InDesign

Is there a way to search the links panel? I have hundreds of images and I need to be ablbe to locate them quickly using the filename. A search box at the top would be a great thing. 

Finalizing a layout and though we have looked at this many times for spelling and grammatical errors, I still prefer to run "Check Spelling" as a option before going to print. However, nothing is happening at all. I have looked at everything under the sun online and have found zero answers that will fix this issue. Currently using a Mac (OS Sonoma 14.5) with the latest verison of InDesign (v. 19.5). Attached are the images of my preferences (spelling and dictonary) as well as the Check Spelling window. I'll hit "Start" and nothing happens. I even intentionally misspelled something to see if it would work. Nothing.  EDIT: Please note that I removed version 19.5 and reinstalled the previous version (19.4). Spell check works totally fine with this verison. Additionally, I had a coworker check their InDesign v. 19.5 (Windows based) and the spell check worked fine for him. So this is Mac specific. If there's a solution that I have missed, please share it as time is a fac

ao tentar ajustar o layout de um arquivo no design, os valores das medidas estão confusas, não estão em mimíletros como eu configurei. alguém pode ajudar?

I have a 300-page file of mostly text that gets revised and updated every few years. Sometimes I need to copy text out of the file and into a new document. I am having trouble that InDesign does weird things with the text styles when I copy it. Sometimes the text appears the same as the orginal, but it has style overrides on that should not be there. I don't want to clear all overrides, becasue there are places that overrides are needed. Here is what I have tried so far:Checked that all the styles are based on "no paragraph style." (They are now, but they weren't originally.)Checked the "basic paragraph style" for anything strange. (It was set to a font that no longer existed. I updated it to the same as my current standard. This seems significant, because the one override is that the font style is set to "Roman," which is what that old font called for, but which is not available for most fonts.)Did a find and replace in the copied text to replace "Roman" style with "Regular." (InDesig

Ok, the question, I have a novel manuscript that was set in the UK.  It uses ' quotes instead of " quotes in it. Is there an easy way of changing them but not changing the contraction quotes??   can't should stay and not change to can"t when using the find/replace. Any insight would be amazing.

I'm looking for a script or some way to easily assign different paragraph styles to hundreds of text boxes inside a document all based on the format of the text. All of the text is identical in format, but on different pages. Obviously, I could just go and create styles based on the first page's text and then go and assign it on each subsequent page, but that is hundreds of pages and I'd like to avoid that if I can.  The backstory: I have a designer who reports to me that is unfamiliar with Paragraph styles, but they just completed a document that I would like to make more evergreen. They ran a data merge, but didn't assign any styles prior to creating the merged document and then had hours of work afterwards adjusting graphics on each page. All of the text is the same and based on the initial text box, so is there a faster way than going through one by one to assign styles to all of the pages? That way, if anything needs changed moving foward we can easily adjust the style i

Hi, 1.[Screenshots 1 and 2]I was uploading Fixed-Layout EPUBs on Apple Books.One was failure and the other was success.The cause of the failure was the file size of the in-book Cover. To upload EPUB on Apple Books, there is a limit to the image file, which is 10 MB per XHTML.The in-book Covers of two EPUBs are below 10 MB.  2.In Fixed-Layout EPUB, there is no XHTML for Cover (Screenshots 3 and 4).Is it associated with the failure in uploading EPUB on Apple Books? I could upload the EPUB, after reducing the file size of the in-book Cover. Hosun  

I'm working on four volumes of poetry and it's already been a nightmare, but we're so close to the finish line. I've created a simple file in ID and am exporting it to epub, focusing on Kindle and Apple Books use. With Books, the export is perfect; the footnotes are popping up just as they should be. When I open in Kindle, there are footnotes AND endnotes; meaning the footnotes pop up as they should, but they're also at the end of the section (the books are divided into three sections). I read something in another forum about uni-directional endnotes, but I have no idea how to even approach that. Please see the images below, though I'm not sure they show much. Thank you in advance!

I have created a facing pages documnet. (sample idml attached).Bleeds are given 3.175mm all sides. Ideally inside bleed should be ignored by pdf and Indesign. When I create pdf, in page 2 and 3, in fact, in all the pages, I see a bleed gap. Ideally it should show the output as it shows in Indesign alongwith the crop marks. What am I doing wrong?Thanks IDML and PDF attached.

After the recent update to InDesign 19.4, I noticed some changes made to how InDesign handles footnotes for EPUBs. Previously, it used a <div> with <p> for footnotes, which worked fine. However, they've now switched to using a <list>, which is causing issues.This change completely overlooked that InDesign footnotes also have numbering and preceding characters. As a result, the output is quite ridiculous. Of course, I can fix this by changing the list-style to none in the _idFootAndEndNoteOLAttrs style, but the update mentioned, "Version 19.4 provides fixes for important functional, stability, and performance issues," yet the EPUB part seems to be a mess... I don't know what to say.I'm using the Traditional Chinese environment, and I'm not sure if other language versions of InDesign 19.4 have similar issues.

Hey guys, i need to make a productcatalog for my work. We have millions of products listed in an excel sheet. It looks like this: Now i am designing the book and need to import the sheet into my indesign file. However, even after placing/importing it in millions of ways this is the way it imports into indesign (empty):   What am i doing wrong? 

Why is it not spellchecking if it's on autocorrect? 

Hi, I'm creating an order form that needs to have multiple options for configuring items. You can see the table I've set up in the attached file. I'd like to add dropdowns to some of these cells and text fields to others, but when I open the Buttons and Forms panel, I can't instert things into the table cells, it just wants to make the entire text box a button or form. Acrobat is pretty dodgy about getting the forms right, so I was hoping to do it all in Indesign.Does anyone have experience with something like this? Or an easier way to do it?

 After I updated to MacOs 14.4, I got this weird bug when zooming pages using Opt+mouse scroll wheel. I can see the vertical and horizontal scroll bar sizes changes as I am zooming, but the main view is not updated. The moment I move my mouse, the main view also get updated. This is very frustrating, because I cannot see the size while I am zooming. This worked fine in MacOs 14.2.  To reproduce the bug:Zooming seems to work initially when opening a document, and the error seems sometimes to be triggered if I Space+drag when I have the mouse pointer on (positioned on) one of the pages. If I have the cursor outside any page (in the grey area) while initiating a Space+drag the issue sometimes magically goes away until I Space+drag with cursor positioned on one of the pages again. I can turn the bug on/off by doing this. Sometimes is also seems to matter if I zoom with the cursor inside or outside the pages. Running InDesign 19.2 on MacOs Sonoma 14.4 on a Mac Studio M2.

I want to read a asset from indesign Library. Place it in the textframe and move it to an frame. But when I am using cannot move the assets by position. Kindly help me to drag the asset to the position. Dim versoRectContiueAsset As AssetversoRectContiueAsset = getAssetFromLibrary("TB-con")versoRectContiueAsset.PlaceAsset(indesignApplication.ActiveDocument) It copies the library and place in the pasteboard. Kindly help me to move it the page 2. textframe 2 

How can I change the direction of these pages from 'right to left' to 'left to right'?

I'm running into an issue that I can't seem to figure out.. hopeful someone might be able to offer some guidance. I've got my Indesign file looking the way I want it to on the computer, but when I go to export it to PDF and then print from that file, I get these undesirable dark boxes around my graphics.. see pictures. What's strange is if I print directly from InDesign, it looks correct. Why would that be happening? Is there a setting that I'm missing? I've set the export to PDF X1A and set the output to 'Convert to Destination' and it doesn't seem to make a difference. Why would it look different from the PDF when printed? but look fine when printed directly from InDesign?Thanks,Paul

I'm opening an IDML document using ExtendScript. I want to register events for all the page loading events at the time of document opening.I'm getting document specific events e.g. "beforeNew", "beforeOpen", "afterNew", "afterOpen" etc but i'm not able to get EventListeners for events related Pages, PagesItems etc.Can you please suggest what is the best way to register and get events for pages specific events during document opening in the ExtendScript ? My main objective is to apply specific MasterPages to the pages being loaded at the time of document opening. Later i intend to adjust the Widths of all the inlined items of a story as per the width of the MasterPage applied. Any pointers or suggestions will be much appreciated. 

In the past I've had occasional issues with longer documents when scrolling down screens would reach one where the text displays as garbled. It would be fixed when scrolling past and back again.But I guess with a recent update it has gotten a lot worse. Probably every 12 pages or so it happens. It's harmless but when you're nearing the final proof of a book it is very disconcerting.Are there display settings within ID that can reduce/eliminate this?ID 19.4 on OS 14.5 on a MacBookPro with M2 chip and external display.

Hello! I work at a small community college and we need to convert our existing materials from English to Spanish and then going forward, all materials will need to be produced in both English and Spanish. I have done some light research trying to find the best option for our small college. I tend to lean towards purchasing a subscription to Redukon or something similar where I can upload, translate, download, and then tweak the file knowing there will be a considerable amount of extra characters.But the control freak in me likes the idea of a plug-in such as ID Extra's Translate where I can translate and tweak the file as I go. I am concerned about the pay-as-you-go model since we will have a lot of materials that will need translation on an ongoing basis.My question is for those of you who have translated multiple documents, what would you recommend and why? Am I missing any other alternative way to translate our materials?Thank you for your help!

The file name is double at the top of open InDesign files. How do I turnb this off? Thanks.

Bonjour,je cherche à placer les notes de bas de page ailleurs que dans le bloc où se trouve la dite note. JE peux que mes notes arrivent dans le bloc que je souhaite, pour pouvoir le positionner où je veux. Comment faire ?-----Hello,I am looking to place the footnotes somewhere other than in the block where the footnote is located. I want my footnotes to go into the block that I want, so that I can position it wherever I want. How can I do that? 

Bonjour,  J'ai un document avec 3 niveaux de titres (1, 1.1, 1.1.1)J'ai donc crée un style de paragraphe pour chaque niveau de titre, en paramétrant la partie "puces et numérotation" pour automatiser la numérotation. Problème : cela ne fonctionne pour aucun de mes titres. Tous ont le numéro 1 ou 1.1 alors qu'ils devraient avoir 1.2 / 2 / 2.1 etc J'ai regardé tous les tutos dispos sur internet et je coche exactement les bonnes cases, en informant du bon niveau de titre et de la bonne suite d'apparition. C'est comme si ça ne prenait pas en compte le fait qu'un titre en précède un autre... Je suis preneur d'une solution, si quelqu'un à eu le même problème. Il y a beaucoup de titres donc faire la manip à la main me ralentirait pour l'étape de création du sommaire.  Merci !!

Can someone help me with a challenge, please? We produce A4 reports (120 pages) and display them as digital and print editions.  The digital versions run as A3 landscape DPS (i.e. two pages on display at once). The print versions have to output as single A4 pages, with a 3mm bleed all round.  Is it possible to output both versions from the same InDesign file, please? If so, how? Thank you!

Good afternoon,Does anyone know why or how I can fix my file window within InDesign. It seems to have a duplicate filename in the window view and I don't know what I hit to engage that view. Thanks