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Hi! I'm relatively new to InDesign - and I've been having trouble recently. I've been trying to test an effect (opacity) excluslvely on the blue square - but every time I apply the opacity effect, it affects the rest of my image (makes the background look darker, and ruins the text somewhat). Any information would be highly appreciated!

I've had this problem several times. I always either find a workaround or restart everything and it fixes itself but I would really like to figure out the reason so I can fix it permanently. The first issue is that, often, when I create a new shape the shape will automatically have a gradient feather applied to it and I have to go in and change manually. This is not a huge deal but it is annoying and I would like to know how to make it stop.The second issue I have seems to only happen after correcting the first issue, but I am not sure if the two are mutually exclusive. The shape (the same one that defaulted to gradient feather) will not appear as a solid color over-top of other objects. Here is a snip of the shape next to the rest of the content on the page:And here is the same shape on-top-of the rest of the content on the page:I have triple checked, the shape is arranged to the front of the page. It does not even appear as a transparent version of itself, it becomes a completely dif

Hello,Since some time, my InDesign became slow on heavy documents (more than ten pages...). This happens specially when I edit some text or any image in the document. As soon as I do some modification, even a small one, the application will start processing and freeze for about 10-30 seconds. On every interaction it happens so it really impact negatively my workflow .  To know, I use this computer since a few years and I often work on "heavy" documents and I never had this issue before. I tried the "IMDL solution" but it doesn't seems to solve the problem. Working on a server or a local file doesn't impact the slowness. While working on my secondary computer, I have the exact same problem. Any ideas on what I should do ? Thank you by advance 

My boss has an issue that when he is opening PDFs made from Adobe inDesign some of the images rotate.  (See image attached.) Has anyone had this happen and any settings I can use at my end or his? I've never had this happen so at a loss as to what to suggest. He wonders if it is to do with pages viewed as a dps, but cant see why. I output as single pages viewd as 'two-up' in Acrobat. I am running latest Adobe CC on an up-to-date iMac. He is opening using Adobe Acrobat PRO on a Windows laptop. thanks

Bonjour, J'ai ajouter une typo Adobe sur mon compte ce matin, voici le rendu attendu :Et le rendu que j'ai sur mon ordinateur :Je n'ai pas modifier de paramètre ou quoi que ce soit, quel'un pourrait m'aider s'il vous plait ? Merci d'avance ! 

HiFor some reason, running variables in my document is showing British pound symbl.I have attaced a screenshot and also few pages of documents. It is driving me crazy. Why ain't the data showing in document pages.Thanks

Hello.I have a lot of InDesign files and I like to search some texts inside all of them. Any idea? I guess windows search can't working properly in this condition.Any idea?Thank you.

Is there any way for 2 or more pages to be visually joined and not vertically separated? In the pasteboard I already reduced the vertical space to zero, and it is certainly at zero, but even so, there is separation, and I require the pages to be together because they have a background image that appears cut off when going to the Presentation mode, and also when sharing the file for review, the image is cut off because it goes from page to page, and the final file is supposed to look together, continuous. The attached images serve only as a sample of the actual file, which is composed of almost 20 pages containing background vector images, generated in Illustrator and linked in InDesign, so that when going to Preview within the software or send the link, almost 20 cuts appear, which also generate a break in the concept, reading, focus etc .... I thought of generating in both Illustrator and InDesign a single file with the dimensions of the almost 20 pages, but Illustrator

As many other I read about inline, I had to change my old pc with a new one and I wasn't able to reinstall my old InDesign CS3 I do use very rarely with old files. My job doesn't require to purchase a subscription. Online activation no longer works, but I was able to install and older Photoshop CS2 because some years ago Adobe let me download an activating free installer. I do have two licensed PageMaker, two InDesign I bought as upgrade and a Photoshop CS2. A dozen years ago I paid almost 4000 euros for those apps and now Adobe's support tells me my licenses is wastepaper. Does anyone have the installer free for InDesign CS3 so I can open my files? I do repeat: I do have two purchased, regular licenses.And don't tell me about "old software bla bla bla", because it worked ok with Win 8.1 and 10, and I don't need a new one as I use it very rarely.Thanks 

I've tried some codes on the internet and they all failed. There doesn't seem to be any online for individual tables.A. I am trying to clear the table style “Preferred Options”.B, cell styles “preferred options”, “non-custom style properties”.C. Paragraph styles “Preferred Options”.D. Apply character style “none”. For example, this sentence wants to clear the cell style priority. myTable.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().clearOverrides(myOverrideType); I have a feeling it's the front of clearOverrides that's wrong.Someone would like to point it out. Here's a script that's a little complicated.Is there anything that can be done in a couple of sentences?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grefel/clearOverrides/refs/heads/master/ClearStyleOverrides.jsx I added these two lines and it seemed to work, but the “undefined style attribute” was not cleared. myTable.clearTableStyleOverrides(); myTable.cells.everyItem().clearCellStyleOverrides();&nbsp

Just starting to work with this feature and I wondered if these files can be exported with crops and bleeds into Adobe Express so the end user can export to print. 

I am writing a script in vbs for InDesign CS5 in Windows, and cannot find how to clear cell attributes not defined by a cell style in a table. I need this when importing tables from MS Word.

Thanks to everyone that replied to my question about making the size of document smaller. The "Save As" worked. Problem solved. Now I've got another problem, trying to delete the 1st 6 pages. Look at Chapt2_Orig_page1.jpg. Notice the 1st paragraph in the left column: "Let me start off saying I’m a Navy Brat. My dad did 22 years in the Navy. So for most of my childhood dad was gone. To all the military brats that may read this, I understand what you’ve been through......" Look at the Chapt2_Orig_page7.jpg, in the right column there is a picture of an old woman sitting in a chair. Notice the text above the picture: "After grandma White's fall, Dad....." Also notice the blue text in the left column "When we were stationed in Norfolk and Dad’s ship made a long cruse (3 to 9 months) Mom would moved back to NJ, taking me and my sister." If I go to "Layout", "Pages", "Delete Pages" and select 1-6 look at Chapt2_new_page1.jpg. Notice the picture of the old woman is still th

Exporting a reflowable epub, and while I have discovered that epubs will not retain paragraph shading styles how I want, I can't get the workaround right. For context this is my InDesign file: I would like to have a section of text called out with shading. I've inserted the paragraph as an anchored object and set up object styles for the text box to have a fill color. I also set up the epub/html settings to export this at full width: But my epub is coming out like this:  The text is reflowable, but running of the page in the epub file. Any ideas on how to fix this?? Is the anchored object/object styles not the best work around for shading? I'm working only in InDesign, not much CSS knowledge otherwise. Appreciate any help!

Hi Community, I'm having the issue where my image on the lower layer still appears on top of my pop-up windows that are on higher layer. Would anyone know what the issue might be? Thank you so much

This unit of measure is copy/pasted from another doc - mm2. The 2 always needs to be superscript. I have tried looking up grep styles but haven't found a way to make it so that the 2 is superscript. Basically, need to do a find/replace for all mm2 and make it be mm2 (superscripted 2) Is this possible?

Today is the first time my indesign app keeps crashing everytime I open my cloud file. It worked fine yesterday, and now the file will crash the app.  

I have several pages in my INDD document with a solid fill color. After I export the file to PDF, I can see the background color in the preview screen but when I open the PDF, none of the pages with the background fill show it. Please help.

I created an ePub which looks fine in Kindle Previewer.The ePub has certain words in bold and certain other words in blue.For this i used character styles My client used Kindle Create, but all that formatting has been lost.How do i ensure that the words always appear in bold /blue everywhere? I understand that to target paragraphs you can use classes. How do you target character styles?

Hi,This is probably simple, but I can’t find how.I need a snippet that will select and entire row from the location of the insertion of the cursor. Similar to the InDesign «Select Row» command.Sorry for the newbie question.

I am editing a book with 200 pages. I can use Text Frame Options to vertically justify a text frame but how could I do this for the entire book?

Hello. Is it possible to export a PDF from InDesign and disable all hyperlinks, so that they are not clickable from any reader at all?  I do see that there is an export option to not to include any hyperlinks/interactive elements, but that doesn't work everywhere. For example, I can make the link https://www.adobe.com unactive (unclickable) when viewing the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, but if I load the same PDF in the Chrome browser then the hyperlink is active.

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Hello,I have a client who has a print version and a digital version of a publication issue (lets call it "Issue 1") they will be releasing. I currently have InDesign files for each article (because the articles are often a stand-alone piece as well) placed inside the main InDesign file for Issue 1 (this was honestly the most logical solution for their situation and how they use their articles and case studies individually and in publications). IS THERE A WAY TO:have hyperlinks' style (underline and color) show up for the digital version when I export the main Issue 1 InDesign document to an interactive PDF?have the hyperlinks' style (underline and color) NOT show up for the print version when I export the main "Issue 1" InDesign document to a print-ready PDF? ...these two things without having to create separate versions (and digital version and a separate print version) of each placed article? Thanks!!

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