Be much better to create the character style - then use the eyedropper tool so that the character style is transferred to that text too. ... View more

If you're looking for a fast way to do it - I understand the need, but it doesn't exist - so a quick way to do it is to make a Character Style and then give it a keyboard shortcut.    If you're bringing the text in from Word and it's already bold but losing bold when you're adding styles - then consider using PrepText script (freely available) and it will apply the character styles through the script (automatically generates the Character Styles).   If you're typing this in InDesign then it may not be the best approach, consider a Word Processor like Microsoft Word where you can make non-contigious selections and quickly style your text.  Then import the text to InDesign and run the 'PrepText' script.  But if you're careful in Word and use Styles properly there you'll have less work in InDesign later.    InDesign would be best for designing your layout after you've got text typed up and signed off. It's more for design and layout than word processing.  ... View more

Hopefully you used Styles - you can change the language in the style which is the best option.  Typically I create 1 style for the Body Text - then Base all styles off this, so when it comes to making global changes I just have to change the Body Text.    Body Text - Parent  Bullets - child (Based on Body Text) Indented text - child (Based on Body Text) Numbered text - child Based on Body Text) and any other body text   Header - (Based on Body Text) - change in size, font style etc.  Sub Heading - this would be a child of Header - (Based on Header) - change in size etc   Then to change the Language - you would only have to change the Body text  - and it cascades to the the rest of the styles (as you wouldn't change the language in any of them - so they all relate back to the Body Text style)   This looks complicated - but it's not - and it's really easy to reprogram your styles to behave like this.    For each style - except Body text - edit the style -  For example - edit Bullets then remember your bullet settings, set the Based On to Body text - then Reset your Style to the Base - then input your Bullet settings again. For Sub bullets - set the Base Style to Bullets - reset to base - reinput the Sub Bullet value/style (dot/dash etc).   It will only take a few moments to get everything back to being related to the Body Text style.  This gives you greater control over global changes in your document.   Body Text ├── Bullets (based on Body) │ ├── Sub Bullets (based on Bullets) │ ├── Sub Sub Bullets (based on Sub Bullets) │ └── Etc. │ ├── Numbered (based on Body) │ ├── Sub Numbering (based on Numbered) │ ├── Sub Sub Numbering (based on Sub Numbering) │ └── Etc. │ ├── Indented (based on Body) │ ├── Sub Indented (based on Indented) │ ├── Sub Sub Indented (based on Sub Indented) │ └── Etc. │ ├── Header (based on Body) ├── Subheader (based on Header) ├── Sub Subheader (based on Subheader) └── Etc. etc.   The other suggestions have been great - and I use similar to @Laubender in the past when in a pinch.      ... View more

Try running in Safe Mode and see if the issue persists    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-startup-settings-1af6ec8c-4d4a-4b23-adb7-e76eef0b847f   https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/mac-help/mh21245/mac   Can you let us know if the issue persists in this mode.  You can reboot to normal mode after testing. ... View more

Something like this on a folder of InDesign files Might be slow on many files - could be an option to work blind without 'opening' the file but having issues getting it done.  It's a start if anyone else can help with it.  var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Select folder with InDesign files"); if (folder != null) { var files = folder.getFiles("*.indd"); for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { var doc = app.open(files[i]); // remove hyperlinks while (doc.hyperlinks.length > 0) { doc.hyperlinks[0].remove(); } // save & close doc.save(); doc.close(); } }   Then there might be this approach - but I'm running it and it's not removing the hyperlinks ... hmmmm  Anyone help?  The optional part isn't working - surely it should give the option... anyway some building blocks to play with.  /** * Batch Remove Hyperlinks from InDesign files * ------------------------------------------- * - Removes all hyperlinks, hyperlink text sources, and destinations * - Handles shared destinations safely * - Clears hyperlink character styles (optional) * - Backs up originals into a "_Backup" folder * - Logs actions to "HyperlinkRemovalLog.txt" * * Inspired by scripts from Kasyan Servetsky, and others via Creative Pro * Adobe forums, and GitHub script repositories. */ (function () { // === CONFIG === var CLEAR_FORMATTING = true; // true = clear hyperlink char styles var BACKUP_FILES = true; // true = copy originals before editing var LOG_RESULTS = true; // true = write a log file // ============== // Select folder var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Select folder with InDesign files"); if (!folder) return; // Setup backup + log var backupFolder = new Folder(folder.fsName + "/_Backup"); if (BACKUP_FILES && !backupFolder.exists) backupFolder.create(); var logFile; if (LOG_RESULTS) { logFile = new File(folder.fsName + "/HyperlinkRemovalLog.txt"); logFile.open("w"); logFile.writeln("Hyperlink Removal Log"); logFile.writeln("Run on: " + new Date()); logFile.writeln("----------------------------------------"); } var files = folder.getFiles("*.indd"); for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { var f = files[i]; try { if (!(f instanceof File) || !f.exists) continue; if (BACKUP_FILES) { f.copy(backupFolder.fsName + "/" + f.name); } var doc = app.open(f, false); var removedCount = 0; // === Clear formatting (optional) === if (CLEAR_FORMATTING && doc.characterStyles.itemByName("Hyperlink").isValid) { var hlStyle = doc.characterStyles.itemByName("Hyperlink"); var stories = doc.stories; for (var s = 0; s < stories.length; s++) { stories[s].texts[0].applyCharacterStyle(app.activeDocument.characterStyles.itemByName("[None]"), true); } } // === Remove hyperlinks safely === for (var h = doc.hyperlinks.length - 1; h >= 0; h--) { try { doc.hyperlinks[h].remove(); removedCount++; } catch (e) { // continue } } // === Remove leftover destinations === for (var d = doc.hyperlinkDestinations.length - 1; d >= 0; d--) { try { doc.hyperlinkDestinations[d].remove(); } catch (e) { // skip shared ones in use } } // === Remove leftover sources === for (var s = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.length - 1; s >= 0; s--) { try { doc.hyperlinkTextSources[s].remove(); } catch (e) { // skip errors } } doc.save(); doc.close(); if (LOG_RESULTS) { logFile.writeln(f.name + " — hyperlinks removed: " + removedCount); } } catch (err) { if (LOG_RESULTS) { logFile.writeln(f.name + " — ERROR: " + err); } } } if (LOG_RESULTS) { logFile.writeln("----------------------------------------"); logFile.writeln("Done."); logFile.close(); } alert("Batch process complete.\nCheck the log file for details."); })();   Will revisit later - looking forward to knowing more and working out the kinks.  ... View more

You’re generally doing the right things, but a few details can make a big difference in how cleanly XML content comes into InDesign.   One thing I do is set up a predefined table in the library (or template) first, then bring the XML in, so that structure + styles are already in place.   If your XML uses the same tag for very different things (say <para> for headings and body text and captions), InDesign won’t know which style to apply reliably. More distinct tags (e.g. <heading>, <body>, <caption>) make mapping easier.   The XML for tables needs to follow the structure InDesign expects, tags for table/cell (and sometimes row), correct attributes (rows count, columns, header rows etc.). If it's off, content may end up as inline text rather than a proper table.   Mapping tags to styles is powerful, use Map Tags to Styles after import, making sure each tag is linked to the correct paragraph, cell, table style etc.   If your source XML doesn’t match InDesign’s expected structure, sometimes a preprocessing step (an XSLT or other transform) helps tidy things up before import.   Also, ensure your template already has the styles defined (table, cell, header vs body rows, etc.) so the import has styles to inherit or hook into. ... View more

If it's a one off, add a space at the start then reduce the tracking of the space until it lines up.    Here I've put the space and lined it up with a space and using minus -360 tracking.         But as pointed out - it's usually a 'feature' by the font designer.     ... View more

Forgot to add Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html   ... View more

Since the crash log points to LINGUISTICS.RPLN, try: Go to Edit  Preferences Dictionary and switch to a different dictionary, or disable dynamic spelling. Temporarily remove/rename the LINGUISTICS.RPLN plugin from the InDesign plug-ins folder to test. Test with a new user dictionary Delete or move your custom user dictionary (.udc files) from the InDesign settings folder. A corrupted dictionary can trigger these crashes.   Fonts check Corrupt fonts often trigger crashes during text edits. Validate fonts in Adobe Fonts and remove any locally installed suspicious ones.   GPU switching Try forcing InDesign to run only on your Intel GPU (or only NVIDIA) in Windows Graphics Settings. GPU driver conflicts sometimes cause heap corruption.   Run in Safe Mode Start Windows in Safe Mode with Networking and try InDesign. If it stops crashing, some background service or security software may be interfering.   Update or roll back InDesign If 20.5.0 is a brand-new update, try installing an earlier stable release. Or check Creative Cloud for any hotfix updates. ... View more

Well you're showing your invisibles and there doesn't seem to be a character before it.  Is there a blank frame with wraparound? Check the layers panel and expand the layer and see if anything is locked or looks out of place.    Easiest way to check is to select the current text frame and go to the Text Frame Options and turn on the ignore text wrap.    Hard to know by the image. If you can't figure it out drop a sample file here and we can take a look. ... View more

Happens in all documnets and not just this one?    If a document is not behaving well then try  File>Export  Choose IDML Open the IDML in InDesign Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name See if the issue persists.   --------- Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html     ... View more

You're not supplying sample text or files to test on - it's hard to troubleshoot. ... View more

Well the link is jsut for information if the links there don't work there's not much I can do about that.    You say the document is CMYK - but InDesign doesn't have a colour mode, it can take rgb, cmyk, etc. in one file.    Not that that's important  for now.   Are you InDesign CMYK profiles identical to that of hte photoshop file?  And are your PDF output options converting to a CMYK profile?  ... View more

Your file is in RGB - so there is no black.  You should make your images Grayscale in Photoshop if that's the case of no rich black.    Try it on some test documents - duplicate some images and try to convert them to grayscale.  The better way is with UCR/GCR adjustment.  https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/apply-ucr-gcr/m-p/11786684 ... View more

Thanks for laying that out clearly. Even if you don’t consider them major roadblocks, they’re definitely not behaviours you’d expect from InDesign.   That “Open 1 Document” dialog lingering after a close has cropped up for others too it does seem tied to Sequoia/M4 setups rather than corrupt prefs. Reopening the file to dismiss it matches what others have reported. Adobe haven’t logged it as a fix yet, so it may be in that grey zone of OS/hardware compatibility.   The scrambled text issue has been around in various guises for a while. On Intel Macs, disabling GPU performance was the workaround (like you mentioned). On Apple Silicon though, GPU off tends to drag the whole app. Some users have found relief by toggling “Display Performance” to Typical rather than High Quality, though it’s hit or miss.   So while these feel like separate quirks, there might be a common thread with GPU rendering and Sequoia’s graphics handling on the M4. Might be worth flagging all three together on the Adobe bug report form, just so they get logged with your setup specifics.   In the meantime, curious if anyone else on Sequoia + M4 Mini is seeing the same combination of “Open 1 Document” + scrambled text? ... View more

Hi Rogerio, I get where you’re coming from it’s frustrating when a file won’t open just because the software version or hardware isn’t lining up. Unfortunately, this isn’t so much greed as it is how the Adobe ecosystem works. InDesign files aren’t backwards compatible in the same way Word or PDFs can be, and hardware requirements do move on with new releases. There are a few practical options: You can ask the person who sent the file to export it as an IDML file, which will let you open it in older versions of InDesign. If you’re on Creative Cloud, you can usually install an older version of InDesign side by side, so you don’t have to upgrade hardware just to get a file open. If the issue is performance on your machine, sometimes cleaning up preferences or disabling certain background processes can help. It’s not ideal, and I agree it could be handled more smoothly, but there are workarounds that should let you keep working without having to buy a new computer right away.   Software will always keep evolving with new trends and features, and that inevitably means hardware demands keep increasing, it’s the nature of tech moving forward. ... View more

If a document is not behaving well then try  File>Export  Choose IDML Open the IDML in InDesign Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name See if the issue persists.     ------------- You mentioned linked files - but not how many pages.  Have you got all links on a single page - or have you got 60+ pages with images on each?    Either way - I'd try duplicating the file and in the duplicate - delete half the content, whether that's pages or images on a single page  See if it persists Whatever half it's failing on is where the issue is If it fails on both - keep dividing and conquering See what page/image the lag is happening    Once you narrow it down to page(s)/image(s) then you can try to resolve the issue.      ------------------- Another option is to create new document  and with the old one open - select the pages and Move the pages to the new document See if the issue persists.     ... View more

If a printer requires PDF/X-6, the simplest route is to ask them for their .joboptions file. That way you’re matching their workflow exactly, since requirements can vary a lot.   InDesign doesn’t surface X-6 as an export preset. The usual approach is to export to PDF/X-4, then use Acrobat Pro Preflight to validate and convert to X-6. From what I understand, that’s how most people are doing it today.   It’s worth noting that X-6 is built on PDF 2.0, so while InDesign already supports the underlying features (transparency, ICC profiles, layers, etc), Acrobat is the piece that adds the formal X-6 compliance flags and metadata.   It’s still relatively new, and adoption is pretty slow, so unless a partner specifically asks for it, X-1a or X-4 usually covers the bases. But if someone does need X-6, best to follow their joboptions and workflow to the letter.   Just a little something I found interesting here: https://proofing.de/pdf-2-0-and-pdf-x-6-the-new-pdf-standards/   ... View more

You can change the InDesign keyboard shortcut as I described in the first reply. ... View more

The KBSC can absolutely be changed  Product area : Object Menu Fitting: Centre Content --- Default: Shift+Cmd+E Fitting: Clear Frame Fitting Options --- [none defined] Fitting: Content-Aware Fit --- Default: Opt+Cmd+X Fitting: Fill Frame Proportionally --- Default: Opt+Shift+Cmd+C Fitting: Fit Content Proportionally --- Default: Opt+Shift+Cmd+E Fitting: Fit Content to Frame --- Default: Opt+Cmd+E Fitting: Fit Frame to Content --- Default: Opt+Cmd+C Fitting: Frame Fitting Options... --- [none defined]   You can also do something written here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4013165/remap-or-disable-copilot-chatbot-key-on-new-window?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers     ... View more

Sidebar: it makes little sense that this feature would be built into Illustrator and not InDesign. I have generated countless PDFs for release to printers or other third-party vendors since migrating to InDesign from Quark (which I migrated to from Freehand … which I migrated to from Pagemaker), and maybe 2% were Illustrator files. InDesign needs this feature; Illustrator does not (granted, everyone’s workflow is different … ). Again, thanks everyone. I can’t solve a problem that nobody acknowledges exists. By @KCH LTD   They are two different sets of teams, they are not collobarating on how things work. Each team make their own decisions.    For Illustator, you can save it with a PDF compatible in the background for previews in other apps. But I doubt this would keep any PDF settings as it hasn't been saved as PDF.    They only thing I can think of is Illustrator saving the PDF with Illustrator Editing Capabilities, (that is now the opposite of above with a .ai structure saved with the PDF.  For these PDFs saved from Illustrator that can be edited back in Illustrator, I have noticed it retainst he PDF settings.    I haven't witnessed it elsewhere in any other Adobe software.  ... View more

I still can't find any evidence to support that InDesign files ever stored PDF settings. Maybe you had a plugin or a script or something.    Everything indicates InDesign files don't store PDF settings. ... View more

I use the Quick Apply CMD+Enter   Then type in Keep With Next Row    ... View more

Not all JPEGs are created equal. While they all share the .jpeg or .jpg file extension, the way they're encoded can vary significantly. Some software, especially third-party programs or those optimised for web use, might save JPEGs with a specific compression or encoding that InDesign's preview engine doesn't recognise. InDesign is very particular about the file formats and encodings it supports, and if a file deviates from that standard, it may not be able to generate a proper preview.   The file itself isn't actually corrupted; it's just that InDesign's preview engine can't interpret the data correctly. The high-resolution image data for printing is still there, but the low-resolution preview file is what's failing.   How to Fix It To fix the issue, you should resave the JPEGs in a more universally compliant format. The best way to do this is to open the files in a professional image editing program like Adobe Photoshop and then save them again. This process re-encodes the image data in a way that is fully compatible with InDesign's standards.   A good workflow would be: Open the problematic JPEG in Photoshop. Go to File > Save As... or File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy). Choose JPEG as the format. Ensure the settings are standard (e.g., progressive scan, standard compression). Save the new file with a different name to distinguish it from the original. Place the newly saved JPEG into your InDesign document. This simple act of resaving and re-encoding the file will almost always resolve the preview issue.     Personally - I'd resave as TIF or PSD if possible - as resaving as JPEG does technically lose data as it's a lossy format         ... View more

It’s a good question you’d expect them to show up as presets in InDesign by now. The odd thing is they don’t, even though InDesign already supports the core features these standards rely on, external references, transparency, colour management, layers and so on.   The main reason seems to be that the print industry has been very slow to move past PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-4. Those two still cover the vast majority of workflows, so Adobe has never felt real pressure to make the newer flavours visible in the dropdown.   Another factor is that Adobe doesn’t “own” the PDF standard in the same way it used to. They handed a lot of that over to ISO, and while they still have a seat at the table, they’re not driving the spec the way they once did. That shift probably explains why newer standards don’t get bundled straight into InDesign.   It’s not that InDesign can’t produce PDF/X-5 or X-6 files you can get there by using Acrobat Preflight or custom joboptions it’s just not surfaced in the UI. So in practice it feels more like a lack of packaging than a technical gap. ... View more

For future issues Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html   ... View more