InDesign

Hello everyone,    I am currently working on an E-Book in InDesign. Now I need to work through 500 pages to link the words to definitions etc. Is there an option to link the same word, for example "xy technique" to that chapter??? I know that I can use the option "search and replace" to change/replace words in the whole e-book. But I want to hyperlink a specific word to its`chapter, so it´s easy for the e-book reader to click on the word and hop to the definition. Because I don´t wanna go through 500 pages of text and search for every single word and link them individually.... 😩 I have multiple chapters and many words and definitions I have to hyperlink to....    <Title renamed by MOD>   Can someone pls help 🥲 Thx ❤️ 

HiI have written a script which will convert a selected paragraph style to outlines. For some reason it is giving error. //Get handle to a document var myDoc = app.activeDocument; //Get all paragraph styles in a document var paraStyles = myDoc.paragraphStyles.everyItem(); //myDoc.allParagraphStyles [this is not working for some reason] //Create a Dialog var main_dialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"Convert Selected Paragraph Style to Outline"}); //Create a column and add to the main dialog var dialog_column = main_dialog.dialogColumns.add(); //Create a row and add it to the main dialog var dialog_rows = dialog_column.dialogRows.add(); //Add a static text and a dropdown in the row dialog_rows.staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Paragraph Styles",minWidth:100}); var dialog_ddl = dialog_rows.dropdowns.add({minWidth:100}); //Populate dropdown list with paragraph styles dialog_ddl.stringList = paraStyles.name; //Change the selected index to 1 dialog_ddl.selectedIndex=1; //Show the dialo

What does this msg mean?  Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Command-F11 is supposed to open Paragraph Styles but it just detects as a volume decrease button press no matter which combination of alt keys I try.       <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi, In InD 2025 verison 20.0, the font drop down menu opens and stays open when changing fonts, and when performing random tasks such as exporting a PDF.   I've attached a screenshot of what I'm getting.   Any ideas how to stop this, or of this is a bug?   Thanks!Michael      <Title renamed by MOD>

Hola!Estoy teniendo un problema, donde las notas al pie no se enumeran correctamente, sea en la misma página o en distinto pliego, por más que no esté marcado ningún reinicio de numeración. Necesitaría que sean "1,2,3,4.." a través del documento. (las imágenes son de dos páginas consecutivas)Si alguien tiene una respuesta se agradece, saludos!

Hello. I'm working on a publication that has hundrds of anchored images within the text. I need to release them from anchoring and place them where they are but not anchored. I found some scripts that worked on earlier versions of InDesign, but I'm using v18.2.1 on a Mac. I'm not sure if the structure of InDesign changed or I'm setting up the script incorrectly because I keep getting a syntax error when I try to run the scripts (I'm not a scripter so I might be using the scripts incorrectly). Anu suggestions? Thanks,Lloyd

Hi community, I am trying to make a drop cap style that uses layered fonts.  I am also very much learning inDesign as an amateur.  Right now I understand how to take text in a text box and using layers make a multilayered font.  If I do it manually, I can achieve the right look with a background font of one color, a midground another, and the foreground with another.  With the layers it looks great.  I can even merge the three layers into one. I want to take this finished "triple font" and make it my drop cap font.  Is there a way to do this? Important: I am using this drop cap in a data merge and it will be applied to many entries (100's), so I can't go in and do it manually one-at-a-time.     Thanks for any help!

I'm creating a tall document of 1920x10800p (for the purpose of a scrollable website with the dimension). I would like to enter full screen mode in 1920x1080p resolution to see how everything would eventually look like in terms of dimensions and readability once I publish it.When I press shift+W it shows me the enitre image very small in the middle of my screen. Is it possible to do this? If not, are there any workarounds?  Thanks in advance for your replies! 

Hi:We want to create a Script that scans each cell in a given table, calculates the width of the text within each cell based on the number of characters, and then assigns that width to the cell. 

Hola, tengo una revista hecha por otra persona que tiene textos con bordes de colores. El problema es que para mandarlo a imprimir tiene que estar todo trazado, es decir vectorizado. Al crear contornos (que es la opción que me proporciona Indesing) el borde de color del texto se modifica como si se volviera un borde interior y dicho borde no crea contornos, solo aparece el trazado del texto por lo que no tiene el aspecto inicial y no esta vectorizado correctamente que es lo que necesito para la impresión. En illustrator la opción de expandir o expandir apariencia si funciona correctamente con los textos con trazo exterior pero no puedo perder tanto tiempo en ir pasandolos de un programa a otro. ¿Alguien sabría decirme como conseguir lo mismo que en illustrator con indesing?

I've looked through this topic and nothiing suggested has helped with this issue on my MAC.  Please advise.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Does InDesign CC have a scratch disk?I have searched all over and can’t find this answer.I know Photoshop and Illustrators does, but I don’t see one for InDesign.

I'm looking to create book like the old Ace Doubles Science Fiction paperbacks, where there are two front covers and each book is upside-down with pages in reverse order from the other. It's reversing the pages that's the problem. Can't do it automatically in Acrobat as they've removed the Reverse Pages optuion from their Action Wizard. Is there a way to do it in InDesign?

I have a handful of RGB TIFF images placed in my InDesign layout. I open them in PhotosShop, convert them to CYMK and save them.  Then I open the layout in InDesign and I get the prompt that the images have changed.  Whether I select "Update links" or update them individually in the links pallet, the images reposition and change scale.  This never happened before CC 2019.   I checked the File Handling preferences and confirmed that the "Preserve Image Dimensions When Relinking" is checked.Please help!  I have a file with over a hundred images that I would like to update without having to fix each one manually.

I use the Ctrl + Shift + Alt + U keyboard shortcut but it does not work all the time.Like, once I'm in the New document dialog box, it won't work. At least with my Canadian Multilingual keyboard mapping in Windows. I always thought it would be "nice" to see the current units being displayed somewhere in the interface? I understand that I can, to some extent, "read" the current units out of the appearance of the Rufers but it's far from ideal.  Maybe a scipt that show the current units and give a choice of units to switch to in the form of a series of vertical radio buttons? Don't even need an OK button, to speed things up.    Any help is appreciated     <Title renamed by MOD>

When starting InDesign CC2020 under Windows (22H2), the dialog for licensing the application (operation of single application in virtualized environment; without Creative Cloud Desktop App) only appears with QR code, which leads to an error message. Until recently (approx. 3 weeks ago), an input field for the Adobe ID appeared. Have any of you also had this experience and what is your workaround?   Best regardsMatteo     <Title renamed by MOD>  

I've never had this issue before. I'm taking what I think is plain text with indented paragraphs as I have done before.  When I paste into InDesign with a specific paragraph style it sometimes includes an extra tab space in the indents and other times it maintains the style set for it.  Not sure why. I never had this issue before. Some paragraphs are indenting as they should while others seem to have a tab space in addition to the indent. Crazy making.Anyone else have this experience?  Is there some trick I am missing?Thanks for your help

I can't:select multiple items with my cursor - I have to selet each individually select text certain textcopy and paste things (they paste on random other pages). Any ideas? It's pretty disastrous for my current project. It's become unusable, I'm considering ways to export the whole thing. Shame as I'd just set up a document and the update to Hide Pages is actually a great help. If only the rest worked.   

Hi,   I have the 19.5 version of InDesign. I have a document that has a mix of English and Arabic. I took the file from someone else, who is Arabic. I had to add Adobe Arabic to my fonts. Since then, the numbers in my English text are in Arabic. I need them to be in English. When I highlight the number, it doesn't say Adobe Arabic, it says the English font that I used.   Please advise on how to make the switch,   Appreciate it,   Thanks!   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, I will attach an example image, where I would like to know if I have any option to merge the background of the images in my catalog, directly within InDesign without needing to use Photoshop. The idea is that the edges do not appear and the images background borders blend togheter.

I have an .indcc document saved to the Cloud which I was happily editing earlier today. Now when I try to open it, either in 20.0 or Beta 20.1 InDesign crashes. It is a particular file that won't open, other files are fine. "Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents." How do I get the file back up and running please? I'd be happy to upload the file here if I could find a way to grab it     <TItle renamed by MOD>

1. Things were fine until I got started on chapter 2 of the book. I couldn't find a way to start over with endnote 1. If someone has a solution, I'd love to hear it.2. The main frustration is: when I insert a new endnote, say 47, on the endnote page it inserts the number in front of the data for endnote 46, and moves the data down. Endnote 46 is still there, but has no reference information. I can cut the info and paste it back where it belongs, but InDesign just does the same thing next time - endnote 48 moves down the data from endnote 47.It doesn't matter where I put the cursor. I've tried it after the endnote information, on the following line where the new endnote will go, and (as I grew more aggravated) at random spots on the page. It simply moves down the info from the previous endnote.I have to match the endnotes with a list in Word, and am copying from Word and pasting into InDesign. It worked fine for chapter 1. I'm only a little way into chapter 2, and there are 8 chapters.D

Adobe is messing with my flow. I do newspapers in Indesign. At the start of filling in content on a newspaper I grab a range of individual word docs in the OS and drop them onto the page, rapidly click them off in a horizontal row, select them all and then apply body style with a hot key. From there I figure out where I'm going to put them and the rest of the formatting. In ID2023 they've added the maddening "feature" of popping up the gray box with a "T" in it on the bottom of any story box where the contents are longer than the box draw on placement. It goes away if the user does any click/keystroke. Clicking on the box applies an Auto Style from the ether, and opens the Styles panes. So instead of being able to smoothly go through clicks that each result in a text frame placement, I'm now having to frequently double click every time I place a longer story jsut to make the Auto Styles box go away. I'm a high actions per minute guy, and it's driving me up the wall.&nbsp

  I wanted to kindly ask. I need to create a photo book that reproduces book pages (text only) (scanned)and since they are scanned manually they all have a different inclination from each other, there is a system on indesign that allows you to do this automatically for all the pages of the book that I need to create. Thanks I just switched to indesign cs 5 today and can't find anything. Thank you<Title renamed by MOD><Personal Information removed by MOD>