InDesign

This post is more in hopes to get this feature added. I understand Illustator is the only program at the moment to have a tapered line feature, but why? Why is this feature not implemented in InDesign? It's 2024, we have generative photo filling features being added to InDesign, yet there is no way to create a tapered line? Am i crazy for thinking this?I create a lot of social media templates, and i understand that indesign may not be the first choice for many when doing this, but as a solo in-house designer for a company this just makes sense on so many levels for consistency and what not. But I am now running into clients that have added tapered lines as brand elements and I now have to either completely redesign my templates in Illustrator, or create a tapered line in Illustrator and bring it over?! In situations where I have photos outlined by the shapes, i am now having to create so many more elements outside of InDesign just for this simple effect, and the fact that you can add a

Hi, I'd like to know if there is a way to add print presets permanently to InDesign Server. I wrote some functions (get, set, delete) for print presets, but every time I need to restart InDesign Server all defined print presets are lost. Any idea how to let the presets survive the restart ? Thanks, Daniel

Sempre que abro uma caixa de texto e digito uma numeração (telefone, CNPJ, documentos, etc) os números ficam fora de ordem, o mesmo acontece quando coloco "dois pontos", ele vai para o começo da frase. Alguém sabe se é configuração? Obrigada

I have attached the sample of the file, the text box I assigned i overlapping the image of the button. The text is on separate layer and on top of the button layers but I could not figure where to correct. Can someone help? tthank you

I wanted to register eventhandlers for all the page loading events whenever an IDML document is opened in the InDesign Server application. I tried registering event handlers using ExtendScript but it didnt worked out. I got only document specific events e.g. beforeNew, beforeOpen, afterNew, afterOpen etc. So, I want to achieve this using C++ PlugIns functionality in the InDesign Server application. Please let me know of any pointers which I can refer to create the plugIn for InDesign Server and register eventhandlers for page loading events. I could not find any specific sample code in the PlugIns SDK Kit relative to event handlers.  

Hi all Need help with Indesign documents exported as accessible pdf files. I've been producing accessible files for a couple of years now without too many problems (always sorted). But recently after lastest updates to Indesign and Acrobat I've found that when opening the pdf file and checking accesibility tags – the document displays No Tags available? The indesign doc I've set style sheets – added H1/H2 etc and P style for output to pdf (originally I used to leave these as default for Indesign to manage) , but nothing arrives in the pdf – I'm having to manually set all styles and tags within acrobat. Frustrating to say the least. Please don't suggest I check the Create tagged pdf in the output to pdf as I have a preset for Accessibles. Indesign 19.5Acrobat Pro V2024.002.20964Imac Ventura 13.5.2  Any suggestions welcome – life has become tiresome with accessibility lately!

I am having trouble with variable-length data merges overlapping with each other.  It appears this is not a new thing, and was addressed (and solved) in this thread.  I have made a single text box formatted the way I would like.  The problem is that the script is not working for me. The script should take the single-item merged documents and stitch them together.  When I run the script, I get the error "Error string: app is not defined."  I am a real beginner, so it's possible, I made a mistake with the script, but it was just a copy-paste thing... so I don't know.  I made a txt file with the .idjs extension with this as the text. function main(){ var doc = app.documents.everyItem().getElements(); var n = doc.length; if(!n){ alert("You need a document"); return; } doc = doc[0]; var tfs = doc.pages.everyItem().textFrames.everyItem().getElements(); n = tfs.length; while(n--){ if(n==0) break;

When I put a PNG into my InDesign file, it looks like it has a clear background, but when it is printed it does not have a clear background. Instead it has a square shaded outline around the shape, with like a shade over it, on top of whatever is underneath. e.g. My PNG is sitting in a landscape position half over a red background and half of it over an image. The image itself within the PNG is fine, but out toward the edge of the rectangle shape it is not. When printed, over the red background, the background of the PNG is a lighter shade of red. Where it sits over an image, the background is like a deeper colour saturation. How do I fix this so the background of the PNG is transparent, as it should be? Any help is appreciated very much. It's been driving me crazy     <Title renamed by moderator>

I use Adobe InDesign to design wall-mounted shadow boards for tools.The individual shadow images are created in Adobe Illustrator and placed in the InDesign file where required.The finished design incorporates a number of drill hole marks which we show as red circles. Some of the holes originate in the AI file. Some are added straight into InDesign. The finished design is exported to pdf and sent to our printer. Recently our printer told us when they open the file, the drill holes are represented as a double or triple line with a fill. As such their router tries to cut the hole twice. How do I create the drill holes (circles) as a single line entity? 

A small but very irritating novelty in a recent update: if I want to edit a photo file, I used to pick 'edit original' from right-clicking the mouse (and later made a hotkey for it) and automatically went to Photoshop. When I do that now, I'm sent to Lightroom.I never worked with Lightroom and I don't want to start with it – Photoshop worked fine with me and learning new software is in this case just a waste of valuable time. When I want to use Photoshop I now have to choose 'edit with' , but because of old habits, I automatically choose 'edit original' So I tried to change the setting for 'edit original' from Lightroom to Photoshop in 'preferences', but I can't find anything. Well, let's work around the problem and make a hotkey for 'edit with'. Not possible!Looks a bit like Adobe wants to force me to use Lightroom... Don't like that. But maybe I overlooked something simple. Anyone with a solution?

Hi there, I have an InDesign print file with an image (.jpg file) within a frame which corrupts if placed at a certain position within the frame. If I place the bottom right of the image flush with the bottom right of the frame, the image corrupts when exported, however if I move the image even a couple of cm's off from being "flush" with the frame it exports successfully. I have attached an image to illusrate the issue I'm having. The image is clearly not corrupting unless it is flush with the edge of the frame which is very odd. I've never had anything like this happen. I am on the most up to date version of InDesign. I've tried different files at the same dimensions and have got the same result. Does anyone know why it is doing this and what I could do to fix it? 

Hi all Need help with Indesign documents exported as accessible pdf files. I've been producing accessible files for a couple of years now without too many problems (always sorted). But recently after lastest updates to Indesign and Acrobat I've found that when opening the pdf file and checking accesibility tags – the document displays No Tags available? The indesign doc I've set style sheets – added H1/H2 etc and P style for output to pdf (originally I used to leave these as default for Indesign to manage) , but nothing arrives in the pdf – I'm having to manually set all styles and tags within acrobat. Frustrating to say the least. Please don't suggest I check the Create tagged pdf in the output to pdf as I have a preset for Accessibles. Any suggestions welcome – life has become tiresome with accessibility lately!

We used to be able to run multiple versions of Indesign on one computer. I can not seem to do it lately. Have Adobe stopped this?

 Here is your text with corrected grammar:Hi All,I am facing an issue while extracting page numbers from the given overset text result.Here is the result: prefresultsForOversetText = myPreflightProcess.aggregatedResults.Here is the prefresultsForOversetText returning an array: "test.indd,Preflight_profile,1,TEXT (3),,,,2,Overset text (3),,,,3,Text Frame,2,Problem: Overset text: 108 charactersFix: Resize the text frame, or edit the text to fit within the frame. Add text frames to the story thread if necessary.,Problem,Overset text: 108 characters,Fix,Resize the text frame, or edit the text to fit within the frame. Add text frames to the story thread if necessary.,3,Text Frame,4,Problem: Overset text: 108 charactersFix: Resize the text frame, or edit the text to fit within the frame. Add text frames to the story thread if necessary.,Problem,Overset text: 108 characters,Fix,Resize the text frame, or edit the text to fit within the frame. Add text frames to the story thread if ne

I have 2 master pages set up to apply page numbers over dark or light backgrounds.Neither of the master page items are:- applying at allOR- remaining stuck in the back with all my art covering themWould anyone know what the problem possibly could be?

I can't add symbols like !, @, #, $, or % afterwords. The text font shrinks when I press Shift + 1 for an exclamation mark. The same occurs with other Shift + symbols.

I use a Mac Studio Apple M2 Max and have the problem that I can no longer display the document in the Finder in the bar where the file name is displayed with the right mouse button. When I click on “Show in Finder” InDesign jumps to the Finder but does not show the InDesign document but the window that is currently open in the Finder and no the window has not appeared on another screen or behind other Finder windows. I have another problem with the shortcuts - I can no longer display the file within the document when I click on the “Go to shortcut” icon. Yes, I have restarted and reinstalled the computer and the program. The problems with the “Show in Finder” are only with InDesign and not with any other program. Best regards

Is there any way for InDesign to show the preview of an object in a dialog box? I noticed that the pie chart script (Claquos) does just that, but I don't know how this mechanism works. Does anyone know?Link site of ClaquosWhat if I want a script to insert a rectangle into my document, and through a dialog box, I can preview what I'm going to insert? I could enter color or stroke options and it would show me in the preview. I usually get errors where "my dialog window is active".   <Title renamed by MOD>

I received a file for a 176-page book with 6 Master Page spreads. I needed to resize the book from 5.125 x 7.625 to 5.5 x 8.25. I have always used the "Adjust Layout" function to accomplish this in the past with relatively few problems. In this file, however, I ran into an issue--The page adjustments were applied to everything except for 2 of the master pages. In the first screen grab, you can see that the pages were adjusted correctly. The master pages are correct in the first, second, fourth and sixth master spreads. In the third and fifth master spreads, however, the left hand page did not make the same adjkustment as everywhere else (see second and thrid screen grabs). This has caused a huge problem for me because it was not noticed (by me or anyone else) until the book had gone to print. Why would this happen, and what can I do to make sure it never happens again? I do these kinds of projects regularly and haven't run into this problem (as far as I know) in the past.

Hi All,Thank you in advance for your assistance. Seems like validation issues with this application are common. First, the basics:I am using InDesign 2024 (v19.5)I am attempting to export my book with a fixed layout.Selected Multi Level (TOC Style) for Navigation TOC.Book looks beautiful in Apple Books reader This is my first attempt to upload a book to Apple Books. Like a fool, I thought it would be a little more straightforward than this... After installing and running EPUBCheck against my epub file, I am receiving the issues below. Apologies for the long list, but thought it might be helpful to include the entire listing. I'm assuming that the only entries I need to solve are those preceeded by ERROR. Also, if one of you know of a resource I can visit to educate myself on correcting these issues, I will be happy to visit and review. Just thought a "standard" export via InDesign would product a valid file. Please let me know if I can provide additional info to ass

 In my large document, I have a list of five sentences with bullets. I want to change the first sentence to be italicized and remove its bullet.

Hi - Runnning InDD 19.5 on a Mac running Mac OS Sonoma 14.6. 3-fold issue: • Using Command-S option not saving files. Only way to save files is to manually use the File menu to "Save As".  This is not the end of the world (NOW that I figured out this was happeneng), but throws off one's workflow in an already well-established, key command-reliant brain. Note: Saving to desktop computer, not Cloud storage.• Replaced fonts aren't sticking - when reopening files, it asks to replace fonts that were already replaced.• History pallete - Really grateful this is now an InDD feature, but the data disappears after "Save As" (again, all I can currently DO is manually  "Save As".Thank you in advance!!! 

How can I get the 'food title' color a darker tint, but to blend more into the original color at the bottom corner without having to add black?<Title renamed by moderator>

I know others have posted in the past; I haven't seen any new posts on this in a while but last night, working with a file without underlines anywhere in it, i started getting the big black boxes appearing all over my file. i could zoom in and out and temporarily they would disappear but they kept coming back. checked another file, and it was ok. Now, this first file did have hyperlinks in it (set from the link panel) but they weren't underlined or anything. Just wondering if anyone else was seeing this behavior and any possible workarounds. Thanks!