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Adobe InDesign 16.3.2 Using the Keyboard to zoom (cmd+Space) has stopped working Using the Keyboard to pan (Space bar) has stopped working       {Renamed by MOD}

Our whole team, 8 people, have this issue over 2 months, latest ID. WIN10 or WIN11 same problem.64GB RAM, AMD 8700G/intel i7 / GPU 4060how can we resolve this?I know there is some posts about this, but no soluttion 😕😕  

Hi all,I have to replace all 15,7 points texts to 15 points. Find/Change dialog does let me enter a decimal value, but somehow I could not get it to find a decimal value. I also tried the script below, but no luck 😞var doc = app.activeDocument;app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;app.findGrepPreferences.pointSize = "15,7pt";app.changeGrepPreferences.pointSize = "15pt"doc.changeGrep();Does anyone know a workaround?Thanks,Rogerio

Hii all,I’m trying to add structured and array metadata in InDesign UXP using the new XMPMeta class, but I’m running into issues.I have also registered the namespace, but setStructField() and appendArrayItem() do not work.const doc = app.activeDocument;const namespaceUri = "http://test.com/ns/";const xmp = new XMPMeta(doc.metadataPreferences.rawXMP || "");xmp.setStructField(namespaceUri,"testKey",namespaceUri,"testName","testValue");Example to append an array itemxmp.appendArrayItem(namespaceUri,"TestArray","ArrayItemValue");doc.metadataPreferences.rawXMP = xmp.serialize();According to the documentation:XMPMetaObj.setStructField(schemaNS, structName, fieldNS, fieldName, fieldValue[, options])XMPMetaObj.appendArrayItem(schemaNS, arrayName, itemValue[, itemOptions, arrayOptions])But the metadata does not appear in Raw Data or the metadata panel.My questions:1. setStructField() or appendArrayItem() not fully supported in InDesign UXP yet?2. Is there a known bug or

Hi there,I have a question, I’ve created an interactive PDF, with buttons that appear and disappear when clicked, etc.Does anyone have an idea how I could get this to work in a browser, for example? We want to send it to an audience of older people. These people generally don’t have Adobe Acrobat installed on their computers.So is there a way to get this working in a browser or in a preview mode? Thanks in advance!

How can I export a PDF out of InDesign that is 95% the scale of the original? The current file is built as a multipage spread document.

As an American who lives in Japan, I used the Japanese version of InDesign and other Adobe software for many years, but now that I subscribe to CC I enjoy the luxury of being able to install either language version as desired. There are a few Japan-specific features not in the English version, most notably vertical writing. But as long as I don't need those features, it's easier to navigate the interface in English.But today a large print job had printer marks showing on the edges of many of the pages, and the printshop people and I discovered that the PDF export functionality in the English version of InDesign does not have the same types of printer marks.In the Japanese version, there are three choices of "Type" in the Marks section of the Marks and Bleeds tab. See this screenshot, where I'm showing the selection dropdown open, and translated the choices below. ("Center mark" is apparently "registration mark" in English.)But if you look at the English version, you'll see that there i

Just noticing for the first time (since updating to  ID 20.5) that numbered paragraphs are not exporting correctly to PDF. Here's an image showing the issue: on the left is the InDesign document, and on the right, the exported PDF. The indent formatting is stripped. I've tried various PDF settings, even exporting as EPS and importing into Acrobat; it remains incorrect.

For the second time in a few months a book I have designed (two diff books) in indesign has failed to open and suddenly given me error codes. Gives me an error window and says Indesign is shutting down. With NO recovery.This is on a brand new Mac. File worked yesterday. Tried to open today and it's corrupt. I am at a HUGE loss. First document was 90 Pg. of a Company profile I ended up recreating... Now i'm on a second book running into the same problem.   <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi everyone.I want to check the system time when running the script every Monday.Thank you.

Emails periodically disappear from my documents. I import text from Word with the emails. they come through fine. The document is saved and everything is ok. Randomly when I reopen the document the emails are gone, there is no text only a tiny underline. This is a newsletter and I import the text from the same person who does the editing. The current issue I'm working on had the emails disappear yesterday and I copied them in from a previous issue. Today they are gone again. Some of the articles I import lose the emails when importing and I manually have to copy them. 

I have a puzzle here... I'm probably overlooking something obvious.... 🙂 Basically, I'm designing some cards for board gaming, and want to lay them out in spreads so that we can review and revise the front and backs of cards on the same spread - and need to have threaded text frames.  (What a great feature it would be if we could thread frames across different parents... one can dream.)  The card fronts and backs are entirely different. I have a LOT of content to flow in, and 10 text frames (6 front, 4 back.)I want to set the document up to trim size.Now, this is an old challenge, but there's no bleed in the gutter... and I need bleed... I'm currently using clunky workarounds that involve going back and forth between facing pages. It works, but... it's super-clunky. Not ideal. And flowing right-to-left doesn't work, so I'm also set up with a left-page start. Plus, it's clunky. I considered oversizing the pages & trimming after, but somehow

I create direct mailers for a client and am required to package up INDD files with links and fonts. Catamaran is one of their brand fonts and I can't package the Adobe version becuse of the Adobe copywrite. As a work-around, I downlaoded the free OpenType TrueType variation of this font and disabled the Adobe version. This has worked fine for about a year, but now my system is constantly telling me that Catamaran font is missing. I verified the Adobe version is off and reinstalled the OpenType version. Still issues. I turned off all of the Adobe fonts... this helpd for a few days, but now I'm having trouble again, even with the Adobe fonts turned off via the CC app. If I manually change the font back in one text box, it will change to the correct version, but if I copy-paste, it changes it back to the version that adobe says is missing. Find/ replace (even with changing to a 3rd font, closing and repoening to change to the correct font) doesn't work. I'm working on a 40 page

For example, I want to zoom in with the lower left corner as the base point so that the left and bottom sides remain fixed.   var sel = app.documents[0].selection;Perhaps I need to set the automatic adjustment option for my sel[j] frame.How do I add it?

Hello,I'm converting a print book to epub and need to review it in Kindle previewer.I'm using Mac OS 13.7.2, InDesign 20.1, Kindle Previewer 3.91.0I'm choosing "reflowable" epub export. I keep getting the error message in Kindle previewer "Kindle conversion has encountered an internal error while enabling Enhanced Typesetting on this book."I'm unable to find where or how to disable "enhanced typesetting".Can anyone help me get this book to convert? I've searched the discussions and web and so far haven't found the answer.Thanks,D.

Is this possible? I have a 60-file InDesign book that I'm trying to convert to EPUB. I've just taken the LinkedIn Learning course on converting ID files to EPUB, but some of the features don't seem to be working as advertised. Specifically:I created a nav TOC style, but was only able to do it with one of my chapter files open. Once I closed it and tried to export my EPUB from the book file hamburger menu, I wasn't able to select that nav TOC style in the EPUB dialog box - I selected Multilevel (TOC Style) yet my custom style isn't there in the dropdown menu, only [Default]. Why is this? I can choose it if I'm only exporting a single file, but of course that's not my goal.The other thing I can't seem to do at the book level is map the paragraph styles to HTML tags, as she encourages us to do in the course. This dialog box is only available within individual files, not at the book level. I can't imagine doing this 60+ times.Any guidance is greatly appreciated! Using ID on Windows 10, v.

Hi, Dear Friends!Is it possible to get the Y position of the **beginning of the footnote area** of a selected or given text frame?ChatGPT says it can't be done. But CANT is a four-letter word that is not in my dictionary 🙂Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

Hi I'm trying to create something like the below, where the text in the box should remain in columns but the border should encompass the whole section.    Using a border within the paragraph style puts a box around each column, so two separate boxes rather than a single box around the whole section of text with the style applied: Rules only do the top and bottom, not the sides, but that does span columns. Shading isn't what I need. Would love to be able to do this without anchoring a box that has to be resized every time.  Thanks!

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?