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I can’t believe this is happening again. We really should get some sort of discount or refund for all the time we’re wasting lately with this issue.After being solved, this problem shows up again with the last update. I suddenly lose all UNDO steps, past the last four or five, just like what happened a few months ago.If the problem is related with the History panel, JUST DISABLE THE HISTORY PANEL. We didn’t have this issue before the panel, so I guess it has something to do with it. 

The latest version on InDesign was not working on our Windows 11 systems: it either wouldn’t launch or when using it, text will disappear in text boxes (even though it is still there) and the Undo action only performs one or two undos. Uninstalled and went back to InDesign version 20.5.1 which appeared to work fine until today: now I am having the same undo problem. Tested in a brand new document.It should be noted that coworkers with Macs are not having this issue.I saw a previous post that said this could be fixed by unchecking the GPU option in preferences, but that is NOT checked in mine (it is greyed out because it says it does not detect a compatible device).It is almost impossible to work knowing you only have one undo, please advise how to fix this!

Since this post seems to be marked as resolved after the Adobe Community update and it isn’t resolved, I’m creating a new post and linking to the old one. All the relevant information can be found here (at least all of the information that survived the Adobe Community update -- there are several missing posts). Long story short -- when you install Windows Security updates, some system fonts -- Times New Roman for me -- throw a missing font error in InDesign. This error only goes away if you uninstall the Windows Security update. More detailed info can be found in the linked post.This issue has been going on for literally months, since last November, and we’ve got bupkis to show for it -- less than bupkis now that some of the original posts have been nerfed with the Adobe Community update and the original thread appears dead. Adobe. Please. Help. This is beyond frustrating now... 

Hi everyone ~I have a question—I’m not sure if there’s a solution:I have multiple versions of Photoshop, but sometimes I only want to use the version located in a specific directory.For example, “C:\Ps2026\Photoshop.exe”.Is there a way to use a script in InDesign to open an image using the this specific path　Photoshop.exe ?You can copy the directory containing the installed Photoshop.exe to the C drive to test it.Thank you.

When using the Data Merge feature in InDesign, I am encountering an issue where the content from my second document (B), which I am trying to data merge into my main document (A), gets repeated multiple times. Specifically, the merged data appears like 'aaaaaaaaab1aaaaaaaaab2' and continues in this pattern for all records of document B. This results in an excessive number of pages—up to 1000 pages. How can I resolve this issue so that the data merges correctly, without unnecessary repetition, and I can achieve the intended layout?

I’m having two issues using Peter Kahrel’s sidenote script:The sidenote_reference style is not being applied to the superscript footnote numbers in the text The sidenotes are retaining overrides. I can remove these randomly, but can’t figure out how to avoid having any overrides.Both issues are visible in this screenshot: Note that the superscript footnote marker has successfully been replaced by the Sidenote anchor+number, but the style has not been applied. The sidenote itself is showing the blue ‘Style Overrde Highlighter,’ showing that an override has been applied The text is imported from an rtf file, and the footnotes appear to import correctly. My Footnote Options are set to the most basic defaults. Has anyone else encountered this? How can I fix this, without manually applying the style to every reference?Indesign 2025, running on a Mac, using latest version of sidenotes.

I wrote a newspaper column using Pagemaker for several years. I cannot access the ones written before 1996. I am hoping to convert the columns into a blog but can’t access the text.I have tried using Indesign but the files are not recognized. I tried opening with Word, but each column (roughly 1000 words each) is roughly 400 pages long as it is filled with formatting detritis.Any suggestions?

I’ve been having major issues with InDesign locking up ever since this update. It doesn’t crash so it doesn’t send a report either. At least two times every day, I need to either force quit the app or restart. It is very frustrating!

The Control panel menu (gear), hamburger, and lightning bolt icons are unresponsive. I particularly miss the link to "no break".) I'm using version 20.5 on Windows 11 Pro. I reset preferences and rebooted but that did not help. Thanks...

InDesign is doing this semi freeze thing when I place or replace images. Random images and random formats. The background task hoop turns on and I can do somethings sometimes but not always. If I close everything then close the program there is a message but it's up for a half a second, disappears and then a new start window opens then refuses to do anything else. I have to "End Task" to get it to close. I've deleted tempfiles, uninstalled and reinstalled, turned off GPU, and did that Ctrl + Alt + Shift thing.

I have a bunch of images I’m placing, and doing so by entering file names.When I search, InDesign ignores my OS settings (Mac) and searches my whole drive.Not a huge deal because I’m working from a files that are found easily, but is there a way to limit the search to the last folder from which something was places, perhaps unless otherwise navigated?thanks

The AI upsell popup ad is unreadable in light mode. Especially bad because clicking ‘Turn it on’ will enable a feature that burns tokens.MacOS 15.7.5, Indesign 21.3 

I’m facing an issue with Tagged PDF export from InDesign.A single paragraph (with no hard returns or forced line breaks) is getting split into multiple [P] tags — each line appears as a separate paragraph in tools like PDFix and Acrobat Tags panel.Details:Text is continuous in one frameNo soft returns (Shift+Enter) or manual breaksUsing standard paragraph stylesIssue appears only after PDF exportExpected:→ One [P] tag for the full paragraphActual:→ Each line exported as separate [P] tagsHas anyone encountered this? Is this related to composer settings or a known tagging issue?Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,I’m having trouble with the 'Share for Review' feature in InDesign yet again. I’ve already double-checked all my links, but I can't find a solution. This is the second time this has happened with this specific client, and for the sake of professionalism, I cannot generate a new link.Does anyone have a 'magic trick' to fix this situation? I’m honestly feeling quite discouraged.Thanks in advance for your help!Sandrine 

Hi All,  We are an architect company in UK and 2 of our colleagues in the office have updated their 2020 iMac's to OS Tahoe and although their hardware is more than capable of running InDesign & Vectorworks at the same time, since updating, they can't run these 2 programmes at the same time. After doing some reading and Chat GPT, it seems Adobe are having problems with compatibility with Tahoe? Vectorworks (even 2024) seems to be ok with the update. Are there any plans for better compatibility with Tahoe soon? Or any tips in the meantime would be most appreciated. Thanks Roger 

Hello, I’m formatting some text and would like to target characters within a set of parentheses, but only the first set (if more than one parenthetical occurs within the paragraph).Example:word (pronunciation) n. definition definition (second parenthetical); additional context Where only “(pronunciation)” would be styled and not “(second parenthetical)”. I found a prior thread with two strings that work to target all of the parentheticals within a paragraph. However, I don’t know how to only target the first parenthetical. I’ve tried to wrap the expressions in brackets and adding “?” or “+?” but those don’t work, and that’s the limit of my GREP understanding.i.e.((?<=\()[^)]+)+? Is there a way to target only the first parenthetical in a paragraph? If it’s relevant, I’m also using a nested style to target the first word to apply a different style.

Hi there!I create large book files for conference proceedings (the page range varies between 200 - 850 pages depending on the conference type). I am looking to mitigate the amount of time spent revising individual files, the TOC, and relinking images once they are added to a book file.Explanation of my current process:I am having authors add there content (text and images) to an InDesign template and then having them send me a packaged InDesign file. This is meant to ensure they use the correct layout and font styles. As expected, some authors aren’t in tune with InDesign and are either copy and pasting incorrectly or changing settings in the template file. When I receive the files, I also open and review/edit each file. By the end of my review all font styles, figures, etc. are linked properly.Then I create the book file. In the book file I add my interior cover, front matter and the separate author ID files. Once I complete another round of font style and figure link review, I create

How do I move a layer to the top and move an object to a specific layer?For example, I have three layers, and I want the final order from top to bottom to be:A1A2A3.I’d like to know how to use code to move A1 to the top.Additionally, I want to move the selected object to A2.I found this, but I don’t seem to understand it:https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/script-for-object-styles-being-applied-to-specific-layer-880528Thank you.

Hello community. Ive made a document with some buttons to navigate to certain pages, when I export as interactive PDF I get the following warning.  But then I export as Epub, and view it in Thorium and the buttons are working fine.I asked ChatGTP and it's telling me Indesign can export Interactive PDFs, but I'm doing something incorrect. So do interactive buttons function in exported PDF interactive, or this function is only for Epubs?Thank you.PS: I view the interactive PDF in my adobe acrobat reader, where I can see a little hand hovering over my buttons, but nothing happens, if this information helps to solve my problem.

Hi,Getting an issue with indesign and not recognising the calibri system font installed. From what I can see, there’s a new version of calibri with a latest windows update. V6.26 > V6.27.   Myself and colleagues are effected, and this is spanning across a lot of our documents. Replacing the font does not fully solve the issue as any forms text fields will not update to the font box.  I’ve seen a similar post regarding this with the same issue on times new roman which is marked as resolved but it most certainly not.  FYI, installing calibri via adobe fonts does not work, we are getting a conflict likely due to it already being a system font. We also running the latest version of indesign. Any help on this?

This issue was posted by a user on 9/17/254 in an InDesign-specific forum, which I cannot gain access to via login. User said: "Certain dialogue boxes appear partially off screen and can't be moved back on screen. For example, the Find/Change dialogue box and the Export dialogue box [specifically export to PDF (Print)] have both become almost unusable for me because important sections of those two boxes are located off screen. See attached screenshots. Dialogue boxes that allow you to expand them by clicking and dragging the edges/corners of the box are less of an issue - they often appear partially off screen, but once they're expanded at all, the whole dialogue box pops back into view. The Find/Change and Export dialogues do not allow this kind of expansion so that trick does not work for them. I've tried all the fixes that I've seen suggested for this issue online, including restarting my computer and changing the resolution of my displays, but none have worked. I've even updat

For the past month or two, any time I try to Place a file or update a Placed file, InDesign usually freezes. The cursor turns into the spinning circle. I can close and save the files after this, but cannot close the InDesign app. I try various ways to place the files. File > Place or Ctrl D or copy and paste the placed file from another InDesign file. The files I use are typically on my Google Drive and I’ve installed the Drive app on my machine.This is REALLY getting annoying. Adobe used to be so good with bugs. Any ideas? I’ve read a few posts that say they thought version 21.3 fixed this issue but I’ve still got it.I’ve reset preferences, cleared old versions of InDesign, reinstalled InDesign. InDesign 21.3Core i9 processorWindows 11 home64 GB RAM500+ GB hard drive space Thanks in advance for any tips.

Can I recover my old forum account under the name David W Goodrich? Over the decades I've contributed useful information on various technical issues -- CJK, footnotes, metadata -- but now my attempts to login usually get ignored; occasionally I see a message saying the account was deleted or banned.  To my knowledge neither is true, and even if they were I believe Adobe was supposed to send an e-mail explanation, which I have not received.  After long discussion on-line Adobe's general help told me to create a new Community account with a different e-mail to log in and ask the Community -- and I cannot use my old name.  Can someone help me?David W. Goodrich

Hi,I’m facing an issue while exporting a Tagged PDF from InDesign.Issue:When I use the font Arnhem Pro Blond, the exported tagged PDF splits each word into separate <Span> elements inside a paragraph <P>.Example from Tags panel:<P> <Span>Lithography</Span> <Span>is</Span> <Span>a</Span> <Span>technique</Span> <Span>used</Span></P>Instead of expected:<P> Lithography is a technique used...</P>Observation:When I change the font to Minion Pro, the issue is resolved The paragraph exports correctly as a single continuous text node No changes in styles, XML, or export settings — only font changeEnvironment:Adobe InDesign (version: ___) Tagged PDF export enabled Using structured/XML workflowImpact:Breaks accessibility structure Screen readers may read word-by-word Not compliant with proper tagging standardsQuestions:Is this a known issue with certain OpenType fonts like Arnhem Pro? Does font e

I’ve seen this problem mentioned in the InDesign Community a few times in the past, but has anyone recently had problems with Share for Review comments unmapping from their pins?