InDesign

Hi everyone, Since the latest Adobe InDesign update, I’ve been experiencing an issue with assigning colors:I’m unable to apply any color from the swatches to objects or text. When I select a color, nothing happens initially, and after a short delay, I hear the typical macOS error sound. The color selection is simply ignored, and the object or text remains unchanged. Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a solution? Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards,Richard

Hi everyone, Maybe a silly question but is there an eraser tool in InDesign? I couldve sworn before the latest update there was one!?  I like to create outline on my text and then erase parts of the letters that surround other images etc. if that makes sesne? But since having no eraser tool I can't seem to do it.   Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂     <Title renamed by MOD>

Where is the top menu / toolbar in the latest version of indesign? Specifically, where is the tool that fits the frame to the text with one click that was in the toolbar before this latest update? Please help.

Hi, I'm working on a book layout and there is a section where the reader can write notes. The problem is that the form lines don't align with the baseline grid (due to the varying heights). If I align it with the baseline there wont be enough space for writting. How can I ensure consistency across the book despite the it not being aligned to the baseline grid?Thank you!

I am creating a recipe book. My problem is simple :I have parent pages for the recipes. For each recipe, i want to edit the text and the images. But, i want the recipe (child) page to still be link to the parent page. For exemple, each recipe have of course different title and images, but I want to be able to modify the color of of the title in one time. How can i do that ? If i want to change the title to edit the recipe I have to override the parent pages, and then the title isn't linked at all to the parent page anymore. Same for pictures, I want to have different picture on each recipe but be able to change the size of all of the pictures of the recipe all at once for exampleThanks for your help !

Coworker is having an issue in InDesign 2025. They have a file in Illustrator 2025, all black strokes. When the files is imported and placed into an InDesign document, it is initially fine, until it is scaled down to fit the page, then if the bounding box is moved around the page, it will start leaving little pieces of the drawing behind that can then be selected and have to be deleted on their own. The majority of the graphic remains selecteable as a single imported image file. I have confirmed that it is being imported, not copy/pasted or dragged in. Saving the AI file as an EPS does fix the problem, but we've imported native AI files into InDesign for a long time, wondering what the problem might be.The Illustrator file was a DWG blueprint sent to us as a PDF, then imported into Illustrator to be edited. All strokes, not converted to outline. I believe the InDesign file initially had been created with PDF2ID, as its an older form that needed to be updated after no live files co

Ever since I updated Indesign it has been acting weird, If I try select a bounding box, it has a delay and then shifts it a bit, especially if I try edit within a bounding box. is there something i am doing wrong? or doesnt anyone else have this issue?I attached a video to help show what is happening

how to have current and next page numberes in the current page, eg. instead of having number 1 in page 1 and 2 in page 2, having 1/2 in page one and nothing in page 2

Brand new to C++ Plug In Development and trying to get the SDK Samples to run. Using:Indesign SDK 20.0.0.95Indesign Debug Version 20.0.1DVisual Studio 17.9.6 Can only get the "BasicLocalization" project to compile and run. The handful of other samples  "WriteFishPrice, BasicDialog..." I tried all encounter the same build error of "_MAX_INT_DIG:undeclared identifier" in xlocnum_back_vs2022_17_1.h. What is causing this and how do I fix it?

Recently, I've noticed that InDesign is setting text boxes to automatically auto-fit content when I resize them.  It doesn't mesh with my flow.  How do I turn this setting off?  I'm tiring of constantly selecting objects and disabling them.  TIring of accidentally scaling images disproportionally.  Please note:  I know how to turn auto-fitting off.  What I want to do is make sure it is not on when I add a new frame.

One of InDesign's few persistent serious bugs affects indexing large numbers of occurrences of a word in long documents. The first few occurrences are tagged perfectly, to the immediate left of the first letter of the word, but from then on the tags start getting placed further and further to the right of this position. After a while the tags land up in the word following the one to be indexed, then the word after that, and so on. The rightward drift gets worse and worse with every occurrence, even going into the paragraph after the word to be indexed. All the obvious workarounds I have tried are annoyingly time-consuming.I am very angry that Adobe deducts money from my bank account every month supposedly to finance ongoing development and bug-fixing, yet this serious bug has never been attended to.It seems unlikely there is a workaround that actually saves time instead of wasting it. The only real solution would be for Adobe to finally correct their own very annoying programming error

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I am rather new to InDesign, but I have been trying to test out the share for review function and using comments in the asset that is shared on the web.My test comments using any of the markers (pin, highlight, strikethrough, replace text, and draw) do not display the markers themselves in InDesign. When clicking on the comment in the Review window in InDesign, the text is sometimes highlighted, but gives no other visual indication as to what the comment is.These comments sometimes show as "unmapped" also, but seem to vary for no particular reason. They're currently mapped to a spread now though.Attached two screenshots of web view and InDesign view.Thank you,Nick

Bonjour,Pourquoi un objet supprimé dans indisign apparait dans Epub apès un export? Et ceci suite à plusieurs redémarages.Merci beaucoup 

Hi, Are Ligatures commonly used in book layout? Specifally a non fiction?   Thank you!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Indesign jsx seems to be a bit more advanced than it's Photoshop sibling, which is what I'm used to.Is there a quick one liner to make a filepath into a nice Windows one? ie TurnC:\\some%20folder/anotherFolder\\somefile.txtintoC:\some folder\anotherFolder\somefile.txtWithout having to rely on regex to fix each thing (unifided slashes, %20, etc) as you go?   var afileName = "C:\\some%20folder/anotherFolder\\somefile.txt" // var resolvedPath = resolve(afileName); // var normalizedPath = path.normalize(afileName ); var nicePath = decodeURIComponent(afileName); // Replace all front slashes with back slashes. We are Windows nicePath = nicePath.replace(/\//g, "\\"); // replace %20 with space // nicePath = nicePath.replace(/%20/g," "); alert(nicePath);   

Hi everyone,Is it possible to set this script (by @luis_guimaraes) so that every time it encounters the "Title" style it starts over with the "Text1" style and then the Next styles?For example:"Title" -"Text1" - "Text2" - "Text3"" - "Text2" - "Text3" ....... "Title" - "Text1" - "Text2" - "Text3"" - "Text2" - "Text3" ...Thank you in advance  app.doScript(Main, language=ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, withArguments=[], undoMode=UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, undoName='Testing'); function Main(){ //reference to each style const titleStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName('Title') const textStyle1 = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName('Text1') const textStyle2 = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName('Text2') const textStyle3 = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName('Text3') //selected paragraphs (including first title) var paras = app.selection[0].paragraphs; var prevstyle = paras[0].appliedParagra

I have a new work computer which was upgraded partly due to belieiving 8gb of Ram wasn't enough to run Adobe apps (2024 Macbook Pro M4 Pro 48GB). I predomantly need to use Indesign and have spent the last week or two messing around with signing in/out restarts, trying to download files, viewing actiivity monitor, Adobe support calls. Most importantly I'm not getting any work done and it's stresssing me out.Should I try to install the previous IOS?The worst part is that I can't access the cloud docs after I've spent the last few months migrating my files there. It's driving me crazy! Please help. 

Hi,  I updated to InDesign 2025 yesterday and have noticed that since then I can only undo approximately 5/6 times. When I have the history panel open i can see that as soon as I've done 5/6 actions all the history disappears.    I've reset my preferences and can't seem to find a solution.    Thanks     <Title renamed by MOD>    

Hi, I weird problem with fonts in indesign book I created. On my computer everything seems fine, on amazon preview everything seems fine but when I ordered proof print it has unprinted polygons in some places. What can cause it? And how I can fix it before final publishing?

For some reason, I cannot change the color of text or objects in InDesign CC. The options are not grayed out but when you select a different color, it goes right back to the previous color without change. I am running Mojave 10.14.2 on my Mac with the other CC Adobe apps. I’ve tried changing colors in all kinds of files (both new and old) and still cannot make any kind of changes to the swatches. All I can do is to create a new color whenever I need to colorize something. I can't even make adjustments to these colors I create either. Once the color has been set, there's nothing you can do but create yet another color.I found a post about this issue but the suggestion to dump the preferences doesn't seem to help--both manually and automatically. I also tried uninstalling the app and then re-installing it from the Cloud. But that doesn't seem to matter either. Please help. This is extremely frustrating!

Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it's possible that I can myself add comments on a document I'm working on and will share for review - using the Review function in InDesign. As soon as I share the document to my client, he is able to add comments. I like to do that myself also. So I can explain certain changes and descionsions made. But it seems not possible. Any suggestions? Thx!

Hi community,i would like to find a solution for the next problemI have a 400 pages book with a text set up in this way:paragraph style "Subtitle 1" thenparagraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"(the number of paragraphs "Body text" isn't a fix number...paragraph style "Subtitle 1" thenparagraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"paragraph style "Body text"etc....I would like to find, in selection text, all paragraps "Body text" between each "paragraph style "Subtitle 1" and apply paragraph styles in this way"My new style 1"than next style "My new style 2"then next style "My new style 3"than next style "My new style 2"then next style "My new style 3"....until the next paragraph style "Subtitle 1" and than repeat all until the and of selectionIs this possible with a script?Thank you in advanceMarko  

I have a whole bunch of text where the punctuation got messed up and the commas and periods are at the start of the line/paragraph, instead of the end. I have the same issue with ... but those are rare.I'm looking for a script or a trick to fix all the text at once.