InDesign

I'd like to know the convention for naming .idlk files generated by InDesign.When opening an indd file, I want to determine if the file is already in use by someone else, but this is problematic due to the idlk naming convention.The idlk file name follows the following convention:~<file name>~<Hash>.idlkIf the file name is too long, it will be truncated.The standard length for truncation is 18 characters, but it seems to vary depending on the user's encoding.For example, alphanumeric characters are 18 characters, but in other languages, the length is not simply the number of characters.I'd like to know if this is determined by the user's system encoding or if there are fixed encoding conventions. Furthermore, if there are multiple long files, the truncated file names will all be the same.In this case, I need to check the hash value, but I don't have the information to determine the hash value.I'd like to know the criteria for determining the hash value or the generation con

I'm laying out my thesis. I copied and pasted chapter by chapter into InDesign, and I had no problems with the footnotes. But when I got to the next chapter, it gave me a random number. The text between the third and fourth chapters isn't connected; InDesign reads them as separate texts. How do I fix this?

My document is a 24x30 poster that mimics a newspaper layout with several columns. It is essentially a collection of many, one paragraph, text snippets in Myriad, Regular, 9.5 pt, with paragraph titles in Myriad semi-bold, 10 pt. Exporting to a PDF, High Quality Print, results in a file size about 250k. When a local copy/print store makes a laser print on regular generic paper, the text does not look all that crisp. So maybe it’s the paper? Or, the file size? Previously, I had printed a similar, text-only, large PDF, created by Illustrator… and the file size was around 2.5 MB and the text looked good. Once my final proofreading is done, I will have a final print made on better paper. But at $35 a pop, I wanted to be sure that I am doing everything correctly at the pre-press stage. What settings are needed to have text printed optimally on a large poster? *this is my first project with ID, but I am experienced with PS and AI.

My file gets stuck loading whenever I try and open it. I’m successfully able to open other PDFs, files larger than this one, & files within the same project. I was able to open this file 20min before Adobe stopped working with it. So far, I’ve tried the following:updating adobe resetting font files turning off OneDrive link to prevent it looping to find missing image links deleting/re-installing InDesign resetting Adobe’s recovery files (Windows) I’ve looked through every folder on my computer for any backup & I cannot find one anywhereIt throws no error codes, please help me. I’m an architecture student trying to finish my portfolio by tomorrow & now I’m freaking out that I won’t even be able to finish by then. I’ve been trying to fix this for two and a half hours.

Hi there, If I place a grayscale bmp in InDesign will it print okay? I’m working with a brand that wants all their photos to look like duotones. So I’m turning the photo into a grayscale, saving as bmp, placing in Indesign and then colourizing it by choosing one brand colour as the background colour and the other as the “ink” colour (anything black in the photo will be this colour). Looks fine in Indesign. I’ve done test exports to pdf and it looks fine. and If I open up a page in Illustrator of the exported print pdf it looks fine, and I can see the placed BMP has been converted to a CYMK object which is fine for me. Their brand book suggests taking a grayscale image and then doing mode> bitmap and using dither, and then saving as a tiff, and following the same process in InDesign with colouring. However, when i tried the method, the preview in InDesign looked awful (even though high res preview is on) and the exports didn’t look as good (weird pdf artifacts that disappear when zoo

My Links Panel works fine.  However for the first time since using InDesign over 10 years ago, the yellow triangles or red question marks that attach themselves to images which have issues of a link, no longer show in Normal View.  No idea why it happened, and no idea how to fix it.  I don't have a Links Panel issue.  I spent 30 minutes searching, but could not find anyone with this issue.  I am sure it is an easy fix, if you know how.  any help?  thanks   {Renamed by MOD}

Hi folksI’m running into a display issue where InDesign scrambles text kerning. In a current project, my text can sometimes display like this:  when it should look like this. I haven’t changed  anythign in the meantime. I’m using Optical kerning. If I set kerning to Metric and back to Optical the problem disappears.Is this connected to the current bug with text disappearing when edited? Hope this gets fixed because it’s a significant headache!I’m using Futura family from Adobe fonts - maybe an issue with that? ThanksRichard

There's weird spaces sometimes showing up randomly in the text in our text boxes (see below). It doesn't happen all the time and only happens in blocks of text (not the text in the graphics we create). We tried reloading all of fonts in the Times family and recreating our paragraph styles, but the problem continues. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?  

Hello, I know this has been asked before, but I have a specific workflow issue. I have one client document that requires the ME (Middle Eastern) version of InDesign, while the rest of my work uses the standard version. Currently, I have to uninstall and reinstall InDesign just to switch between versions.I tried creating a separate user profile to install the ME version there, but it affected my primary user profile as well. This issue was discussed 8 years ago—is there a solution yet that would allow me to avoid the constant cycle of uninstalling, changing language settings, and reinstalling?

I know how to set up export tags for paragraph styles for ePub output and give specific CSS directives, but for table styles there are no export tag settings. For any manual CSS styles you can add an “additional.css” file to paragraph styles to work out any particulars for those, but apparently not for tables? I’m wondering if anyone knows if there is a plug-in that would need to be added to allow table styles to be tagged so that custom CSS could be used to style particular tables in a document. That could allow epubs to have specific styles for tables in the custom CSS capabilities, I’d think.  

I’m creating an interactive pdf (catalog) so posible clients can check our products, adding a link to each product’s page. Is there a way to add a parameter to the link so it can show that the traffic comes from the pdf? (sorry, I don’t have much idea about that, and I was wondering if inDesign has a function for it. Any help is appreciated!) 

I'm dealing with opening many file copies on daily basis and clicking on checkbox with mouse is very slowing me down.Is there any other way how to open copy? I have tried modifier keys on keyboard while clicking to Open, but no success. 

Hallo Leute,wir sind am Überlegen, ob wir uns das Plugin LangoAI zulegen sollen.Bisher war das Übersetzen von Katalogen eine Challange, da es zuerst zu einer Kollegin musste, die das Ganze mit ChatGPT übersetzte. Danach musste ich alles einpflegen ins Indesgin, danach ging es noch zu Nativspeaker. Und nochmachls einer Korrekturschleife.Hat schon Jemand Erfahrung mit dem Tool?

Guten Tag, wie bringe ich diese Info Meldung weg. Taucht seit 21.2 auf.„Adobe InDesign 2026" möchte auf Daten aus anderen Apps zugreifen.Danke für eine Lösung und Feedback.

Each update of InDesign just makes it clunkier and clunkier and yesterday I had multiple lag/crashing issues. I am on Windows, the latest version. One of the issues that I believe is contributing is the green Share button in the top right corner. Today it's just constantly spinning. I NEVER have use of this feature and I'd like to disable it. I'd also like to disable the cloud storage option since again, don't use it. I've searched the forums, and while these are questioned in some previous posts, they're all older versions and don't have solutions that help with the newer ones. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you!

I want to create a guide where the rows have fixed height, in order to align with my baseline grid. However, Layout>Create Guides only gives the option to choose how many rows there are. Is it possible to choose row height?

I've been using this script:https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnote_endnote_conversion_cc2018.htmlIt works well to convert endnotes to static text, but it resets my superscript Roman numeral references back to default numbering (1, 2, 3). I’d like to keep both the superscript formatting and the Roman numeral style in the converted static endnotes.Is there a way to convert endnotes to static text without losing the Roman numeral superscripts?

Text wrap is minuscule no matter what I set it to. Just updated to InD 21.2 (Mac, Tahoe). Exported as IDML, restarted, rebooted, no luck. In this screenshot the wrap is set to 2” just to demonstrate. Previous illustrations that had wraps are keeping them, but I can’t make any new ones since the update. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Originally posted this on Jan 21 and post has disappeared likely due to the migration:I have the latest update 21.1 and ever since I have been having issues converting pages to PDF from a file I am creating using InDesign. When I try to convert certain pages to PDF, it either will create the PDF but it is corrupt and when I try to create the PDF again, it says there is a background task running and that task is preventing me from doing anything else. Ultimately, I have to End Task and restart the program. It will work for a bit then I will have the same issue again. This is happening daily. I have not been able to pinpoint which background task is causing the problem. Running on PC, Windows 11 v23H2**NEW** Since my post last week, I found the issue but have no control over it. I always use File > Export within the same document when I export pages to PDF. Sometimes the Export to Interactive PDF window shows up and the export works properly. However, sometimes the Export to Adobe PDF

I apologize if this has been discussed recently, but I was unable to find any relevant threads.My new Adobe 2026 (version 21.0.2) exhibits a number of issues which make work very cumbersome:Entire paragraphs blank out (especially when I’m marking text for editing), and only reappear after scrolling the blank space out and back into the editor window, or clicking somewhere else on the page. The editor is very sluggish, regardless of GPU performance settings. Some paragraphs are not aligned on screen correctly (letters stick outside frame, etc.) - however, they become properly justified in exported PDF documents. Switching between Adobe Paragraph Composer and Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer usually fixes this issue for a given paragraph, though. The Undo history gets lost.I have reverted to the previous version (20.5.1) but now somehow exactly the same issues started appearing in this one as well. I have already tried the typical fixes (clearing the program cache, resetting the pref

Hi everyone. I have an old iMac 27-inch (late 2012) - (iMac 13.2). I have managed to upgrade my OS via OCLP to Ventura 13.7.8. Everything is working fine, except I can’t use or download InDesign while in the Creative Cloud. When I click on the three dots for InDesign there is no option for previous versions, even after allowing that in preferences. My Mac hardware is too old. Is there a link for older version? Can I use and install older versions? I can’t upgrade my OS any further as my hardware does not support this.

Hi All,hope you're having a good day.I have created a problem that I simply can't seem to resolve. The more I look at it, the less chance I seem to have of fixing it.In brief, I am moving pages from two separate files into a new file. When I do so, the pages from one file are listed under a different layout to the pages from the other file. I don't want this. I'd like them just to be one continuous layout.I can't see how to stop this happening nor can I see a way of combining them once they are in the new document. Can someone please put me out of misery?Now, the cause might well be that I am an idiot, but I'm hoping there is a way around this. Making myself smarter doesn't seem to be an option!😉Any help would be greatly appreciated.Many thanks....Chloe   

All files on my companies drive seem to be corrupt. Every time we try to open and save a file ID throws these error messages:InDesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged. InDesign is unable to perform the requested operation on the file “xxxx”. could not complete your request because of a database errorI tried installing an older version of InDesign, but since the files were saved in a newer version ID doesn't even want to open the files without ‘repairing’ the file, which btw, does nothing.Trying to create a package immediately crashes InDesign without a warning.What is going on? We have deadlines and this is unacceptable behaviour for such an expensive software package!

Hey.I've got a Problem with my Adobe InDesign CS6.When i want to open a file it says there are missing Fonts.The Fonts that are missing are: Helvetica Neue LT LT 55 RomanHelvetica Neue LT LT 75 BoldHelvetica Neue LT LT 45 LightSo i looked them up in the Adobe store to buy them, but i can only find the Helvetica Neue LT STD 55 Roman/Bold/Light.So now my question is, are these the same fonts?Or where can i buy the fonts that are missing?Thanks for your help.

Hola. Es la primera vez que publico una consulta a la comunidad. Ojalá alguien pueda ayudarme. Estoy creando un libro interactivo multimedia, un ebook, en InDesign. Pero tengo el problema que cuando exporto el ebook a .EPUB los archivos de audio e imágenes aparecen al final del ebook uno debajo del otro y no se quedan en los lugares correspondientes del libro que los dejo.  Desde ya muchas gracias. Saludos. Ariel.