InDesign

Greetings! Today, I am trying to copy and paste a frame from Indesign into a new document in Photoshop (and a new document in Illustrator) with the same size and dpi as it appears in Indesign.You could download this image from Wikimedia:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg  In this screenshot, the image frame size is 9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches with 823 dpi. When you paste this frame inside a new document in Photoshop and Illustrator,  the size is exactly the same (9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches) but the dpi is way off. In Photoshop, the document is 72 dpi (with a vector smart object in a different layer) and inside Illustrator, the image is 411 dpi (half the dpi of the image inside Indesign).My question is: How could I copy this frame at the same dpi as it appears inside Indesign (823 dpi) within a new document of Photoshop (and within a new document of Illustrator)?Thanks in advance! Al   

My text in my book document won't auto flow to the next page(s), in my Adade InDesign program. When I highlight, and select all to change my fonts size, several of my book chapters at the end of the book disappears, instead of autoflowing. Help!

Hi, I added a separate TOC Paragraph style for my Intro/Conclusion/Credits sections in order to add space before to create graphical separation from other content.However, the page numbering style isn't exactly the same. I am using ^t for both  but the new paragraph style doesn't extend the page number all the way to the end of the frame. I am trying to figure out how to get this to work. thanks 

When I send an email with the link to an url of a Published Online document, it says "Publish Online" - can I change this? I'd like to call it the name of the Publication. Thanks. 

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas à exporter mon pdf sous InDesign (voir capture d'écran). Quelqu'un saurait m'aider svp ? 🙂

I am trying to create a script to select two text frames from a layer of a document so that I can copy them to another document. I managed to copy them one at a time, but I need to copy both at once because they are linked by a thread.When I try to use the code below, I get the following error: "Error number: 53762 / Action is not enabled." var layerName = "Nomes";var sourceLayer = sourceDoc.layers.itemByName(layerName);sourceDoc.activeLayer = sourceLayer;var actionID = 18455;app.menuActions.itemByID(actionID).invoke(); Action 18455 tries to select all items in the layer. I tried adding an action to open the layers menu before selecting them, but it made the software crash.

InDesign 2024 19.4 crashes if you apply a Style Pack to multiple selected unthreaded text frames. In previous versions this worked just fine.

Hello, I was very kindly helped out with the below script (using a text variable) which displays the size of the current page within an InDesign document.The result it gives is based on the Document Setup, and I was wondering if it was possible to amend it to base the result on the Page Size instead (as you can now change the page size independently of the Document Setup within InDesign using the Page Tool). I don't know anything about scripting by the way!Many thanks in advance for any help.var doc = app.activeDocument;  doc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.millimeters;  doc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.millimeters;  var w = doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth,      h = doc.documentPreferences.pageHeight,      pagesize = app.activeDocument.textVariables.itemByName("PageSize");  pagesize.variableOptions.contents = h + " mm X " + w + " mm"; 

Hello, I just started learning InDesign and I am stuck. The video of the instructor shows how he has created a new Parent Page, with 2 columns and other details. He then applies the parent page by dragging it to one of the pages. This one has just 1 column of text. Thanks to the Parent Page, the text elements is then modified and now displays 2 columns, has it should. However...When I try to practice and literally do the same in his document, tranforming from 2 columns to 3 columns, I see the Parent Page grids of my 3 columns being displaced in the page that I am trying to modify, but the text/elements stays the same!  Is it me? is it my computer? Why does it work on him and not me?I don't know what else to do, please help.   

I cannot open *.p65 file(s) in Adobe InDesign (version 17.2 x64) that's installed on Windows 10. Any suggestions on how to open *.P65 File in InDesign, Any Plug-in Required? Also, How to convert *.P65 File into a PDF file?.P65 is an older version of Page Maker, which seems to be replaced by InDesign. Yesterday, I installed Indesign but sadly, I cannot open that file.Kindly suggest. Thank you in advance

Hallo Zusammen,ich arbeite an einem Katalog mit 308 Seiten. Die GF wollte unbedingt Preise bei den Artikelnummern stehen haben.Jetzt wollen sie auch für die Schweiz den Katalog haben, aber eben die Preise nicht in Euro, sondern in CHF.Ich sollte alle Preise (und das sind rund 1400) mal 1,2 rechnen. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, dass ich das schneller machen kann? Ich will nicht jeden der 1400 Preise angreifen und manuell umändern.

Hi all,I would appreciate help on how to fix this error (picture attached). I can't fully open InDesign because it shows up like this. Clicking on the icon results in the correct ribbon showing up but nothing on the screen. I've tried opening different files and uninstalling/reinstalling the program, but nothing worked. Help would greatly be appreciated!

Bonjour,  j'aimerais faire part d'un problème que je rencontre maintenant depuis la mise à jour 19.3 sur Indesign.  Concrètement, lorsque je mets en page un livre, mon style de paragraphe principal (que je nomme par exemple "txt"), à dans ses options de "Fonctionnalité Opentype" : Chiffres elzéverien proportionnelle/Chiffres alignés proportionnels. Ce qui donne des chiffres qui se présentent de cette façon : Cela fonctionne parfaitement, très bien. Mais pour que mes nombres en exposant qui renvoient vers les notes de bas de page puissent eux être dans un "alignement tabulaire" (par défaut) qui ressemble à ceci, je crée un style de caractère que j'attribue donc à mes exposants (dans les paramètres de bas de page) avec la fonctionnalité Opentype : Chiffres alignés proportionnels.  Ce qui devrait donner ceci par exemple : Au lieu de ceci :  Depuis la mise à jour 19.3, je ne peux plus faire cela. Impossible d'avoir les exposants a

Hello I have a script which is suppose to find subheads and change them applying text settings a user has predefined. For example a user writes at the very top of the text box 'test' applies all styles they want, then selects the text box, and when the script is run it will go through the text and apply the same text settings as the word 'test' to all subheaders. The below I outline a working script which looks for the first instance of the word 'test', reads text settings, and applies it to other instances of text. When I then experimented to change it so that it looks for the first instance of the word 'text. reads text settings, and applies those settings to subheaders I ran into issues. In particutlar subheaders can be idenified as -- has at least two hard enter returns or more (one for the termination of the paragraph above, one for a line space)- then a string comprising of under 6 words (normally they are short so let's say 6 for now)- this string must not ha

Before printing to a risograph i need to manually separate colors. Easy peasy you'd think, but no. I'm using mac (and the students I'm teaching mostly uses mac) and Riso have no driver to their A2printer for mac.So ok, let's use Acrobat, and create a pdf, but mac does not allow pdf-printers to be installed so I cant use the easy to use separation-function in the advanced mode of Acrobat print. So ok, let's use Indesign print to file (making a ps file that i can distill to pdf). Sweet. No probs. Other than that I'm limited to the page sizes of whatever printer I have installed, none of which have A2 as an option and custom won't allow me to exceed said printers page size limit even tho I'm not ACTUALLY printing on it, just producing a file. And I cant have the riso driver. And i can't have the pdf-printer driver. I'm stuck. What I want: CMYK (+ spot-color) separated pages on A2 paper produced from either Indesign directly or via a pdf in Acrobat, all done on a Mac. Can an

My company recently updated it's style guidelines. Previously, we couldn't use contractions, but now we are. So when I update our documents, I have to go through and change "It is" to "It's", "you are" to you're" and "We are" to "We're", etc, etc.Is there a script to make this easier? It is really tedious right now.I've been using find/replace which helps somewhat. But is it possible to script something that would make it even easier?

 Hey everyone, I'm currently working on developing a React plugin for InDesign and could use some guidance regarding implementing a Loader.Specifically, I'm looking to incorporate a loader that indicates when LogIn to Plugin, data is being fetched or operations are in progress within the plugin .I've explored a few options but would love to hear from others who have tackled similar challenges. What strategies or libraries have you found effective for implementing loaders in InDesign plugins built with React? Any tips or code snippets would be greatly appreciated!Looking forward to your insights! 

I have a JSX script and I want to apply it to all open documents in InDesign because processing each project takes time and I want, when the script finishes with one project, to move on to processing other projects."

I have 6 projects in a folder, and I want to change the name of each of them to another name. Can I do this with a script ? 

Hello there,I am planning the switch to Apple Silicon and would like to understand what features are more valuable for the apps I use.While I mainly work with music notation software, Sibelius is a single-core app, Dorico seems to benefit only from more RAM/UM, and Logic doesn’t use that much GPU. So every Apple Silicon with 16+ GB RAM would be fine.Of Adobe CC Suite I use InDesign 60% Illustrator 30% Photoshop 5% Others 5%.What specs would you suggest for these needs?I would point either at a new M3 MacBook Pro (Pro/Max) or at a refurbished M2 MacBook Pro (Pro/Max).I would also treasure any personal on-field experience with Apple Silicon and Adobe CC.Thanks! PS: I tried to create this post on Safari for iPadOS 17.1 and I could not select topics. It seems the website is not optimised for mobile Safari?

When I have nested lists in InDesign (with the first level set as Level 1 and the second level set as Level 2), the tags export as: <L>       <LI>            <Lbl>            <LBody>            <L> The second level list is nested within the List Item and not the List Body. Is this a bug or is there a way to fix this without having to remediate every single list in Acrobat?

Hi all,Currently now working on two systems at work each which have different job-numbering requrements.We currently have an Indesign Startup script that gets the job number of the active document and places it as a text variable within a custom slug. Example of current file name "000000-0_XX_PublicationName_250x150.indd" The job number is anything before the first underscore.Here is the current code we are using...function getJobNumber() { try { if (app.documents.length>0) { var xdoc = app.activeDocument; if (xdoc.isValid) { var xdocname = app.activeDocument.name; var xjobnumber = xdocname.split("_")[0]; if (xjobnumber === xdocname) { xjobnumber = "no job number"; } else { var xnumbercheck = Number(xjobnumber.split("-")[0]); if (isNaN(xnumbercheck)) { xjobnumber = "no job number"}; } }

I'm trying to replace contractions in a book I'm editing using the FindChangeByList script. Replacing words like 'I am' to 'I'm', 'It is' to 'It's' etc. I tried editing the txt file the script uses and adding the following command -  text {find what:"I am"} {change to:"I'm"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find all I am and replace with I'm. But it isn't working. What am I doing wrong here? (Attaching a screenshot)

InDesign's spell check becomes non-responsive when checking a large (1,200 pages) document. When initiating the spell check the application becomes non-responsive for upwards to 30 minutes. Sometimes, it seems (maybe coincidence) that opening the MacOS Force Quit dialogue box causes ID to suddenly snap out of it. Once it decides to actually start checking words there seems to be no further issue. Anyway, it's imperative that I run the spell check before this document goes to print. I know there's the argument that ID is not meant for editing. Editing is not the point. If you've ever maintained a large document you know how it can make you sleepy and prone to inadvertent keyboard taps, which can turn up as misspellings. I have to do this 2-3 times a year and I dread it every time. Seems to me, from a purely programmatic standpoint, that spell check should take place in a non-graphical space that should not be a CPU-intensive task. Does anyone else have this issue?

I just updated to the new version of Indesign. The UI appears larger what I had previously, so I tried to scale it down, but upon restart it just crashes right away and refuses to open. Have to uninstall and re-install to get it back. Any workaround for this? Tried it 4 times already, same results.