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If I make three columns in indesign and I give them three different width in the panel "Table". How do I save this information in a table format?   And by the way, I can't really make the table format do anything, If I mark a whole table and choose save table format it doesn't seem to pick up the number of cells in the saved format. That is how paragraph format works but not table formats?   <Title renamed by MOD>

I'm trying to insert a cutline under a photo in a news story for a community shopper. I've done the text wrap on the image box for the photo and the text wraps around it nicely. I can't get the cutline to fit right under the photo. If I pull the top bounding box line for the cutline down to the top of the type it sends the text I enter to the middle of the bounding box. It won't let it go to the top of the bounding box thus there's too much space between the top of the cutline and the bottom of the bounding box. Any help is appreciated as I'm trying to send to printer in about four hours.   <Title renamed by MOD>

I have a justified paragraph with some words breaking to the next line without a hyphen, i have hyphenation turned off and if i turn hyphenation back on it doesn't add a hyphen to those words. i checked hidden characters and nothing unusual there. Text is in Yiddish, however i haven't had this issue with previous documents in Yiddish. See attached screenshot with highlighted words. Appreciate any help. Thanks 

Hello,I've ran into the broken link problem in Indesign (13.1). I have a single Word doc of a book linked into an ID file. The layout has been completed and all looks great. But ID says the link needs to be updated. I update the Word doc link and the entire layout is ruined.Embed Link and Link Options are greyed out in the Links panel. I tried previous suggestions:There are no locked layersA suggested script to delete parents deletes most of the doc contents.Track changes is offTrashed preferences, reinstalled.Saved to IDML, open, resave to ID fileI've done embedding with other ID files, deleted the original Word doc, and it worked fine.This is only a single linked Word doc. Is there a way to delete the link and move on? The layout is complete, all I need to do is clear the error.Thanks!

Anyone else having issues exporting pdf from InDesign 2025? It's so slow. What did not take any time in the 2024 version now takes several minutes... Not happy with the new versions!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hola estoy usando Indesign 2025. El problema es que al exportar a pdf con la opción Adobe Pdf (imprimir) en el pdf creado no se ve la última línea en la primera página. Pero si se ve cuando se exporta con la opción Adobe Pdf (Interactivo). Me pueden decir cómo se puede solucionar este problema? Agradeceré sus comentarios. Saludos atentos, 

For the past couple of years, I have been working with the Barlow type family from Google Fonts for a client.   It has come to my attention that if the Google Fonts are not loaded and activated on a computer, and a document is opened in InDesign, instead of giving a warning and asking for the fonts to be activated, it goes ahead and activates the version of Barlow on Adobe Fonts.   Which would be okay, except it's mapping the weights differently. Bits of type that should be Barlow SemiBold becomes Barlow Regular. It is changed in the style sheets also. So unless someone remembers what each bit of type should look like, they would have no idea that the type style has been changed.   What it should look like with Google Fonts activated:   What it becomes. when Google Fonts not activated:   I understant that the two versions of fonts are structured differently: Google – Barlow SemiBold > Regular Adobe – Barlow > SemiBold   But if InDesign can't find

Ben nu al een tijd bezig om een maandkalender te maken waarbij de namen en leeftijden van mijn familie automatisch geplaatst kunnen worden.Ik heb een CSV document gemaakt met de indeling: Datum (waarop de naam afgebeeld moet worden), Naam, Geboortedatum en leeftijd.Nu wil ik door mijn document meerdere records plaatsen, maar ik kan de optie meerdere records niet selecteren. Dus krijg ik bij elk invulveld hetzelfde record.Terwijl als ik een nieuw document maak met 1 pagina dan lukt het wel. Het lijkt dus wel te liggen aan dat er meerdere pagina's zijn, maar dat zou toch moeten kunnen?Heeft iemand een tip of ervaring met het automatisch genereren en bijwerken van verjaardagen?Groeten Karin

So, I have a master page featuring three buttons at the footer.These are the usual [email] + [facebook] + [twitter] buttons.   This is a magazine and (once published) each button forwards (or shares) that specific page the reader is on.   Currently I have to manually release all buttons in all pages (command+shift+click on object), then also manually update the URL link in the Interactive panel.  I was wondering if there's a way I can realease just that specific buttons (which are contained in their own layer) of the master page. Something like selecting them in the master page and having the option to "release on all pages", rather than selecting all pages and releasing EVERYTHING from the master page.   Am I missing something? Thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hey,im working in a small printing shop for our university, and userdata for printing which arrives me is mostly unproffessional, with no bleed at all.Yesterday I used Photoshop to extend an image with AI to have a bleed area. What a glorious idea! And I wonder: Is this scriptable for InDesign? As a quick v0.1 version:Only works with image-containersShows a dialog for how much bleed to add(Hands image to ps, ps extends, image is placed again, container has to be extended by the ammount of the dialog v0.2 reads bleed from document-settings, only throws a dialog if no bleed is setvXdoesnt care if selection is no image, and instead exports the page

Have a group of users using synology NAS and have issues with Indesign files are locked all the time.Also remember this issue on a windows server network share once - But overall what is the best solution for this kind of solution of using files on network drive ?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello,I'm missing the Layout panel in InDesign, and I have no idea how to resolve it. I've reset multiple workspaces, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, but the Layout panel is completely gone with no way to access it or its settings. Additionally, my W key is now set to blend mode instead of toggling preview mode, which is strange since I haven’t modified any keybinds and I have no idea how to correct that either. 

I used to be able to open my old pre-2008 PM files but now get error message relating to plug-ins.   <Title renamed by MOD>  

It has almost been a year (Sep-Oct 2023) since I ran into trouble updating my ID document. ID started to misbehave: it would go to 100% CPU with spinning disk cursor and it would never come out. Once I let it run for ages, and at some point it ran out of resources and crashed. From that moment on, I was trying to find out what was wrong, I tried a lot (older versions of ID, starting from the IDML, removing caches, different fonts, etc.), you name it, I tried it. Hanging happened at various moments, but at one point I found a reliable way to trigger it with a certain paragraph edit action at a specific point. The document is a very large and complex document. It is about 240 Letter sized mostly two-column pages with 340 diagrams (sometimes inline, sometimes floating), index, references, etc., the works. I started the document in 2011-2012 and roughly once every three years I updated it (using the latest version of ID). You can find about it here: https://ea.rna.nl/mastering-ar

Hey there ID nerds, I tried to search this online but couldn't find anything on the topic. After updating to the latest 2025 v20.0 version, InDesign crashes everytime I use redo!The report specifies "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" exceptionCode="0xc0000005"Deleting preferences, unisnstalling reinstalling, updating graphics drivers, windows update, nothing seemed to work. Eventually, I rolled back to v19.5 and that's working as flawlessly as before. Thought I will post and leave this here so there is a record of this bug/issue somewhere on the planet.

Hallo Community, ich brauche eure Hilfe. Ich bin derzeit in der Erstellung eines Kataloges, bei dem zwischen 35-50 Bilder je Doppelseite platziert sind. Bei jedem Bild muss natürlich ein Copyright eingesetzt werden. Gibt es eine möglichkeit mehrere Rahmen auszuwählen (20-30 Stück) und in alle Rahmen das gleiche Bild mit der gleichen Größe einzusetzen ohne es einzeln machen zukönnen? Bisher habe ich leider nichts dazu gefunden. Das Bild soll auch nicht über mehrere Rahmen gehen. Auch ein Rasterduplizieren funktioniert nicht, da jedes Bild unterschiedlich groß eingesetzt ist und somit keine Rasterung möglich ist. Das Copyright soll auch nicht als Text sondern als Grafik eingesetzt werden, da hier jeweils ein Logo mit dabei ist. Über eine Hilfe wäre ich euch sehr dankbar. LG Red

Sometimes when I apply a numbering style to a paragraph through GREP, the character styles misplace a few characters ahead.It happened to me more than once or twice, and with different ID versions and different computers, but I can never find a similar post anywhere. Why does it happen? What should I do? In the example in the image, the GREP query was to find ^\d+(\.|\))\s+(.+) and change it to %2 applying the Numbering Paragraph Style.

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!