InDesign

I'm making a product catalog with modling profiles, and the profile shapes have thin gray strokes for measuring. The end of the strokes are all different, some shorter, some longer. My goal is to make them all the same so they are extened 0.25 inches from the shape. You'll see what I mean if you look at the attachment that shows a before and after comparison. What I've been doing is dragging the end point of each stroke to a guide. This is very time-consuming since there  are hundreds of these shapes that have these lines. Is there a way in InDesign (or Illustrator), or using AI somehow where I can get these lines to be 0.25 inches away from the shape instead of doing it manully by dragging each point of each line? Thank you,Chris, Graphic Designer

I'm working on a document to publish online (as a link). I'm trying to incorporate an image of a record player. The plan is that, when clicked, the image of the record player switches to a GIF with a spinning record. At the same time, it'll trigger the sound file I have on the page to play. Then, when the user clicks the GIF, the music pauses, and the GIF switches back to the record player PNG.So far, I've tried this method:1. Turn the record player PNG and GIF into buttons (PNG plays music, GIF pauses music).2. Align the elements and turn them into a multi-state object.This is where I'm stuck, as when I turn them into an MSO, they lose their interactivity. I can't turn the states into buttons or edit any button actions. Is there a way to achieve the effect I'm going for?

You just need to create a paragraph style and a list! Start with a custom paragraph style. Under "Bullets and Numbering" create a new list. Make sure "Continue Numbers across Stories" and "Continue Numbers from Previous Document in Book" are both selected. Here are the settings I use for the numbering style but if you just want the number by itself you just need "^1": Now on your Parent page you just insert a text box and set the paragraph style! For my use, I want the final to say "Page Count 1/42" where the 1 is the incrementing number and the 42 is whichever page limit I have for that document. So on each page that counts towards my custom page limit, I CTRL+SHIFT click on the text box to edit the Parent object and type in 42 (or whatever my page limit is) and the 1 updates automatically. Here's what it looks like in the text box: If you only want the incrementing number, I believe you need to put a space in the original text box, but you might need to test that.

Hi there, I have received an InDesign document.  The document has some GREP STYLES set that instruct InDesign to Bold all instances of the word SHALL and all instances of SHALL NOT. Those GREP STYLES are present in most of the paragraph styles, and there are a lot. They look like that: Apply style: Universal Bold; To Text: \ssall\s. The document was translated into German, and I must instruct InDesign to Bold all instances of MUSS and MUSSEN. I opened PARAGRAPH - GREP STYLES, and I changed shall with muss and mussen. It didn't work. So, I selected the text and went to Paragraph Style. I opened the style used for that paragraph, and I opened the GREP style Tab, and I noticed that the definition was still in English. I changed "shall" with "muss" and it worked. However, as I mentioned, there are a lot of paragraph styles that use these GREP Styles. It is time-consuming to open each style and change "shall" with "muss". Is there a way to do that automati

I have a script that no longer works with the update and I have no clue on how to fix it.The script is supposed to open the first file in the book print (located in the C:\ folder mentioned), update the links, save and close the file and then open the next file in the book and repeat until all files are linked and saved. I would appreciate any help someone can give. //Set the user interaction level to NEVERapp.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT; //Perform open of a sample bookvar myBook = app.open("C:\\forms\\0210.files\\zprint.indb", false),    i, docPath, doc, j;  for (i = 0;i<myBook.bookContents.length;i++){    docPath = myBook.bookContents[i].fullName;    doc = app.open(File(docPath), false);    for (j = 0; j < doc.links.length; j++) {        doc.links.item(j).relink(File(doc.links.item(j).filePath));  &nb

Hallo, ich soll einen Werbeflyer gestalten und sitze seit Wochen an der Datensatzzusammenführung. Leider werden bei mir trotz TXT-Datei in UTF-8 Zeichensatz keine €-Zeichen angezeit. Er erkennt das Zeichen perdu nicht. Zudem kann ich auch bei neu erstellter Datei (ohne Copy-Paste) keine verschiedenen Daten auf einer Seite platzieren, da das Feld "Einzelner Datensatz" in dem Fenster "Datensatz zusammenführen" einfach nicht anwählbar sein möchte.. Mit der Vorschau werden immerhin die Daten sowie die Bilder angezeigt.  Ich hoffe, dass mir jemand helfen kann.. Ich würde mich sehr über jede Hilfe freuen! 

It would be great the possibility to select different words in the same text (I mean in different places), just to change them with a single action!

Was just upgraded recently to InDesign 2026. How do I get rid of the new start page?Because of this page I cannot make changes as you could previously by setting preferences before you open a new file. Also it does not even show letter paper as an option. I want to get rid of this annoying feature.

Hi, I wrote a function that deletes empty table rows, but for some reason it works very slowly. When 180 rows have to be deleted, it takes 21 seconds to do so. Considering I have two such tables and many data merged documents, it rather adds up. I was wondering if someone knows why it is this slow. We thought that perhaps we could make it faster by deleting a range of rows at once rather than deleting rows one by one, but I don't know how to delete multiple rows at once. Here is the code: function delRows(doc){ // If the tables' rows' contents are 0 in length (i.e. empty), delete the rows var myRowsApp1 = doc.textFrames.itemByName("Appendix1").tables[0].rows.everyItem().getElements(); for(var i = myRowsApp1.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var rowContent = myRowsApp1[i].contents; rowContent.shift(); if(rowContent.toString().replace(/,/g,"").replace(/\uFEFF/g,"").length != 0){ myRowsApp1[i].

bonjour j'utilise Indesing sous Windows. j'ai essayé plusieurs combinasion de réglage écran, mais j'obtiens un rendu à l'écran de très mauvaise qualité. j'ai essayé sur des écrans différents et l'affichage reste de très mauvaise qualité. La seule solution est d'utiliser 'affichage standart" au lieu de "affichage de qualité supérieure" (qui fonctionnait très bien il y a encore qq semaines). Je rencontre le problème quelque soit le poids du fichier Indesign. J'ajoute une copie d'écran pour illustrer ce soucis.Je travaille sous DELL Intel COREi7

Ich möchte nicht die festgelegte Minion, wie im Bild, als Ersatzschrift, sondern Messina. Wo kann ich das in den Einstellungen einmalig festlegen? Danke euch. 

Hello,  I am working on some accessible PDFs, and have already implemented Paragraph styles and a Reading order. However, when I export the PDF to Acrobat and test out the Screen Reader I find that it reads the document much to quickly, and in most instances cause it all too run on together.  I've tried searching with no luck. Can anyone tell me how to add a delay between my components (H1, H2, P, etc), so that the screen reader reads the document at a normal pace, and doesn't cause it all to run on together and become incoherent?  Thanks! 

When I went to an ADOBE bootcamp a decade ago the instructor said Illistrator tends to worked better then photoshop when dealing with graphics inside inDesign, so I primarly do everthing in illistrator. I just recently started to save things to the cloud and now I find I am running into an issue. Why when I use a InDesign file saved to the cloud and I try to import graphics also on the cloud it doesn't see any of my illustrator files at all.? It sees only InDesign, Photoshop, and Firefly files, it dosn't matter if it is in the project folder or just in my files. I only have this issue when it is a adobe cloud saved file. I have 32 files but it sees none, I then have to save to my computer to import them into my indesign file into a library.

HiI lost my Find/Change shortcut and option in indesign.I can not Find and Change text very annoying.Anybody knows what is going on? Thank you Bas

I’m having trouble getting OpenType font features to appear in Adobe InDesign. Even though I'm using an OpenType font, options like stylistic sets, ligatures, and alternate characters seem to be missing or grayed out in the Character panel. I’ve checked my text settings, but nothing seems to fix it. Is there something else I need to enable, or could this be a font-specific issue?   

I have a very large book and it has a lot of styles in it. They are labelled and grouped and organised as much as possible but it's something I'm working on over a very long period and sometimes the client takes a 6 month break and when I come back it's a bit much to remember where everything is. A search bar in the panel would be SO useful. I have the most used ones already set up with shortcuts but the less used ones, a search bar to find them in the list and click to apply would be so helpful, as opposed to having to open and close all the groups and scroll up and down the list looking. I can't be the only person that would find this useful?

I spent hours working on an InDesign file. Everything was smooth, the project was completed, and the PDF exported without issues. The client requested a small text change, so I reopened the file. InDesign froze, crashed, and the file was corrupted beyond recovery.I restarted InDesign and opened a backup. Same story: the app got stuck again (this time with an annoying “projects” popup), froze, and after a forced close, that backup file was destroyed as well.I have now lost five hours of work.This is the typical Adobe upgrade experience when the new yearly versions roll out on Windows. Half baked, unstable, and dangerous. And now my files are gone. Dev team, please take note.Everyone else, please no suggestions about resetting preferences. We go through this every year. I’m downgrading to the previous version and waiting until Adobe ships something that doesn’t destroy user data.

Hey, since the recent update, I'm getting a lot of complaints from my writers that they can no longer proof from mobile, using the Share For Review links I send them. They can pinch to zoom, but they are unable to scroll around the page.On iPhone the situation is even worse. Tapping the page icon at the bottom of the screen brings up a navigation system, however this frequently fails to update the page viewer. Tapping on the desired page in the navigation bar, will frequently see the selected page revert to the previous one when the user taps on the updated page in the viewer space.Having tested it all myself on both Android and iPhone, I can confirm that the system is very broken from what it once was. I hope this is on your radar to fix as soon as possible. Thanks.

Is there an setup.exe file available to download InDesign 2024 v19.5.4 ?   <Title renamed by MOD>

Can you upgrade from earlier version of CS4 to CS6 without having to pay full price?  

Dear Adobe Support Team,We are experiencing a critical and widespread issue affecting multiple users in our organization when working with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator files stored on our internal network server.1. Issue SummaryAt approximately 08:00 AM (GMT+7) on November 18, 2025, our users were unable to work with InDesign and Illustrator files located on our internal server.Symptoms observed:Files cannot be opened from the server, with error messages indicating that the file cannot be initialized or opened due to server permission issues. (Errror message: you may not have permission or the document may be open already)In some cases, files can be opened, but:Users cannot perform any editing actions.The application becomes unresponsive or certain functions are disabled.These symptoms have occurred across multiple workstations.2. Troubleshooting Attempts (Unsuccessful)We attempted the following actions, but the issue persisted:Copying files from the server to the local De

I'm wanting to show one word in my autocloseAlert message (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/autoclosealert-customconfirm-and-customprompt-messages/td-p/15255213) in bold for emphasis (specifically in FrameMaker, but it's more a ScriptUI question). Standard ideas don't work. For example:AutocloseAlert("This is a <b>test</b>.)Displays literally "This is a <b> test </b>."Other variations like assingning test to a variable and then using variable.bold do the same thing.Is this not supported by ScriptUI, or is there a workaround that I haven't found?Thanks!

Hi,I’m having an issue with Illustrator patterns when exporting an InDesign file to PDF version 1.3.During export, the pattern from one artboard extends onto all the remaining artboards and continues seamlessly, instead of repeating independently on each artboard. For comparison, there are two files: “ark.pdf” and “ark-no_transparent.pdf”, where the latter exports correctly.The file Master.pdf is linked to ark.indd, from which ark.pdf is exported.The same setup applies to the files with the “-no_transparent” suffix.The file with patterns exports incorrectly when transparency is used.I’m attaching the files.

why is the font i added not showing?i have this many times.it's extremely frustrating.i tried closing indesign a few times.each time i open it up it doesn't allow the font to be used  

I noticed that InDesign has the option in my Preferences ► "GPU Performance" greyed out, so it cannot be selected. It also says "Compatible GPU and Monitor not detected". Underneath in the section "GPU Details", it recognises the RTX 3070 Ti correctly. Since Windows 11 now handles GPU Performance (not Nvidia), I did select "High Performance" for the correct indesign.exe file within the Windows 11 Graphics settings.   - I am using InDesign Version 21.0.2- I reset the InDesign preferences- GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX070 Ti with 8GB- Windows 11 Pro- Nvidia Studio Driver latest (updated today). In all other Adobe apps this is not a problem. It's only in InDesign (all versions). Any ideas?