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Hi Friends!Can someone point me a any good, detailed tutorials about the keep options, orphans and widows etc.My doc looks terrible from a vertical point of view breaking paragraphs in the middle of pages and leaving a large white space at the bottom of the page etc.thank youSF

Hello, How do I work out the correct 'mm' for the bleed area (blue line), Image cut area (pink line), Safe area (green line) and Text area (purple line) on the template attached? The attached template from the printers for this particular banner only indicates two measurements, 2390mm x 1320mm, and the banner heading says 1.2m. I am clearly new to InDesign, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.Gen

InDesign (InDesign 20.5.0.48). no longer saves file-specific PDF settings. Every time I attempt to generate a PDF, InDesign defaults to the settings used most recently (from an unrelated file). As a result, I have to manually set my PDF settings every time I generate a PDF. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

Adobe Indesign, How to Convert a Variable Font (Inter) to Outline!? I can't merge it completely, this type of font, when convert its creates several shapes and irregularities in the corners, when converted to outline. Which I can only solve in Adobe Illustrator using Pathfinder, but when we got many pages with text, this is not pratical!!!  - Is there any solution to do it!? Could Adobe Indesign review the Pathfinder, as it exists in Adobe Illustrator!? So I don't need to take all my text to Illustrator, use the Pathfinder there, and only Then, bring that convert Text to Indesign Again!!!? Thank You for Your Help. 

I'm working on a lease that has 24 variations, or 24 variations.  For simplicity sake let's just say that sections 1-12 are all the same, but #13 is unique to each version, 14-18 are all the same but #19 is also unique to the version.  If the text is just basic flowing from column to column page to page etc. is there a way to abstract chunks of that text that will flow into a single/mutliple linked text boxes?As you can imagine propegating very simple changes is very time consuming and mind numming work that just screams there is a better way.Bonus points if this can also seamlessly address numbering etc.I'm also open to using InCopy if that provides an elegant solution.

 I have a series of images on a page, with text above them numbered "Frame: 1, Frame: 2, etc" which are generated automatically by styling a space within the text box, using a Paragraph style, via Bullets and Numbering. So that, I can remove images along with it's corresponding text, grouped, to automatically update the numbering as edits occur, etc. Which works as expecged, for the most part (at times you have to play with the layering, and cutting and pasting, in order the get the numbering to reorder properly). I'm only stuck on how to have "Frame:" bold, while keeping the number to the right of it itself, " 1", unbold? Nesting styles and GREP style don't help, as for as I've been able to determine. Below a screenshots of the Bullets and Numbering and Nested Styles, I played with so far.        

Hi, Newbiw here,  I am creating my own numbered list but its going over a number of pages, however, when i go to page 2 etc it starts counting from the beginning agin, how do i fix this?  You will see this on page 5 -6

Adobe Indesign is too slow takes too long to release objects...its on my last nerve InDesign - it's getting on my last nerve. Everything was fine until the 24-25 update. The worst of it is when I select an object...a text box or image box...the item will remain selected for a few more seconds...sometimes over 10 seconds. It thinks every time I do any action. I have been working with Indesign from the first edition to today, but nothing like this before. Indesign and MAC are together forming a major pain for me. I am used to moving fast, but this thing is always thinking. I even had to keep turning off active Preflight to minimize stalling. Its up to or over 5 seconds when jumping from page to page. It seems like the longer I work the worst it gets. I have tried all the remedies that exist online and nothing. I wish I can bring my Mac Pro desktop to Adobe MAX 2025 so I can demonstrate this to Indesign engineers.

Hi, I have to use Microsoft Remote Desktop for work and when I open InDesign (2024), the scrolling sensitivity using my touchpad is way too high. I see suggestions saying to go to "Page Display" under either File or View, but I do not have that option in either. I could not find it in Preferences either.  My computer is a 2024 Macbook Air, and I believe I remote into a Windows Server 2019 Standard. Because I am so used to using my Mac, this small detail makes designing for my new job quite unpleasant. Does anyone know how to fix this?   On a similar note, I can no longer pinch the trackpad to zoom in or out, is this fixable, or is it only available on Mac?     <Title renamed by MOD>

What is the latest version of InDesign that Peter Kahrel's kerning script will work with?

Double-click the two rows, and you'll see it has two values.It's not perfectly centered? Another issue: How to remove “tabs” from the table?Sometimes it's a visible “>>”.Sometimes it's invisible, possibly embedded within a paragraph style.The code below clears right indentation; I want to remove "tabs" simultaneously. //0 Go left indent to 0 (function () { var oColumns = app.selection[0].columns, i = 0, rCount = app.selection[0].rows.length, cCount = app.selection[0].columns.length, name, lastCell; for (; i < oColumns.length; i++) { name = app.selection[0].cells[i].name.split(':'); lastCell = rCount > 1 ? oColumns[i].cells.item(name[0] + ':' + (Number(name[1]) + rCount - 1)) : oColumns[i].cells[-1]; alignMe(oColumns[i].cells.itemByRange(app.selection[0].cells[i], lastCell)); function alignMe(lCells) { lCells.paragraphs.everyItem().justification = Justification.LEFT_ALIGN;

I need to export a document in PDF format in several sizes. While using a 3rd-party utility that simply rescales the entire PDF, I've noticed that all bookmarks and the table of contents were gone after the conversion. First question here: why is it so? Is there any way around it? Trying to find a more elaborate solution, I created an Alternate Layout in InDesign.With Linked Stories, both layouts have a connected ToC. Upon exporting the new layout, though, while the bookmarks stay, they are dead (inactive, clicking on them doesn't bring anything).  I may be missing something very simple but I am not sure. Is there anything I can do to perform this action reliably?The original format is larger than the second one, if this can be of any help.

Hello!I am working on some Instagram posts and trying to add a pre-made image, but although my document is set up as 1080x1350 and the image is 3508x4961, the image still looks tiny. Is there a way to change my document's PPI? or does anyone know what the problem is? Pleeeaaase I do not want to re-draw my illustration.

Amazing, endless questions: Why don't the rows come up afterward? 

I've always found it odd that you can't simply update your current custom workspace, surely this would be a simple feature to implement by adding a new item at the bottom of the workspace dropdown menu? 

Bonjour, je dois insérer une citation en arabe dans un paragraphe en français sur Indesign. Lorsque je regarde le tuto d'Adobe ça à l'air très simple sauf que mes panneaux Paragraphes et Caractères ne présentent pas les mêmes options que les leurs : je n'ai pas le sens de lecture, les ligatures, les kashidas et non plus la direction des caractères. Je ne les trouve nulle part. Savez-vous comment je dois faire pour que ces options apparaissent et puisse être utilisées? Sachant qu'il ne s'agit que d'extrait et pas d'un document entier rédigé en arabe. (j'ai la dernière version d'Indesign). Merci d'avance

Ignore the overflow for now.I divided all textFram of the Story into 3 categories:A: The first text box.B: The middle text box.C: The last text box.How can I determine which category (A, B, or C) the currently selected text box belongs to? 

I'm working on some banners for a sports team and we'd like to have the player's name fill the available space, ideally by modifying the Horizontal Scale. Is there a way to do this with the data merge tool built in. What I've done currently is scale it down for the longest name but this causes some names to be really squished.

I am trying to create a dynamic pdf available to all users of adobe acrobat or reader where I have 23 pages in one document and now I want to have buttons or checkboxes that if clicked I want to view certain pages of the document and hide the rest to be printed and it allows multiple selections as well.

how can I extend this path I created with the pen tool?    

Bonjour,Je voulais savoir comment faire un agenda de plus de 192 pages sur indesign ? J'ai entendu parler de "calendrier wizard". Comment fait on concrètement ?Merci beaucoup.

Bjr, Depuis la mise a jour d'Indesign, je n'arrive plus à importer un PDF avec les traits de coupe et debord, dans un bloc image. Par défaut, il importe le fichier recadré (aux traits de coupe). Mon fichier est en mode impression. Je ne connais pas le logiciel qui a généré les PDF. Je vous joins un exemple.Je suis sous MAC Sequoiai 15.4.1 et Indesign 2025.Merci bcp pour votre aide, j'ai un catalogue à monter pour l'imprimeur ...

Is there a way to set FN settings across multiple files or all the files in a book? There certain things that synching styles will not cover.ThanksSF

Sometimes I open the dialog box, but then realize it was a mistake, so I cancel it.At this point, I get an empty value, which causes an exception.How can I cancel the dialog box and make it seem like nothing happened? function makeDialog() { var mm = 2.835; var theDialog = app.dialogs.add({ name: "CN and CSP settings", canCancel: true, minHeight: 600, minWidth: 400, }); with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "CN:" }); staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "SP:" }); } with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { getCn = integerEditboxes.add({ editValue: 4 }); app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS; getCsp = measurementEditboxes.add({ editValue: (6 * mm), editUnits: MeasurementUnits.millimeters }); } if (theDialog.show() == true) { getCn = getCn.editContents; getCsp = getCsp.editValue / mm; //run a function that uses the global results

There are two situations here.alert does not automatically center?alert(“This is the first line\nAfter a line break, it cannot be centered and can only be spaced with spaces?”) showDialog() cannot wrap lines? Only one line can be displayed.showDialog(“Note: Please select an object. How to break lines here”, 1000);//auto close dialog showDialog(“Note: Please select an object. How to break lines here”, 1000); function showDialog(message, duration) { var win = new Window(“palette”, t, undefined, { closeButton: false }); win.add(“statictext”, undefined, message); // Change font size It doesn't seem to work. win.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont(“Heiti”, ScriptUI.FontStyle.BOLD, 20); win.layout.layout(true); // Force layout before showing win.show(); win.update(); // Force redraw before sleep $.sleep(duration); // Wait for the specified duration win.close(); // Then close the window }