InDesign

When I click CTRL+D (place tool) through InDesign and try to search something in my folders, the search tool doesn’t work. I can be in the logos folder and type in “mcdonalds” and it wont search for mcdonalds logos. The only way I can bypass this is if I open the folder separately and not within InDesign. But doing that is super inconvenient and a pain. And this tool used to work perfectly.Does anyone know what happened and how I can get it to work again? I tried asking this question before but they said I was in the wrong community. So then I tried copy/pasting it in this community and it said its already been answered. But no one has actually answered it for me! And I can’t delete that original comment. So I feel like I am stuck. Hopefully re-wording this question helps. 

I have been trying to make an interactive form in inDesign with reasonable success, but there is one feature that I need to make the whole thing work; the capability to centre the text in the text field box that I have drawn. The Buttons and Forms tab gives me the option to change text size, but that seems to be the only option available in terms of text formatting.Knowing how to do other features such as making inputted text bold or underlined would also be helpful.I have looked around on tutorials but none seem to address my specific issue as far as I'm aware. If anyone is able to help it would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: I posted some of this as a commiserating reply to a similar thread, but it wasn’t the exact situation I have, so I’m posting this here again as a separate problem. Any feedback, help, etc., appreciated.  Thanks in advance. I’m using Windows 10, and I am having a problem with InDesign 2026. Whenever I close my last open document -- at least half the time, and totally randomly -- InDesign will close itself -- basically, crash. In earlier versions, when I was done with all my open documents, I would just close them all, then open whatever new doc I wanted to work with. But now, when I close that last open document, InD also closes itself. When I reopen it -- which is annoying to have to do over and over -- InD offers an opportunity to open that same last document, only now with a warning that it might be corrupted.  So, clearly, it didn’t properly save that last document, which puts any “last document” I close at jeopardy of corruption. So, that is two problems -- abrupt closing and

Hi everyone :)I keep getting error notifcations on Indesign saying that my files are corrupted. I have reset my pereferences but the problem persists.I have also tried creating a new file and putting my images ect in there again.Saving the file as an IDML doesn't work sadly, the program crashes every time I try.I have tried making a copy of the file. I have gotten error code 0 and 2. I am working in Indesign  21.2 and Windows 11 (25H2) How can i fix this, what caused it and how can I prevent it in the future?All help is apreciated!

I am trying to achieve this I can only get thisThanks for any help.

Hi, our org has had major issues with save files being ‘corrupt’ InDesign crashing etc due to a recent windows security update. I noted there is a newer version of InDesign which did nothing to fix and there was a threat microsoft were working on something. Is this fixed yet or not, I am reluctant to turn updates back on for microsoft but really don’t want to leave them off either!

All the examples you find tell you to traverse up through the selection’s parents until you hit the Page object. But in my experience, you never do. The traversal goes: InsertionPoint → TextFrame → Spread → Document → Application Now what? For the curious, here’s the code:function getPage(obj){ if (obj == null) return null; if (obj.constructor.name == "Page") { return obj; } else if(obj.constructor.name == "Application") { // If we reach the application, something is wrong. Prevent endless recursion. return null; } // Handle cases where the item might be in a text frame if (obj.parentTextFrames && obj.parentTextFrames.length > 0) { return getPage(obj.parentTextFrames[0]); } // Recursively go up the object model return getPage(obj.parent);} 

Hello,  Looking to run scripts from a UXP plugin - the scripts would do well to be packed in a neat panel of icons rather than out of the way in the scripts panel. All my attempts of making such have been fruitless, as I have zero idea of workflow. Do I have to rewrite scripts or can I just wire up buttons to scripts in part of the UXP package, etc  Any help/examples on this would be great  thank you  Smyth

I mistaked one document for another and closed the file without saving. When Indesign asked, I clicked, dont save. Now I realise my mistake, and a whole days of work has been erased!!! What can I do? Can anyone help??

Hi all, I was wondering what’s the best way to export a brochure document in Indesign 2026. I want to make a rgb version in 171dpi and a cmyk version in 300dpi. Whats the correct way to do this? I have one document now in rgb. Can i do this by only use the pdf export settings, that would be a fast way.Hope anyone can help? 

I want to create a photo book:
What I already have:
A Blurb book template for InDesign
 A .csv file with all the photos A frame on each A-parent frame How  can I ensure that there is a single, different photo on each page- with captions if possible?  

indesign cc why all my odd pages  are blank

Bonjour à tous, Depuis quelques heures, j'ai un souci avec Indesign qui m'empêche d'exporter tout type de fichier.Dans la fenêtre "Tâches en arrière-plan",  j'ai 2 lignes "ajout d'une police". La première ligne a une ligne de progression qui tourne en boucle et la 2ème ligne est "En file d'attente..."Quand je veux exporter mon fichier, l'exportation passe après l'ajout de ces typos et ne s'exportent donc pas. L'exportation est également "En file d'attente..." (voir la photo) Est-ce que quelqu'un a déjà eu ce souci ? Quelle est la solution ? Merci d'avance,

After an INDD upgrade I am warned that “unconverted documents in <file.indb> will need to be converted when updating numbering or synchronising …” What does this conversion do? Is it likely to affect text flow around placed images, or create text box overflows? 

Every since my InDesing updated to 20.1, when I select a window or block of text, it will not show as highlighted, but it is. I have to click off and then click back onto the block a few times so that the box appears normally selected. Overall, InDesign seems to be running a bit sluggish as well after this update. Obviously, something needs to be fixed in this last update because the "removes bugs" didn't work. Now I have NEW bugs that weren't here before.

Hi again! 🙂 I just converted a PDF into an indesign file, but I noticed it came with a bunch of section breaks —  the page numbering restarts every 1, 2 or 3 pages. I've selected all pages and tried to override the sections by starting a whole new section in "numbering and section options" but it just affected the first section/the first two pages. By any chance, does anyone know a good workaround so that it won't be necessary to manually reset all the sections one by one, not in this nor in future converted documents, please? 

Adobe InDesign: Beim bearbeiten eines Dokuments kommt immer die Meldung "Diese Änderung kann nicht mit dem Befehl -Bearbeiten- Rückgängig widerrufen werden. Möchten Sie trotzdem fortfahren"

If I have an .indd project file inside a OneDrive folder on my desktop (I like to work on the cloud to avoid any loss of data), after a few saves the .indd file gets corrupted. What is this mess? why won’t Adobe update such a simple feature and make it work with Cloud apps? This is 2026 ladies and gentlemen.

I'm using macOS Sonoma 14.2.1. I need InDesign version 19.0, but the "Other Versions" pop-up window in Creative Cloud only shows versions up to 20.0. How can I access InDesign version 19.0? I urgently need help. 

Hallo Community,ich habe ein Problem mit einem größeren Projekt.Es handelt sich um ein Buch mit etwa 1000 Seiten.Es ist aufgeteilt in 4 einzelne indd-Dateien, die über eine Buchdatei "zusammenhängen".Am Ende des Buches soll ein Index aller Indexeinträge angehängt werden.Ich habe den Index erstellt und dann festgestellt, das nicht alle Einträge angezeigt werden.Im Indexfenster habe ich die Verweisliste, in der ich die einzelnen Indexeinträge einsehen kann.Da erscheint dann z.B. ein Eintragswort "Absolutes", welches ich dann "aufklappen" kann und dann werden darunter diese Seitenicons angezeigt -- für jedem Eintrag eins.Mein Problem ist folgendes. Neben einem Seitenicon stehen ja normalerweise die Seitenzahl --, das ist auch bei mir so, ABER nicht hinter jedem Seitenicon.Der fertig generierte Index scheint mir aber nur die Einträge wirklich mit Seitenzahl anzuzeigen, wo im Verweisfenster auch Zahlen daneben stehen.Wenn ich auf ein Seitenicon klicke, das keine Zahl daneben hat und es so m

HelloThis is again on the issue of rendering Arabic marks in front of characters in InDesign, there were great contributions made by ​@Joel Cherney ​@Dirk Becker ​@Barb Binder regarding the rendering of marks in general in InDesign for Latin (LTR), where the mark renders in front of the base character but in Arabic (RTL) the mark goes behind it like this:In my case I have a book that it is dedicated for kids learning with custom colorized marks that must be put slightly in front of some base characters, the result is absolutely the mark will render behind the base character making part of it invisible (as shown above).To experiment this problem, we can copy this the Arabic word "اْدوبي" (Adobe) and paste it in InDesign using any font that supports Arabic script (Adobe Arabic or Arial), this word has Arabic Sukun on the first letter Alef, by colorizing the mark only and selecting them both (base & mark) using Diacritic Positioning in InDesign we can move the mark vertically (-90), t

I have the Indesign file for our company 2025 Calendar, and I wanted to update it for 20269. The person who created the 2025 Calendar is no longer here so I can not ask how they set it up. From the googling and chatgpting I did it looks like there was a script to add the Calendar dates. However, when I look at the script file it is not there. Any suggestions, tips, help on what I can do to update this for 2026?

 Hi.I’ve meticulously formatted a non-fiction book of some 330 pages, with 12 chapters (defined as Sections with section markers applied.) Paragraph style for Chapters includes “Keep Option “Start on next odd page. I have a seperate parent page design for the chapter pages. This is assigned as required.Here’s my problem: the client now wants to add 20 new graphics, causing, of course, a ripple reflow of all the text in the book. I know how to add new pages, but when I do, the assigned Parent pages that define my Chapter starts do not ripple with the text content. So:If I have Section 3 starting on book page 27Then add 4 pages to section 2 (manually or with auto reflow)Section 3’s start STAYS on the document’s p27 when I would expect it to be shunted to p31Also, the parent previously applied to p27 doesn’t move “forwards” by 4 pages either, throwing off everything thereafter.Is there a different way I should be doing this?ANY help appreciated.thank you

Hello. I am new to creating my own book, so forgive my naïveté and what I believe are some simple questions. I have set up my book (which is essentially a photography book with limited text) with .05 inch margins on each side of the page. My photos are centered in the margin space of each page. When printed will there be a .05 inch margin aka white space around each photo? I would prefer the white space to be smaller around each photo. Can I do .375 inches around 3 sides of the page and then .5 inches for the inside binding area? Will that allow the printer enough space to trim? And I would still have white space around my photo? (I am aware if I want a full page photo to place the image to the bleed line.)Thank you for your help, Kelly T