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Uncertain if this a question or feature request.   Basically I have this problem with alt+scroll: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-can-i-stop-the-alt-key-from-activating-the-application-bar-windows-11/td-p/14426715 https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/zoom-using-alt-scroll-wheel/m-p/10495434   Whenever I use the alt key with scroll to zoom, the top menu becomes underlined. That's a built in windows fetaure from the days before mice. The difficulty is, if I then press V for Selection, it instead opens the View menu. I have to be careful to hit escape after zooming this way, which is inconvenient.   However. I notice this does not happen in Illustrator or Photoshop. In those the menu underlining occurs only whilst the alt+scroll keys are down, it ends immediately on key-up. If I tap the alt key on its own the underlining persists, which is fine and I think the expected behaviour. Although in some software (Acrobat) alt doesn't underlin

Hello, I’m working with an InDesign file that contains duotone images—one 100% black channel and one additional Pantone spot color (Pantone Black Process). In previous versions of InDesign, exporting to PDF for print preserved only the Black and Pantone plates, without generating any CMY separations. Since updating to the latest version, the exported PDF now includes CMY plates as well, which shouldn’t happen...! Could you help me understand what’s causing this and how to ensure only the Black and Pantone channels are used in the PDF output? Thank you,F. 

Use a script to determine which page the image is located on based on the majority of the page. For example, if most of the image is on the right page, even if b[1] crosses the center line, I still want to assign the image to the right page.Conversely, if most of the image is on the left page, even if b[3] is on the right page, the image should be assigned to the left page.Thank you very much.

It seems that exceeding the geometricBounds has no effect.I tested this:var sel = app.documents[0].selection; var pb = sel[j].parentPage.bounds; sel[j].geometricBounds = [-10, -10, pb[2], pb[3]]and found it to be very wrong.

Prompt: getCn ,GetCsp is undefinedThe dialog box has been bothering me.Can this mm be entered like this? How can I make the value in this dialog box be mm? Thank you very much.var getCn, getCsp; makeDialog(); alert("columns:" + getCn) alert("spacing:" + getCsp) function makeDialog() { var theDialog = app.dialogs.add({ name: "Column number and spacing settings", canCancel: true, minHeight: 600, minWidth: 400, }); with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "number of columns:" }); staticTexts.add({ staticLabel: "spacing:" }); } with (theDialog.dialogColumns.add()) { var getCn = textEditboxes.add({ editContents: "4" }); var getCsp = textEditboxes.add({ editContents: "6mm" }); } if (theDialog.show() == true) { //dialog results preset and page range getCn = getCn.editContents.split(','); getCsp = getCsp.editContents.split(','); theDialog.destroy(); } } 

Hi basically the title, Ived tried shift + command (I cant find the Preferences > General and Uncheck Enable Legacy Free Transform feature in the settings either) but to no avail 😞 Any would be appreciated!! (this is for macos btw)

Anyone seen these yellow lines before? Can't figure out what they are, and how to toggle them on/off. (Id 19.4)

Hi there! I'm a complete newb when it comes to InDesign, so I'm sorry if this comes across as a stupid question I wrote and formatted a document in Word and then sent it to InDesign, where I wanted to make the pages look better and improve upon the formatting.The problem I have is with the headers I've created in Word (they are written in an 18px uppercase Montserrat), which I want to define as a specific paragraph style so I can further edit them in bulk. However, these headers have the same paragraph style as the body text but simply override it. Is there any way I could select ALL the 18px Montserrat Bold text inside the document, in order to define a new paragraph style, so I could bulk edit this header font, given that the body text is written in a 12px Montserrat? Worst case scenario, I'll proceed to doing it by hand - but it seems that this nugget should be hidden somewhere in the software Thank you very much!

Hi community, I am trying to write a script that includes anchoring an object to a pre-existing Note in Indesign.I can get the anchoring to work, but I cannot figure out how to find the actual position of the Note within the parent textframe/Story, to use the Note as the anchor insertion point. I have tried checking various properties of the Note, but note.insertionPoints[x] appears to return insertionPoints within the Note text, ditto note.characters. Note.storyOffset appears to return the beginning of the parent story. Note.parent returns a story object, nothing positional.  If it's not possible to anchor to the note itself that's ok,  getting the neighboring text would be good enough, but I'm not sure how to get there? Thanks in advance for your advice!    

I'm trying (and failing) to diagnose what is causing the last line of this paragraph to be further away from the previous lines.I tried to change paragraph styles, even going back to [Basic Paragraph Style], but they all seem to behave the same way. Any idea of what may be happening here?Thank you!

Hello, I was having no problems using this script.  Unfortunately when i reached page 133, i ran the footnote breakline script so i can move a footnote and make it inline.An error box appeared and all the text disappeared!I pressed undo but that didn't solve the issue.I tried force recompose, again that didn't solve the issue. Any solutions?

A client sent us a pdf of something that they wanted us to print for them. They later sent us a new copy with some changes that had been made. So we completely deleted the old files and saved the new ones to the same folder. The new pdf opens the way it should in Acrobat, Photoshop, internet browsers, and the preview in File Explorer. But when I import it to InDesign, it pulls up the old version of the file every time, even though they have been deleted and didn't have the same file name anyway. So I deleted the contents of InDesign's cache folder and used the shift+ctrl+alt shortcut on startup to delete the preference file. I also tried it on a different computer. I also saved the files from the email from the client to a different location and imported that copy. All to no avail. Is this a problem with InDesign or could it be something in the way he made the changes to the pdf? Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I searched for some information. Is this it?WhenScalingOptions.ADJUST_SCALING_PERCENTAGFor example, if I select an object like this, how should I write it?var sel = app.documents[0].selection; After moving and zooming the image multiple times, the frame becomes misaligned. I want to clear it. 

I used:var sel = app.documents[0].selection; sel[j].visibleBounds = [sb[0], lcb, sb[2], rcb];to control two charts.I noticed that sometimes 00001 is placed at the front, and its height is used as the standard for changes. But sometimes 00002 is placed at the front, and its height is used as the reference.These are not based on which one was originally at the front, but seem to be based on the order of the filenames 00001 and 00002. Is this random? It doesn't seem so.How to ensure that the initial top-ranked item remains the standard reference and continues to rank first. That is, make it sb[0]. 

Two versions of InDesign, how do I switch to the default application for Indd files? Sometimes when the higher version is unstable, I would like to keep the file opened by default with the lower version.Prevent being opened by the higher version and trying to regret it too late. I tried using the default app with win11 and realized it was locked and could not be changed.Then I realized that the later installed version was the default app. So it didn't work, I re-installed it all over again in order.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Is there a way too have Indesign pull images from subfolders when using data merge?I have 6,000+ images in multiple folders, to help keep them organized. eg. H:\Images\JKL\K02501.psdMy InDesign file is on my local computer.

Hi,I'm building a UXP plugin for Adobe InDesign. I want to get the full file path of the currently open document. I tried this:const doc = app.activeDocument;const filePath = await doc.fullName;  // fullName returns a Promise But I get this error:Error: Could not find an entry of 'file:///path'at l._getEntryImpl (uxp://uxp-internal/webfs_scripts.js:2)Even when the document is saved, it still fails. How can I get the file path of the active document in InDesign using UXP?Is there any working methodThanks!

For a book cover, I have created the images in Photoshop but assembled the final thing in InDesign to work with the text more easily. A small part of a scifi character overlaps the book title to add depth, so I need to keep the background graphics and foreground graphics separate so that the title layer can be between them. I didn't think that would be a problem. But the semi-transparent fur of the character, which has highlights to indicate rim light from glowing objects in the background, ends up with dark edges in InDesign (and the resulting PDF), and I can't figure out why or what to do about it. Originally I was saving a TIFF file from Photoshop, but after I noticed this problem, I placed the Photoshop file (with only the needed layers for this character) directly in InDesign. I even tried merging all the layers first, in case there was something about the darker base layer that was coming through the rim light layer due to the reduced transparency in that area of the image.

Hello,I have pdf files for which the source Indesign files were lost. I found this interesting tutorial on how to convert pdf files to indesign directly from the program. https://www.adobe.com/learn/indesign/web/convert-pdf-to-indesign-document?learnIn=1 Unfortunately in my fully updated Indesign it does not work, even with the file provided as an exercise. Do you have any ideas what needs to be done for this to work?  

I have reset the preferences, force quit the program, exported an idml file and resaved it as an indd file. I have deleted the app and all of my data and then reinstalled the app and opened my saved idml file etc. I can not figure out what other reason it could be that the file wont save.  The computer that will open the file and let me make changes to it but not let me save the changes has the save and save as greyed out.  The computer that will not let me open the file or the app is the one I completely uninstalled the app from. If you have any other ideas of how to fix this problem I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

I'm trying to do a data merge, I've selected my Data Source (a .csv file), but not all of the data fields (column headers) are showing up in the data merge box. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

When I set up a Paragraph style and apply it to Placed text, most of the time the Paragraph style will honor any embedded style anomalies (such as a single word in a paragraph that is italic rather than regular text). But sometimes a Paragraph style will turn all text within a paragraph to a single style (regular). I know that if I create an "italic" Character style and apply that to every word in a book that arrives in italic, a Paragraph style will honor those. But is there any way to choose "No style" when setting up a Paragraph style so the Placed text remains stylistically intact when it arrives? I don't see that option - only regular, italic, etc, which will apply to the whole paragraph. I can't explain why the italics within paragraphs sometimes survive my Paragraph styles and sometimes don't - I doubt some of my clients are marking their Word docs in any special way and others aren't - I doubt any of them are. Please let there be a benevolent Adobe-Deity out ther

Hello there 😊   I am having some troubles compressing PDF files: I have  to export file from InDesign as high-res, else it cuts some graphic so it will not show correct. See attached. After that files is about 65 MB, but client wants it to be below 10 MB. I have tried in Acrobat, to compress file. Also online on adobe.com, and pdfcompressor   Any suggestions how to do this? Best from Jeppe  

Hi Adobe Community,I'm trying to custom XMP metadata into an InDesign file using uxp scripting  Here is the code I'm using  let { XMPMeta, XMPConst } = require("uxp").xmp;let meta = new XMPMeta();meta.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Name", "vkumarg");let prop = meta.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Name");console.log(prop.namespace); // xmp namespaceconsole.log(prop.options);console.log(prop.path); // NameThis sets the property  xmp:Name  vkumarg  /xmp:Name under the standard XMP namespace (http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/).However, after saving and reopening the file in Adobe InDesign, and going to:File → File Info → Advanced → Raw Data"The xmp:Name tag and value are not shown."Is this the correct way to write custom XMP metadata using UXP in InDesign?Why is the value not being shown in the rawInput section?

When trying to print to PDF from Excel I get the below message in my Notepad instead for some reason. When exporting to PDF I have no issue though. Has anyone experineced this or have any suggestions on how to sove it? %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%Aptos-Narrow not found, using Courier.%%[ Warning: unable to embed font /Courier.Out of memory. ]%%%%[ Warning: Courier cannot be embedded because of font file error. ]%%%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: show ]%%Stack:-file-%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%