InDesign

For the past few months I’ve been experiencing extreme slowness when changing the settings of a paragraph. For example, when I click on the drop-down menu to choose the font size, the list of sizes opens after 2–3 seconds. After I click on a size, the drop-down menu takes the same amount of time to close. This slowness affects almost all paragraph options. I also tried disabling the “Preview” checkbox at the bottom left, but this does not solve the problem.Note: The issue does not depend on the file size (it also happens with virtually empty files with a single page).

I would like to know if the QR Codes generated by Adobe InDesign comply with ISO standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 18004)Thank you

Like the title says, I am looking for a GREP command that would allow me to find and replace bullet styles that come right before my body styles. Ideally I would be able to find all bullets that come right before body text and replace them with a style that has more spacing after it. This is so I can have a little extra space between bullets and Body – while keeping normal spacing between different tiers of bullets. (Using the "space between same style" creates awkward spacing between bullets of different tiers.) I hope this makes sense!  - and if this does not exist, it would be a great feature to add. That, or an option within paragraph styles that allows for the styles to behave differently when followed by another, specific, style. Thanks!

I get the following error trying to launch InDesign. I uninstall it completely and reinstall. Still the same error.Any suggestions on this...All my other Adobe apps works 100% 

Hi everybody, I have an script running in InDesign CC 2024 and I'm using idle functionalitiy to run some stuff in background. That workes fine when InDesign is the active application. But when I put another app in foreground and InDesign is not the active application the script stops working.Is there a awy to change that? The script should continue even if InDesign is in background or minimized. Thanks for any advice.Klaus

Bonjour,Depuis la mise à jour 2026 d'Indesign, je n'arrive plus à faire d'assemblage, j'ai toujours un message d'erreur,J'ai eu ce soucis, sur plusieurs fichiers.Je n'avais pas ce problème avant.Merci pour votre aide. 

Hi, when I merge an InDesign document to pdf, old data populates the merge fields in the newly created pdf. However, the correct .csv file has been selected and in Preview mode the correct data is showing. Can anyone assist?

There's a book I'm working on that I want to have printed on multiple paper stocks. Most of the book will be printed on white paper, but parts of it will be printed on black paper. So far I can only figure out how to change the paper color of all the document's pages, not just some of them. Is there a way to change the paper color for just some pages? And, how do I know what pages the other side of the piece of black paper will be on when InDesign? I plan on printing 2-up Saddle Stitch and it'd be nice if InDesign could calculate where the other half of the black paper will be so that I can factor that into how I design the book. Also, it's important that the pages be printed on different stocks because there's a textural difference in addition to the color difference, so printing a black background with bleed and then trimming the paper isn't a viable option for me.

I'm using InDesign 21 on Windows 11.I have a large document set up in a book file and divided into chapters. The Title page plus TOC file is 11 pages long. Chapter 1 starts on page 12.In the TOC, Chapter 1 is listed as starting on page 4, and all the subsequent page numbers in the TOC are off by 8 pages. I have updated the page numbers in the book file and updated the TOC.Here's the start of the TOC:In the chapter 1 file, the page number is showing (correctly) as page 12.It seems like the TOC is generating the page numbers based on a one-page TOC. 

Bonjour ! Je suis à court d'idées quant à mon fichier InDesign qui me cause beaucoup de problème. Une fois sur deux, il n'ouvre pas et l'application au complet plante. En plus, je n'arrive pas à update content dans share for review à mes clients. Je ne sais plus quoi faire ou qu'est-ce qui pose problème. Merci d'avance pour votre aide 🙂

In my workplace I use PC and when I try to use the Keyboard Shortcuts for 'Create Outline' it is not possible. Nothing happened. I have to use the Type menu and schroll down. Why does it not work?In my home I use an MacBook Pro and there is no problem.Br.Carsten Bøwig

Hello. I want the dot (leader?) in my contents page to have wider spacing. That is to say the page name, dots then page number. The dots are always the same spacing. I have tried adjusting the tabs section of the relevant paragraph style but this makes no difference?

I’m tryng to achieve the “perfect” left aligned text as you see in the picture. I can kern and track the text myself, but for magazines it takes way to much time. I’ve tried looking for a script with not much luck and the scripts I made myself are not super useful. does anybody know if there are scripts for InDesign to achieve this effect? 

I’ve created an InDesign document with multiple pages, where each page begins a new section and the text frames are not linked across pages. Is there a way to import a Word document so the text flows seamlessly throughout the InDesign file? Do I need to set up continuous, linked text frames beforehand, or is there a quicker method to achieve this?

Hello, I have a script that worked very nicely until I started using a table. The table is in multiple linked text frames. My script successfully removes table rows that are empty, but then I am left with some empty pages. My function to remove these empty pages is not working anymore, because it is now a table instead of plain text. It used to work by identifying whether all text frames on the page were empty, and then delete the page. However, when I find the contents of the table in the text frame, it will give me the full contents of the table for the first page, and then claim that the (linked) text frame on the next page is empty.It also claims there is no table on the second and third pages (I assume due to the linking of text frames). My question, then, how I can obtain the information that there is, in fact, a table inside the text frames on the subsequent pages? E.g.: app.activeDocument.pages[2].textFrames.everyItem().tables.everyItem().contents;returns the full table content

Hello, I’m having an issue with generating an index in InDesign. I received a Word file from the editor that contains all the index topics, but some of them appear in InDesign without a reference to the text. As a result, the index doesn’t generate completely.Do you know where the problem might be? The advice on the Adobe website didn’t help me.Thank you.

Hi, can anyone help me with the tables? I'm creating a spare parts catalog, so I have an Excel file with data sorted in ascending order from bottom to top in column A. In my InDesign spreadsheet, I'd like the data to start from the bottom left and continue in the same table on the right, always starting from the bottom. I'm trying to set text frame options with 2 columns and vertical justification from the bottom, but unfortunately I can't get this result (which I created manually by moving the cells in Excel).  

I tried changing my display resolution, restarting my computer, reset my workspace on INDD, unplugged my laptop from my monitors (which usually works, but didn't this time), and I still cant get this to not be off my screen. And I can't drag it. Any other suggestions?

Bonjour,j'ai du changé d'ordinateur, j'ai réinstaller la suite Adobe, et depuis. J'ai un gros soucis dans Indesign :il m'est impossible d'enregistrer sous mes nouveaux fichiers, fenêtre noire. J'ai désinstaller et réinstaller rine ne fait. Merci pour votre aide.

HiI've got a new laptop and since installing Indesign its been glitching the text when I scroll up and down (example attached). Adobe support couldn't help, I've reinstalled the application, I've reset preferences, I've done all the display performance correct settings etc and I'm now at my wits end. Also when I drag my text frame to a point (say 25) it doesnt think its there and hovers above the line instead of clicking to it but when I let it go its at the correct point. It is also making my guides in normal view look distorted. If I zoom in or out it seems to correct the distortion but as soon as I scroll again another piece of text will go weird in another place. I also plugged in an external monitor and the same issue. This is happening on all InDesign documents, but not other text documents.  Is it my new laptop thats the issue?  Thanks, Nicola System details Windows 11 InDesign 21.0.2.x64ThinkPad X1 Carbon E15 Gen 2 

Bonjour,Je cherche en vain comment créer un raccourci clavier pour appliquer un style.Quelqu'un a-t-il la solution ?Merci

I am having severe issues with my indesign. Please can I receive help as it is effecting my job. No problems publishing online and now this pop up …It is incorrect as my internet connection is fine. I have tried on two different wifis too. Have tried uninstalling indesign, and the past versions. Logging in and out of Creative cloud. Have also tried deleting past online publications - I deleted about 400 and this still appears. I really need help quickly - it has been like this for one week and there is no help online! 

Hello,I accidentally deleted 1 or 2 group folders with images at the CC libraries in InDesign. Is there a way to recover them? Thanks in advance,Tom

Below is a snapshot showing the problematic text frame. When I resize the text frame, it snaps to the blue grid inside it. That means it goes one block at a time, rather than smoothly.How can I turn this blue grid off, so I can fine tune the text frame size?

In the same ID file, I searched for the pattern "\r\t\r^<br \\/><br \\/><br \\/><br \\/>\\r\\n<p style=\\”text-align: center;\\”><strong>".Id2024 and Id2026 found 385 results, while Id2025 found 386 results. This same situation occurred in other searches. Since I was working on version 2024, I wasted hours with incorrect results.