InDesign

I’m using an .indb to create a guidebook that is both text and photo heavy, with separate .indd docs for the chapters. Each new chapter will start with a double page photo spread – what’s the best practice method to do this? Do I have to place half the photo at the end of the previous document? Thanks

 Hello Everyone,We are thrilled to introduce the new MathML feature in InDesign. Now, you can easily create, style, and edit math expressions with the new MathML panel. Seamlessly integrate complex equations into your documents, styled to match your text. Perfect for scientific and academic content! Insert a math expression Create or open any InDesign document and select Object > Insert MathML.  Add the MathML code in the MathML Input section. Select the Preview Expression icon to see the expression in the Expression Preview section.  Select Place. Your math expression is placed as an SVG file in your document. You can anchor it just like any other SVG. 5. Update the Font Size and Fill color (including document colors) in the Math Expressions panel to match the rest of your document.   Edit a math expression1. Right-click the math expression and select2. Update the MathML code in the MathML Input section.3. Select the Preview Expression icon to see the updated e

I used the richpaste plugin (https://indiscripts.com/post/2015/10/richpaste-copy-and-paste-with-minimal-formatting) in InDesign to transfer text from Word to InDesign using the ctrl + c, ctrl + v commands. It helped me maintain formatting without complications when I selected a specific paragraph/character style. However, the plugin seems to have lost compatibility with the latest versions of InDesign.When I copy text from Word that is italicized and bold and paste it into InDesign using the Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V command, I select the paragraph style, but the font does not change. I need to either configure a character style or do it manually.With richpaste, I could just select the paragraph style and use the “paste with richpaste” option, and it would paste the paragraph formatting and character style all at once.I work with academic texts, so I need this process to be more agile, and richpaste helped a lot in that regard. I can't use the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V commands with the option to

I have this same issue with every accessible document I export from InDesign and open in Adobe Acrobat. Under the Oder panel, everything is sectioned out correctly but under the Accessibility Tags, the sections are divided into individual lines (see the purple boxes). The only way I have found to fix this is to manually drag the containers together in the adobe Content panel. I have gone through every variation within the export settings and have combed through paragraph style settings (like turning off baseline gridding and optical margin alignment) to try and figure it out with no luck. I am working with a very simple test document with minimal formatting to try and solve it but am out of ideas.  

I was busily importing and editing graphics on page 68 of a large document, when suddenly the pink margin guides around each page suddenly disappeared!  I was using some keyboard commands and must have accidentally done something ... I have looked at various sections of the InDesign guidelines and have tried several things. Nothing brought them back (yet) & I've reversed each thing I tried in various dropdown menus. Can anyone help me restore those Margin Guides?  I can't work without them. Thanks

There is a really boring problem with simple tasks like selecting text or using the Find/Change feature in large documents. For example, this task has already taken about 1.5 hours, and I don’t know how long it will take. As you can see, the task is very simple: just find/change text elements. The exact query is not important; it may be selecting a sentence, changing a word, or something similar. And every time it takes ages.It started with about InDesign version 2022, but was not so noticeable. And for now, it has grown to disrupt the entire workflow.What could be done? I can divide the document into smaller parts, but it’s unwanted for this project, and there aren’t any warnings in the documentation about the document’s length. The Text Editor does not help; it works as slowly as the layout mode.The system is good enough for comfortable work:Processor    13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1355U (1.70 GHz)Installed RAM    32,0 GB (31,7 GB usable)System type    64-bit operating system Windo

Hello all,We are an Architectural firm where we are working towards moving to cloud storage (away from traditional servers across network).  We are primarily moving towards Autodesk Construction Cloud, however we recently found INDD files are not supported and recently seem to be having issues.It appears that the Adobe Cloud may be a great solution for storing, and working with InDesign files, as it appears this also allows for co-authoring, which would be terrific (assuming it works like Microsoft co-authoring).What I am unsure about and would like some clarification on is if/how InDesign linked assets can be stored and shared in the Adobe Cloud.  I don’t see anything about this in the help documentation and after going through, it sounds like links need to be local or on a server.Any clarification on this is appreciated, thank you.

Hi,noch nie untergekommen, dass eine einfache Linie “zu viele Anfasser” hat.Ich möchte die Linie per Maus einfach nur verlängern. Kann aber den mittleren Anfasser nicht anfassen… Hab ich versehentlich irgendeinen speziellen Modus in ID, Windows, neueste Version erwischt? Grüße!mycc  

Le fichier est un livre d’art. Il ne s’ouvre plus avec message d’erreur grave. indesign se ferme lorsque je coche ok. Je voudrais récupérer tout ou une ancienne version. comment dois-je procéder?

For the past year this program has become slow and unresponsive to the point of being completely unusable. Any command that I give the software is followed by a 5-15 second lag on average - this is not an exaggeration. This problem persists with existing documents, INDD and INDL, as well as with brand new documents saved to my desktop.  For example: Create a new document. When the document loads, create text box and begin to type. 15 seconds later the letters appear in the box. Actions taken during the lag are ignored by the software. Other applications on my machine are also significantly impacted by this performance issue, even the mouse stutters and freezes. Trying to use other software while InD is "thinking" can often result in the other applications to show a (not responding) error. Because InD is so unresponsive, I need to use Task Manager to force close - even this process can take up to a minute to complete. I'm not certain, but I believe the problem with lag is

ID 20.3.1, macOS 14.8.2. When different users open the same document, with the same fonts installed, the line case changes. I suspect some underlying setting in the program, but what should I look for?

I designed a guidebook using facing pages. I am now designing an ebook version using single (not facing) pages. I cleared the Facing Pages check box in the Document Setup window and saved the file. The Pages panel shows only one page spreads, both for the parent pages and for the body pages. The body pages also appear only as one page spreads.I created a Back button and a Next button in the footer of the parent page. I added Go to previous page actions to the Back button (on release or tap and on click) and Go to next page actions to the Next button. I exported to an interactive PDF. When I click the Back button, it goes back two pages rather than one. When I click the Next button, it goes forward two pages rather than one. What am I doing wrong?I am using Adobe InDesign 21.2 x64

Hello, even though I completely uninstalled InDesign (including all old versions) and then reinstalled it, I’m still experiencing the same bug: when I open another InDesign document, suddenly the Command-Z shortcut stops working. I'm using the latest version of InDesign and macOS Sequoia — though this issue has been happening for years across different versions of InDesign and macOS. Can anyone help? It’s incredibly frustrating and such a waste of time.

Dear all,I’ve created a paragraph style for the main text of an article. The type family that I’m using includes two shapes for lowercase a: two-story a (default) + one-story a (alternate (stylistic set 7) looking like Futura’s).I want to use the alternate a, so I’ve activated stylistic set 7 under OpenType Features in my paragraph style. For some words inside this paragraph, I’d like to bring back the default a.Been scratching me head, I can’t figure it out. I read posts on forums, using scripts and GREP aren’t new to me, but I’d like to know if there’s a standard way – not hardcoding the letter – for such a case. If not, is it an OpenType limitation, a type mastering’s limitation, or a software’s limitation?Thanks in advance for you help/ideas!(using InDesign CC 2019 on macOS Monterey 12.7.6)

using Adobe InDesign version 21.2 x64.In previous versions (up to version 17), the order of diacritic marks (e.g., Kasra then Shadda) affected their positioning—allowing the Kasra to appear correctly under the letter instead of under the Shadda.However, recent versions strictly enforce Unicode mark-to-mark positioning, causing the Kasra to always appear under the Shadda regardless of input order, which negatively impacts classical Arabic typography.Moreover, I have found that disabling ligatures restores the correct placement of the Kasra under the letter, but turning off ligatures for an entire large project (like an 800-page book) is impractical and disrupts the overall text appearance and quality.Importantly, this issue is not caused by the font itself. The font used, KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh, behaves correctly in Microsoft Word, respecting the input order of diacritics and displaying the Kasra under the letter as expected. This clearly indicates that the problem lies within InDesig

For three days I’ve been getting new errors (attached) on two multi-page almost-completed files I’ve been working on for weeks. I’m running the latest update from Creative Cloud. Even uninstalled and reinstalled an older version to see if it was a bug in the latest update. Worked for a couple of hours but first thing this morning I got errors on both files again. Created brand new InDesign files and copy/pasted text and graphics from the old to see if that would help. Didn’t.

Tenia mi portada armada en indesig, donde he colocado un enlace de ilustrador que tiene fotos.pero ahora me da el problema que si hago un cambio las fotos se desaparecen. Antes eso no pasaba, ahora que será que esta dando ese problema

I recently updated my InDesign 26 version to interim version 21.2 and this preference doesn’t seem to be working anymore. I have the “Default Relink Folder” in the File Handling preference set to “Most Recent Relink Folder”.Previously when I had say 10 InDesign documents in a folder, I would open the first and relink to my Links folder that is not in the same folder as the InDesign documents. Then every subsequent InDesign file in that folder that I would open would look to that Links folder I just linked to and update appropriately. Since this interim update, that preference doesn’t seem to work and I have to browse to the links folder again for each InDesign document.Hoping I am missing something or that this can get fixed.Thanks,Don 

Two issues here with the Share for Review lately in Indesign (and partially in Illustrator)It seems to be constantly “erroring” when I do a content update OR try to change the preview name (this is also happening in AI). Though when I click the link to view both seem to actually be updated and yet it’s giving me the red error dialogue box on almost every update so I’m never quite sure if this is actually a working feature or not... !!!! SECOND and more importantly,****** the comment pins from Share for Review are irregularly not displaying– I’ll have one document show them fine and another not display at all.As in the comment pins are viewable through a browser window, but from within Indesign the comment pins do not show on the spread (I’m not in preview mode and all pins are set to be visible). This is not client/user error either as they display perfectly fine in the browser, but you can imagine it’s a bit finicky and frustrating to constantly be swapping back to the browser to chec

I have tried everything but my colors keep changing from the original InDesign document when I export to an interactive PDF. The Transparency Blend Space is set to Document RGB, and every swatch is in RGB as well.  What it’s supposed to look like… What it looks like on export… The gold and light blue are especially different. Here’s a pic of my color settings: As you can see, my color settings are synced across all Adobe apps.  Please help! 

I am about to lose it! Running latest InDesign on Windows. Two time-consuming files that I’ve been working on for weeks are now both generating the attached errors. I need help!

The latest InDesign can no longer export to Tagged Text. Has somebody written a script to replicate the function? I need it sorely! 

Freight Sans on adobe font site does not sit in the text box (indesign) the same way the Pro version does. It sits lower within the box, while the Pro version aligns with the top of the box. I have work with Pro version that now when font replaced need to be manually fixed. Problem because coworkers still have Pro version and we all work on same files. Any suggestions?

A search on this question brings up two incorrect suggestions:Drag the page into the master-page area in the Pages pane; this is not allowed. Right-click on the page and use a context-menu option to create a parent page from it; there is no such menu item.Is there a real way to do it? 

Long-time InDesign user (next month 20 years!), curently using an iMac 6-Core i5, Big Sur and up to date CS. This might be an MacOS issue but I can't find a way to fix it via the OS. When I attempt to place an image into an InDesign document, the menu that I see doesn't show modification dates or even display the date added information so I can't sort by date modified or date added...   The only way I can see file modification dates is if I use column view and then I can't sort the folder contents  (We have so many nested folders on the server that column view is useless anyway)  Has anyone else run into this and if so, how did the fix it?Thank you,