InDesign

Started out of the blue yesterday - I cannot get my selection tool back to normal. It won’t select items in file due to this little box hanging out with is - see image. How do I get my standard selection tool back?

Hallo in die Runde,hat jemand eine Idee, wie ich ein Objektformat in der Library speichern kann? Konkret geht es darum eine farbige Textbox mit bestimmten Attributen und Textformatierungen in der Library zu speichern. Ziehe ich das Objekt in die Library und dann wieder in ein Dokument, hat er mir die Attribute der Box nicht mehr (Farbe, Eckenabrundung etc.). Deshalb hatte ich die Idee das Ganze als Objektformat anzulegen, was ja prima klappt, nur kann ich das nicht in der Library zur Verfügung stellen.Lösungsvorschlag?!VG, Heidi

Hi!Maybe the community can help me with this: When exporting a InDesign-document to Adobe PDF/X-4:2010 for prepress/print, I get a warning about color separation inconsistency. When checking this out, it points to the ”cutting-marks” and to the document-info of the PDF (this is all outside the printing-area). It also warns about the system font Helvetica.  I have never seen this warning before. And even more strange: When I do a preflight of the PDF in smaller chunks of pages, everything is ok. The PDF-document have 336 pages. Translation, screenshots:Registreringfärg = Special colourÖvertryck av/på = Overprint on/off I work in:Adobe Acrobat, version 2025.001.20841 (Creative Cloud Standard)Adobe InDesign, version 21.0.1 (Creative Cloud Standard)Mac Studio Sequoia 15.6.1 /Marta 

When exporting a InDesign-document to Adobe PDF/X-4:2010 for prepress/print, I get a warning about color separation inconsistency. When checking this out, it points to the ”cutting-marks” and to the document-info of the PDF (this is all outside the printing-area). It also warns about the system font Helvetica. 

We use Google's Material Symbols fonts for icons in our documents. This works fine in InDesign 2025, but if I open a file containing Material Symbols in InDesign 2026, it immediately crashes. The same goes for assigning the font to text within a document. Immediate crash.

Hallo ihr Lieben, ich habe ein Problem, bei dem ich Eure Hilfe benötige. Ich arbeite mit InDesign und habe dort eine preisliste erstellt, mit vielen Bildern. Die setze ich als Photoshopdateien ein, weil sie Freigestellt sind. Die Preisliste hat einen hellen Blauton im Hintergrund, der mitgedruckt wird. Nun ist es so das ich einen neuen Drucker bekommen habe, einen OKI C824.  Und der druckt zwar alles super toll aus, allerdings setzt er um die die Bilder einen dunkleren Kasten in blau. Also alles was ich in Photohop auf transparent habe wird in dem Ausdruck dunkler dargestellt. Ich habe schon alles Mögliche versucht, nichts funktioniert so recht. Auch ein PDF hat mir nicht weitergeholfen.  Hat jemand von Euch einen Schimmer, welche Einstellung ich wählen muss, damit das nicht mehr passiert?

I am helping a friend to get her book published, after the people she worked with ripped her off. Long story, won't bother you with details. I used to work in an advertising company that used Quark Xpress. So I am not totally new to setting up pages with text and images. But I am a mere beginner in InDesign. I managed to set up the content pages of the book. Now I am working in a separate document to create the book cover back and front. And the program is driving me insane!Today's hot topic is: how to get the (text) objects on the book cover to NOT align to baselines?When I move the frames with the title and subtitles, they seem to stick to the baselines. How do I stop that? FYI: This is a very simple book layout. Practically no illustrations, just a bunch of stories with headlines. I figured out how to do that. But the cover is causing me headaches. Can anyone point me to a thorough InDesign tutorial for MacIntosh? One that clearly shows where everything is. I know this pro

Bonjour à tous !Je souhaite pouvoir travailler sur mes fichiers Indesign aussi bien depuis mon poste sur mon lieu de travail que de chez moi, en télétravail, ce sont des fichier très lourds, parfois plus d' 1 Go.Je me lance sur Creative Cloud et ai partagé mon 1er fichier en ligne, j'arrive tout à fait à l'ouvrir sur Indesign sur mon poste perso (compte adobe différent de celui du pro) cependant mes images en lien ne sont pas conservées, en tout cas pas toutes... celles que j'ai rajoutées récemment ne gardent pas leur lien, celles qui existaient déjà sur le fichier ( car il s'agit d'une mise à jour de texte et visuels d'un fichier pré-existant) apparaissent comme étant bien reconnues et pas de pb de lien manquant. > déjà ça je trouve ça bizarre...J'ai l'impression qu'il est impossible de faire un assemblage.MES QUESTIONS :> Faut-il travailler sur un fichier en ligne ou créer un projet pour avoir mes Links ??> Si on crée un projet, peut-on uploader les dossiers de links images

HelloI am working on a book that includes colored Arabic diacritics that should appear in front of letters using custom OpenType font for that purpose, however due to the direction of Arabic (RTL) the diacritics in InDesign appear behind characters like this:Is there any solution for this?.Thanks.

Whereas in previous versions font tracking was fine, in the new version (on Window 11 Pro) I am getting irregular spacing with some characters crowding together. It is happening with several fonts that have never previously caused problems. The only workaround i've found is adding a carriage space at the end of the paragraph, which causes the spacing to snap into the correct position.

I would like to check whether Adobe provides any native or in-built solution to convert an IDML (InDesign Markup Language) file into a JSON format. Currently, we are exploring options to process IDML files programmatically and convert the content into a structured JSON representation for downstream processing. Please let us know if there is any official guidance, documentation, or best practice recommended by Adobe for this use case.

Hi thereI get this error number: 89867, whrn I want to place a PDF – anybody knows why/what to do?Regards Jannie 

Whenever I try to access my file, the program crashes. On the occasions it does open, it crashes again when I duplicate spreads, export the file as a PDF, or save it under a different name, displaying an “unexpected error” message. I’ve also tried downloading older versions, but the issue persists. I’m unable to open or convert the file in the 2025 version either, as it crashes during the process. I have already submitted crash reports, so please if anyone can give me UPDATES on all probably 20 reports I have submitted the last couple days, it would be nice. 

Hi -- I'm working on a form for a client that has a rating system using these color-coded circles. There are four colored circles in a row, and the user of the interactive PDF is to choose one. Naturally, radio buttons make the most sense. However, as you see in the PDF (right-hand side of screen shot), it displays this awful square inset. I don't see any way in InDesign to adjust this so that the circles stay solid and only display an asthetically-pleasing indicator of some sort (checkbox, radio circle, outline, etc. ) when clicked.  I've tried leaving them solid circles in InDesign and then adding radio buttons in Acrobat, but it still doesn't look the best. Is there something simple or creative I'm missing that would make this PDF form look better? 

I created a new QR code (web hyperlink) and this is the alt text that resulted. QR code link: https://event.rotortech.com.au/program 

On indesign version: 21.1 x64the program creates corrupted files while working, happened 2 times on 2 different documents in 2 weeks. The program works but sometimes it says we cannot save the document because it's damaged. Then Indesign closes itself and starts again to recover it. I must export in IDML in order to open it again and resave it.  Here are my computer specs: Indesign version: 21.1 x64Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H (2.30 GHz)Windows 11 entreprise version 24H2build : 26100.7623 

I updated In Design last night and my history panel is only going one step backwards. So I can't adjust layouts. I am on Windows. I see some other comments, but no fix. Any help here? I can't access the 2025 version of In Design anymore for some reason either. Thanks, 

InDesign Crashing on MAC & PS and 2025 & 2026 versions. HELP!!!  

Hello,I am having trouble saving PDFs for Pantone® colors (originally intended for paper printing) so that they appear very vibrant.I have tried multiple settings (even RGB) and nothing works.These colors still appear relatively dull.Could you tell me which settings I need to check, oreven the settings I mustn't forget?My base document is an InDesign file,•  Intent = “WEB”•  The profile is “Adobe RGB 1998” (I even tried sRGB, etc.)•  …knowing that the ultimate goal will be to create a JavaScript that will save PDFs in batchesThank you.  — Dimitri 

Exporting JPG from InDesign as anything other than 72dpi will change the pixel size from the size of the document.Example: Document size 1000x1000px will export at 92dpi at 1333x1333px.  It's really frustraiting when you need to export at specific resolution for printing or web, so I ran some tests and found the calcuations to adjust document size so it will export at the correct size for your intented resolution.  To use this calulation, in document setup:Type your intended export pixel size and multiply it with the decimal from the chart below. Set the unit as Pixels or type px after the number.[intented export pixel size] * [decimal from the chart below] Example: 1200px*.75 =900 document pixel width (exports at 1200px at 96dpi) Export ResolutionMultiply Indended Export Pixel Size By:72 dpi0.0096 dpi0.75150 dpi0.48300 dpi0.24600 dpi0.121200 dpi0.06 I think it will work well enough for output dpi 300 and under, but over 600 you have to use such a sma

@Abhishek Rao @Anubhav MDepuis la version 2025, j’ai 2 manuels qui boguent à chaque fois que j’ai tenté de transférer dans une version récente. Ce qui m’a encouragé à rester avec la version 2024 (19.5)En effet, soit l’exportation en PDF cesse ou bien logiciel ferme. Parfois, exporte mais le PDF ne s'ouvre pas automatiquement. J’ai quand même un pdf mais qui n’est pas fonctionnel. Les boutons/liens pour accéder à des cibles précises ne fonctionnent pas.Les 2 manuels fonctionnaient adéquatement jusqu’en décembre 2025 avec la version 19.5. Depuis la dernière mise à jour de ID 2024 que j’ai installé en janvier 2026, j'ai différentes problématiques.J’ai un manuel qui fonctionne comme il se doit, tous les boutons/liens sont fonctionnel mais dans la version ID 2024 (19.5).Le présent manuel a des boutons fonctionnent et d’autres non. Sans que je change quoi que ce soit. En faisant d’autres tentatives d’exportations en PDF, je me rend compte que ce ne sont pas les mêmes liens qui fonctionnent d

Indesign beta does not run files made with the latest version of indesign, (updated today) why? I have a Microsoft Surface pro 11 and I only can use the indesign beta because the program is not compatible with my laptop, yet. Hopefully soon?

I run the latest InDesign on a Windows 11 PC. Over the past week, InDesign keeps crashing. Sometimes while working, but most times when I am saving. It also crashes if trying to save a IDML file or PDF.  I've tried reinstalling several times. I've gone in and scrubbed all the preference files off my hard drive. I've tested my drive to make sure it is working. I tried reinstalling an earlier version. Nothing seems to help. I thought it was working soundly for about an hour but then it crashed again. Every time I open the program up again, it tells me the file is damaged. Any ideas how I can fix this?

I am trying to add dot or dash leaders on either side of this center-justified text.I am not sure how to set this up. Thank you for any suggestions.

In the last few weeks my team has noticed that after going back into files that have been edited in InCopy, a random number of custom hyperlinks have just disappeared (but not there hyperlink text sources so we have to spend extra work cleaning those out in order to relink things), and this is causing some massive headaches for our workflow.  It should be noted that almost nothing we do is standard operating procedure for InDesign workflows; we are exporting to HTML with the help of a plugin, we use InDesign/InCopy through shared OneDrive/Sharepoint folders, I've built several custom plugin tools to add new funtionality to our HTML books - this being one of them.  My plugin tool uses the hyperlink features of indesign to inject event listeners into the hyperlink html elements, which can then be hovered or tapped on in the HTML export for little pop-ups. This has worked for a few years now and while there has been more than its fair share of problems thecreated hyperlinks having disappe