InDesign

Hello,I found a very useful script to save covers as JPEG, with a fixed width, whatever is the original size ://the export pixel width var targetWidthPixels = 600; var doc = app.activeDocument; with(doc.viewPreferences){ horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.INCHES; verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.INCHES; } //get the page width in inches var pw=doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth; //calulate the resolution needed to export the jpeg as 1500px wide //if the page is 8.5" x 11", the output pixel dimensions will be 600px x 776px var resout= targetWidthPixels/pw; //the active page var pg=app.activeWindow.activePage.name; //set the res preference and page range with(app.jpegExportPreferences){ exportResolution = resout; pageString = pg; antiAlias = true; embedColorProfile = true; jpegColorSpace = JpegColorSpaceEnum.RGB; //add other properties as needed } //export the JPEG doc.exportFile( ExportFormat.jpg, File(Folder.desktop

When I export a document to PDF from Indesign (or illustrator), I would need to password protect the Copy/Modification of the elements in my PDF, at the same time allow READING and PRINTING of that PDF document. All this IS currently ALLOWED BY "INDESIGN"! When I create a PDF with these limitations, I open it in ACROBAT and I can SEE and PRINT IT. When I try to MODIFY IT, Acrobat asks me for a PASSWORD.ALL RIGHT. THE PROBLEM: Since most designers use PDFs to create not only digital products, but very often to send their PDFs to external services (printing service or Typography).The problem is that they often use INDESIGN to lay out and imposition documents. This problem occurs when the PDF is imported into INDESIGN for layout, the PDF is not imported if the password is not entered.Given that the PDF has been inserted with the possibility of Viewing and Printing, why is a simple import (from a linked PDF) not allowed???The password function at this point becomes useless. I would like to

I've been working with InDesign files and links being on a remote server without issues for years, but during the past week some update has broken something in InDesign or Windows 10. Now, any edit to the document will cause InDesign to freeze while it downloads a lot of data over the internet. The actions that cause this, include:Move an objectResize an objectRotate an objectChange an object's layer visibilityBut then e.g. changing a color of an object does not cause this freezing while downloading. The document that I'm currently working with, has only two external links, one tiny png file on a local SSD and one png file (3 MB) on a company server, accessed either via VPN or office WLAN. The document also has HTML links set to a few objects. Windows 10 Resource Monitor tells that it's a system process that makes this heavy download, possibly tens or hundreds of megabytes. Depending on the available internet speed, the freeze can last from a few seconds to 1-2 minutes. 

Its my first time using the Cloud to store my InDesign documents.  Can someone help me on where i can get the version history on each document.    EG. i would like to revert to the copy I worked on Last week rather than the lates copy I have today.   Thanks     <Title renamed by MOD>  

We are using Indesign Server 2022 in windows VM. We want to upgrade it with the 2024 version so how can we do that?    <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi all,Could anyone please help me to figure out how to fix the below script? Checkbox is returning false, even when checked.var myWindow = new Window("dialog");myWindow.orientation = "column"; var test = '';var button = myWindow.add("button", undefined, "Run");var checkbox = myWindow.add("checkbox", undefined, "Checkbox");button.onClick = function() {test = '0'; myWindow.close()};myWindow.show();if (test != '') main(test);function main(){if (checkbox == true)    {    alert("Checkbox returned true");}else{    alert("Checkbox returned false");}}

We migrated a virtual server 2008 V2V with cc InDesign server 2017 running.On the new server InDesign Server is not running anymore, probably due to license issue as when we try to restart am adbobe server we see an error in eventlog pointing to AGSService.exe error.When trying to restart setup.exe for ID server 2017 the setup window starts and stucks in the first white window.Even trying to run the setup on another 2008 server ( Not any adobe install on that before) the setup does not start.When trying the setup.exe on the orginal server (before mirgration) the setup starts as normal. Thanks to everyone who has any idea. 

Bonjour, Lorsque je veux insérer de nouvelles pages dans le milieu de mon document. Je fais clique droit sur une page et je clique sur 'Insérer des pages' puis si j'écris 3 pages, ces trois nouvelles pages iront à côté de la page au lieu de rester corder à 2 pages côte à côte. Voici une image de ce que ça fait :  Pouvez-vous m'aider et me dire comment conserver TOUJOURS 2 pages côte à côte?Merci beaucoup!

Hello,  I have a script which counts how many things are in a group.   Is it becuase indesign is reading a parent bound plus the image inside the rectangle, PLUS the blue box, so there is three things? I have the following code and am struggling to know how to intergrate a group which has an image and another thing My thought was to adjust this partif (item instanceof Group && item.allPageItems.length === 2) to have OR group selection of image, bounding rectangle, and other thing then ... but I'm just not getting anywhere Any advice would be great Thanks Smythapp.doScript(function() { // Get the active document var doc = app.activeDocument; // Get document grid preferences var gridPreferences = doc.gridPreferences; var baselineIncrement = gridPreferences.baselineDivision; // Add a precision threshold to handle floating-point precision issues var precisionThreshold = 0.1; // This helps to avoid error

Thought for a minute I had discovered the secret to getting margin notes to move along with a page, but alas... Is there a way to make this happen? As important as a slug area may be, it's essentially useless (in my current use case) if notes need to stick with their content.     <Title renamed by MOD>    

suddenly, this morning, InDesign will open; I can see the file that I am working on, but InDesign is not responding.    <Title renamed by MOD>

I am working with an InDesign-document where I want to link text content to InCopy and tables to Excel. For example:Frame 1 Text linked to InCopy Frame 2 Table linked to Excel Frame 3 Text linked to InCopy   I get it to work but when I try to thread the frames the link to Excel dissapears. Maybe it´s not possible to achieve this?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi everyone, does anyone know how to get rid of this square grid in InDesign? I've tried every setting that has to do with grids but propably I'm not looking in the right spot. Many thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, I hope you can help me becsuse this is driving me nuts and I cant figure it out. I want to create an EPUB book with indesign and so far I have managed to solve all issues by looking around / YouTube / ChatGPT etc. but I cant solve this one. So what I simply want is a text besides an image. If I place an image and then place a textbox besides it, it will look fine in InDesign but after converting and reading in an eReader the text will appear below the image. And if I make a text box and place inside a table and then an image to the left, and a text to the right that actually works BUT then the table gets split across 2 pages. I also had  to put a text box inside the table which is also in a text box so the image wouldnt get distorted in an eReader. Also the whole text box will overalap with the previous content in my document, althought thats only a nuissance for me because after converting thats fine. And if I anchor the textbox to inline then I dont ha

Currently this is more an irritant that anything — but I worry it will lead to something more problematic. Whenever I launch InDesign (19.4.0.63) the application opens an old file. This happens whether I launch InDesign from either the Dock or Applications folder OR if I open an exisiting file (which launches InDesign). What I've tried thus far: Deleted the .idlk file — there was one the first time I experienced this problem but now doesn't appear to be one in that folder. (I've experienced before if a file crashes the .idlk file lingers, but it's always gone away on relaunch or ever so rarely i've had to manually delete it).Tried saving (overwriting) the file when closing InDesign after being prompted (which I am each time).Tried saving the file w/ a new name.in /username/library/preferences I deleted the Adobe InDesign folder and com.adobe.InDesign.plistRan Apple Disk Utility. None of these have worked. Any thoughts on how to fix this issue?Thanks in advance!

Hello! I published an ID document online and embedded it into my wordpress site. Wen I pull up the page in Crome, there is a "Read Now" button that shows in the middle of the cover page. Is there a way to remove that?TIA.Jacqueline 

This slightly edited version of indesigns standart example script AddGuides.jsx does nothing different, but it remembers the dialogs setting into an activeDocuments script label and next time opens the AddGuide dialog with the last used settings. Nice, if you use it often. Copy and Paste the below code into AddGuides.jsx as replacement or save as new script AddGuides2.jsx.Enjoy. Stephan main(); function main(){ //Make certain that user interaction (display of dialogs, etc.) is turned on. app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll; var _ObjectList = new Array; if (app.documents.length != 0){ if (app.selection.length != 0){ for(var _Counter = 0;_Counter < app.selection.length; _Counter++){ switch (app.selection[_Counter].constructor.name){ case "Rectangle": case "Oval": case "Polygon": case "TextFrame": case "Group": case "Button": case "GraphicLine": _ObjectList.push

Hallo, ich habe beim starten von InDesign 2023 (18.0) das Problem, dass das Programm beim starten einfriert.Es gibt zunächst eine Fehlermeldung, die sofort von einem schwarzen Fenster überdeckt wird. Neu-Installation hat nicht geholfen.Das Problem tritt an mehreren Rechnern (Win 10, Win 11) auf. Allerdings nur dann, wenn der Rechner Anbindung an das Internet hat. Wenn ich die Verbindung trenne, wird das Programm einwandfrei gestartet.  

  Hello everyone,   We are almost through half this year, and I cannot imagine how quickly time has flown in this (almost) post-covid world. People in most parts of the the world are back to their offices, travel routines, and meeting friends and family.    And YES!, Adobe is celebrating pride month, so June just gets even better. We will also be celebrating fatherhood this month, and all you fathers and father figures, take a bow!   Movie fiction has eulogized the essence of paternal love through Mufasa in Lion King, King Triton in the Little Mermaid,  Frederick Little in Stuart Little, and several such movies that we recommend for your playlist this month.If you aren't in traveling distance to meet your father this year, we suggest creating a photo book in InDesign as a gift to your father using Andrea's tutorial in this newsletter. What could be more heartwarming than a collection of your favourite moments with your favourite person?   If you wan

I updated to the most recent version of InDesign and now my files have a severe lag time. I've noticed this happens in a few different scenarios: If open a file that was created in an older version of InDesign (even the previous version 19.4) If I start a new file in 19.5 - the program works fine. But once I start adding images into the file, anything I try to do, move, click, right click - has a 20-30 second lag time.   Is anyone else having this issue and if so - is there a way to fix this? When I downgrade to 19.4 - all of the issues disapper, so I know this has to be an issue with 19.5.   <Title renamed by MOD>   Things I've already tried: Restarting computer Uninstalling/Reinstalling 19.5 Resetting Preferences on Quit

HELP!    I need a copy of Adobe EDITIONS 2022.   Would you believe that Adobe doesn't have a copy they could give me.   Why do I need Editions 2022?  (Anything older than EDITIONS 4.5.)    My computer runs on  6 GPS.   I need 8 GPS to operate the 2024 Indesign.  So they gave me 2022.   BUT THE 2024 EDITIONS doesn't work properly.     Please help me!   If you have a copy, please message me [private info removed]   Thank you!   Richard de Montebello     <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hello!I am German and frequently travelling with my Computer to Spain. This year I am here for +60 days.All of a sudden my CS6 does not work.Yes, I know it is an old version... but I was working with it for the last 9 years. No issues ever! I have been to Spain about four weeks ago - for then already 30 days.Suddendly I had this massage comming up: I could not work with Indesign anymore.Then I went to Germany, deinstallend InDesign - took the license out of the creative cloud. Then installed Indesign newly, added the licenses - and could work without any issues... I did not have this issue during the last nine years... even when I was travelling. But I did never travel more than 30 days... Now I am back to Spain. I opened Indesign - and the whole trouble occored again. It seems I am not able to use InDesign in Spain - though I have got a valid license. I checked the license with the Adobe support - all correct. The support told me he can not see any problems with my acco

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me—I want to position a page item in the layout window, eg. in the center of the window, but preferably anywhere in the window.   Constraints are: 1. Do not disturb the layout window (or if you do, put it back exactly), and 2. Do not disturb the clipboard.   Is this possible? - Mark   P.S. I was wondering if CoordinateSpaces might extend to the layoutWindow, but it doesn't seem to. @Marc Autret I would be grateful to hear your thoughts as I know you've done a lot of work in this area.

Hey all!Apart from everything 'Adobe' being very slow and laggy on my new Mac Studio with 32 Gb ram, Indesign continues to get stuck on 'Creating PDF and IDML'.  Strangely enough there is no indication that Indesign is stick: when i force quite it doesn't show Indesign as unresponsive. Does anyone had this problem too and found a solution? thank you! 

Do you know of a script, utility or method to extract a list of all spelling errors, according to InDesign’s spellchecking engine, detected inside a document or a bunch of documents?