InDesign

I use Indesign mainly for redundant document with text variables. Each time, i need to : - open a template file - save to a new file - edit manually all text variables with the edit variable panel (mainly text variables)   Is there a way to improve this workflow ? I'm looking for specifically a method that would allow me to import the text variables from a csv file. It would be this kind of file : variable-1, content variable-2, content   Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks     <Title renamed by MOD>

I received a set of InDesign files and an associated Links folder containing linked content. The main story flow of the InDesign document is linked from a Microsoft Word document in the Links folder. This is not how I would have set it up, but it is what it is. I guess the author wanted to continue modifying text after layout and was unwilling to learn how to use InCopy. Now that I have received this package as zip file package, I need to set it up to start working on it in my local evironment. When I open the InDesign file, it tells me all the links need to be updated. If I select the option to Update Links, all of the paragraph styles for the text linked from the Word document go haywire. How do I prevent this from happening? Correct paragraph styles, but with out-of-date links: Updated links, resulting in overwritten paragraph styles. All paragraphs get overwritten with whatever paragraph style happens to be selected in the paragraph styles menu: Is there a way t

I am printing a brochure with facing pages, some where photos and graphic elements span both pages. With "Facing Pages" turned on, the two pages align perfectly.   However, my printing service requires that I print each page separately with a .125 inch bleed on all four sides of the page. This is easy enough. I turn off the "facing pages" in DOCUMENT SETUP then extend my color and graphic bleeds on all four sides. When printed and after cutting, the pages and elements will line up perfectly.   My problem is when I then turn on "Facing Pages" again just to see how the brochure will look, the elements of the inner bleed overlap one another. In preview mode for single pages, the bleed is not shown on all four sides. Using preview mode with facing pages, I still see the "Bled elements" on the right hand side of the left page and the left hand side of the right page.   Is there a way to create the bleed on all four sides of a single page that my printer requires but still be

I have multiple slides in my PDF which include audio files that are set up to start when the page is opened and end when one flips to the next slide. I have toggled off the enhanced security settings and enabled the  multimedia player, etc. all solutions that can be found on this forum. For some reason, however, only the first audio file plays as intended. Subsequent slides with audio files do not play or even display in the PDF. When I flip back to the original slide that had working audio, it doesn't play again either. So after clipping all my audio files, I am only able to use one in a presentation and it is single-use for some unknown reason. Any advice would be appreciated. I would attach the file but much of the content is copyrighted or covered by non-disclosure. If needed I can reply to this post with a dummy file using audio on all slides for reference. 

See attached image. Normally, when exporting a print file to PDF, I use the default crop mark offset, with success.  However, for some reason, it is not only placing the crop marks at the bottom/left in the incorrect position, but it is allowing a hidden portion of the that image to be shown (see page 1 of the attached PDF).  In fact, if I change the offset to .25", it actually lowers the print image, and exposes even more of a cropped image (see page 2).Admittedly, the original file was created in Canva, and provided to me with no actual bleed.  I enlarged the image to provide at least a .0625 bleed.

I don't know why or how this happens, but my paragraph styling is showing up with two font sizes, one is corrrect, the other is in parenthesis. Image attached. How do I fix this?

When I open an InDesign file, it is locked into just one monitor and will not allow me to move it to another screen like my other Adobe programs. Does anyone know why it does this?     <Title renamed by MOD>

I have just exported an indesign document to a pdf and it is 60MB. I would like it to be around 30MB if that is possible. Will I be able to reduce it down from indesign without drastically reducing the quality or is there a way to do iy after it becomes a pdf?***** Title renamed by Moderator "VS" *****

Hey everyone! I purchased a font that uses bitmap images instead of vectors. I'm having trouble getting it work on my Windows 10 machine. It works fine on my Mac. Basically the characters show up blank (see attached). Any ideas what causes this? I reached out to the seller and they don't know why this is happening. I've tried on different PCs, same results.      <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi,   I debut on InDesign and bit confused about printing pdf. Let me explain : I export normally (default settings) of my book in pdf. Now I open it in iPAD, so in VERTICAL I see one page, but in HORIZONTAL i should see 2 pages in spread, is that correct ? Because in HORIZONTAL with the iPAD I still see only one page.      <Title renamed by MOD>

my control panel/paragraph, doesn't allow me to determine number of columns. Aldo i can't customize it to include themRecently i can't find it even in the properties panel. Indesign 2019. Any ideas? Thank you

After Publishing my InDesign document and making it password protected, the file looks corrupted (Just showing some polygons and shapes) when viewing it online.When I remove password protection, it is completely fixed. I am using the same link every time. I cant change the link because it is corporate.   <Title renamed by MOD>

habe seit einiger Zeit das Problem, dass ich beim Anlegen eines neuen Dokuments das 2. Feld für "Höhe" nicht mehr ausfüllen kann. Nach dem Eintragen eines Werts im 1. Feld für "Breite" hängt das "Höhe"-Feld und ein Übertippen ist nicht möglich.Auch wenn man es schafft, den darin enthaltenen ausgegrauten Wert zu löschen, bekommt man ein leeres Feld, in welches dann aber nichts getippt werden kann. U.U. kommt dann eine "ungültiger Wert"– Warnmeldung, und erst danach lässt sich die Höhe eintragen. Sehr lästig!

Hi everyone! we have thousands of INDD files on our servers and mostly export PDF from these INDD files to a hotfolder on a shared network drive. So if you hit cmd+E for export, the hotfolder path is the selected output folder, since it was last exported there. In the near future we will stop using this hotfolder and we rather want to export the PDF to the folder where the INDD file is saved at. Since we are using a multiple layer directory tree on our server it takes up a lot of time to change the output path to this folder manually - especially if it has to be done for every file. Does anybody have an idea how we can speed up the process or change the saved export location? Some keyboard shortcuts (macOS) may also help, but i dont know of any to jump to the folder where the INDD file is saved at (besides cmd+shift+G), because the INDD files are all in different file locations, the path you'd have to enter will always vary. 

The new AI "Text to Image" tool is great but isnt useful if I cannot have control of the images. I need to ensure specific color profiles are used for print and am unable to create print files if links are "missing." Will this option be fixed?

Hello,  I am looking for the recovery folder in on my Mac and i cannot find it.  Under:  /Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign/Version[20.0]/InDesign Recovery does not exist      <Title renamed by MOD>

Images look blurry when I export to a PDF, how do I stop this?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Se me cerro repentinamente mi archivo de indesign que estaba en la nueve al encender la pc de nuevo no puedo acceder a el me lo intenta abrir y me cierra todo el programa que puedo hacer? 

I made a file 1 month ago in ID 2024, now I want to copy a textbox from it to a new document, made in ID 2025. I cannot do it, it becomes a pixel image. I tried to copy only the text, than it appears in the new file like normal text, it looses al the settings and fonts.  It is a big problem.     <Title renamed by MOD>

My coworkers all use 350dpi jpg. They find jpg convenient because the client's files are jpg. And I'm used to using 350dpi tif, I think tif is safe and the fine print is richer. They all suggest me to use jpg format now.

it works when copy paste a text box within the same page, but when i paste the text box to other pages, it becomes an image inside a image box.anyone know why?

Can the cursor be thicker in InDesign?Sometimes the background is dark, and the cursor is not so obvious.<Title renamed by MOD>

Hello — I don't normally use Anchored Objects, but decided to try them out on a current project, and ran into a strange issue. When I select a text box or image in my layout and then go to the Object menu, my Anchored Object panel is grayed out. I've attached an image to show what I mean (AnchoredObjectMenu.png). Also, when I click on a text box or on an image in InDesign (in any document I've created) the text box and image frame seem to be missing certain features. Again, I've attached images that hopefully show what I mean: The attached images "MyTextBox.png" and "MyImageBox.png" show how my frames look. In the attached images "ExampleTextBox.png" and "ExampleImageBox.png", I've circled in red the features that are missing for me when I create a text box or image frame. I'm guessing that these missing features are related to my Anchored Object menu being grayed out. Does anyone know what's going on here or how I can fix it? FYI: I'm using InDesign 17.4.

For years now I've used this script to create photo albums, but lately have been having problems with it on two of my three computers. Here's how it works.  Run the script - point it to a directory and it will create a csv file with a list of images in that directory. But the images are out of order in the csv file, so I open it in Open office, sort the rows A-Z, save and close. Then go to the data merge menu in ID, select that csv file as the data source, and ID will create a page for each image, giving me a photo album that I then save as a PDF or ebook.  Problem is, I'm starting to get this error, and can't figure it out. The Data Merge stops, and I get an error sayiing "data missing or some rows are empty". But on one computer it still works. No idea why that one works and the others don't. But I need to find a solution.  Does anyone else use this? Any ideas on what's causing that error? ID 2024 and ID 2025 give the same error.