InDesign

When I try to open my Indesign file on my desktop I get a error message and am unable to access the file. When I try to open the file from creative cloud it simply will not open. What should I do? Error:Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents.

I have a very large book to complete - and to avoid a lot of very detail re-formatting i want to import the formatted text then have a paragraph style which only changes specific paragraph style things without altering the all the other formatting... i cant seem to do this! can someone exaplin what im doing wrong? Example - the text is pre-formatted to times new roman, with various words bold, italic, bold italic, there are end-notes in superscript, dates with superscript 'th' etc lots of detailed formatting already present. I can create a character style and leave all the formatting options blank except for perhaps the point size and use that to change the entire texts point size no problem...  but if (for example) i want to create a paragraph style so i can select parts of the text that are quotes and indent it left/right, but change nothing else... i cant? as in the paragraph styles box i have to specify 'basic character formats' and cannot leave it blank. so whe

We use additional software (EasyCatalog) to design catalogs for a client. However, the license for this software is only valid until InDesign 2023. Unfortunately, Creative Cloud doesn't allow installation of versions older than 2024. I used an installation file from another source, which worked for a year. Now, however, I'm getting a warning that this version will be deactivated because it's not official. I chatted with customer service, and they couldn't provide me with an older version. They suggested I ask here if anyone happens to have an older installation file. That would be very helpful. I find it very concerning that Adobe restricts the availability of older versions like this, as it could also lead to incompatibility of plugins and similar components in other applications, rendering older creation data worthless.

Hello,I run into a systematic error since I migrate to InDesign 21.0: when opening a converted 2026 InDesign document, if I try to right click on an object and select Hyperlink / Edit... the application crashes systematically. I have tried to uninstall, clear my preferences (I'm using MacOS)... I also tried from a different MacBook and it's causing the error each time. Therefore I cannot edit my links. And I cannot downgrade back to 2025 since this option is not given to me. Should I open InDesign 2025 and open the previous version of my document and accessing the Hyperlink Edit menu: no issues! So the problem is with InDesign 2026. Any idea on how to fix this or work around it? My document is in 2026 format and I cannot open it using an older version of InDesign unfortunately. Thank you! Best,Julien

How to recover the data of my files - Adobe options Yes to continue recovery or 'NO' - which i pressed accidently - only to realise that all my history and data of many years are no longer accessible!!!

Hi everyone.I have CS2020, CS2025, and CS2026 installed on my computer.Sometimes I prefer using CS2020 in InDesign because it feels faster, but when working in Photoshop standalone, I prefer CS2026.Is there a way to use a script to always open images in CS2020 within InDesign?Thank you

Hello. Sorry to bother y'all again.In the Export Adobe PDF window, compression, which setting should be chosen for flattening transparencies:PDF/X-1a:2001PDF/X-1a:2003PDF/X - 3:2002PDF/X - 3:2003PDF/X - 4:2010

I’m trying to create a consistent master page layout in InDesign, but I’m not sure if I’m setting it up the right way. What’s the easiest and most efficient method to build master pages that keep my headings, footers, and margins uniform across the entire document? Any tips or best practices would be really helpful.  

Please refer to attached Screenshots 01 and 02.I am using a MacBook Pro purchased 18 months ago running Tahoe 26.1.Issue 1: in working on a document I realized that I had been spelling fall as Fall when typing the name of the season;I opened the Find function and set it up as shown in Screenshot 1;it finds the incidents of 'Fall' but clicking on the Change button results in no change;what am I missing ?Issue 2:When I updated my computer's OS to Tahoe about 2 months ago I found a problem opening InDesign files:before installing Tahoe, when I launched the InDesign app I would get a window that resembles the window shown at the bottom of Screenshot 02. I say 'resembled' because, while that window in Screenshot 02 shows recent files, they are not actually the most recent files  - e.g., the window at the top of Screenshot 02, the file in which I was doing the Fall search/change, has today's date 251123.00, but none of the "Recents" shown in the window at the bottom of Screenshot 02 are

I have been trying to place a PDF file into InDesign, and it converts 9/10 pages into .indd format successfully, but then the error message "unable to set boundary box" appears. I am unable to close it or click anything behind the screen to try and ungroup objects or see what is causing the issue.

Bonjour,J'ai un macair de 2012 avec High Sierra et je voudrais installer indesign et illustrator. est-ce possible? comment? Merci beaucoup!

Hi.1. Did I understand correctly that there is no November discount on an InDesign subscription only?2. At what stage of the purchase do I request the version I want - the Middle East version?thanks

While working on a magazine in InDesign 21.0.1, my file (which I only had saved in the cloud) suddenly got corrupted (I think); and InDesign promptly crashed. I have not been able to open the file ever since; when I click it in InDesign's home view, the program instantly crashes, and when downloading it from CC's web view (adobe.com/files), I have to wait several minutes before the following error appears in my browser's console. Export: ExportCloudDocs: : exportCloudDocs: id-1-miaiutr1-r0sm1dpwnrd export failed error: {"errorCode":"sensei-conversion-error","errorDesc":"Error: Conversion failed unexpected response from server, with 200"} Export: ExportManager: convertAndDownloadFile: Not able to export file: id-1-miaiutr1-r0sm1dpwnrd: {"errorCode":"sensei-conversion-error","errorDesc":"Error: Conversion failed unexpected response from server, with 200"}  The same behaviour occurs in the CC desktop app. There is no "timeline icon" visible when I click the file in CC, so I cann

The anchored object needs to be at the top of the Text Frame, but move along with the text  if the text moves. (wherever it's anchored.)Doing this in the "standard" way doesn't work if it has to be on the top line in a Text Frame.Thanks thanks 

I want to disable InDesign V5.0 on an old PC. There's no "Disable" option in the HELP menu.How do I do it?

This setting seems to be on a per-file basis now, not for all InDesign files. That's different than before InDesign 21.0.1 x64.I can select it in one file, but when I open the next file, it's off again. Also, all my Typographer Quotes are now straight quotes, and to change them I have to open each file, turn on Typographer's Quotes, and search and replace. If I just search and replace, the files I haven't updated the preferences for keep the straight quotes. Windows 11. Beginner InDesign user.

Hi, Please assist me to understand that how the Text (Read Only!) is inserted in attached InDesign on Master page without using the Layer. Thanks,Santosh

hello, i am working on a book (currently in dissertation form) that has endnotes at the end of the entire book. right now, the endnotes are auto-populating on the very last page of the document. after i made enough endnotes to fill up that page, rather than stopping at the end of the page and starting a new endnote page, the footnotes are bleeding off of the page into the blank in-between space. i'd like for the endnotes to fill up multiple, continuous pages. i have tried a few things that have not worked, like copying some over to a new page, or attempting to figure out how to add a second endnote text box on the next page. thank you! 

There is a command to recompose all the stories. It is:Ctrl + Alt + / I want to invoke the same command using this method:app.menuActions.item("$ID/Show Rulers").invoke(); Instead of "Show Rulers" how do I write the above command. Thanks

Im on the brink of waving InDesign goodbye, when this happens ever egain. After Updating InDesign to 20.3.1 every window with a previous checked "preview"-checkbox gets reverted to unchecked – Every. Effin. Update. Is this really neccessary??  

Takes forever to switch from open file to open file!!!!!!! And also takes forever for placed image files to show high res. 

This my first posting here. I am an 86 year-old retired minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, formerly Methodist. I have a large number of sermons, orders of worship, articles etc saved on my computer, many of which are in InDesign format (from when I was a paying subscriber to (I think) CS6. My understanding was that I had purchased a lifetime subscription to InDesign, but I can no longer retrieve them. How do I now download these 'old' versions so that I and my family can enjoy recalling those old days? Russell_0502.

I have a text frame in Adobe InDesign with around 100 lines, each separated by a hard return (Enter). The font size is 12 px and I want the line height (leading) to also be 12 px.Manually adjusting each line is too slow. Is there a faster way to narrow the spacing for all lines at once, ideally without editing each paragraph individually?

My Adobe fonts not activating in Indesign. This has just started in the past week or so. I have tried using both indesign 2025 & 2026 i am on a mac sequoiz 15.6. Please help!!!

when i use the pen tool i can't see the guide i've tried every thing but i couldn't fix it