InDesign

Affects: Indesign 19.5 and 20.0.1 (across iMac and Macbook Pro)Steps I tried to resolve issue:Reinstalling latest Indesign (20.0.1), restarting my iMac, reverted to a previous version of ID (19.5), copied the file to my desktop to open from there, started a fresh document and tried to create new Styles (doesn't let me), opened another document which has styles that worked (they also don't work any more), deleted preferences, and finally I have updated my iMac and that hasn't fixed it either.Expected result:Font Styles panel should work as it should be (and as it did 3 days ago before the weekend. Have no idea what has changed!) in that you click on a Style and it applies it instantly. I should not have to Right Click/Apply Style. Actual Result:Cannot select or apply styles from the Style panel. Clicking on the style in the panel makes the selected item flicker, but nothing gets selected or applied and it stays the same default font. I can only change the style if I right click on

According to the stars, Master pages as a name is unacceptable. Who in their right mind cares about it?

I want to create new paragraph styles named “a1” and ‘a2’ under the “AA” group.When creating them:I’ll first check if “a1” and ‘a2’ already exist; if so, I won’t create them again, but I’ll move them into the “AA” group.If a1 and a2 do not exist, create them. 

All quotes in my text are made with right doble quotation marks on either side of the quote. How can I change them into 66 99?See image attached :) BIG thanx in advance to all you clever and kind people!

I couldn't find the code name for 'proportional spacing' in the InDesign ExtendeScript API.https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#CharacterStyle.htmlSo I installed an English version of InDesign and suddenly realized that the interface between the Chinese and English versions is different.The English version does not even have the option of "proportional spacing".  

I was using english phonetic to type in pagemaker akruti. Now how to type odia using phonetic in indesign 

No puedo abrir los documentos libros (.indb) en la versión de Indesig 2026. No abre ni los archivos recién creados con esa misma versión ni archivos anteriores que antes pude hacer y ver. Manda un mensaje que el documento x.indb no se puede abrir como archivo de libro.

InDesign. I'm rearranging chapters, and I'm moving pages rather than text because I've already set all the text box sizes to avoid widows & orphans. But instead of moving smoothly forward and backward from one page to the next in the text, at the ends of chapters it now jumps to a completely different page (presumably the one it used to be next to). This is maddening! What can I do about it?

InDesign 21.4.1 on Mac Studio M1 Ultra Tahoe 26.5.1. Pretty simple and annoying bug. I am unable to stack/group panels on my workspace. This only pertains to the bottom 1-2 for some reason. You are able to place more panels below  I would confidently assume this is a reproducible bug. This has been present for the past few versions but I am just now reporting it. The workspace panel is one of the most important features for InDesign workflow and this is the second (albeit, not as annoying) bug I found that I didn’t even need to try to find…   From the gif you can see it seems like the bottom 2 groups cannot be stacked. It doesn’t seem like it matters what panel you grab.

The image on the left has 2 panels of gradient with a multiply effect in InDesign the image on the right is how it exports to PDF.I’ve had this issue constantly for weeks, along with other issues that Adobe just won’t fix it’s getting to be a nightmare to use this crappy software.I’ve tried every different PDF export option and compatibility setting there is it doesn’t help. With the exception that sometimes but not always, interactive PDF rarely fixes the issue.I’ve changed the colour profiles too but doesn’t help.It’s to the point where I can’t work using CC so will need to change my whole company over to Affinity if they don’t start fixing some of these bugs.I’m still having this issue here that Adobe can’t fix, not sure it they are related.  

Hello! So my team and I have been adding alt text to images in PhotoShop and then using Object Export Options with “From XMP: Alt Text (Accessibility)” selected for the Alt Text Source. In InDesign, this works great. We can see the alt text. But it does not seem to transfer to PDF when exported. We have triple checked that the “Create Tagged PDF” option is selected when exporting to PDF. What are we doing wrong? Object Export Options exampleExport options selected 

What a joke of a title I just wrote. Was this feature ever tested?  I just had to find out that there has been an Alt-Text on an image published on my companies website that literally describes a black gradient as “a black & white image of a n**e* figure.” I cannot fathom how a feature like this ever made it to production. There is literally no way I believe this was tested beforehand, at least by (cogniscant) humans. Infuriatingly shameful. I do not care that the alt-text has been improved because I am still finding it from when I was affected. I’ve had it disabled since the moment I’ve been able to turn if off and it has still caused nightmares for me. It is even more frustrating that it basically hides in plain sight and I cannot even find the tags. I had been working on this document for hours before I noticed, all because I accidentally moved the box. To keep me sane and also keep my job, I would love to see Alt-Text tags unaffected by objects in-front of them. I can only imag

Already posted in the Acrobat forum but I think it belongs here.Machine is a Zenbook Duo (Windows 11). When exporting a relatively small (five page) document to PDF, InDesign hangs and never recovers.Workaround is to tick the “Create separate PDF files” checkbox and combine the pages afterwards.Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? I’ve used InDesign for years and have never before seen this behavior.

(05/08/2026, version 21.5, updated yesterday) Glad for the option to delete all AI generated alt-text... if only it would work properly. The remove all button doesn’t recognize the generated alt-text and pretends there is nothing to delete. This document has 208 pages and there is several pictures on each of them. Having AI generated descriptions on our images erodes the trust our clients have in our products, and I had to find roundabout techniques to delete them directly in the exported PDF because as a professional, I can not afford the time to delete them all by hand, one by one in InDesign. Thus, neither me or my colleagues have touched the descriptions : they are as they were generated (without our consent) when this feature was pushed without notice. So the feature should recognize them as AI generated text to be deleted, and just does not. I keep being dissatisfied with how this whole situation have been handled since it’s been reported month ago.  Dialog box says “No AI-genera

Ever since the last updated, drop shadows aren't displaying properly when exporting PNGs from Indesign. There are a couple of threads, but no solutions, It's becoming annoying, as the workaround is to close the app completely and reopen the file. Totally messes the workflow.

We generate in-store A3 landscape signs automatically from our ERP: a JSON job feeds an ExtendScript that drives InDesign 2026 and exports the PDF, with no manual step. Each sign holds 2 or 3 uppercase lines (the product name) whose length varies a lot from product to product. Design goal: the largest possible cap height (these are read from the street), the text block filling the sheet, and no distorted type. What the script does today: it sets the point size from the height each line gets, then raises horizontalScale until the line reaches the frame width. That lands at 115-130%, which is visibly distorted, so this is clearly the wrong tool. Questions: 1. Is there a scripting equivalent of Illustrator's Type > Fit Headline in InDesign, or is adjusting tracking the accepted way to make a short line fill the measure? 2. For a line that is too long, is switching to the condensed cut of the same family the recommended automated fallback, rather than reducing the point size? 3. Is Line

How do I obtain the PrefixNumber for an InDesign C++ SDK plug-in?

Hi there. I've installed the latest update of Indesign 2020. I'm now experiencing problems in that if I open a converted version of an Indesign docment, make changes then try to save, it says "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged." (See Indesign 2020 Fig. 1). I have tried to save a copy of my document and it says the same thing. I have even tried to create a new document in Indesign 2020, save it as a test before putting anything in it and again the same message, "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried but it appears to be damaged." (See Indesign 2020 Fig 2).  Is it a bug in the new Indesign update? Do I uninstall it and reinstall Indesign 2019? Could someone please help me?

None of my adobe services are working. I have tried everything I can, can someone help me?These are screenshots of what happens when I try to open any of my apps.  

InDesign blank document presets – i work in Australia where we don’t use the US page sizes, and several times a day, I create new InDesign files, and start with an A4, A3, A5 most times. Every time, I need to click ‘View all presets’ and scroll past the US sizes, down to these sizes. I would LOVE to be able to either delete or move Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Letter-Half, Legal-Half, US business card, Compact Disc (which I will never use), so I have my A3, A4, A5 at the top. I know this is only a minor thing, but it’s just something I would think is a no brainer to be able to do. I think most countries outside of the US would find this useful. Is there a way i haven’t found online, that anyone knows of?

Hi everyone. I recently worked on a publishing project as a designer using InDesign, alongside an editor using InCopy, with Google Drive serving as the cloud storage for the files. Everything was under control until the day before printing, when one of the InCopy assignments was overwritten by a version from two weeks prior. Since I don't handle the text content, I never touched that assignment; the editor had made last-minute corrections but certainly hadn't reverted it to such an old state. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? After a thorough check, the editor is certain the issue was limited to that specific assignment, and my InDesign file remained unaffected. Do you think it’s possible that Google Drive (which backs up various versions of every file) might have automatically restored an old backup? Ciao a tutti. Ho recentemente lavorato a un progetto editoriale come designer utilizzando indesign, assieme a un redattore che ha usato incopy, e usando Google Drive com

During my free trial period i had a document that i've amended and saved several times.  the free period has ceased and i tried to open the document and an window appears stating the file is damaged (error code 4).  this happens with every document that i open.  i've paid today to have indesign for the year and the documents still will not open and still gives the error code 4 window.   Help.

Hello everyone.I always select 2 objects.One of the objects must be a text box.The other object is a non text box object.(Note: Another object is also an image, but when the image is pasted inside the frame, I cannot access it.)Originally, a function of m1b could be specifically used to obtain image frames. But it is invalid for the exceptions mentioned above.So I came up with two solutions: non text objects and text boxes.Now I don't know how to modify the code below to obtain non text boxes.There are attachments. notTextFrames = getThingsWithFilter(items, function (item) { return item.hasOwnProperty('texts') && item.texts.length == 0 }, true);The current issue is that I don't know how to modify the code for notTextFrames.How to express the antonym of “hasOwnProperty”?Complete code:var doc = app.activeDocument, items = doc.selection,//graphicFrames = getThingsWithFilter(items, function (item) { return item.hasOwnProperty('graphics') && item.graphics.length > 0 },

Mac, OS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)In the past I have had this problem with Illustrator and Photoshop. Now it sometimes appears with InDesign as well. If I try to drag the active window to another place on my screen, by dragging from the top of the window, it disappears behind all other apps currently open. Oddly, any free floating palettes stay on top. If I can still see a part of the window, I can click on it to bring it back to the front. If not, I have to go to the dock to bring it forward. Nothing is lost so this is an annoyance rather than a real problem, but why does it happen and why is it now happening with ID as well as the others? 

Hi everyone,I'm trying to create a booklet from InDesign using the following workflow:InDesign, Print Booklet, PostScript file, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFThe problem is that when I select PostScript File as the printer, the PPD is set to Device Independent. Because of this, the paper size and orientation options are grayed out, so I can't specify the correct size for my imposed booklet.As a result, when I distill the PostScript file, the resulting PDF doesn't have the correct page size.I understand that using ADPDF9.PPD would solve this issue,However, I would like to know if there is any way to create a correctly sized PostScript file and then distill it to PDF without installing a PPD, printer driver, or any other additional software.Is there a way to specify the correct page size while using the device independent PPD, or is installing ADPDF9.PPD required for this workflow?Thanks!