InDesign

We are developing a UXP plug-in for Adobe InDesign 2026  that will be FREE to automate the generation of accessible PDFs (for people with low vision) directly from InDesign. We have conducted a series of tests, and some concepts do not work as indicated in the Adobe documentation. 1) According to Adobe’s official documentation (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-accessible-pdfs.html) and various YouTube tutorials, reading order is achieved by placing elements into Articles, and the order of these elements defines the first level. The second level consists of anchored objects and text tagged with export tags, not XML. We export as an interactive PDF with the “Create Tagged PDF” option enabled. We have verified using the PAC tool (2026) (PDF/UA Foundation, an internationally recognized organization based on the WCAG accessibility standard) that the order of elements within the article is not reflected in PAC (via the "Screen reader preview" button). The result is the same wh

I have strict templates for certain Word Documents and I have corresponding templates in InDesign. Typically, I can import a Word Doc into its corresponding InDesign template with ease. However, occasionally, I will receive a Word Doc that someone has added styles to or changed them in some way. How do I adjust the Word Importing Styles Option so that the InDesign styles are not contaminated by random styles being imported from the Word Doc into the InDesign document?

I heavily use the "Create Spelling Report" a feature of the Spelling option in InDesign 2023. It instantly gives me a list of all possible spelling errors in large documents. I find this much more efficient than running "Check Spelling". I cannot find this feature in later versions of InDesign, any suggestions. Is there a way to add it as a plug-in?

I have a large sized collage created out of several posters. Each poster need to be a separate printable pdf. How do I do this in InDesign. I have the compound paths set up and placed the high res images so they span over multiple frames. But I have no idea how to create a speratae artwork for each frame.

Out of the blue, InDesign started to hang indefinitely upon startup yesterday. InDesign v21.3.0.60 on macOS 14.8.3 on am M1. The splash screen appears, then stops at "late initialisations", and eventually spits out an error message/trace of 87 pages, and that's it.Strange thing is it starts normally if I disconnect the machine from the internet.Out of desparation I resorted to "AI" and threw the error output at Claude, which suspected that libtypekit might be involved in the problem, but ultimately could not help.Has anyone seen this behaviour? Any hints how to fix this, and get nomal startup when connected to the internet?

The graphics are of different sizes, but I want to fill the page with 3mm spacing between them. They only need to be the same height, not the same width.No code needed—just give me a suggested algorithm.For example, if the page width is 170;// Spacingvar csp=3;// Number of columnsvar cn=2w1+w2+w3+3*2=170h1=h2=h3;But since both the height and width are unknown, does this mean I have to keep trying different values?If that really doesn't work, I think allowing the last shape to be cropped might be easier to implement.Do I need to loop multiple times to scale?This feels really slow.Thank you . 

I tried opening with Shift, restoring version history, relinking/removing images, placing into a new document

Indesignで最後にパッケージをする時、ポップアップウィンドウがやたらと横長になってしまいました。作業自体には支障はありませんが気持ち悪いです。直し方がわかる方いらっしゃいましたら、お手隙の際によろしくお願いいたします。（使用PCはimacmac OS sonoma 14.6.1使用ソフト Indesign 2026）  

Hi everyone,I’m creating an interactive PDF in Adobe InDesign and I’m having an issue with internal links.When I click a link that jumps to another page:on desktop (Adobe Acrobat Reader) everything works correctly ✔️ on mobile, the page opens halfway / not from the top of the page ❌I already tried:setting zoom to “Fit Width” setting zoom to “Fit Page” recreating all links from scratch exporting as Interactive PDF with hyperlinks enabledBut the issue still happens on mobile devices.Is this a limitation of mobile PDF viewers, or is there a setting in InDesign that forces the page to always open from the top?Thanks in advance

Oops… I meant to type “ase” file, but I can’t edit the title apparently. Hi all! I’m trying to load a specific swatch palette (not the default one). I’ve done it a million times. I’m running Indesign v. 21.3 on my Mac. I’m not trying to add it to the default color palette… I want it to be a separate palette. Today it’s trying to add a swatch to the library… instead of letting me open my .ase file. I’ve not encountered this before. I have nothing selected. What am I doing wrong? Thank you! 

Hello,I noticed, during a preflight check of a formatted book, that all my fonts—loaded via Adobe Fonts—were flagged as unauthorized.I contacted Adobe, but so far without any result. All of their suggested “procedures” have failed.Have you encountered this issue? If so, how did you resolve it?Thank you for your help.Have a great day,Anne

I want to get the details about the current InDesign server license which we are having with our organization its expiry and license details how we can get it or to whom we can connect from adobe team for the same can you guide us on the same?

I opend Indesign and can get into my work but ones inside I am unable to edit anything. I can not add or subtract any work. I have tried to quite the app, but when I do, a message window pops up saying “cannot handle the request because a modal dialog or alert is active.” I can't uninstall InDesign to reinstall it.

Hallo zusammen, ich habe seit dem neuen Update auf InDesign 2026 Probleme mit dem proportionalen Skalieren von Rahmen. Der shortcut geht nichtmehr (auch bekannt als die Kralle). Hat das noch jemand und weis wie ich das zurück bekomme? Egal ob gefüllt mit Farbe, Bild, Grafik oder gar blanco.

Hello everyone.I want to set two conditions to call different functions:A “partial selection” as a condition:(item.constructor.name == "Text")|| (item.constructor.name == "Word")|| (item.constructor.name == "Character")|| (item.constructor.name == "TextColumn")|| (item.constructor.name == "TextStyleRange")|| (item.constructor.name == "Paragraph")B. “Select All” as another distinct condition.“Select All” may also include tables and images.It seems that whether I select all or just part of the text, the result of `alert(item.constructor.name)` is always “Text”.Is there a simple code for this? Do I really have to check if both \A and .\Z are selected? That’s too complicated and unnecessary.

I have outlined an object in InDesign.I want to outline that stroke and then unify the resultant shape. (Essentially eliminating the stroke but leaving the thickness)This is a piece of cake in Illustrator, but can you do it in InDesign?Please say yes. : )

I have paragraph styles for a document I am working on. A style that I have used in the document many times has suddenly failed - it is a bullet, and attached image shows the change. I have selected the text in question, held down Option (Mac) and double clicked the style with no benefit.What has happened ? 

InDesign CCHaving successfully installed many CC apps on my Mac Pro Desktop, I proceeded to do the same on my laptop. However, after two attempts at uninstalling and re-downloading both InDesign CC and the Creative Cloud Desktop. When starting up InDesign, I repeatedly get this error message: "Error: Unable to launch Adobe InDesign as you lack sufficient permissions to access the preferences folders. Ensure that you have appropriate permissions and then restart Adobe InDesign." and can go no further.I can find no instruction on how to do this, or reference to anyone else getting this error.MacBook Pro17-inch, Late 2011Processor  2.5 GHz Intel Core i7Memory  8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3Graphics  AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MBSoftware  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

My documents suddenly won't show the Bleed guide lines, Margin guide lines, or text frame guides when I toggle between Preview and Normal view.  Instead, it's showing an extended white artboard, which looks like Bleed view.  I have the document settings set up with a .125 bleed and they should be showing up as red guide lines.  Deleting Indesign Preferences did not work.  Anyone know how I can get these guides back and how to make Preview view cut that white border out?Thanks

Saludos cordiales.Busco replicar una tabla de contenido como la de la imagen adjunta. De manera que los ítems no queden listados de manera vertical como comunmente suelen quedar, sino de manera horizontal. Me refiero a las letras más pequeñas, las cuales están separadas por un guión largo. He tratado de mcuhas maneras y tengo estilos de párrafo para cada ítem, pero no logro que queden listadas de manera horizontal. Agradecería mucho si puedieran ayudarme. 

Hi there,  I have a newsletter where most pages have full page images, but they are semi-transparent images layered on top of each other. See screenshot for example. I’m trying to create a lower-res version suitable for posting online so I would love a file size under 10 mb. So far the only way I can get close to achieving this is by taking my layers of semi-transparent images, exporting each page as a png (no transparency), reinserting this flat png, to replace the live images, and then exporting the pdf. But then it sucks because I have to have two versions of the document. I would love to get a smaller pdf using my live document. My standard settings for web docs are compress the images to 150ppi. If I export with my regular settings with the live images, it's 66 MBs, but if I replace the live layers of images with flat pngs, it's 11mbs.  

I have a table in file in which there is column in which there are about 70 numbers .ie in 70 cellsIs there any script to apply thousand separator to those numberseg 12500 to 12,500 or 12.500thanks

Please someone help me. This is literally killing me, especially as I went to edit the name of this question, and it deleted all of the text I’d already written :(So, I want to change the colour of some text. I select the text frame, goto colour and adjust the sliders. Thing is that there’s a lurid green box with lots of little white boxes attached, showing that the text frame is selected, that puts me off choosing the colour I want.All I want to do is turn off this selection highlight, so I can choose my colours in peace.ID is all about layout and colour choice is going to play a large part in this, so it must be possible, but for the life of me (which ID is slowly bleeding out of me) I can’t figure out how to do this.Please, before it’s too late, someone help me … I’m begging. No literally, I am begging. It’s all too much :(

Hi, I have a 200 page 6x9 doc which I want to print as a test on our own office A4 printer. I can print it okay but the over sideof the page is out of sync with the primary side. I habe tried double side flip as well as regular but can't get it to place itself in the right place on the page. Any suggestions please? Thanks

I need to add a very long text document to the middle of a book. Think of it like adding a huge chapter in between chapters 5 and 6. I want to auto-flow the text, so I don’t have to just manually add the additional pages, because it will be annoying as heck to have to manually add like 200 pages. Is this possible?