InDesign

I am using InDesign 2025 and am experiencing a new problem that didnt exist with prior software versions. I am working off a Dell Windows PC.I cannot move or resize text boxes, graphics frames etc using my mouse. I can only move them with arrow keys. This was never a problem before. Here is what I have tried:1. rebooted computer2. Made sure InDesign was at latest rev (20.0.1)3. Tried other existing documents and new documents. Nothing worked4. Tried turning off (snap to) guides and grids functions5. I am not working from Master Pages and my layers and objects are not locked6. I trashed my preferences on application startup (CTRL, Shift, Alt)7. I even reviewed and deleted some Google Chrome extensions (not sure why that would have anything to do with it but tried that as well. This used to work with same Google extensions, havent loaded any new ones) Any other ideas????

Hello Hive! I must have accidently changed something because when I try to add pages to my document, instead of getting nice 2 page spreads, I'm getting mega spreads. Help!TIA 🙂

Bonjour,je trouve nul part les pack de style sur Indesign CC25 FR et je ne trouve aucun moyen de l'installer ou d'en créer.Avez-vous la solution ?Merci d'avance

Anyone have an idea what these gray, cyan and magenta brackets are around this text? They do not hide when text invisibles are hidden.They do, however, disappear when in Preview mode.I thought maybe they had something to do with tracking changes or something interactive, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Hi, I am creating an interactive pdf of a price ticket in head office (in InDesign) and sending to 8 stores so the sales staff can create their own price tickets. This part is fairly straightforward, however, we are now looking at changing the styling and the pound sign (£) and the .99p are a smaller font size than the main digits (see screenshot). Is there a way I can create those two elements as anchored objects and paste them into the price field so they will always centre regardless of the price i.e £99.99 or £1299.99? I've attached a screenshot showing what I am trying to do. I can create here using InDesign scripts from a .csv but I don't have the time to create all these and I certainly don't want stores emailing me every two minutes. Thanks.

I am writing a UXP script that grabs INDD files in bulk and makes some changes in the file and saves off the file to a different file location. I do not want to impact the original file. Instead, I want to save it as a new file in a new location. Does anyone know if this is possible in UXP scripting? I know you can export to PDF, which I have done before. But is it possible to export from one indd to another indd in a different location? const update = async(inDesignFiles, destinationFolder) => {    for (const file of inDesignFiles) {        await app.open(file.nativePath);        const activeDocument = app.activeDocument;        // add more changes here to the file        activeDocument.exportFile( ??? );      }}

I am hoping to create a dynamic table using TableStart:LineItems and TableEnd:LineItems in Adobe InDesign. I'm wanting to know if this is somehow possible or if InDesign only makes static tables?

Hello all,I'm trying to add the Bible Reference to auto-update in my page header. I understand that <Chapter Number> works for books, but that's not a good option for me.I have things working except for one problem: The Chapter Number options are <first occurrence> or <last occurrence>. The problem is when the first occurance is in the midle of the page, but I need the previous number. See attached:  You'll see "Rom 5:20" in the top, but it should be "Rom 4:20". For now I have to manually go back and fix these pages but would be nice to figure this out.I get my <Chapter Number> from using Text Variables, and the same for <Verse Number>.  For this to work I applied a character style to the chapter numbers manually (applying through GREP wasn't recognized by Text Variables), but the verse numbers the character style was applied upon RTF import.  One problem may be where the chapter _starts_ on the top of the page.This is not holding

Anyone else having printing issues with Sequoia?  I  am printing to a Xerox Phaser 7800 with multiple trays.  I cannot spec my specific printer in the page setup - it only shows "any printer". I can spec the printer in the main InDesign print dialog, but if I select the "printer" button at the bottom of the dialog in order to spec tray, paper weight, duplexing etc. InDesign immediately crashes. I was having the same issue with Illustrator and Acrobat, but the latest Adobe updates *seem* to have solved it there. InDesign is where the printer specification is most critical in order to correctly print booklets, trifold brochures etc. I have sent reports to both Adobe and Apple but have seen no solutions to date.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, A few weeks ago I needed to make some Arabic documents. I reinstalled my Indesign to Arabic (not the language). Now I need t o work on Roman, left to right lay-outs again. How do I switch back to Roman, without reinstalling the whole thng again? Thank you  

Buenos días a toda la comunidad.He trabajado con data merge durante varios años para creación de catálogos con múltiples datos. Por lo general, utilizando un mismo tipo de modulación o elemento, y replicándolo las veces necesarias en mi fuente de datos.Por ejemplo, a través de una capa o elemento (o módulo) de producto que contenía su foto, titulo, código, etc, iba generando las entradas necesarias mediante la combinación de datos. Incluso muchas veces me encontraba en la necesidad de generar "filas" con espacios pseudo-vacios, para colocar otros elementos luego del renderizado, pero todo lo que optimizaba con combinación de datos se perdía con tareas manuales posteriores, por ejemplo, colocar un banner un módulo con una nueva categoría o foto decorativa y demás. Ahora bien, luego de probar muchas opciones utilizando scripts asistido por IA, sigo sin encontrar una manera de poder utilizar distintos grupos de elementos (o layouts -como quieran llamarle-) para controlar a través de

I have a list of over 2000 names with phone number, specialty and other info that I transfered from a Numbers document to InDesign. I want to go through and bold just the line with the Name. The nesting of a character style won't work because that only works in a paragraph. Is there another way to get that one line bold? Obvioulsy without going through each and every name over 2000 times.

Hey, So I am trying to seprate code for readablity. I have two files so far. I am trying to import the file into the main file. I tried using #include but i got an error saying I could not use it outside a class. I saw online another example //@include but that does not work. It just comments out the import. What is the proper way of importing a file ?

I'm a typesetter at an academic publisher—so I work with a lot of long documents with many footnotes.   Recently, we're encountering a strange error when using one of our frequently-used body typefaces, Ten Oldstyle: when we reach 3-numeral, superscripted footnote numbers, the third numeral is often larger than the first two numerals. But not always (see screenshots).   We've tried changing the numeral style from oldstyle to normal and back, and manually applying the superscript vs. using a character style, but nothing seems to help. I experimented with other typefaces, and others (e.g., Garamond Premier Pro, Baskerville) also have the same problem, but not all others have issues (random sample—Freight Display and Times were fine).   Appreciate any help that the community or Adobe can offer!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi all, I'm trying to learn InDesign JavaScripting and I want to run a script in each active document to add two new layers to the bottom of the document. I've surfed the internet but I can't find anything that makes sense to me, any help would be much appreciated. This is what I have so far, this is saved as a .js file in my scripts folder; var myDoc = app.activeDocument.Layer.add({name:"EPub"});app.activeDocument.Layer.add({name:"TOC"}); It runs and the following error appears, what am I doing wrong?  

Hi everyone, I have an issue with InDesign recently, when I export a document and check it with the preflight of Acrobat, most of the time I have a 0,001 mm error with the size or/and with the bleed.  I'm know i'm not the only one. Where I work, many people have this annoying problem.Any ideas where this come from ?Thanks.    

When I receive files from a specific co-worker, I get a pop-up that tells me links or URLs are not accessible, but the little errors panel shows no errors and if I go into the links panel, nothing shows as missing there.   Furthermore, I am unable to export a pdf or even package the files at all. I get this message instead: We are both running the latest version of InDesign and I have tried shutting down completely and re-starting. I am able to make an idml file, but all of the links unlink if I do so (like the normal way of unlinking where it shows up in the links panel). I end up having to go through and relink each one individually which is cumbersome as these files can have 200 links.  Has anyone else encountered this issue and do you have a fix for it?

Not sure what going on, cursor looks weird?Tried going into PREFERENCES >> USER INTERFACE SCALINGrestarting, then changing it back to small. Indesign 19.5 (2024)OS 13.7.1

Hello I am currently having an issue with the line tool where it defaults to 0 stroke and shows up at a different place on the page than drawn.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

I created some artwork all within InDesign and when I export it, the output is significantly different. InDesign screenshot Acrobat screenshot This happens regardless of the export format (eg also happens in jpeg & png.) PNG What is a little intriguing, is if I change the resolution of a jpeg or png export, eg to 72ppi, then there's still an issue, but it's different: It seems like the effects are not scaling properly when exporting, among other issues. The issue also occurs if I copy the artwork out of InDesign and paste it into Illustrator. The blue curve you see most pronounced in the last screenshot, conists of a single stroke, 100pt thick. I've then applied a gradient to it, set the blend mode to Hard Light and added Basic Feather to it.

Is there a way QR code update it self, as I change the SKU field text box?   

Hey folks! I'm using InDesign v2024 on a Macbook Pro. Currently, I am designing a postcard with variable data which is both content and images. I have an Excel spreadsheet sheet with all my columns and rows together and the content is working completely fine but the images is where I am having issues. Column header is '@images to avoid Excel thinking I want to use a formula. The rows have the paths which I have tried every which way from Sunday to make work but continue to get the same error (missing image files). Please note that I am saving this spreadsheet as a CSV file format and everything is currently on my desktop (not a server). Despite reading articles and forums as well as watching many videos, nothing seems to be working. Here are my questions:Is there a specific file extension that is required?If so, what is it? I've done both PSD and JPGs.For a Mac, is there a specific path required? I've seen all sorts of opinions on these and none of them work for me. Here are a few

Hi, I'm having a problem in InDesign CC 2022 v17.2 desktop app on Windows 10 64 bit. When I Open a New Document, InDesign freezes. I've reset the preferences and it hasn't worked. Has anyone been able to solve it without reinstalling? The problem is that there is no longer an installer for this version in Creative Cloud.

Hello! I know I may be seeking a far-reaching solution; however, at this point, I'm clueless as to what may be causing my issue. I've created a document that I need to print in its BEST resolution due to finer lines/dots, when I print it from the main tray on normal printer paper. Gorgeous. Crisp. Perfect. When I transition to using cardstock from the rear tray, It feels as if I need to get my eyes checked, just a little blurry. It's the different paper, you say!? Sadly, it's not. I've used this paper for years, as well as InDesign to print out perfectly crisp results. I then thought, maybe it needs to print in a different format for better resolution. So I exported it to a PDF and opened Adobe to print it using the setting of '600 dpi' and to print 'as an image'. I then printed it on the cardstock from the rear tray and it provides me with crisp results (although a little lighter, it's still crisp)! I've already spoken with tech support at Canon, and they didn't of

I am on latest macOS using InDesign CC 2024 and 2025. Haven't had any issues until this morning on one of my systems. (The other works as it should with same OS Sequoia 15.1.1). When I attempt to select either the in port (or out port) the loaded cursor doesn't show up any longer. I get a fast coordinates tool tip but not the loaded paragraph.After trying it about 20 times, it worked once but never again. I have restarted, shutdown/rebooted, and no difference. I didn't think there was an option to disable threading of a text frame, but this has me shocked.I'm on an M1 Studio Ultra, if that makes a difference. I have also reset, removed, or reinstalled cursor and pen tablet drivers but I don't that is it.Any ideas?