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Hello, I need to search/replace text that is 6.7 pt. It's everywhere in my document, but when I run the search, InDesign can't find it. Are you familiar with this problem, and does anyone have any ideas on how to get around it? Thank you for your help!

I understand that it's possible to share a link to another person for editing. All this works but I can't edit in the shared link. It's just a view-only. The guides at Adobe does not seem to correlate to the options in the menu and incopy does not exist in web version. How do I solve this so it's possible to edit the text without using the indesign application?

Hello,I'm use Indesign 2021 (16.4.3) on MacBookPro M1 (2020 - 16 Go - Ventura 13.7.4) with Indesign plugins (EasyCatalog, FontAgentPro).Especially when I'm in VPN configuration, I find myself stuck and unable to open InDesign. Even after 5/6 minutes or/and have emptied the cache and preferences or run a shot of Onyx. Have you ever faced this problem?

I am using an M1 Macbook air on latest OS Sequoia. When I turn on overprint preview, the whole document becomes unresponsive. I am unable to turn it off, the cursor disappears and I can't click any objects on the document. The axis rulers move when I scroll but the actual document does not scroll. The only way to escape this is to restart the whole application. This seems about 60% of the time I use Overprint Preview, and typically when I am on GPU preview, and not on CPU. However Indesign performs much worse on CPU preview in my experience. Does anyone have an explanation for this? I can't find anything online. I have tried reinstalling and resetting preferences. As expected this has a pretty big impact on my workflow so would love to get it sorted out. Thanks!

I’m trying to open an InDesign project, but I get an error saying the file was created in a newer version of Adobe InDesign (version 21.0) and that I need to update to the latest version. The issue is that I am already running the most current version available in Creative Cloud. I’ve checked for updates, restarted InDesign, and rebooted my computer, but the message still appears and the file won’t open. InDesign gives me the option to convert the file, but when I click it, nothing happens. The "Convert File" button gets grayed out and never progresses, so I can’t access the file at all.Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there a reliable workaround to open the file without losing data, or a way to force InDesign to recognize that it’s already updated?

I have a document (well, a set of documents) where I simply cannot get InDesign to use the correct quotes defined for certain text languages. The documents are bilingual, in Danish and English. The Danish text should use »inwards guillemets« for double quotes and ‘regular 69s’ for single quotes. The English text should use “regular 6699s” for double quotes and ‘regular 69s’ for single quotes. In Preferences → Dictionary, I have set quotes accordingly (for Danish here): It works as expected for paragraphs whose language is set to English: “double quotes” and ‘single quotes’. But regardless of what values I select in the Dictionary settings, in paragraph styles whose language is set to Danish, the automatic quote substitution consistently changes all quotation marks to German-style quotes: „double quotes“ and ,single quotes‘. In some, seemingly completely random, cases it even changes them to „lower lower„ – which is most definitely

HelloI renewed Windows for the latest version of Windows 11, and when I downloaded Adobe programs, I found that Indesign did not want to install its latest version and only stopped at version 19.5.5This is very bad and I want a solution to this problem

Is there any way, when you have multiple documents open, to 'sync' the view (page, zoom level, scroll bar position) across every doc? Has anyone come across a script that can do this, or know of some other way to do it? If I could 'retrieve' the horizontal and vertical scroll bar positions somehow I could probably write a keyboard maestro macro that would do it.

Can someone explain why I can "sort of create" an iteractive form in indeisgn but I can't specify, date, phone number, Social Security number until I open it and change it in Adobe Acrobat? Why can't the properties features be a part of Adobe InDesign so that I can get the majority of it formatted inside InDesign. Additional Plugins? Mickey

Hi,  I will have a situation where there will be 3 PDFs of cards. The card takes up 2 pages as a PDF spread, the first being the outside of the card, the second the inside.  The outside and inside of the card can have a marking corresponding to a letter and number, say "1P, 2P, 3P, 4P, 5P" on the front and back. I wouldn't try to do the request here using different letters too.  However, there's a randomization within the 3 batches of PDFs, so instead of it being 1P, 2P, 3P for each front and back of the card, it's more like "1P, 3P, 7P, 8P", with a second PDF as "2P, 4P, 6P" and a third with "5P, 9P, 10P".  How can we merge these so eventually the order is "1P, 2P, 3P, 4P, 5P" on one PDF, and also so it's still the outside of the card and the inside of the card next to each other? Thanks!

I'm running InDesign 2022 17.01 on a Macbook Pro 2019 OS Monterey V 12.1.  I use indesign on this computer every single day with no issues, but today, I am unable to save my projects or use undo/redo. I restarted indesign earlier to address the undo/redo problem and it worked for a while, but eventually was disabled again. At the time, I was able to save my files so I felt comfortable restarting the program. But now, both save and undo/redo are disabled. I was however able to succesfully export, which requires saving. Very strange.  other things that may or may not be related:- Text boxes in one of my projects are creating duplicate edges and I have to double click them for the text to readjust inside the new parameters. Usually the text adjusts while I drag the box. This is only happening on one of my projects open, while the other is normal. - Zooming with my fingers on my trackpad is randomly disabling and I have to relaunch the program to fix it. Zoom on tr

Bonjour à tous, Je rencontre un problème depuis hier lors de l'ouverture de tous mes fichiers Adobe InDesign créés sous une version antérieure à la version 2026 (21.0), le message ci-dessous s'affiche : Lorsque je clique sur "Oui" pour la récupération de mes documents, cela coupe complètement InDesign. Et si j'essaie d'ouvrir mes fichiers sur l'ancienne version 2025, il me demande de convertir mon fichier car il n'est plus compatible (voir le message ci-dessous) :   Et lorsque j'effectue la conversion, je perds du contenu.  Si quelqu'un peut m'aider svp, merci beaucoup ! 

Bonjour,La boîte de dialogue "Appliquer un  gabarit aux pages..." du panneau Pages est extrêmement succincte, en particulier, le champ "Aux pages" ne possède comme choix préenregistré que "Toutes les pages". N'existe-t-il pas un moyen d'appliquer automatiquement un gabarit aux pages impaires (par exemple) sans devoir saisir manuellement la liste des pages 1,3,5,7,9, etc. ? Sur un document de 500 pages c'est un peu fastidieux !Merci d'avance pour toute aide utile 🙂

I have a very high contrast image, that looks great when I download it and look at it in preview, and even when placed in my CC libraries. However, whenever I place the image into InDesign, it loses the bright contrast that the original image contains. How do I fix this? I have looked over my specs and my display and color is set to RGB. Please help.  Attached is what it shows vs. what it SHOULD look like....

Following setup (all apps at most recent 2026 versions):indd with linked indd including vector ai files. when working cross platform (win and mac), the linked indd file needs to be opened and saved once in order for the vector files to export properly (otherwise they'll just export as white rectangles). once with the other platform again, the indd needs to be saved again for proper pdf export. 

I updated to InDesgin V20.0 on a Mac and no matter what tool I select, the cursor/mouse pointer arrow changes to a hand with index finger pointing (see image below). This is very confusing and hard to adapt to. I also can't tell what tool I'm using by looking at the pointer as it's always the hand icon. I'd like to switch it back to the former arrow pointer or the tool that's being used but can't figure out how. Anyone else having htis issue or figured out a workaround?    <Title renamed by MOD>

I'm trying to figure out how to get "clean" anchored objects when pasting - e.g. pasted a graphics frame & have it take up "paragraph space" just like a paragraph would.In the example below, on the left, I'm pasting into the default paragraph style, and centering it.However, when I paste into a box with text that has a Paragraph Style applied, the box no longer behaves as expected, and overlaps the content above rather than taking up the vertical space as it does on the left.So, I'm assuming it's a setting in the paragraph style that's causing this - any ideas?Back to experimenting...Thanks  

Buongiorno a tutti, vi chiedo aiuto perchè sto impazzendo!! lo scorso anno ho sviluppato un listino con InD 2020, diviso in 3 files. Ho creato circa 1000 pulsanti per rimandare a pagine diverse utilizzando la funzione "vai a destinazione" >> segnalibro.Quest'anno ho riaperto i 3 files con InD 2024 e tutti i collegamenti sono "saltati", se seleziono il pulsante mi da questo errore "Impossibile aprire il file "DBTmp1269-2007323006". È possibile che Adobe InDesign non supporti questo formato di file, che manchi un plug-in che lo supporti o che il file sia attualmente aperto in un'altra applicazione." Qualcuno può aiutarmi a ripristinare i collegamenti? Grazie

Hallo Leute,folgendes Problem: normalerweise benutze ich solche shortcuts wie Command + Shift + Ecke ziehen, um den Rahmen samt den Inhalt proportional zu verändern. Oder wenn ich ein Bild kopieren will, dann drücke ich immer option + Bild ziehen, um eine Kopie vom Bild zu haben. Allerdings funktioniert das bei mir nicht mehr. Wenn ich Bilder proportional skalieren will mit dem Mauszeiger, dann drück ich den Shortcut, aber das einzige was ich verändere ist der blaue Rahmen, als ob die Tasten keine funktion mehr hätten. Oder wenn ich Bild perfekt nach unten verschieben will, dann drück ich eig immer shift, und dann rastert das die Bilder eig immer ein, aber dauch das geht nicht. Kopieren funktioniert auch nicht, obwohl der doppelte Pfeil bei gedrückter option-taste angezeigt wird.  Natürlich kann ich auch anders skalieren, bewegen, kopieren wie auch immer... aber ich habe mir mit meinen Methoden das so angeeignet und arbeite so am schnellsten, das würde ich gerne beibehalten.&

Hi,I have been trying to connect the InDesign Server to ExtendScript Tool Kit CC and Extendscript VS Code extension. But once I try to connect Extendscript Toolkit or VSCode Extendsctipt plugin to Indesign server, It does not connect and give me errors saying that Server is not running.I did not run VSCode plugin and ESTK simultaneously (since they use same bridgetalk message queue)Also I have no particular reason to use both tools, for my testing. Just need to connect IDS to either one of them; however I prefer VS Code since ESTK is somewhat discontinuing Steps I followed are stated hereI started IDServer from these commands (Both of these commands worked for me and started the server)indesignserver -port 8470InDesignServer.com -port 8470 Then I tested the server by using "sampleclient" and a script file that I created; used following command.sampleclient -host localhost:8470 C:\Users\<myusername>\Downloads\test.jsxtest.jsx content are  $.writeln("Hello"

Hi  I have to produce 500+ certificates that are all personalised, and then save them as individual PDFs with unique filenames that are not connected or sequential.  Adding the data to the Indesign pages is covered, as is the PDF 'ing – it's the filename thing that I'm struggling with (it doesn't appear in the artwork either). All I can think of is to 'cut n paste' the file name from the master.xls one by one. I'm hoping there is some kind of script? Any ideas welcomed on making this process more streamlined or efficient? thx

It started back in March and has persisted ever since. I have the latest, updated version of InDesign and Windows 11. I did not make any changes prior to the issue, and I have a newer desktop computer. I have been working with InDesign since it was the Pagemaker program, so knowledge is not an issue here. And, I have never had this problem in my 33 years of using Adobe programs. That being said, here is the issue:Randomly, when I edit an existing paragraph or character style, it can take 30 seconds to over a minute to be able to make that change. It happens when I choose a different setting, and also when I hit okay.  If I close ID and restart, it helps a bit, but not completely, and the issue continues to worsen as I make style changes.I have deactivated all fonts, and that did not help.I have installed and reinstalled ID, and that did not help.I have rebooted  SO MANY timesI have tried to delete my font cache, but I get a message that it is in use even after

Hii Team, We are using adobe extendScript to get the json data by parsing indesign file. We are trying to implement some logic based on exact text coordinates, we tried several options using font size , line height , offsets , but we are unable to get exact starting point of the text for each line in a textframe .[P.S. - we are getting text frames coordinates, we need the coords for actual text inside].One more consideration is the text alignment , both vertically and horizontally. Currently this is what we have implemented yet, but it is not working as expected, (mostly for Y -coordinate) function getXCoordinateForText(paragraph, bounds) { var frameLeft = bounds[1]; // X position of the left edge of the frame var frameRight = bounds[3]; // X position of the right edge of the frame var frameCenter = (frameLeft + frameRight) / 2; // Center of the frame // Get text properties var startX = paragraph.horizontalOffset; var endX = paragraph.horizontalOffset; try { endX = para

Relink to folder doesn't work for filenames with accents (czech language in my case), it just doesn't find such files, even they are present. But relinking every single file separately (very annoying) works.I have reported this bug 6 years ago and it is still not fixed.I suspepect some issue with win and mac file names encoding that InD can't handle. But in case of relinking single file, there is no problem, so I'm not sure.Indesign just updated to InD 2026 on Win 11.

I am unsure if I am doing something wrong, but why is exporting a booklet to a printable PDF the hardest thing to figure out? The only way I am aware of is saving the file as post script for distiller and then going from there. 90% of the times, it doesnt get exported to distiller correctly, and its just a constant battle of getting the file exported correctly. Why is this not just a standard export at this point? We have the capability to print as a booklet, so why cant I just save it as a PDF with bleed and crop marks, and not go through distiller? If I am missing something please, let me know. Thanks!