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Hi, I am working on a document and whenever I create a new rectangle or ellipse the object shows as transparent even though the opacity is set to 100%. There are no transparencies applied under the FX section either - I cannot seem to find a solution to this issue!

I want to get the width of the parent(textFrame) of the current table.If the text box has only one column, the width is the entire text box width.If the text box has multiple columns, I want to get the width of one column. Suppose I have now selected the table and want to obtain myWidth. 

Hallo, seit gestern kann die Schrift Rockwell Std Bold Condensed nicht mehr installiert werden. In InDesign wird kein Fehler angezeigt – beim PDF-Schreiben erscheinen teilweise nur Kästchen.

Sometimes my image isn't inserted into the text box; instead, it sits above textFrameWhen I am only selecting the image, I want to retrieve the width of the text box. If the text box isn't split into columns, retrieve the full width of the text box. If it is split into columns, retrieve the width of one column.(or sometimes it may appear below the text)Thank you.

It's a few years since the last comments on this... do I really need to build my own bullets/sub-bullets/sub-sub-bullets/etc. heirarchy?  Is this another simple, basic thing that this tool lacks and I need to recreate or find a source to import from?  

Hello everyone! i'm planing to move several files from a server to OneDrive. This involves an structure where differents files are linked in InDesign documents. Is there a way to automatically change the path for all files to the new location at once? The case:InDesign link to current link from image on server:/Volumes/marketing/MarCom/Documents/Graphic/project1/picture1.pngNewInDesign link to the image in OneDrive:/Users/user/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive/Documents/Graphic/project1/picture1.pngWhat changes by moving the folders is the beginning of the path. Documents/Graphic/project1/picture1.png remains unchanged. I really apreciate you advice! Kind Regards,Victoria 

My TOC is two pages long. When I update it, the second page disappears, I get overset text, and I have to add a page at the end and place the overset text. This happens every time.I'm using a book file. Windows 11InDesign 20.5 x64

Hi, there are many other topics on this subject before and I found a temporary fix. The issue:When working on two or INND project, whiching from one project tab to the other sometimes causes INND to free and/or lag for many seconds before switching, sometimes minutes before finally making the switch to the next project tab.  The Fix:From my experience and messing around with this, I noticed that this is caused when one of the projects you are working on has missing fonts. It looks like INND is doing some work in the background when there are missing fonts which is causing it to lag when switching tabs. When there are no font-related errors, there is no lag when switching tabs.  I'll look into submitting this as a bug report too! Thanks

Le new QuickLook plugin for InDesing 2025 was working well until now on my configuration (see below).After I installed InDesing 2024 for tests purpose, it's not even listed in System settings.Is there something I can do to re-activate it?----macOS 15.7.1 (24G231) French localizationInDesign 20.5.0.48 (20500)MacStudio M4 36 Go Ram

I've selected multiple rows and columns, but I want to get the first cell in each column. Can this be achieved with a script? The selection area is not fixed; it may span two rows or three columns.It is possible that only one cell was selected. The selection area is not fixed; it could span 2 rows or 3 columns.It's possible that only a single cell was dragged to select.Like this:columns[i].cells[0]

Basically I need to increase every digit in bold underline(bold underline for emphasis, not in original document) in the text below (just an example of much larger document) by 1 and I'm hoping there's some GREP or plug-in way to do it. If anyone has any ideas outside of indesign, I'm open to them too (word or excel etc!). Thanks in advance!  <navMap>    <navPoint id="d3-d333afd81907b-d1e86" playOrder="1">      <navLabel>        <text>Title Page</text>      </navLabel>      <content src="OEBPS/9780008216528_epub_tp.xhtml"/>    </navPoint>    <navPoint id="d3-d333afd81907b-d1e107" playOrder="2">      <navLabel>        <text>Copyright</text>      </navLabel>      <content src="OEBPS/9780008216528_epub_cop.xhtml"/>    </navPoi

Hi,I'm not a programmer and I have a basic question about two options, which is the best option?:- Doing a task in every pagefor (loop pages) { doTask (); } function doTask () { //do something }- Or, in every page doing the taskdoTask(); function doTask () { for (loop pages) { //do something } } there is no difference, it depends the task... Thanks P.D.:It's a hugh ammount of pages, the task... add two text frames

InDesign no longer opens any pdf file. I tried plenty of times with various different files (even those that worked just fine a week ago) and nothing. It looks like some update completely messed up this function. I tried changing Acrobat's Enhanced Security and save file again I tried to re-export pdf again - nothing works. Other Adobe programms works just fine, it's just InDesign that suddenly lost its ability to open pdf

I'm trying to find periods with zero or more whitespace characters after them. Everything I can find says this should work, but it doesn't work for strings that have no whitespace (looking for a capital letter followed by a period): var capitalExpression = "^[A-Z]\\.\\s*"; This findsA. Start the engine. but notA.Start the engine.

I just spent hours on this and haven't saved it til now (I know, my fault), but when I clicked save as, this modal popped up and I can't exit out of it or do anything in InDesign now. HELP!! I don't want to lose all this work.

Hi Guys, I'm a Designer in a company and I'm trying to set up a InDesign/InCopy-Workflow with one of our editors. My version is German, so I hope my translations are kind of correct.I designed a layout in InDesign and exported it for InCopy via "Edit -> InCopy -> All Texts". All files are saved in a folder in the Creative Cloud and I shared this folder with my colleague. So, unfortunatley when she is opening the file in InCopy on her Mac, there is an error message saying "Unable to lock following files ... " an then one of .icml-Files is named. So she is not able to check in or out and can't edit the text. You can see parts of the screenshot below. When I'm opening it on my system, everthing works fine. Anyone had this message before or got the solution for this?Thank you very much,Konstantin  

I've encountered kind of a weird glitch with the new "hidden pages" feature. So here's what happened:  InDesign crashed, taking edits on 3 or 4 documents with it. Ok, whatever, I've been riding the InDesign dragon for well over a decade at this point. I'll restart InDesign and recover what I can and re-do what I have to. Except I get an error that says "All pages can't be hidden." Weird--I didn't hide any pages. I don't even use that feature! But fine, I'll click "Unhide pages."  InDesign crashes. No amount of restarting or cache clearing fixes this, and I must abandon any hope of recovering my documents.  Has anyone else encountered this? 

Hi all,Need help in creating a floor plan via a hand drawn PDF.There is a background that the floor plan will go on.What do I do first?  Open the background, import the PDF, draw the lines, etc?Any help is greatly appreciated.  I gather I do this with layers, but can't find any real help via tutorials on same. Many thanks 🙂 

Ia m working on a book, which requests a proper names index. I have done it before, it works perfectly in older version of InDesign (5.0).Now I am using a new version of InDesign and the command simply does not work (shift+ctrl+alt+]).How can it be fixed?Yours, Janja

Is there any way to export all the text content of an ID file to a series of text files?I searched for a script, just in case, but didn't hear anything.Thanks! 

I accidentally hit command W, then in my haste to CANCEL the pop up dialog, I accidntally hit DON'T SAVE. How screwed am I? Obviously InDesign makes temporary versions, in the event of crashes. How do I find these? Can I get an old one? Or am I going to lose days of work? Could they be saved in my creative cloud somewhere? My google drive? helllllp.

I created a brochure for a client. It was supposed to be a print booklet, but now it's digital only and they liked the spread view, so it's 17"x11". It's 23 MB when I save as an interractive PDF. I'd like to make it smaller for emailing and save out as 8.5"x5.5". I tried the adjust layout function, but the type is slightly off then. It's an interractive PDF, so saving and linking jpgs won't work. I tried to save it and resize in Acrobat, but I get error messages. Help!

Not a professional inDesign gal here, just learning as I go. I'm working on a multipage booklet in the size "letter- half page." I've been making them monthly for the last 3 months or so, and they're usually between 32-44 pages each. I have them set up as facing pages. My issue comes when I export and attempt to print as a booklet in Adobe Reader. Something gets lost in the translation, as it were. The pages go from looking perfectly centered on my screen in both InDesign and Adobe Reader to printing with big (approx 0.75-1 inch) margins around 3 of the 4 edges. The only way I've been able to fix it is to manually move the contents either left or right on the page, which makes it print alrought, but then the digital design is hideous. Any ideas how I can get the pages to print centered on the half page, so that the margins are even all the way around when the paper is folded? Thanks in advance.

 I’m Japanese.I’m currently designing an English layout in InDesign, but when I export the file as a PDF and copy text from the PDF into a Word document, some strange codes appear, like this:  €sl185€slmult0 “dammy (text)” (line break) €b0€sl185€slmult0 “dammy (text)” €b0 When I paste the same PDF text into another text tool (e.g., Mac Notes), it displays normally.The English font I’m using is “Helvetica Neue.”The PDF export preset is “High Quality Print.”Possible causes:Metadata remaining from the original translation process.Design or formatting data being displayed as code when copied.Font “subset embedding” during PDF export. (I set the subset value to 0%, but the issue remains unresolved.)If anyone knows the cause or a solution, I’d greatly appreciate your advice.___ （和訳）日本人です。インデザインで欧文の文字組みをしたデザインを作っている最中なんですが、PDFに書き出したときに、PDF上のテキストをコピーし、 wordファイルにペーストすると以下の不明なコードが入ってしまいます。  €sl185€slmult0 “dammy（文章）” （改行）€b0€sl185€slmult0 “dammy（文章）” €b0&n

Posting to the correct forum this time after going down a road searching for this in others...  I'm seeing I'll need to build or hunt for files with Table Styles to be imported - are there no prebuilt table styles to start with that can be modified?  Thus far the free template table styles seem to be built for much more 'minimist flash' than a more basic setup.   Am I thinking it may be easier to do a high res, blown up screenshot from MS Word instead of trying to fuss with getting a table to be somewhat similar?