch off some layers in my Illustrator fiel via Indesign's Object layers dialogue, the Illistrator fiel moves to a totlaly new point in my Indesign page!!This is unexpected and buggy behaviour that I havent noticed before with this common operation.I made a little video to illustrate this — see how the silhouetted figure on one FIXED layer  moves when other illustrator layers are switched off!Im not sure if this is a new bug or local to my particular pair of files...  thanks for looking...

I was searching for a javascript for Indesign that changes the language of all paragraph styles in a document to a certain language.http://forums.adobe.com/thread/928736?tstart=0helped me, BUT: is there a complete list of languages?For example in my mother tongue, German, there's Swiss spelling, but also different options for the German German, e.g. Spelling reform 2006. How can I adress these specific variants?Thank you in advance,Stefe. There's a script telling you the used language.// languages.js // var myLan = app.languagesWithVendors; var myLanNames = []; for (oneLan=1; oneLan < myLan.length; oneLan++){ myLanNames.push(myLan[oneLan].name); } var myText = myLanNames.sort(); myText = myText.join("\n"); // Bildschirmausgabe alert("Languages\n" + myText) // Dateiausgabe doExport(myText); function doExport(myData){ myPath = '~/Desktop/'; // Pfad für MAC;  //myPath = '/c/'; //  Pfad für Win  myTXT_File = 'InDesignSprachen.txt'; // Dateiname  myCreator = "R*c

The first image is what it looks like in Indesign. The second is what it looks like when I create a review link. All images are placed from the Creative CloudAny help is greatly apprciated. .   

I've been having a problem with duplicate images paths when exporting to xml. When I have two duplicate images with different source paths, the exported xml points the images to the same path. Example:Image1.pngImage2.pngWith the following images, below is the exported xml:<Root href_fmt="Image1.png" href="file:///<DIRECTORY>/Image1.png"></Root> <Root href_fmt="Image2.png" href="file:///<DIRECTORY>/Image1.png"></Root> Thanks in advance!

All layers are unlocked. I can only more things by arrow keying them around with the keyboard. Can't grab with the mouse and drag to a different position. Can copy and paste. But only arrow key the item arround. I've reset preferences. Uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign. Rebooted the computer several times. It just doesn't work. Is this a recent update issue?

I need to export a document in extremely high resolution (press quality PDF is not good enough). I have exported the indesign file to eps, but when I go to open the file in illustrator and/or photoshop, I get an error message. Illustrator says "unknown error", photoshop says it's unable to parse. Any ideas how to get around this problem?  Or alternatives to saving as eps in extremely high quality given that press quality PDF is not good enough? TIA

Any ideas why this script isn't working as desired? I'm trying to write a simple script that moves any text boxes / objects (grouping them first if there's multiple) to an exact x and y position on the page.  So if the current position of the text box is .5 inches and 1.5 inches, and I want to just move all of the text boxes down and inch so its new position is .5 inches and 2.5 inches, why is this moving the text box to a weird position when I type in .5 and 2.5 into the dialog box? // @targetengine "session" function repositionTextFrames() { // Check if there's an active document if (app.documents.length === 0) { alert("Please open a document first."); return; } var myDoc = app.activeDocument; // Create dialog box var myDialog = new Window("dialog", "Reposition Text Frames"); myDialog.orientation = "column"; // Create input groups var coordGroup = myDialog.add("group"); coordGroup.orientation = "row";

When opening Indesign v20.1 it gets stuck loading on ‘Calling Late Initializers’. All other Adobe aps working fine. Macbook is updated, with Sequoia 15.2. Latest version of Indesign is update. I’ve treid opening by reseting Indesign Preferences. Cleared Cache files. Removed Erroed fonts. Have no third-party plugins. Run Indesign in Safe mode. Unintsalled and re-installed. Shut down macbook and restarted. Stilll stuck. How do I resolve this? 

I'm working on existing InDesign document with a table of contents, and I'm seeing this row of dots that perfectly aligns and changes based on how much text I write. I want to replicate it but not sure how to. I looked at the hidden characters and none seem to have this. I'm guessing it's with the paragraph styles but I can't figure out what option it is.  

Trying to see if there is a resolution to the following. I want to set up a way to establish a style where I am using both Rule Above and Rule Below for two different purposes. One establishing a white box below the type so that it reads over photos and can adjust based on the type without creating a secondary box and one where it adds a thin rule below the type (an underline) that does the same. The problem is that no matter how I set up the thin rule, on the turn the white rule of second line blocks the thin rule of the line above it. I don't want to change type specs if I don't have to. I know I can adjust the white rule to be smaller so that it doesn't overlap with the thin rule, but I am wondering if there is a way to make the subsequent lines display below the previous ones. Screen shot attached with basic look. The problem with this is that the thin rule needs to be below the descenders. For reference of placement the cyan rule is an offset strikethrough, the only method in whic

Hello, all of a sudden, it's impossible to move text and image blocks or move pages with the mouse, when I switch my indesign window to my 2nd screen. My mouse turns into a "crossed out circle".I can only make changes with the arrows on my keyboard...When I go back to my principal screen, everything is normal. I have already reinstalled indesign and its preferences, I don't have any locked layers. I am on labtop HP spectre, windows 11 24H2 update 02/01/25.Thank you very much for your help!

I have published a 15-part magazine series online, protected by a paywall. Publishing each issue online was without problems and I know how to publish InDesign files using the Publish Online dialogue box. At the time I did NOT allow subscribers to download the magazines. They had to be read online using their password. However, I am going to close the website and delete all the files, but I want all paid subscribers to be able to download the files first. Am I able to change the preferences to allow subscribers to download the files, and if so, how dod I do that? Or, do I have to republish all the magazines, allowing them to be downloaded, and delete the original files? This seems like a slow process, compared with being able to just change the preference on a file already uploaded. I have looked at the Publish Online Dashboard, and can see all the files, but can't see any way to change the preferences. Thanks in advance.

Hello - I'm very new to InDesign and have some beginner-level experience with other Adobe products (Illustrator and Photoshop). I am using this annual report template to create a document. I can load the file in CS6 and edit existing text with no issues. However, when I add additional pages by going to Layout -> Pages -> Insert Pages, all of the text and objects on the newly inserted page are locked and I can't edit anything. The "unlock all on spread" option under "Objects" is grayed out, I changed my general preferences to allow selection of locked objects, I checked to make sure none of the layers are locked, and I don't see an unlock icon anywhere when I hover over the upper left of any individual text box (all solutions I found in other threads when I googled this). Not sure if maybe this is just a limitation of working with a template (in general or specifically this one), that they don't actually let you add new pages and you have to work with the existing ones? Any pointe

While trying to generate the InDesign document using InDesign Server, the preview of the images have not been saved.Is there a way to enable it in InDesign server.

Hi please how do I duplicate a document. I like the document I have designed and want to make a copy so I can edit it for another purpose. I have searched Google, YouTube, training docos etc and can't find an answer.  

Help me diagnose why the following happening – I notice how this image is rendering differently, going from having good blacks to becoming flat and washed-out depending on which page it's on. I'm not altering anything when this happens – it automatically changes depending on which page.  

Is this possible?  I'm working on a fixed layout epub that has some animations etc in the headings. Instead of choosing the preset each time, I want to include that in a style, so I can just apply the style and everything takes care of itself. Possible? How?

Ich bekomme heute den ganzen Tag die Fehlermeldung (Error#14) bei Publish Online in Indesign. Es scheint Serverseitig bei Adobe einen Fehler zu sein. Habe nun schon verschiedene Indesign Versionen durchgetestet. Immer der gleiche Fehler.Ich brauche das Tool dringend. Wäre cool wenn jemensch eine Lösung hätteGruss Nicoletta

My swatch menu is greyed out at the top. Help!! I am in Dell computer for this... 

I apologize for the long post. This may be a how-to question as well as a best practices.I have a project that includes several documents (more than the three in the illustration). Each of the documents includes two different sets of boilerplate pages. They're boilerplate because they are identical. They go into each document at different places, but they are not simple block information. These boilerplate pages include images, several heads, and footers. Currently, especially the footers. By using boilerplate, I can maintain the pages in a single place so that they all read the same, but only until it's time to create the first Alpha draft. Then, I have to provide each book with its own copy of the boilerplate.Because... The footers of each document include the product name. If they didn't, I'd just maintain the boilerplate in its own directory and insert the boilerplate doc using the book file where necessary. This is in fact what I do... but because of that changing footer, I h

I've recently upgraded to InDesign 20.1 running on MacOS 15.3. I cannot find a way to generate a report for my  provider when I package files for printing. Am I missing something or has this gone away? I was very helpful to be able to archive that information along with the packaged files.

I've noticed for the past few projects that all of my indesign files are saving much larger than they should be. A file that started off as 30 MB will turn into over 200 MB with the addition of a few linked photos, text edits, and page layout reformatting. None of the photos are large enough to attribute to the exponential growth in file size. For example I have a 20 page indesign file that has nothing but tables, text, and maybe 5-10 images. Today the file started off at over 100 MB, which is still huge, and by the time I finished editing with no additional photo edits or major layout changes, the file was over 300 MB.  I have tried resaving the file many times with the 'Save As' option, changed the save preview images to 'First 2 Page, small 128x128' and all of my photos are linked not placed. No matter what, it seems anytime a file is opened and edited it will almost double in size with no way to shrink it. Any ideas as to what is happening?

When I use File/Export the resulting PDF shown in Acrobat appears to have the InD page size.BUT when the PDF is imported into InDesign, the page boundaries are incorrect.I have to add a white background to the page in order for the PDF to capture the page size.  I've used InDesign for, well, decades and this is unusual. Indesign file view: View in Acrobat - correct margins Export PDF imported into InDesign: page margins wrong Examples PDFs: top with white background added to page; bottom without background