InDesign

Hello! Quick background: I have modified a script created by Kasyan (found here) that finds tags and replaces them with images. The main changes I made now have the script create an anchored text frame where the tag is found, find and insert the image file inline in the new text frame, and then grab the "Description" from the xmp link and insert it as text after the image. The problem: when I run the script it is only able to return the metadata for the last image that is tagged/created. The rest return the "Description not found in metadata" line I included in case the data was missing. All files have the necessary info, I can reorder the tags, and no matter what - the last tag in the document is the only one that returns any data from the image file. (Thought: the script does work bottom-up so this would be the first tag/image that the script encounters.) The code: below is the meat of the script where I made most of the changes. Most of t

Can I apply a script to multiple InDesign projects without waiting for the first one to finish and moving on to the second?"

My document uses Gill Sans (macOS standard font) for a section heading, which is (and must be) a normal paragraph. When I change this to the Cabin font (Google Fonts), suddenly my section head takes up extra vertical space, like this (left: Cabin 102pt, right: Gill Sans 102pt) The only thing I changed was the font. I dug into this and I found out that the Basic Text Frame Object uses the ascend of the font to calculate the position of the first line. Gill Sans apparently has an ascent height that is identical to the cap height. Cabin, apparently, produces a weird ascent height value for the font. If I do the same trick in Textedit or Word, no such large white space happens at the top, which suggests InDesign is using a wrong (in this case even crazy) value for the ascend. Or maybe there is a bug in the font (but then, I have to say, this is a bug in many fonts because many fonts behave like this in InDesign). I am wondering how to handle this. Using Cap height minus a fixed a

I refreshed things with my Children's Book, and re-uploaded into Ingramspark.  But I'm getting these two messages: The INTERIOR file cannot be used because the number of pages falls outside the range: 18 - 900Simplex covers require a 1 page fileI won't be able to hear back from Ingram about this till several days from now, or longer.   But is there something in my InDesign file I need to do, with the interor file and cover file?  I've never had this trouble before with my previous draft.

Hi all, Long-time member, first-time contribution or question. I was wondering if there is a standard formatting structure or order when creating a book or publication. A TOC must go before a foreword etc. I am comfortable making publications but now I have made a few I thought I better ensure I am getting the order correct. Please enlighten me.  Thank you. 

There is a shared Indesign document that works for two people, but not the third. All have different computers. The person having problems has tried exporting the document to IDML, uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign. They even contacted IT who couldn't figure the issue out and did all sorts of updates to the computer itself. The full error message is attached. Most of the error message is below. I had the full error message below but when I went to post it, I got a message "Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body." Wasn't sure if what was taken out would explain everything.  Crash report: https://pastebin.com/J4SCjTPt     {Post moved to InDesign Community by MOD}

I want to make the UI interface font of Indesign a little larger, and the two options given by the system are not very satisfied.Is there any other way to change the size of the UI font?I remember,In the CS6 version, someone modified a file that could become a large font after replacement.The CC 2024 has two UI interface scaling options. The larger ones are not good -looking, and the small ones are too small.If it can be one -third larger than the small one, it must look good.The picture below seems to be amplified, The original interface is not so clear. 

I've got a document (musical score again) with page size 9x12 inches.One orchestra would like the PDFs to be 10x13 inches. I could use Preview to manually rescale the PDFs or one utility that rescales PDFs but let's say I do not know about this and would like to do this within InDesign. I have read the InDesign Help chapter for Alternate Layout and created a new layout in 10x13 inches. Things look well apart from the fact that it now seems as if I had a single document made up of the two layouts flowing one after the other. In fact, when I export this to PDF, I have the 9x12 version followed by the 10x13 one in the same document.In the Export PDF dialogue, I did not find any way to export just the 10x13 layout. Am I missing something really basic? Or how should one achieve this according to the InDesign gospel?! Thank you!

Hello! I have a 300 page textbook document with English and Spanish languages. The text was copied from an online souce and pasted into the document. The Spanish language text having guillemets around dialogue. After a recent edit, I am now noticing that all guillemets have disappeared. :0There were over 700+ instances so I know this wasn’t a manual adjust and I don’t recall doing find/change edit. Any ideas what could have happened to make all these disappear? Could something have turned off/on to hide and or eliminate these quotes? Is there any chance of getting them back or would I have to go back and manually replace them? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I want to apply this option to tables that contain many cells via script. Can you give me an idea for the script?"

Hi!  InDesign newbie here.  I have been tasked with trying to create an index for a book with 7 seperate files.  I have all files loaded into one book file, and the index works pretty good for the most part.  However, I have figured out that for some reason, it's not picking up all the entries.  For example: this is a book with around 150 names of people in it.  I have set the index up for each person's name...but after doing a spot check, I notice it's only showing some of the pages where these names are, not all of them.  Like...Joe Smith I know is on at least 10 pages, but the index is only showing he's on 3.  Any ideas of what might be wrong?  Or do I have something set up wrong in the files I wonder?  I'm so frustrated!  

Hi, I was working on a 100 page document today and just finished one round of changes when Indesign crashed. I lost almost 2 hours worth of work. When I re-opened Indesign there was no recovery document offered.I am on a 2023 Macbook pro and am using Indesign v19.4.Please help! 

I activated a family of Adobe Fonts, but they will not auto-activate in my InDesign project.  "Auto-Active Adobe Fonts" is checked in the File Handling menu.  

At the end of April the Share for Review feature in InDesign stopped working. It allows us to create a public or private URL but neither work. When you click the URL it redirects to assets.adobe.com/cloud-documents and we can't get to the review link.  The URL works when we're not on our corporate network. Whitelist of domains maybe?  Anyone else run into this?Thanks! 

Bonjour à tous ! Bug affichage indesign : Mac Studio Sonoma 14.5 dernière version indesign.... Une idée ?

Good evening, I have a question regarding table management in inDesign.I'm laying out a job that involves a very long table with very long cells (with a lot of text inside them) I wanted to know if there is a way to start a cell at the end of a page and have it continue on the next page? (Sorry for the English but I don't know it well so I'm asking for help from a translator.)

there used to be a command in InDesgn that would break a box into multiple boxes as you drew the box. I cannot find it anymore. Does it still exist?

I need a script that will import each page from a multipage InDesign document into boxes I've created in a new document (with the option to include any bleed set in the multipage document or not). If I have 1000 pages in one document, I want to bring each page in to a new document to fill the 1000 boxes I've positioned. Then tell me if I've only created say 900 boxes on my new page, that the last 100 pages weren't imported.Right now, I have to do this manually, and it's gruellnig!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a single-page brand template I can purchase? There are so many out there; I just want to get one that's well-supported. Thanks!

Hallo zusammen,ich hab seit geraumer Zeit ein seltsames Problem. Wenn ich eine oder mehrere Linien setze mit einem Pfeil am Ende (über das Konturenfeld, oder einem Punkt, ist egal), die z.B. auf einer Kartendarstellung auf einen Raum zeigt und links daneben einen beschreibenden Text hat (quasi eine Legende) gehen mir die Linien beim Verschieben aller Elemente nicht mit. Genauer gesagt: Elemente wie Text, Bild verschieben sich ganz normal, aber Linien bleiben nicht auf ihren Positionen... die eine ist dann höher, die andere verschiebt sich nach unten... Ich hab schon probiert vor dem Gruppieren und Verschieben links oben den "Mittelpunkt" anzuwählen, klappt aber auch nicht... Das tritt nur mit Linien auf... Woran kann das liegen? Das ist in großen Dokumenten echt ein Problem... Danke + Grüße

Hello! I'm using Adobe InDesign 14.0 x64. For example, my document currently contains the text "Glaukom H40" (images attached). A paragraph format is stored for the text. This paragraph format is then used for the table of contents. The same text "Glaukom H40" appears in the table of contents.I would like to have the ICD code "H40" displayed separately after the text "Glaucoma" (e.g. with a character format) and NOT include it in the table of contents.One solution would be to provide two character formats, one character format for "Glaukom" and one character format for "H40". Unfortunately I cannot include character formats in the table of contents. This is only possible with paragraph formats. But - as far as i know -  I can´t have two paragraph formats in one line. The only solution seems to be one line with the text "Glaukom" and another extra line with the code "H40", with H40 being pushed up and to the right of the line.Does anyone knows a better solution?&nbsp

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