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I have outlined an object in InDesign.I want to outline that stroke and then unify the resultant shape. (Essentially eliminating the stroke but leaving the thickness)This is a piece of cake in Illustrator, but can you do it in InDesign?Please say yes. : )

Bonjour,Mes repères commentés sur Indesign ne fonctionnent plus. Ils sont pourtant bien cochés, mais grisés. “Command U” n’y fait rien.  J’ai également déjà désactivé le magnétismes des repères et magnétisme de la grille, puisque j’ai vu que ça pouvait être une solution sur d’autres forums. Mais rien n’y fait. J’ai mis à jour InDesign (v21.3), et même réinitialisé mes préférences. Evidemment j’ai redémarré mon ordinateur...Ce n’est pas un calque verrouillé ni des éléments de gabarit, juste la grille pour aligner mes éléments entre eux n’apparait pas lorsque je les manipule comme d’habitude. Au cas où je suis sous Mac Tahoe 26.3.1Merci d’avance 

I have paragraph styles for a document I am working on. A style that I have used in the document many times has suddenly failed - it is a bullet, and attached image shows the change. I have selected the text in question, held down Option (Mac) and double clicked the style with no benefit.What has happened ? 

InDesign CCHaving successfully installed many CC apps on my Mac Pro Desktop, I proceeded to do the same on my laptop. However, after two attempts at uninstalling and re-downloading both InDesign CC and the Creative Cloud Desktop. When starting up InDesign, I repeatedly get this error message: "Error: Unable to launch Adobe InDesign as you lack sufficient permissions to access the preferences folders. Ensure that you have appropriate permissions and then restart Adobe InDesign." and can go no further.I can find no instruction on how to do this, or reference to anyone else getting this error.MacBook Pro17-inch, Late 2011Processor  2.5 GHz Intel Core i7Memory  8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3Graphics  AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MBSoftware  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

My documents suddenly won't show the Bleed guide lines, Margin guide lines, or text frame guides when I toggle between Preview and Normal view.  Instead, it's showing an extended white artboard, which looks like Bleed view.  I have the document settings set up with a .125 bleed and they should be showing up as red guide lines.  Deleting Indesign Preferences did not work.  Anyone know how I can get these guides back and how to make Preview view cut that white border out?Thanks

All my books (several hundred) are formatted using the Times New Roman TTF font. The new version of InDesign 21.0 changes that to Times New Roman OTF.Fortunately, version 20.0 is still installed. I know from experience that strange things can happen in updates.. However, the problem with the latest update has also been introduced in that version.OTF is only available with a licence, which I do not have. I would appreciate some help.Cor van Wijgerden     <Title renamed by MOD>

Saludos cordiales.Busco replicar una tabla de contenido como la de la imagen adjunta. De manera que los ítems no queden listados de manera vertical como comunmente suelen quedar, sino de manera horizontal. Me refiero a las letras más pequeñas, las cuales están separadas por un guión largo. He tratado de mcuhas maneras y tengo estilos de párrafo para cada ítem, pero no logro que queden listadas de manera horizontal. Agradecería mucho si puedieran ayudarme. 

Hi there,  I have a newsletter where most pages have full page images, but they are semi-transparent images layered on top of each other. See screenshot for example. I’m trying to create a lower-res version suitable for posting online so I would love a file size under 10 mb. So far the only way I can get close to achieving this is by taking my layers of semi-transparent images, exporting each page as a png (no transparency), reinserting this flat png, to replace the live images, and then exporting the pdf. But then it sucks because I have to have two versions of the document. I would love to get a smaller pdf using my live document. My standard settings for web docs are compress the images to 150ppi. If I export with my regular settings with the live images, it's 66 MBs, but if I replace the live layers of images with flat pngs, it's 11mbs.  

Hi guys, I work for a printing company, primarily focused on label production, and also general flat paper based commercial printing. We use Adobe CC applications for our pre-press production software, and are looking at assessing the best imposition solutions for going from artwork to plates for process jobs or pdfs for digital jobs.The main purpose for this would be to streamline operator task efficiency, ease-of-use, limitation reduction, etc. to get the most out of our time on the job.What imposition solutions have you guys had good experience with in a print production context?

I have a table in file in which there is column in which there are about 70 numbers .ie in 70 cellsIs there any script to apply thousand separator to those numberseg 12500 to 12,500 or 12.500thanks

Please someone help me. This is literally killing me, especially as I went to edit the name of this question, and it deleted all of the text I’d already written :(So, I want to change the colour of some text. I select the text frame, goto colour and adjust the sliders. Thing is that there’s a lurid green box with lots of little white boxes attached, showing that the text frame is selected, that puts me off choosing the colour I want.All I want to do is turn off this selection highlight, so I can choose my colours in peace.ID is all about layout and colour choice is going to play a large part in this, so it must be possible, but for the life of me (which ID is slowly bleeding out of me) I can’t figure out how to do this.Please, before it’s too late, someone help me … I’m begging. No literally, I am begging. It’s all too much :(

Hi, I have a 200 page 6x9 doc which I want to print as a test on our own office A4 printer. I can print it okay but the over sideof the page is out of sync with the primary side. I habe tried double side flip as well as regular but can't get it to place itself in the right place on the page. Any suggestions please? Thanks

I need to add a very long text document to the middle of a book. Think of it like adding a huge chapter in between chapters 5 and 6. I want to auto-flow the text, so I don’t have to just manually add the additional pages, because it will be annoying as heck to have to manually add like 200 pages. Is this possible?

When I use the Tags panel in InDesign file to map Styles to Tags, all cross-references turn red with a dropdown error message: “Referenced paragraph or text anchor is missing.”I have tried to save the InDesign file as IDML and reopen - with similar result as above.The InDesign file needs to be exported as XML with error-free cross-references for translation.Please see the attached InDesign file with the cross-reference issue.Thank you in advance for your help. InDesign file with cross-references that are broken after tagging styles to tags 

We are experiencing an issue with Adobe InDesign in which it opens files with only read permissions, so when the user tries to save the file it errors and the user is forced to use Save As and use a new file name. Details:Software: Adobe InDesign 2024 (19.4.0.63)Device: macOS 13.5.2 (22G91) (Build 22G91)Storage: Files stored on Shared Drive (SMB) We have checked on the server where the files are stored, and Computer Manager confirms that the user has the file open in "Read" mode instead of "Write+Read". We have verified that the user has Full Control permissions to the file and that no other user is trying to access the same file at the same time. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Hi all! I’m learning about merging data into my InDesign files. I’ve figured out how to do it (YAY!). But I noticed that a lot of the data (text) in my Excel file isn’t formatted. I need to italicize certain magazine names. I figured I could just do a find/replace. But… it doesn’t change the merged text. I did a test, and it DOES change the text I added to test this. But it won’t change the merged text. I can go in and do it by hand, but it won’t do it all at once. What can I do to get around this? In case I didn’t make it obvious, the merged text IS actually text… and is editable. Thanks! 

I’m learning how to merge data and images into an InDesign file. I’m new to this process. I have a bunch of charts (PDFs) that I’m importing via the merge function. They are merging, but they are all over the place in terms of size (98%, 107%, 160%). How can I “force” them to pop in at 100%? And secondly, is there a way to make sure they always merge in at the same x/y coordinate? Thanks!

So I have sets of illustration in separated artboard (same layer) in Illustrator. But when I am importing it to InDesign, some parts of the illustration is missing. It occurs on some illustration, especially reused graphic asset from Freepik. Funny enough, this isn't happening using the previous version of Indesign. Right now I am using the current latest 21.0 (not beta). What I have done for the workaround;saved into a new file, only the error artboard. not working.saved the error artboard into EPS, works. But I wish everything works in native format.  

Hallo Ihr,ich habe einen neuen Kunden, der als Font Palatino Linotype gewählt hat. Beim Platzieren von doc-files (ich bin wegen diverser Probleme auf ID-Version 18 zurückgekehrt, um Probleme durch docx zu vermeiden) wählt ID Palatino Linotype Nothing, das als solches nicht erkannt wird. Wenn ich das durch Regular ersetze, muss ich alle Abweichungen (bold, italics) manuell ändern, d.h. den Text akribisch durchgehen. Außerdem nimmt ID rote Schrift statt Schwarz und alles unterstrichen (trotz anderslautender Einstellungen). Es gibt hier offenbar ein Problem, dass die Software Absatzformate ignoriert.Habt Ihr eine Idee, wie ich das ändern kann? Ich arbeite mit Win11 und InDesign 18.5.4 x64. LG, Birgit

Hi everyone, I hope this post helps others too!In Indesign I have images and text overlaying and when I PDF the page, the images I think flatten and they get a very thin white box around them. It only happens when I print to PDF, is there a way to get rid of these? 

I wanted to make two files out of one file because it was too big. (All is happening on the cloud)So i succeded in saving one half, but when i was saving the other, it just crashed. and now i cannot open my mother file, containing the whole file, neither the second half file. If i try to import the file in a new document, it says it’s already opened by someone else. What can i do ?(sry the screenshot is in french)(Also, if i ttry to open the mother file, adobe just crashes. I sent it to adobe.I tried to download but it won’t, and i duplicated the files but same results)

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to select all objects or text frames that reside on a specific layer across different pages simultaneously. Currently, selecting them page-by-page is too time-consuming. Is there a built-in feature, a shortcut, or perhaps a script that can achieve this? Thanks in advance!

PC, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (3.70 GHz), 96 Ghz RAM, Nvdia 5080 Windows 11/64 up to dateI have worked with InDesign since version 2 but have not in that time worked with a document with footnotes so for anything about footnotes, I am a complete beginner. I am working on a 44-page historic quarterly that has one story with extensive footnotes as a Word document. I have extracted that story and attached it as a pdf'When I placed it the footnotes attempted to format but not with any consistency. I found a YouTube tutorial on footnotes and attempted to follow it, but still could not completely control the location of the rule or the spacing between indidvidual footnotes.I set up a footnote pargraph style w/ .02 between notes, but I am getting what appears to be double spacing, so I reset it to 0.00 and got the same thing with, for the most part unpredictable locations for the rules. Also set up a footnote character styleCan anyone steer me in the right direction?Thanks to those who know mor

I have recently had to reinstall the full CC suite, which included the usage of the Adobe CC cleaner. Now, in InDesign, I see that my TOC Styles are missing. I was sure that they would have been there when exporting user settings and then importing them back but, apparently, they are not. Where could I find them? I have plenty of Time Machine backups, CCC clones, and documents where those styles existed so I hope you will be able to tell me how to recover them. I was hoping for a “Load TOC Styles” button but no, there is not.Thanks! 

Fonts activated in Adobe Fonts are not visible in Adobe applications, in particular In In Design. At the same time, I have a subscription for fonts, but they don't even appear in the Cloud Desktop list so that I can sync them.How to overcome this problem?