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Estoy trabajando con Indesign y al querer grabar el archivo aparece, de forma  consecutiva, diferentes mensajes de error, pero en concreto todos dicen que el archivo está dañado y no puede acceder a la base de datos, o la base de datos está dañada. Ej: “No se pudo concluir la operación debido a un error de base de datos. El archivo “DBTmp222801908943437” está dañado (código de error: 2)”. Tampoco me deja guardar como .idml, lo intenta, pero luego se cierra abruptamente el programa.   Incluso eliminé el Indesing y volvi a instalarlo  y ocurre el mismo problema. 

I am creating some design savvy technical spec sheets for lighting products. With a large number of these to make, I’m looking into automating as much as possible using data merge and importing tables. Each spec sheet has a performance table that is annoying to manually edit. I think a mixture of styles, and tables within tables will solve my problem. But not sure how to set that up in Excel. I’ll attach an example of the spec sheet and table. For further reference, I have old spec sheets that I’m using ai to pull the data out, then reinserting into the new. So been doing copy/paste but going to setup data merge and extract all the data into tables and then insert that way.  I think this is the most efficient way of doing this. I’m a photoshop guy, this is my first time using InDesign. 

I feel like the method I’m using now isn’t quite right.Is the approach different for single-column layouts versus layouts with two or more columns?Assuming the column widths are equal.Also, how to know what is the number of columns?var doc = app.activeDocument;var item = doc.selection[0];var items = doc.selection;var pp = item.parentPage;var cp = pp.marginPreferences.columnsPositions;var csp,law,cw;    //Calculate column spacing    if (cp.length == 2) {        csp = 0;    }    else if (cp.length > 2) {        var csp = cp[2] - cp[1];    }//typearea(?Layout)var law=cp[cp.length-1]-cp[0]//Column widthcw=cp[1]-cp[0] 

Nach dem Update auf macOS 26 (Tahoe) tritt beim Verpacken von InDesign-Dokumenten (Version 20.5) ein reproduzierbarer Fehler auf, wenn die verknüpften Dateien auf einem Synology NAS (DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 9)liegen und über SMB eingebunden sind.Die Fehlermeldung lautet:„InDesign konnte das Dokument nicht verpacken. Notwendige verknüpfte Dateien können nicht kopiert werden.“Das Problem besteht nicht, wenn das gleiche Dokument samt aller verknüpften Dateien lokal auf der internen Festplatte gespeichert ist. Dort lässt sich das Verpacken problemlos durchführen.Tests mit unterschiedlichen Dokumenten, Schriftarten und Dateiformaten bestätigen, dass die Ursache offenbar in der Kombination aus macOS 26 + SMB-Zugriff auf die NAS zu liegen scheint – nicht an beschädigten Dateien oder ungültigen Pfaden.Wir bitten um Prüfung, ob es sich hier um ein Problem im Zusammenspiel von macOS 26 (SMB-Handling), Adobe InDesign oder DSM 7.1 handelt – und ob ein Fix oder Workaround geplant ist.Vielen Dank vor

InDesign 21.3 reintroduces the document window position bug on Mac: document windows now expand below the tools panel. Clicking the green button while in this state doesn’t do anything. If clicking the green button after repositioning the window to its desired state, the window expands under the tools panel again. Reverting to InDesign 21.2 restores the normal behavior. macOS 26.2. Just posting it here for the record.  

Indsign 21.2Mac OS 15.7.4 Hangs randomly on open and save of .inddl files. Happened with 3 separate files so far.Open for 2 files would simply freeze with spinning beach ball.Save just started- file will open, then the last text change made by contributor populates on my screen and the asterix comes up showing I have unsaved changes, so I cannot close the file unless I save. Sometimes get a save progress bar that does not move. Sometimes not.Restarted, reset prefs and cache. Logged out of CC. No difference.Only workaround is to open file in cc app and duplicate it. This creates a new file that has to be shared again for editing and review, which is to say a pain resharing and updating links to our editors.

Since upgrading to Tahoe I can no longer package a file when images are located on a Synology NAS. If I move the images to local it works but when the document contains multiple images this isn’t an easy solution. Is there a solution?

I have a PDF file that I cannot import into InDesign. No matter if I use "Place" or Drag and Drop, I get the same error message:   "<<Filename>> doesn't contain a "CROP" crop type:  Please try again by selecting a different crop type or open the PDF in Acrobat and perform a "Save As..." command."    Not sure about the first suggestion but "Save As" does not help.   Any ideas?     <Title renamed by MOD>

I'm trying to display the values of A and B at the bottom of the panel as a hint.AValue and BValue are the variables being read.This is how it currently looks; how can I modify it to display the variable values?Thanks. with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "[A B]:" }); } with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: 'AValue BValue' }); } 

About ten years ago, I wrote a script that basically relinks missing links to images whose names are a little different. The new name is found using regExes. A couple of days ago, my client wrote me that running the script causes InDesign memory usage to bloat and finally run out of system memory.  I made a few tests in different versions: 2024/5/6In InDesign 2024 (version 19.5), it works without any problems: both on Mac and Windows.On my Mac (iMac, 3,3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4), it took 3 minutes, 22 seconds to relink 254 links. 1,26 secs. per link. On my old Windows notebook (Intel Core i5-3230M CPU @2.60GHz, 8 GB RAM), it took about 22 minutes to relink 107 links. Approx. 9 secs. per link.In InDesign 2025 (version 20.3.1) and 2026 (version 21.2) on my Mac, it gets stuck on the 27th link, and InDesign hangs, gobbling all the memory in the Activity Monitor, so the only option is to force quit it.I tried:Reducing the undo steps via the doScript command Initiating g

InCopy on the web (Beta) - Unable to open INDDL file in desktop app.I have saved and shared an Indesign file to CC for text editing. The INDDL file is saved in my files folder (not in the Projects folder!). I can open the file in the Incopy web environment but not in the desktop app. I have tried moving the file to another folder within Files but this does not help.Any help would be much appreciated.Ben  

Hello, I’m having a very frustrating issue opening files in InDesign version 21.2 that were created in earlier versions. The files are not automatically converting, and as a result, the text appears against a pink background and cannot be edited. I’ve had to create entirely new files instead of reusing the old ones as all the attributes for my new project are the same. I’m now working on a similar project where I’d rather reuse my old files instead of reinventing this wheel again. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thank you for your help!

Hi, all. I am hoping you can help me fix this dieline size discrepency. The .dxf dielines that I use are created in Inventor by an Engineer (not myself). When I open that .dxf dieline in Adobe Illustrator, it measures 300 mm width x 600 mm height and has a corner radius of 3mm. The dieline has a stroke of .709pt. The stroke is aligned to the center. But, when I copy and paste that same dieline and/or place it into my Indesign file, the dimensions change. The dimensions in InDesign are larger—the dieline measures 300.25 mm width x 600.25 mm height with a corner radius of 4.233 mm. If I align the stroke to the inside, the dimensions change back to 300 mm x 600 mm (which is correct), but the corner radius stays the same, 4.233 mm. I need the corners to be 3 mm. How do I fix this? I am hoping to create a workflow that is uncomplicated, and doesn’t require many steps. I have thousands of graphics that have this issue. The dimensions of my Indesign file should match the .dxf dieline. I’ve at

Hallo,ich bin neu in InDesign und habe ein Problem. Auch nach langem nachlesen komme ich damit nicht weiter.Ich habe in meinem Projekt die Kapitelüberschrift über ein Absatzformat definiert. Dieses Absatzformat heißt "Ebene 1". In diesem Absatzformat erhält die Überschrift gleich eine Nummerierung über Aufzählungszeichen und Nummerierung in den Einstellungen des Absatzformates. Dafür habe ich eine Liste "Ebene 1" definiert und dafür genutzt.Bilder, welche in das Dokument kommen, sollen eine Bilduntschrift erhalten. Die spätere Darstellung soll so aussehen:Abbildung Kapitelnummer . Nummer der Abbildung: ... (Beschreibungstext)Ich hätte gern, dass die Nummerierung der Kapitelüberschrift als erste Zahl kommt. Nach dem Punkt soll dann aufsteigend die Abbildung in jedem Kapitel hochgezählt werden. Wenn ein neues Kapitel beginnt, soll die Zählung der Abbildung wieder bei Eins beginnnen.Für die Abbildungsbeschriftung habe ich auch schon ein Absatzformat angelegt, genannt "Abbildungsbeschriftu

Hello, I’m trying out the new tool that allows sharing a link and editing text. It works great, but I want to restrict the size of text boxes to prevent editors from overwriting. Is this possible?Thanks 

Updated to the latest version of InDesign 21.2, since then my documents do not export with the same filename.Any ideas or fixes?

Hello,  I’ve added section markers to title each section but i need to add a subtitle as well that also appears on every page of the section, I’m not able to add another section marker with text. I tried using a running header or defining my own variable text but I can’t figure out how to use it, I’m not sure if the issue is that I’m doing it all in one document instead of a book?  Some help would be very appreciated!  Thanks :)

InDesign 2025. If I go to the menu, choose Object > Generate QR Code and type in the ISBN number in the Content Plain Text dialog box, will I get the correct barcode? How do I test it?Thank you.

Hello All,I am trying to delete text from a text frame using a custom function. However, the function only deletes the visible text inside the frame. There is still additional text present as overflow (indicated by the “+” icon at the bottom right of the text frame).It seems like my code is only targeting the visible portion and not the entire content of the text frame.Question:How can I delete all the text from the text frame, including the overflow text?What I’ve tried:I have written a function to clear the text, but it only affects the visible content.ErrorCode DeleteText(const UIDRef &textFrameUIDRef){ ErrorCode status = kFailure; do{ IDataBase* iDataBase = textFrameUIDRef.GetDataBase(); if(!iDataBase) break; InterfacePtr<IGraphicFrameData> frame(textFrameUIDRef, UseDefaultIID()); if(!frame) break; if(frame->GetTextContentUID() == kInvalidUID) break; InterfacePtr<IMultiColumnTextFrame> mcFrame(iDataBase, frame->GetTextContentUID(), UseDefaultIID())

Does anyone know how to hide the "Application Bar" in InDesign CC 2020? It is useless to me and uses screen real estate. (This is not the Application Frame, which I have turned off. Nor is it the Control bar, which I have turned on.)

In swatches have create a colour group in InDesign (latest version) which contain regular colours I use. I would like to move this group/folder to the top of the list of swatches. So I would like move my 'Primary colours' and 'Secondary colours' folder above the general swatches listed there in my attahed screen grab. Any ideas why this can't be done if at all? 

I have a 14” MacBook Pro M1 Max with 32 gigs of ram. Running Tahoe 26.3.1If I have to use my MacBook Pro screen with Indesigne, and this has been happening for a while now, I would say at least last 2 versions before current version. If I leave indesign open with a document open and close my MacBook Pro and plug into my external 27” 5K Samsung display via that usb-c / thunderbolt port the document window is the colour of the artborad and I cannot see the open document no matter what I do. Zooming out. command 0, etc. It can be in windowed mode or frameless mode. Screen shot above shows the document open but the artboard only being seen.  Anyone else have this issue and found a solution for it? Keep hoping an update will fix it but it never does. 

I got a new computer and installed InDesign. I have a document that I design in color and then export to pdf in black and white for printing.  I used to have a preset which is gone now. I can re-create it but I have no black and white options in the color destination option that I can see.  

I recently joined a new company and their onboarding paperwork stipulates that I need to download InDesign v.19.5.1 in order to compatible with the rest of the team. However, when I go to download older versions of the app the drop down list only goes to v.20, is it possible to find v. 19.5 somewhere and I’m just not looking hard enough? Thanks in advance!

Hallo, liebes Community, ich habe ein Problem beim Einfügen der Tabellenzeile nach unten (das gleiche wie oben auf dem Screenshot). Es funktioniert leider nicht. Die Ebene, in der auch die Tabellenlinien ist, lässt nicht aktivieren und ist auch nicht geschlossen. Liegt es an der Musterseite? Wenn ja, was muss ich da machen/ändern? Danke vorab für Eure Unterstützung. Liebe Grüße,Christine