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Hi all,   I'm having issues with numbering my pages. I need the first nine to be Roman numerals and the rest to be regular numbers, which I did through section numbering. This works fine for the first 97 pages, but then jumps randomly back to Roman numerals, and when I try to start a new section it adds a new page for some reason? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!   <Title renamed by moderator>

I need some clarity on print novel formatting errors from KDPP. Amazon suddenly started rejecting print manuscripts due to infringement on the gutter by text. (I've never had this issue before).  I have always set all the margins and gutter to their specification, but still, the problem persists. I tweaked it enough last time to get the project through, but i have another thirty-two novels of mine that i will be updating in ID, and need to understand why this is happening and how to avoid it. Adobe support has been no help at all on this. They either address something i did not ask, or they condescend by explaining to me what a gutter is.Here's the screenshot from Amazon KDPPand here are my settings.So perhaps the question is, what is the difference between margin/gutter settings AND the text frame that might be on the page? I place my text frames according to the guides created by the settings. Since most of these issues with KDPP seem to be about text infringing on the gutter, e

I'm looking for a better, smarter way to insert placeholder text into my indesign documents than the tired and true methods of copy/paste from an external source or utilizing my own placeholder.txt doc.I'd like to be able to simply insert my cursor anywhere in my text box/frame (which may already have text in it) and be able 'insert placeholder text' and specify character, word or paragraph count'Or possibly leverage AI integration directly in app where I can select an certain length of text and have it 'edit' to a specific word/character/paragraph count?Anyone know of any plugins that would allow this?Seems like this feature has sat idle for many years and could benefit from being a little more capable and intelligent inside the application.TIA

Hello all, I am using a custom placeholder text file which I want to use instead of Lorem Ipsum. I have couple of paragraphs on it and I have pasted the file in the following folder:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2023 The file is in plain text format and I have tried all the possible options of UTF-8, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE and other options available in Notepad for saving it. For some reason only few lines are appearing from the file and that same line is getting repeated. I have attached a screenshot and also the placeholder text file. Any suggestion would be very helpful.Thanks

Hi, I have a sunbust chart in Excel. Is there any way where I can get the sunburst effect in Interactive PDF from Indesign. Thanks,

Hi all,I want to export an interactive pdf and I want it to open full screen.Can I disable the on-click next page load in this case?I'm using Windows 10, Indesign 19.5Could I use the arrows or an interactive button instead?

This is constantly happening to me! The top edge of my Links panel is all the way at the top of my monitor, but the bottom edge is off the screen & too far down to grab. Closing & re-opening the panel does not help.

Hi, im having an issue where my swatches panel is blank. There is nothing there at all.I've reset my preference and also uninstalled and reinstalled inDesigns to no avail.Can anyone help?

Mike Rankin (editor of Creative Pro Magazine) writes: “If you’re not using scripts in InDesign, you’re missing out on their incredible powers to improve your workflow and save you a lot of time and money. But when you’re first getting started, it can be a challenge to find scripts that are useful for your workflow and get them up and running. Here’s a great place to start: Project Octopus. This is a collection of free scripts for InDesign that you can install and run with zero hassle.” https://creativepro.com/project-octopus-offers-free-scripts-for-indesign/

I have 100s of buttons in an InDesign document that are set to non-printable.they all need to be set to printable.Is there an easy way to do this (either using a script or export options)?

Hello, community. (I am working on InDesign v 19.5) In the "Type" menu - Insert Break Character - The first 3 options "seem" to have a keyboard shortcut but, the symbol reiterated in the three options, which looks like a lying letter "K", and its combinations, do not work when trying to apply them on the keyboard (besides that the keyboard does not have a lying letter K) and in the "Keyboard Viewer", I did not find that symbol... which could well be an option, but I did not find it... despite using different key combinations (command, option, shift etc.).At Adobe phone support they told me that those that, to me, "seem to be keyboard shortcuts" next to the options "Column Break, Frame Break and Page Break", are not shortcuts, but that, when applying those functions, they would be the symbols that would appear in the text, when the invisible characters are active... but in the observable evidence, it is not like that... because the symbols of those functions, are different in

When I create an EPUB in InDesign, using an iPad preset template, it distorts the EPUB file in Kindle for one second then it goes back to normal a second later. The momentary distortion happens when I open the EPUB in Kindle. Does anyone know how to fix it so that these momentary distortions don't happen in Kindle??

As you can see from screenshots, when it comes to my indentations Apple Books is reading them pretty well, but Kindle not so much. What's weird is that Kindle does register the change, it just only does about 20% of what I apply. So I can get the indents to move 1/16th of an inch in Kindle by moving them 3/4 of an inch in indesign. The massive indent then reflects in Appl Books, with a very small movement made in Kindle. Why? I would think Kindle would work or not work, but to just decided it's only going to interpret SOME of my direction doesn't make sense to me. Apple is also reading my margins on the epigraph, while kindle does not.

Hello, I have problem. when I using the shortcut crtl, the text is reduced in place with the frame. while the shortcut shift, it works correctly. I don't know if this is true for everyone.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello. I've tried this (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/grep-query/m-p/14365227) for applying a character style to text within parentheses but must not be changing the correct portion of the string to ( ). 

Does anyone know if there is a way to remove the space between tables? I've got the Before and After space in the Paragraph set to 0. I'd make them one table but due to the number of columns being different it was easier to create separate tables for each.Thanks,Peter

One of the main tasks that we do in our office is: A.  Merging an original InDesign file (approx 7.5Mb) with a CSV file;B.  Exporting that resulting merged document into a PDF file During export, we've tried different Adobe PDF Presets:  (High Quality Print, Press Quality, Smallest File Size, PDF/X-4, etc.)   The "Smallest File Size" preset seems to be the fastest although not by much.  It generally takes 3-5 minutes to create the merged document which seems a bit slow.   But the real sluggishness is when we export that merged document into PDF format.  It takes anywhere from 4-8 minutes and the resulting PDF is only about 2.3Mb in size.  We've tried this on multiple machines.  One is an iMac 3.5Ghz Quad Core i7 processor with 32Gb of 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM.  The other is a Macbook Pro with 2.6 Ghz 6-core i7 processor and 16Gb 2400 Mhz DDR4 RAM.  There's not really thimble's worth of difference in the e

Hi, I am developing a C++ plugin. I want to prevent the process from being executed on the home screen from the panel I created. From the plugin, is it possible to switch between the home screen and the screen that appears when no documents are open (where various panels are displayed)? Alternatively, can the preference "Show Home Screen When No Documents Are Open" be toggled on and off? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Bonjour,Je ne parviens plus à ouvrir un fichier INDD. Dès que je lance le fichier dans InDesign, l'appli se bloque, rien ne se passe que la petite roulette qui tourne et je suis obligé de forcer à quitter InDesign. Idem quand je lance le script 'batch-convert' pour le convertir en IDML sans l'ouvrir… Comment procéder pour ouvrir ce fichier ? Merci d'avance ! 

Hello!I have a dowpdownlist  with very many items, and I would like to show it with scollbars instead of a very long list.. I've read about the maximumSize property, but it do not seem to apply... Does someone know how to handle it or to add a scrollbar? var myWin = new Window('dialog', 'My Long List'); myWin.orientation = 'column'; with(myWin){ myWin.sText = add('statictext', undefined, 'Select From List:'); myWin.myFontDrop = add('dropdownlist',undefined,undefined,{items:myLongList,); myWin.myFontDrop.selection = 0; myWin.btnOK = add('button', undefined, 'OK'); } myWin.center(); 

Our book has a Subject Index at the back (where hundreds of key word entries have been marked in the Word doc with the corresponding page numbers). Is there a way to keep those page number links active? It is far too big a job to edit them manually. Thanks,Geoff

I create a great number of box labels for an appliance manufacturer, the labels contain colour images of the product and individual barcodes for each, all change according to region, Product colour etc. We use a custom extentsion to create barcodes & multiple fields from a basic set of data, the SKU & Barcode numbers.When creating the barcodes the extention creates a field containing the path to where the barcode is /barcodes/(barcodenumber).eps, it does the same with image filenames based on the SKU code.For the past few years this has worked perfectly, but now when I open an older merge file to add a new colour/barcode to the data, it can no longer find any of the images as it did previously even though nothing has else has changed, other than an update to InDesign. The text based fields come through fine.I have seen the fix in that keeping the CSV data file in the same folder as the images fixes the problem, and it works perfectly, but when I have 30 odd barcodes &

Another slightly aside issue that anyone who exports to EPUB should know.   I, and many others, prefer Thorium Reader as a clean, standards-driven, nicely "vanilla" reader for EPUB.docs. If it's right in TR, it's good to go.   Except that there's a noxious bug of long standing, which I recently tripped over. Put briefly, Thorium uses a very aggressive font-size 'regularizing' algorithm, designed to get around bad EPUB code using fixed font sizing (px, pt, mm etc.) One side effect is that on some documents, it will force all styles to 1em/rem. The size definition of the style is ignored. The problem has been reported (in GitHub) for almost two years; each ticket is noted and closed. The programmer responsible more or less says he can't find a way to apply the font fix AND respect all author stylesheets, so the issue persists.   The punchline here: the problem seems to apply mostly, if not only to EPUB exported from ID.   I expended quite a bit of effort trying to fix

Since I started using the new InDesign '2024' I noticed all of my transparent vector images I placed in my working files are showing up with a white box.  This did not happen in the InDesign '2023" version of the program. Does anyone know how to fix this issue... other than scrap using '2024'and going back to InDesign '2023'?

hi everyone see in this pic i have set kerning 80 (kerning in thousand of an em) , these are 100 pages of book , where many many places words are like this with different names kerning set, how we can change these kerning value to 100 through find and replace or grep or any other way fastly ,  i try alot but fail . any help please. thanks in advance.