InDesign

Share for Review link made - client made edits with specific instructions to select text first on screen then click button to leave the comment for feedback and the feedback is not showing on screen in the backend so there is no way to put a comment with what is on the page.  I checked it myself and it is not showing my edits on the page either… HELP!! 

My layout has only one column.However, the text boxes are split into two or three columns.I have currently selected only the image “imgA”; how can I retrieve the text box below it?I want to use a script to determine how many columns the text boxes are split into.Thank you. 

Trying to use sp-accordion in a UXP panel with React. Anyone has a working example or tips for proper integration and styling inside UXP?https://opensource.adobe.com/spectrum-web-components/components/accordion/

Bonjour, Je rencontre un problème de magnétisme et de repères commentés. Tout est correctement coché dans mes paramètres affichage > grilles et repères mais rien n'y fait, rien ne marche. J'ai également essayé de downgrade ma version indesign, sans succès. Je précise que j'utilise la dernière version d'indesign 2023 et que je suis sur mac IOS 12.6.3.

Dear all,I encountered one problem regarding footnotes in InDesign and hope you can help me with. I have a magazine with articless and in the beggining of each article is author´s name and short info what the article is about. The thing is that author has a footnote with * and info about article footnote with **The article itself has a standard footnotes with numbers 1, 2, 3 etc. So I would like to know if there is any chance to combine * and numbers in footnotes on same page? I am wondering how to figure it out hoping that someone has a solution of this problem. I believe that InDesign has a feature how to deal with it.Thank you very much for your help. 

Hallo, ihr Lieben!Wie kann ich wie im Screenshot diese Unordnung von Texte in der Tabelle wieder in Ordnung bringen? Ich habe auch in den Absatzformate, Grundlinienraster und Zeilenversatz geschaut, dort wurde ich nicht fündig. Woran könnte es noch liegen? Danke vorab für Eure Vorschläge. Liebe Grüße und einen schönen Tag noch,Tini

I’ve seen the other post with the same issue regarding the inability to package InDesign projects with files and fonts residing on a(n smb://)  server, but I contacted my IT department and they said that there are no access blocks on their end.Like others, copying all linked files and fonts to my desktop makes packaging possible, but I work with book documents with 50+ InDesign documents and hundreds of linked files. That would create hours of unnecessary extra work to locate all linked files, copy them over to my desktop, relink everything and package; not to mention having to re-relink everything when I copy projects back over to the server.I checked my System Settings and noticed that in Privacy & Security > Local Network, Adobe InDesign 2025 is allowed to communicate with devices on my local network. Yet, packaging is not possible. (I also use ID 2020, 2022, and 2023- for font purposes and imposition purposes).Everything worked fine on Sequoia, before I updated to Tahoe this

For the last few weeks, I’ve been struggling to get my deadline projects finished in InDesign without the aid of the various shortcuts I’ve always used -- e.g., cntrl+spacebar to get the magnifying glass -- no go; drag to highlight text -- no go; spacebar to get the hand to move around -- no go. These functions just stopped working, cold.Now I’m finding the same plus other problems in Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as in Acrobat! (Currently in Illustrator, I'm not able to edit text in or resize, or move text boxes -- and this is paragraph text, not point text, so it SHOULD be editable and movable.) In none of the programs can I zoom in and out with the cntl+mouse wheel, as I could before. I was caught flat-footed on a business call this afternoon because I couldn’t zoom in fast enough on a drawing I was discussing.I do not have these problems outside of the Adobe products. I’ve searched the internet for fixes in all three programs.  I’m not finding any answers. I’m on the latest up

Hi, var myTables = myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements() for (var j = 0; j < myTables.length; j++) {var myTable = myTables[j]; var cells = myTable.cells.everyItem().getElements(); for (var c = 0; c < cells.length; c++) {try {cells[c].clearCellStyleOverrides(true);} catch (e) { }}} While trying to clear the cell overrides across the tables, the paragraph styles are lost and applied as [Basic Paragraph] style.I’m currently using the indesign 2025 (20.5.1) & 2026 (21.0). Any suggestions?Thanks in Advance!Ashrafali R.

Scenario 1: I need to retrieve data for the current page, so I use ‘var p = item.parentPage; ‘    For example: The number of columns on the current page is ‘marginPreferences.columnCount; ‘ Scenario 2: I need to move objects within the current page, but I can only use ‘d.Page[0] ‘.  Because the following code(var pb=p.bounds) throws an error: ”null is not an object”.—I suspect the object is considered out of bounds. What should I do? Using two sets of code is too complicated.var d = app.activeDocument;//var p=d.page[0];var p = item.parentPage;// Page boundsvar pb = p.bounds;.. ....//If the object is below BleedBottom, move it into the layoutif (s.geometricBounds[0] > ph) {var dn = ph - (Number(s.geometricBounds[0]) - ph);s.move([0, dn - rh]);}  

I’m writing an InDesign script using JSX. I want to loop through all frames and check if they have specific script labels set, which I then want to use to change the page of the linked PDF file. I can do all the steps outside the last one. How to use a JSX script to update a frame’s linked PDF’s page?var allframes = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;for (i = 0; i < allframes.length; i++) { // Pseudo code of the part I need help with: allframes[i].updateImportedPage(4)} 

Estoy trabajando con Indesign y al querer grabar el archivo aparece, de forma  consecutiva, diferentes mensajes de error, pero en concreto todos dicen que el archivo está dañado y no puede acceder a la base de datos, o la base de datos está dañada. Ej: “No se pudo concluir la operación debido a un error de base de datos. El archivo “DBTmp222801908943437” está dañado (código de error: 2)”. Tampoco me deja guardar como .idml, lo intenta, pero luego se cierra abruptamente el programa.   Incluso eliminé el Indesing y volvi a instalarlo  y ocurre el mismo problema. 

I am creating some design savvy technical spec sheets for lighting products. With a large number of these to make, I’m looking into automating as much as possible using data merge and importing tables. Each spec sheet has a performance table that is annoying to manually edit. I think a mixture of styles, and tables within tables will solve my problem. But not sure how to set that up in Excel. I’ll attach an example of the spec sheet and table. For further reference, I have old spec sheets that I’m using ai to pull the data out, then reinserting into the new. So been doing copy/paste but going to setup data merge and extract all the data into tables and then insert that way.  I think this is the most efficient way of doing this. I’m a photoshop guy, this is my first time using InDesign. 

I feel like the method I’m using now isn’t quite right.Is the approach different for single-column layouts versus layouts with two or more columns?Assuming the column widths are equal.Also, how to know what is the number of columns?var doc = app.activeDocument;var item = doc.selection[0];var items = doc.selection;var pp = item.parentPage;var cp = pp.marginPreferences.columnsPositions;var csp,law,cw;    //Calculate column spacing    if (cp.length == 2) {        csp = 0;    }    else if (cp.length > 2) {        var csp = cp[2] - cp[1];    }//typearea(?Layout)var law=cp[cp.length-1]-cp[0]//Column widthcw=cp[1]-cp[0] 

Nach dem Update auf macOS 26 (Tahoe) tritt beim Verpacken von InDesign-Dokumenten (Version 20.5) ein reproduzierbarer Fehler auf, wenn die verknüpften Dateien auf einem Synology NAS (DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 9)liegen und über SMB eingebunden sind.Die Fehlermeldung lautet:„InDesign konnte das Dokument nicht verpacken. Notwendige verknüpfte Dateien können nicht kopiert werden.“Das Problem besteht nicht, wenn das gleiche Dokument samt aller verknüpften Dateien lokal auf der internen Festplatte gespeichert ist. Dort lässt sich das Verpacken problemlos durchführen.Tests mit unterschiedlichen Dokumenten, Schriftarten und Dateiformaten bestätigen, dass die Ursache offenbar in der Kombination aus macOS 26 + SMB-Zugriff auf die NAS zu liegen scheint – nicht an beschädigten Dateien oder ungültigen Pfaden.Wir bitten um Prüfung, ob es sich hier um ein Problem im Zusammenspiel von macOS 26 (SMB-Handling), Adobe InDesign oder DSM 7.1 handelt – und ob ein Fix oder Workaround geplant ist.Vielen Dank vor

InDesign 21.3 reintroduces the document window position bug on Mac: document windows now expand below the tools panel. Clicking the green button while in this state doesn’t do anything. If clicking the green button after repositioning the window to its desired state, the window expands under the tools panel again. Reverting to InDesign 21.2 restores the normal behavior. macOS 26.2. Just posting it here for the record.  

Indsign 21.2Mac OS 15.7.4 Hangs randomly on open and save of .inddl files. Happened with 3 separate files so far.Open for 2 files would simply freeze with spinning beach ball.Save just started- file will open, then the last text change made by contributor populates on my screen and the asterix comes up showing I have unsaved changes, so I cannot close the file unless I save. Sometimes get a save progress bar that does not move. Sometimes not.Restarted, reset prefs and cache. Logged out of CC. No difference.Only workaround is to open file in cc app and duplicate it. This creates a new file that has to be shared again for editing and review, which is to say a pain resharing and updating links to our editors.

Since upgrading to Tahoe I can no longer package a file when images are located on a Synology NAS. If I move the images to local it works but when the document contains multiple images this isn’t an easy solution. Is there a solution?

I have a PDF file that I cannot import into InDesign. No matter if I use "Place" or Drag and Drop, I get the same error message:   "<<Filename>> doesn't contain a "CROP" crop type:  Please try again by selecting a different crop type or open the PDF in Acrobat and perform a "Save As..." command."    Not sure about the first suggestion but "Save As" does not help.   Any ideas?     <Title renamed by MOD>

I'm trying to display the values of A and B at the bottom of the panel as a hint.AValue and BValue are the variables being read.This is how it currently looks; how can I modify it to display the variable values?Thanks. with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "[A B]:" }); } with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: 'AValue BValue' }); } 

About ten years ago, I wrote a script that basically relinks missing links to images whose names are a little different. The new name is found using regExes. A couple of days ago, my client wrote me that running the script causes InDesign memory usage to bloat and finally run out of system memory.  I made a few tests in different versions: 2024/5/6In InDesign 2024 (version 19.5), it works without any problems: both on Mac and Windows.On my Mac (iMac, 3,3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4), it took 3 minutes, 22 seconds to relink 254 links. 1,26 secs. per link. On my old Windows notebook (Intel Core i5-3230M CPU @2.60GHz, 8 GB RAM), it took about 22 minutes to relink 107 links. Approx. 9 secs. per link.In InDesign 2025 (version 20.3.1) and 2026 (version 21.2) on my Mac, it gets stuck on the 27th link, and InDesign hangs, gobbling all the memory in the Activity Monitor, so the only option is to force quit it.I tried:Reducing the undo steps via the doScript command Initiating g

InCopy on the web (Beta) - Unable to open INDDL file in desktop app.I have saved and shared an Indesign file to CC for text editing. The INDDL file is saved in my files folder (not in the Projects folder!). I can open the file in the Incopy web environment but not in the desktop app. I have tried moving the file to another folder within Files but this does not help.Any help would be much appreciated.Ben  

Hello, I’m having a very frustrating issue opening files in InDesign version 21.2 that were created in earlier versions. The files are not automatically converting, and as a result, the text appears against a pink background and cannot be edited. I’ve had to create entirely new files instead of reusing the old ones as all the attributes for my new project are the same. I’m now working on a similar project where I’d rather reuse my old files instead of reinventing this wheel again. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thank you for your help!

Hi, all. I am hoping you can help me fix this dieline size discrepency. The .dxf dielines that I use are created in Inventor by an Engineer (not myself). When I open that .dxf dieline in Adobe Illustrator, it measures 300 mm width x 600 mm height and has a corner radius of 3mm. The dieline has a stroke of .709pt. The stroke is aligned to the center. But, when I copy and paste that same dieline and/or place it into my Indesign file, the dimensions change. The dimensions in InDesign are larger—the dieline measures 300.25 mm width x 600.25 mm height with a corner radius of 4.233 mm. If I align the stroke to the inside, the dimensions change back to 300 mm x 600 mm (which is correct), but the corner radius stays the same, 4.233 mm. I need the corners to be 3 mm. How do I fix this? I am hoping to create a workflow that is uncomplicated, and doesn’t require many steps. I have thousands of graphics that have this issue. The dimensions of my Indesign file should match the .dxf dieline. I’ve at