InDesign

Our entire marketing department is having issues, possibly with Dropbox, possibly with InDesign, possibly with Windows File Explorer. In trying to troubleshoot, our manager was communicating with Dropbox support and they told her "InDesign files and programs are not supported with Dropbox" and closed the support ticket on her! Has anyone heard this before? I can't believe there aren't TONS of other creatives also using Adobe products and Dropbox without issue. I think the issue lies with Windows, but I was flabbergasted when I read the response from Dropbox support. Just wondering if anyone here has received the same message from Dropbox? (NOTE: I've asked this on Dropbox forums too, just covering my bases to see if anyone in the InDesign space has seen this too.)

I will say my company is on a controlled release of INDD and not 100% whatever is the latest in the cloud. I am on CC 2024 v 19.0.1. Interactive PDF Forms look/render fine when exporting out of Adobe InDesign, when opening and viewing in Adobe Acrobat. When that same PDF is then opened in the browser (Edge or Chrome) the form fields do not render. Not even the outlines of the checkboxes. I attached a very basic example. InDesign files I've managed over the years used to output input fields that worked in browsers, but If I open that same InDesign file now and export a PDF, those interactive fields will now break in browser. It seems it is easily fixable in Adobe Acrobat by opening the file, going to Prepare Form and changing basically anything in the properties. You can change one property on one form field, save, and it will fix the whole document. You can do this in the basic example attached. I've changed the Name of an input and various things in the Appearance, and

I have had this problem a few times recently and I'm not sure when the problem started.The scenario is that I am working in InDesign and my files are all within my Dropbox folder. What happens is: I work on an InDesign file and save it. Make some changes, save it etc etc. Send a PDF to the client and wait. Maybe a couple of hours later I come back to the file and when I open it in InDesign it is not the latest saved version. I know I saved it so I'm pulling my hair out! Now I've found that if I go to "document history" in Dropbox my last version will be there, with my name and 'desktop' written underneath. However, it will have been overwritten by my name but with "API app" written underneath it. I am currently in discussion with Dropbox who are suggesting that it could be due to a lack of support for InDesign documents (they get a UFO symbol instead of an icon). But this is seriously upsetting my working to the point that I think I may have to move all my files out of Dropbox.&nb

Hi Everyone, In our organization we use 'PanelTreeView.sdk' plugin to list down the scripts for production as centralized location for everyone like the first screenshot.            DoubleClick-ing on the script name will invoke them to run in locally.Recent version InDesign 19.4 did not support this functionality and showing them as file paths.,              I even tried to build with the latest SDK version from developer console. But it is not fixed the issue.Please assist me on this to resolve the issue.  Indesign version 19.4MACOS Sonoma 14.4.1           Thanks,SathishS

Is it possible to datamerge into indesign from excel but including the back ground colours of the fields. I have a set of data where the background colours are important to the dataset.  

I can't seem to find a good answer to this — are templates, INDT files, in any way different from INDD except that InDesign forces the user to save the file as a new copy?   A freshly saved INDD file (Save As and IDML->INDD) is somewhat smaller than its INDT equivalent. However, renaming an INDD to INDT makes the file behave exactly as a template (loads to an unititled doc).   So, at a file/technical level, what is different about INDT files?

I'm having an issue where my captions are appearing above the images in my epub. They are grouped with the images and anchored in the main text. The issue goes away when I select "Based on Page Layout" for my content order, but I need it to be based on the Articles panel because of how I have it set up. I've worked with captions before and have never seen this behavior. Any help would be appreciated.

I want to only include the section outlined in red for PDF export, is there a way I can exclude the rest?I know nothing about ARC GIS and have been thrown in to assist with this project, thank you for any advise!

I'm using InDesign to make Fixed Layout ePubs. I just upgraded ePub Checker to v4.1.1 and now all my ePubs that had no errors before with v4.0.2 now generate an error. Here are screen shots of the v4.0.2 and v4.1.1 check results:The error returned is in toc.xhtml: Error while parsing file: element 'ol' incomplete; missing required element 'li'. Here's a screenshot of the toc.xhtml:The error is at line 9. There needs to be an entry between <ol> and </ol>. Leaving this empty is apparently no longer valid using the 4.1.1 ePub Checker library, but used to be OK with the 4.0.2 library. I contacted the developer of ePub Checker and he said:This comes from the underlaying validation engine of the official EPUBCheck library.  There has been a minor update as you can see when having a look at the version numbers (4.1.1 vs. 4.0.2).Core developers made an update to the TOC schema with PR #763 (https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/pull/763😞> fixes nav doc validation to be m

I currently have 3 versions of InDesign showing as installed on my computer, 17.4.2, 18.4 and the updated one 19.4. Do I need the older ones or can I uninstall them to free  up space on my coputer?

 Aloha all, I am wanting to export just the text from a 32-page children's book so the text can be translated. On every page, the (short) text is in a text box. Thus, there are 32+ isolated text boxes in the book. Is there any way to select all the text (existing in a text layer) and export it as a text file (.txt, PDF, Word)? Google bots tell me I can (on my Mac) select all with Command-A, but this only selects the text on one page, not the other 31 pages. Any help would be appreciated! Mahalo, Cat  

Bonjour,je cherche un moyen de convertir un fichier PPT ou PDF en un fichier Indesign.Je ne trouve pas de plugging adobe et j'aimerai ne pas utiliser une plaforme pour le faire ou si c'est la seule solution laquelle est la plus sûre.Merci par avance pour votre aideCéline

How can I create this type of cell knowing that the number is at the top left and the letter is at the bottom right without any space? And how can I paste it into a table containing cells?I want both to belong to the same cell. 

Hi I've pasted some old Indesign CS3 content into my ID 16.4 document, and I see these unfamiliar hidden characters at the beginning of paragraphs, and they're causing some issues with my usual typesetting processes. They look like uppercase "I" characters, and when I paste them into GREP search, they appear as "~I" If I search for them using GREP, Indesign crashes. Is there a way to remove these? ThanksRichard 

So, on InDesign I created a this historical information document which includes many small images, some of which have links to websites (references). It is too large and I don't know what to do about it.My hope was that this document would be small enough to load quickly on an iPad but at the same time that the images would be high-quality enough that I would be able to zoom in and not get a very pixelated image.I converted most of the images from png to vector. This took my document from about 12 mb to 45 mb and there are still like 20 images I have not converted. After vectorizing the images, I made them very small, about 1.5 in, and I simplified and flattened their transparency. I don't know what else to do.When I export the file as a PDF and open it on my iPad, it takes forever to load. I have tried downsizing the PDF, that takes me from 45 to 42. Any suggestions?

I have placed various Word docs all created with endnotes, I have used every combination of importing and I still cannot get the endnotes to show in indesign.  What the hell!?  Saved the word doc out as every imaginable version, imported static text, not static text, end of story, end of document...Nothing What else do I need to look for?

How can I effectively collaborate with other designers and developers using Adobe Creative Cloud services?

I was given a template for a book 8.75 x 11.25.  When I make a new master, the size shows up as 8.5.x.11. Do I need to adjust the master, or will the template do this.  TIA.

Hello community, I'm having a problem with a keyboard shortcut on an InDesign file.When I write in a text frame, as soon as I press the "n" key, the attributes are removed (back to default layout).I've reset the preferences and there are no new shortcut sets. So I've used up all my options!Any ideas? Just to clarify, it's impossible to type an n, and the problem only applies to this file, not the others.Many thanks and have a nice day! Marie

I'd like to deliver a copy of my InDesign file to someone, but without the linked images.Is there a way to break the links to all the images, but still keep the image frame, in such a way that the images could be re-linked later?

Hi. Standard Pakistani Quranic text is not rendered properly in Indesign because it is uable to handle following Unicode block correctly:https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/arabic-extended-a/ Side by side comparison of the rendering to illustrate the problem:Correct rendering in Google Chrome:Incorrent rendering in Indesign:To recreate the problem, download the font 'PakType Naskh Basic' from the link below or see attachment:https://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/files/latest/downloadFor Quranic text sample, use the text from the link below or see attachment:https://svn.code.sf.net/p/paktype/code/Fonts/Deployment/Sura-Fatiha.html I hope this bug is fixed as soon as possible because we Pakistanis need to compose stardadized Quran in Indesign. Thank you.

Every time I go to File > Print Booklet, the end result cuts off the top 3mm of bleed, despite me setting the bleed for all pages the same. For example, a 99mm x 210mm booklet with 3mm bleed will have a sheet size of 204mm x 216mm and even though the bleed is set to 3mm all around, I get a white gap at the top of every page each time like the attached.I've installed the Adobe 9.0 to fix on the recent update so I'm confident it isn't this.

Hi, I have some InDesign Extension ZXP install files, which were signed by a code signing cert from DigiCert, which is just now expiriaing. I signed with this parameter in the "ZXPSignCmd.exe" command-tsa http://timestamp.digicert.com In theory, I understand that the ZXP file will always be installable into the future (assuming the cert was valid on the day in which the ZXP was originally created). But has anyone actually tested this theory? In the past, this did not work for us. Does anyone have any experience with this that they could share, please? TIA,msl58

Hello,i'm working on my first project with "publish online" and i need to know what's happening to the fontsif i publish online because of the font license we have. Are the font provided on the adobe server(as third party) and it will be hosted similar to a web server?Or will the font embedded as in a PDF-File? In this case the font license is valid?Thanks a lot in advance,

Hello, I was wondering what would be the best way to create a keword based table of contents or index including headings with page numbers, like so: KEYWORD1  PageNo  Heading on that page  PageNo  Heading on that page  PageNo  Heading on that pageKEYWORD2  PageNo  Heading on that page  PageNo  Heading on that page  PageNo  Heading on that page And so on. Please note I don't want index letters (A, B, C...) at all, just styled keywords/topics BUT I need page heading included with a page number underneath. Is this possible using InDesign's tools or is this a job for a script (which might already exist somewhere)? Thank you.