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Ever since updating to the new version of InDesign (about a week or two ago), I encounter inconsistent behavior with expanding individual panels on the right side when you click on the panel name. Sometimes, the won't expand. When this occurs, I also cannot open the panel as a stand alone window by selecting  it from the Window menu. However I CAN use the << at the top of the Panel menu to expand all the panels. Once it occurs, if I close InDesign and reopen it, that usually fixes the problem. I have not been able to find a consistent thing that causes this to happen. I think it might occur more when opening files that have not been saved in the current version, but sometimes doing that does not cause the problem.

Question: Since the spacing of the last line has not changed, special handling is needed. Do I feel a bit clumsy in my current way of thinking?Do you have a simpler science?Target: Current text box.Status: cursor in line (not selected)Original Leading: 20.8 points.Operation result: Set the line spacing in the current text box to 19.35;Exception: The last line spacing is still 20.8 (special handling required)/** @Function Add a line and apply new line spacing**/var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];//Insert point to select the entire text boxif (item.constructor.name == "InsertionPoint" && item.parent.constructor.name == "Story") { item.parentTextFrames[0].texts[0].select();}//Setting line spacing: An extra line has not been selected at this timenewItem = d.selection[0];var oLinesNum = newItem.lines.length;for (i = 0; i < oLinesNum; i++) { newItem.lines[i].leading = 19.35}Later, I added this paragraph and was able to handle the last line, but I always

I frequently create brochures, and at some point in the project without fail the share for review link stops allowing me to update content. The review links are an integral part of our workflow, and for my non-brochure work they are fine (although I have to update those less frequently), but with my brochure documents it will allow me to create a new link, but after that I can no longer publish any changes. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign, turned off and on countless times, ensured the document I’m updating is the only one open, packaged then opened the idml and re-saved the document to indd. It just doesn’t work, and it’s really frustrating to explain to our clients that their comments have gone because we had to make a new link (or they get confused, comment on an old link and we don’t make the updates). Any ideas?

I would like to be able to calculate row- and column totals automatically within InDesign if this is possible.One one page of a large/complex document I have one table formatted exactly the way I want it to look, with numerical values that update regularly. There are column headers along the top, row headers on the left, column totals on the bottom, row totals on the right, and the grand totals in the bottom-right cell. All the cells inside the table contain only numbers or no data. The row totals on the right also require footnote references (*1, etc) that are detailed in text below the table.For the last 25 years I’ve just been updating the numbers manually and using a calculator, but I have made mistakes on occasion. I’d rather not mess with Excel and importing/linking/etc; just a very simply way to add top-to bottom and left-to-right. Is it possible to do this? Please and thanks. Here is the table.  

Presumably yet another bug but great news we now have more AI no one asked for.Examples: MaximiseAppetising Are now flagged as spelt wrong with American options offered. Language is set to UK, language on computer is set to UK, this literally happened today with your wonderful new update. 

I have experienced this error (0xc0000142) when attempting to open InDesign and illustrator several times over the course of a few months now. There is a fix that I found through the Adobe forums that involves repairing the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable program files and it works temporarily, but after a few weeks the problem reappears. I have tried installing several versions of both programs to see if it is just affecting a specific version, but it does not appear to make a difference.Any help toward a permanent fix is appreciated, as I require authorization from my company’s tech support department in order to perform the fix every time this problem occurs and it is interfering with my job. Thank you below is the fix I have had to do if anyone is interested. again it works but only temporarily for me: 

Depuis la mise à jour d’indesign hier, lorsque je prend une couleur avec l’outil pipette dans un import Ai CMJN, l’outil me crée une valeur RVB dans le nuancier. Le fichier AI est bien en CMJN, l’export en PDFX se fait bien en CMJN. 

InDesign 21.5 — Data Merge corrupts accented characters when running InlineMerge.jsxbinAfter updating to InDesign 21.5, Data Merge no longer handles accented characters correctly when I run my InlineMerge JSXBIN script.For example:Sección becomes Secci—nDescripción_ES becomes Descripci—n_ESThe problem affects both the Data Merge field names and the merged text.Steps to reproduce:Create a new InDesign document. Load a tab-delimited TXT file as a Data Merge source. The field names containing accented characters display correctly. Run the attached/linked inlineMerge.jsxbin script. Accented characters are replaced by incorrect characters, e.g. ó becomes —.Important: The exact same TXT file and the exact same script work correctly in the previous version of InDesign.I rolled back to the previous version and the problem immediately disappeared.This appears to be a regression in InDesign 21.5 affecting Data Merge and/or the scripting API used by the script.OS: macOSInDesign: 21.5Data source: 

Hi everyone,I am working on a rather complex JSX script for a multi-section publication. I’ve hit a wall regarding InDesign’s native footnote engine behavior, and I’m hoping someone here might know a hidden trick or undocumented DOM property.The Context: My script processes a continuous text flow. When it detects a specific paragraph style (acting as a section divider), it physically splits the TextFrame at that exact paragraph. It breaks the threading, resulting in two completely independent, unlinked Stories sitting on the same page or spread.The Problem: Even though the text is now split into two separate, unthreaded Stories, InDesign's footnote engine continues the numbering across them. If Story A ends at footnote 12, Story B (the new section) starts at footnote 13.I need the footnote numbering to restart at 1 for Story B.What I know / What I've tried: I know that doc.footnoteOptions.restartNumbering only accepts Page, Spread, or Section parameters. It completely ignores Story bou

I've been exploring more of InDesign recently, and I'm curious which features other designers rely on the most.Which feature has improved your workflow the most? Are there any hidden shortcuts or tools that more people should know about? Do you use GREP, Data Merge, Object Styles, Scripts, Variables, or another productivity feature? What's one InDesign tip you wish you had learned much earlier?I'd love to hear your favorite time-saving tricks and recommendations!

have been using InDesign pretty sure over 20+ years. before that I used Quark Xpress & recently wanted to rotate an image around a circle & remembered Quark had something called Super Step & Repeat. I’m not as fluent in Illustrator so hoping there’s a way to do that same thing as easily in InDesign as it was in Quark so many years ago. Thanks for helping me figure out how to do this task.

Pretty simple and unusual bug. I haven’t noticed a pattern yet, but I have set a custom workspace at least 5+ times in the past 2 weeks and CC Libraries and Style Packs keep getting added. I have never added those and manually removed them multiple times (and then saved that workspace.)I have deleted the workspace and made a new one, overridden it, seemingly tried everything. This is such a small thing that is driving me crazy. InDesign 21.3 on Mac Tahoe 26.2. Before telling me to update to 21.4, I will not because of the bugs breaking simple layout and selection things :)

Issue: InDesign Publish Online Errors #33 (Update) and #18 (New Publish)Hi everyone,I'm trying to publish both our company’s indoor and outdoor catalogs using InDesign's Publish Online feature. I've used Publish Online every year for several years without any issues, so this behavior is completely new.When I try to update an existing published document (my preferred workflow), I consistently receive Error #33. If I instead try to publish it as a new online document, I receive Error #18.This is happening with both of our catalogs, not just a single file.I've already tried the troubleshooting steps I found on Adobe's forums and support articles, but none have resolved the issue.Troubleshooting I've tried:Signed out of Adobe Creative Cloud, restarted my computer, and signed back in. Updated InDesign to the latest version and restarted. Tried publishing while connected to our VPN and while disconnected from the VPN. Verified that my system date and time are set to update automatically. Sav

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... 

Hi AllI used to be able to scale a text box with cmd and shift and the text would scale with the text boxNow using Indesign CC this doesn't happen.I think I need to change the settings in the Text Frame Options window.What do I need to change to scale the text with the text box.

I tried clicking the left mouse button repeatedly, but that didn’t seem to work.It seems that only double-clicking to select a word or triple-clicking to select an entire line works.However, when adjusting a specific column or page, it can also be useful to select the text in the current column or on the current page. 

I’ve designed two reflowable ePubs in the last 48 hours with same image alignment error. I design them all of the time, so it’s not me. Images are not center aligned though I’ve selected align center layout and even manually added object export custom alignment center to the image with same result of left alignment. Please advise. Thank you.

InDesign was working fine last night. This morning, when I tried to export a PDF, it became unresponsive. I Forced Quit and tried again. After this second try, after it loads, I get only a grey screen and am unable to even access preferences. On top of that, it seems to be using significant energy. I tried uninstalling and installing other versions, to no avail. 

Hi everybody,I recently had an issue in InDesign that prevented me from exporting my document.Every time I tried to export it would come up with an error message saying '’Possible cause of failure is present on spread with page number 24’ We tried deleting the spread and then the same error message would pop up but with a different page number ''Possible cause of failure is present on spread with page number 9'’ and it kept moving. All the links were working, and we have used this template hundreds of times and never had any issues.My colleague seems to think it could be due to slow internet and the document was having trouble finding the files to export. Could this be the case?Any suggestions are appreciated as this caused us to miss a tender submission deadline and we really don't want it happening again.Thank you 

I have currently selected multiple images, and I want to use a script to generate captions. After generating static captions, automatically select the captions as the operating objects.In the future, I will make other adjustments to the captions.  

I was attempting to do some basic tasks with Flex Layout in InDesign PC. After about a half-dozen things were tried InDesign completely froze, the process had to be stopped and the program re-launched. This is 100% repeatable behavior, whether with an existing file open or with a new file open. Everything else with ID is fine, just whenever I try to use Flex.I can work around this by never using it (I never did before), but since there’s a risk of document corruption when I force-close I.D. I’m wondering what’s going on.

I have been trying to generate styles using scripts for a long time.Suddenly realizing that this is a thankless task.Perhaps importing styles can be easily implemented. If my script is located at: ../scripts/myScript/aa.jsxMy style file can be found at: ./scripts/styles/myStyle.inddIs there a script that can import all style structures (including group names) with one click?One click import of all, no need to select.

I used InDesign professionally, every day of my life, from v.1 through 2014. I've gotten out of design and print production, but have kept an old copy for random use and access to my old files. Just last month I upgraded to an Apple Silicon Mac, and so got the latest Creative Cloud apps.    I'm finding the current InDesign SUPER annoying to use. When I try to grab certain elements, particularly picture boxes, it seems to be completely random if the cursor grabs the frame or the content. I'm always using the top arrow (item selection tool). This used to be enough to guarantee that I'd grab the whole item and not the enclosed image. But no longer.    Is there a setting that can restore the old (logical) behavior? Has Adobe's UX team, in its cruel efficiency at tormenting its users, added an arbitrary step here? Please help.    <Title renamed by moderator>

Find missing glyph.InDesign crashes when handling documents containing tables.It doesn't crash if you set it to the paragraph and cell level.Documents containing overset text also crash.Is this an InDesign bug?app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = -2;alert(app.activeDocument.findGlyph()[0].contents);