InDesign

Hi everyone,I'm trying to create a booklet from InDesign using the following workflow:InDesign, Print Booklet, PostScript file, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFThe problem is that when I select PostScript File as the printer, the PPD is set to Device Independent. Because of this, the paper size and orientation options are grayed out, so I can't specify the correct size for my imposed booklet.As a result, when I distill the PostScript file, the resulting PDF doesn't have the correct page size.I understand that using ADPDF9.PPD would solve this issue,However, I would like to know if there is any way to create a correctly sized PostScript file and then distill it to PDF without installing a PPD, printer driver, or any other additional software.Is there a way to specify the correct page size while using the device independent PPD, or is installing ADPDF9.PPD required for this workflow?Thanks!

Hello, Why can’t I read ONLINE a text in a PDF file, that comes from a placed pdf? I have a document that contains many PDF visuals (designed separately and placed on to the final combined InDesign document).I export them with InDesign file into a PDF (print), with digital settings format.When this PDF is opened in a browser (Google Chrome), the text from those visuals cannot be find (cmd+f). When opened in Adobe Acrobat, the find function works just fine for all the text in the visuals mentioned above.Any idea how to fix the online search (I need to send a link to users, that they can open online and do their search).Thank you in advance for any ideas to solve this! M.

I have been trying to figure this out for several days now. I’m using 2025 InDesign on a Mac. I have one merge file with images that works just fine and I use it all the time. I’m trying to set up a separate merge file with a lot more images. I fixed several errors that were causing me to get the “missing image” error. Despite all that, I now get no errors but a merge file with text and blank boxes where the images should be. I have noticed one other difference between the merge file that works and the one that doesn’t: In the working one, my image frame has the correct column name <<logo>> inside the frame where the image should be, but the one not working does not display any text. Would be so grateful for a solution!And just to cover my bases, yes the column has an @ sign, and yes, I tried putting the spreadsheet in the same folder as the images and using the image file name, which got me the same result: No errors, but the frames are still blank after merge. I even chec

Hola, estoy teniendo problemas exportando html desde InDesign en Mac. El documento corre bien en navegadores de Mac y Windows pero ha sido imposible que lo haga en una tablet Android ¿alguien ha tenido la misma situación?

First of all, if you have your Adobe set to Automatically update your apps, you’ll want to turn that off. I went into settings, because I was sure I had autoupdates off. But as it turned out (and I swear I don’t remember setting this), you can have autoupdates selectively off on an app by app basis. And for some reason mine WAS set to autoupdate InDesign. Like others, I also lost all of my PDF presets when InDesign updated to 2025, but if you are on a Mac, you can go to the place on your drive where Adobe stores those presets, and restore that folder from Time Machine. I restored that folder to yesterday, and I got all my Adobe PDF presets back again. User-defined PDF Presets: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings  I also set the Mac to only open INDD and INDT in the 2024 version of InDesign. If you let it open them in 2025, it requires a “Save As” instead of “Save” on any files you worked on, and once you save them from 2025, no one

"I am typing in all caps in InDesign. When I keep the Caps Lock on and try to type using the Shift key, it doesn’t type in lowercase. This problem only occurs in InDesign; it doesn’t happen in any other software."     <Title renamed by MOD>

I have a brand new MacBook running MacOS Tahoe 26.5.1When I try to open an InDesign files it opens the weird Adobe home screen with InDesign files as thumbnails instead. I have never seen this home screen because what is the point in it. So I have to open any InDesign files via the home screen: Open > choose file on Desktop.But InDesign literally doesn't work. There are no options, no toolbars or control panel etc.Zero keyboard shortcuts. Even zooming in on a doc doesn't work. All workspaces have disappeared. There are no options for workspaces, e.g. Essentials, Printing & Proofing, Advanced etc.I have tried reinstalling InDesign twice, deleting caches, Reset all preferences to factory defaults  etc etc zero fix.  

It has been working with no problems for years but now I am unable to open. If double clicking a file to launch, it will get as far as displaying the file but then freezes. If launching InDesign from the task bar, it will open the standard UI display but then will freeze.The pre-flight shows "checking" and I can hear the PC working on something in the background, but nothing within InDesign works and I have to end task using Task Manager.I have uninstalled/installed numerous times but still having the same issue. I have also gone through the delete preferences process.

Hi everyone!  I'm still learning InDesign and I'm sure I'm missing something here. I'm working on a document that is an image heavy graphic novel, but there are also sections of text. I have smaller objects/icons that I have anchored properly, but I'm having a problem with my full page comic spreads. Since these images take up whole pages and are surrounded by other full page images there is no "text" to anchor it to.  I tried a work around by creating small empty text boxes near the images and they successfully anchored in my InDesign file, but when exported to epub, all the full page images are showing up at the end of the book. The smaller images and icons are staying in place.  How can I anchor images on a page with no text when they take up a whole page and follow other pages that only include images?  I know how to fix the problem in the code but if I can figure it out before exporting it would be a lot less time consuming.      <Title rename

macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta…Find/Change doesn’t show up…I know I’m not supposed to be working with a beta OS, but here I am… I just thought it might be useful for some people to know…

Hello everyone,On a two-page spread, I have drawn text frames, two per page. As I want to use this layout for most of my pages, I have copied the spread in the Parent Pages part of the Pages panel, thus creating a new spread of Parent Pages.Then I inserted two new pages based on that recent new spread, but the new pages in question show my four text frames with dotted lines only, and I cannot click into them to start typing text.When I go back to their Parent Pages, the text frames are dotted lines as well, but the borders of the text frames become solid/normal when I hover over them with the black arrow, I can select them and type in them. In the regular pages based on those Parent Pages, I cannot select them, they remain just dotted.I must have done something wrong… Advice will be very much appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hi, In Screenshot 1, there is an EPUB. Looking at two images, space(1) and alignment(2) are different from what I expect.Space is larger. Alignment is left.Those parameters in Screenshots 2 and 3 worked. But it’s not working since the InDesign update two days ago.Is there any solution? Hosun Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3 

(See screen dump below: “figursättning” is “wrap text” in Swedish.) 

Machine is a Zenbook Duo (Windows 11). When exporting a relatively small (five page) document to PDF, InDesign hangs and never recovers.Workaround is to tick the “Create separate PDF files” checkbox and combine the pages afterwards.Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? I’ve used InDesign for years and have never before seen this behavior.

Hello everyone,First posting here, so I hope it works.I have drawn a square in InDesign, and want to select one of the corner points to distort it. I assumed the direct selection tool would do this, but it is completely unable to select any of the points. Does anyone know how to do this?Thanks

Hi all,I'm starting on complicated catalog with over 3,000 products and multiple sections/styles. I can see that this will be beyond InDesign's native data merge. What do you think is the best option for a data merge plugin and why?Thanks!

For thousands of products with multiple sections and styles, the thing that breaks native Data Merge usually isn't the record count — it's that Data Merge binds one template to one dataset. The moment your product families need genuinely different layouts, you end up maintaining several merge documents and stitching the output together, which is where the time actually goes.Two questions that would change my answer:Do your "sections/styles" differ in layout (different frame arrangements per family) or only in styling (same structure, different paragraph/object styles)? The first needs a different approach entirely; the second is often solvable with object styles and nested styles alone. Are your product images consistently named and all present? Missing or inconsistently named assets cause more failed catalog merges than any layout issue — worth auditing the source file before choosing any tool.On the tooling itself, roughly in order of investment: scripting the merge yourself if you h

Hello all,Today I have two questions to which I haven’t found an answer by myself:1. My usual layout has one text frame filling the whole page, but divided in two columns.When I insert a footnote, say in the left-hand column, I want its text to remain in that same column, and not spill over under the right-and column as if I had given a Span command.I have seen in questions already asked in this forum that some users have their footnotes behave natively just like I would want mine to behave, but I haven’t so far found a way to achieve that result.I attach a screen capture, as a picture speaks a thousand words, or so they say...2. is it possible to widen the space between the short separating line above the footnote, and that footnote itself? I have tried Space Before in the Footnote Paragraph Style I have created, but it doesn’t seem to work.Many thanks to you all for your help.Dominique

Since the last Adobe InDesign update, my zoom shortcut (cmd + Shift + .) no longer works, while the zoom shortcut does. This is wasting my design time. Could someone please help me solve this problem? I'm still a beginner with the Adobe suite and I've tried to solve it myself by searching online and on forums, but I haven't been able to. Thank you for your help.

Hi everyone,I’ve brought this up once before, but the topic didn’t really gain traction, so I’d like to revisit it — especially from the perspective of a publishing house that’s been working in print production for many years.For a long time, our editorial workflow was based on the PlanSystem editorial system, which we adopted after moving away from WoodWing. This setup allowed us to manage the layout planning of magazines and documents in a centralized way. However, to maintain this workflow, we’ve actually held off upgrading to the latest versions of Adobe Creative Cloud.To this day, I haven’t found a simple way in InDesign (or elsewhere in the Adobe suite) to assemble and organize multiple documents into a coherent, magazine-style layout — where you can view the entire issue in sequential order and rearrange pages organically on the fly. We need to be able to manage editorial content together with incoming ads from clients (as PDFs) and make layout decisions interactively.Ideally, I

I thought it was good to share this here as well: I have a script that adds autosave and backup versions* to InDesign. This script lets you set Auto save in InDesign (standard: every 8 minutes, but you can change that) and maintains five backup versions (you can also change that).Drop it into Adobe InDesign/Script/startup scripts and it will add a new menu in the File menu (last item) that lets you switch this function on and off.Want to change the minutes or the number of backups? Open it in an editor and change these lines to what you want:// =====================================================================// CONFIGURATION// =====================================================================var AUTO_SAVE_MINUTES = 8;var MAX_BACKUPS = 5;*BEWARE: the backups are only created on AUTOSAVE and are removed when you close the document (otherwise your HD would fill up) so it is NOT for versioning ;-)Download for free!https://1drv.ms/u/c/916857b766432d35/IQC5_T-d0N-WSLs0A69hkSYrAaFGsx02

Bonjour,J'ai, depuis hier, pris un abonnement Adobe. J'ai donc voulu télécharger Photoshop, Indesign et Illustrator, mais il s'est avéré que mon ordinateur n'est plus aussi puissant pour ces logiciels. Heureusement l'assistance par "Chat" m'a permis de télécharger les-dits programmes via des liens dédiés, afin qu'ils fonctionnent avec mon MacBook Pro de 2017 (MacOS 13.7.2, Ventura).Les logiciels ont bien été installés. Mais je me suis rendu compte qu'il m'est impossible de faire des mises à jour. Après "Aide" et "Mises à jour", une fennêtre s'ouvre : "Les mises à jour ont été désactivées sur cet ordinateur. Veuillez contacter votre administrateur". Or il n'y a que moi qui utilise ce Mac. J'ai vérifié les autorisations des trois logiciels, que j'ai mis en "Lecture-Ecriture" à l'occasion. Mais rien ne va du côté des moses à jour.D'autre part, dans Creative Cloud, lorsque je clique sur "Applications", j'obtiens un message similaire : Vous n'avez pas accès aux fonctionnalités de gestion de

InDesign is going mad. I have to force quit several times a day. On the pointer tool I select the zoom tool from a keyboard short cut. It will hold onto the zoom tool. I size a text box on a page and the pointer keeps the size co-ordinates and not go back to the pointer. Some times it wont let me do an undo (command z). Sometimes a random box from a menu (e.g. Layer options) I haven’t used, appears in the screen. When any of the above starts happening I know it’s time to force quit. It may be in my mind but does this have to do with upgrade to Tahoe. I have reset InDesign preferences. 2021 Macbook pro Tahoe 26.5.2 Indesign 2026 21.5. - HELP.

I need to distinguish between the following two situations.The essence is to distinguish whether it is a single line or multiple lines.The first option: select 1row (one or more columns).Second option: Select 2 rows (1 or more columns). 

How can I export full bleed images to reflowable epub? My exported images got a thick white border around on Kindle Previewer.