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Hello, recently I bought brand new Asus ProArt laptop and when I tried to use Indesign app it was unusable. the scrolling speed with trackpad is EXTREAMELY FAST both horizontally and vertically. in the same amount of movementwith trackpad on other Adobe apps i move so slightly, while on indesign i skip FULL PAGES.Even when I tried to use external mouse it was too sensitive compared to sensitivity on Illustrator, both on 100% view ; not in the same insane speed while using the trackpad, but still brutally fastIn the Now, before you suggest me for a solution let me tell you what I already did:- I tried closing the app and reopen it- I tried restarting my computer- I checked for updates for my Indesign app; I have the last version- I checked for updates for my Windows version and mouse drivers- I tried reinstalling Indesign- I tried to downgrade all the available versions of Indesign on creative cloud app In the attached video I demonstrate the problem, and compare the scro

I understand how to turn off hyphenation in my InDesign document and I have it turned off everywhere that I know of, and hyphenation is no longer anywhere in used or placed in my document.However, when I place (Ctrl+D) a word document into my InDesign file it places it in there with hyphenation on. This is very annoying.Is there a way to make it so that when placing a word document into InDesign it will go into it with hyphenation turned off?As of right now it is always placed with hyphenation on and I have to manually highlight at the text once I import it and turn off hyphenation.

I'm creating a TOC for a 100+ page booklet. Everything looks great when I populated the TOC with the styles I have applied, however there is a random 2 between each entry, and after a while that changes from 2 to 3 between each entry. Help?   

PSD links in IND file are coming in blurry. The links are clean, and display performance is high. Some PSD files have no issue and others are blurry. What else could be causing this?  

Hi! My team and I are facing an issue with the quality of images when exporting a document from InDesign or Illustrator. Despite the images being high resolution when added to the working file, their quality decreases when converting the file to a PDF. We have tried exporting the file in high resolution, but nothing seems to fix the problem. Before: After: Before:   After:  

Imac Retina, 2017OS: Ventura 13.7.1Indesign 20.1 (2025) Recently, Indesign has been crashing every few minutes, usually after one of several normal actions, such as coping an object (shortcut = Option+Shift), dragging a page to the Create New Page icon, or simply moving a page. It seems extremeley volitile, so I'm having to save after every action. I realise I'm not on the latest OS as the 2017 Imac doesnt support it, but I'd hope that the latest Indesign would still be supported by Ventura, in case that was the issue. Would be grateful for any ideas. 

Hi,I'm experiencing lately that Indesign is very slow even though I'm working on a very simple design. Backdrop 4m x 2,5 mts with a couple a png's and some vector illustations. Also with importing AI vecor files (complex but only 700 kb) Indesign is slow.I work on a iMac 2021 M1 16 Gb computer. So that can't be the problem. Who is having the same problem?Is this something between Adobe and MacOS Monterey?

After updating InDesign 2025 on February 3rd I have notived that when I try to duplicate an element by using the option click command the app just crashes and closes.What can I do to fix it?Thank you.

I have a data merge document with 12 coupons that fit into a specific text box. The data fits perfectly but the placeholder objects in data merge oversets the text box even though the actual text will fit. How do I get around this. It cannot work if I have a field that is meant to be a single or double digit but the placeholder is a longer name (that is already as short as possible).Example:199<<B$12>><<B¢12>>The dollar amount is 1The cents are 99 and are superscript. This easily fits into my text box.Can anyone help? Thanks so much.

Currently when splitting a caption block you place your cursor in the block where you want to split it and it duplicates the caption block into two identicle blocks.  It would be far more efficient to actually split the block into two new blocks. The first one preceeding the cursor in the block and then the new one with all the text following the cursor in the second block.

Hope anybody can help..... Working with InDesign.I'm working on laying out the interior of a 230 page book.  I have two issues:1. The text frames just disappear for no apparent reason.  How do I get it back?2. How do I install missing fonts?Thank you 🙂

Hi, are you also annoyed by tabulators like me?

I need help from an InDesign expert.  I am unable to get anything to work for my 363 page novel.  I want someone local to come to my office in Madison Tennessee, and get the book to delete the text boxes, allow me to make my corrections and print, email my books to publishers.  I have published books with earlier versions of InDesign, but am now unable to even save my corrections.  If you are near me (Madison, Tennessee,) call me (Sweet Travis) for more information, what you would charge for your help, or make an appointment to visit me at Otherworld Cottage Industries,. (or check my credentials at https://travisedwardpike.com. or at https://otherworldcottageindustries.com.) ASAP!   <Personal info removed by MOD>   

There appears to be several methods available in order to create QR Codes within the Scripting API. What we need is a way to find each QR Code and examine/edit the URL. There apprears to be nothing listed for this within the API documentation. Is there any way to step through the Graphics in each doucment, determine whether or not they are QR Codes, and if they are, to then check/edit the URL? 

Bonjour, j'ai une slide avec des carrés de couleurs pour une charte graphique et j'ai voulu mettre une couleur de fond à ma slide seulement cela impacte les couleurs présentes dans ma slide. - Ma forme de couleur de fond est bien placé en dernier dans mes calques- Le calque est en mode normal et pas en mode fusion Si quelqu'un peut m'aider ce serait top ! merci 🙂 

Is it possible to paste shapes into a table cell?

See https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/selection-tool-not-working-on-external-monitors/m-p/15124621 _________________   I just got new monitors - every time I use Indesign now this is how my selection tool looks, and I can't move objects. I've already reset my preferences, restarted my computer, uninstalled and reinstalled my indesign. It works fine on my laptop screen. It sometimes creates a "snippet" on my desktop when I try to move an object. I can still move things with my arrow keys. This is what it looks like.

The tool Align does not work on my Indesign 18.1I have tried several document, - but the Align tool does not work at all?Can anybody help me?

Wie entferne ich diesen Index bzw. diese Überschriften inkl. Balken?

Hi, vielleicht kennt jemand das Problem. Wenn ich an meinem Mac in Indesign arbeite und nur den zweiten externen Monitor anschließe, wird auf dem Monitor Indesign grau (wie eingefroren ohne Anzeige der Seiten) angezeigt und man kann nichts machen. Bei den anderen Adobe Programmen wie PS oder AI ist das nicht so, da kann man einfach weiter arbeiten. Erst wenn ich Indesign beende und neu starte, funktioniert es. Was kann ist tun? Danke, Nina

Hi, my data merge is not working.I create a csv file in excel. I upload it to indesign 20.1 but the images won't load. If I process the same file in version 19.0 everything goes without a problem.The CSV file is not specially formatted. I also tried tab delimited text (from excel) but that doesn't work either.

Want to send to adobe staff to check out... I have opened this file before (with much larger links) and worked on it no problem. in the past few hours it has become unresponsive and slow to open or use to the point i can't open the file without having to force quit indesing every time! it only seems to be the case with this specific file. ive tried reinstalling and resetting indesing. 

Hello Indesign friends, my name is Wout from the Netherlands,I'm making a book in Indesign about 40 years of Strongman in Holland. Each year is around 30 pages and I'm using around 15 parent pages.I finished the first year with 32 pages and I will proceed year number 2, therefore I want to start again near year 1 so I can see what page I used etc.Is it possible to see more then one year with page 1 to 32 from top to bottom and the next year besides from top to bottom.Thxs for your reaction, greetings Wout

Buenas, me preguntaba si en indesign se pueden hacer tablas con el trazo inferior (o inferior y superior) solamente, sin trazos a la derecha/izquierda, de esta manera:

Hi, I'm really new to the xml import part for indesign, but i'm going to need it extensively. How do I format the xml to be able to import images from a local path or a url path from my server? I can do everything with text but it doesn't work for image files. I tried the <image href="localimagepath"></image> but this doesn't work, it says there is an error in my code when importing.This is on osx and the path is from my terminal.