InDesign

I recently finished my book and am in need of a good editing and layout program. I'm looking at indesign vs Pro adobe and am wondering which one is the more comprehensive app. Any experiance advice would be helpful. Also, what is the learning curve? 

Mac OS - 14.6.1 (23G93) Mac Studio - Apple M1 Max | 64GB RAM InDesign - 19.5 Preview on PC - PRIOR to placing image Preview Mode - PRIOR to placing image Prieview mode - AFTER placing image NOTE the edge at the bottom now has a margin as well as my pasteboard isn't visible. PLEASE HELP. I've been using InDesign since it's release in 1999 and I've never had this problem till after the latest update. My work requires me to be on the latest version. However, it prints fine. So at least there's that.   <Title renamed by MOD>

   Hey, Ive recently been learning Indesign and there is load of useful stuff online answering every question apart from this one! To acsess the color picker i understand you have to click twice on either the stroke or fill icon, however when i double click this does not happen! I have tried looking everywhere for this and restarted my indesign but nothing seems to work. Please can anyone help! Thank you!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi! We are three working on a same document, but not at the same time. When we opwn the document text and images have moved. Why is this happening? Any suggestions to how we can avoid this?   Thank you! E.   <Title renamed by MOD>

I have a multi-page table that leaves huge gaps where large rows move to the next page. I had found a script that split table rows across pages, and it was terrific. However, I changed to a new computer and, alas, the script didn't make the trip with me 😞 I can't remember the name of it and I haven't been able to find it again. Does anyone know of this script?  I see many votes in the community for this feature, and it's hard to understand why Adobe can't manage to do this if an independent scripter figured it out.

Hello! I have 1200 single InDesign files which I need to save as high resolution pdf's.I cannot find a way to make a shortcut key to the pdf preset I made.Is there an easy way to save all these files with a simple click of a button? Susan

After extracting the IDML file, I checked the `TextFrame` elements in the `Spreads.xml` file.   However, when I calculate the position using a matrix, I get negative values.   The document size and the `TextFrame` size are calculated correctly, but I’m not sure how to properly calculate the position.   Can you help me with this?     * I am using Python.     <Title renamed by MOD>

I am having a significant issue with ALL of my InDesign files not saving after I make a single change. An error message comes up. See the screenshot attached.   It says I have another version open, but I do not, and I am the only one in our system working on these files off a server. It won't allow saving, and it also won't allow SAVE AS. Is anyone else having this major issue? I can not work on any of our art files.   <Title renamed by moderator>

I have square brackets with every number i used data merge. Does anyone one have any idea about how to get rid of them 🙂 thank you   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi, I keep getting an error16 message while trying to publish a document online.I have a 200 pages document and I am using windows11.How I can fix it? Thank you.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hallo liebe Community ich habe folgende Frage.  Ich möchte gerne Doppelseitige Karteikarten erstellen. Auf der Vorderseite soll die Nummer der Karteikarte stehen und auf der Rückseite einfach nur Text. Da es über 200 Karteikarten werden sollen, wollte ich die Nummerierung so anlegen sodass diese automatisch fortgeführt wird. Auf der ersten Karteikarte soll auf der Vorderseite die Nr. 1 stehen und auf der Rückseite nur Text sein. Dann auf der zweiten Karteikarte Nr. 2 usw.  Allerdings habe ich das Problem dass mir durch die Rückseite die Nummerierung nicht richtig angezeigt wird. Die Rückseite der ersten Karteikarte wird mir nämlich als Nr. 2 angezeigt (auch wenn diese keine Nummer hat) und die eigentlich zweite Karteikarte erhält automatisch die Nr. 3 Wie kann ich die automatische Nummerierung so anlegen sodass diese sozusagen nur jede 2te Seite übernommen wird?  Ich hoffe ich konnte meine Frage verständlich stellen. 🙂 Liebe GrüßeAlex

Dear communityI am at a loss here and can't find a solution. This is part of a script which opens linked InDesign files, changes the layer visibility on the documents placed in the opened links.   If I put an alert() somewhere between opening and saving the document, everything works fine. If I remove the alert() I get an error, telling me that the file is already open.  The error points to the last command in the changeLayerVisibility() Function: layer.currentVisibility = checklist[ft][k].checkedState;   I'm thinking it has something to do with async or timeouts. The alert slowing the process, allowing the loop to finish. But I can't understand why it would ever try to open the same file again...   Here's the relevant part of the script. I hope someone sees where I'm going wrong. If not I can try to create a reduced version of the thing.   function changeNestedLayers(linksArr) { var thisLink, thisFile, thisFileName, thisDoc; for (var l =

Hi, when I try to reference e.target.name (should be the document name) from an afterSave event i get nothing. I'm logging 3 lines but since "e" is messed up when I log just "e" I can't access anything, when I try "e.target" the whole line isn't even logged. video: https://streamable.com/ispiob This is for a UXP plugin.Here is the relevant code:import {app} from "indesign"; import {uxp} from "./globals"; async function saveDoc(e) { console.log("saveDoc has been triggered."); console.log(e); console.log(e.target); } function addEventListener() { app.eventListeners.everyItem().remove(); app.eventListeners.add('afterSave', saveDoc) app.eventListeners.add('afterSaveAs', saveDoc) } uxp.entrypoints.setup({ plugin: { create() { addEventListener() }, }, }); export const App = () => { return ( <> ... </> ); };  Thanks!

Whether exporting to PDF or printing to a physical printer, I suddenly don't have the ability to print just specific pages. Only All Pages is an option. It's a drag having to output all to PDF and then delete pages before printing just the ones I want.I've attached screenshots of my settings.Any ideas on how to fix this?V19.5 x 64.

I'm working on a book about Quantum applications, and it's filled with mathematical symbols. When I import the Word doc into Indesign, at least half of the symbols (usually in Symbol or Cambria/Cambria Math) aren't recognized, so I have to go through and apply the fonts manually.  I don't expect InDesign to recognize fonts I don't have, but is there a way to get it to recognize the ones I do have and import the symbols correctly? Thanks!

I'm working on an update to a textbook of the usual cinderblock size and heft. A late step will be, of course, to generate an index. Exactly how and what balance between proper concept indexing and keyword indexing isn't determined yet, but it's going to be more or less the author's task (both as SME and as in "I don't wanna do it"). But in looking at the process to offload this on the non-ID, non-InCopy, typical-Word-user author... I can't seem to find it. Everything revolves around entering the indexing info in InDesign — which as author/editor, is how I've always done it.   Isn't there a process to import a plain text topic list? Other than vague handwaving about "go find the INDD file with the list," are there any specific guidelines about how to structure such file for hierarchical entries, see-alsos, and the like? Or am I imagining that this alternative approach even exists?   Do I have to import a Word file to a simple InDesign file in order to do this? Or... what? &nb

Hello,  I made this document last year - 112pages. Worked through it got it ready to send off. Done. I went back in - and "somehow" the page view changed to this (see attachment). I don't know why? or how it happened. And I want it to be turned back to single pages as it was originally intended?. Any help? What is this?    indesign 19.5 on a sonoma 14.6.1      <Title renamed by MOD>    

Hi, I am having a serious issue with exporting a document with about 8 links. This is a critical failure and I cannot diagnose any issue because the task alert is not specific:I cannot identify any elements on page 5 that would be causing a failed export. When I delete the spread, it just tells me that the next one has the critical failure. This is really bad and I can't export my project!

I am trying to right align the numbers which occur after a colon (:) And it would be good to add the leading dots too. Thanks. 

Hallo liebe Adobe Community,habe das Problem das unter Mac OS Monterey das InDesign Handwerkzeug mit der Leertaste (Arbeitsfläche verschieben) und die Bildskalierung mit shift + cmd nicht funktioniert.  Arbeite an einem Mac Book mit externem Samsung Monitor. InDesign habe ich gelöscht und neu installiert und trotzdem besteht der Fehler immer noch :-(. Unter Mac OS Mojave am iMac funktionierte alles noch Fehler frei. Hatte jemand das gleiche Problem und eine Lösung gefunden? Gibt es bald ein Update von seiten Adobe oder Appel, man ließt das es einige Fehler gibt. 

I have a table 5 columns by 170 rows. I want to transpose the 4th and 5th columns and I can't find any advice on this.  Thank you.

Hi there,I'm looking to create a script that helps me to create blank InDesign documents based on a CSV file.The data I would like to change is as follows:File nameHeightWidth Then, I would like to add an IF to the script that if larger than 5486.4 mm it will scale it down 50%, both Height and Width. I got this far but I'm a bit stuck:var file = File.openDialog("Document", undefined, false); var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Document"); file.open("r"); var content = file.read().split("\n"); for (var i = 0; i < content.length - 1; i++) { var curLine = content[i].split("\t"); var h = curLine[0]; var w = curLine[1]; var mar = curLine[2]; var n = curLine[3]; docName = n + "_" + h + "×" + w; try { var newDoc = app.documents.add(false); newDoc.documentPreferences.pageHeight = h; newDoc.documentPreferences.pageWidth = w; newDoc.marginPreferences.properties = {top: mar,left: mar,right: mar,bottom: mar}; newDoc.save(new Fi

Hi, everyone! I have placed a video in my Indesign document. Then I selected the video and made it to Object State so that I can play it when clicking a button. My question is how do I hide the video after I have played it? I want to close it so that I can see the home page of my design, but it doesn't work. Note: I export it with Publish Online.     <Title renamed by MOD>

When I create a new RGB document using the "Web" document profile and place a PNG with transparency on it, the rendering inside the document window gets extremely messed up. This issue doesn't occur if the transparency is removed from the PNG. Additionally, if I switch the display mode from GPU to CPU (though it significantly slows down the rendering), the issue doesn't occur.   Can you please tell me if this is a problem specific to my environment that can be fixed, or if it's a bug in InDesign?   My setup is InDesign 19.5 / Sonoma 14.6.1 / M1 ULTRA. The same issue has been happening since Ventura.     <Title renamed by MOD>

I like to keep my Styles panels' content organized differently than some other people also working on the ID file.However, the content of the panels (e.g. Styles sorted alphabetically) remain in the order that the last person using them left them in. Is there a way to return a panel to a previous state?