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I am working in Indesign CC 2019 on a document that will not show "selection" when perfoming find/change.It only show document as the option to search. How do I restore all the options (selection, story, etc.).  ??  Mike

In the latest update of InDesign when I have multiple shapes and frames on the page selected, if my cursor is above something like a rectangle with content/picture inside it, I only move the picture that is below it at the time. Rather than the whole selection of objects as it used to. I tested before and after the update and it was something that only broke with 21.4. If I cursor over a solid shape object while still selecting the entire group (including the photo frame) that then moves the entire section but only if cursor above a placed fill object does it break. What could possibly be happening?

As far as I can see, you haven't been able to fix the problem yet.I managed to get InDesign working with a little trick. I renamed my files:gl_ES.dic; gl_ES.aff and hyph_gl_ES.dic aspt_BR.dic; pt_BR.aff and hyph_pt_BR.dicThen I replaced the original Adobe files located in the pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese) folder with the renamed mine. I'm never going to edit texts in Brazilian Portuguese, so I won't have any difficulty. That way I don't have to change the Info.plist file either. For InDesign I'm working in Brazilian Portuguese, when in reality I'm doing it in Galician. Since I have the OS in Spanish, I tried changing the files "DisplayLanguageNames.es.txt" and "DisplayLanguageNames.es_ES.txt" by changing the string "$$$/Lilo/DisplayLanguageName/pt_BR=galego" but it still appears everywhere "Portuguese (Brazil)".Would there be a way to change this? 

Hello everyone.I need to distinguish whether I am currently using the 'selection tool' or the 'direct selection tool'.Is there any way to implement it using scripts?Or, how to distinguish which tool I am currently using to select "object", "path", or content.Both of the following are true.alert(item.constructor.name == 'Rectangle');alert(item.parent.constructor.name == 'Spread');It seems like there's nothing I can do.Thank you very much.

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Hello everyone.I want to obtain the paragraph style of the first paragraph of the selected text, and then obtain the leading (the original unchanged leading ) from the paragraph style.The premise is that the name and grouping of the paragraph style are uncertain. 

Lately since the the most recent Indesign update, I've been having a lot of trouble getting the application to actually close. I can still click everything else and run files and make edits etc, but when I want to close the application nothing happens. I also turned on "Reset preferences on quit" but that didn't really help. Anyone know how to fix this? 

This new udpate gives me a contstant spinning wheel almost after each action I try to make. Select an item, move an item, open a panel, open a menu, anything really—each interactions causes the wheel to appear for 1-2sec. My productivity has been completely obliterated. Anyone else having this issue?   MacBook Pro 2023 M2 Max 32 GB  Sequoia 15.0.1     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hallo liebe Adobe-Community.Ich melde mich heute mit einem dringenden Anliegen bei euch:Wir benötigen schnellstmöglich einen Mac-Installer für InDesign 2023 v18 da wir mitten in einem Großprojekt stecken und einen neuen Arbeitsplatz zur Entlastung einrichten wollen. Wir benötigen eine v18-Version, da wir mit priint:Comet arbeiten und jegliche neuere Versionen die Automatisierungs-Optionen zerschießen würde. Wir arbeiten auch Mac Studios mit dem OS 26.Vielen Dank für eure Hilfe!Lieben GrußPatrick

Hello good people,I have a project in InDesign. The agency that created the documents worked quite professional. However, I am not impressed the way that created the styles for Headings level 2 to 6. They’ve created a heading style using Nested Styles. The heading continues with the text paragraph. Once I separate the heading from the main text using EM SPACE, the InDesign recognize the text before Em SPACE as being the header. See below. 1.4 Definition of requirements is the heading while the rest of the text is body text. Here is how they defined the style.  Well, my problem is when I generate the TOC. InDesign brings in the entire paragraph.So, I have to manually clean the TOC deleting the text between EM SPACE and dots. The dots have a character style named DOTS SPACING. The TOC should look like that.I tried to do that using FIND/CHANGE tool.FIND: tilda m (Em SPACE) + \w (any word character)However, how I set to stop to DOTS SPACING character style?Is there a way to do this automat

Not sure if it is Adobe or Apple, but when relinking file with long path and filename, it doesn't display full filename, which is often hard to find correct file in list.How do I display full path and file name on MacOS?  

When Application Frame in InDesign is off there's a small dark horizontal bar in the upper left corner of my screen. When I turn the Application Frame on then off the little black bar goes away but then comes right back on next launch. 

Text wrap is off; even a one px movement makes the text vanish entirely; text is not partially cut off; textbox is all the way to the front.This is happening for all text boxes. When they are moved at all right now, the text turns invisible.Version is In Design 2026.

공간이 충분한데 메뉴 항목이 모두 표시되지 않고 가려져잇어 스크롤하기 상당히 힘듭니다.특히 삼각형 아이콘을 클릭해야만 스크롤되는 UI가 너무나 비효율적입니다.마우스 휠로 스크롤 안되나요? 윈도우 디스플레이 배율 설정과의 호환성이 빨리 개선되었으면 좋겠네요.

Hola. Un archivo .indd fue dañado debido a que no se pudo guardar adecuadamente dentro de un servido de mi empresa. Ahora  me sale esta ventana diciendo esto:Podeis ver como solucionarlo y reparar el archivo? es muy importante.  Muchas gracias 

A few weeks ago, my copy of InDesign’s tool features quit working with no clear indicator as to why. Proportional resizing of frames and text boxes no longer work, with or without touching the shortcut keys and their options. Holding option to duplicate objects no longer works, holding shift to draw straight and diagonal lines or gradients no longer works, as well as a couple other option/shift tool features I can’t think of at the current moment. I have tried resetting my preferences and deleting all of the files I can find on my Mac under Library and such, which did let this work for about a week. However, it is back to doing the same thing again.I’m running the latest MacOS and Adobe Creative Cloud software versions. 2023 iMac M3.

I am working on a complex layout in InDesign 2026 that contains a large number of images and tables. When I export the file to an EPUB, all the images and tables are being pushed to the very end of the chapter (or book) instead of remaining in their original layout positions.Manually cutting and pasting the HTML code for every single asset in the exported EPUB is too time-consuming.Is there a specific export setting, native feature (like Object Anchoring), or an existing script that can automatically force images and tables to retain their inline positioning relative to the surrounding text during EPUB export? Any workflow tips or automation solutions would be greatly appreciated!

This is quite a frequent bug I have lately. Whenever I am switching to other app while InDesign is idle (can still be seen on screen; not minimized), and when going back to Indesign, some weird bug happen in one combo. The cursor icon will stuck showing Move tool or Hand tool, regardless I am actually using Pen Tool, Type Tool or other tools. Actual tool is functioning normally, but showing a wrong tool icon is frustrating.In the same time, I cannot do any Undo. The history list stop recording any new changes or actions, even clicking on the previous History records do not change anything, stuck as well. Cannot do undo is a nightmare. When this occur, Indesign cannot be closed in normal way.. must be terminated through Activity Monitor. I am using Macbook Pro M1 Pro 32GB RAM. Latest current InDesign (21.5.1). Hopefuly any solution to this. 

Hello there, my graphic design teacher is curious if there is a solve to this problem. We all know the long way of importing a multi-page PDF file into InDesign using scripts.... But is there a simplier/shorter way to go about it? Especially including the newer updates to the program? 

I do a monthly newsletter, very similar format and procedure every month. Using “High Quality Print” preset, my documents have always produced a PDF between 3.7 and 3.9MB in size. Suddenly, using same # of pages, roughly same # of photos, “saved as” layout reused month after month, the document is creating a 17-25MB PDF. Even more interesting, when I open old InDesign newsletters that originally created a 3.7MB PDF, and without changing anything turn them into a new PDF, they are now 5X bigger. (See screenshots - I made absolutely no changes to this layout, just opened it a few months later and saved it to a new PDF that turns out to be 5x bigger) Did something happen with InDesign 26 (which I did not voluntarily switch to?)  

Our team recently upgraded to macOS Tahoe and Adobe CC 2026. Everyone was working fine until the OS updated on a couple computers. Users running Tahoe 26.1 thru 26.5.2 can save to the server fine. Users on Tahoe 26.6 and higher cannot. They receive this error when saving: “InDesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged.” This requires them to save the files to their desktops first and then pull them to the server which is really not efficient for our workflow.Doesn’t matter if they are resaving an existing file or creating a new file to save to the server. All users are connecting to the same server and same location on the server for testing purposes. All computers have Full Disk access set for InDesign and we’ve tried resetting preferences, setting up new user accounts, and clearing InDesign cache files. We updated to InDesign 21.5.1 and that didn’t help.  We tested and we could break working computers by installing the updated OS. We are connecting to o

I’m exporting an InDesign document to EPUB (reflowable), but the paragraph formatting (like spacing, alignment, and indents) isn’t showing correctly in the final file. I’ve applied paragraph styles consistently. Is there a setting I’m missing or a better way to preserve formatting during EPUB export?

Hello!I am having an issue where I have set a paragraph style font to Gibson Book. However, when I apply that style, the text is converted to Arno Pro Regular and it reads as this in the font panel. When I go into the Paragraph Style panel, the basic character tab still says it is Gibson Book. I have tried making the paragraph style from scratch, and I have also tried highlighting text already formatted how I want and creating the paragraph style from that. Either way it keeps changing it back to Arno Pro.The only other thing is that this is a file someone else set up and worked in, so maybe there is some setting they put in here, but I dont know what that would be. 

I have placed a PDF into the file and cropped it. When I export my file to PDF, the way the PDF is displayed changes.