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Is it possible to automatically enlarge text to fill a text box in Indesign?  I can fit a text box to the text but can't find a way to fit the text to fill an existing box. We are a newspaper publisher and would like to be able to automatically enlarge a heading to fit a box on a page. 

HiI want to give a tracking value of 100 after an opening paranthesis and before closing paranthesis but I want to do this using a script. I already have a grep query in place for after opening parenthesis: (\x{0028})(?=\S)  and replace is empty. Just add tracking value of 100. If its possible to add kerning value, it will be very good. The grep query for closing parenthesis: (\x{0029})(?=\s) but there the tracking is not working as expected. It is increasing tracking after the closing parenthesis, I want tracking before closing parenthesis. My first preference would be using kerning. I already have Peter's script in place, which works just fine.Actually I need this because I want to include it in another script. I have come up with this :doc = app.activeDocument;app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '(\x{0028})(?=\S)';app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "how to add tracking/kerni

                  Introducing Hide Spread in InDesign, available for version 19.0 and later.   Hello Everyone,   We are thrilled to announce a new feature that many users eagerly awaited – the "Hide Spread" option. InDesign is all about giving you the flexibility and control you need over your projects; this addition is no exception. Whether you want to keep your work in progress under wraps, focus on specific sections of your design, or tidy up your workspace, the "Hide Spread" feature is here to make your life easier. Hide Spread is only available for InDesign version 19.0 or later. Update the app now.  Update InDesign Entry Points for Hiding Spreads We've made it incredibly simple for you to hide spreads with three intuitive entry points:   Right-click on Spread: Right-click on any spread, & you'll see the option to hide it. Right-Click on Page: If you prefer to work on a page-level basis, right-cli

upgraded indesign to 19.4 yesterday with middle east language format. today, although i can select or resize an object or photo, i cannot move them using either a tablet, a mouse or the trackpad. i am only able to move objects/photos using keyboard arrows.

Hallo everyone,i'm working on a catalogue in InDesign with a lot of tables linked from ad excel file.  The client insert an automation in excel and now the file is no more an xlsx but an xlsm (with macro). I know nothing about it. The big problem is that I can no more link the datas. Can somone help me? Is possible to create links in indesign from an Excel with macro (xlsm)? Thank you!!  

Hi,I would like to add a process when the "Print Book" button is pressed on the Book panel.Is it possible to intercept the button on the built-in panel by adding an Observer?If you have a specific example of how to do this, could you please share it with me?Also, I couldn't find the Boss name of the Book panel and the WidgetID of the "Print Book" button in "BookID.h".Is there any documentation in the SDK where I can find this information?Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,

Hello, I installed InDesign CC 2019, but span columns doesn't work. Split columns works perfectly. When I have 2 or 3 columns text andtry to create a headline with span columns (across 2 or all columns) nothing happens. Does anybody can help? Or is there any existing script available which can span columns text? Please help, it is quite frustrating. I used 2 computers and it is not working. Thank you in advance. 

Liebe Community,ich hoffe auf eure Hilfe bei folgendem Problem: Ich habe ein Dokument, konkret eine Produktpreisliste mit ca. 200 Seiten. In dieser Preisliste bleibt der Großteil der Seiten und auch der einzelnen Inhalte auf den Seiten bei jeder jährlichen Aktualisierung gleich. Es ändern sich allerdings regelmäßig die Preise - z.B. durch eine allgemeine Preiserhöhung um 3%. Ich bekomme dazu in einem solchen Fall eine Excel Liste mit allen Produkten und den neuen Preisen. Es sollte doch möglich sein, hier die Arbeit entscheidend zu vereinfachen und nicht jedes mal händisch jeden Preis einzeln eintragen zu müssen. Ich habe bereits herausgefunden, dass es mehrere Wege gibt um Elemente mit Excel Dateien zu verknüpfen. So richtig verstanden habe ich die aber alle noch nicht. Deshalb ergeben sich folgende Fragen: 1. Welcher Weg ist in diesem Fall der sinnvollste?2. Ich habe im InDesign Dokument aktuell für jeden Preis ein einzelnes Textfeld - da die Liste in Kürze aber a

Hi We're a small design team and were previously collaborating smoothly across a shared Google Drive, job folders, files, links all saved to the cloud. Since updating to an MacBook M3, the links now break for each individual user. Can anyone help explain what is happening and how to remedy. Thanks

Greetings! Today, I am trying to copy and paste a frame from Indesign into a new document in Photoshop (and a new document in Illustrator) with the same size and dpi as it appears in Indesign.You could download this image from Wikimedia:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg  In this screenshot, the image frame size is 9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches with 823 dpi. When you paste this frame inside a new document in Photoshop and Illustrator,  the size is exactly the same (9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches) but the dpi is way off. In Photoshop, the document is 72 dpi (with a vector smart object in a different layer) and inside Illustrator, the image is 411 dpi (half the dpi of the image inside Indesign).My question is: How could I copy this frame at the same dpi as it appears inside Indesign (823 dpi) within a new document of Photoshop (and within a new document of Illustrator)?Thanks in advance! Al   

My text in my book document won't auto flow to the next page(s), in my Adade InDesign program. When I highlight, and select all to change my fonts size, several of my book chapters at the end of the book disappears, instead of autoflowing. Help!

Hi, I added a separate TOC Paragraph style for my Intro/Conclusion/Credits sections in order to add space before to create graphical separation from other content.However, the page numbering style isn't exactly the same. I am using ^t for both  but the new paragraph style doesn't extend the page number all the way to the end of the frame. I am trying to figure out how to get this to work. thanks 

When I send an email with the link to an url of a Published Online document, it says "Publish Online" - can I change this? I'd like to call it the name of the Publication. Thanks. 

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas à exporter mon pdf sous InDesign (voir capture d'écran). Quelqu'un saurait m'aider svp ? 🙂

I am trying to create a script to select two text frames from a layer of a document so that I can copy them to another document. I managed to copy them one at a time, but I need to copy both at once because they are linked by a thread.When I try to use the code below, I get the following error: "Error number: 53762 / Action is not enabled." var layerName = "Nomes";var sourceLayer = sourceDoc.layers.itemByName(layerName);sourceDoc.activeLayer = sourceLayer;var actionID = 18455;app.menuActions.itemByID(actionID).invoke(); Action 18455 tries to select all items in the layer. I tried adding an action to open the layers menu before selecting them, but it made the software crash.

InDesign 2024 19.4 crashes if you apply a Style Pack to multiple selected unthreaded text frames. In previous versions this worked just fine.

Hello, I was very kindly helped out with the below script (using a text variable) which displays the size of the current page within an InDesign document.The result it gives is based on the Document Setup, and I was wondering if it was possible to amend it to base the result on the Page Size instead (as you can now change the page size independently of the Document Setup within InDesign using the Page Tool). I don't know anything about scripting by the way!Many thanks in advance for any help.var doc = app.activeDocument;  doc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.millimeters;  doc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.millimeters;  var w = doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth,      h = doc.documentPreferences.pageHeight,      pagesize = app.activeDocument.textVariables.itemByName("PageSize");  pagesize.variableOptions.contents = h + " mm X " + w + " mm"; 

Hello, I just started learning InDesign and I am stuck. The video of the instructor shows how he has created a new Parent Page, with 2 columns and other details. He then applies the parent page by dragging it to one of the pages. This one has just 1 column of text. Thanks to the Parent Page, the text elements is then modified and now displays 2 columns, has it should. However...When I try to practice and literally do the same in his document, tranforming from 2 columns to 3 columns, I see the Parent Page grids of my 3 columns being displaced in the page that I am trying to modify, but the text/elements stays the same!  Is it me? is it my computer? Why does it work on him and not me?I don't know what else to do, please help.   

I cannot open *.p65 file(s) in Adobe InDesign (version 17.2 x64) that's installed on Windows 10. Any suggestions on how to open *.P65 File in InDesign, Any Plug-in Required? Also, How to convert *.P65 File into a PDF file?.P65 is an older version of Page Maker, which seems to be replaced by InDesign. Yesterday, I installed Indesign but sadly, I cannot open that file.Kindly suggest. Thank you in advance

Hallo Zusammen,ich arbeite an einem Katalog mit 308 Seiten. Die GF wollte unbedingt Preise bei den Artikelnummern stehen haben.Jetzt wollen sie auch für die Schweiz den Katalog haben, aber eben die Preise nicht in Euro, sondern in CHF.Ich sollte alle Preise (und das sind rund 1400) mal 1,2 rechnen. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, dass ich das schneller machen kann? Ich will nicht jeden der 1400 Preise angreifen und manuell umändern.

Hi all,I would appreciate help on how to fix this error (picture attached). I can't fully open InDesign because it shows up like this. Clicking on the icon results in the correct ribbon showing up but nothing on the screen. I've tried opening different files and uninstalling/reinstalling the program, but nothing worked. Help would greatly be appreciated!

Bonjour,  j'aimerais faire part d'un problème que je rencontre maintenant depuis la mise à jour 19.3 sur Indesign.  Concrètement, lorsque je mets en page un livre, mon style de paragraphe principal (que je nomme par exemple "txt"), à dans ses options de "Fonctionnalité Opentype" : Chiffres elzéverien proportionnelle/Chiffres alignés proportionnels. Ce qui donne des chiffres qui se présentent de cette façon : Cela fonctionne parfaitement, très bien. Mais pour que mes nombres en exposant qui renvoient vers les notes de bas de page puissent eux être dans un "alignement tabulaire" (par défaut) qui ressemble à ceci, je crée un style de caractère que j'attribue donc à mes exposants (dans les paramètres de bas de page) avec la fonctionnalité Opentype : Chiffres alignés proportionnels.  Ce qui devrait donner ceci par exemple : Au lieu de ceci :  Depuis la mise à jour 19.3, je ne peux plus faire cela. Impossible d'avoir les exposants a

Hello I have a script which is suppose to find subheads and change them applying text settings a user has predefined. For example a user writes at the very top of the text box 'test' applies all styles they want, then selects the text box, and when the script is run it will go through the text and apply the same text settings as the word 'test' to all subheaders. The below I outline a working script which looks for the first instance of the word 'test', reads text settings, and applies it to other instances of text. When I then experimented to change it so that it looks for the first instance of the word 'text. reads text settings, and applies those settings to subheaders I ran into issues. In particutlar subheaders can be idenified as -- has at least two hard enter returns or more (one for the termination of the paragraph above, one for a line space)- then a string comprising of under 6 words (normally they are short so let's say 6 for now)- this string must not ha

Before printing to a risograph i need to manually separate colors. Easy peasy you'd think, but no. I'm using mac (and the students I'm teaching mostly uses mac) and Riso have no driver to their A2printer for mac.So ok, let's use Acrobat, and create a pdf, but mac does not allow pdf-printers to be installed so I cant use the easy to use separation-function in the advanced mode of Acrobat print. So ok, let's use Indesign print to file (making a ps file that i can distill to pdf). Sweet. No probs. Other than that I'm limited to the page sizes of whatever printer I have installed, none of which have A2 as an option and custom won't allow me to exceed said printers page size limit even tho I'm not ACTUALLY printing on it, just producing a file. And I cant have the riso driver. And i can't have the pdf-printer driver. I'm stuck. What I want: CMYK (+ spot-color) separated pages on A2 paper produced from either Indesign directly or via a pdf in Acrobat, all done on a Mac. Can an

My company recently updated it's style guidelines. Previously, we couldn't use contractions, but now we are. So when I update our documents, I have to go through and change "It is" to "It's", "you are" to you're" and "We are" to "We're", etc, etc.Is there a script to make this easier? It is really tedious right now.I've been using find/replace which helps somewhat. But is it possible to script something that would make it even easier?