InDesign

Help! My seperate spot varnish layer colour fills the rectangle background of my logo and NOT the logo. How can I change this? I have made tests with text and end up with the same results.

Hello there, often when synchronising (book) files or even (right now) when writing text on a page which does not affect the rest of the document in terms of space, a window pops up stating "Spread cannot have more than 10 pages". Why? How do I solve this? Also, I noticed that when adding a page to a file (which I just did because of this message, after which the file synched at last), the new page/s go to the right of the last spread in the pages panel. Why? Boo hoo! I would much appreciate any help. 

HiI'm writing a script with the help of copilot.I want to save only one fontFamilyName in a dropdownlist.How can I do that? #target indesign // Create a new dialog var dialog = new Window("dialog", "Choose a Font"); // Add a dropdown list for font family var fontFamilyDropdown = dialog.add("dropdownlist", undefined, []); fontFamilyDropdown.size = [200, 30]; // Add a dropdown list for font style var fontStyleDropdown = dialog.add("dropdownlist", undefined, []); fontStyleDropdown.size = [200, 30]; // Populate the font family dropdown list with all font families var allfonts = app.fonts.everyItem().getElements(); for (var i = 0; i < allfonts.length; i++) { fontFamilyDropdown.add("item", allfonts[i].fontFamily); } // Set the first item as the default selection fontFamilyDropdown.selection = 0; // Function to update the font style dropdown based on the selected font family function updateFontStyleDropdown() { fontStyleDropdown.removeAll(); var selectedFon

I'm working on a script to compare the text on a page with the filename of a specific layer. Here's the issue I'm running into: For example, I have a text frame on a layer named Code. The script can find it if it's present on Page 1 or Page 2—that part works fine. However, it doesn't report when the text frame is missing from Page 1 or Page 2. It seems to handle Parent Pages correctly. For instance, if the Code layer contains the text in the same position on each page via the Parent Page, the script detects it and doesn’t need to take any action. The problem arises when the text frame is not on parent pages. For example: On Page 1, the text frame is in the top right. On Page 2, it’s in the bottom left. Then it's detecting text on the layer, so it stops as it's found. So page 1 might have the text for the codeand page 2 doesn't have text for the code - but the script is not finding it. Does this make sense?

Hi, I keep getting the attached error when opening InDesign. Can you please help to provide a solution. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing several times but keep getting the same error.

Is it possible to upload InDesign files to Creative Cloud Files or Libraries? I keep getting an error message that says: “Files could not be uploaded. Some file types are not supported.” Is this a known issue? If so, is there an alternative solution?

Where is the "Character Direction" option in InDesign 20.5? I need to do it on the Character level because it is an English document with a word in another language with a definition. I can't use the Paragragh options. The instructions in Help say it's on the Character panel when you open the Options. But there is no "Character Direction" option in the list. I tried asking the "Bot" which is horrible. I put the same question I wrote here, and it then asked me for more clarity on which Adobe product I was asking about. Then I did a search here on the help boards and the results returned "0". Can anyone help with this?? 

My design team has needs to backsave InDesign files. I need to install vers 16.4 while also running the current CS 2026 version. Current dropdown goes back to version 20.0 in CC app. Any help is appreciated.

I work for a newspaper, and while exporting a layout proof some pages with ads appear blank even though the ad is there. I normally place indesign files and for whatever reason when I export them the ads are missing or the images in the ad are distorted. If I place a high res PDF in for the ad it's fine. I have never had an issue placing indesign documents before this update.

I am using the most current version of InDesign and Acrobat on Windows 10. To create an email hyperlink in InDesign I choose URL and type mailto: in front of the email address with no spaces. I am not using Shared Hyperlink Destination. When I export to PDF the email links don't work correctly. Instead of opening the email application, they try to open a web page. In InDesign, even though I specify URL and put mailto: in front of the email address when I re-open the Hyperlinks panel and choose Edit Hyperlink, the link has changed back to Email and the mailto text has disappeared. I have not made this change -- InDesign is doing it automatically behind my back. How can I create an email hyperlink in InDesign that actually works in the exported PDF?

Hi all. I am having a problem with some fixed layout epubs exported from Indesign when they are opened in Adobe Digital Editions. These are displaying fine (in fact v good) in Apple Books and Kindle Previewer but for some reason in ADE, when the reader advances the page, the new page usually (not always, but usually) doesn’t display, and won’t until you click a three of four times on where it should be. This is the same with both fixed layouts that contain images (eg facsimiles of historical documents) and fixed layouts generated from text (eg poetry). I tried png as well as jpeg in the “conversion settings” tab in Indesign export dialogue but it doesn’t seem to help. ADE is used in the catalogue booksellers look at, so we have no choice but to make the file work with it.Happy to edit the epub in sigil if anyone knows what edit is needed! Any advice very very much appreciated. Thanks!(ps ADE is also ignoring the TOC and not showing the front cover in the library, but these are rel

When extracting article directories, the following scenarios may occur:Title only Title + Subtitle Title + Author Title + Subtitle + AuthorIn such cases, you must include page numbers for every style. Then manually remove duplicates. You may need to format it as follows:TitleSubtitle.........Author　Page NumberRegular expressions can be used, but this approach seems quite cumbersome.Is there a simpler way to script the removal of duplicate page numbers and ellipses (.......02), while moving the author to the end (though this seems unlikely)? Regardless of how many identical page numbers he has, retain only one.Merge the last entry after the second-to-last one. Of course, this assumes only one heading per page.

For as many versions as i can remember, RGB indesign export to JPEG makes an error and does some internal cmyk conversion when it shouldn't. This means a web intent indesign document will export a RGB pdf with the correct colour no problem, but export to RGB jpeg will destroy the colour. (see attached) Yes. RGB transparency blending is enabled. Europe general purpose colour settings, with RGB embed profile.It's RGBs-to-RGB, so no gamma or out of gamut  problems are relevant here.  Why is this still not working  - am I the only one who uses this feature?

I'm working on an index that requires a lot of manual formatting to include the articles and sections, but I can't figure out how to force a line break the reference after a set number of characters (I'm thinking 32 would work).

Hi all, I've recently gotten into scripting for InDesign thanks to the fantastic book Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript written by Peter Kahrel. This helped me to successfully write a couple of scripts, however, I need my scripts to work within Data Merge, and I can find precious little information on how to script Data Merge and unfortunately it wasn't covered in the book. What I want to do is simply perform a script on all the records without affecting the template file. The data is of different lengths for each record. For instance, record 1 may contain a table of 80 rows while record 2 may contain a table of 100 rows. I figured out how to write a script to delete the empty rows, however, I want to delete them for that record only. I figured that a way to do this would be to merge the data of each record into a new InDesign file, and run the script to delete the empty rows in there. However, when using the mergeRecords() function, I only seem to get the fi

I've observed that the script below selects the column in two separate steps.selectCellForCurrentFrame(); function selectCellForCurrentFrame() { var item = app.selection[0]; var col = item.columns //Cyclic column for (var c = 0; c < col.length; c++) { var cel = col[c].cells; //var textFrame = app.selection[0].parent.parent; var rangeOfCells = cel.everyItem().getElements(); //Look here carefully—each column has been selected. alert(rangeOfCells); var cellsToSelect = []; for (var n = 0; n < rangeOfCells.length; n++) { if (rangeOfCells[n].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW ) { cellsToSelect[cellsToSelect.length++] = rangeOfCells[n]; } }; app.select(cellsToSelect[0]); for (var n = 1; n < cellsToSelect.length; n++) { app.select(cellsToSelect[n], SelectionOptions.ADD_TO) }; } };

Bonjour,Y a-t-il un moyen automatique pour vectoriser touts les textes présents sur plusieurs pages d'un document Indesign ?Merci de votre aide.

Creative Cloud Files extending to all kind of filetypes beyond adobe files, beeing able to store and use files like word needed for the project in one place. We are currently working with local indesign files and photos, documents etc. - wish we could move to an all cloud document workflow including all media or project related files from clients in one place from Adobe.

We're getting messages that a Lenovo with an Intel i5-1335 (10 core), 16GB RAM, 256MB laptop (2023 build) is incompatible with the latest InDesign. All the specs are within Adobe's specifications. I do only have 35GB free HD space, though. Could this be the problem?

Hello. I apologize for my English im from Russia! I wanted to ask how I can write a regular expression in InDesign that will find values ​​like 14th and change the th to superscript mode.I did Find(\d+)(th)Replace to$1–$2 and I added a superscript at the bottom, but it didn't work. The number itself changed, but I only needed to change the letters.

Is there a way to sync paragraph styles, character styles, and other design assets across multiple InDesign projects? I’m working on several documents that need to maintain a consistent look, and manually updating styles in each file is time-consuming. Are there any built-in tools, libraries, or best practices to streamline this process?

Hi, the problem that the some paragraph -in just in 1 page- disappears after exporting the file to pdf - ArabicI see a normal view in Indesign, but when I export the file to adobe pdf format some paragraph disappearsimages and file attached

It would be great if all strokes were default-selected when wanting to hide all cell strokes of a table. Currently, the middle cell line has to be manually deleted. Thanks!

Many times I'm working with several libraries. A main one and a holiday for instance. I'd love to be able to have both open at once vs. flipping back and forth.  Shawn Kearney - Max 2025 - Target

I am having an issue with the latest version of InDesign (currently running 20.0.1) where hitting 'save' results in anywhere between 5-15 seconds of spinning beachball of death. I've tried with and without font management software, tried on a clean Mac user account, completely uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign, but nothing works. I also tried saving as IDML but to no avail. I am saving to my iMac HD, not the cloud, although it is no better if I do save to the cloud. A new document with nothing in it saves instantly, and adding images and non-text items has no impact. I imported a large chunk of 'Lorem Ipsum' text in the Minion Pro regular font, and that also had no effect, but as soon as I start adding different font styles and weights, let alone other fonts, saving gets really slow.For example, just changing three words to Minion Pro Semibold Subhead means the document takes a full second to save (with a brief flash of the spinning ball), and once I have added 4 other versions