InDesign

I have reset the preferences, force quit the program, exported an idml file and resaved it as an indd file. I have deleted the app and all of my data and then reinstalled the app and opened my saved idml file etc. I can not figure out what other reason it could be that the file wont save.  The computer that will open the file and let me make changes to it but not let me save the changes has the save and save as greyed out.  The computer that will not let me open the file or the app is the one I completely uninstalled the app from. If you have any other ideas of how to fix this problem I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

I'm trying to do a data merge, I've selected my Data Source (a .csv file), but not all of the data fields (column headers) are showing up in the data merge box. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

When I set up a Paragraph style and apply it to Placed text, most of the time the Paragraph style will honor any embedded style anomalies (such as a single word in a paragraph that is italic rather than regular text). But sometimes a Paragraph style will turn all text within a paragraph to a single style (regular). I know that if I create an "italic" Character style and apply that to every word in a book that arrives in italic, a Paragraph style will honor those. But is there any way to choose "No style" when setting up a Paragraph style so the Placed text remains stylistically intact when it arrives? I don't see that option - only regular, italic, etc, which will apply to the whole paragraph. I can't explain why the italics within paragraphs sometimes survive my Paragraph styles and sometimes don't - I doubt some of my clients are marking their Word docs in any special way and others aren't - I doubt any of them are. Please let there be a benevolent Adobe-Deity out ther

Hello there 😊   I am having some troubles compressing PDF files: I have  to export file from InDesign as high-res, else it cuts some graphic so it will not show correct. See attached. After that files is about 65 MB, but client wants it to be below 10 MB. I have tried in Acrobat, to compress file. Also online on adobe.com, and pdfcompressor   Any suggestions how to do this? Best from Jeppe  

Hi Adobe Community,I'm trying to custom XMP metadata into an InDesign file using uxp scripting  Here is the code I'm using  let { XMPMeta, XMPConst } = require("uxp").xmp;let meta = new XMPMeta();meta.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Name", "vkumarg");let prop = meta.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Name");console.log(prop.namespace); // xmp namespaceconsole.log(prop.options);console.log(prop.path); // NameThis sets the property  xmp:Name  vkumarg  /xmp:Name under the standard XMP namespace (http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/).However, after saving and reopening the file in Adobe InDesign, and going to:File → File Info → Advanced → Raw Data"The xmp:Name tag and value are not shown."Is this the correct way to write custom XMP metadata using UXP in InDesign?Why is the value not being shown in the rawInput section?

When trying to print to PDF from Excel I get the below message in my Notepad instead for some reason. When exporting to PDF I have no issue though. Has anyone experineced this or have any suggestions on how to sove it? %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%Aptos-Narrow not found, using Courier.%%[ Warning: unable to embed font /Courier.Out of memory. ]%%%%[ Warning: Courier cannot be embedded because of font file error. ]%%%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: show ]%%Stack:-file-%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% 

Bonjour,je cherche à sortir une tale des matières d'un livre de 400 pages. Or, seuls le découpage des 40 premières pages sort. Quand je clique en bas, je m'aperçois qu'il y a encore du texte mais il ne sort pas. A la place sort une ligne bleue comme une partie de page.

Bonjour, mon document dans Indesign ne s'ouvre plus. Il est enregistré sur le cloud. Indesign s'ouvre normalement, il ouvre les documents enregistrés en local, mais aucun document du cloud. J'ai essayé sur 2 ordinateurs et le problème est le même. J'ai essayé de télécharger le document mais cela ne marche pas non plus. C'est très urgent pour la récupération de mon document merci pour votre aide !  

I seem to have created some sort of 2 letter macro by mistake. When I type the letters "fl" by itself or in a work those letters disappear! I need help! I need the word "flyer" all the time.

I am creating a participant workbook. Each page includes a column that is 70% of the page AND a second column that is the remaining 30%. This 30% "galley" column is dedicated to summary information, notes, lines, and other "quick" items. This 30% column should always be on the OUTSIDE of Left and Right pages. Issue: When I need to INSERT a new page somewhere in the middle of the document, that galley column switches from LEFT to RIGHT and all my quick items are in the wrong place. Is there ANY way to avoid having to move all of the information back and forth every time I adjust the number of pages?Thanks for any advice."Lost New User"

I'm trying to figure out why the Dyatlov Mountain Icon.psd image is not being grouped in the Links Panel, even though it's the same image. I want to use this file as a template and I want to be able to replace that image quickly and efficiently in other documents. I'd love to be able to group those images now or failing that, figure out how to place the image so that it is grouped in the document.   

Hi, Dear Friends!I am trying a different function this time. To scan the text frame and any string formatted with the char style "sidenote", it extracts that text and creates an anchored text box in the margin with that text (different locations for even and odd pages).Chat GPT gave me this:--------------------->#target indesign(function () {var doc = app.activeDocument;var styleName = "sideNote"; // The character style for the sidenote text// Ensure the cursor is in a valid text frame or text storyif (!app.selection.length || !(app.selection[0] instanceof TextFrame) && !(app.selection[0] instanceof Text)) {alert("Please place your cursor in the story to start scanning.");//return;}var sel = app.selection[0];// If the selection is a TextFrame, use its parentStory, otherwise use the selected text's parentStoryvar story = (sel instanceof TextFrame) ? sel.parentStory : sel.parentStory;// Loop through the story to find all text with the "sidenote" character stylevar sideNotes =

I'm looking for all the Publish Online links I created over the past few months, where can I find them? Thanks for your help!

Is it sometimes necessary to distinguish between their uses?What is the basis for their use?In the code below, if I use bothsel[j].fit(FitOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY); sel[j].fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);the first one will display incorrectly. 　I looked at it for a long time and didn't find much difference in their data sources.  if (sel.length == 1) { sel[j].visibleBounds = [sb[0], lcb, sb[2], rcb]; if (cp.length == 2) { sel[j].fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY); sel[j].fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT); } if (cp.length > 2) { sel[j].fit(FitOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY); sel[j].fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT); } } 

Hi all - wondering if someone can help me with an issue i'm having with fonts & background tasks! I work with the Monserrat Font and lots of documents I open use the OTF version of the font which is never recognised that I have. I have tried many times to install and uninstall all different versions and nothing seems to work. I then have to find and replace all variations of the font to the version I do have. Aswell as this it then starts background tasks of adding this font (which are never completed), I then can't export for Print or Package documents until I have Force Quit the programme to cancel the background tasks and reopen the document which becomes very tideous when working on multiple documents. Does anyone have any solution for this? 

Hallo, sämtliche Grafiken aus meinen Bibliotheken sind nach dem Platzieren nicht mehr transparent. Die Ansicht innerhalb der Bibliothek ist jedoch transparent. Folgendes habe ich schon versucht: von der CC abmelden, wieder anmelden, Ordner Creative Cloud Libraries löschen/leeren.  Platziere ich eine Grafik aus Datei, funktioniert die Transparenz. Aber ich möchte die Bibliotheken wieder nutzen können. Hat jemand eine Idee? Vielen Dank im voraus. 

I've used the inline notes script - https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnote_inline.htmlI want to change the space between the inline notes. I've tried searching for var number_of_emsin the script (as mentioned on the webpage). But i can't find it. Any solutions?

I’m building charts in Illustrator (100% vector, no effects, no transparency, no filters, no spot colors, Im' working in RGB in Illustrator) and placing them into InDesign 20.3.1 on macOS Ventura. I export to Interactive PDF (RGB). On my Mac in Acrobat and in Dropbox’s inline preview, everything is crisp. Two clients on Windows + Acrobat see (apparently) the same charts as pixelated, as if Acrobat is showing a low‑res proxy (similar to InDesign’s “Typical” Display Performance setting). When I import the same PDF into Illustrator, all elements are still vector paths. We’ve used this workflow for ~8 years without issues; the previous project 2 months ago (earlier InDesign version) was fine. I can't get a sign off on this project until we settle this issue. The only thing that changed is that I updated Indesign and I'm slow to update, so I was working with early 2024 versions previously. Has anyone run into this issue? I need to export this as an Interactive pdf to preserve all

We are working with an Indesign file where the pages suddenly turns grey, and the content on the pages dissapears. - We have tried saving the document as an idml file, but cannot open it.- We are using Indesign version 19.1 and have tried to open it in an older version, but that didn't solve the problem.- We have also tried to turn of the CPU to no avail.Does anyone have any suggestions to solve the problem? That would really be a great help - else it will be MANY hours wasted...

My workflow is to edit in Word, and to use its footnote feature to create the footnotes. I assign all text to either character or paragraph styles, and ruthlessly eliminate all overrides. I import into InDesign using WordsFlow (http://emsoftware.com/products/wordsflow/), assigning all the styles to the styles in my ID template. This creates a dynamic link between the documents, so any update in the Word file is reflected in ID when the file link is updated. It’s a robust system and doesn’t cause the error, which occurs with a ‘normal’ placement of the text and mapping of styles. The Word footnotes therefore become ID footnotes (i.e. they sit at the bottom of the ID text frame). The ‘Footnote Reference’ character style which is applied by Word when you insert a new footnote, and is therefore mapped in the ID document to a style of the same name (but with different parameters). The character style fot footnote cues in ID selects OpenType superiors to get the best typograph

I've needed Indesign to set arabic for a few years but have now reverted to Indesign in international English. I completely uninstalled, changed language on CC account to English and then reinstalled, asked it not to keep preferences. The text link direction is wrong when I place a word document in any existing Indesign file. And also the endnote box is generated with the wrong text link direction. The change direction tickbox from 'story' is not available in the English version. New documents are fine but old ones (that didn't even use arabic) are affected. Export to idml doesn't change the behaviour. Does this mean that there's something hidden in all my old files that forces it to follow this text direction and that cannot be overridden?

how can I chose 2 different fonts for paragraphs one for english and one for hebrew for a paragraph which contains both languages?

This never used to happen, but recently when exporting to PDF from InDesign, each line of a paragraph is being tagged (as opposed to the whole paragraph). I haven't been doing anything differently so I wonder if InDesign changed something? I work on a P.C. (not Mac)

why is all my text disappearing when changing the space after? 

I would like to learn more about creating mockups for products such as bags, mugs, and keychains. Are there any recommended online courses to follow that teach how to create mockups from scratch?