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This is driving me mad. I'm unable to drag my InDesign window around my screen or across my dual monitor. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I noticed that the little bar that always lives at the top of the window with the close, maximize, and minimize buttons is GONE. I most likely accidentally altered a setting but now I have no idea how to fix it! It does not have to do with being in Full Screen Mode or my Application Frame not being checked. I have checked both of these things. No other windows or documents are open within InDesign and I have already reset my Workspace multiple times.

After moving horizontally into the layout, if sb[2] exceeds the bottom edge, overflow is displayed.This is instead of expanding, as the text may be very long.sel[j].visibleBounds = [sb[0], lcb, sb[2], rcb]; 

I asked ChatGPT about this and it said it cannot be done. Which surprised me because it seems such a basic function;I have split up my book into individual chapter files. Makes sense keeps file small and fast running l.Now I want to insert a dynamic Cross reference from one chapter to another: 'Like for more info see "chapter 5, pg 245" ' ( inside the quotes is the CR to another chapter/file in the same book container. Didn't Hellen Keller say "Don't Tell me in can't be done!"But how? Thanks SF

Can anyone tell me why the colors in my document change when I hover over them? Actually, to be more specific, they become lighter and more muted when I hover off of them. Never seen this before.

In Illustrator when you have an object selected, you can go to the flyout option menu and select an action named "locate object." This then brings you to where that object is located in layers. It's brilliant and I am looking for it's equivalent in InDesign. Otherwise, in documents with many objects and layers, I have to scroll a lot while looking for a colored square, sometimes opening many sublayers in the process to locate my desired layer/object.A basic question and I say thank you!

When running a script in script editor, I keep getting the following error: Syntax error: A identifier cannot go after go after this identifier.i'm attempting to run the following script in InDesign: 

Okay, so what happens is my rags are looking funky because my lines are breaking WAY before they last word reached the right edge of the bounding box. This has happened more than once. So I have a bunch of unfilled space at the end of a line when there is clearly space for more words to fill that line. I haven't made any changes to my alignment or spacing. How do I fix this, it looks terrible there are large gaps of space where the sentence should be, but instead it broke to the next line. It's the first sentence of the second paragraph, the word "see" got bumped to the second line but clearly there is space to allow "see" to fill up the space in the end of the first line, after the word "you". WHY is this happening, It looks terrible. I've attached a screed shot.

He armado un documento en inDesing en tres archivos, ahora quiero fucionarlos para obtener un sólo archivo, se que se puede pero no encuentro la manera.

Hello!What graphics card do Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop programs need?For perfect operation, is nVidia Geforce RTX 4050 6 GB or nVidia Geforce RTX 4060 8 GB recommended or other?Thanks

What are these locked files all about?  

I've tried to find a specific answer here in the forum for this situation but keep coming up with variations that don't quite match my situation, so, my apologies if this post is redundant to something I haven't found yet. I am designing a text book. It has a system of three topic levels, for which I've created para styles of Lev 1, Lev 2, and Lev 3. I have them all set up to continue from previous number. I manually restart with each new chapter, but after that, it should flow in order. However, I'm in Chapter 3 and all of a sudden, Lev 2 is skipping from "A" to "D." I can't figure out what might be causing it. I thought maybe I had too much RAM tied up (even though I have 32GB), so I restarted the computer. It didn't change anything. I've examined the paragraph style several times, and it is set up correctly (plus it worked in the first two chapters). I've done a search for the Lev 2 paragraph style in case I'd accidentally applied it to a random return, etc., and the search goe

I was applying some A-Master for a book i?m making, but turns out that when I apply it, it appears this object that I cannot take off completely, and it's strange, since on the design of the A-Master there is no such thing. And besides, that A-Master applies to the other page without me even considering it, it`s kinda strange. Don't know if somebody over here have had an issue like this.

Background is our project is using InDesign server to trigger PDF generation function through SOAP call at backend. We are using InDesign server 2023 (18.xx) and use InDesign 2023 desktop tool to edit/develop INDT file.  As time goes by, InDesign 2023 can't download anymore from CC desktop app, Adobe only allows to install one previous version. It’s 2025 now(20.xx), only 2024(19.xx) is available. Our company starts to use Adobe Enterprise license, we have to re-install InDesign desktop tool with latest version, then 2023 will disapper in our laptop. Install process is automated, we can't control to keep 2023. Upgrade InDesign server is potential option, but will bring a lot of dev and test effort, related legacy system of this project will also be reitred in 2-3 years. So am worndering if it's possible to get 2023 install package or any other suggections for current situation.  

Hi. I know of a preference or pulg-in so that when you're in an InDesign file, the InDesign icon appears next to the file name and when you click on it it takes you to the parent folder in Finder. Don't know what this is called so have had no luck with searches. Any help please?

Hello, How can I adjust the text content so that the right sdie of the text box page doesn't show so many blank spaces.I tried to move the word up to the space however it won't stick. I never had this problem before and wonder how it happened. Oz

Hi all, I've done programming for some time.  PHP, VB, VBA etc.  SOME JS but not extensive.   I decided I wanted to try to do some InDesign Scripts for things I do repeatedly.  I went to the getting started guide at https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/1688653963277/guides/getting-started/ .  Just to try it, I copied the code for the "Hello World" and saved it in my Scripts folder.  TaDA it showed up.  BUT when I attempt to run it I get this error:  I've gone down all kinds of rabbit holes doing research but can't figurre out what is happening wrong.  It is the var myDocument = app.documents.add(); line that is causing the issue.  I attempted to try to figure it out BUT the only thing I've found is the UXP Plugin that Adobe has.   Did that replace scripts?  All of the links from the scripting page get 404 errors.    Thanks for your help.  

Hi all, Is there a way to get small caps and mediaeval numbers in an epub3. I have tried a lot of options but none seem to work. Best sofar was to reuce font size for small caps, but it still doen not look acceptable.

Hello everybody,I have recently started working on creating accessible PDF documents. For this I use InDesign and Acrobat Reader on my Mac. For verification, I use Acrobat Reader and callas pdfGoHTML.I understand that a table is accessible if there is a header row tagged "TH" and if the cells are tagged "TD". My question is about a table that was originally supposed to be displayed with colored boxes only, to indicate whether something applies or not. Since I was not supposed to replace the boxes with text, I looked for symbols for both fields and added a legend to them. This should make the table recognizable as such.However, I'm not sure if this is actually a solution in terms of accessibility. After all, presumably only the name of the symbol would be read out to a screen reader, which could potentially lead to confusion. Or am I wrong about that?My second approach was to try to add alternative text to the icons. However, alternate text can only ever be attached to complete frames,

I have text frames with the exact same settings—(even double checked by copying the text frame onto the page with the error, and the same issue persists)—extra space is being added after the intentional top inset. If I remove the top inset in the text frame options, the text remains in the same place (the second image "Nighttime...). The "Nighttime..." line should be touching the inner blue line. Strangely, one whole section of pages has this issue, another section of pages does not have the issue. Whatever the fix is—I will need to apply to many text frames across many pages... Thanks in advance for the help! 

I have earlier been able to create indexes of keywords starting with a number, such as "1734 års lag". Now it doesn't work either in CC2025, CC2024 or CC2022. Indesign crasches as I hit ok in the add index post dialog.I also tried to just select "års lag", an then add the "1734" manually in the dialog, but with the same result.I have restarted programs and computer. Working in Sonoma 14.5 on a macbook pro, 2021.What is the problem?  

Every morning I start with a cup of coffee and an Adobe-problem to solve! Today the problem is that my Page Thumbnails turned blank. Out of no where. It has something to do with Adobe fonts? There seem to be a background task running in the background about fonts.Please Adobe dev's. Fix your flipping problems. This is getting super annoying.Working without page thumbnails is very tricky, and takes a lot more more and room for error. Please let me know how to fix the problem. 

Hi friends!After having given up my hope in producing my current major project (700 pg scholarly edition of  ancient texts with comments and notes) in MS Word, which simply cannot cut it, I am moving everything to ID. No easy task. But I think it will pay off in the long run.Presently I am looking for an add on helping me to create a good 4 level (sometimes) index. In Word I had an add on that shows the entry hirarachy in a tree form (i.e. Places; Asia; India; Calcutta etc) and let's me add branches directly from that tree view and then mark entries based on that hirarachy.Is there anything even remotely similar for ID? ThanksSF

I just updated indesign and the top horizontal toolbar is missing. I tried everything but it doesn't work. I find it very useful to see everything as it was before.   ***** Title renamed by Moderator "VS" *****

I understand that there is a script to easily assign an export to PDF in printers spreads (printerspreads.jsx) however, I cannot find this in my system or where I might download.  I need to be able to export the catalog without adjusting manually.  New to INDD so any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

I’m working on a multi-page InDesign document and every time I place new text, it causes the existing content to reflow or shift. Is there a way to lock the layout or prevent this text reflow when adding new content? I want to maintain my current design structure. Thanks!