InDesign

Is it possible to add a text variable and set all options via js?var myV = app.activeDocument.textVariables.add({name: 'TCD', variableType: VariableTypes.MATCH_CHARACTER_STYLE_TYPE}); myV.preferences.searchStrategies = SearchStrategies.LAST_ON_PAGE; myV.searchStrategies = SearchStrategies.LAST_ON_PAGE; The second and the third line don't work. Is it possible to set the options like search strategies, characterStyle, text after & before etc. via script?MatchCharacterStyleType is read only.

Hi there, is there a way to monitor/track the download number of documents?   I noticed InDesign 19.0 onwards will no longer support integrated analytics from the dashboard, so I integrated Google Analytics with my documents to track analytics data. However, clicking the download button doesn't trigger "file_download" event on Google Analytics. So I was wondering if there a way we can monitor the download number?   <Title renamed by MOD>

I have a brand new Mac studio M2 Max, 64GB Im running the latest adobe cloud sorftware but having an issue with Indesign. indesign runs fine when I first install it then has a huge lag - both when selection/moving within the app (even on tiny documents) and also clicking into the app from another program (can take up to 10 sec to reveal when I click from one program to indd) working within the program everything lags, text, moving, selecting - any help! I have uninstalled and reinstalled and again works ok for about half an hour then its off again

I have a 100+ page document I have published successfully a long time ago and I have uploaded new versions to the document many times now, but just a couple of days ago I started getting this error, which does not let me publish anymore. I can upload other documents just fine. Indesign doesn't give me any indication that links would be broken or files missing. What can I do? I searched through the community boards and none of the previous suggestions have helped.

For paragraph sorting, I generally use the language-aware paragraph sorter which @Peter Kahrel made many years ago, and which mostly works well. For Polytonic Greek, however, it fails. There is no built-in sort order for Polytonic Greek, so I’ve added my own: 0123456789 Α[ΆἈἉἊἋἌἍἎἏᾈᾉᾊᾋᾌᾍᾎᾏ]ΒΓΔΕ[ΈἘἙἚἛἜἝ]ΖΗ[ΉἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯᾘᾙᾚᾛᾜᾝᾞᾟῊΉῌ]ΘΙ[ΊΪἸἹἺἻἼἽἾἿῘῙῚΊ]ΚΛΜΝΞΟ[ΌὈὉὊὋὌὍῸΌ]ΠΡΣΤ[ΥὙὛὝὟῨῩῪΎ]ΎΦΧΨΩ[ΏὨὩὪὫὬὭὮὯᾨᾩᾪᾫᾬᾭᾮᾯῺΏῼ]ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÆØÅ Note the plethora of accented vowel variant in square brackets after each base vowel. As far as I understand the instructions on the page linked to above, this is how I should indicate that diacritics should be ignored. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work: all accented vowels just end up at the end of the list (in seemingly random order). If I remove the brackets, it sort-of-kind-of works, in that accented vowels are then at least ordered with the base vowel instead of at the end of the alphabet – but they’re still treated as a separate le

Hello, I am looking for a way to automatically change the text in the glossary that my hyperlinks are attached to. I would like them to say the page that they are linked to, but subtracted by 3. This is due to the InDesign document having a cover page, and two glossary pages that are not numbered. If anyone knows a way that this is possible or if it isn't possible, let me know-- I cannot find any documentation and have been manually changing the glossary, which is a non-issue. Still, it is a long document and the Client is paying hourly so I'd like to save them some time cost.  Thanks!

Hi there. We're working on an interactive brochure for a client, and we noticed a slight glitch/jump happening to certain elements in the brochure well after the elements have finished animating. I'm hoping you might have some suggestions on what we can do to avoid these jumps. It doesn't seem to happen on every page. I thought it might be due to having video/GIFs on the pages, but it even happens on Page 6 which doesn't have a video or GIF. I took a screen recording accessing the online brochure using Safari (though my colleagues report seeing jumps in Chrome as well). In particular, you can see jumps at:0:03 to 0:04 - "RapidArc Dynamic" jumps slightly down and right0:20 to 0:21 - "Seamless flexibility. Continuous control." jumps down slightly0:21 to 0:22 - "Dynamic collimator" (the words under the first icon) jumps down slightly0:22 to 0:23 - "Modulated ports" (the words under the second icon) jumps down slightly0:23 to 0:24 - "Arc tools" (the words under the third icon) jumps d

Hello - apologies if this has already been addressed. I am trying to place images into my Indesign file and they are coming in smaller than the original size. I tried to update yesterday thinking that it would fix it but it didn't. The problem I'm running into is that I'm trying to to place files into my InDesign file and it says the file is scaled to 100% but that it is 921.524 x 518.357 px - but the file being imported is actually 1920 x 1080 px. I've tried this with the PNG file shown in the screenshot attached (150ppi) as well as a TIF version of the file (300ppi) and both come in at half the original size.

I am creating a document in Bengali in InDesign. I used Bengali font (ANSI format) for the page numbers, and everything looks perfect during editing. However, every time I save and export the document, the page numbers change to English. Could you please help me resolve this issue?Indesign Version: 2021

Ok, so I know that within the table styles there is an option for alternating row color. However, it seems that I can't get alternating row colors to show. My best guess right now is that somehow the fill color in the cell styles is stopping it from showing. I saw some other similar posts to this but the solutions in those cases were for you to set the cell style fill to "(ignore)". I only see that as an option if another color is set. So I select it, and the box goes blank (at which point "(ignore)" goes away). I'm attaching a screenshot of my table and cell styles to show they're both set up to what I believe is correct, but still no alternating row pattern is appearing on the cells in the red outline box.Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am also wondering even if I get this to work what happens if the amount of rows I want to skip coloring on (headers) is variable? Sometimes there are two header rows and there could be anywhere from 3-4 potentially. I wouldn't want those

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Good day! I'm editing my book in indesign using primary frames and a seperate layer for pictures and (many) tables with text and/or figures. The text flows as it should over about 300 pages. However, I find that when I add text in a low numbered page, all tables after that page stay at the same location on a page, while loosing the text it belongs to. I can't seem to find how I should anchor my tables (I have a lot of them) to the text they belong to.If you can help me, please keep in mind that I have almost 4 weeks of experience using Indesign, so it is still very shaky. And my Indesign version is in Dutch, so I hope I translated the tems (textframe, primary frame) correctly...Thanks for any help you can offer. Meanwhile, I am getting more and more adept at moving tables to the place in the text where they belong.King regards,Leo

Hi everyone!   Everytime I use InDesign, the app decides to crash at anytime. Hopefully it saves my file but still... it kills my vybe when i'm working on something important. Can someone help me or has similair problem?   Thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

I have an InDesign page that has many elements that are all on one layer. Is there an easy way or script I can use to move each individual element to its own layer?Here is a bit more of an explanation of why I need this:1. I understand this is not what InDesign is intended for, however I am in this situation and looking for an easy fix. 2. The screen shot below is of a website page design that was created in InDesign. I am showing the 1 and only layer in the file with its contents exposed in the layer panel. What I would like to do is have each one of these elements on a separate layer.3. The reason I want to do this is because I am then going to use a scrip that will export the page as a layered PSD file based on the layers in InDesign. I have multiple pages I have to do this for and it is time consuming moving each element to an individual layer one by one. I'm wondering if there is a script available that will take the contents of the layer and move each item out to a separate layer

How do I stop InDesign from blinking. Every time I go to edit anything or do anthing like drawing a text block or image block or copy paste, the background blinks. I have reinstalled InDesign, I have restarted my computer. I have the blinking turned off in Story Editor. It's very annoying and bothers my eyes. I'm super close to using Affinity and canceling my Adobe subscription.

Hi thereUntil today, I never had an issue with Share for review (apart from "Could not update the artefact" errors every now and then. But now, I only get the Share for Review window with just the "Only invited people can comment" option - I used to be able to select the Piublic access option, but this is now gone. And when I do create a share link based on the only option available to me, I get a red error box saying "Error getting invited people". The link it created also does not work - saying "Something went wrong".I have not changed a thing, and this only started happening today. I've tried:* Reinstalling InDesign* Clearing the cache and preferences* Logging in and out of my CC desktop app.Any help much appreciated.System: Mac Studio M1 Ultra running Sonoma 14.6.1, 64 GB RAM

Hi,I have designed a booklet in InDesign with standard setting (seems to be Fogra39). We have even printed it with a printing firm without issues. Now we are moving to a new printing firm and they want the export in FOGRA52. But if we switch the export our black K=100% text is exported as CMYK mixture (if I turn black off in Adobe Print preview, I still see the text in the 3 other colors) and the printing firm is saying that it will have undesirable shadows.  Problem: When exporting with a new color profile, our K=100% becomes CMYK.Desired result: use FOGRA52 for export and change just the export settings and still keep the text in K=100%Any idea how to do that? Here a few screenshots: NEW export settings (just showing the differences to the working export, which is just the color conversion into the target profile):This is the only change we do in comparison to the previous export that works just fine. This are the settings that work (Fogra39 and not color con

Bonjour à tous, je viens de changer de MAC et maintenant sur Indesign quand je veux augmenter ou diminuer un objet (bloc texte par exemple), cela ne se fait pas au centre de l'objet mais sde décale vers la droite ou la gauche. Je ne sais pas si c'est clair ?D'avance merci de votre aide. Bonne journéeOlivier

 Dans la nouvelle version d'inDesign, un message qui m'indique le nombre de pages et de planches vient se superposer sur les outils en bas du chemin de fer (voir image). De ce fait, je ne peux plus accéder à la corbeille par exemple. Je suis obligé d'élargir cette fenêtre, ce qui bouscule mon espace de travail. Comment effacer ce message totalement inutile ?

I've got an InDesign file in which I have placed 200 Illustrator .AI files. The Illustrator graphics have layers:A layer named EN-US for the English textA layer named NL for the Dutch text  I'm using InDesign version 18. How can I toggle these layers for all graphics at once, i.e. show the EN-US layer for all images (and hide the NL layer) and vice versa? Can I do this with an Extendscript?  Kind regards Yves

Hallo,ich habe die Creativ Cloud auf 2 Rechnern installiert. Im InDesign nutze ich häufiger das Inhaltsaufnahme-Werkzeug. Auf dem einen Rechner erscheint das Pop-Up-Fenster mit den Einstellungen, auf dem anderen Rechner leider nicht. Wie kann ich das einstellen, das es auch auf dem zweiten Rechner erscheint? Wir haben schon viel getestet und ausprobiert, leider ohne Erfolg.Danke für eure Hilfe.

Hallo zusammen, ich habe seit einigen Tagen das Probelm, dass ich in ID keine Auswahl im Menü (z.B. Farbauswahl) mehr möglich ist. Das betrifft fast alle Menüs und die dazugehörige Animation sieht imemr so aus, als würde ich versuchen das Farbfeld zu verschieben, was ich aber nicht mache, ich klick ganz normal darauf. Was ich schon versucht habe:Neuinstallation von IDLöschen bzw. Zurücksetzten aller VoreinstellungenInstallation einer älteren Version  ...alles bislang ohne Erfolg. der Fehler tritt auf, seit ich auf 20.0.1 geupdatet habe. Bei 20.0 lief alles noch normal. Aber auch das downgrade zu 19.5.1 führt nicht zu einer Beseitigung des Fehlers. Ich bin echt ratlos 😞 

Hi, I'm working on a table design, and I don't want this spacing below. When I adjust it, it removes one of the rows. Why is this happening? Is there a way to fix this? Thank you!  

I need to set this template up for an assignment I'm doing. I put the exact same units in from the tutorial video for the assignment but the live area and margins still aren't visible on my document. 

I am trying to create an object style that specifies x,y position and width, and then create other styles based on that one. However, it appears that size and position do not stay synchronized with the parent object style. Is this a bug or is this how it actually operates? I want to be able to keep that specification in one style and not have to update it in 3 other styles if things change.