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Hi Adobe community,In indesign, I am setting up nametags, to be printed 4 up on page, and double sided. So for 4 nametags, I ad each nametag to a corner of page, (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right), and then create page 2 with nametags position left and right swapped, correct for printing. My issue is I have a hundred nametags, and would like to automate the process, how can I do that? The nametags designs are already setup in pdf, so i want to automate the pdf import process. Please help. Thank you

We purchased full family of a type one font, Rotis Semi Sans, 17 years ago as our design choice for branding of our church's magazine, leaflets, posters etc which was a large outlay for us. Until this year we used InDesign CS5 and now have upgraded to the subscription version only to find we can no longer use the Rotis Semi Sans. - does anyone know how to get around this or where the is a newer version of Rotis which  we can use? (which isn't highly expensive)

All of a sudden, InDesign has decided to repaginate a non-open file after every edit to the document that IS open. This takes several seconds of modal dialog. Worse, however, is it adding page after empty page to my currently open document as I adjust the spacing on ONE page of it. Also, an unknown number of pages' worth of text has now disappeared from view entirely. And I can find no way to reliably prevent InDesign from allowing spreads to go beyond two pages. I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER WANT THIS. I have experimented with every combination of allowing document and spreads to shuffle, and nothing prevents this behavior reliably. You also can't move the erroneously-positioned added pages to the correct side, again regardless of how you set the shuffling options. So fed up with this mess. If you add a page manually, you can sometimes get it on the correct side, but it's not connected.

Box Section is the Paragraph Style assigned to Reagents Below is the set up for the TOC The first picture below is what it generates. What you cannot see is there are a bunch of categories in white font. I made the font blue in the second image below just so you could see what was missing.IMAGE 1IMAGE 2 I know that ever first tier category has the correct paragraph style. The TOC Section style is a different size font and is blue for both character style and paragraph style. I do not understand why it keeps taking the white font. I have tried starting from scratch several times. I am fairly certain, that I know how to do a TOC. If I create a simple two page document and do the same thing, it works. I don't understand what is going wrong with this one. Any help is greatly appreciated.   

Over the last week or so everytime I launch InDesign I am met with the attached dialog box. "You cannot reverse this change with the Edit > Undo command" It is persistent and getting worse. It will now launch randomly whilst I'm working. It is making InDesign almost unusable and destroying my worklfow and concentration. How on earth can I stop this occuring? I've tried Resetting Warning Dialogs to no avail. I've seen this posted elsewhere without any solution. Can someone at Adobe please respond – its driving me nuts.

I'm new to In Design, but not to Adobe. I created a spread of two parent pages. I then applied them to a couple of two page spreads. With page 2 highlighted I added something to the page. When I go to page 4 the item is there too. If I delete it from page 4 it also  disappears from page 2. It does not show up on the parent page. Any ideas? 

I scanned a chapter of a book in Acrobat Pro and then opened it in InDesign.  In appeared that the superscript endnote numbers in the endnotes pages (not the chapter itself) where missing.  I began to type the numbers in manually.  Suddenly the superscript numbers appeared but starting in a later endnote.  I cannot select these numbers (circled above) to continue to edit the endnotes.  After editing about 22 notes, when I delete the pink box and then return the carriage to get to a new line the now another superscript number appears.I think I tried all of the suggestions for not being able to select the text, locked frames, objects, etc.  I also tried to copy the text (since the unwanted endnote numbers were not selected) and pasting it in some inserted pages that were unthreading to the endnote.  The unwanted superscript numbers still appeared.  I assume the program recognized these numbers as notes and that is the problem.  I wou

  When typing the letter Yansha (්‍ය) using Sinhala Unicode fonts in Adobe InDesign on a MAC computer, the previous letter becomes the letter Hal (්‍). How to fix this?

Hi Adobe Team,I'm creating an accessible PDF using Adobe InDesign. I've inserted math equations and added Alt Text using Object Export Options > Alt Text > Custom.However, when I verify the PDF using screen readers or Acrobat’s Read Out Loud feature, the content is being read twice — both the visible math equation and the Alt Text.I would like to ensure that only the Alt Text is read aloud, and the visual equation is skipped. Could you please guide me on the correct workflow to tag math equations so that screen readers read only the Alt Text?Thanks in advance!

Couldn't find any examples.Looked through the developer documentation, but I don't know how to use it.https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#ObjectStyle.htmlIs this correct? It doesn't seem to work. It also shows a syntax error for nonprinting.objectStyle.textWrapPreferences.properties = { nonprinting: true, }

Hi, why is my workspace when opening a indesing file always going back to 'Essenstial' setting?This is an issue I have for a year now.Very annoying.thnaks BAS       <Titile renamed by MOD>

Doing a rather large book layout after being away fron InDesign for a while, and suddenly BACKGROUND TASKS is constantly spinning up in my menu panel.When I click on the "spinner," it says "Adding Font - Roboto..." This seems to be perpetual, because it never stops spinning. I think I remember a nifty shortcut to locate and change a font, but I'm not having luck - as I mentioned, I've been away for a while.. I apologize for the somewhat simple question (I used to handle this pretty simply) - - Is there a quick and efficient way to find this wayward font and eliminate it so TASKS can rest?  

Hola!Quería preguntar si alguien sabe la manera de volver a una versión anterior de Indesign, más alla de las que ya ofrece adobe en su web.A través de Creative Cloud se pueden elegir versiones anteriores de cada aplicación, pero en este caso la más antigua es de 2023 (Indesign 19.0). Yo necesitaría que fuera de 2020 o 2021.¿¿Alguien sabría la manera??Muchas gracias 🙂 

Hi everyone, I’m exploring ways to automate a publishing workflow using Adobe InDesign, and I’d like to confirm if the InDesign API would fit my use case.Here’s what I need to do: I’ll receive structured data from a web page (for example, text fields like title, subtitle, author, and body).This data should be automatically placed into a pre-designed InDesign template. The result should be returned as an .INDD file (or at least a file I can open and edit in InDesign afterward). Essentially, I want a web service that takes JSON/CSV input, applies it to an InDesign layout, outputs a native InDesign file (and optionally a PDF). So my questions are:1. Is InDesign API the best way to achieve this? Or would I need InDesign Server instead?2. How can I gain access to the InDesign API?3. Is there any information about pricing or usage limits for the InDesign API? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance

Hallo an die Community,ich habe eine Broschüre, die ich in Doppelseiten angelegt habe. Die Druckerei möchte die Innenseiten aber als Einzelseiten (keine doppelseitige Druckbögen). Wenn ich es im Export auf Einzelseiten umstelle fehlt mir die richtige Information in der Beschnittzugabe. D.H. Teile von der gegenüberliegenden Seite sind in der Beschnittzugabe. Siehe Bild im Anhang.Kennt wer eine elegante Lösung wie man mit wenig Aufwand die Broschüre von Doppelseitig auf Einzelseiten umstellt und dabei die Beschnittzugabe berücksicht. Aktuell erstelle ich dafür eine eigene Druckdatei in der ich jede Doppelseiten auseinander ziehe, indem ich die Einstellung "Neue Dokumentenanordnung zulassen" aktiviere. Das ist sehr mühselig, wenn das Dokument über 120 Seiten hat.Freue mich über Eure Antworten.Liebe GrüßeEnver  

Instead of 'Fit Frame to Content', Copilot is now opening.Any fixes for this greatly appreciated. M.

Hello, I'm trying to type in Sinhalese (Native Language of Sri Lanka) using inDesign or Illustrator on a MacBook 2019. I've downloaded the Sinhala Keyboard from Apple but when I try to type after selecting a sinhala font (FM font series) I get pink boxes in inDesign. When I type in Adobe Illustrator I get a different standard unicode font that doesn't display certain characters correctly. යි වි මි ම් ව්   .. all of these and more appear incorrectly. And worse is I'm unable to change the font... no matter which font I select I still get the same unicode characters.   (I've attached screenshots) Googling the answer told me go into prefrences > type and click on the enable show East Asian options. Then go into the character panel and change the languge to Sri Lankan .. ..  but doing this has no effect at all. I'm still unable to type in sinhala using a chosen FM series font....  please can someone help? I'll be happy to provide more details

Do I need a new computer to use Indesign - My Mac is only up to Catalina - I know my desktop is really old an am guessing the software can't be used on it - is there an earlier version or a fix or do I have to spend the money?!

Hello there, my graphic design teacher is curious if there is a solve to this problem. We all know the long way of importing a multi-page PDF file into InDesign using scripts.... But is there a simplier/shorter way to go about it? Especially including the newer updates to the program? 

I'm wondering if this is an issue with Indesign in general or just a issue for me.. If i have a rectangle with no fill and a black stroke (stroke at the front) and i select the eyedropper tool and while holding shift, click on another rectangle with a pink fill and no stroke, isn't that supposed to change the stroke colour of my original object to pink? It works this way in Illustrator, but when i do it in indesign it just completely gets rid of the stroke weight setting it to zero, and has the stroke colour as none. 

The system was unable to recognize ~ as a valid plugin.An error message with this content appears. After building the sample program from the downloaded SDK, placing it in the PlugIn folder,then modifying that program and reinstalling the PlugIn, this message appears. The modification was simply changing a comment—a change that seems completely harmless from a programming perspective. Could this be some kind of security measure?How should I handle this?

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I've had this work perfectly for me and also never work no matter what I try, so I must be messing something up in the set-up stage. I'm formatting a novel, and after getting the proof copy I'd like to move the text boxes out a little. Problem is that moving the text box out on the parent pages doesn't update them on the document itself, I'm assuming because the link was broken when I placed the text and unlocked the boxes from the parent pages? Sample page:  Nudged the text frames out on the parent pages but obviously doesn't update to the rest of the doc: I understand that this must be because placing the text unlocks the text boxes and unlinks them from the parent pages...but I don't understand how I'm supposed to handle this. If I need to go back and nudge out the margins after I've placed the text, I would think this is why parent pages exist, but if they just get automatically unlinked, I don't know what to

I have a text box where the space between words is too small.  I don't know how to change it.  Interestingly, I have another text box where it looks fine, but I can't find what setting controls this.    I saved these 2 boxes with separate paragraph styles, but toggling the first box to have the other box's style doesn't change anything. 

Hi, I have two documents. In the first I want to GREP search for all instances where a number (ranging from 33 to 259) occurs between round brackets i.e. it should capture (33), (34), (35) all the way to (257), (258) and finally (259). Same thing in document 2, where I want it to show me all instances between (260) and (416). I tried some of the formulas noted in some of the discussions but they heavily focus on formulas looking for digits with the caveat of brackets which won't work for me as I need it to exclusively find numbers in bracket. Thanks

For example:I want sel[j] to be positioned above sel[j-1];var doc = app.activeDocument; var item = doc.selection; sel = items; for (var i = 0; i < sel.length; i++) { };