InDesign

Machine is a Zenbook Duo (Windows 11). When exporting a relatively small (five page) document to PDF, InDesign hangs and never recovers.Workaround is to tick the “Create separate PDF files” checkbox and combine the pages afterwards.Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? I’ve used InDesign for years and have never before seen this behavior.

Hello everyone,First posting here, so I hope it works.I have drawn a square in InDesign, and want to select one of the corner points to distort it. I assumed the direct selection tool would do this, but it is completely unable to select any of the points. Does anyone know how to do this?Thanks

Hi all,I'm starting on complicated catalog with over 3,000 products and multiple sections/styles. I can see that this will be beyond InDesign's native data merge. What do you think is the best option for a data merge plugin and why?Thanks!

For thousands of products with multiple sections and styles, the thing that breaks native Data Merge usually isn't the record count — it's that Data Merge binds one template to one dataset. The moment your product families need genuinely different layouts, you end up maintaining several merge documents and stitching the output together, which is where the time actually goes.Two questions that would change my answer:Do your "sections/styles" differ in layout (different frame arrangements per family) or only in styling (same structure, different paragraph/object styles)? The first needs a different approach entirely; the second is often solvable with object styles and nested styles alone. Are your product images consistently named and all present? Missing or inconsistently named assets cause more failed catalog merges than any layout issue — worth auditing the source file before choosing any tool.On the tooling itself, roughly in order of investment: scripting the merge yourself if you h

Hello all,Today I have two questions to which I haven’t found an answer by myself:1. My usual layout has one text frame filling the whole page, but divided in two columns.When I insert a footnote, say in the left-hand column, I want its text to remain in that same column, and not spill over under the right-and column as if I had given a Span command.I have seen in questions already asked in this forum that some users have their footnotes behave natively just like I would want mine to behave, but I haven’t so far found a way to achieve that result.I attach a screen capture, as a picture speaks a thousand words, or so they say...2. is it possible to widen the space between the short separating line above the footnote, and that footnote itself? I have tried Space Before in the Footnote Paragraph Style I have created, but it doesn’t seem to work.Many thanks to you all for your help.Dominique

Since the last Adobe InDesign update, my zoom shortcut (cmd + Shift + .) no longer works, while the zoom shortcut does. This is wasting my design time. Could someone please help me solve this problem? I'm still a beginner with the Adobe suite and I've tried to solve it myself by searching online and on forums, but I haven't been able to. Thank you for your help.

Hi everyone,I’ve brought this up once before, but the topic didn’t really gain traction, so I’d like to revisit it — especially from the perspective of a publishing house that’s been working in print production for many years.For a long time, our editorial workflow was based on the PlanSystem editorial system, which we adopted after moving away from WoodWing. This setup allowed us to manage the layout planning of magazines and documents in a centralized way. However, to maintain this workflow, we’ve actually held off upgrading to the latest versions of Adobe Creative Cloud.To this day, I haven’t found a simple way in InDesign (or elsewhere in the Adobe suite) to assemble and organize multiple documents into a coherent, magazine-style layout — where you can view the entire issue in sequential order and rearrange pages organically on the fly. We need to be able to manage editorial content together with incoming ads from clients (as PDFs) and make layout decisions interactively.Ideally, I

I thought it was good to share this here as well: I have a script that adds autosave and backup versions* to InDesign. This script lets you set Auto save in InDesign (standard: every 8 minutes, but you can change that) and maintains five backup versions (you can also change that).Drop it into Adobe InDesign/Script/startup scripts and it will add a new menu in the File menu (last item) that lets you switch this function on and off.Want to change the minutes or the number of backups? Open it in an editor and change these lines to what you want:// =====================================================================// CONFIGURATION// =====================================================================var AUTO_SAVE_MINUTES = 8;var MAX_BACKUPS = 5;*BEWARE: the backups are only created on AUTOSAVE and are removed when you close the document (otherwise your HD would fill up) so it is NOT for versioning ;-)Download for free!https://1drv.ms/u/c/916857b766432d35/IQC5_T-d0N-WSLs0A69hkSYrAaFGsx02

Bonjour!Sous windows 10 au lancement de indesign 2025 j'ai le message d'erreur suivant : l'application n'as pas réussi à démarrer correctement (0xc0000142). Cliquer sur ok pour fermer l'application. J'ai essayé de réparer d'éventuelle erreur fichier, j'ai aussi tout désinstallé et tout réinstaller en suppriment les anciennes versions ainsi que les préférences, mais rien n'y fait !  Avez-vous une idée du problème ? Sachant que sous la version 2024, cela fonctionne parfaitement

Bonjour,J'ai, depuis hier, pris un abonnement Adobe. J'ai donc voulu télécharger Photoshop, Indesign et Illustrator, mais il s'est avéré que mon ordinateur n'est plus aussi puissant pour ces logiciels. Heureusement l'assistance par "Chat" m'a permis de télécharger les-dits programmes via des liens dédiés, afin qu'ils fonctionnent avec mon MacBook Pro de 2017 (MacOS 13.7.2, Ventura).Les logiciels ont bien été installés. Mais je me suis rendu compte qu'il m'est impossible de faire des mises à jour. Après "Aide" et "Mises à jour", une fennêtre s'ouvre : "Les mises à jour ont été désactivées sur cet ordinateur. Veuillez contacter votre administrateur". Or il n'y a que moi qui utilise ce Mac. J'ai vérifié les autorisations des trois logiciels, que j'ai mis en "Lecture-Ecriture" à l'occasion. Mais rien ne va du côté des moses à jour.D'autre part, dans Creative Cloud, lorsque je clique sur "Applications", j'obtiens un message similaire : Vous n'avez pas accès aux fonctionnalités de gestion de

InDesign is going mad. I have to force quit several times a day. On the pointer tool I select the zoom tool from a keyboard short cut. It will hold onto the zoom tool. I size a text box on a page and the pointer keeps the size co-ordinates and not go back to the pointer. Some times it wont let me do an undo (command z). Sometimes a random box from a menu (e.g. Layer options) I haven’t used, appears in the screen. When any of the above starts happening I know it’s time to force quit. It may be in my mind but does this have to do with upgrade to Tahoe. I have reset InDesign preferences. 2021 Macbook pro Tahoe 26.5.2 Indesign 2026 21.5. - HELP.

I need to distinguish between the following two situations.The essence is to distinguish whether it is a single line or multiple lines.The first option: select 1row (one or more columns).Second option: Select 2 rows (1 or more columns). 

How can I export full bleed images to reflowable epub? My exported images got a thick white border around on Kindle Previewer. 

Hello all,I hope this forum is the right place to ask this type of question. If it doesn’t belong here, do not hesitate to delete it and I’ll take it elsewhere.I am working on a project of art book, a coffee-table book. To give you an idea, the page size is currently set at 250 mm wide (almost 10 inches) × 340 mm tall (13.3 inches). The basic photos I work with are uncompressed TIFF files of 7,500 × 5,200 pixels, which at the rate of 300 ppi, should be enough to cover a full spread when necessary. Each TIFF file “weighs” about 230–270 MB.However, many times I will use the photos at sizes smaller than one page. My question is, in such a case, should I always Place the full-sized TIFF file anyway, and trim it down to the desired dimensions in InDesign, or do that work before in Photoshop and import (Place) only the smallest possible photo file, so as to avoid bloating my book document? Or does it not really matter after all, as the number of megabytes saved would be negligible?Placing th

Hello everyone, this is practical and worth researching.Prerequisite: I have already selected cells from multiple columnsResult: Select the corresponding column in the current text box. Or the corresponding column of the entire table (header and footer are not selected)Manual drag and drop can be implemented, but scripts should be able to implement it. Perhaps you have a good idea.  

One of my friends from Poland already receive it ID v2022Is there some more guys who's have it in CC App new v2022 to download?  So strange new politic from Adobe that not all have ability to install new versions.  

I have a project to create a book, but the page numbers need to use Arabic-Indic numerals (١، ٢، ٣، ٤، ٥). I’ve looked for tutorials online, but I haven’t found anything that answers my question. :(

Hi, I do have some old files are using PageMaker 6.5. I try to use InDesign 2022 to open it, seems not working. May I know How to open it and save it as PDF

Curious if anyone has had this issue. I have a freelancer using an older version of Illustrator and InDesign (I do not know which versions he uses). He recently sent me his working files for a project that includes die lines created in Illustrator and imported into InDesign.When I opened the files in the current version of InDesign, the path were no longer imported images--they were paths in InDesign. And they were completely wonky--they no longer looked like the die lines I had seen in pdf proofs he had submitted.If you look closely at the attached screen grab, you can see the original path that was created in Illustrator, which is rounded and smooth. Then you can see how the path actually looks in InDesign--angles and curves that do not follow the path that was created.i don’t understand how this could happen. Note that I am assuming that the issue is in the use of the older versions of the software and opening the files in the current version--but i don’t know for sure that is what

I can’t delete the note icons. I can get them to temporarily disappear but they always come back. They are a carryover from the file I copied so I could use the same styles and formatting. I saved it as an .idml file but that didn’t take care of the issue. 

Hi there,Please could anyone tell me if there is a way to (or why we cannot) reorder the colours in the drop-down colour palette…?I have created several colour groups and swatches (lower down the list than shown in the image below), but there doesn’t seem any easy way to simply reorder it so the colours and groups I use most are on the top… It would be so much easier if I could just move my favourite / regular colours by clicking on the line and moving it up or down the list. This would seem an easy thing to implement, but no-one seems to know why the functionality is not already there.  What am I missing, and can anyone help?I note there is not even an “Adobe Indesign” category in the drop-down list for Feature Requests, so I’d like to know where I’m supposed to be sending this… ?R A B

It’s simple. Unable to open Elements 2019 as stated in my question.  Note that I have a student/teacher edition.

Bonjour,Mes variables d'en-tête ne s’affichent pas dans le livre si le style de paragraphe utilisé est dans le document précédent.Je fais un catalogue, j’ai besoin d’avoir mes titres 1, 2 et 3 en variables d’en-tête mais les documents étant très conséquents les titres 1 et 2 se trouvent parfois sur les documents précédents.Comment faire pour les récupérer ? J’ai 32 documents In design dans un livre de 5266 pages.Merci pour votre aide !!

インデザインで300ページほどある電子書籍を作っています。目次には、作者名、タイトル、ページ数を入れています。電子書籍用にPDFを作成し、作者名、タイトル、ページ数いずれをクリックしても作品該当ページに飛ぶようにリンク設定を一括でできる方法を探しています。今はPDF化したらAcrobatで一つ一つ選択してリンク設定していますが、時間がかかる上にミスも発生しやすく困っています。作り方としては、インデザインで作者名、タイトル、ページ数とそれぞれフレームグリッドで分けて制作しています（画像参照）調べるとスクリプトが有効かと思いますが、スクリプトに関しては初心者なので難しいものは分かりません。よろしくお願いします。  

Ich habe dieses Problem hier schon einmal gepostet, finde es aber leider nicht mehr. Wenn ich einem Objekt einen Schlagschatten zuordne und dieses Objekt danach auf meiner Seite verschiebe, verschiebt sich auch der Schlagschatten völlig willkürlich. Passiert auch mit Objekten, die bereits einen Schlagschatten haben. Der Fehler lässt sich in jedem ID Dokument reproduzieren und scheint ein Darstellungsproblem zu sein. Sobald ich das Dokument schließe und danach wieder öffne ist alles in Ordnung. CPU Vorschau ein bzw. ausschalten bringt keine Verbesserung. Ich vermute einen Bug im Programm. Ich frage mich nur, warum dieser nicht schon längst behoben wurde. der Schatten wird über Effekt → Schlagschatten erstellt   korrekte Darstellungfalsche Darstellungen sobald ich das Objekt verschiebe   Indesign 2026, version 21.2OS Tahoe 26.3.1 Video kann man sich hier herunterladenVideo