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So I feel like this should be simple and easy to do, but I can't figure out how to do it, or how to search it.  The little boxes to the right of a layer in both indesign and illustrator, they are called selection boxes. In order to do most actions you need to have that selected on a layer, not the layer itself. However, I can't find a way to quickly select the selection boxes of multiple layers at once. If I want to select five layers, I click the top one, hold down shift then click the bottom.  Can;t do that with selection boxes.  If you make a group in indesign, and select the group's selection box, it won't select every layers' selection box. That means if i have a page and want all the items on the page in a layer, i can't just select all the text without individually clicking on every. single. one.  I'm making a rule book, there will be upwards of 40+ items on each page. How do I select ten layers' selection boxes quickly? I feel like im going insane. This shou

Hi there, I'm trying to change an InDesign file from Kalaham to Tamil Sangam MN as the Kalaham font isn't compatible with Microsoft Word (it turns into random words when copying and pasting from Word to InDesign), and we have to make the design in consistent with another Tamil file. The Kalaham file was created by another designer who's no longer in the company, hence we don't have the source text file to reflow the text with the new font. When changing from Kalaham to Tamil Sangam MN: I applied both fonts with the Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer. Could someone advise? Thank you in advance!   

What I'm thinking of is determining if the last row is empty.If it's empty, set it to footer.If it's not empty, add one empty row at the end and set the empty row to footer. When you don't expand the text box, it says “empty”. (This is actually wrong.)When you expand the box, it says “not empty” again. I'm a little confused about functions, methods, and objects.Also, if you take out the Break, it becomes a dead loop?How do I get the code after it to run? Please guide me.Thank you very much.See attachment for sample. “alter” is used for testing. Can be deleted    var cell = app.activeDocument.selection[0].parent; var myTable = cell.parent; var myFooterRow = myTable.rows[-1]; dupeLastRow(myTable); function dupeLastRow(p){ var isLastRowEmpty = true; for (var j = 0; j < myFooterRow.cells.length; j++) { if (myFooterRow.cells[j].contents !== "") { isLastRowEmpty = false; alert("No-empty"); break; } else{ isLastRowEmpty = true

Hello, I am in the UK but working on a document in InDesign for a client in China. They have given us their brand fonts ‘NotoSansCJKsc’ and ‘NotoSertif CJKsc’ and I've installed them into our system. However, when I convert the English text to this Noto font, it removes all the spacing around the 'Kenten' characters, despite the spaces being there on the Word Doc supplied by the client (in China). We urgently need to rectify this, why is InDesign or the font removing the spaces in the text? Please help as we are really stuck...

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Hello, I hope someone can help.I'm exporting a file as a pdf from InDesign. However, a strange thing happens. When I export the file as PDF, Strangely, the dots disappear when I make the text right-justify, but when it is no-justify, the dots appear normally.   right justifying  no justification   What is the problem? Please help.

For example, it lists Vanderpoole before Van Dyne. I had to put a nonbreaking space to keep Van Dyne out of the D section.

For example: A, B two paragraph styles have paragraph spacing.When they are adjacent to each other, the spacing between A and B will be very large, then you need to set B to no paragraph spacing. For example, B-none.Is it possible to use a script to determine, if A and B are adjacent to each other, to change the B pair of paragraph styles to B-none? It's not a bug, it's just not advanced enough.Will Adobe improve it? Attachments availableThank you. 

Hello. Im looking for a consultant, all experiences welcome aslong as the task can be done. Im wanting to create a new pricelist for my business. It will have 600 items and needs to pull price data from a excel to remove manually changing hundreds of items. Each page will be made up off 40-50 idividual tiles populated by a clear no backround product photo, Product name underneath & Price.  I have attached a basic image. Please drop me a message, i can send you my email and we can go from there.

Cela fait deux trois fois sur des fichiers très légers qu'indesign me fasse ce type de réaction soudaine, où tout est bloqué, où je ne peux que forcer à quitter ! quelqu'un auriat il une explication ? Merci d'avance

I use the minimum row height.The table is always that far off and fails to align to the bottom of the type area. It's more likely to happen with different content on each row.Is it possible to set the increment in the table panel? It seems the default is 1mm, which is not very controllable.It would be great if you could make minor adjustments to align the bottom in one go.If you are only adjusting certain rows, you need to select those rows.If you only adjust the table on the current page where the cursor is, you don't need to select it. Perhaps the easiest thing to control when you're using grid typography is row height. 

The bug has been present in many versions now (including the newest one).Exporting InDesign file to interactive PDF breaks and group objects randomly.Example:The word "More" (shapes not text) in InDesign is present as one element.You export the file from InDesign as an interactive PDF.Open in Illustrator. Release to layers."M" is a separate layer. "ore" is a separate layer.Why? Is there a workaround to have a proper export from InDesign to Illustrator?If not, can we have a fix in the next update please?Thank you. 

Hi, i am finding Indesign Beta Slow to open, is anyone else experiencing this?On a macbook prointernet: 200mbs up and downIllsutartor file and photoshop files are very quick to open Let me know if anyone has a solution

Hello, I had some corrupted Adobe InDesign documents in my Assembled Book. I removed the corruption that caused the problem and confirmed the Adobe InDesign documents were no longer corrupted. I uninstalled Adobe InDesign 20.1 x64 keeping the Adobe InDesign Preferences and then reinstalled Adobe InDesign 20.1 x64. I have Windows 10. When I click on any Adobe InDesign document using Windows Explorer, I received the following error message from the Adobe InDesign executable: "A problem was detected with the product installation. Please reinstall the product." I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe InDesign 20.1 x64, but the problem still persists. Before the corruption happened, I could invoke any Adobe InDesign document using Windows Explorer.  When I use the Creative Cloud Desktop to open any Adobe InDesign document, the problem does not occur. The document loads fine. Could anyone be of help?Thanks for your kind help, Edward

I normally position images "text over and beneath". Frequently they hide beneath the text, although I do not have a seperate layer for images (for many reasons) and even if I anchor them. "Solution": put the text box aside, work on the image, for example insert description and place text again into its position.Why that?Some other questions: how can I make sure that the pictures I place at the external side of my text stay at the external side, even if the text goes on and is no more on the odd/even page?I am considering fixing the whole document (text with many styles, about 150 images, several object styles) with the script AllesSperren by  Hans Haesler, but I am afraid that in case I want to unlock everythin again with Alles Entsperren I may have troubles. Any experiences?Oh, there are so many bugs in 2025!

I have a script I've been using since 2010 that will not work with InDesign 2025. It saves the InDesign file to single page PDFs with the file name being the page number. I have no knowledge of scripts (only how to use them). Can anyone help diagnose what needs to change? tell application "Adobe InDesign 2025"set doc_name to active documentset doc_pages to every page of doc_nameset file_name to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter a File Name:" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Ok"} default button 2 with icon 1)set pdf_style to name of every PDF export presetset export_style to (choose from list pdf_style with prompt "Select PDF Export Preset") as stringset folder_path to (choose folder with prompt "Please select your destination folder...") as string repeat with anItem in doc_pagesset page_number to name of anItem as stringcount characters of page_numberif length of page_number is 1 thenset new_number to text -3 thru -1 of ("00" & page_number)end ifif lengt

Wir arbeiten am MAC OS 12.7.1 und exportieren die PDF direkt aus InDesign 19.2.Bisher hat man ein PDF exportiert und die Farben waren genauso wie vorher im InDesign angelegt.Seit einiger Zeit verändern sich aber die Farben. Also z.B. C0M100Y100K0 kommt dann als C2M98Y98K0 raus. Da gibt es auch deutlichere Abweichungen bei anderen Farben. Siehe auch Bild mit den Einstellungen. Wobei es egal ist was man da einstellt, die Farben verändern sich immer, was vorher nicht der Fall war. Da wir als Druckerei unseren Kunden aber 100% genau die Hausfarben drucken müssen sind wir auf eine richtige Ausgabe angewiesen.Was tun?  

Sometimes it's necessary to apply a style A to the caption, another style B to the image, then combine them and apply a style C. That's what I'm thinking of with composite object styles.Here it is required to lock the A and B object styles, so that C can not affect the A and B.This is just an idea, hopefully one day it will be discovered and created.Also expect the graphic wrap around to one day work for the text above the anchor point.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

 Hello Everyone,I would like to ask. Because I have a problem with aligning text in the Epub fix-layout file (Indesign program). Setting  Text Paragraph to Alignment is Left Justify, and it will display normally in the program.But when Preview Epub in the program or Export.Open in the "Books" app, the text will be aligned to the left. Some spaces between words are stuck, some are overlapping, and some words are cut off strangely (as shown in the attached image and circled in red). I'm not sure if I made a mistake somewhere, so I would like to ask if there is a way to fix it. Please help.Thank you 🙂

Buena tarde. En varias ocasiones se esta trabajando en el archivo indesign y no deja grabar porque se desactivan las opciones de guardado y se pierde el trabajo realizado.Encontré la opción de exportar un idml y he logrado abrir el archivo con lo último trabajado. Que pasa que ese problema se de?estoy con la ultima versión del sistema (MacOS Sequoia ersión 15.1.1) y del indesign 25gracias. 

We are lately seeing InDesign lagging when we switch focus from any other window (example Google Chrome) to InDesign. This is happening on two computers which are running Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 (OS build 19045.2604) and InDesign 18.1 and 18.0. This happens even without any open document. Simply trying to click on the File menu option can take anywhere betweeen 2 to 15 seconds! Not always the same. Anyone experiencing the same issue?

Immer wenn ich in Indesign eine Linie zeichne Erscheint ein Pfeil. Ich weiß, dass ich für eine gerade gezeichnete Linie, solange diese aktiviert ist, unter Effekte Die Kontureigenschaften einstellen und die Pfeilspitze für den Anfang und das Ende der Linie abwählen kann, um eine einfache Linie zu erhalten. Doch leider merkt sich Indesign diese Einstellung nicht. Wenn ich eine neue Linie zeichne hat diese immer wieder diese Pfeilspitzen. Ich bin total genervt davon jedes Mal von neuem dies3 Prozedur zu durchlaufen, wenn ich einfach nur eine Linie zeichnen möchte. Kann jemand helfen, wie ich für neu zu zeichnende Linien diesen nervigen Linieneffekt zurücksetzen kann, um zukünftig eine stinknormale Linie zu zeichnen? Vielen Dank

I have Win 11 and the last version of InDesign 2025 (which is getting me crazy).I had a document with food notes, then I converted them into endnotes, which worked fine. After a few weeks (and several editings), there are no more superscript numbers and the endnotes have become plain text. I cannot convert them back, because Indesign says there are no endnotes.When I insert new notes, they simply start as... new notes, right on from the beginning with number 1.Thanks for any help,Marlene 

Hi guys, im playing around with an idea for some automation within our print studio. We have files that have several guides such as cutters and crease guide etc.What I am trying to do with the script is to find the named swatches, make sure that they have the overprint stroke attribute applied and then make sure that they are spots, if not then convert them.I have managed to get the funtionality working to update the overprint attribute, but sturggling with the conversion to spot colours. The code is not throwing up any errors, so i'm a bit stumped.Any help would be much appreciated.// Script to set overprint stroke for objects with specific stroke colours function main() { if (app.documents.length === 0) { alert("Please open a document before running this script."); return; } var doc = app.activeDocument; var targetColorNames = ["Visual Area (Do not Print)", "Cutter Guide", "Crease Guide"]; var targetColors = []; for (var i = 0; i < targetCol

Migrate the “A Paragraph Style” Grep of one document to the “B Paragraph Style” of another document.I thought I was bored.Suddenly I realized that someone really did write a script like this 12 years ago, but it's too old to be effective.https://github.com/rickgordon/Migrate-GREP-Styles/blob/master/MigrateGREPStyles.applescript In fact, some complex settings like paragraph lines, paragraph background, and paragraph borders must be too good to be true if they can be migrated as well.