InDesign

Hi all:I'm preparing a book for both print and ebook. The ebook will have some color, but the printed book will be in grayscale. I used to be able to print the book in CMYK or gray, but now that I'm Exporting, I don't find that option. Evidently I have Acrobat, not Acrobat Pro, so do I have to change my color figures to gray and link them instead, or is there a way to export my existing (color) book to gray?Thanks!!

Hi,   We have a document that causes InDesign to crash while opening. This document uses our custom C++ plugin.   With the debug version of InDesign following prompts are shown before InDesign crashes     The only way to resolve the issue is to remove the PrePress plugins from InDesign     With this, after a lot of prompts, the document ultimately opens without crashing InDesign.   I do not understand the issue here and how to go about troubleshooting it.   Please advice.   Thanks    

I work for a publisher and we have many backlist titles that use Type 1 fonts. I have an old mac that still runs INDD 6. This allows me to open thefile and still use the Type 1 fonts. Opening it on a newer machine with the current INDD will mean having to completely reformat the book - not an option. I fear my legacy mac may be about to give up it's ghost. Is there another workaround? These files were frequently saved without a PDF for which I curse the creators.Thank you for your tiime.

Hello everyone, Here's my problem : I'm unable to resize my image by double clicking the target in the middle of it. Usually when you do that, you can edit the size and move around the image in the box. But in my case it lets me only resize or move the box. Here's a video showing the problem :https://youtu.be/GiAg1_3SBP4 Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Understand that Thai language they do not separate words with spaces. When i adjust my text box smaller, all my text will auto move.  Is there a way to prevent a wrong line break? My Thai client commented there's 1000+ wrong line break. *Already change my setting to Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer thank you!

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.