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Hello, I'm trying to create a script that would automatically place and position documents in my Indesign file automatically for the purpose of setting up a file for sending to print. The script below currently handles PDFs exactly the way I need them to (placing each page of the PDF sequentially into each page of the  InDesign document), but struggles to to do the same for other filetypes, where it places the 1st page throughout the whole document. It would be ideal if i could get this to work for .indd files. I'm not particularly savvy with script writing, so have been using ChatGPT to create the script, but so far nothing has worked.  If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. (script is below) #target indesign// Get the active documentvar doc = app.activeDocument;// Prompt the user to select a file to placevar fileToPlace = File.openDialog("Select a file to place", "*.*"); // *.* allows all file typesif (fileToPlace) {// Disable screen redra

Why is my text pixelated until I start typing? It's brutally hard on the eyes.Here is what it looks like before I start typing in a text box:Here is what it looks like when I start to edit/type in the text box:My display settings are to anti alias:Changing it to Fast display does nothing. I'd like to be able to read my screen clearly. This seems like something that should have a really easy fix.Thank you InDesign gurus for reading!{Renamed by MOD}

I've asked you before, but it's a bit sporadic.This feature should be used by many people. Apply table style first: mytab. Then cell style:Table body: set the minimum row height to 7mm. The end of the table(tab footer?):first judge the last line, if it is a blank line, straight should be set as the end of the table line, apply footer cell style, and go to the end of the table.If the last line is not empty, then add a new line as the end of the table.Set the exact line height is: 1.058mm. Table header:it is generally believed that there is only one line of table header.Copy a line of the table header, at the same time in the first new line of blank lines, horizontal merge cells, fill in the ‘continuation of the table’ two words, and apply the ‘continuation of the table’ cell style.The first two rows will be transferred to the header row, and skip the header.Set the exact row height: 5mm; Thank you very very very much.     

This morning I scanned a photo, taken in 1904, I found in a magazine that shows a relative. The image size in the magazine is 4x3 and it is very grainy. I understood that I was not going to get a crisp image but scanned at 1200 dpi to get what I could. When I scanned it, on an HP Laserjet Pro MFP 4301dw, I did not notice that the Preset setting was "Document" which yielded a PDF - see 01.jpeg attached (jpeg because I photographed it on my computer screen using my cell phone, as is the case for all 3 attached images). I placed the pdf in an InDesign document and printed it using the HP Laserjet Pro MFP 4301dw; it was dark as I expected - see cell phone image 02.jpeg. I then rescanned at 1200 dpi with Preset "Photo" which produced a jpeg and, on screen, a somewhat better image - see cell phone image 03.jpeg attached. I then imported both 01 and 02 into Photoshop and modified the brightness/contrast. However, when I went to print the modified images out of InDesig

I just finished a very big layout intended for a 525+ page print book. It's an update to a prior edition, and previously, for that edition, I copied the entire finished InDesign file into Word, redid all the formatting, and then converted it to a Kindle file for Amazon using their amazingly bad Kindle Create tool. It was a huge pain, and I'd prefer a better way. I tried just exporting the book to an EPUB, but the result was a fixed layout book. Some of the fonts didn't work out, but I can fix that. I'll just change them to something it'll accept. I don't mind the fixed layout that much, but the font might be a bit tiny for some readers, and I would rather this be a flowable layout, if possible. Maybe it's not possible because I have footnotes and lots of illustrations, and maybe that's confusing InDesign. But there doesn't seem to be an option for selecting "flowable" when I do the Export. Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to start over with a different file format in InDe

Hi,   Not sure what is going with adobe but their apps performance is going worse and worse. I have latest nvidia studio drivers, 2x rtx 2080ti, 16 core 5950x cpu, 128 GB ram, windows 11 and this is the result of all money I spent do have solid rig:   Working in indesign is so slow in 19.4, if I want to edit text, it takes ages. Or move. Whole life I am using high performance view that I never had issue with.    Here is the video how slow it is. : https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nwz0idwcw4od9cc54gi24/Z-znam-2024-08-02-182107.mp4?rlkey=y9xk887i1cof0dlghq7v7v8o8&dl=0     Tired again of the performance. Adobe CS6 was so good so I don't get it why when someting is working, adobe mess with it.    <Title renamed by moderator>

Working on a graphic handbook for which there will be an ebook.The bullet points are circles with a number inside and the outake quotes are larger circles with type inside.When this is converted to an ebook as a fixed layout (because reflow just makes a disaster of the layout) there are square boxes around the circles. (This doesn't appear in the print pdf.) There are no effects on the circles - they are just a basic black % or they are white with a small rule. It seems to make no difference if they are grouped or not or whether there is a text wrap or not.(The header in the ebookHow do I resolve this?Thanks

Hi, I'm having a stange problem. When using a specific font: Lota Grotesque in all caps, some characters gets displayed upside down. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? OS: macOS 10.15.2 Indesign: 15.0.1

Friend of mine just sent me a file with a strange problem.   Here is a Table - with Char & Para Styles applied to contents of the cells - text cursor is in the last cell:   Now, hitting TAB - produces this - override from nowhere:   Table Style definition:   Cell Style isn't a problem either - even when it shows override:   The culprit - when one of the CharStyles is being active/selected BEFORE hitting TAB - even when all cells in a Table have [None] CharStyle applied - DEFINITION of this active/selected CharStyle is still applied to the cells in the newly created row - like when you create a new/blank TextFrame with some styles active / preselected:   So after selecting [None] as an active CharStyle - pressing TAB in the last cell - no more overrides:     Hopefully this will save someone precious time searching for gremlins.     Unless it's an old news - then please remove this post.  

I created a way to use data merge to populate multiple numbers to automate bar charts in InDesign based on the number that was pulled in. I feel like there must be a simpler code for it but i cant figure it out. (I put the visual in for reference and colored the dashes so you can see - final product has the dashes clear. The code basically says "Look behind for # tab and assign character style to # dashes" but I have to repeat the code 100 times and specify each number. is there a way to simplify where the code is more intuitive to say "read the number and assign the character style to that many dashes?      (?<= 1\t)-{1}|(?<= 2\t)-{2}|(?<= 3\t)-{3}|(?<= 4\t)-{4}|(?<= 5\t)-{5}|(?<= 6\t)-{6}|(?<= 7\t)-{7}|(?<= 8\t)-{8}|(?<= 9\t)-{9}|(?<= 10\t)-{10}|(?<=11\t)-{11}|(?<=12\t)-{12}|(?<=13\t)-{13}|(?<=14\t)-{14}|(?<=15\t)-{15}|(?<=16\t)-{16}|(?<=17\t)-{17}|(?<=18\t)-{18}|(?<=19\t)-{19}|(?<=20\t)-{20}|(?<=21\t)-{21}

I've imported a Word doc with endnotes, which brought formatting with it (italics). Is there any way to control the Character Styles for these?   TIA   <Title renamed by moderator>

InDesign is crashing at "Starting up service registry" on Apple M1 processor, macOS 14.6.1 Here is the crash report: https://pastebin.com/5naARqQd

Preferences > Appearance of Black > Display and Output All Blacks Accurately, InDesign, 19.5, macOS 14.6.1, MacBook Pro M3This preference setting does not operate properly. Has anyone had this problem?

I have made a script which a user can design a range of consecutive subheaders and the script will apply the styles for all instances of subheaders  see screenshots for example  As you can see there are 4 subheaders each with text settiings and then other entries with similar subheaders - rather than having to eyedrop all of them you can run the script and all subheaders will be styles - see the second screenshot    As you can see each subhead has adopted the respective subhead. The problem I have is if each subheader has a return after it the script does not see them as consecutive. Screenshot below shows the issue The same subheads but now with returns  as you can see once the script has been run they all adopt the frust subheader Any advice on this would be most appreciated!  This should be a useful script when complete and it feels like it is the final hurdle. Many thanks  Smyth func

whenever I copy the data from a Word file and try to paste it with the formatting in Adobe Indesign I can't paste it with the same format. I've attached the setting screenshot. Thanks   <Title renamed by moderator>

I'm new to UXP and the InDesign DOM and trying to write a script that will resize overset anchored Text Frames.A snippet of my code:thisTextFrame.fit(myInDesign.FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/dom/api/f/FitOptions/This successfully increases the text frame's height, but the text now overlaps the text in the Story that follows the anchored Text Frame.Is there a way of pushing the Story text down so that it follows the expanded TextFrame?If I manually drag the Text Frame in InDesign to resize it, the Story text gets pushed down. I'd like to be able to automate this with a script.Many thanks for any advice that can help me make progress.

Hello,I have reported this issue in prerelease but recieved no answer so I decided to post it here too. (I could not remember if I did or not but couldn't find that I did). It's been a longe time since I wanted to report this behavior (perhaps someone did), but for some reason I did not. I came to find this problem when I was working on a unique job but I will only describe the problematic part. I created a text frame and made it's frame into "Type on Path". I then inserted a horizontal stroke with baseline shift so It will always be on the same distance from the top when I change the text frame's height. The text frame was also defined with Text Wrap (Jump to next column). I did it because there is no way to give a stroke to one side of a text box or any other graphic object (like you can do in a table cell). The text frame was placed on a parent page, on both sides of the parent spread and was threaded (In my case from Right to Left) like this:  I then went t

Hola, estoy generando una plantilla, y no he podido activar la opción de multiples registros para hacer una maquetación de plantilla, alguien ha podido solucionar esto? 

hello, Ive been trying to get indesign to work on my laptop fot the past three hours. everything was fine until a couple of hours ago the app started freezing up. i am working on a small project (7 MB) and whenever I start moving objects, scrolling down or just pressing 'W' to toggle the view it freezes. there is no error message, the rest on my computer works fine. i tried deleting prefences, restarting the laptop, reinstalling the app, older versions, and even completely reinstalling adobe cloud (with the cloud cleaner tool). nothing works. it continues to crash. I made a copy of the document and it crashes as well. im working on a tight timeline for this project and really need it to work. 

I am having an issue creating QR codes from URLs in a csv file. In the original csv file, I added URL: to each URL, and the column name is #URL; but although I am getting the little QR code symbol in the data merge window, it will not generate a QR code when I run the merge. Each URL does work when I manually copy and paste each one into InDesign, so it's not the URLs themselves . . .I would appreciate any advice on trouble shooting this issue. Thanks! 

InDesign keeps updating links that are not being altered in any way. This is really a problem when I go to Edit > Undo to check a change I made and InDesign decides to update a link, then my history is cleared and I can't Redo. None of the linked files are open nor have they been edited in a long time. In the screenshot you can see my History Panel. The Update Links have happened just while I type this, except the first two after Paste.  EDIT TO ADD: The Update Link will consistently happen one time whenever I switch to another program and back to InDesign. I also tested on a new document with only one PNG linked. Perhaps this is a setting that I can't find in order to disable? I have .ai .png .eps. and .psd files linked. 13 links in all. I'm on a Mac, files are on my computer. 

Is there a way to create a charachter stle with a border around each side of the text?   <Title renamed by moderator>

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