InDesign

Hi there, I've searched the community and the web for this glitch and can't find it. unfortunately the latest updated to both software and OS haven't fixed this.Basically, if I leave my design for a little bit, and then come back to it (say after a meeting)I find that as soon as I tap the page with my cursor – the entire layout (all pages) disappear. Everything else is still present including my pages column on the right. But the only thing that seems to bring it back is saving and restarting the programme which obvs isn't convenient.Anyone else experienced this and/or has a fix?Many thanksCarolyh

Bonjour.J’ai un problème avec un export PDF interactif depuis InDesign.Contexte :J’importe des PDF dans InDesign. Je les recadre dans des blocs afin de n’afficher qu’une partie du contenu. Ensuite j’exporte en Adobe PDF interactif. Problème : dans le PDF exporté :la recherche texte trouve du contenu (texte) qui n’est pas visible (voir photos jointes) Acrobat surligne parfois du “vide”, on dirait que le texte situé hors du recadrage reste présent dans la structure du PDF.J’ai compris que : le recadrage InDesign est seulement visuel, le contenu complet du PDF importé semble rester embarqué dans le PDF interactif exporté.Contraintes :Je ne peux pas : aplatir le PDF, convertir en image, ni “imprimer en PDF”, car j’ai besoin de conserver : les liens interactifs, la qualité vectorielle, et le texte recherchable. Je veux pouvoir recherche du texte mais seulement dans mes blocs recadrés et pas en dehors   Question :Existe-t-il une méthode pour  supprimer réellement le contenu hors recadrage de

I have a top of the line machine. i9-14900k, Radeon 9070XT, 64gb DDR5 RAM, and a fast NVME drive.InDesign lags more than any adobe program, because of the AI Generated Alt Text, which is enabled by default and I cannot disable it, as I have a pro plan.Every time I drag an image onto a file, it lags for a good 5 seconds while the AI generated text does its thing. I want to disable this feature fully. I do not use any AI in InDesign.Please recommend a way to permanently disable this feature, as it nearly doubles my working time on any document, lagging with every adjustment. If I have to edit something in the registry to do so, or block something on a firewall, so be it. Please release me from this torture

I produce monthly magazines and at the end of every month I send my files to the printer and when the magazines come back printed I package the files and go to publish online I then copy and paste the link that throws up up and create a link to that  URL on my website behind an image of the cover of each magazine, job done. I have been working on a separate project of a magazine for a charity carnival and have been trying to get the magazine printed with the publish online link already in it but I'm finding that very difficult because if I create a link and a QR code to the published magazine I then have to try and add that link to the printed page before it gets printed sounds odd  but I've been going dizzy trying to solve this one. All I want to achieve is have the magazine printed with the link to Adobe Portal Publish online.  Anybody got any solutions?

I am translating a document from English to Hebrew.  I need to substitute the text and flip some objects / pages.  When i type the hebrew text in Story, it looks correct.  But when i Close Story, on the actual page, the letters appear LTR instead of RTl.

Bonjour à tous,Je me permets de vous contacter pour un problème que je n’arrive pas à solutionner depuis pas mal de temps et qui me fait perdre pas mal de temps.Les photos de mon document sont toutes converties avec le profil PSO Uncoated ISO12647, cependant dans les informations InDesign, il m’affiche le profil Coated FOGRA 39 (ISO 12647-2:2004), il n’affiche pas le bon profil incorporé à la photo et cela malgré même les réglages que j’ai effectué dans “couleurs” (Edition > Couleurs…). Quelqu’un saurait-il m’aider à résoudre ce problème ?Par avance merci. :)  

I need to basically tag some text, to associate it with a particular issue. I want to change its color, and that’s all. I can find no method to mark text in a searchable way without overriding all of its characteristics.We don’t use character styles anywhere in our documents, so this would be a safe way to do so. But how do you clear any characteristic from a character style that you don’t want to set?

InDesign 2026 (21.2) x64 Changes resolution when opening a file from within the application. This resizes the window so that it is completely impossible to grab any of the corners or header bar. I have to quit the application and restart. Happens around 30% of the time when opening a document while InDesign is already open. Screenshot attached. Windows 11 laptop running multiple monitors. I should add, this started happening a few updates ago.  

Hi,My customer made comments on documument, which I can see both, at assets.adobe.com preview as well as in indesign, however pins are visible at online version only.  How to fix it?Please, help. Michal

After I imported my story from a docx file, the TOC I had in Libre somehow turned to text and now I want to delete it but it won't delete.I have used ChatGPT to help and it has suggest many things but nothing I do gets rid of those 5 pages which were the original TOC but I think are are now text added to the story..What is the best way for me to proceed to get rid of it so I can create a proper TOC.Thank you

We get this all the time. InDesign will gripe about a few characters in a document. So you can click on the error, see that yes once again Times Roman is applied to some invisible character, and then change the character to match the rest of the document.But this isn’t enough. Now InDesign will complain about that font for those characters, even though it’s obviously installed and used for tens of thousands of other characters in the document.Anybody have a workaround for this defect?Thanks! 

I’m experiencing two ongoing issues with InDesign’s Review feature that have been consistently reproducible for the past three months. Issue 1: Review links fail to update on larger documents When uploading a publication for review, I can no longer update the existing review link. A persistent error appears stating: “There was a problem updating the artefact.” This workflow functioned reliably until approximately three months ago. To rule out local issues, I tested the same document and process on a second machine, with identical results. Through testing, I’ve found that if I halve the document size (testing both the first 30 pages and the last 30 pages independently to rule out a problematic element), the review link does update successfully. This suggests the issue is related to document scale rather than specific assets. The publications I work on are graphically intensive magazines, typically around 2.5GB in total size. Images are linked, not embedded, with many PSD files used thro

Linking an image in InDesign 2026 and exporting it as a tagged PDF generates an unpleasant Tag structure.The structure now is:<Figure>--<Link>----OBJR--ContentTags inside of <Figure> will normally ignored by any assistive technology. So the Link will not be present to the end user.This is a change to InDesign 2025 and before, where the tagging was properly:< Link>--OBJR--<Figure>----Content This new behavior violates WCAG guidelines and makes the link tagging inaccessible to screen reader users. 

Hi Guys, I have tried to pass colon attribute to evaluateXPathExpression but not working please help me. Attributes:  @xml:id, @aid:pstyle var doc = app.activeDocument;var rootElement = doc.xmlElements[0];var xPathQuery = "//section[@role and @xml:id and @ele-id]";var matchedElements = rootElement.evaluateXPathExpression(xPathQuery);if (matchedElements.length > 0) {        for (var i = 0; i < matchedElements.length; i++) {        var productNode = matchedElements[i];                        var priceNodes = productNode.evaluateXPathExpression("title[@ele-id and @aid:pstyle]");                if (priceNodes.length > 0) {            alert("Section " + (i + 1) + " Title: " + priceNodes[0].contents);        }    }} else {    alert("No Product elements found in the XML structure.");}

Hello,We are currently working on a file translated into Burmese (Myanmar) that requires accessibility remediation for screen readers.The files are being processed in Adobe InDesign 2026. The translated text was copied from a Word file after first being pasted into Notepad to remove any potential hidden formatting or encoding characters.The following settings and checks have already been completed:A Unicode font that fully supports Burmese characters is being used. World-Ready Paragraph Composer is enabled. The correct language is assigned at text level. Legacy Text Shaping for Adobe World-Ready Composer is enabled. The file is being exported as a tagged PDF with the correct document language assigned.Despite all these settings being correctly applied, Acrobat’s accessibility checker continues to report a character encoding error for the Burmese text. Could you please advise if Burmese (Myanmar) has any known limitations with Acrobat accessibility validation, or if there are additional

Hi everyone,I'm from Germany and thus have the German CC version.Have massive performance problems on all our PC/Win devices with InDesign.Of course I've already searched for a solution by myself and have already done the standard tasks - without any positive effect. That's why I write here, fervently hoping for a good and sensible answer instead of just standard copy & paste answers...1st I started with the preferences - and found nothing. The official Adobe post says:https://helpx.adobe.com/de/indesign/using/gpu_performance.html^^But although it's title is general it's written Mac specific. I actually have NO "GPU Performance" entry in the preferences list in InDesign (while in Illustrator and Photoshop I have that for years).I also have NO animated zoom as described in the article and it's all dead slow, so I'm sure I'm in CPU mode. Why does GPU work in the complete graphics and video apps but NOT in InDesign?Have a NVIDIA RTX Studio certified notebook with a RTX 3050 Mobile and

All my books (several hundred) are formatted using the Times New Roman TTF font. The new version of InDesign 21.0 changes that to Times New Roman OTF.Fortunately, version 20.0 is still installed. I know from experience that strange things can happen in updates.. However, the problem with the latest update has also been introduced in that version.OTF is only available with a licence, which I do not have. I would appreciate some help.Cor van Wijgerden     <Title renamed by MOD>

Bonjour, je viens de tester la mise à jour InDesign 21.3 sur Windows 11. J’ai une petite fenêtre rouge en bas d’écran qui me demande de tenir Windows à jour. Je ne peux pas fermer cette fenêtre rouge. Et comme je suis dans une grande entreprise, je n’ai pas la possibilité d’intervenir sur Windows, c’est une version imposée par l’entreprise et sécurisée. Je ne peux pas non plus quitter InDesign qui me dit qu’il y a une tâche en arrière plan, mais si j’ouvre la fenêtre “tâches en arrière plan” ,il n’y a rien. Je viens donc de revenir à la version 21.2 qui fonctionne sans problème. Une solution ?

____________________________________________________________________1. InDesign Loses Hyperlinks from Placed InCopy TextHyperlinks created in InCopy are randomly dropping from InDesign documents. I can find no repeatable pattern or reason.Documents that had placed InCopy text with Hyperlinks drop the link altogether from the Hyperlinks panel in InDesign.Video of the process: Problem and WorkaroundI found this workaround, and it was fine last month, but the InCopy Hyperlinks are now dropping again!If I create a New document and place the InCopy text with a hyperlink, everything works fine. If I OPEN a previously created InDesign document with InCopy text, the hyperlinks drop intermittently.  My InDesign Hyperlinks panel is sorting alphabetically, so the Securing the ServiceNow AI Platform link should appear in the Hyperlinks panel after the InCopy text is updated. The hyperlink does not appear.To make it work: Copy the InCopy text frame from the previously created InDesign document. Pas

Já reportei este problema, mas com as atualizações do InDesign e do Windows, isso se resolveu; mas agora, novamente, as fontes estão aparecendo em negrito em partes do texto, mesmo o estilo correspondente não conter esta opção:Adobe, por favor me informe, quando o programa funcionará sem problemas após atualizações do Windows e do programa? Essa mudança de estilo muda todo o espaçamento do arquivo e desconfigura o documento que não pode seguir para a produção. 😔

I’m using the font “36 days ago BRK” that is free to use for any purpose, yet InDesign insists on replacing it as i export my PDF because of “licensing issues”. I’m not using Adobe Fonts, I simply downloaded a free-use font off the internet. I don’t want to start using Adobe Fonts or find another font to replace it. What’s really annoying is that it used to work on older versions. I don’t know why this is an issue now.

Since Indesign version 2025 all the time a whole textblock suddenly disappears. It still exists, but is not shown.  It happens in different situations: when i scroll, want to start typing, etc. I already switched of the gpu-modus, but that does not help.I am using Windows 10 on a Imac 4K intel core I5.

I have big issues to export my Indesignfile to PDF. I really need help. I have tried all that I can find in Adobe Helpcenter. Restarted my Mac etc.  The error message I get is 'This document contains links to files/URLs that are not accessible.' Check your network connection or the original content source. And this: '2 issues (1 error) found with background data. Could not export PDF file.' 

Tenemos un cliente que todavía usa Adobe Indesign 2021 (16.x), como la versión está descatalogada no se puede descargar desde la creative cloud, y por migración de pc, se ha perdido la aplicación y ahora no se puede instalar.

Hallo :) Ich arbeite gerade an meinem Portfolio und möchte ein Bilder-Karussell im PDF einbinden. Beim Klick auf einen Pfeil soll das nächste Bild erscheinen, ohne dass eine neue Seite geladen wird (also keine Sprungmarken). Bisher habe ich dafür den Objektstatus und Schaltflächen mit entsprechender Funktion genutzt. In der InDesign-Vorschau funktioniert das auch aber leider beim Export nicht mehr. Die Schaltflächen werden zwar angezeigt aber funktionieren nicht. Ich arbeite mit der neusten Version von InDesign und auch von Acrobat. Ich habe auch darauf geachtet, dass ich als interaktives PDF exportiere aber leider klappt es nicht. Ich befürchte, dass diese Funktionen nicht mehr unterstützt werden aber vielleicht hat ja jemand einen Tipp oder eine Idee, wie ich den Slider anders umsetzten könnte. Danke schonmal und liebe GrüßeLena 😊