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Hi, I believe many users are facing the same issue as I am. I use InDesign every day, and for the past four months, it’s been crashing constantly. I've sent emails to Adobe support, but of course, I've had no response—nothing at all. It's so frustrating paying so much money for something that's faulty, and then having Adobe employees completely ignore you. At this point, I’m not even asking for help anymore because their support is useless. I’m seriously considering switching to Affinity. Is anyone else having the same experience?

I set books for a living. I swtiched to 2025 and now when I place my text files and apply the styles and package the book, the text files come in as links and when I open the app file all of my styles that I applied reverted back to the coded text files. I unchecked the preference in file handling that create links, but it still created that link. This is very counter productive. This option should not be a default option. thanks for any help you can offer to eliminate this issue in the future.  

Hi, ich weiß nicht, ob es dieses Thema schon einmal gibt, für den Fall das Thema bitte einfach löschen bzw. verlinken. Ich bin soeben, nach Jahren CS6 bzw. CS3 auch endlich zu CC gewechselt und habe nun das Problem, dass keine Schriften mehr erkannt werden?In den alten Versionen, gab es im jeweiligen Programm-Ordner immer das Unterverzeichnis "Fonts" ..bei CC stehe ich jedoch etwas auf dem Schlauch und keine Schriften werden mehr gefunden bzw. erkannt? Kann mir jemand helfen?

I want to be able to do a word search for multiple words at once in a single file in InDesign. Right now, the only way I know how is doing one word at a time using cmd+F.  Is it possible to scan a file for multiple words? It would save me a great deal of time. Any workarounds are welcome if this feature doesn't exist.    

Hello - I have an ebook file (in .pdf format) that was provided by my illustrator. I was told to download AdobeID to convert this complete file into a .epub file so that I can use it on other platforms. However, the AdobeID will not even let me open the .pdf file. What am I doing wrong? Would appreciate help. Thank you!

Hi, This is my first time working with indesign.Im currently working on a relativly large project. Is it better to save my file to the cloud or on my computer?  Thank you for any help! 

Suddenly "Align to Key Object" isn't working in any install of inDesign.  I select two objects then click one to make it the key object and they both just nudge very slightly. I swear, it was working just fine last week. On Mac OS Sequoia 15.1.1. 

I have an InDesign file that was a proposal that I was working in on Friday and it crashed. Worked fine all day, had it open all day then closed it and got the following error - could not complete your request because of a database error indesign error code 6. Can someone help? Is there something bigger going on with my Mac?

I'm posting this to note the slow performance of UXP versus CEP/Extendscript when creating and formatting tables. When running the same script on both, the UXP scropt takes over 1 minute to populate and format a medium sized table while it takes Extendscript ~20 seconds. I don't think 20 seconds is good, but over a minute is awful. I'm not sure if others have noticed this performance drop when switching, but it ultimately might discourage my company from adopting the new language. I hope Adobe is aware of this...

Hi, I'm trying to use the Multiple Record Layout option in Indesign's data merge to tile a page of these "tags" from a simple spreadsheet but when I set it up, what I get when creating a merged document doesn't match the preview Here is my tab-delimeted .txt data that I am only using the first column ofHere is how I set up my page With these options selected for Multiple Record Layout, the preview looks perfect, just what I wanted But when I actually CREATE the merged document, it looks like this: Can't figure out what I could be doing wrong. I'm pretty sure I've done multiple record layouts before that haven't turned out like this. Any help?

Hello,  I am looking for a UXP scripting solution that would allow me to remove all labels from a cell in a table that I have created in Adobe Indesign. I am currently using the insertLabel() function for cell to insert any information that I want attached to a cell, and I am extracting that information using extactLabel(). However, there is a use case where I may want to remove the contents of the cell, and with that all the labels associated with it. However, I do not see a way of doing this without knowing each individual key of every inserted label. This will require a lot of manual checks for labels, which is not practical or extensible. Is there a developer friendly solution for this? Another idea I had was removing the cell all together and reinserting the cell in the same index. However, this also seems to be tricky, and I am not sure if UXP has a way of cell insertion in a table. All I see is cell.remove()Please let me know if you can think of anything,Mahmood

We design emails in InDesign then export the png, slice & export to html in Photoshop. We're having a dark mode issue in some email clients (in others the emails appear as intended). Does anyone know of a work-around or fix to this, in either Photoshop or InDesign? Much appreciation for any help offered.

Am I going mad? Indesign used to have tooltips, didn't it? If so perhaps I turned them off at some point as I felt I didn't need them. However, new version, new tools etc, but I can't for the life of me work out how to turn the simple hover tool labels back on. Either it's so blindingly obvious that it's ungoogleable and I'm too stupid to be able to work it out, or... something else. Please help! Windows 11, InDesign 20.0.1

Transparent pdf files imported have a white background. In order to resolve this it was necessary to revert back to previous InDesign 2024.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi all. I am not super familiar with GREPs in InDesign.  I need to create a list like this...(a) (b)(c) I have managed to update it to have one bracket after the number but not sure how to get the bracket before the letter. Any help would be appreciated!  

This question follows on from  a question on StackExchange in 2015 — to which @mdomino very kindly supplied a fantastic script that generates a contextual indent... This script works well, unless my text frame and copy already has a left indent applied. I usually have a default left indent so that that lists, bullets etc can be set to hang outside the left margin. So it would be super useful to know how to adapt this  script to take into account any existing indent value.In this example below, my text has an existing 40pt left indent. The script has done its thing and left-indented to the end of the preceding line — but ADDING the existing indent to the newly calculated indent value... (you can see the text BEFORE running the scrip at the bottom...)fig.1  below shows text frame after running the script — indents have been added that also include the 40pt left margin fig.2 below shows text frame beofre running the script —  with 40pt left mar

Hi,I want to be able to set label on the document from my C++ plugin to that the same can be accessed from the jsx file. IDocument* doc = GetIDocument(...) UIDRef ownerUID = doc->GetDocWorkSpace();   Later during the persisting command execution I have code similar to the following   UIDRef owner = GetItemList()->GetRef(0); InterfacePtr<IStringData> stringData(this, UseDefaultIID()); CHECK_BREAK(stringData); PMString stringToWrite = stringData->Get(); InterfacePtr<I> persist(owner, UseDefaultIID()); CHECK_BREAK(persist); persist->SetString(stringToWrite); InterfacePtr<IScript> script(owner, UseDefaultIID()); if (script) { PMString key = WrapperUtils<IUtilitiesWrapper>()->MakePMString(L"MyPluginLabelInfo"); script->SetTag(key, stringToWrite); } The 'script' pointer is coming as null while it works perfectly well for Page Items such as Text. What is the correct way to assign Tags (labels?) in

Hi Guys!The new releases have a bug that had worked for decades. If I clicked on the file name bar first and selected the 'Reveal in Finder' from the drop down, I could located the origin folder of the file very fast (preview attached). It hasn't been working for a while. It was very functional, I miss this!Anyone have any ideas?Thx,M 

Hi,I have the following frame:http://www.flickr.com/photos/82397830@N03/7960870684/I tried vertical centering by setting Text Frame Options > Vertical Justification > Align: Center, however my text still isn't getting vertical centered. When I put english words instead of hebrew ones the text does get vertical centered.

When I use the style panels for character or paragraph and it shows overrides and I option click on the override, instead of clearing the override I get a duplicate of the style.I have deleted preferences, deleted and re-installed InDesign, I have rebuilt my keyboard shortcuts. NO change. Shortly, if I have any patience left because I have many articles to set, I will re-install the operating system and see what happens next.

Hello:I created an index and everything works great with one exception.When InDesgin creates or updates my index, it creates it with a return at the end of the index.Hidden characters turns on so you can see what I mean.I've tried several things to get InDesign to create the index without the return, but nothing seems to work.I know I can create a GREP code s+/r, to delete the return in Find/Change, or even write a script to delete the return. But that adds an additional step for designers to perform. Probably just easier to manually delete the return. I's there a way/method to get InDesign to NOT add the return when the index is created.Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I create the index, but when I watch videos about InDesign indexing, all the videos also show/have the return at the end too. So maybe that is just the way InDesign creates its indexes.I would like to get your feedback and suggestions if there is a way to get InDesign to create the index without that pesky retu

When placing or moving images and text boces, the screen momentarily goes black and the content reappears only after the movement is complete.I thought it might be an issue with Mac OS, so I updated to the latest version "Sequoia" but the problem persists. How can I resolve this issue?

Yesterday after turning on the machine and open for the first time in the day the InDesign, I found this behavior in the paragraph styles panel, when I wanted to open it, it just deselects and does not allow me, I must then, open it with the menu on the paragraph style I want to modify.   Looking to fix this behavior, I deleted the program and reinstalled it removing all the user preferences but, when I installed it again the behavior was the same, when I looked at the version in the Creative Cloud, it says 20.01 so I deleted the program again and now installed a lower version (20.0) but the behavior continues....   When I checked the installed version, the information presented generates me insecurity of the installed version, because in the Creative Cloud window on the left side says version 20.01 (it would seem that this would be the installed version) on the right side says version 20.0 is installed (it gives the option to uninstall) and in the versions available to insta

Buenas noches.Desde hace unas horas y tras trabajar con normalidad en InDesign, cada vez que hago me pongo en un párrafo y hago click en un estilo de párrafo del panel de estilos, en vez de aplicar el estilo, intenta mover el estilo de posicional en el panel (adjunto pantallazo). Ocurre lo mismo al intentar aplicar una muestra de color. Esto me está generando muchísimos problemas. Ya he actualizado el InDesign y sigue ocurriendo lo mismo.Puede alguien ayudarme?Muchas gracias!

I have a working javascript I use that searches through all the indd files in a folder, finding tables with a specified word, and extracting the info from those tables. It works great but the recent batch of files have tables with merged cells, which threw the script off. I've updated the script to unmerge the tables before searching and gathering and it works again, BUT because it's modifying the tables, I now get a Save dialogue box when the script closes each file. Is there something I can add to my script that prevents that dialogue from popping up and just closes the files? Or is there something I can add that will automatically select Don't Save when the dialogue box pops up?