InDesign

Several months ago, after one of the application updates,  I noticed I can no longer move the InDesign frame around on my desktop as freely as I could before. There’s a definite lag time where I have to wait—sometimes up to 30 seconds—before it’ll let me. I’m on an iMac and using only one monitor, so I’m constantly needing to shuffle windows around and that lag time adds up. It’s worth noting that I have the same issue at the office and at home; 2 different operating systems (Ventura and Sequoia), both using InDesign 2026. I’ve tried deleting my preferences and reinstalling InDesign. Neither helped.

I am experiencing an issue in InDesign where the elements on my pages across my documents in a book are not consistent in color. When I copy them over from one page to another, the color changes. Anyone encounter something like this before? As seen below, the dark blue color is what I would like to use and the lighter blue is what the same block is pasted as in another document in my book:correct, original colornew, lighter color that copies over 

Originally posted this on Jan 21 and post has disappeared likely due to the migration:I have the latest update 21.1 and ever since I have been having issues converting pages to PDF from a file I am creating using InDesign. When I try to convert certain pages to PDF, it either will create the PDF but it is corrupt and when I try to create the PDF again, it says there is a background task running and that task is preventing me from doing anything else. Ultimately, I have to End Task and restart the program. It will work for a bit then I will have the same issue again. This is happening daily. I have not been able to pinpoint which background task is causing the problem. Running on PC, Windows 11 v23H2**NEW** Since my post last week, I found the issue but have no control over it. I always use File > Export within the same document when I export pages to PDF. Sometimes the Export to Interactive PDF window shows up and the export works properly. However, sometimes the Export to Adobe PDF

Seems like for no reason overnight all files within the same folder, and same Book, are doing this to the part number text boxes. I have never seen this, any ideas how this happened and how to correct it? I have more than a dozen files in this folder. Other InDesign documents open fine, it's only the files within this folder and they are all part of a book. Maybe something was done across the board to all files when the pdf was made from the Book?  

Hi there. I've installed the latest update of Indesign 2020. I'm now experiencing problems in that if I open a converted version of an Indesign docment, make changes then try to save, it says "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged." (See Indesign 2020 Fig. 1). I have tried to save a copy of my document and it says the same thing. I have even tried to create a new document in Indesign 2020, save it as a test before putting anything in it and again the same message, "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried but it appears to be damaged." (See Indesign 2020 Fig 2).  Is it a bug in the new Indesign update? Do I uninstall it and reinstall Indesign 2019? Could someone please help me?

Bonjour!Sous windows 10 au lancement de indesign 2025 j'ai le message d'erreur suivant : l'application n'as pas réussi à démarrer correctement (0xc0000142). Cliquer sur ok pour fermer l'application. J'ai essayé de réparer d'éventuelle erreur fichier, j'ai aussi tout désinstallé et tout réinstaller en suppriment les anciennes versions ainsi que les préférences, mais rien n'y fait !  Avez-vous une idée du problème ? Sachant que sous la version 2024, cela fonctionne parfaitement

Hi Community,ich habe ein neues Dokument erstellt, in dem die Absätze aneinanderhängen. Das heißt, die letzte Zeile eines Absatzes (oder 2, je nach Umbruchoptionen) klebt an den beiden ersten Zeilen des nächsten Absatzes (oder nur 1).Umbruchoptionen habe ich alle durch, ich kann damit lediglich wählen, wie viele Zeilen aneinanderhängen. Es ergeben sich unschöne leere Flächen am Spaltenende, für die noch Text vorhanden wäre.Verkettungen gibt es nicht, harter Zeilenumbruch ist selbstverständlich gewählt.Bei "klebenden" Überschriften hilft es, diese mit hartem Zeilenumbruch in eine neue Zeile zu schieben und die darüber zu löschen. Bei größeren Absätzen hilft es nicht.Gibt es eine Option der Absatzformate, die ich nicht berücksichtigt habe?Das Problem taucht erstmals so renitent nach einem Update auf (InDesign 21.2 x64), nach ca. 25 Jahren Arbeit mit InDesign …Ich hoffe, jemand von Euch klugen Köpfen hat eine Idee.LG, BirgitHier sieht man, dass auch eine Leerzeile nicht hilft, den gesamte

I am preparing a document in Adobe InDesign that needs to be sent to a print shop as printer spreads (for example: 40–1, 2–39, 38–3, etc.). For this, I use the Print Booklet feature.In the preview, the imposition looks correct, but I want to make sure the final file will be received properly by the printer.Previously, my workflow was to generate a .PS file from Print Booklet and then process it through Adobe Distiller to create the final PDF. However, I haven’t done this in several years and I’m now running into issues: When I open the generated PDF, the pages appear as single pages instead of printer spreads. The PPD option for PostScript export, which previously allowed proper output settings, does not seem to be working in the current version of InDesign

Adobe InDesign crashes every time I try to place an test (unlicensed preview) image into a frame from my Creative Cloud libraries. Licensed images work fine (but I can’t license every image I think I might use), images saved to my computer seem to work, and dragging and dropping mostly works ok (but I don’t want to have to resize the frame and redo the effects every time I add a new image). It’s specifically preview images from my Adobe CC libraries.I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe InDesign and Adobe Creative Cloud, restarting my computer, and clearing preferences multiple times.I am using a Dell Precision 3260 desktop with Windows 11 Business version 23H2. The InDesign version is 21.2 and was just updated today. (The issue persisted before and after updating.)Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Hello! I have simple code, that executes some scripts for Indesign, which work when i run them manually from app Script pannel.  But somehow they work for scripts  character styles and do not work when i call scripts with changeGrep(). What could be the problem?  Or may be there is a better way to do this? Can you recommend something for (I removed path for privacy, but it seems to be ok, because some of the scripts definitely execute)function runScriptRunner () {    // Define the scripts folder (relative to InDesign's Scripts folder)    var scriptsFolder = "...\\Scripts Panel\\"        // List of scripts to run (relative to the Scripts folder)    var scriptList = [        File(scriptsFolder + "1Character styles\\dont_change.jsx"),        File(scriptsFolder + "1Character styles\\generate_character_styles.jsx"),        File(scriptsFolder + "2Extra spaces\\ext

I installed the latest update to version 21, and InDesign won't launch. It doesn't give any errors, but it won't start. It doesn't do anything at all. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but that didn't work. Version 20 works perfectly, even the beta version 20.6. I tried reinstalling it by deleting the preferences, but that didn't work. I tried reinstalling the Creative app and reinstalling InDesign, but that didn't work.Bridge does the same thing, but it gives me error OXC0000142. InDesign, on the other hand, doesn't have any errors. Old Bridge works, but the beta version doesn't I have windows 11 last updatedWhat can I do?Thanks a lotNicola

Malgré les mises à jour et réinstallations via Creative Cloud, la dernière version d’Indesign (21.2) n’arrive jamais à s’ouvrir. A la place un message d’erreur “L'application n'a pas réussi à démarrer correctement (0xc0000142). Cliquez sur OK pour fermer l’application.”En attendant je travaille avec l’ancienne version 20.5.1 qui fonctionne, mais il arrive que celle-ci plante occasionnellement, “Indesign doit fermer” sans raison.Y’a t-il d’autres utilisateurs dans la même situation ?

When I go to update a review link in InDesign, I keep getting this error message "there was an error updating the artifact". After that, the link does not work for most people. I am signed in to Adobe. Everything is up-to-date.... But this issue still persists. Can Adobe please fix this issue? It's emarassing when I go to send the review link to my leaders and they just get an error message when they try opening it.   <Title renamed by moderator>

Hi Team InDesign Version 20.5OS: Windows Issue: While converting to IDML file, Effects Innerglow size get changed if the size value of inner glow is more than 12p6 while converting to IDML size value change to 0p7.  I attached InDesign file and PDF which has different Innerglow size value from 1p6 to 15p. In IDML file upto 11p6 innerglow size value not changed. after 11p6 value change to 0p7 ThanksGanesh.R  

I was unaware that InDesign AI was now creating alt text, and even more surprised that the AI thinks this brown background image has a nude figure in it. Is AI good for anything?

I canceled my adobe subscription half a year ago, now i have re-subscribed, but this time it suited me better to create a new account with a new email. But what i didn’t think about is that i still really want my old preferences from illustrator, indesign and photoshop, like workspace setup and all the small setting i have changed in the program over the years. I know there are ways export these settings when using the programs, but i cant open them with my old account anymore to create the export files. I still have access to the old adobe account, and i can see my old cloud files like brush libraries, but these i already have backed up elsewhere. I know these preferences are saved in the cloud in some way, just wonder if its possible to get to them somehow.My question is therefore if it is possible to export these program specific user preferences from one adobe account to another?Thanks for any kind of help, this is really a niché problem created by my own stupidity, and i realise i

I feel like the live cloud connection in InDesign is making the program slow as molasses and I don’t use it.I don’t and won’t ever use Adobe cloud, so how do I terminate that live connection?When I click the “Connected” notice on my “Home” page when the program’s open (no files open) it doesn’t give any option to disconnect. It does show that I don’t have any files in the cloud and have used 0% storage. How do I close the connection???

The problem is that some pages in the layout suddenly lost their appearance, and a part of the content (screen 1).Originally, the pages had Parent elements and some text content, visible on the layout and in the Pages panel (like the pages at the bottom). But then some pages (not all!) lost their white paper color, and text frames became empty. Their appearance in the Pages panel also becomes empty. When exported to PDF, these pages have no Parent elements nor text, and are totally white. BUT! If you copy the text frames and paste them into a new doc with the same Parents, the content restores.It is certainly not something in Preferences or in a View menu because it affects just part of the file.The question: What might it be? Is there a way to fix it without creating a new doc and copying/pasting the content?Windows 11, InDesign 21.2screen 1: normal pages and damaged onesscreen 2. Text frames are copied from the left (original) doc and pasted into the right (new) one. Content restored

Indesign crashes everytime when opening a document in the cloud (.inddl).Shared for Live Copy editing (beta). Can't  open or access my file any longer. Can I download this file local somehow? Thanks

InDesign version 17.3.0.61 on Mac. Shift key stops working when trying to scale proportionally. Tried almost all of the suggestions as far back as 2017 and nothing is working. I don't have Web Root. Not using Spotify. I've tried shift/command, Shift/option/command. I've tried a slow click. Tried deleting or turning off extensions that I thought were causing it. I stopped using Chrome. Sometimes it happens with Microsoft Word open and sometimes it doesn't.I have to restart to get it cleared. Which would indicate there is still something running in the background that is the conflict-I just can't seem to find it.Any chance someone has recently found something new to try for 2022. 

In latest release (21.0), Math Expression panel allow choosing styles (regular, italic, etc) for portions of expressions. But the default behavior is to use regular for the entire expressions. This is wrong way of styling math elements and you don’t want to impose user to be styling them correctly manually from the start.Default styling in 2025 was correct! (see image).This goes againt all convention and need to be fix.In mathematical notation, italics are used primarily for variables and symbols representing quantities. The typographical convention has been standardized across scientific disciplines to ensure clarity and consistency.

I find with recent releases and particularly 21.x, that the light blue bounding box, especially when dashed, and especially when the document grid (light gray) is showing, and especially on my very high-res monitor, I have difficulty seeing precisely which frame is selected. A darker blue, or a thicker line, would fix this. I have searched the Preference but found no way to do either. Any help appreciated.  

I am having massive issues with indesign buffering and lagging despite trying everything I can find online and through my Uni IT services.  I think am going to update my laptop but I am scared as I am afraid that will impact the space on my ram more/ interfere with my adobe or files. This was not an issue at all a couple weeks ago, I often have to work with several adobe software open at once and now I can't even use one!!! please advise!!  About the file:About 25 pages 1920x1080p (uni requirement)  final will be about 40, several images, mostly low res iphone images with a few images from my sony (I try to keep minimal) as well as some scans of notes etc. Issues:I am getting the spinning wheel of death constantly from even clicking text /trying to move anything in the document  zoom/scroll is lagging  any action is severely delayed OR doesn’t respond  crashes  Loss of creative cloud info including all fonts About The LaptopI have a relatively low ram of 16gb on a Mac book Pro 2023 (M2

Picture of the doubling up - original image and then when imported into illustrator  

When selecting a color from the color picker- the resulting color in the workspace is much duller and never what I chose in the color picker. Even when I use the color dropper to get the color again, the color code is different than what I chose in the first place, and much duller.  This is the first color I selected: #f9a465 But THIS is the resulting color in the workspace. #e2a771 Why does this happen? Do my settings need to be edited to fix this?