InDesign

My baseline grid doesn't show up no matter what I do. I've checked and unchecked the Grids in back box, readjusted the View Threshold, reopened inDesign and googled for about 2 hours now. The only solution I can find is to readjust my view threshold, wich I already did like a million times. Can you please help me?

I have a document that is 24 x 36". There was a recent change and now the size is supposed to be 22 x 28". How do I resize the entire document while resizing all text, masters, and images (appropriately and proportionally)? Can that be done?

Hi, using Mac M2 pro with Sequoia 15.5 no probs with machine, but this version of indesing 20.4.1 seems to lag on inporting small file no bigger than 1mb. Also can no longer select graphic or text boxes on top of each other, I mean real 5-6 second lags just to select a box. Scrolling with the hand tool is really bad aswell.Anyone experiencing the same problems?

Hi. Using ID 24.4.1 under Windows 11.Summary question: I know how to search for Index markers, but when I do, the search-for box doesn't return results if I include any additional specific text. For instance the "search for index marker" -- ^I -- works fine but ^IABC does not find those index markers containing the text ABC. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. It would not be the first time. How would I search for specific text WITHIN index markers? Background: Client with a manual suite. Two products are very similar (only a name change, some screen shots, and reduction of features in #2). I copy over the big files from Product #1 and change the name for Product #2, suitably deleting the specific features and changing the requisite shots. Easy-peasy. Product #1 has grown over the years, and this year I added an index, which will help with CS calls and RTFM. Now I bring the files over to Product #2 and would like to include the index there, too (why not, the markers

Hi, all! I want to create a bullet list with large headings (the bulleted elements), and have subordinate sentences beneath each bulleted heading. I'm trying to make this in one text box. I considered just having the bulleted headings in separate text boxes from their respective subordinate sentences and aligning them all, since this is just a one page doc, but I know that's not the efficient way to do it.Problems I've been having:Having the bullets only appear next to the headings (I need a line break after the heading, so naturally, it applies bullets to the subordinate sentence, and I don't want that).Aligning the second lines in paragraphs: I know where to adjust this, but I always have the darndest time figuring it out. I always seem to just luck out after randomly adjusting the bullet position values.See attached jpg for reference. Obviously, I figured it out once, but only after trying and trying. Thanks! Oh, and videos would be appreciated, so I can see EXACTLY what you're doin

Hi all. Any idea how I might change the colours of all these red icons in my document?All text is in styles (this is title and body styles) so I am hoping I can add a GREP, or failing that a find and change of some kind?The icons are vectors anchored in the text, not glyphs. Sadly other things are in red throughout (saving cells in all priceboxes included) so I'm reluctant to delete and replace a colour but might end up doing this!   

Hola a ver si alguien me puede ayudar. Llevo años usando Tabla de contenido para generar índices pero estoy teniendo problemas con una maquetación de un catálogo que llevo 4 años haciendo. Cada año genero la tabla de contenidos y nunca he tenido problemas pero este año al generar el PDF interactivo los links de las páginas de la tabla de contenido me dice el cliente que le llevan a la página siguiente a la indica en la tabla de contenido. ¿Es esto un bug de la versión InDesign 20.4.1 que estoy utilizando?El caso es que he preobado en varios dispositivos míos: en mi MAC , en mi teléfono (Android), en un PC (Windows)  y en un Iphone a mí sí me funcionan... ¿Podría ser un problema por utilizar archivos antiguos que reutilizo cada año modificando los contenidos, y que arrastran código oculto que genere un problema y esa disfunción?

Bonjour,J'ai un document indesign à traduire en ukrainien ? J'ai utilisé une application de traduction. J'ai copié le texte en ukrainien pour le coller à la place du texte en français dans mon bloc texte mais ce n'est pas reconnu. Comment je dois faire ? Merci pour votre aide.Nathalie

If you select "Decorative image (no alt text)" in the "Alt Text" frame, why doesn't it doesn't automatically apply the 'Artifact' tag in the "Tagged PDF" window?I can't think of a situation that it would be appropriate to apply "Decorative image (no alt text)" to anything that wasn't intended to be artifacted in a PDF.It's frustrating to have to do both steps in a document with many artifacted images.

Years ago (before InDesign was born), I used Corel Ventura Publisher. One of it's features that I dearly miss in InDesign was its ability to automatically vertically justify text on all pages. You could simply choose the paragraph styles to be justified and set a maximum limit to the leading. In a book, for example, the body text leading limit could be set to ±10% and the last line of every page would be at the page bottom. The last page of a chapter that ended part way down the page would remain unchanged because of the leading limit. Does InDesign have such a feature? If not, Adobe, can you please add this feature to InDesign?

I'm doing the design for a series of novels. The author is handing me Word files. For the most part, he used styles in Word or did things in other ways I can detect with Find/Change (e.g. italicized text, which I can change to a character style). But every time he started a new section and needed a paragraph with no first-line indent, instead of using a different style or even overriding the paragraph settings, he put the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph and hit Backspace, which in Word removes the indent (apparently there is an invisible code for the indent itself). When I bring the file into InDesign, all paragraphs are indented because it just follows the styles and overrides. I have made a paragraph style to use for those paragraphs, but I'd rather not have to look for all of them manually. They will always follow specific things I can search for, like a section heading or special divider. But I don't know how to find one paragraph but do a change action on the paragraph fo

Hi everyone,I'm facing a specific EPUB (Reflowable) export issue from InDesign and would really appreciate expert insights. My Goal:I want my exported EPUB file to have both:A visible Table of Contents (TOC) page with clickable links on Page 8 of the EPUB contentA fully working Navigation TOC (the one that appears in the Kindle/Apple Books sidebar), showing all chapter names✅ What I’ve Done:Created the TOC using Layout → Table of ContentsPlaced the TOC frame manually on Page 8All chapter titles use a consistent Paragraph Style (Chapter Heading)Created a TOC Style (epub_nav) that includes Chapter HeadingEPUB Export Settings:Navigation TOC Style: epub_navSplit Document: Based on Chapter Heading❌ The Issue:When I place the TOC at the beginning of the document, Kindle’s sidebar TOC stops working though the visible TOC appears correctly in the beginning of the doc.But when I place the TOC on Page 8 (my preferred position), the visible TOC appears in the bottom of the EPUB,

Hola a todos,Estoy desarrollando un documento largo en Word y necesito aplicar numeración multinivel con solo dos estilos (T1 y T2), manteniendo este patrón por bloques:1.1. Tema principal1.1. Tema principal1.1.1. Subtema1.1.2. Subtema 1.2. Otro tema1.2.1. Subtema 2.1. Nuevo bloque (capítulo)2.1.1. Subtema2.1.2. Subtema 3.1. Otro bloque independiente3.1.1. Subtema3.1.2. Subtema🧩 Requisitos clave:Solo quiero usar dos estilos globales: T1 (nivel 1) y T2 (nivel 2).Pero necesito que cada bloque o capítulo tenga numeración independiente, aunque comparta estilo.Es decir, cuando llegue al segundo bloque, quiero poder iniciar con 2.1. sin que afecte la numeración anterior 1.1..La numeración debe poder reiniciarse o empezar desde un valor específico, pero sin usar estilos distintos por bloque como T1_3, T2_3. ¿Qué busco?Alguna forma de configurar listas multinivel para que Word no mezcle la numeración entre bloques.Posiblemente una solución con VBA (macros) que permita:Numerar u

I'm currently working on a cook book and was wondering if anyone could help. I currently have paragraph styles set for the title, ingredients and directions section and was wondering if there was a way to tell it to keep all the section together. I've included a picture, is there a way to make the title "Viv's appetizer spread" move to the next page? 

New to indesign. Trying to work in a client file and it says unable to check out this file. It may be in use by someone else. HELP!

The Adobe Text font family is divided into two groups – 'Regular' and 'Other styles' – and this issue only occurs in InDesign.  Every time I launch InDesign, it defaults to the 'Regular' font group. As a result, any text using other styles is marked as missing.  I have tried uninstall/reinstall/restart InDesign/clean cache and everything... Is there a way to combine those two groups?Thank you.

Do you have AppleScript in your InDesign workflows? InDesign is hosting an Office Hours special tomorrow, July 23.   Original post from the InDesign Developers Prerelease* quoted here:   Developer Action Required:   Review all AppleScript-based event handlers in your workflows. Inline handlers using globals, arguments, or helper functions should be refactored to use external .applescript files.   Keep logic self‑contained within the handler script to maintain compatibility with the modern framework.   InDesign Office Hours:Date: July 23, 2025Time: 19:45 IST, 14:15 UTC, 07:15 PSTMS Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2312541723315?p=Pb37zp1F82JNj8NZTg   *The InDesign Developer prerelease is often applicable for InDesign SDK users or InDesign Server developers, but it also covers developer information more generally. (If you’ve been waiting to get in to the InDesign Developer prerelease group for some time, DM me.)

30 years ago my mother used pagemaker to recreate a copy of a childrens rhyme book that originally belonged to my father 80 years ago.  Every time she had a new grandchild, she printed a new version with one of the poems dedicated to the new grandchild.  My sweet mother passed away last year.  This year two great grandchildren will be born and I have been tasked with continuing the tradition.  I have a box with the paper, original book and two CDs with P65 files.  I cannot find a way to convert them to anything usable - Word, PDF, InDesign, etc.  I do not have a copy of Pagemaker or CS6 InDesign, which my research says are the only methods for converting to PDF or DOC.  I really do not want to recreate the entire book but don't have a problem doing editing or cleanup if it is not perfect. Thankful for any suggestsion! Files:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UuGQUkjka2s08hPpQRcHxX8eW2EzC6s8?usp=drive_link

Hello, I'd like to know how to quickly switch from one document to another (from one tab to another) in the interface of the latest version of indesign on mac, and if there is a keyboard shortcut. Thank you   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi. using ID 20.4.1 under Windows 11 (long may it wave).I have rigorously indexed a client's document (which I also laid out). The client has a tendency to use "Teutonic Capitalization in All Things and for many Important Nouns." Naturally, when I indexed their document, I indexed using these important capitals... because they were important to the client... but I also put things in lowercase when they were concepts or topics not specifically capitalized in the product by the client. The client objected to some index entries being in uppercase and some in lower... suddenly craving a consistency they did not employ in their own product. Anyway, now I have an extensive index that -- according to Chicago 17 -- needs to be rendered in lowercase except where it's a proper name, etc. (Mea culpa for not consulting Chicago beforehand and advising the client appropriately.) Is there an easy way to find each index entry and render it in lowercase (except, of course, for those proper na

Hello,So I have a big problem with displayed fonts in InDesign files in our company. All of our files are stored on a server and edited by different people. Most of them work on windows, I’m editing on a Mac. When I open said documents from the server on my Mac most of the text fields are displayed wrong. The program is recognizing the fonts correctly but is displaying them wrong. In the first screenshot you can see how the fonts are displayed wrong.   You can see that InDesign recognizes it as the font Inter Bold, but fails to display it correctly. If I would export it like this as a PDF directly, everything would look like this. To fix this I have to select every text or text field individually and press enter on the font variation selector for it to get displayed correctly like this:  I have no duplications of this font on my Mac and installed everything directly from Google Fonts (in this case 'Inter' font). I have tried using both the variable Fonts and the sta

Hi! The trouble i'm having (pictures attached) is when moving around text boxes there are breaks in the text that appear based on where I have it on the page. I have been searching through here, youtube, and reddit trying to find a fix but I keep coming up empty. I have tried to find text breaks, discretionary hyphens, and I have looked into the paragraph style and character style. I even double checked that everything on the page has text wrap turned off and that there are no floating shapes I missed. I'm lost, and when I try to find answers its never what I'm looking for. Can someone save me from this frustrating nightmare? 

Hi please can you help. I designed my Dad’s autobiography epub as per online recommendations: 11pt with 13.2 pt leading. But when downloaded to any reader including Kindle, Apple Books and Google Books, my book displays as a large amount of tightly woven text per page. No other books on Kindle that I have seen or purchased look like this. Please can you recommend the best option to fix this?  It’s not about adjusting the settings on the e-readers as I don’t need to for any of the ebooks I've bought. Two screenshots below: My book on Apple Books and a Stephen Hawking book sample page on Apple Books.  1. My book   STEPHEN HAWKING BOOK   

Bonjour, Je dois imprimer un livre en noir et blanc avec une centaine d’images en niveau de gris. Je les retouche donc sur photoshop pour les passer en niveau de gris, puis je les enregistre en TIFF ou PSD en conservant le profil ICC (Dot Gain 15%)Je les glisse ensuite sur Indesign et elles apparaissent toutes beaucoup plus sombres que sur photoshop. Comment faire pour toujours avoir le même aperçu sur indesign que sur photoshop ?Lorsque je vais dans l’aperçu de séparation d’indesign, les images redeviennent comme sur photoshop.Dans la suite de ce même problème, lorsque j’exporte mon fichier en pdf, les images sont très sombres sur Acrobat, il faut encore une fois que je fasse une manipulation : que j’aille dans l’aperçu de sortie, avec la simulation de la surimpression pour que les images redeviennent comme sur photoshop.Existe-t-il un réglage pour que les images apparaissent toujours de la bonne façon ?En vous remerciant

I’m experiencing pretty serious bugs with InDesign v19 on macOS. I've tried to troubleshoot for several hours with no luck. I would like to install InDesign 2023 or later, but it's not on the Creative Cloud. Does anyone know the best way to go about this? I tried to utilize the Adobe Support chat, but since it isn't business hours I can't get a response there right now.