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Bonjour,Je rencontre un problème sur InDesign 2026.Lorsque j’essaie d’importer un fichier .psd dans un document .indd, je coche l’option « Afficher les options d’importation », car mon fichier PSD contient des compositions de calques et je souhaite pouvoir sélectionner celle à intégrer.Cependant, dès que la fenêtre des options d’importation s’ouvre et que je choisis l’une des compositions de calques, InDesign se ferme de manière inopinée.Je précise que je travaille sur un MacBook Pro M4 (2024) avec 48 Go de RAM.Merci pour votre aide,Coralie.

Hello, I am currently going through Peter Kahrel's "ScriptUI for Dummies" book, and there is a piece of code to make a dialog window with user input that I tried out:var myWindow = new Window ("dialog", "Window title"); myWindow.orientation = "row"; myWindow.add ("statictext", undefined, "Prompt:"); var myText = myWindow.add ("edittext"); myWindow.show ();This works, but .orientation is striked through, which as I understand means this feature will not be supported anymore in the future. What should I be using instead? Thanks,Heidi

Hi, I need to install indesign 19 (2024), but to crearive cloud have only option indesign 20 or higher.is there any other way to reinstall 19? thanks!

Hi Abhishek Rao ,   Nice to see this issue has been resolved for the width and height constrain proportions in the top control bar. But for me the issue is still present in the properties panel (which also contains width and height constrain proportions), I use the properties panel often to resize elements   <Title renamed by MOD>

I recently updated my InDesign app (version 21.0.2 x64 on Windows 11) and now when I open a file to edit it the text I'm editing will randomly disappear and the page goes white until I scroll to another page or back out of the document and go back into it. It seems like a buffering problem but I haven't had this issue with other versions. Any ideas on why this might be happening? Below is a screenshot of what I'm getting.

Hello everyone, I have a book almost finished but I'm not getting to fix one issue. More or less in the middle of the document the footnotes are restarting from 1.I already confirmed that the texts are linked (see the figure). How can I set it to the footnotes numbering flow through the entire document?  

Using InDesign tool for importing XML file in vb.net, in this process placing xml contents in box text frames which are created in InDesign libary for diffrent types of box elements, after using InDesign library InDesign is crashing but if InDesign library placement is skipped InDesign completes the process. This issue is happening from yesterday only. What could be the problem in InDesign library .indl? How to fix this? Using InDesign version 20.5.1

I need to identify the current cursor state:case A: Object selected (including: text frames, images, geometric shapes).case B: Cursor inside a text box (including: within text, within a table).Currently, I'm using `items.length >= 1` to determine this.Like this:var doc = app.activeDocument; var item = doc.selection[0]; var items = doc.selection; if (items.length >= 1) { alert(items.length); }But this feels unscientific.I suspect `items.length` also equals 1 when the cursor is in a text box.Does this mean I need to exclude text boxes too:(! item.hasOwnProperty(‘parentTextFrames’) && “Table” != item.parent.parent.constructor.name)This gets complicated and feels unscientific.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

I have a saved my workspace and it still keeps showing panels I did not ask for: style pack, tags, data merge, cross reference, buttons and forms. I closed these and created a new workspace again, and again, and again, no luck.What is going on?

After upgrading to InDesign and InCopy 2026 (21.0.2) we experience a weird random bug when updating Assignments (icma) in InDesign for Mac to be opened by InCopy for Windows.Quite random we get the warning "Because this document contains no InCopy stories, Galley View and Story View are not available" resulting in the Assignment file in InCopy is useless.Same Assignment file opens without problems in InCopy for Mac.After a long search I discovered that it wasn't any of the .icml files, nor was it any of the .ai or .svg files that cause the problem.Using Links in InCopy their Full Path were correct.When it comes to images we wont add them to the Links folder, that InCopy can access due to performance, hence they are all missing in the Links menu. That is the way we've been working the InCopy for 12-15 years.Now in the 2026 version of either InDesign or InCopy for Windows there has been introduced a bug that can cause, maybe one, maybe two or three, missing image links to corrupt al

I am currently running InDesign v21.0.2 and I cannot publish any documents online. I have uninstalled and reinstalled.  Tried different files and still no joy.  To top it off, when I save and then come out of InDesign, the software crashes.Any ideas what is going on ?  I need to publish something today.  Is there a working version if I roll-back ? I only have to publish this document every quarter, so it was working three months ago, so I could guss at what version was running then I suppose, but am I the only one having this type of issue ? Thanks

I have envelopes to print in the hundreds. Each one must be addressed individually, so clearly a job for variable data. My problem is that the customer does not have an Excel file to provide me, instead they have hundreds of individual PDFs, and within each PDF is the address that needs to go on the adjoining envelope. Normally I would just do an image merge to plunk that one part of each pdf down in the address field, however a further problem is that the addresses in the PDF are all out of order for US mailing. (Zipcode first, then name, then state, then apartment if there is one, then street address last), so I would need to descramble the lines into a mailable order. Some have a line for apartment or office, some don't, some have an 'in care of' line, some dont. Is there a way to automate all of this? Thanks!

Ich erstelle täglich dutzende Inserate. Auf diesen Inseraten muss die Inserate-Nummer abgedruckt sein.Der Name der Indesign-Datei lautet nicht wie die Inserate-Nummer. Das zu ändern ist leider keine Option.Der Speicherordner der Indesign-Datei lautet aber wie die Inserate-Nummer.Nun war meine Idee, eine Textbox zu erstellen, in der die Textvariable «Übergeordneter Ordner» steht.Das ist aber leider nicht möglich, da es eine solche Variabel nicht gibt. Hat jemand eine Idee? Ich habe ebenfalls schon versucht, ein Script zu erstellen. Dieses müsste aber manuell ausgelöst werden, was ebenfalls keine Option ist. 

#target "InDesign"; var mainFunction = function(args) { var pageNum = args[0]; var newWidth = args[1]; var doc = app.activeDocument; var pageIndex = pageNum - 1; if (pageIndex >= 0 && pageIndex < doc.pages.length) { var targetPage = doc.pages[pageIndex]; doc.documentPreferences.allowPageShuffle = false; var currentHeight = targetPage.bounds[2] - targetPage.bounds[0]; targetPage.resize( CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR, ResizeMethods.REPLACING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_WITH, [newWidth, currentHeight] ); alert("Page " + pageNum + " resized successfully to " + newWidth.toFixed(2) + " pts."); } else { alert("Error: Page number " + pageNum + " is out of range."); } }; var showDialogAndExecute = function() { if (app.documents.length == 0) { alert("Please open an InDesign document and try again."); ret

This is very annoying. I have a document with missing fonts, the easy answer is to replace them. On opening the file indesign used to say these fonts are missing and gave me the option to replace. It no longer does that. So now all I have is a sea of pink. Should the creator have used paragraph styles? Yes of course they should. But they didn't. How do I get the popup to reappear? Why is indesign just totally going backwards, will adobe reduce the price until the fix out all these bugs? (thought not)  

hello, I'm working on page layout of a 600 page book that has thousands of equations, some inline and some set on their own line(s). The author has created the equations in Word using the Word Equation Editor (I think). The equations do not import into InDesign at all when I place the Word doc, not even an empty space or box. There are thousands of these equations, and some of them are very simple, so the author could have just formatted them with local styles like italic or subscript, but he didn't do that as I requested. Sigh. I think there might be a way to save the equations from Word as PDFs or something, but there are SO MANY. There is no way I want to risk the error of missing some, or placing them into the wrong part of the text.  Is there ANY way at all to get these equations to import into InDesign and maintain their formatting? I'm happy to pay for a plug-in of some sort if needed. I'm using InDesign 2026 (v21.0). Thanks for any advice!

It didn't happen before with the same files, but now every time I copy paste something from Word to Indesign, this shows up between the letters I wish I knew the name of this character so I could search this up.

For the past two months, every time I package a file, nearly half of the images are saved as 0KB. This results in a corrupted package that I’m unable to export, forcing me to manually reload the original images each time. It’s become a recurring issue that significantly delays my workflow and increases the risk of missing or damaged assets. I’m hoping to resolve this as soon as possible to ensure smooth and reliable file packaging moving forward.

Explanation:When I create a master logo file in Illustrator, I structure it so different orientations are on different artboard, ie landscape, portrait, compact etc. Then I will have the various colour options for each orientation on different layers ie, colour, reversed, white, black etc. This way I only have one file for all the different formats available.Then when I use them I import the artboard with the orientation I want and switch on/off the appropriate layers to chosen colour variation I want.Issue:Previously when I would import Illustrator files, I would only see one set of layers regardless of how many artboards were used in the Illustrator file. But over the past month or so, when I follow this same process i've been using for a years of importing the Illustrator files in to InDesign, i'm now seeing the layers repeated for each of the artboards.Simple example to help illustrate. If I have an illustrator file with with two artboards and two layers called 1 and 2. Normal

Hello everyone,I have encountered a problem several times when exporting PDFs in InDesign. Images with straight but slanted lines suddenly become wavy during export. I have tried various export settings, and this happens with both print PDFs and interactive PDFs. This does not happen when exporting to JPG or PNG if I activate the ‘Smooth edges’ field. Is there a similar setting for PDFs? Or does anyone know of another solution? I am at a loss!This is a section of the original image.This is what InDesign does when exporting...Until now, I had always exported the pages as jpg files and reassembled them in Acrobat Reader, but of course this means that many functions get lost. I'm really struggling here, so thank you in advance for your help!Kind regards, Paula 🙂

Bonjour,depuis que je suis passée à InDesign 2026 (installation auto via le CC) j'ai pas mal de soucis tant avec les outils qu'avec des crashs...Par exemple, quand je veux remplacer un texte par un autre avec un caractère spécial (espace), indesign planteQuand je veux utiliser la pipette pour copier un style de texte, ça ne fonctionne pas...C'est très pénalisant pour mon travail, surtout en termes de temps perdu.Y a t-il un moyen de régler ces soucis ?Merci 

When the Shift key is pressed. I want to change the right-click menu.I'm testing behavior in the C++ SDK with IMenuFilter's FilterMenuItem.// #include "KeyStates.h" if (::IsShiftKeyPressed()) CAlert::InformationAlert("");It responds to the right-click menu when a text frame is selected, but it doesn't respond to the right-click menu when nothing is selected. Is this expected? Also, I'm trying to implement this in the C++ SDK, but is it possible with Script?

I have a book document intended to design both the print and ebook editions. For the most part I use layers to control what shows in the ebook and print versions. For print, I have some anchored objects in certain places: QR codes next to the text they support, and stylish section headings that I couldn't figure out how to do as simply inline so they are anchored text frames. I anchor them so that they stay in the right place (including the right page) while I experiment with font sizes, line spacing, margins, etc. But the problem is that because they are anchored to the main text flow (which is in the layer that is used for both print and ebook), the graphics are showing up the EPUB export - I don't want that. Is there a way to exclude all graphic content (or all anchored content) from EPUB export? Or a setting for the object itself to say it should not be exported? Google AI Overview says no (it suggests a hidden layer or moving them to the pasteboard, both of which defeat the purpos

Hi all, Has anyone noticed a problem with form buttons in the new Indesign 26 when exported to Acrobat the buton have a good 5 mm rebate at the top. I have attached two versions of the pdf. If you click the Prepare Form of Acrobat you will the difference. The problem is that the button is now block the use of checkboxes on a dynamic form. 

How to Read and Write Text Files Using the C++ SDK.I also want to know how to obtain the path to the folder containing my own PlugIn.