InDesign

I am currently working on manually indexing over 6,000 entries in a book that contains countless cross-references within the index. Since I'm doing this chronologically and many of the referenced entries don't exist yet, I have to manually type or paste the cross-reference entry. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that the editor who provided me with the file (a PDF with comments) occasionally made typos or omitted parts of the entry names. Is there a way to identify cross-references in the index where the corresponding entry doesn't exist?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi everyone!I had to create an EPUB file for an assignment.  My video and audio clips were successful in exporting, however, none of the images show, I just see a gray box similar to the fast display setting (I am viewing in iBooks).  It's a fixed layout, all of my images are linked and I haven't moved the files around.  I tried anchoring the images to text as I saw in other forums to try and fix the issue, but the images are still not showing.   Any help/thoughts are appreciated, I'm out of ideas! I included a Google Drive link to a zip file with everything there. Thank you in advance! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hydGuCmrAqrEg3c4c544XJSAm0ySwA3a/view?usp=sharing 

Adobe Indesign 19.4MacBookPro 2020macOS Sonoma 14.5   I want to publish my Portfolio with Indesign Publish online, but first some images showed as broken, then some others, now all images are show as broken. It doesn't matter if I change the image quality while publishing, or publish from a more stable and higher Internet Connection, nor when I publish from a folder on my computer instead of from Dropbox.I just cannot get the images to show. I've read all the fora contributions on the topic of images not showing when the document is published online, but none of it seems to solve my issue. Any help in any direction?

HelloIn Farsi-persian writing zwnj character (unicode) is vital. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner). unfortunately If I use text variable like "running header" this character will be omited.   It will happen in any version of indesign however I use middle eastren version. zwnj is sessential character in persian and it is not possible to use another character (It os not optional It is mandatory). meanwhile If I export it to epub it will be omitted as well. and if I copy text with zwnj like (می‌خانه) and copy it on "numbering and section options it will be omitted as well. Thanks. 

I am sure it is really simple but the solution seems to be totally eluding me.....

Suddenly ALL of my InDesign files are like this.  Nothing is locked and nothing is on a master and thousands of my files I cannot select the object unless I hold down command.  I can't use my shortcuts.  i can right click things and get a menu.  They behave as though they are all locked but they aren't  

I have a large project where each chapter is a InDesign file and its "managed" in an InDesign book. Very standard book production. TOC of the whole book is easy. But how do I incorporate an overall index? I don't see an option. Like in the TOC setting it says "Include Book Documents". Thanks in advance!   <TItle renamed by MOD>

Is there a way to take the ridge of the mountain right behind "Q4 Summit Challenge" and bring that ridge in front so that part of "Q4 Summit Challenge" is covered by the ridge of the mountain? I want to make it look like the WAVE magazine cover     <TItle renamed by MOD>

How do I get rid of a thin box that is appearing around my text blocks, interfering with other things on the page. If I move "Contents," everything else moves, too.     <Title renamed by MOD>  

HiI am developing a InDesign CS5.5 plugin.I am using SDKFolderChooser (from .../source/sdksamples/common/SDKHelper) to allow a user to select a folder. But I don't know how to change the dialog's title:SDKFolderChooser folderChooser;folderChooser.SetTitle("My title");folderChooser.ShowDialog();SetTitle don't replace the default title "Select a folder" ! Can anyone help me?ThanksRegards

Hi! Question for the greg wizards... I have a completed index from an old InDesign file that was given to me. I need to strip out all the words and use that for creating a new index.   How to I find ": and everything to the paragraph return" and replace it just the "paragraph return"? Enclosed is a pic of what im trying to do. Should be simple, right?     <TItle renamed by MOD>    

Hi! So I'm creating a report template that needs to be fully accessible in PDF form. I've been doing a bunch of research and there's two questions that I'm trying to wrap my head around.  1. How does the Articles panel reconcile a difference in the panel order vs. style hierarchy? For example, I have a text box that has text in this order: H2 > p > H3 > p and then a second text box that starts a new section with H1. I put the former text box into the Articles panel first, then the latter text box. Will this be read in the correct order, even though the second text box trumps the style hierarchy with H1? 2. Is it bad to have a lot of sections within the tags panel? (like the automaticall generated <sect> tags)My understanding is that each new "story" in InDesign generates a new <sect> tag. My document has a lot of separate stories. This is partly bc I'm setting up a template and I don't want to link all of the text boxes in the document bc I don't kno

Hi !I've been working on this all day and have been able to find only half an answer so I come here full of hope… ! 😃I have a table which I import from Excel. In this table I have empty cells sometimes and I want to put a "-" in them.I tried this grep request to find the empty spaces : (?<!.)$Which seems to work, it finds empty spaces in the format I searching when I press "Next"I tried to "replace" the empty spaces using : $0-Which, oddly enough, works when I press "Replace" but doesn't when I press "Replace all"Here is my problem then, how can I make it work all at once ? Since I don't want to replace them all at once… ^^''Thanks in advance !

I have a large word document that will only partially transfer into indesign. I have used the place method and shift double click. 20 of the over 100 hundred pages will come over but the rest will not and I cannot seem to figure out what the problem is.  Looking for help to resolve the issue. TIA!   <Title renamed by MOD>

I recently got a new computer and am trying to edit some .indd files (via 2022). They open just fine, but when I double click a text box to edit the text, the caret doesnt appear. I am able to move text boxes around/select/delete/etc. but no caret appears to change the text. Any ideas?    <Title renamed by MOD>

I am working on a Mac, OS Sonoma 14.6.1, using InDesign 2024, and I'm getting an error that says I cannot open an indb file as a book. I just openned this file a couple of hours ago as a book. It is saved to my university's server, and I am accessing it via VPN. Any idea why this happens? I have saved the file locally as well to my desktop, and I get the same error message when I try to open that version of the file. 

Possibly a better fit for a Spark doc (if Spark still exists)   In my publish online (PoL) experiences,  - a PoL doc opens in a default size (either full width or height depending on the device) - a challenge to scroll - I don't see a Parallax setting, would this need to be an HTML insert from AE or a diff program?   Any other challenges / work-arounds / experience is appreciated!   I'm using InDesign cc 19.5   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello community!I have a huge table that spreads over 40 pages in an InDesign file.   This morning after opening the file again, the table looks empty and uneditable.   However, if I right-click and do "Edit from copy Editor" I can see all the content.   Does anyone have an idea how to revert the table to the previous appearance?   Here is what I tried so far:1. export imdl 2. export template file 3. Copy/paste the table onto other files 4. delete all the other spreads to see if display performance was causing the issue Please help me guys!     <Title renamed by MOD>  

Hi,I'm trying to create peg labels for a children's classroom.I want to merge my .csv class list into an indesign document where I have 6 peg labels per page.HOWEVER - Each label has a picture of a rocket behind the name but the rockets are different colours which is where I'm getting stuck:a) Creating a multiple merge gives me the same coloured rocket duplicated across the page.b) Merging the names into 6 text boxes on top of pre-drawn rockets gives me the same name repeated 6 times. The only way I can see to make it work is to link the rocket background image as a merged image, i.e. create a colum of linked imafes in my .csv file. Is there a way to achieve this without having separate linked images? Thanks 

Why do my document layouts change when I import them into a book document in InDesign?  All of my chapter images and text shift and don't retain the format of the original saved document.   Eek!     <Title renamed by MOD>

I had to reinstall a print driver today and now all of my documents created after are printing with some kind of color bar on them but my old jobs/documents can be printed with out it...please help. Thanks in advance   <Title renamed by MOD>

We are using indesign 2024 and we were able to open the same file from our work server at the same time. Now the file is corrupted! Is there a solution for this?   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello All,Images are not placeing at the jsx file this is my codevar imagePath = "C:\\Users\\Karthik Salugu\\Downloads\\SingleAdDesign1 (2)\\1.jpg";var imageFile = new File(imagePath);myDocument.pages.item(0).place(imageFile);this .jsx file , from c# code to indesign server , always displaying as a image plaeholder not actual image,Please could you help me to resolve this issue, if i execute directly in the under the utilites sripts , it is working fine , but if we execute through the indesign server getting issue.  e 

I'm trying to make photo cards that are 3x4". I have 53 photos and I want one on a page. The script gets all the pages, but I can't figure out how to change the page size when I use the script. I keep getting 8 1/2x11. I have a master page set up. Anyone know how I can do this?Thanks!

HiI have some basic knoweldge of InDesign. But I find the available tutorials on Adobe's web site are somewhat out of date. Can someone recommend a good place to learn InDesign with AI integration?Thanks