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The printer changed their preferred profile, so now I have to convert 7 indd files and the indb in which they are gathered. I don’t have the time to to start over, changing all 7 indd file color settings and then creating a new indb. If I change the current indb color settings and let ID match the individual files, I get “corrupted file” error messages and ID shuts down. What should I do?With appreciation for the help of community members more experienced than I.

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... 

Hello Adobe Community,I’m facing an issue while working with an Adobe product and would appreciate your help.I’m experiencing unexpected behavior during normal usage, and it’s affecting my workflow. I’ve already tried basic troubleshooting steps such as restarting the application, checking for updates, and reinstalling, but the issue still persists.Details: Adobe Product: photoshop Version: 21 Operating System: macOS Issue Description: after 1 hour screen turn into black If anyone has faced a similar issue or knows a possible fix, your guidance would be really helpful.Thanks in advance for your support. check more http://heyteamenu.com/

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!

Hello! So I have designed a 71 page, 36 spread that contains all pdf images linked downloaded from Photoshop at 300 dpi. This is a portfolio so it contains mostly photos but I am having problems exporting this file at 20 mg currently the smallest I can go without ruining the quality is adobe print pdf at 150 compression( kept it at high) for both color and grey scale and the file is about 41 mg. I played around with the settings in adobe acrobat specifically the pdf compressor and got it down to 20.1 but the quality of the photos were rly blurry. I compressed the pdf and optimised scan pages which got to the range of 20. However the standard of quality is not where it needs to be. This portfolio is to view both digital and printed but I save another version for printing so I will use  that one bc have high resolution photos etc. But how do I get my digital portfolio down to 20 mg. I thought about changing all my photos to tiff or psd bc I read make it smaller but honestly I am rly conf

In a somewhat-related thread (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/text-disappears-when-typing-in-text-box/m-p/15598533#M642384), respected InDesign guru Eugene Tyson wrote:If you're experiencing a current issue, please start a new post with:A clear description of the problem: For many months/maybe a year or two, I will be typing into a text box; not the main text box on a page, but a subsidiary sidebar text box, and some of the text will disappear and at least part of the text box looks like it is blank. The example below is on a big file, currently 18.2 MB. It is publically available for anyone to download from http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Source-Files/, it is Chapter 9. Before I start typing I see: After I start typing I see:           I have to go to InDesign > Edit > Preferences > GPU performance > [uncheck] to prevent it from happening. If I have GPU performance checked, and the problem occurs, I can ex

Hi, Dear Friends!I see ID puts all endnotes from all stories in the same text frame at the end of the doc. I am Ok with that but I would like each EN to show “where it is coming from”So if the EN was inserted in text fram “foo1” it should insert and endnote witht refernce number folowed by the text “foo1” and look like this:[foo1] here i write the endnote. [foo5] here i write another end noteI asked ChatGPT and Grok for help and the totally failed.All help is appreciated!Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

Hello, I’ve set my text frame to have 2 columns in the text frame options, but I’m unsure how to adjust only one column. I’d like one column to be shorter than the other, but I can’t select them individually since they’re treated as a single object due to the text frame settings. Do I need to create a new text frame with a single column, or is there a way to adjust the columns separately after the fact? Thanks!

Hi, not sure if I’m having an off day or not here. I asked a college and they were also puzzled. I’m placing high resolution images into Indesign.The document size without a doubt is 1920x1080 px.The Images are large stock images, bigger than this document size at 300ppi.When placed at 100% these images are smaller than the document? For example: One image is 3840x2160 px at 300ppi. When placed into a 1920x1080px document making it the full page size indesign says it is 208.3% scaled, and the effective ppi is 144?  This makes no sense, the effective ppi should exceed 300, and the scale should be less than 100%?!  See link panel and item selection image for details.Please help. 

My InDesign file suddenly started listing missing images to a page that doesn’t exist. I am the only person who has ever worked on this file. These images weren’t listed in the links panel yesterday when I closed the file but they appeared this morning when I opened it. 

New version of InDesign won’t PDF certain pages that previously worked fine in 25 version. Taking up lots of time trying to work out what images need to be replaced or even what pages (says p20 but might be 25). Once sorted it often generates PDF to near the end of doc and then just freezes. Is there a work around or an update coming for this? Its so time consuming. 

I’m new to InDesign, but have made books in other products. I have chapters all made with the same template and parent settings. I put them in a book. I want the chapters to start on odd or even pages, depending on how the chapters lay out. The chapters that start on odd pages look great. But the ones that start on even pages have the inner and outer margins backwards. Is there a way to set up my parents so a chapter will have the margin (and page headers and the like) be correct for whether it winds up starting on the right or the left? (So that if I add a page, say, to an early chapter, the change ripples correctly through the rest of the chapters.) I’ve attached my first test case with four chapters. Note the third one, “Illness and Injuries” starts on the left, but the margins are set for a right side page. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,Today on two different computers, both running the latest InDesign, I started getting this error every time I edit a file:“InDesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged.”Then, when I try to close the file, I get another message:“Could not complete your request because of a database error. The file ‘InDesign Defaults’ is damaged (Error code: 1).”I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign, resetting preferences, testing files saved locally, in the cloud, and on a USB stick, but nothing helps. I can open and save files as long as I don’t make any changes, but once I edit anything, the error appears.Everything worked fine yesterday, and now both computers are affected. Is anyone else seeing this problem, or does anyone know how to fix it?

If I have an .indd project file inside a OneDrive folder on my desktop (I like to work on the cloud to avoid any loss of data), after a few saves the .indd file gets corrupted. What is this mess? why won’t Adobe update such a simple feature and make it work with Cloud apps? This is 2026 ladies and gentlemen.

There is a bug in InDesign 21.2 (and Windows 11 Enterprise): our latest files were corrupted and unavailable when we opened them this morning. (Error message and warning sign.).No actions were possible, screen freezesWe were all completely blocked, because the previous versions are unable to open our latest files.Thank’s   

I have an InDesign 2025 sdk project that I’m migrating to InDeisgn 2026 sdk   but I´m having problems with the K2Vector changes. I don´t know where to start, I already add the header and lib routes but Idon´t know if I´m missing something or all the error are related to code changes that I need to made.  this is the error that the compiler throw:Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:  "K2Internals::K2VectorBase<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>::DoCleanup()", referenced from:      std::__1::unique_ptr<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>, std::__1::default_delete<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>>>::~unique_ptr[abi:ne200100]() in TextWarpSuiteASB.o      std::__1::__shared_ptr_pointer<K2Vector<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>, K2Allocator<InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown>>>*, std::__1:

I work with a colleague. We use the same InDesign files. I have recently encountered a problem. It only happens to me; my colleague does not have this problem, even though he uses the same files. Text sometimes “jumps” down a bit when I enlarge the text box, change the font size, or simply duplicate a page. I have already researched this, but have not yet found an explanation for it and nothing has helped. We both use the font via Adobe Fonts.

Hi all,I'm working on migrating my InDesign plugin from the 2025 SDK to the newly released InDesign 2026 SDK. I’m using Xcode 16.2 on macOS and attempting to rebuild the plugin against the latest SDK.However, I'm encountering the following compilation error: "No member named 'data' in 'K2Vector<TabStop>'" This error is occurring in TabStop.h at these lines: const TabStop* begin() const{ return fSortedTable.data(); }/** */const TabStop* end() const{ return fSortedTable.data() + fSortedTable.size(); } Has the K2Vector interface changed in the 2026 SDK? Or is there some new header, typedef, or setting I'm missing?Any guidance on how to resolve this or properly access the internal buffer of a K2Vector in the new SDK would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!Chetan

Hello, after the last post with at last count about 46k views, this is a major issue with a thread that is now missing? Some have said it has resolved but I haven’t been able to get it resolved because Windows Update KB5078127 isn’t available for me after checking for updates (in AUS running 25H2).The problem is that for files saved on OneDrive, InDesign crashes upon open or when trying to save.What another helpful user has said:Discovered a workaround on this, thanks to the help of our support company Air IT Group. On opening the file, make a change in the document (e.g add a cyan square to pasteboard), rather than 'save', click 'save as' and save as over the existing file name > then close the file > reopen the file again and 'save' function should now work without falling over, erroring or crashing out. Each time you open it for the first time, you'll need to do the 'save as' each time over existing file name for it to work. It's a frustrating workaround but at least you'll be

Vor ca. 4 Wochen ging bei mir beim Starten von InDesign zum ersten Mal ein Fenster auf, dass mich darauf hinwies, dass mein Account von mehr als einer Person benutzt wird. Ich habe ein Ein-Personen-Abo, darf es aber auf zwei PCs gleichzeitig nutzen. In dem Fenster stand, dass ich mein Passwort ändern soll, andernfalls würde es von Adobe geändert.Der Chat mit einem Mitarbeiter ergab, dass ich tatsächlich ein Abo für zwei PCs gleichzeitig habe (schön, wenn man es auch noch bestätigt bekommt) und dass ich das Passwort ändern sollte, sowie einen ggf. 3. PC aus der Liste der erlaubten Geräte entfernen soll. Es gab keinen 3. PC, ich sollte dennoch alle Geräte aus der Liste entfernen. Das habe ich auch getan und das Passwort geändert – doch nun taucht die Meldung wieder auf.Früher konnte man in einem Fenster, wenn dort 3 PCs angezeigt wurden (meine Chefin nutzte manchmal noch die Programme, macht sie aber nicht mehr), einfach ein Gerät deaktivieren. Nun scheint das nicht mehr zu gehen bzw. wi

Is there a function to remind reviewers?It would be very helpful if the InDesign Adobe review function had a reminder feature that could be set to remind reviewers if they haven’t opened the link within a set period of time. My problem is that my people don’t always get to it right away and then forget. That delays the production process. If Review could have a reminder function like Adobe Sign (or if it is there and I do not know about it) that would be extremely helpful. I understand I could export it and then send it as an Adobe Sign document and then import comments back into the document but I’d prefer to keep it all in the InDesign Review eco-system. 

Hi, one of our customers is facing this error since a few days, when they try to start adobe indesign 2026.See the attachment for the error Adobe indesign 2026 won't start on Windows. Things we did to possible fix this: Re-install of windows visual C++ latest versionRun SFC scan and DISMRe-install of Adobe indesign 2026checkdisk Adobe indesign 2025 is still running on the system without errors Configuration of the laptopHP ZBook 17 G6CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz32GB memoryWindows 11 build 24H2 

After updating to both Tahoe 26.1 and ID 2026, I can no longer package files located on my Synology NAS.  I'm getting the "indesign could not package the document cannot copy necessary linked files" error. I can package if all of the files are on my local drive. This is fine, except I have thousands of files on the NAS that my studio works from.  Anyone have a solution for this? I'm going nuts.  My phone call with Adobe support was "if you resaave all of the linked files with new names in new locations, they will re-link up" This is a nightmare for a studio, so its a non-starter.  Affinity works fine, and would be a PITA to move to, but I'd prefer for now to stick with ID. 

I was forced to update to InDesign 2026. (Mac Mini, Ventura OS) It’s being extremely buggy. I’m now having issues where I’ll open a doc from the Book panel and the doc opens but a modal box stays up saying “Open 1 documents” and typically hangs showing the name of a placed image. Of course, as with everything CC, the “Cancel” button never actually cancels. I can’t do anything but Force Quit and then the fun of having InDesign say files may be damaged.I’m in the middle of a colossal project and basically have to be prepared for a hard crash every moment and don’t dare leave any files open. The Book features is super buggy, but these inherited files were set up this way (due to somebody not understanding text variables for RH, so every chapter is a new volume with 6 master pages, thanks).Has anyone experienced this and figured it out? I now do keep updating InDesign, hoping this is addressed.I’m syncing on DropBox, I’ve selected “Make Available Offline” to hundreds of GB of files so they