InDesign

Since this post seems to be marked as resolved after the Adobe Community update and it isn’t resolved, I’m creating a new post and linking to the old one. All the relevant information can be found here (at least all of the information that survived the Adobe Community update -- there are several missing posts). Long story short -- when you install Windows Security updates, some system fonts -- Times New Roman for me -- throw a missing font error in InDesign. This error only goes away if you uninstall the Windows Security update. More detailed info can be found in the linked post.This issue has been going on for literally months, since last November, and we’ve got bupkis to show for it -- less than bupkis now that some of the original posts have been nerfed with the Adobe Community update and the original thread appears dead. Adobe. Please. Help. This is beyond frustrating now... 

Hello Adobe Community,I’m facing an issue while working with an Adobe product and would appreciate your help.I’m experiencing unexpected behavior during normal usage, and it’s affecting my workflow. I’ve already tried basic troubleshooting steps such as restarting the application, checking for updates, and reinstalling, but the issue still persists.Details: Adobe Product: photoshop Version: 21 Operating System: macOS Issue Description: after 1 hour screen turn into black If anyone has faced a similar issue or knows a possible fix, your guidance would be really helpful.Thanks in advance for your support. check more http://heyteamenu.com/

The latest version on InDesign was not working on our Windows 11 systems: it either wouldn’t launch or when using it, text will disappear in text boxes (even though it is still there) and the Undo action only performs one or two undos. Uninstalled and went back to InDesign version 20.5.1 which appeared to work fine until today: now I am having the same undo problem. Tested in a brand new document.It should be noted that coworkers with Macs are not having this issue.I saw a previous post that said this could be fixed by unchecking the GPU option in preferences, but that is NOT checked in mine (it is greyed out because it says it does not detect a compatible device).It is almost impossible to work knowing you only have one undo, please advise how to fix this!

Hello, I’ve set my text frame to have 2 columns in the text frame options, but I’m unsure how to adjust only one column. I’d like one column to be shorter than the other, but I can’t select them individually since they’re treated as a single object due to the text frame settings. Do I need to create a new text frame with a single column, or is there a way to adjust the columns separately after the fact? Thanks!

Hi, not sure if I’m having an off day or not here. I asked a college and they were also puzzled. I’m placing high resolution images into Indesign.The document size without a doubt is 1920x1080 px.The Images are large stock images, bigger than this document size at 300ppi.When placed at 100% these images are smaller than the document? For example: One image is 3840x2160 px at 300ppi. When placed into a 1920x1080px document making it the full page size indesign says it is 208.3% scaled, and the effective ppi is 144?  This makes no sense, the effective ppi should exceed 300, and the scale should be less than 100%?!  See link panel and item selection image for details.Please help. 

New version of InDesign won’t PDF certain pages that previously worked fine in 25 version. Taking up lots of time trying to work out what images need to be replaced or even what pages (says p20 but might be 25). Once sorted it often generates PDF to near the end of doc and then just freezes. Is there a work around or an update coming for this? Its so time consuming. 

I’m new to InDesign, but have made books in other products. I have chapters all made with the same template and parent settings. I put them in a book. I want the chapters to start on odd or even pages, depending on how the chapters lay out. The chapters that start on odd pages look great. But the ones that start on even pages have the inner and outer margins backwards. Is there a way to set up my parents so a chapter will have the margin (and page headers and the like) be correct for whether it winds up starting on the right or the left? (So that if I add a page, say, to an early chapter, the change ripples correctly through the rest of the chapters.) I’ve attached my first test case with four chapters. Note the third one, “Illness and Injuries” starts on the left, but the margins are set for a right side page. Thanks in advance.

There is a bug in InDesign 21.2 (and Windows 11 Enterprise): our latest files were corrupted and unavailable when we opened them this morning. (Error message and warning sign.).No actions were possible, screen freezesWe were all completely blocked, because the previous versions are unable to open our latest files.Thank’s   

I have an InDesign 2025 sdk project that I’m migrating to InDeisgn 2026 sdk   but I´m having problems with the K2Vector changes. I don´t know where to start, I already add the header and lib routes but Idon´t know if I´m missing something or all the error are related to code changes that I need to made.  this is the error that the compiler throw:Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:  "K2Internals::K2VectorBase<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>::DoCleanup()", referenced from:      std::__1::unique_ptr<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>, std::__1::default_delete<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>>>::~unique_ptr[abi:ne200100]() in TextWarpSuiteASB.o      std::__1::__shared_ptr_pointer<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>*, std::__1:

Hi all,I'm working on migrating my InDesign plugin from the 2025 SDK to the newly released InDesign 2026 SDK. I’m using Xcode 16.2 on macOS and attempting to rebuild the plugin against the latest SDK.However, I'm encountering the following compilation error: "No member named 'data' in 'K2Vector<TabStop>'" This error is occurring in TabStop.h at these lines: const TabStop* begin() const{ return fSortedTable.data(); }/** */const TabStop* end() const{ return fSortedTable.data() + fSortedTable.size(); } Has the K2Vector interface changed in the 2026 SDK? Or is there some new header, typedef, or setting I'm missing?Any guidance on how to resolve this or properly access the internal buffer of a K2Vector in the new SDK would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!Chetan

Is there a function to remind reviewers?It would be very helpful if the InDesign Adobe review function had a reminder feature that could be set to remind reviewers if they haven’t opened the link within a set period of time. My problem is that my people don’t always get to it right away and then forget. That delays the production process. If Review could have a reminder function like Adobe Sign (or if it is there and I do not know about it) that would be extremely helpful. I understand I could export it and then send it as an Adobe Sign document and then import comments back into the document but I’d prefer to keep it all in the InDesign Review eco-system. 

After updating to both Tahoe 26.1 and ID 2026, I can no longer package files located on my Synology NAS.  I'm getting the "indesign could not package the document cannot copy necessary linked files" error. I can package if all of the files are on my local drive. This is fine, except I have thousands of files on the NAS that my studio works from.  Anyone have a solution for this? I'm going nuts.  My phone call with Adobe support was "if you resaave all of the linked files with new names in new locations, they will re-link up" This is a nightmare for a studio, so its a non-starter.  Affinity works fine, and would be a PITA to move to, but I'd prefer for now to stick with ID. 

This pops up when copy/pasting a vector image from Illustrator to InDesign. Only from recent update.Needs to be fixed ASAP.   

Adobe is padding updates with AI and other “features” - your description, not mine. These are causing crashes and freezing and generally disrupting the users’ workflow, which is counter productive. Given the cost of Creative Cloud it is inexcusable that users are losing time and money trying to work this nonsense. Designers are quite capable of deciding what that want to do with their documents without Adobe forcing buggy options into our work. Kindly STOP this practice - or perhaps Adobe is prepared to pay us for lost time. If you’s like examples, simply read through the MANY posts detailing these issues.

Simple enough, really. I had a bunch of layers that contained various elements for a spread.I’m not an InDesign “power user” so I’m kinda picking my way through this.I decided that the best way for me to stay organised was to put all of those elements into a single “spread” layer, so that I can have a different layer for each spread. I couldn’t move the layers into other layers, so I grouped each layer’s contents & then moved all of the groups into my “spread” layer.Unfortunately, InDesign, like Illustrator, treats guides quite differently to what I’m used to in Photoshop. (Nothing wrong with that, of course, I’m just not used to it.)Bottom line is that I went to delete all of my original layers, only to be told that they contain guides.I need all my guides.Can I move them to another layer? Can I even find out where they are? I can’t seem to see them as objects the way I can in illustrator.I suppose it’s not the end of the world if I leave all my original layers there, just so I ca

Hello,This issue is driving me nuts! I'm sure there's an easy fix, but I can't figure it out.On certain .indd files, I'm unable to edit any text box. This happens with more than enough files that I can't imagine these files are all corrupt, but not ALL files. When I single click on the text box, I see the normal blue frame with handles (2nd image below). When I double click to edit, the frame turns brown (1st image below) and I'm unable to edit anything. I've tried unlocking all objects (Object/Unlock all Objects), but it's grayed out. There are no other layers on top of these text boxes and they all share a Master Page (which does not include the text boxes I'm trying to edit). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Bonjour,existe-t-il une solution pour faire apparaître dans le document lui-même, sous chaque page par exemple, les numéros de celles-ci comme présent dans la fenêtre “Pages” 

Hi everyone!I’ve just updated my Indesign to 21.2 (WIN11) because I wanted to check out the new AI-Feature to generate Alternative Text directly in Indesign.I checked out my credits (500) before. But I can’t get my Indesign to recognize/ use these credits.I already checked out my CC and signed in again but the Problem ist still there: the ALT-Text-Option remains greyed out (see attached image)Anyone knows how to get around this?Your help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.

Totally boring! … Can it be fixed?  (^/)

Hello everyone.I have many tables with many rows that flow across several pages. The rows are defined with specific measurements in the "top cell inset" and "bottom cell inset."To make these tables justified/take up the entire page, I've been selecting all the table rows on the page and playing with the "top cell inset" and "bottom cell inset" spacing, trying and changing the spacing until I get it right.I need a script that does the following:Find the remaining space to fill the page and distribute that space evenly across all the selected rows.Does anyone know a script that does this?I'm uploading a table in InDesign with the .idml extension.Thank you very much. José Dias 

I’m looking to print a 32-page PDF, of which only 4 pages are in colour whereas the rest is black and white. So Ideally I would like to export a PDF with 28 pages using “20% dot gain” output and the remaining 4 with “fogra51” colour profile.Is it possible to export a PDF using multiple colour profiles? OR is it possible combine two exported PDF without breaking any ISO compliance ?  Thanks!

Is anyone else experiecing issues with saving their file? It's giving me a pop up window "InDesign is unable to perform the requested operation on the file." Does anyone have any solution to this? I’m working on a massive project and can’t afford to lose time.

Hi everyone,since updating to an InDesign 2026 version (currently 21.0.1), I can no longer save any files. Whenever I click “Save” or “Save As,” only a completely black window appears, and I’m unable to proceed. To troubleshoot, I installed an older InDesign 2025 version (20.5) in parallel, and everything still works normally there. I have already tried the following without success:Uninstalling and reinstalling InDesignUsing the Creative Cloud CleanerDeleting the AppData foldersUnfortunately, the issue persists in version 2026. Has anyone experienced this or found a solution?Thanks in advance!

I have a file that's giving me the error "All spreads cannot be hidden" with an option to "unhide spreads" in the open dialog box. This button crashes InDesign everytime. I've tried to recover the file, which leads back to the same error.   I'm on the latest version for Mac: 20.4.1.4

InDesign 2025 on a PC is unusable. I have an existing InDesign document, nothing fancy, a simple report. When I try to remove three paragraphs of body text by highligting it and hitting the delete button (an extremely simple task I've done thousands of times) InDesign freezes and I have to End Task in the Task Manager. I let it sit for 20 minutes and it was just a spinning cursor. Adobe has joined the enshitification party in tech. Make a product that works.