Commonly, if the same paragraph style looks different, it is because a Character Style is also applied on top of it; thus changing its appearance. Have a look at both Paragraph and Character Style panels. ... View more

Hi TJ What version of InDesign? What version of operating system? ... View more

Hi Alfredo, This morning, many are posting saying Publish Online is not working. I tested a sample file at 8:50am Eastern time and it was working ok for me. Maybe a temporary outage? ... View more

Hi Scott, Adobe's support for ARM-based processors is by no means fully working yet. It continues to be true that you shouldn't depend on beta versions of software for any real publishing. BTW, I haven't tried out Blurb plugin. Do you have any past experience with it? Does it work well on a regular install of Adobe InDesign? ... View more

Hi Oscar, In your video, you appear to have a boxed text style applied to the text sample, but then proceed to click on the bulleted list button. This causes an override to the paragraph style; and confuses it. It would be better to go into the paragraph style to add on the bulleting. Also, in the downloadable example, the text is all centered, but bulleting pretty much demands being left aligned. That means your centered title over the bullet points would have to be  a separate style (like Boxed-Note-Centered). Also, when you make paragraph styles, take care to not have them be Based On: Basic Paragraph Style. That can trigger errors and changes as you copy n paste content. Next, I notice that there are repeating tabs running across the Boxed Note paragraph style. Remove them all except the one that coincides with the difference between left indent and first line indent. Since you are working with clean styles, make sure to remove the leading spacebar space from before each bulleted line. Take care to remove the unwanted Normal paragraph style whenever it invades your document. I have attached a cleaner revision demonstrating good paragraph style practices. ... View more

That key combo thing is no longer necessary, since they put a reset button in general preferences. You can just click it and restart the app. ... View more

Hey Oscar, In your movie, I notice that the first paragraph has a soft return; the second has a hard return. Use hard returns. Also, use a paragraph style; not direct formatting. Otherwise, the previous experts have already identified your problem. To make your entire day productive in InDesign, have you considered some training? Thorough training in the use of InDesign makes for enormous gains in productivity. ... View more

Oh I see. Bear in mind that I wasn't suggesting opening vector art in Photoshop. I was referring to bitmap, ie, pixel-based photo assets.  ... View more

Really? What are you seeing getting destroyed? ... View more

Hi Mattia, I was able to recreate your situation using a test file. I also notice that it needlessly duplicates layer names, even if they are named as separate layers for separate artboards. On the one hand, you don't really need to turn off layer eyeballs under Object Layer Options. But on the other hand, you have discovered a limitation of asking one placed file to do too many things at once. Did it not do that way on previous versions of InDesign and Illustrator? ... View more

Hi Frans, I'm glad you wrote about "you can always Role Map them" in Acrobat. I hate role-mapping tags that should already match in Acrobat PDF. What a continual waste of time. Year after year! ... View more

Sergio, In my experience, the biggest factor in file-bloat is the mistake of File > Place -ing graphics without first opening them in Photoshop, adjusting the size/and/ppi to match the expected use size on the page in InDesign. In other words, a lot of images default to 72ppi. They benefit when you re-size them to the designed physical size, but also set the ppi to (usually) 300 ppi (common for printing). Doing this first, and then import/Place into InDesign allows InDesign to create much smaller image previews for the linked file. This directly affects file bloat.   Many say it is better to leave the original scan alone and do not down-sample it, and I agree with that. But you can still freely change the Image > Image Size ppi to something higher like 300 instead of 72ppi. This doesn't resample the image, allowing you to keep the original pixels. There is no image degradation; yet InDesign experiences less file bloat.   The other commenters have already also mentioned doing a Save-As from time to time. They have also mentioned doing an export to .IDML and re-opening the .IDML to a new, cleaner, InDesign file. File > Placing; not drag-n-dropping; not embedding; all those are good practices, too. ... View more

Hi Gandalf, This is not a script, but some features of InDesign lend itself to your needs. For example, Edit > Place and Link is a feature that allows you to edit the original, and the links all update. Another approach would be to make back pages as a separate InDesign document, and thereafter File > Place the .indd file as an image page on the back cover of many publications. ... View more

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-access-indesign-beta/td-p/14605655 ... View more

Hi Shild, Those look like broken cross-refs or broken links of some sort. Maybe broken Table of Contents links.  Do you recall whether you copy-n-pasted any of that sort of link material from one document to another (which would break it), and then you exported the PDF? ... View more

Thanks Meenakshi! ... View more

Hi gang, just bumping this list request for an acknowledgment of which tags are supported versus which tags are not. We should have a reference relative to PDF and EPUB and Publish Online, too. ... View more

It sounds like you have already done most of the following: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/reset-indesign-preferences-and-other-troubleshooting/td-p/11990234 But this compendium can help you track through and reason out the many possible factors. ... View more

BTW, it should not be a .mov file added to an Acrobat PDF. It should be a .mp4 file that is H.264 encoded. (If you really must embed a video file in an Acrobat-only desktop app world). ... View more

Hi Ira, Yes, InDesign is the forward evolution of PageMaker.  You want to reprint, so... Do you have the original PM files? They can be opened by those of us who have preserved an old install of PM6/7. This would get you into a new InDesign file for further editing. Do you only have the PDF of the book? That can be opened in Acrobat Pro and the full text can be exported to a Word docx, which can be File > Place back into a new InDesign document. Are there pixel-based pictures in the old book? If a PDF document exists, you can export them out all at once to an image assets folder and then File > Place the images into a new InDesign document. If neither PM nor PDF exist anymore, then, yes, you can scan the pages and let Acrobat Pro optical-character-recognition the text and also export the text out to a Word docx again (for rebuilding into a new InDesign file). Yes, that will be time-consuming. One last thought: make sure those pages are scanned perfectly flat. Acrobat does a bad job of OCR-ing scanned pages that show curvature in 3 dimensions. ... View more

A hair space can look like this with Show Hidden Characters turned on (the symbol is in blue):   ... View more

^| translates to a hair space in the Text tab of Find/Change   In the GREP tab of Find/Change, the same character should appear as ~|   Your example looks like two hair spaces followed by a spacebar space (probably) followed by a repeat of the same ... View more

Hi Production, Well, actually, step 1 is unnecessary. In step 2, you can File > Place either an RTF or a DOC or a DOCX file. The text and hyperlinks might already be formatted into a table, or it might not be. Just be sure to turn on Show Import Options as you place it. In the secondary dialog box, you can make sure that hyperlinks are included in the importation of the text file. Also, this is only loosely related to the OP question. ... View more

I have always assumed User Settings are the same as Local Settings, which you can migrate forward from the previous version of InDesign. This is my list from about 2023 observing what did and did not migrate:   Preferences and Presets, Styles, Automations Migrate Don't Migrate After 1. Open Recent List Yes No Yes 2. Workspace Presets Yes No Yes 3. Menu Customizations Yes No Yes 4. Document Presets Yes No Yes 5. New Page Sizes Yes No Yes 6. Autocorrect Presets Yes No Yes 7. InDesign Shortcut Presets Yes No Yes 8. Stroke Styles Yes No Yes 9. Word Doc Import Options Presets Yes No Yes 10. RTF File Import Options Presets Yes No Yes 11. Glyph Sets Presets Yes No Yes 12. Animation Motion Presets Yes No Yes 13. Find/Change Text Queries Presets Yes No Yes 14. Find/Change GREP Queries Presets Yes No Yes 15. Find/Change Glyph Queries Presets Yes No Yes 16. Find/Change Object Queries Presets Yes No Yes 17. Find/Change Color Queries Presets Yes No Yes 18. Transparency Flattener Presets Yes No Yes 19. Print Presets Yes No Yes 20. Color Settings File (if in PS & synced) Yes Yes Yes 21. File Info > Import/Export Metadata § Yes Yes Yes 22. Preflight Presets Yes No Yes 23. Scripts Panel Yes No Yes 24. Export to Adobe PDF Presets ‡ Yes Yes Yes 25. CC Libraries No No No 26. Custom Style Mapping ^ No No No 27. Adobe Swatch Exchange No No No 28. ToC Style Presets* No No No 29. Trapping Presets* No No No 30. XML Structure Tag Presets No No No Edit > Preferences Yes No Yes § ... Application Support or AppData > Roaming > Adobe > XMP > Metadata Template ‡ external to InDesign, ^ copy/paste frames using Style Mapping, * document to document load only         ... View more

To look good on a smartphone screen means usually making a EPUB. A step lower would be a PDF.  But 1500+ pages inside of 3 days? That is highly unreasonable. But you could design the Table of Contents pages in InDesign; export to PDF; then combine the 2 PDFs together, and then build some Bookmarks from the front ToC pages to the major articles.  A 1500 page anything is going to be an unwieldy large document to put on a smartphone.  Why not tell them no? ... View more