InDesign

InDesign 21.6 - Windows 11 - Local.When images are imported in Ai or PDF formats, the Alt Text does not appear as a tooltip on the accessible PDF while it is present for JPG imports.The control on Acrobat mentions the presence of the Alt Text for Ai or PDF imports but does not display the tooltip.Is it a technical constraint, a forgotten step or a lack to be corrected on the app? In the case of constraints, it seems tedious to me to have to transpose all the Ai or PDF imports into JPG.Thank you for your feedback.

Hi , our libraries are not available to us anymore. We work on virtual desktops under citrix. Has anyone a solution for us?Thanks! Frank

Many publications include the section number in their page-number formats. This appears to be impossible in InDesign in 2026.The result is that we must manually edit the TOC-entry styles in every document. And then, if we sync our book without remembering to disable TOC-style syncing, every TOC in the book is now wrong and we have to manually go through dozens of documents and fix every TOC style by hand.Has anyone devised a workaround? 

When I have a multi-page Parent page, I will want to adjust the size of 1 single page. I click on a page but it will select all three instead of 1. It only does this sometimes. At times I can click to the desktop and then back on the desired page a few times and it will work properly. Sometimes not. Any opinions?

Quand j’importe une image, tout se bloque et indesign tourne en permanence pour vérification.

Hello again.I’m working on getting back to the other questions I’ve started, but meanwhile I’m also trying to get this ebook out on Draft 2 Digital.The ebook cover looked fine when I uploaded it to Amazon, but now that I’ve got it on Draft 2 Digtial it is scaled wrong.  Google says the original image is 600 x1004 pixels and that that is the problem. Is there a way to upscale it using InDesign? I’ve adjusted the layout to be 1600 x2560 which is the dimensions I want, but when I place the image and fit it to the frame it appears I’m stretching it instead of upscaling it. Is there a way to fix this? 

Hi! I’m designing a document with many tables, and I can’t figure out how to get InDesign to automatically split cell content across page breaks; instead, it’s creating unwanted empty space at the bottom of the pages. Is there a way to solve this problem?

It appears to be Publish Online except that it creates an HTML5 'package' that you can upload to a web server. I am a huge fan of the In5 plugin, and I'm wondering if this comes a little closer to that standard. I'll be updating ID and comparing the two. I'm a firm believer in the possibilities of custom designed websites that are  static--meaning not templated or output from a database. If Adobe is planning to put development effort to supporting this feature, I'm looking forward to a lot more creativity and less cookie-cutter interactive design.   Here's my wish list: Improved animation tools The ability to create variables for things like keeping score in a quiz HTML5 tricks like parallax scrolling and draggable elements   <Title renamed by MOD>

I set up a document with DATE>TAB>HOLIDAY and when I copied it into a new document it became HOLIDAY>TAB>DATE.  Is there a setting to prevent this from happening?

502 Bad Gateway For all of my Published Online documents! Even one-pagers. Just updated InDesign (v. 21.6, Windows software) and tried again with one page, also gives Bad Gateway. All of my client products are in InDesign Publish Online..

Can someone point me to a tutorial on How to create a table of contents that has pages numbered with Roman numerals and regular numbers such as:Preface .....…         ..... iAcknowledgements ....iiAuthor....…          .......iiiFrank Blank ..........1John Doe..............5Jim Swim.............10Joe Schmo..........13Thanks,Joe

I have Creative Suite Pro. For some reason I purchased a license for InDesign as well, which I obviously don’t need since it’s part of the suite. If I drop the InDesign license, is it going to mess with the projects we have in progress? Before I remove it, I want to make sure otherwise my designer will end me.

Please use the direct selection tool to select the innermost image.The code is invalid for the blue image in the middle. Effective on the right side.The reason for this may be that I held down "Ctrl+Shift+left mouse button" and dragged the innermost "image".var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];//alert(item.constructor.name);//alert(item.parent.parent.constructor.name);// direct selection toolif (item.constructor.name == "Image") { //alert('000') contentFitToFrame(item.parent.parent)}function contentFitToFrame(s) { //alert('001') s.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR; s.fit(FitOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY);} 

We're seeing an intermittent crash when quitting InDesign 2026 (v21.5.1.73, macOS 26.5.2, Apple Silicon) while our C++ SDK plugin is loaded. The crash occurs on the VulcanMsgRecv thread, inside a dynamic_cast in VulcanMessage5.dylib, apparently operating on a freed/invalid object (KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS, guard-pattern address). Two independent crash reports, captured on different days, show byte-identical offsets into VulcanMessage5.dylib (only the ASLR base differs), indicating this is a single deterministic code path rather than a generic timing race: Crash 1 (2026-08-11): base 0x1028cc000Crash 2 (2026-08-10): base 0x107784000Both crashes, same relative offsets:0 libc++abi.dylib __cxxabiv1::...dyn_cast_get_derived_info + 81 libc++abi.dylib __dynamic_cast + 562 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1018963 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1003924 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1016405 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1003446 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1059487 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1049008 VulcanMessage5.dylib +1047289 VulcanMessage5.dyli

Hi everyone,I'm currently using InDesign (Beta) on my Windows PC because my SnapDragon X Plus processor isn’t compatible with the standard version of InDesign. However, since this morning, the application won’t launch anymore. I immediately get the following error message:"Your InDesign (Beta) build has expired."The strange thing is that I already have the latest available version installed, which is 20.6.Do you know when it will be possible to use InDesign (Beta) again?Will a new build be released soon so we can continue working with it?Thanks in advance for your help!

It was effective at the beginning.I manually dragged it, but running the script afterwards didn't work.After manually dragging, I tried "Make Frame Fit Content" or "Make Content Fit Frame" respectively, but neither had any effect.var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0]; frameFitToContent(item);//frameFitToContent(item.parent);//contentFitToFrame(item.parent);function frameFitToContent(s) { //s.frameFittingOptions.autoFit = true; s.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR; s.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);}function contentFitToFrame(s) { //s.frameFittingOptions.autoFit = true; s.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR; s.fit(FitOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY);} 

Hi everyone,I’m typesetting an Arabic book in InDesign 2026 using the Middle Eastern/Arabic features. The document is RTL and the body text is fully justified.I’m currently using Adwa Al Salaf for the Arabic body text. My paragraph styles use the Adobe paragraph composer and Arabic justification/Kashida settings.I’m having a problem with the visual spacing between words in different paragraphs.Some paragraphs are relatively short, and InDesign creates noticeably large spaces between the Arabic words in order to justify the lines. Another paragraph directly below may be longer and therefore looks much denser. The difference between the two paragraphs can look quite strong on the same page.I would like to know the best professional way to handle this in Arabic book typography.In particular:Can I adjust the word spacing / justification settings for one individual paragraph without changing the paragraph style for all other paragraphs?I have tried the paragraph justification/composer setti

I can copy maybe 2 times from one open document to another open document before InDesign shuts down. It does not crash when copying within the same document. I have tried resetting preferences, disabled all in clip-board handling, but it is still the same. It occurs in random documents, so not the same either document, picture or elements.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Frustrating error within InDesign. Unable to use Undo: Press Cmd + Z mid way through editing a document. Only way around it seems to be forcing quit and re-opening the programme.Is there any way around this?  

HiFor some reason my tool panel now only allows me to use the Text tool - the rest of the tools are inactive and unable to be selected.  I have tried rebooting, uninstalling and reinstalling the app and that hasn't worked.  I found a previous post with this same issue but i do not have touch enabled so whilst that solved their dilemma it unfortunately won't fix mine.Any suggestions??Thanks

On a few of my projects my horizontal scroll bar has disappeared, wondering if this is a bug or just a personal problem. 

Hello, I no longer have the option to download older versions of InDesign; is it still possible to access them via Creative Cloud?

I need to determine if a paragraph style group exists. Generally, this avoids the judgment of non existence://This is the previous practice of using else to determine 'non-existent' in reversevar d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];if(d.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName('AA').isValid){var myGroup=d.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName('AA');alert('AA exist')}else{alert('AA dose not exist')}But sometimes I need to directly determine that it doesn't exist and find that both of the following are invalid://Now I want to directly determine that 'AA' does not exist.var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];if(d.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName('AA').inValid){alert('group does not exist');}if(!d.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName('AA').isValid){alert('group does not exist');} 

Hi Community,I went back recently to open an old book cover InDesign Template and only found the last page of a three page spread. Went back and found that for several of my covers (which I spent dozens of hours on) only the last page had saved. Now, I can go to the PDFs that I converted these templates to and open them in InDesign, but, unfortunately, I created outlines for most of my text and when InDesign opens the PDF and converts it back to a document it preserves that feature and I can’t undo it. So I can’t edit the type. I don’t think I can get back my editable templates. I think those might be lost forever, but how do I know if I’m saving the entire three page spread or just one page of it? Do I need to make sure the cursor is on the background of the template and not on any one part of the spread? Do I need to make sure no one page is highlighted? Should I just always create a cover as a single page? Any help would be great.

Hello everyone, I am having a strange problem with exporting to PDF. I am working on a print book cover for Amazon Kindle and the book cover I have looks fine in my InDesign Program. But then when I export to PDF (using the X-1A option) this strange shadow shows up beneath my name and behind the image on the Kindle Print Previewer. I’ve checked the transparency and I believe everything is 100% opaque (except of course for the border which is a PNG file). I tried adding a box with the cover color behind the image to no luck.Now I checked with someone on Amazon’s end and they said my image wasn’t flattened. When I tried “print to PDF” the grey shadow box thing disappeared. But of course I can’t upload the Print to PDF option in Amazon because there is no size option for the size of my cover (all the options in print to PDF are for very specific paper options).Does anyone know how to get rid of this shadow or what is causing it?