InDesign

Is it good practice to copy and paste graphics from illustrator into indesign?

 I shared a indesign file and I a CCLibrary with a lot of graphics and placed them and they are linked on my account. However, when I shared the file and CCLibrary, the shared account can recognise that the graphics are (supposed to be) linked but it has an error that is not actually linking the graphics.  Is there a way to auto link all of the graphics from the shared CClibrary? Or will she have to manually relink the graphics? Thank you!

hello,I just did a complete "clean up" and reinstalled creative cloud, to fix some issues, those issues got  fixed, but now I have different problem - indesign keeps quitting on me.I am wondering if there is enough space on my computer. Please find a screenshot of available space and a screenshare. 

I am trying to figure out how we can create indesign files based on DITA xml files. I have looked at several options where one uses a dita plugin or indesigns own xml capabilities, but the plugin from DITA seems pretty outdated and I am uncertain as to whether InDesigns xml is capable of working with DITA xml.I believe I am looking for some inspiration as to how one could make this kind of "conversion" work?

I ask you to help in a solution, it is not clear why the InDesign is freezing when performing the script from the UXP plugin, not at every start, but once. It can perform several functions several times well, and then it freezes on the same functions ...After some time, such an error appears:<system platform="Windows 11 Pro" osversion="11.0" osbuild="22621" applicationlanguage="en-us" userlanguage="ru-RU" oslanguage="en-US" ram="16104" machine="13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13500H" model="Intel64 Family 6 Model 186 Stepping 2" cpuCount="16" cpuType="8664" cpuFreq="3187 MHz" processorArchitecture="9"/><gpu><gpuinfo availability="Running/Full Power" adapterCompatibility="Intel Corporation" adapterRAM="1024 MB" caption="Intel(R) UHD Graphics" description="Intel(R) UHD Graphics" driverDate="20230711000000.000000-000" driverVersion="31.0.101.4575" videoModeDescription="1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors" pnpDeviceID="PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A720&SUBSYS_01571558&

    Hey Leute, Ich versuche gerade eine Bewerbung für mich zu gestalten und wollte dabei eine Interavtive PDF machen. Dabei habe ich Schaltflächen angelegt. Diese funktionieren auf allen Seiten außer auf der 1. Seite. Ich hab kein Plan was das Problem ist. Wenn ich es in der Vorschau Öffne funktioniert alles. Aber sobald ich es Exportiere geht nur die 1 Seite nicht. Die Rolloveranimation funktioniert allerdings einwandfrei? Nur das Weiterleiten auf die jeweilige Seite geht nicht. Ich hab euch mal dazu ein Bild meiner jeweiligen Einstellung dazugepackt. Pls Help me❤️ 

To keep everything consistent color-wise I want to create documents in Indesign that are 100% RGB without a trace of CMYK, because it is hard to maintains similar colors from other applications. We only work with digital pdf:s that will never be printed, everything we do is web delivery and this will never ever change. But under proof colors it seems to always go back to CMYK no matter how many times I change to SRGB... Is there a way to completely discard of everything CMYK in Indesign? From scratch I always choose web and RGB in every color setting I can find, but HEX-codes still yield slightly different colors between Photoshop and InDesign. A common workflow is using downloadable pdf:s from Freepik that I want to fully convert to RGB, but this behaviour is present even if I create documents from scratch... I want our signature blue color to be identical on our web page, our pdf:s and every other graphic we create... 

Hello community,I have one indesign file with a few thousand headings and I created the automatic TOC with this headings.So far everything is perfect.Now I should also create the link that when you click on any heading inside the file it takes you to the corresponding entry in the TOC (not to the first page of the TOC but to the page that contains that heading).I know that it can be done manually but since there are a few thousand headings I was wondering if you know of any script that can solve this problem.Thanks in advanceMarko

 Hello, Ive got this preexisting InDesign table, and I was wondering if I could link a table from Excel into those three free columns on the right? When I try to place it as unformatted text, it just all goes into the first cell. Is this possible or do I need to find a workaround? Thanks!  

Could someone help me with this error? I have already updated the ToC not to use Text Anchors ... I have removed and recreated the ToC ... same error ... I have tried with checking the "make text anchor in paragraph" option but it then gives the same error, and every time I need to rebuild my custom bookmarks ... What can I do? How can I find what are the "offending" text anchors that are not found? I tried to make a copy of the INDD, remove the TOC and export, which gave no error. Recreating the TOC and exporting to EPUB gave the same error ... 

Hello,A month ago I worked on an arabic language project in illustrator. Today I opened indesign and it looks like it's messed up here. I do not want to work in arabic anymore - either in illusrator or indesign.I'd like to restore the settings to factory settings. I uninstalled the entire suite and installed again, and yet it's all messed up. Please find attached a screenshot on what it looks like when I try to place a file. It seems like it wants to place it arabic way - right to left. also included is indesign file.I am about to lose my mind. Kindly help!

Seit längerem ist mein Indesign extrem langsam. Jeder Klick oder Bewegung dreht es 5-10 Sekunden. Ich habe schon vieles Versucht nichts hilft. Danke 

Acabo de cambiar a Indesign 2025. Las fotos (archivos de Photoshop en blanco y negro) aparecen más claras, más palidas. Quiero que sigan como antes. Que puedo hacer?

I'm making a report with a long references section full of hyperlinks. On opening the file the next day and exporting it to interactive PDF, almost half of the URLs had been shortened (they are quite long). I put the full URLs in but somehow they got shortened – not sure why this is happening? Never had this problem in earlier versions of indesign 

Hi, I'm working on my first book layout and dont have experience in this area. What are some key questions I should ask the print service?The book is nonfiction and will be created in InDesign. I'll also be designing graphics for the book—are there any specific questions I should ask regarding that as well?Thank you so much for your help!

Can you please add add a function to skip pages when auto numbering? When working on a large file with tabs, it's very time consuming and easy to make errors when you have to start a new section after each tab in order to keep the numbers consecutive. I would love to be able to just click on the tab pages to skip numbering.Thank you.

I design a magazine and I need to share files with someone. She wants me to package everything but other than fonts if I give her the files with the linked assests won't they stay linked when she opens the file. 

Hi all, does anyone have any idea how to differentiate between these two rectangles using ExtendScript.   About the creation process: An XML tag was assigned to the lower rectangle, which was then removed. This way, the appearance in the layer palette can be recreated. They do not differ in IDML. Thus, the lower element becomes a “normal” rectangle when the IDML file is opened. Thanks for any hintsRoland

Hi everyone, I am trying to figure out the best way to achieve something. I'm working on a 500+ pages book. The idea is to have titles outside of the original text frame. That in itself is quite easy to achieve, we'll all agree, with a separate smaller text frame that is positioned outside for the title and link the text frames together with threading. Now comes the interesting part which makes it more complicated. I want to achieve two more things:1. I need it to be reflow-proof, as some inserts or additions will probably come in at a later stage2. I need it to be able to export well as an epub later on as well as be printed in offset printing. In order to make it reflow-proof, I was thinking I could ad the (autosizing) text frame with the titles as inline anchored objects with specific spacing before and after the anchored object. The problem is that it is an object then and I can't seem to link the main text frame with the inline anchored text frame and then out

Hey y'all, I'm having a hard time getting my numbers to line up on this table. None of the tutorials I've tried online have been working. For some background:This table was imported from an Excel file and they are linkedThe column width is set to 1.17 in for all number cellsI've already tried "Align to Decimal" under "Tabs" in "Paragraph Styles". I've done various sizes for X and tried setting it to both " , " and " ) ", none of which has workedMost everything is based on Paragraph Style 3 and Cell Style 3, and all specialized styles reference these two or iterations of them. (i.e. Underlined Body Rows references Cell Style 3, and Fill Underlined Body references Underlined Body Rows)I want the " , " to line up for the numbers, even if there is a parenthesis. I'm wondering if the table being imported from Excel removed any "Tab" function that you would normally get from making a table from scratch in InDesign, because nothing seems to be working. I also don't know if my nested style gro

what's the maximum number of files that I can open at the same time from an indesign book?If I have hundreds of files opened and If I try to open more files from the book, Indesign stops opening files and crashes if I try to update the index can I change maximum number of file that can be opened at the same time? thanks in advance

Hi,I have created a new Indesign CC document as a sales brochure and each product has a hyperlink to the corresponding website url for that product.When I export the document to a pdf (interactive or not) all of the links go to the same url, even though I have checked every hyperlink twice and they are all different, can anyone help please? Thanks in advanceDave

I am having issues with my Adobe in design 2025. When I am moving text boxes/images etc they are no longer moving along as I move the mouse and are jolting. They are staying in one place until i release the mouse and then it jumps to where I have moved it to. I never used to have this issue so I am assuming it is a setting or something I have accidentally changed? Before when I moved the mouse it would pick up and move the image around the page following until I selected where I wanted to place it.  This is inconvenient for me because I need to see where I am moving the images to fit them within certain guides etc. Does anyone know the answer to this problem? 

Hi everyone! I'm having issues with my indesign. Everytime I want to draw an object, move an object create a new one... the canvas goes all white and I can't really see anything.  I'm working on MacBook Air, Sonoma 14.7,   InDesign 2025 (20.0.1). I did read that there were similar issues but I thought they have been fixed? TIA!

Hey ich hab seit Wochen ein Problem mit Indesign. Mein Indesign lädt die ganze Zeit oder öffnet sich gar nicht, wenn ich Zuhause bin. Die andere Programme wie Illustrator und Photoshop funktionieren einwandfrei. Un was ich nicht verstehe ist, dass mein Indesign aber an anderen Standorten einwandfrei funktioniert. Ich hab die Creative Cloud und Indesign öfters deinstalliert und neu installiert. Ich habe auch das Creative Clean Tool benutzt um ältere Versionen zu löschen. Es funktioniert noch immer nicht , wenn ich Zuhause bin, nur an anderen Standorten. Weiß jemand ob es am Wlan liegt ? Das kann eigentlich ja nicht sein, weil man die Adobe Programme auch offline benutzen kann. Oder liegt es an der neuen Software Sequoia von Mac? Ich bitte um jede Hilfe , es ist dringend. Ich arbeite nur mit Indesign. Vielen Dank!!!!