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I've uploaded files to my printer and don't see the bleeds. I checked my Package/PDF/X4:2008 settings and the bleeds are set at 0. I check the Document Setup and the bleeds are set at .125". I've checked the boxes and there doesn't seem to be a way forward. So, I can't use Package? I have to use Export? Hmm. 

I want to make the image on the right the same size as the entire grouped object on the left.But I don't know how to get its geometric boundaries.How do I determine that it's part of the group?

Good morning/ afternoon / evening to you all.I've got a user who has InDesign 20.3.1 x64 installed on their computer. For the last two weeks the following problem occurs: Open an INDD file using File, Open and the file opens as Read Only. If you use Windows File Explorer to open the file (Double-click to open file) it opens fine. I've gone round the houses (and forums) with this one and cannot find anything to give me a hint of where to start looking at this. The user has had InDesign for years and this problem only started 2 weeks ago. Diagnostics:PC is an Intel I7 with 32 GB RAM, running Windows 11. The InDesign files are all stored on a network drive. Windows Reliability History shows no major updates to the operating system or to system drivers, other than the standard Security Intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender, for the time period involved. The users are not able to update BIOS or firmware updates without a member of IT (me), so I know the system arch

I made an interactive document with a stack of layers some time ago.Interactive pdf works like a charm.Today I needed to make some adjustments in the file, an addition to one of the bottom layers. The InDesign document shows correctly, but when exporting the file to interactive pdf, the layer order is not honoured. The button I added in the bottom layer (while behaving correctly in the InDesign document) is now on top of the stack, and the on-tap/on-release with button visibility is not properly working. Layer is set to be(come) invisible/not show when clicking a certain button, but it shows anyway.Happens both on Windows and Mac, InDesign 17 x64.Any pointers on what may be happening? I remember I've had this before in an older version, and I had to cut/paste-in-place all the objects again in the order I wanted/needed them to appear, but this document has grown so large, it would take me days to do that.

I'm trying to figure out how to get InDesign to access stylistic alternates in a specific font (Bembo Book MT Pro in my case). I want to update an .indt file so that any books laid out using the template (with paragraph/character styles, etc.) in the future will have the short-tailed R swapped in instead of the long-tailed R that ships with the font by default. Does anyone have any ideas, beyond using Find/Change with glyph ids? I'm looking for a way to "set it and forget it" in a template file, rather than always have a Find/Change (or script) that needs to be performed as a subsequent step after a book has been typeset. I don't know why Monotype ships the long-tailed R as the default and doesn't even enable the short-tailed one in a stylistic set... or why InDesign seems to have stopped exposing salt via the GUI. Seems like many people must have this issue. I'm not sure I can shell out for Monotype to create a custom font modification, and the font license indicates pretty clear

Hello, I can't figure out what I am doing wrong with the spreads in this book. When converted to PDF the pages seem separeted at chapters. (see screen shot). I've added pages, deleted pages, trying to get the book (when in PDF format) to flow properly.Thanks in advance for you help!  

It appears that bullets and numbers have been implemented by hijacking tabs and indents. As far as I can tell, this makes it impossible to do a hanging indent as you see fit. So now, to get lines of text after the first one to show up with a hanging indent, I have to put a hard return at the end of the first line and create a whole other style for subsequent lines. Lame, to say the least. Am I overlooking some other option? And no... tables are not an option for us. In this screen grab, the examples at the top show what the text needs to look like. The underline is created by a tab with a leading _ character. The apparent hanging indent is accomplished with the hard returns.  The one I'm working on shows why: 

Dear all,I have recently received a shipment of new titles from my printer. The printing run comprised 3 titles of 25 units each. All titles were packaged and shipped in the same way. One of the title had ink stains on all 25 units, with 5 units being unusable (see the kind of damage in the pictures below, one picture per damaged unit). The printer saw the pictures and said that the damage is caused by rubbing during shipment and they refused to issue a credit note for more than one damaged copy. They also insisted that this is due to the non-laminated covers. Please note that none of the titles had laminated cover, yet only one title contained significantly damaged copies. Everything was shipped in the same big box with four smaller boxes inside.Their price for laminating the covers for less than 50 copies is 200% the single unit cost, which makes it unviable.  Two questions:(1) what do you think caused this damage? (2) what good printers are available in mainland Europe? These a

I have been a PS user for years, but am just now beginning to use InDesign. I may be so new at this application that I might get this question posted wrong, but I will try. My first real project is to convert an existing in-house newsletter from MS Publisher, to InDesign.For the most part this has gone well.The older publication has used "border art" for the boxes/frames that contain text and/or artwork. Publisher offers a wide range of style options for those.  InDesign does offer a few, and they are modifiiable to some extent...but there doesn't seem to be any path to adding actual "art" or other styles..... (hearts, flowers, etc. ...new or different styles). I suppose my question is...have there been any "packs" or other additional sources created, that would give users more choices?  Is there some process inside of the application for doing this ?  

Hey gang, There are 50+ languages built into InDesign. Why is there no Latin?

Weird problem — My InDesign files on my home mac will not sync to my Adobe cloud storage. All other file types sync ok (eg: pdf jpg psd). Only the InDesign files are missing. So when I go into work to continue working on a file, I can see the PDF that I made from the InDesign file I just cannot see the .indd file itself! Weirdorama. Yes I have checked the log in credentials and re-installed the desktop app on my home mac. The error alert on my home desktop's Adobe CC icon says 'File suncing error. Some files failed to sync'. Any ideas hive mind please.

Hi everyone,My indesign acts a bit weird with some pdf files. If I want to insert a pdf file I get following error: "failed to open the pdf file". It works on another computer so I really don't know what the problem could be. This is what I've already tried:- removing the creative suite and installing it again: doesn't work- placing the pdf file and opening the options: doesn't work.Hopefully one of you guys can help me.Regards!Daniëlle

bonjour depuis la mise à jour de mon indesign j'ai la fenetre de propriétés de paragraphue qui est vide....l'un de vous a t'il deja eu ce probleme, y a t'il une manipe pour recuperer une fenetre fonctionnelle?Merci pour votre aide 

Hi!Why can't I delete a row in a table in InDesign anymore?Someone with the same problem?

Just wrapped up my 2nd InDesign project, which required me to try out a bunch of styles and swatches. Some I ended up sticking with, some not, and I kinda lost track of which ones the magazine needs to render correctly.  Can InDesign search said document for stranded/unused styles/swatches, and point them out to me for potential deletion? All this experimenting was just for this single project, anyway. Just so I don't accidentally delete anything important while cleaning up after the unnecessary bloat manually. Thanks!

"basedOn" is merely a setting, but it doesn't actually take effect.I can see in the b1 object style that it is based on a1, but in fact, b1 does not inherit a1's settings.It might be because “basedOn” was set later.Do I need to “reset the baseline options”?How is this script written?app.documents[0].objectStyleGroups.itemByName(AA). objectStyles.itemByName(b1).properties = { basedOn: app.documents[0].objectStyleGroups.itemByName(AA).objectStyles.itemByName(a1), 

Good afternoon, InDesign community, so basically I reopened this document after a year of not working on it, and I corrected everything in the preflight panel except for the chars, and I have Show Hidden Characters on and selected. However, when I have tried to delete the text and retype it, it still appears, and I have no idea how to correct this so that it disappears. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as it's driving me nuts.  If someone could please respond to me with a permanent solution today, that would be great! Thanks so much in advance  PS: Here's a visual of the problem 

Hello,I just switched from Mac to Windows. On my macbook I used to be able to zoom and pan using pinch and two-finger motions on the touchpad of my laptop, but on my new computer this is not working. I don't know if it's relevant, but this new laptop has a touchscreen. I found some other threads discussing a similar issue for an earlier version of indesign, and supposedly this was resolved a while back. However, running the latest version I am not able to use my trackpad as desired and it's quite frustrating as this is my preferred way of working. Is there a setting that I can change to fix this?Thanks for any guidance!

There are multiple layers to my question. I have scoured Google for this, but no clear answer has come up about my specific situation, as most answers pertain to fixed layout epubs—and Adobe Support is rather vague. I need this explained to me in layman's terms please. Is there a way to display specialty (otf) fonts as they should correctly display in KDP? Removing obfuscation entirely seems to be the only way they show up in KDP (Adobe and IDPF's obfuscation does not work), and keeping obfuscation falls back to their Baskerville font.Is de-obfuscating allowable if you have an Adobe Fonts account?Is de-obfuscating end-user protected?If keeping obfuscation is the only way to go about this, is it even possible to display the font at all? If so, what component am I missing?  I have seen multiple ebooks display featured fonts in Kindle without me having to download fonts to the device. Furthermore, I have seen other book formatting agencies use specialty fonts via Kindl

Bonjour à tous, je n'arrive plus a déplacer les blocs images ou texte dans mon fichier Indesign avec la flèche de ma souris, les blocs ne sont pas verrouillés ni sur un calque verrouillé, je peux les sélectionner les déplacer avec les flèches du clavier mais pas avec ma souris. Pouvez vous m'aider… merci

The organization I work for has its services and content primarily on Publisher, and given it's now retiring, we need to convert just under 20,000 Publisher files to InDesign. Does anyone have a recommendation if there's a service we could find to possibly help us do this en masse?

Hi everyone, I’m exploring the Data Merge feature in InDesign to create personalized catalogs and invitations. I’d like to know the best way to set up my spreadsheet (CSV/Excel) and link it with my InDesign template for smooth merging. Are there any tips to avoid common formatting issues, especially with images and variable text fields? Any workflow suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I created a script for InDesign to skip "Ghosted" pages while continuing to automatically number pages in a document. We use this often in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industry to omit section tabs from the page count. I would like to share it with the A/E/C community, but do not know how to make it available beyond asking this forum. Does anyone know how to make this a readily availble resource or let Adobe InDesign know so that they can make it a readily availble feature?

I keep running into an issue where people have their default units set to different measurements and it keeps breaking my scripts. I would like to set the measurement at the beginning of each script and then change them back but nothing seems to work, does someone know how this can be done? 

Hi.I´d like to spruce up an index by adjusting overcrowded rows.Before: After:  The column is 55 mm wide and after each text there is a tab stop (right aligned, at 55 mm) with the period as a filler character. I want gaps of no more than three points (or a specified distance) between text and page numbers. A line break is inserted at the end of the line. A tab is inserted at the beginning of the next line. If there are more page numbers for a term (more than two lines in a paragraph), the same procedure is applied. My idea was to "do something" with regular expressions, but I have no idea how to check, capture, and move the page numbers.