InDesign

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.  

I have to replace a long time employee and need to come up with a test of some kind for InDesign, in particular books and heavy style sheet usage. I saw somewhere that Adobe has a standardized test for their applications but can't find it, anyone know? Also how would one test someone if they do not have a subscription on a home computer? 

I'm working on a multi-page booklet in InDesign CC2014 and I want to start the page numbering on what is basically page 6, skipping numbering the cover and the next four pages after, but I can't see any way to do it. I've been playing with the numbering and section options, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi All, I just recently updated indesign. I print from CAD 11 X 17 page or two plan options. I should be able to swap out OPT 1 with OPT 2 so that they are in the same place in the INDESIGN page. But when I swap out link the PDF position completely changes. As if the PDF is importing bounding box and not media box. I can't find any control in indesign that would  control this setting. Does anyone have any idea?? Is it just a glitch?? Thanks,Cy

Hi,I'm using Adobe InDesign CS4 and CS5.I've never written any kind of plugin neither for Adobe InDesign nor on Mac OS, so I need your help to consider what's the best solution for this kind of problem.I've read about ExtendScript, Linguistic Library Plug-ins SDK.What should I use?Thanks for any kind of help.

Estoy intendao abrir un documento en el que he estado trabajando estos días, pero me aparece el siguente mensaje (vease imagen) y se cierra el programa automáticamente.No sé que hacer porque no se abre de ninguna manera y tiene cosas importantes. El documento solo lo he utilizado yo y lo tengo guardado en un USB. 

When I create a file and save it for the first time, it saves as 'Read-Only'. So, once I save it, that's it! I can't save it again or even make a PDF file. I've checked the permissions of the file, the folder, etc. and they're all 'Read and Write'.  I'm paralyzed because of this, can anyone help?!?!

Update: Resolved after update to InDesign 19.5 64-bit.Am using InDesign 2024 version 19.1X64 on a computer running Windows 11 Enterprise version 22H2.All of a sudden, Windows Explorer stopped showing an InDesign application icon for files made and saved with InDesign 2024. Shows a generic icon instead. Curiously, InDesign Markup Language files show the correct program icon.   Note: redacted the file names in the screenshot because the docs are still in draft status.I right-clicked the file icon and chose properties, and INDD files are assigned to InDesign 2024.And I have used Windows 11's Default Programs control panel to map all INDD files to InDesign 2024.But the  icons for INDD files still show up generic.Do I need to uninstall and reinstall InDesign to get the correct icon to appear?

I'm working on a long document that I brought in from Word. I just placed it. Most of the text has the red squiggles. If I retype the text, it goes away. Makes it impossible to find real errors. Everything is set to English - I did have one paragraph style oddly set to Arabic, but I fixed it. I tried another suggestion of saving as a .idml but that didn't work. Any ideas?  

Alguna opcion para ver las etiquetas o colores que se colocan en Bridge a una imagen para poderlas ver en el panel de vinculos de inDesing?  

During one of the upgrades over the past couple of years I have lost the ability to use my scroll wheel to move up and down the query list in the Find/Change window. I have read that there was a bug on the PC side but nothing on the Mac side. In the past I could scroll through each Find/Change query by simply rolling my scroll wheel one notch. I have changed from a Microsoft mouse to a new Logitech one to see if it was the mouse but nothing fixes it. I have tried the System settings for the mouse but nothing changes the scroll wheel increments. Now that it takes one or more notches to get to the next query, it often skips some in the list as it seems the notches no longer align with ID. Anyone else having this issue or is it just me? Any suggestions to fix it?   <Title renamed by moderator>

Hi!I place a text from office where some part of the text they have a bottom border and when i place it in indesign i cant find where i can delete this in indesign.i will appreciate any answer thank you

Bonjour, tous les graphiqmes que j'importe via ma BB CC ne se lient pas une fois sur InDesign. Connaissez-vous la manip, j'ai cherché un peu partout n'ai trouvé aucune solution à mon problème

Can someone please help me? I am trying to 'publish online' a document but even though InDesign says 'successfully uplodaded' when I try to open the created link it gives the error: NO DOCUMENT FOUND. It is also a problem that yesterday I could still publish online successfully my portfolio and sent it out to companies but when I recheck it today: it leads me to a very old portfolio not the one I created yesterday - which is also quite a problem. I have already reinstalled InDesign, restarted pc, renamed the doc - nothing works. It is quite urgent. Can sy pls help me out?   

I primarily use Illustrator but have been in InDesign a lot lately to work on font combinations for a website. Is there a way to keep the fonts drop-down always open/expanded? Trying to speed up my workflow by avoiding constant scrolling, not to mention the occasional lag that trips me up when scrolling. I'm aware I can filter fonts to shorten the list, and also that I can star fonts to create a custom list.  Thanks in advance!   <Title renamed by moderator>

I have been asked to investigate using InDesign to prepare a Book for print. The Source is a 500 page Word Doc.  When importing the file (using "Place"), is it possible to keep the TOC and Footnotes, end notes, etc, dynamiclaly linked to page numbers? This is so that when formatting font sizes, the page numbers will change and the TOC, End notes references will need ot be updated. Of course this needs to be done automatically. Is it possible? If so how? Thanks,Geoff