InDesign

working on indesign and suddenly, i cannot move an object again. i can select or resize them. i noticed there was an update so i updated to 19.5. problem remains the same. tried restarting , does not work. tried resetting preferences, does not work either. when i try to move the object to a different layer, the pointer tool becomes a hand icon and the entire system no longer responds to the mouse. even my dock does not respond. indesign menus cannot be expanded. only way to get out of this stuck position is to force quit using keyboard shortcut. mac os sonoma 14.5

I'm using 2 external monitors with my new MacBook Pro. When I click on an item and try to change the color, stroke, opacity, etc., the window pops up just fine, but the windows are being partially cut off. For instance, when I click stroke, the stroke window comes up but is at the very top right side of my screen and I'm not able to see some of the options. The same thing happens with the fill window. I've attached a screenshot. Is there a way to drag these windows around to a better location?

How can I take art I created in Illustrator and use in Indesign? It keeps saing that jpeg, Pdf and AI files are not compatable.

Habe ein Original CS6 Paket mit Seriennummer. Nach dem meine Festplatte Schwierigkeiten gemacht und ich das behoben habe lassen sich die Programme nicht mehr aktivieren. Es erschien ein Fenster wo vermerkt war  ich kann das Program "32.000 Tage" als Testversion verwenden. Nach einmaligen verwenden war es vorbei. Der ADOBE Support meinte die Aktivierungs-Server für so alte Programme wurden abgeschaltet, aber ein Techniker aus der Community würde sich bei mir melden und helfen.Ist das so?Liebe Grüße

In the last two updates to InDesign CC, I've had the issue of the text cursor not landing where I click to select text. In other words, I click to the right of a letter to select the letter to the left of the cursor, but the cursor actually "lands" to the left of the letter that I clicked to the right of. For example, if I click to the right of the letter K below and try to select it, the cursor actually lands between the S and K, and I of course end up selecting the S instead of the K:ASKThis ONLY happens in InDesign, and I KNOW this is a bug because I've seen a ton of forum topics around the creative blogosphere talking about it. I'm just wondering if anyone here has figured out the problem, and a solution.

Is it possible to export a QR code alone from Indesign? It's not available in the Links folder when I package my file, so I was wondering if this is possible. 

Is it possible in InDesign to stop the activation of fonts in the background? Even if I close the document, that asks for the missing fonts, InDesign still tries to activate them. As a result I have a hot laptop and in no time I run out of battery power. Any suggestions?

Hello, just wondering if anyone has manange to use MathType with Indesign in MacOS, and if so could you let me know how? Many thanks

I am trying to determine if text frames or cells in a table have overset text using .overflows. I was under the impression that a table overflow could be determined using table.overflow, but it seems to give me unexpected results. Is it possible that this property is no longer reliable, or perhaps it is not capable of checking overflow in the celluar level? I am using UXP with the InDesign DOM.

In the Find and Replace menu in InDesign, I can only select five fonts in the Basic Character Format option to replace one font with another. The other fonts are not showing up. This issue appeared suddenly. Can you help me?  

Hi all.I have a bilingual text with footnotes. Each language has its own color. How can I assign different colors to the footnotes of each text?

I am aware that InDesign animations on buttons only work when the file in EPUB/Publish online. However, i want to create a hover animation on the button that goes to a page where you can fill in a text form. A text form is possible within an interactive PDF ofcourse, but then my animation is not available. Is there a way to keep my hover animation on my buttons that go to a page where a text form could be filled in? File does not matter, pdf, epub, etc.

How do I align text so that each sentence finishes at the blue line and doesn't appear ragged?

I was trying to batch place images yesterday in InDesign 2020 with the "ImageCatalog" script. I was able to double click the script, it popped up a window to select the folder of images (that I had on my desktop in a folder named "images") and then nothing. No other window came up for me to specify what I wanted to happen. I restarted my computer, checked for updates (there were none) and tried again. Same thing happened, let me select the folder of images and then nothing happened at all after that. Is this a bug?

I installed the new inDesign 2024 late yesterday and specifically selected "retain preferences" but when I first lauched the app this morning it said "preferences were created with a previous version and will be deleted". There was no option for me to say no, it just did it. I'm missing my colors, stylesheets, EVERYTHING IS GONE. I've been unable to work all morning and desprately need to restore the previous version (inDesign 2023). I've been able to restore the app using Time Machine backups but when launched it says the app is damaged. I'm sure there must be library files I also need to restore. I'm hoping someone can point me to a list of items needed to get this up and running, I'm under extreme deadline pressure. PLEASE HELP.

Is there a shortcut for Horizontal Scale or is it possible to create one?  I use horizontal scale extensively and find it quite labourious to have to go up to the panel each time.

I can't find this script anywhere. I have followed all the links (Indesign Secrets/ Adobe Community/Google etc) to download this to add to indesign so I can read different layers in pdf. Anyone have any ideas?[Moved out of the Experience Cloud forum and into a Creative Cloud forum for InDesign. - Moderator]

Hello,I am creating a file in InDesign and always create a folder for the linked images and graphics. At some point after an update I suspect, I can no longer access some images. It then notifies me, saying that I do not have the necessary access rights. I work from a server and I suspect it has something to do that Adobe doesn't work well with our servers. Although probable most Firms work with servers...  So I think this is an important problem to fix.  Now I even have an issue with exporting. Some pages of my file remain completely blank when exported to JPG. No text, no images. Nothing.I have reinstalled InDesign. No success. I downloader 19.3 (I had 19.4), I extracted the file onto a single page in a new document. Nothing. And yet, some time ago, these files were exported without any problems. If I put all the links on my destop I can refresh the link it works, but that only complicates things unneccesary. I cannot pull the pictures onto the side board, but ref

I had a document that I ran spell check on and it worked as expected. When I went through and proofread the document however, spell check didn't flag the word "harwood" which was supposed to be "hardwood" in my doc. Is there a way that I can get InDesign to flag "harwood" as a misspelled word?

The Text Frame Option doesn't work on picture boxes. It works on text boxes but not on picture boxes. It worked up until a week ago but the option is now greyed out.

Ich würde gerne Produktfotos die auf weißem Hintergrund fotografiert sind, im InDesign auf eine farbige Fläche stellen. Bisher habe ich dazu immer das selbe Foto 2x eingefügt: das gesamte Foto auf multipliziert gestellt (damit sich der Schatten mit meiner Farbfläche mischt) und darüber das freigestellte Produkt.Gibt es eine Einstellung, dass ich mit nur einem eingefügten Bild das gleiche Ergebnis erhalte?

At some stage, InDesign changed the way you could manage paragraph and character styles on import so that you got the option to ascribe, for example, anything called "Heading 1" in Word with "Title" in InDesign and absolutely everything else (I think it was termed '[Any]') as '[No Paragraph Style]', 'Body Text' or whatever you wanted.Now, in the 2024 update, we seem to have gone back to the old method of having to assign every single imported text style with a paragraph or character style of your own, or - and here is the real headache - specifying [No paragraph style] or character style [None] to each and every style inherited from the usually very messy Word file. I have just done this to a file compiled by multiple users with approx. 100 different styles.So my questions are:Why?! Surely the switch to being able to group imported styles together was easier and more efficient?andIs there any way of getting the circa 2022 version of text import back again?&nbsp

I am trying to create pdf as booklet, 2 page perfect bound, 2 up on letter size paper. I have spent the entire day reading this forum and trying figure out what has changed. Using indd, file>>print booklet; the preview to print is fine, but the pdf is not. I have tried a thousand different ways. There is no way to set page size or orientation. And if I follow other suggestions and I create a regular single page pdf and then try to print that as a booklet, saving as a pdf is not supported. Really frustrating. 

Please help.The question is probably related to multiple Adobe Products. I have a PDF in Landscape mode (attached below) that I need to convert to Portrait mode (it should be exactly 8.5 by 11). Is there a way to do it in InDesign or any other Adobe product where the text on PDF would be readable (not too crowded)? ChatGPT gives me instructions on how to do it in InDesign, I have downloaded a trial, but it does not work when I do it and is not very intuitive.  Thank you!

USING:  Win 10 and latest Adobe updates In general usage and to take a quick look at .jpgs, etc., directly from a File Explorer folder, I have for the longest time kept my .jpg and .png default file types set to open in a simple photo app. I don't always want to open Photoshop. Photoshop sucks up a lot of RAM, so I just don't really like to open it until I need it.  But even with this setting in place, I've always had Photoshop as an "edit with" option when I need to edit a link from within InDesign -- a time when I DO want to open Photoshop. However, recently, the Photoshop "edit with" option is not appearing in my InDesign "edit with" choices in the Links palette. I imagine (assume, expect) that it might "come back" if I switch my default .jpg/etc. app to Photoshop. But I'd really rather not do that as I don't want to open PShop in general every time I need to get a quick look at the random .jpg. I know I can access such files via Bridge without opening