Questions

My swatches panel is missing the bottom options/icons for: create folder, create swatch, trash can, add to cc library, etc. I have deleted all preferences, uninstalled InDesign, then reinstalled InDesign. I tried turning "Options" on and off. Is there another area that I should be looking to show it?

I updated to 20.0.1 a couple of days ago and me and my colleague (both on Sonoma 14.6.1.)  have this issue: When trying to edit text or numbers in text frames by choosing the letter or number, and trying to click any number or letter on the keyboard (to replace it), nothing happens. You have to click twice for the text/number to change. This happens randomly, not all the time. If you paste the text, then it doesn't happen. It makes working very difficult.   

 Created a book using your plug-in, but as soon as I try to send it (starting creator via InDesign) the program shuts down. I have updated everything possible and also tried later versions of InDesign as well.I’m using CC Library for some vector-based images, but otherwise, only regular images and text. Around 50 pages.What to do?

Does anyone know...We would like to use Scritping to process a folder of InDesign documents, one by one, and write a report to a text file when done. The problem I'm having is that if the any of the InDesgin documents have broken Graphic Links, the scripts pauses while waiting for user input while opening that particular document. Is there any way to suppress this dialog 'warning' that InDesign throws up so that we can just process all of the documents in the folder without pausing?Some of the directories we have hold hundreds of documents. I don't want to start the script and have to sit there and hit the return key for nearly every single document.Thanks in advance.

I am having issues with Adobe Geller in indesign and illustrator the font appears really uneven and looks really bad, does anyone know why this is happening please?

Hi,When converting and InDesign document to PDF, I have the problem that all black elements convert to cmyk black instead of staying 100% black.Can anyone tell me why, and how I can prevent it.

Hello I haven't found an easy solution here to work with the clipboard contents by placing it in a variable, to modify it. Using paste() it will be placed in the document. But first I want to format it and delete some of its parts. Regards

Hi everyone. I remember once in a class I was shown a feature in indesign, which you can automatically sort the order of a list of things, for instance, names, by how they looks best with their right side rags. Not just by their length but by how the block with the names look best with their right side rags. If that makes sense I saw tutorials of using scripts to sort list alphabetically but that is not quite what I am looking for  I have been trying to figure out how to do it, looks like no resources on line and the class was years ago so I can't go back and ask. If anyone knows how to do that please let me know greatly appreciated!

Hey has anyone worked out how to stop new rows being created when moving pages across to other files within indesign?Noticed recently and haven't worked out a fix. They seem to be In order, just annoying 

First when I open any InDesign file from the server I get the error "Cannot open the document... You may not have permission or the document may be open already." I hit ok. Then the temporary file shows up making it look like the file is open. I double click on the file for a second time and it opens completely fine. But then a test file shows up in the folder with a bunch of code information. I cannot "save as" the file to the server, it gives me "Error code: 1." I can "save" to the server but not "save as". I can "save as" from the server to my desktop no problem. I do not have any of these issues when working on an indesign file on my desktop. This happens every time I open any InDesign file on the server. I uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign. I don't know what else to do. Anyone have this same issue? How do I fix this? I am using InDesign 14.0.3 on Sierra 10.12.6.

I booted up indesign today (2025.01.22) to work on a file and found that I could no longer change the rectangle tool to the circle tool. In fact, none of the tools with the little lower-right hand tool palette designation are expanding when I click-hold or right click. Is this something wrong with the update, or have I switched some option that I was unaware exsists and can toggle it again? I thank you for your time

If I dump my INDD file + linked files (in this case, all PSDs) on a USB stick, and re-open the project on a completely different PC and ID installation (but the same fonts installed)... will anything be missing, like the custom styles & swatches I created for this project? Or are there additional setting/configuration files I need to consider carrying over as well?

hi, I'm sure this is a no brainer but I can't seem to figure out how to change info on a current template in InDesign. I made a screenshot of it. I can't click on it to edit. And via the layers I can't find it either (in this example "COMPANY")Soooo, where can I put my company name or even just deleting this text box from every single site? Please help. Thanks in advance. Kind regards,vlady

Is there any CCMS software that works with indesign?

Hello there, I'm wondering if anyone knows solution to this problem. I imported any Excel sheet other than the first sheet from a multisheet Excel having the "create links when importing text or spreadsheet" preference on. Then I made some changes to the imported sheet in the Excel program. Updating the link changes the source sheet to the first Excel sheet. Is this a bug or am I missing something? Many thanks in advance!Cheers!Funtom

I have a template with several text frames that stack vertically on a page, all anchored in series. The bottom frame is for additional notes and won't always be used. I would like for the stack to always extend to the bottom of the page, and as content is added into the upper frames, I want the bottom "notes" frame to shrink so that the stack always takes up the same amount of room, regardless of content. Is this possible? One caveat is that we have a custom auto-fill script that needs to be able to target individual text frames and insert text without breaking any of the anchoring.

Hallo, ich habe folgendes Problem: Ich nutze Excel Tabelle, mit denen ich regelmäßig Werte ändere. Mit Hilfe von Formeln werden Werte in anderen Zellen automatisch angepasst.Nun möchte ich diese Tabelle in InDesign importieren. Wenn ich die Tabelle in Excel erneut bearbeite möchte ich, dass die Werte automatisch in der Verknüpfung in InDesign übernommen werden.Der Grund: Ich möchte in InDesign ansprechende Oberflächen gestalten und aber die aktuellen Berechnungen in Tabellenform einbinden.Ist es also machbar, dass Excel Tabellen mit InDesign verknüpft und Änderungen in Excel somit in der ansicht bei InDesign automatisch übernommen werden? Ich bin dankbar für jeden Lösungsweg. Beste GrüßeAndreas

Hi I've read a few discussions on this and have come across some saying that it isn't possible because desktop colour laser printers convert my CMYK InDesign doc to RGB and then convert it back to CMYK for printing I think I have that right). I have a Brother colour laser printer (HL-L3240CDW) and note that when I want to print to it I only have an option of 'Composite RGB' in the output panel. Composite CMYK is greyed out. This is presumably the bit where it is converting my CMYK colours to RGB before printing them as CMYK. It only has CMYK toners. The double colour conversion produces results that are way out. A pure magenta prints with cyan, or black, dots through it making it really dark, a pure yellow clearly has magenta mixed in etc. I have been in contact with Brother and even though they were very helpful, they haven't been able to help at all. I did establish that there is no PPD/driver for this printer that I can download. I also asked them about a colour

Hi all, I recently updated to InDesign 20.1 from InDesign 19.5.1, and the 20.1 version won't open some InDesign documents that have all been created in the last week on the 19.5.1 version. Has anyone else experienced this and figured out a solution?  Thanks!

I want to remove the number 1 from the first chapter page. Here is the Snag........I went to the layout tab,  pages,  then in the drop-down - I would go to the Apply Master to Pages... a window should show up Apply Master pages...this is where I should be able to change to none. In the drop-down - In the list, there is no Apply Master Pages....it seems to be missing.If anyone has any ideas on how I can fix this it would be greatly appreciated...I am a beginner....  

In the Layout/Margins and Coloumns window menu when I have selected a Master Page, I find no way to re-uniform the margins to the original margins set for the entire document. This would be a useful feature: when I changed the format adding 4mm to my 17x24 cm to be 17x24,4cm as the standard used by Amazon kdp for paper format, I would like to preserve the preceding paging by adding 2 mm to the inferior and superior margins. I did it in the menu File/set document for the whole document, but I saw my pages did not update since the format was manually set for the Master pages. So I had to change manually again the format for each master page in the Layout/Margins and colums menu. If I could set the command "uniform to the document settings" (in the position I put on the image attached) if would be more professional and it would also follow the document settings if I change format again. Could you please implement this flag button?

Hello, would you be so kind to tell me how do I download older versions of InDesign? 

Bonjour,Comment ne pas avoir de fond blanc lors d'un import Illustrator AI sur Indesign ?

I want to create labels to put on carboard boxes containing products, the labels have product information om them, text and logos. The data comes from an Excel database.So I found a software to handle this. Teacup bar code maker & Teacup data linker. Then comes the next problem. What I want to do is to auto generate let’s say for example 25 labels with the push of a button (once I have set up the template for the label) with data from a database. Then I want these labels to be exported from Indesign as separate PDF documents, each page/label, named with a prefix and the item code for the specific item, for example “Outer box label 123123” (“Prefix Item code”) I've been told this can be done with a script, but I have none whatsoever experience in scripting. Does anyone know if a script like this exist or if I can get someone to produce it for me? Best regards Fredrik 

I am creating an index for a 500 pages document. Is there a more efficient way to add the topics and/or references for the index? I have a lot of important elements to highlight and adding the references/topics one by one is extremely tedious and time consuming. There must be a way to write all the references/topics needed efficiently?