InDesign

I used to be able to embed video into InDesign, export as Interactive .pdf and watch the embedded video in .pdf brochure.  I understand that .pdf no longer supports Flash player.  I can still embed video H.264 however when I export to Interactive .pdf, the .pdf document says it does not support flash player.H.264 isn't Flash.Can this still be done and if so how?  Thank you!

I am having trouble copy-pasting some Sanskrit text from a word document to my indesign file. Here's a screenshot from the word file. It is in the Nirmal UI typeface—Here's what I get in indesign when I copy and paste it—As you can see, indesign shifts some of the glyphs, especially the "ि" and " ी" by a few spaces. I have tried different typefaces for the word document as well as for the indesign document, but none of them work. I also tried placing the word file as well as a pdf version of the word document inside the indesign document, but it did not solve the issue. A solution which was suggested was to make sure I had the World Ready composer selected under preferences, but that did not help either.

I am working on a form that I am using the Radio Button listed as "024" in the Sample Buttons and Forms panel.   While I have figured out how to get the outside line of the box to be recolored to match the rest of the form:  How do I get the check or "x" mark that is inside the box to also be recolored instead of the boring black that is currently there so that it matches my forms color design.?Is there a way to apply the settings to multiple items at one time?     <Title renamed by MOD>

How do you distinguish digital printing from offset printing in a simple flayer/leaflet ? Thx for your opinion.     <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hi there,   I am trying to insert pages from an A4 landscape spread as a thumbnail graphic (well, actually about 30% of the original size) into another InDesign A4 portrait spread. Much like we can with Powerpoint when you want the notes pages. I have tried exporting the originals as jpg and png, with various quality and resolution settings, then using the "Place" tool to insert the object, then either scale the object or fit to frame. They all result in blurry or pixelated 'thumbnail' image, unsuitable for printing. Any advice appreciated.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi, novice trying to create a new color swatch for a die cut line. Cannot find any pantone colors and the plugin I have found I cannot make work in Indesign. Anyone?     <Title renamed by MOD>

This is a "lazy" question, I know, but how would I go about having the user automatically sent to the corresponding document page when clicking a given index page number? This is an exerpt of what my index currently looks like : I don't think this is possible using the Index feature but I'm not sure how to go about implementing such a navigation aid in InDesign, given that the final destination of the document is an exported interactive PDF?Any help is appreciated.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi I have a requirement to anchor a text frame with numbers in it to a text where a particular character style is applied.  The text frame which needs to be anchored has a paragraph style and an object style applied to it.   I have attached a screenshot and and IDML file also.   Here is the code:   //First copy the text frame with object style applied to it. //This frame will be anchored at the word/sentence with a particular character style // Get the active document var doc = app.activeDocument; //Get the object style var objectStyle = doc.objectStyles.itemByName("boxedObject"); //Change object style setting objectStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ANCHORED; objectStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorPoint = AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR; objectStyle.anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.ANCHOR_LOCATION; //Reset findchange grep preferences app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; //fin

I have many individual cells from an Excel file linked in my InDesign document and I would like to relink them all to a different Excel file that has the exact same structure. Does anyone know of a good way to update which file is feeding the data while still keeping the links to specific cells in place?     <Title renamed by MOD>

"After opening InDesign, nothing appears except for the menu bar, and I can't click anywhere. I can't even close the application using the close button. It's as if the program behaves like an image. Applications like Photoshop and Illustrator are working without any issues, but I'm only experiencing this problem with InDesign. What is the solution to this issue?"      <Title reanmed by MOD>

I am creating an Indesing document with various animations to Publish Online. I have drawn a percentage bar (in Indesign 18.5) which I then animate. When I export to Publish Online I see that the quality is very poor. Can I do something about this?    Below is an image of the object in Indesign and the object in the Online document.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hey, I have a question about the text order of TOC. I want to add text from two text boxes, A & B, from one same page into TOC, and I have set different paragrah styles to each of them. After added the these two paragraph styles into the TOC style, with setting the paragraph style used in text box A as level 1 & that used in text box B as level 2, the TOC is generated out but with text from text box B shows above that from text box A. Is there anything I can do to make the text from text box A show ABOVE the text from text box B in TOC? Many thanks in advance.   <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hi all,We are trying to get an argument using applescript and following code gives us an error. The thing I should emphasize is, this error only occurs when our plugin is installed. (My company develops a InDesign plugin and this piece of code doesn't even interact with our scripting functions). I checked our script providers and all the related implementation. Couldn't find something that blocks AppleScript. Other applescript that we call through same mechanism, doesn't have this problem. Only this "item 1 of argument" part. Any pointer would be helpful.Code:function functionName(ourInputArg) { var inputArg = [ourInputArg]; var myAppleScript = 'do shell script "echo " & item 1 of arguments' app.doScript(myAppleScript, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE, inputArg, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "undo AppleScript"); } Error:

I have placed one Illustrator graphic .ai, 10 times on a master page in an InDesign document. That master page is applied to twenty pages in the document. When I export that document as a PDF it ends up as an extremely large file.When I checked the Links window it shows that graphic 200 times. I have check in previous files with similar method and it only shows that graphic only the amount of times which apears on the master page.   Does anyone have an explanation for this. Thanks in advance     <Title renamed by MOD>

When trying to select a font, (and also happens in stroke menu) the dropdown menu flashes on and off and won't let me select it (sometimes when the font dopdown finally works it seems to have a life of its own ...)   <Title renamed by moderator>

Hello All, I am trying to create a new document using SDKLayoutHelper class function layoutHelper.CreateDocument but it is getting stuck at ProcessCommand, it just could not execute it.
Any idea why its not working, this same thing works perfectly on Windows OS   I am facing this issue on- Mac OSX 13.7- XCode 15.2- InDesign 2025 SDK   I even tried adding following 2 lines of code in one of the sample project from SDK sample but same issue there as wellSDKLayoutHelper layoutHelper; 
layoutHelper.CreateDocument(); Am I doing anything wrong OR missing something?Thank You   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello everyone,Can we allow a remote collaborator to modify an indesign document using editor mode, without the collaborator having an adobe account ? (with an xml?)Best regards,     <Title renamed by MOD>

Following a suggestion here on the forum, I opened the file on one of the stock Applescript scripts.In its heading, there was a prompt to visit an Adobe website to learn more about development, etc... The link is this: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/sdk.htmlBut it opens here: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/ Never mind, though.If I click on "Get the SDK" or on "Console" or on anything else, I get asked to accept the Updated Terms, but the button is greyed out and I cannot proceed: This is the first time I visit this website.I have clicked on the blue link, read the terms, but then I cannot Accept.What am I missing?

J'ai un problème bizarre.Dans un de mes projets, un dégradé de couleur s'est transformé en noir. Quand je clique sur ce dégradé pour reconfigurer la couleur d'origine, In Design plante et se ferme immédiatement. Quand j'ouvre le panneau dégradé pour recréer le dégradé, idem. Blocage et fermeture du logiciel.Un technicien Adobe peut-il me répondre ?Merci par avance

Hi, I've searched this forum and found how to get the text that is too close to the page number to wrap. It is not working for me and I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I set up my TOC style to have a right-aligned tab for the page numbers and then set the Right Indent to 0.0625 and Last Line Indent to -0.0625 and it looks exactly the same. I need the highlighted line to break so that it's not right next to the page number. Text frame width is 7 inches. What am I missing?       <Title renamed by MOD>

I was struggling with this for a while and could not find the answer anywhere online. It wasn't until I was gathing screenshots for this post that I discovered my answer. When you select your paragraph and adjust the leading, sometimes the bottom line will refuse to tighten up with the rest of the lines. The way to fix this is to simply select the following line after the paragraph when adjusting the leading to be tighter. Edit: Barb Binder has the more correct answer. See her reply below:     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi all.   I´m finding myself more and more needing to duplicate a page inbetween current and next page in InDesign. I can drag and drop, but is there a keyboard command or other way to do this quickly?   The best I have found is duplicate page (sends page to new last page). I would like to duplicate and put the duplicated page as next page.   Thanks.<Title renamed by MOD>

Please help!   Placing Word with lots of interactivity is not working, bookmarks, references clickability gets lost. Hyperlinks to external sources import ok and work as clickable when exported to pdf. Tried different docX, doc, rtf, with no luck, running latest InDesign.   Bookmarks import, but are no longer clickable > InDesign uses text anchors, not bookmarks as clickable links to text inside document. So in pdf i get clickable bookmarks to sidepanel,but can not create text links to bookmarks - or the orginal linking does not import.   Target: Boomark: Dictionary explanation of "word" (page 6)   Link: ...text body has the word here <link to bookmark>"word" <link>(page 100)   Also references links to document are not working:   Link: "Said something"  <link>(Someone 2022)<link> on page 1.   Target: References (page 300) <target>Someone 2022 <target>     <Title renamed by MOD>

When I am working with indesign, some hot keys combinations just randomly stop working. I need to restart my computer to get it fixed. I need to close all my other software, and it take a lot of time to get back to work. How is this possible? Please fix this in the InDesign update because it costs me a lot of time. Another bug in an Adobe app which annoys the sh!t out of me.

I've been battling with inDesign's Numbering and Section Options. On my document, the page numbering goes 1, 2, 3, 4, then goes back to 1 and starts counting up again. I have no idea what caused this. To give you some background: I duplicated an InDesign doc I have to use as a template. This template had numbers on each page. I then began making changes to it, such as adding and deleting pages etc. Now, when it comes to sorting out the numbering for the entire document, I keep doing 'Start page numbering at 1', but it doesn't seem to override the numbers lower down the document. The same A-parent is assigned to all of my pages. I screenrecorded what's happening here: I've had this issue before but have never been able to solve it. I think previously I've done some sort of workaround like pasting the pages on a new document and starting again. Has anyone encountered this or know how to solve it?   I've already tried the following: Deleting and re-adding the page marker symbol fro