InDesign

Hi,I am still learning on how to use InDesign more proefficently.I am in charge of a catalogue and I will have many pages to edit according to a model.I want to have a red ribbon, the title of the product and below an image of the product, some icons. Since I have an alternance of left and right pages, I want to have a parent organizint them directly with a specific font (size, family, placement) and to have the images respecting this order (left page: photo+icons/right page: icons+photo)  Is there a way to do it efficiently?Thanks and Happy New Year!

This script is used to determine if there is already a table header and add a row if there isn't.Since this script doesn't require the table to be selected in full, I like it.I found the script to be correct if there is only one table.However, if there are more than two tables, my cursor is already inside the second table, but mytable still points to the previous table table[0].  //first mytable in the active document var mytable=app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].parentStory.tables[0] var firstRow = mytable.rows[0]; //to header and add 1 row; if (firstRow.rowType !== RowTypes.HEADER_ROW) { dupeTopRow(mytable); mytable.rows.add(LocationOptions.BEFORE, mytable.rows[0]); } else{ alert("header exist") exit (); }    

I have somehow changed my text boxes.  First, there is no resizing icons on them.  But most annoying is when i do try and size them they act like polygons.  Could someone tell me what i have done.  Thank you. 

Hello,  On behalf of Sultan chand & sons Pvt. Ltd.I wants to know about the how can I convert the pagemaker files into indesign format  Actually we are using the pagemaker before 2016. But some files are left to convert into indesign now we have indesign 2024.  We haven't purchase Indesign CS6.

Hello, I am looking for someone that could help me by opening a 2001  .pmd (or .p65) file I have and saving it as an .indd. I've tried all that is possible suggestions I've got so far and have been researching all over the web but none of the solutions I've found are working for me. I don't have and can't find a InDesign CS version that works. Does anyone here provide this service or could kindly open the file for me?Thank you!

I'm running Indesign4 on Win 7.  (I know both are old, but I own both and can't afford adobe's new rent policy for the little I use Indesign.) I have a 47 page document that I'm trying to break into chapters, smaller blocks.  What I had envisioned was take my original document and copying multiple pages, say 8 pages for Chapt 1, them some 6 for Chapt2, etc.  and saving each of the blocks as their appropriate Chapter.  Then try and find a way to put them all together when I want to publish/print the document. My first problem is I can't seem to be able to copy x number of pages as a block and past them into the new Chapter Y document.  How to I get the contigious block of pages to copy? TIA JohnT

Using Calendar Wizard add-in, which I have used for many years.  This year,however, after I create a calendar (each month a separate page), I am unable to type anything into some, but not all, individual days.  When I try a black line appears over several rows and I am able to add text into those rows.  Not sure if anyone here uses Calendar Wizard, but if someone does, help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, I am finding that the Table Of Contents (TOC) is listing items in a different order to the page.As a secondary (not as important) you can see the formatting of some of the TOC varies. Any ideas, please? PS. All titles are in alphabetical in the document, so Botanical Coloured pencils (for exmple) comes under the DIPLOMA COURSE heading.     

Every time I open my InDesign file, it says that fonts are missing. However, I have all the font files and have gone through the process of "replacing" all the fonts with the same fonts that the programs says is missing. Even with saving, this never saves the linking of the fonts, so the error message for missing fonts always appears. Is there a way to permanently embed the fonts in InDesign? If so, how?Thanks! 

Is there a way to create an indesign file that is  54" wide and 864" long? Create rolls of wallpaperThanks for any help.

Hello all, I'm going absolutely bonkers over this one. I am designing my own trading card game and I require the use of symbols, similar to Magic the Gathering. I have already created a font with ligatures and symbols to do this, but I needed the symbols to be color coded when ran through InDesign's data merge. I worked around this by assigning GREP styles to each ligature callout with the correct color, and the symbols changed accordingly. It was working perfectly. The frustrating thing that's happening now is that I had it all working properly and even have sample cards correctly printed with the colored symbols - however, after taking a few months break from designing, I come back to the document after an adobe update and suddenly everything is out of whack. All my symbols are black only, and nothing I do can change the colors. Does anyone know what happened, or how to fix this? Perhaps there's a way to create a font where the symbols are pre-colored so when they're c

 Here we have some frames divided in columns and between some columns we need to insert new colours and preserve the order  (the white one box will be a new colour). The orange colour will jump to the next page. That it's the point, not shown here.But it has not been possible to join the frames: One way is to touch the outport of one frame and connect it to the same port of the second frame but when taking that icon to the new frame it doesn't show it because ID cannot apparently select elements in different pages.Another way is to take the loaded cursor and place it on top of the frame but in these frames the contact does not occur and it places a new text box, as seen in the picture (any out port is visible): What is required is this. Connect A with B. Center threads are already created.  We couln't use a thread stories type of script because it threads all the stories and not being able to select two stories on different pages (by default?) the script becomes useless

Hi,I am trying to do this but have no clue how to achieve this. In the attached image, there is a footnote continuation mark, marked with red circle.This mark will appear only of the footnote is continued from next page. How can I achieve this in Indesign? Does any other software does this kind of stuff ? Like Quark Express or Scribus ?Thanks

My InDesign (v 15.1.2) document clearly shows thtat I have inserted an en dash (–), but when I convert my document to an intereactive PDF, the en dash reverts back to a hyphen.  I generally create en dashes with the shortcut, but because of the issue I'm having, I also tried creating it via type> insert special character>hyphen and dashes>en dash. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how I can maintain the en dash in the PDF? Thanks in advance for any replies/solutions!

I am using InDesign CC 2017. Is there a way to disable vertical page scrolling and view just one page at a time while scrolling? I know the shortcut of pressing the alt button while doing page up and page down, but I want to turn the scrolling off altogether.

Hey guys, Anyone having trouble just starting inDesign 2025? I've been a long time user, with a new Macbook Pro m4 Max. But I can't even open inDesign 2025, it just starts lagging. I am FULLY aware that a solution is to re-install 2024, and also to reset settings. First of all, I can't even get into any settings. Since it won't open.  This is version 20.0.1 — on another note, anyone tired of constantly struggling to use inDesign? When I'm able to run Blender on crazy settings, but I can't open inDesign, or when I could it was super laggy..

I've been browsing the forum for hours now, I only get half-answers to my questions, so I decided to post myself, I have a few very specific questions.My book is 300+ Pages long. If that is too much for a sensible approach for idd, please let me know and we don't have to continue any further.1. I have sections (ca. 80) each one has a different sized image that is supposed to be wrapped and on the right side. In Latex all I need to do is write a tiny macro and dynamically pass the filename, is there anything comparable?2. The book is supposed to be translated to German, it's very technical, so I don't expect any automatic translation to work. Could that be done by dynamically linking text boxes to text? Other answers suggest Liquid and Alternate Layouts, but they seem to be designed to use different graphic layouts, not different texts, so I would consider this a hack.3. Can we link to image captions or from image captions to text?4. How complicated is automatic image labelling? I want

I have tables that appear in a two column format with table headers in each column. The table headers are not lining up. The right column's header aligns slightly above the left column's header. I have a title over the columns set to "span all columns". I've checked for invisible characters that might be interfering, checked the space-before and space-after paragraph settings, made sure I had true paragraph breaks, nothing out of the ordinary. I've tried different fonts to see if it's a font issue causing the misalignment. I've looked in the dialog boxes for any setting that might cause this to be ajar. Here is a screen shot of my setup. I have the hidden characters turned on so you can see my paragraph breaks. Any idea what might be causing this? I'm all up to date on hardware and software so it's not a "old version" or "old machine" issue.

Hi all.When I insert a note in the text if it has two digits (i.e. 10, 11,…), the second digit does not assume the superscript position (see image9. I've already tried checking the footnote, paragraph and character style preferences and... nothing. Does anyone have any ideas to resolve this issue—it's not the first time I've had two-digit superscripts, but this has never happened before.Thanks.

hola, estoy tratando de colocar guias desde la herramienta guias a una sola cara( estoy trabajando un folleto con hoojas opuestas) entonces quiro colocar guias a una sola cara, pero al momento de hacerlo me crea guias para ambas caras, ojo solo estoy situado en una de las paginas, se puede colocar guias a una sola pagina?

I am not sure what is causing this, idk if it is my laptop bugging out or indesign, however, it won't go away unless I zoom in, but when I zoom out again the lines appear again. please help me, I'm not techy :(( I have tried saving and going back into the document, I've tried exporting as PDF, and different display performances to no avail it won't go away. 

Hello again,I recently made this script to round decimals in the swatch values if there were any. I'm pretty new to JS so this probably isn't the prettiest code so I was wondering if someone had a better way of doing it.  This works, but sometimes it takes a while and I'm pretty sure it is looking at the [paper], [black], and other swatches that can't be changed.  That is why I made it skip the errors during the script...function round(color) {    try { color.space = ColorSpace.cmyk;    var vals = color.colorValue;    for (var j = vals.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {        vals = Math.round(vals);    }     color.colorValue = vals;} catch (err) {}}if (app.documents.length > 0) {        var target = app.documents[0];    } else {        var target = app;    }  

Dear all,I am venturing into a multi-lingual work. Each version of the book will have two languages side-by-side, for example the first version will be German (original) and French (original translation), and the second will be English and Italian. While the setup of the InDesign document is straightforward in my mind (one layer per language, or couple of languages), one frame per language to allow proper reflowing, I am still in a previous phase. What I'm doing now is gathering/copying all the original German and French material to then have them be corrected and proofread by native speakers before any translation to English, Italian, and more will be possible.As much as I have worked in page layout, I am extremely dissatisfied with my current workflow and I'm looking for advice: I am using Apple Pages, but could use Microsoft Word, but creating multi-column docs there will make my life harder at the end when the DOC needs to be imported in InDesign. The lesser evil, for now

Hi All, I wanted to know if the language property set in Paragraph/Character Style with InDesign can be exported to PDF. I am not able to get this exported to PDF. See the screenshots for reference.   -Manan

Hi! I was trying to replicate in a jsx script a specific object. It's the kind of shape-bounded text that you can do by creating a shape (e.g. cirle) and using the text tool to put text inside. I'm trying to replicate that object in code, but I'm unable to find the dependencies between TextFrame and Oval objects it involves. Any idea?Thank you!