InDesign

Hi friends!I would like to hear suggestions from the members about the best way to make a consistent task list that I can check and Uncheck as I proceed in my long document. In other words I would like to write the tasks for **each page** that I have to complete and be able to mark them as completed and then I could walk through the document to see which pages of outstanding tasks that I have to complete.I understand that I could theoretically use notes to mark what I have done what I have to do but it doesn't seem that that is the correct way to do things.Tahnk youSF

Hi, Is there a way I can relink a select number of images on a document in one go rather than having to relink one by one? For example, in the image below, the graphic is duplicated 112 times. Let's say I want to replace 50 of the links with a graphic that has a different price on it. At the moment, I have to select the graphics I want to change and then go through the relink procedure 50 times, which is very time-consuming (and incredibly frustrating!) Is there a way to do this within InDesign? Is there a script available? I'm also happy to use Illustrator if there's a way it can be done there, although I haven't found a solution for that either. Thanks for any help you guys can give. 

Hi, PL help me in resolving the crash issue of Indesign 2025 (Ver 20.4.1).It throws below error log--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<crash exception="EXCEPTION_HEAP_CORRUPTION" exceptionCode="0xc0000374" instruction="0x00007FFD31A7C8F9"><backtrace crashedThread="0"></dumpType><hbLogSessionDllStatus>ERROR_HB_UNABLE_TO_LOAD_DLL</hbLogSessionDllStatus></crash>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hey everyone. I'm having some new trouble with text wrapping, specifically with the pencil tool. I have other options to accomplish what I want, but I'd like to fix this issue. For whatever reason, the contour options are greyed out when I select to wrap around a pencil line. This has never happened before; it always gave me options to wrap around a drawn line, say for a png image that I couldn't "detect edges" for to wrap around as you can with a jpg. It doesn't matter which text wrapping selection I choose—no contour options show up. Any insights? 

Why on earth would Indesign automatically insert a running head on the first page of a chapter that has been placed in a book at the same time all files in the project are placed in a book? Been a user for several decades and have never had a file get a running head automatically inserted on the first page of a chapter simply by putting all my files in a book. As you can see, I already had shifted the running head to the bottom of the page with only the folio. But once I placed the files in the book, Indesign decides to place a running head at the top. (before placing the files in the book, all files were all recto start, regardless of whether they would remain recto start, or be verso start once placed in the book, AS I HAVE DONE FOR DECADES), Has so called "AI" or as I call it "artificial ignorance" decided that a shifted page needs a new running head inserted? In all my decades of using Indesign, files placed in a book are done so without alteration of their first page compositon. W

Hi everyone, I’m working on a layout in InDesign and trying to wrap text around a circular image, but the text isn’t flowing neatly around the shape. it looks uneven and awkward. I’ve tried using the Text Wrap panel, but I might be missing something. What’s the correct way to make text wrap smoothly around a circle or custom shape? Any tips or settings I should check?

Adobe InDesign 16.3.2 Using the Keyboard to zoom (cmd+Space) has stopped working Using the Keyboard to pan (Space bar) has stopped working       {Renamed by MOD}

Our whole team, 8 people, have this issue over 2 months, latest ID. WIN10 or WIN11 same problem.64GB RAM, AMD 8700G/intel i7 / GPU 4060how can we resolve this?I know there is some posts about this, but no soluttion 😕😕  

Hi all,I have to replace all 15,7 points texts to 15 points. Find/Change dialog does let me enter a decimal value, but somehow I could not get it to find a decimal value. I also tried the script below, but no luck 😞var doc = app.activeDocument;app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;app.findGrepPreferences.pointSize = "15,7pt";app.changeGrepPreferences.pointSize = "15pt"doc.changeGrep();Does anyone know a workaround?Thanks,Rogerio

Hii all,I’m trying to add structured and array metadata in InDesign UXP using the new XMPMeta class, but I’m running into issues.I have also registered the namespace, but setStructField() and appendArrayItem() do not work.const doc = app.activeDocument;const namespaceUri = "http://test.com/ns/";const xmp = new XMPMeta(doc.metadataPreferences.rawXMP || "");xmp.setStructField(namespaceUri,"testKey",namespaceUri,"testName","testValue");Example to append an array itemxmp.appendArrayItem(namespaceUri,"TestArray","ArrayItemValue");doc.metadataPreferences.rawXMP = xmp.serialize();According to the documentation:XMPMetaObj.setStructField(schemaNS, structName, fieldNS, fieldName, fieldValue[, options])XMPMetaObj.appendArrayItem(schemaNS, arrayName, itemValue[, itemOptions, arrayOptions])But the metadata does not appear in Raw Data or the metadata panel.My questions:1. setStructField() or appendArrayItem() not fully supported in InDesign UXP yet?2. Is there a known bug or

Hi there,I have a question, I’ve created an interactive PDF, with buttons that appear and disappear when clicked, etc.Does anyone have an idea how I could get this to work in a browser, for example? We want to send it to an audience of older people. These people generally don’t have Adobe Acrobat installed on their computers.So is there a way to get this working in a browser or in a preview mode? Thanks in advance!

How can I export a PDF out of InDesign that is 95% the scale of the original? The current file is built as a multipage spread document.

As an American who lives in Japan, I used the Japanese version of InDesign and other Adobe software for many years, but now that I subscribe to CC I enjoy the luxury of being able to install either language version as desired. There are a few Japan-specific features not in the English version, most notably vertical writing. But as long as I don't need those features, it's easier to navigate the interface in English.But today a large print job had printer marks showing on the edges of many of the pages, and the printshop people and I discovered that the PDF export functionality in the English version of InDesign does not have the same types of printer marks.In the Japanese version, there are three choices of "Type" in the Marks section of the Marks and Bleeds tab. See this screenshot, where I'm showing the selection dropdown open, and translated the choices below. ("Center mark" is apparently "registration mark" in English.)But if you look at the English version, you'll see that there i

Just noticing for the first time (since updating to  ID 20.5) that numbered paragraphs are not exporting correctly to PDF. Here's an image showing the issue: on the left is the InDesign document, and on the right, the exported PDF. The indent formatting is stripped. I've tried various PDF settings, even exporting as EPS and importing into Acrobat; it remains incorrect.

For the second time in a few months a book I have designed (two diff books) in indesign has failed to open and suddenly given me error codes. Gives me an error window and says Indesign is shutting down. With NO recovery.This is on a brand new Mac. File worked yesterday. Tried to open today and it's corrupt. I am at a HUGE loss. First document was 90 Pg. of a Company profile I ended up recreating... Now i'm on a second book running into the same problem.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi everyone.I want to check the system time when running the script every Monday.Thank you.

Emails periodically disappear from my documents. I import text from Word with the emails. they come through fine. The document is saved and everything is ok. Randomly when I reopen the document the emails are gone, there is no text only a tiny underline. This is a newsletter and I import the text from the same person who does the editing. The current issue I'm working on had the emails disappear yesterday and I copied them in from a previous issue. Today they are gone again. Some of the articles I import lose the emails when importing and I manually have to copy them. 

I have a puzzle here... I'm probably overlooking something obvious.... 🙂 Basically, I'm designing some cards for board gaming, and want to lay them out in spreads so that we can review and revise the front and backs of cards on the same spread - and need to have threaded text frames.  (What a great feature it would be if we could thread frames across different parents... one can dream.)  The card fronts and backs are entirely different. I have a LOT of content to flow in, and 10 text frames (6 front, 4 back.)I want to set the document up to trim size.Now, this is an old challenge, but there's no bleed in the gutter... and I need bleed... I'm currently using clunky workarounds that involve going back and forth between facing pages. It works, but... it's super-clunky. Not ideal. And flowing right-to-left doesn't work, so I'm also set up with a left-page start. Plus, it's clunky. I considered oversizing the pages & trimming after, but somehow

I create direct mailers for a client and am required to package up INDD files with links and fonts. Catamaran is one of their brand fonts and I can't package the Adobe version becuse of the Adobe copywrite. As a work-around, I downlaoded the free OpenType TrueType variation of this font and disabled the Adobe version. This has worked fine for about a year, but now my system is constantly telling me that Catamaran font is missing. I verified the Adobe version is off and reinstalled the OpenType version. Still issues. I turned off all of the Adobe fonts... this helpd for a few days, but now I'm having trouble again, even with the Adobe fonts turned off via the CC app. If I manually change the font back in one text box, it will change to the correct version, but if I copy-paste, it changes it back to the version that adobe says is missing. Find/ replace (even with changing to a 3rd font, closing and repoening to change to the correct font) doesn't work. I'm working on a 40 page

For example, I want to zoom in with the lower left corner as the base point so that the left and bottom sides remain fixed.   var sel = app.documents[0].selection;Perhaps I need to set the automatic adjustment option for my sel[j] frame.How do I add it?

Hello,I'm converting a print book to epub and need to review it in Kindle previewer.I'm using Mac OS 13.7.2, InDesign 20.1, Kindle Previewer 3.91.0I'm choosing "reflowable" epub export. I keep getting the error message in Kindle previewer "Kindle conversion has encountered an internal error while enabling Enhanced Typesetting on this book."I'm unable to find where or how to disable "enhanced typesetting".Can anyone help me get this book to convert? I've searched the discussions and web and so far haven't found the answer.Thanks,D.

Is this possible? I have a 60-file InDesign book that I'm trying to convert to EPUB. I've just taken the LinkedIn Learning course on converting ID files to EPUB, but some of the features don't seem to be working as advertised. Specifically:I created a nav TOC style, but was only able to do it with one of my chapter files open. Once I closed it and tried to export my EPUB from the book file hamburger menu, I wasn't able to select that nav TOC style in the EPUB dialog box - I selected Multilevel (TOC Style) yet my custom style isn't there in the dropdown menu, only [Default]. Why is this? I can choose it if I'm only exporting a single file, but of course that's not my goal.The other thing I can't seem to do at the book level is map the paragraph styles to HTML tags, as she encourages us to do in the course. This dialog box is only available within individual files, not at the book level. I can't imagine doing this 60+ times.Any guidance is greatly appreciated! Using ID on Windows 10, v.

Hi, Dear Friends!Is it possible to get the Y position of the **beginning of the footnote area** of a selected or given text frame?ChatGPT says it can't be done. But CANT is a four-letter word that is not in my dictionary 🙂Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

Hi I'm trying to create something like the below, where the text in the box should remain in columns but the border should encompass the whole section.    Using a border within the paragraph style puts a box around each column, so two separate boxes rather than a single box around the whole section of text with the style applied: Rules only do the top and bottom, not the sides, but that does span columns. Shading isn't what I need. Would love to be able to do this without anchoring a box that has to be resized every time.  Thanks!

Hi everyone.I'm trying to export a page range and Indesign keeps saying it "cannot find the specified page numbers".Using this blog, I labelled my pages accordingly, but it continues to not recognize the range: https://indesignsecrets.com/solving-printing-exporting-confusion.php I've even tried removing the section prefix and just use straight numbers. No luck. I've even tried using the + for absolute pages. No luck. It can't recognize anything!Am I missing something?Thanks,B.