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Hi everyone.I'm trying to export a page range and Indesign keeps saying it "cannot find the specified page numbers".Using this blog, I labelled my pages accordingly, but it continues to not recognize the range: https://indesignsecrets.com/solving-printing-exporting-confusion.php I've even tried removing the section prefix and just use straight numbers. No luck. I've even tried using the + for absolute pages. No luck. It can't recognize anything!Am I missing something?Thanks,B.

When I try to do this in the text wrap window, the phrase on the right is also affected by the rectangle I applied and I can't fit it in that space. 

Im Kommentarbedienfeld von InDesign 20.5 auf einem Macbook Pro mit M1-Chip wird die Schrift falsch angezeigt. Auch, wenn keine Kommentare imprortiert wurden. Siehe Screenshot hier.   Kommentare aus einem PDF sind so natürlich überhaupt nicht zu gebrauchen.  EIn ähnliches bzw. das gleiche Problem habe ich in Illustrator.  Hat vielleicht noch jemand das gleiche Problem und eine Lösung dafür?

I'm on InDesign 20.5 mac Sequoia 15.5. I'm having difficult time with the QR Code generator. When I create this, I'm entering a URL that points to a PDF file. However, when I scan this code, it points to a different PDF file. I can't make heads or tails of this. Below is the link I'm putting into the QR Code generator: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.pilates.com/Instructions/19027%20Bravo%20Reformer_CE_CompleteManual%20web%204-29-25%20Eng.pdf If you click on this, it loads a PDF. In the right side of the footer there is a date 2025-07. If you scan the code below, it's supposed to load the same file with the same date. However, scanning this loads a different PDF with the date 2025-05. The only thing I can think of is when scanning, it's getting redirected to this other file. Any thoughts on this?   

Buenas tardes! Necesito un paso a paso para saber si es posible diseñar un catalogo de 1000 productos, que pueda ser modular y facil de cargar el contenido a través de un archivo excel. Va a tener entre 6 y 9 columnas con nfo de cada producto y a su vez, van a ser casi 1000 productos. Por lo tanto, necesito saber si es posible desarrollar este catalogo de un modo SEGURO y SIMPLE. Seran por lo menos 100 paginas y hasta ahora, todo lo que probemoos es muy engorroso. Necesito que sea modular, es decir, que entren 9 productos por pagina y a su vez, que cada uno tenga las columnas con la info del detallle, color, medida, precio, etc. Necesito saber tamnbien de que manera poder actualizar el contenido de la columna Precio, ya que va a ser una variable que van a actualizar mes a mes. Dejo una captura a modo de ejemplo de un diseño solo a modo de referencia de lo que estoy necesitando hacer y cargar a traves de un excel.Muchas gracias!

On some documents, when I edit something, InDesign adds a blue vertical line to the left of the text frame. What is this, and how do I turn it off?  It does not seem to be associated with the Preferences > Composition settings. I have tried comparing a document that does not do this with one that does, but so far, I haven't seen any differences between the two. Here's what I'm talking about - the Screen Mode is Normal:It's not a show-stopper; just really annoying. 🙂 

I have a new Lenovo Carbon X1, 11th generation, with an OLED screen. To keep power consumption down, it's important for screens shown on such screens to mnimize white pixels. It's also true that on OLED displays, their black pixels are "blackest black" in the sense that they are blacker than on "standard" LED screens. So, I'd like to be able to switch to a true dark mode at least when running on battery, as I'm doing right now, or when a passenger in a car, as I am right now. It also would help to avoid annoying the driver with light from the screen. A true black mode would allow me to view my black-text-on-white-background pages as white text on black. Is there already a way to do this that I don't know about? If not, is it a reqsonable thing to post as a feature request?

Does anyone have a good file-sharing system for InDesign?Currently using Dropbox and working from home. I have a Dropbox folder which I share with colleagues. I work solely from this, so all content I use is structured within it. When they open my files, my colleagues in the office have broken links because Dropbox uses absolute paths and so the user name part of the path is different for each of us, resulting in the missing links. We don't want to package everything as not all work is complete and it is disruptive having to drop what you are doing to do this - we've even experienced issues with packages and missing links anyway. InDesign doesn't deal in relative paths. We are using MacBooks and Sequoia, apparently we can't move the folder outside of the User folder, although I'm checking this again with Dropbox. It used to work well in Adobe Cloud but they discontinued the CC synced files ability. We have a server and I have a VPN and access but this is slow with images and

Hi, I have an unwanted page around each of my pages and I can't seem to select or remove them at all. I have tried going into the master sheet as well but am still unable to remove? Please help! 🙂

Is there a keyboard shortcut to jump to the next or previous page and keep it at the same magnification and position?Thanks!

The process to make a color gradient is so ridiculous in inDesign that it is not even funny. I don't think I am stupid, but nothing seems to be intuitive and it does not work.

Hallo zusammen,nutze ein MacBook Air mit OS Sequoia 15.1 und habe seit heute (!) bei InDesign 20.5 das Problem, dass fast sämtliche Kombinations-Befehle mit Maus und Tastatur (also z.B. mit gedrückter Wahl- und Maustaste ein Element duplizieren, oder mit space- und Befehltaste die Lupe aktivieren) nicht mehr funktionieren.Gestern ging es noch, ich hatte nichts verändert. Auch ein Id-Update heute auf 20.5 brachte nichts.Danke für einen Tipp!

Hi,I'm learning basic scripting and today I need to apply an export tag to a paragraph style for PDF export (see screenshot) across dozens of documents. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use a script to automatize this time intensive process.Does anybody have any tips on how to do that?

Like some other posts I have seen, my clients can't download the magazine I prepare each month. There is no problem with the viewing - just not the downloading! I have, of course, clicked the allow downloads check box! I have also tried packaging the magazine document to see if that throws up any issues. The only one is that some of the photos are RGB and others CMYK is this a possible reason? There doesn't appear to be any problem with the file name (which I have seen as a problem for some others with this type of issue). Help please! https://indd.adobe.com/view/6d4d4d73-4f35-45a9-8809-abaf1c906fac 

Bonjour,quand je fais une variante de mise en page avec mise à l'échelle sur Indesign, les blocs de typo changent de taille. Mais lorsque je veux modifier la taille par la suite, ou voir la taille réelle de la typo, je n'y arrive pas. Y a t'il un moyen d'annuler l'agrandissement ou de savoir la taille réelle ?

I cannot figure out why when exporting PDFs in InDesign SOME (not all) of the images on the docuent do not show up when previewing the file in any program.... The image is there when the file is openend in acrobat... most of the time, occasionaly it will not show up OR print  for a client I have sent to but is just fine on my end.... I have searched settings and posts and have found nothing helpful at all. See the screen shot sample below of the same file open in acrobat that is NOT showing the image when previewing the image in its folder... this happens on other devices not just my desktop computer... Please help... this is SOOOOO frustrating.

Hi there![Windows 11, InDesign 20.5 x64:]InDesign seems to »detect« the RTX 5070 Twin Edge 12GB correctly, but deems it incompatible ...Why is that? Photoshop, Illustrator, Dimension have no problem of that sort ...

Running a script to find and replace based on a Character Style, and it works fine if the Style isn't in a folder.However... in a folder... not so much! What I have now:*appliedCharacterStyle:"dropShadowBoldItalic" But if I put that Charactrer Style in the folder "Text Styles", it doesn't work, and I haven't figured out how to get it to work. I tried:"Text Styles:dropShadowBoldItalic",which I saw somewhere, but didn't work. Couldnt' find any other reference for doing something like this, so hoping there's a standard syntax that works.Thanks!Bonus question: is there an offical Adobe GREP reference? *Ok, I'm not really using bold italic with a drop shadow

When I click on Packages on inDesign 20.2 it is nearly full screen width. How do I get it back to normal size? I have tried everything.Thanks. Barry

I am unable to type any characters in InDesign after the update.      <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi,I'm trying to add new XMP metadata on active document in InDesign CC2018 and it doesn't work.If I run my code on a closed indesign file, it works.What's wrong ? We could update metadata on active document, couldn't we  ?Here is my code :// load XMP Libraryfunction loadXMPLibrary(){    if ( ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript){        try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');}        catch (e){alert('Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library!'); return false;}    }    return true;}var myFile= app.activeDocument.fullName;// check library and fileif(loadXMPLibrary() && myFile != null){   xmpFile = new XMPFile(myFile.fsName, XMPConst.FILE_INDESIGN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);     var myXmp = xmpFile.getXMP();}if(myXmp){    var destNamespace = "myNamespace";    // define new name

I asked about this a while back and someone said it could be done by scripting, but I could not write a script if my life depended on it, and while i do have a friend who has done this, his script is hanging and also costs money, which I am short on now:The challenge:Replacing Adobe's boring FN separator ( a line) with a graphic object or a formatted text like "These are my footnotes". Anyone want to take a shot at it?All I can contribute is that I see the ones who are selling the solution say to create a textbox and give it a name in the layer panel (I guess to tell the script what to use for the custom divider).I asked ChatGPT, and its solution doesn't work.Any ideas?Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo  

There is no problem copying the manually created textFrames, but there is a problem with the newly created one. I am a novice and don’t know what is going on. Please help meError code: targetCharacters[j].appliedFont = sourceCharacters[j + sourceLines[0].length + 1].appliedFont;                 targetCharacters[j].pointSize = sourceCharacters[j + sourceLines[0].length + 1].pointSize; source code：var doc = app.activeDocument;var sourceTextFrameName = "AAA";for (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {var sourceTextFrame = doc.textFrames[i];if (sourceTextFrame.name === sourceTextFrameName) {var sourceLines = sourceTextFrame.contents.split('\r'); if (sourceLines.length >= 2) {var secondLine = sourceLines[1]; var frameWidth = sourceTextFrame.geometricBounds[3] - sourceTextFrame.geometricBounds[1]; // 左右边界相减var newTextFrame = doc.textFrames.add({geometricBounds: [0, 0, 20, frameWidth], contents: "" });newTe

I have a landscape Table in InDesign 2025. I converted the column head to "Convert to Header" in InDesign then rotate the table to Landscape in InDesign, in PAC checker 2024 it shows the error "Table header cell has no associated sub cell". Landscape table output PDF view. In the below landscape i can't able to fix the associated sub cell.In the next page i have the same table in portrait format I fixed that error "Table header cell has no associated sub cell" I added associated Cell ID Please refer the below screen shot.PDF Portrait Table view: In this Table I don't have any issueLet us know how to fix this error in Landscape table I attached PDF for reference. ThanksGanesh.R    

Since updating to 18.5 a couple days ago, I can no longer easily replace text in the documents from Share for Review comments. My coworkers place notes to replace text, and when I highlight and press copy, or right click to copy, nothing happens!! Now I have to manually type in their text, or go to my email notifications to copy the text. What gives!