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Hallo zusammen!Ich hatte nie Probleme mit InDesign, aber plötzlich taucht dieser Fehler auf (siehe Screenshot). Ich habe, wie immer - mehrere Kapitel - die ich einzeln als Dokumente anlege und dann zu einem Buch zusammenfasse. Normalerweise ist es leicht, die Seitenzahlen fortlaufend zu aktualisieren - aber jetzt funktioniert es einfach nicht. Ich habe halb Google durchsucht und alles versucht, was vorgeschlagen wurde - aber nichts funktioniert. Hat jemand noch einen Tipp? Ich verzweifel langsam! (Das erste Dokument hat 7 Seiten, daher stimmt 1-3 schonmal nicht. Eben hatte es kurz funktioniert, dass 1-7 angezeigt wird, daher bei dem 2. Kapitel die "8".) Grüße

I've transferred my Indesign file a couple of times to see how the PDF would look like, but all of a sudden my 'background tasks' kind of crashed. It won't load more than 60% of transferring it to a PDF file, so I've cancelled the tasks and now it keeps saying 'cancelling'. On top of that, when I want to create a new PDF file again or close Indesign it says it can't be closed/loaded as there some 'background tasks' going on. Before I didn't have this problem and I have no clue what is wrong (I can save my InDesign file though). Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

I am just finalising the A5 booklet for print. It is currently 12 pages, stapled.I ran a test print with a local company and noticed that some of the images are creeping over into the next page (see images attached for what I mean)How do I avoid this for the next print run?Many thanks, Emily 

Is anyone else having problems with the new Indesign 2025 update, so far myslef and the design team that work alongside me are experiencing the following problems, does anyone know of a fix or does this require Adobe to bring out a patch/new update: Page setup - have to type in page measurements in three times as they keep reverting back to original sizesData merge dialogue box - seems to be a white box covering up the data fields in the dialogie boxIn general does seem quite slow and laggy compared to the earlier versions. 

There used to be a preference to enable and disable background tasks. I historically keep this on. Now when I save, I can't move on to export until the save is complete and vice versa. I'm stuck waiting. Has something changed? I've searched for an answer and have only found something about disabling Background Export in the File menu, but I don't have that in my menu. Mac OS 10.13.6InDesign 2020

I have an InDesign doc with multiple pages. Exporting to Express only exports the first page of the document. Is this the expected behaviour?

Hola, alguien me puede decir como puedo ver los pliegos completos de mi libro? Cuando llegue a la pagina final no estaba completo, pense que lo habia colocado mal pero cuanod borre un par de frases otras mas aparecieron abajo, pareciera que estuvieran ocultas las demas páginas. Ya intente con mostrar pliegos ocultos y nada funciona. 

This issue just started happening today - I am not able to move my indesign window between my two monitors. Yesterday I was able to but not today. It is only happening to Indeisgn  - all other Adobe programs work fine.   Did I check something?? I have no clue what I could have done??? Is anyone else having this issue? I am on Windows 10 PC.  

Alright, So I want to download InDesign but can't because it says my device is not compatible. I looked at the requirments and I have an intel i3 so i cant download the 20.x versions. So I checked out the earlier requirments  for earlier versions which I have but how do I download these versions. I checked out how to install previous versions but my screen looks way different from whats shown. When I press the more actions drop down list I can only see "explore tutorials" and "view product details" please how can I fix this? I have a project due in 6 days. 

I am C++ SDK plugin lerner and I want to observe the changes into document so I need the inderface ID for it so is there any listing of Interfaces id for observing the document or panel related things.

Getting this error when sample SDK plugins are build in Visual Studio 2022 for InDesign2023. I have multiple Visual Studio(2019 and 2022).(#error:- update xlocnum hack header by copying over the header from your Visual Studio installation and applying the same changes as to the previous versions. Be careful, this header also changes between minor versions of Visual Studio. MSC_VER was: " VALUE_TO_STRING(_MSC_VER))

Hi all -I'm having an issue where after publishing a document online the left arrow becomes to arrow to advance the document to the next page, and the right arrow takes you backwards a page.  For example, see the screenshot below, showing page #1, where there is only a left arrow to available to advance. This only happens when clicking with the mouse, if you use your keyboard arrows, the right advances the document and the left goes backwards. I've found this errors occuring on multiple documents I've published online, in fact everything for the past 6 months, in multiple browsers.  I'm not sure if this was occuring when I initially published these documents - if so clients did not inform me of the problem.   I've tried re-publishing, that didn't help... My only thought is that this might have to do with my having changed settings for a document in Arabic I made a while ago.  However I've reinstalled InDesign and made sure the language of th

HiCould anyone tell me how to get the number of records in the data attached to a document?I've been trying to write a script which needs this to work. I've been looking through the data model at DataMerge options and preferences but I can't seem to find anything that stores the data count.Thanks!

Is this option still available?I didn't find it in the preferences, in the last version (13.08)

Hello, I am formatting an employee handbook for a client. I am having an issue with my paragraph and character styles not performing correctly. I am having the issue where if I apply a change to a selected part, it changes everything whether I have selected it all or not. I haven't applied the style to any other part except for a specific part I am working on. I have switched to a new document to see if that would help but it didn't seem to help. 

Hello,Is anyone aware of a script that will make Bible Verses like this pic in Indesign? 

URGENTE da ieri gli stili di paragrafo di indesign (sia 2024 che 2025) non funzionano più, selezionanado un testo non si applica lo stile, non fa creare nuovi stili.Ho avviato indesign con la combinazione di tasti maiuscolo+control+option+command per riavviare il programma senza le preferenza ma nulla. Ho disinstallato indesign e lo ho reinstallato ma continua a non funzionarequalcuno può dirmi come mai?

So we have an old mac at work that uses 2017 InDesign. Its basically needing to stay old to let certian old programmes work that would be hugely expensive to upgrade. Its always worked with the same account I use for the programme here on my fairly new Mac which is quite up to date. I use InDesign 2025 .   The problem is the old mac had to restart and when it did the InDesign wont open. When we try (from cloud) it tells us we need to sign in, even though we are already signed in on that account (AI and PS both work) and when we click sign it it just says we have a trial which is not the case (its the same account I sign in with on my mac which works fine). So is asking us to pay for a new account.   <title edited by moderator>   Any ideas? We have used it on both mac for a long time now. Im guessing its the old version is causing issues? maybe unsupported now?

Hello,InDesign doesn't have a built-in dictionary for Australian English, AFAIK. !Following Adobe's instructions for installing Hunspell dictionary is difficult since the addresses for storing the dictionary apparently keeps changing between CC versions.Also, instructions for converting, renaming file names and creating the final dictionary folder though not difficult, feels uncomfortable, considering that any mistake can affect the document I'll be sending to print, which in my case is a magazine with a considerable print run.Is this really Adobe's official way to install the dictionary, or a more straightforward method exist which I'm unaware of?Kind regards,Kasra

Hi everyone, Since the latest Adobe InDesign update, I’ve been experiencing an issue with assigning colors:I’m unable to apply any color from the swatches to objects or text. When I select a color, nothing happens initially, and after a short delay, I hear the typical macOS error sound. The color selection is simply ignored, and the object or text remains unchanged. Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a solution? Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards,Richard

Hi everyone, Maybe a silly question but is there an eraser tool in InDesign? I couldve sworn before the latest update there was one!?  I like to create outline on my text and then erase parts of the letters that surround other images etc. if that makes sesne? But since having no eraser tool I can't seem to do it.   Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂     <Title renamed by MOD>

Where is the top menu / toolbar in the latest version of indesign? Specifically, where is the tool that fits the frame to the text with one click that was in the toolbar before this latest update? Please help.

Hi, I'm working on a book layout and there is a section where the reader can write notes. The problem is that the form lines don't align with the baseline grid (due to the varying heights). If I align it with the baseline there wont be enough space for writting. How can I ensure consistency across the book despite the it not being aligned to the baseline grid?Thank you!

I am creating a recipe book. My problem is simple :I have parent pages for the recipes. For each recipe, i want to edit the text and the images. But, i want the recipe (child) page to still be link to the parent page. For exemple, each recipe have of course different title and images, but I want to be able to modify the color of of the title in one time. How can i do that ? If i want to change the title to edit the recipe I have to override the parent pages, and then the title isn't linked at all to the parent page anymore. Same for pictures, I want to have different picture on each recipe but be able to change the size of all of the pictures of the recipe all at once for exampleThanks for your help !

Coworker is having an issue in InDesign 2025. They have a file in Illustrator 2025, all black strokes. When the files is imported and placed into an InDesign document, it is initially fine, until it is scaled down to fit the page, then if the bounding box is moved around the page, it will start leaving little pieces of the drawing behind that can then be selected and have to be deleted on their own. The majority of the graphic remains selecteable as a single imported image file. I have confirmed that it is being imported, not copy/pasted or dragged in. Saving the AI file as an EPS does fix the problem, but we've imported native AI files into InDesign for a long time, wondering what the problem might be.The Illustrator file was a DWG blueprint sent to us as a PDF, then imported into Illustrator to be edited. All strokes, not converted to outline. I believe the InDesign file initially had been created with PDF2ID, as its an older form that needed to be updated after no live files co