InDesign

If I create an Article by selecting All on a page, will a text item such as title or heading that’s on a parent page be included? Or do I have to override the parent page text box before it gets included in the reading order in an exported PDF? Same question about an image on a parent page? Mac OS 15.7.4 Sequoia InDesign 21.3

I tried opening with Shift, restoring version history, relinking/removing images, placing into a new document

At a juncture now where it’s necessary to create a matte spot varnish file for text only in an illustrated edition. The text is comprised of body text and titles in K only, and hundreds of sidenote annotations in a custom pms spot (a Pantone grey mix), which, due to the unforeseen effects of the printer’s UV LED offset process, are rendering now as an undesirably glossy text on our matte, natural finish Arctic Volume White stock, deliberately chosen for its non-glare properties. We’re preserving, however, the richly saturated and glossy look on the imagery that UV LED printing introduced (so a flood coat won’t do), but the text, in a dense and lengthy scholarly edition, can’t be encumbered with glare. The printer uses only Toyo ink and after many conversations with them and Toyo in the EU (where the printer is) the kabosh has definitively been put on Toyo Ink resurrecting their matte formula, eliminated 8 years ago. This would’ve allowed printing all text as a matte spot ink, avoiding

The object is just crossing the bleeding area, and it seems impossible to determine its position.sel[j].parentPage;.marginPreferences.bottom;will cause an error.  var sel = app.documents[0].selection;        var pp = sel[j].parentPage;        var b = app.activeDocument.selection[j].geometricBounds;        var sb = sel[0].visibleBounds;        var bm = pp.marginPreferences.bottom; if(sel[j].parentPage == null);b[1]<0&&b[3>0]&&b[3]<cp[0]; All combinations have failed... if ((sel[j].parentPage == null && b[3] < 0) || ([1] < 0 && b[3] > 0 && b[3] < cp[0])) { app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN; sel[j].geometricBounds = [b[0], 0 - 20, b[2], b[3] - b[1] + 20]; } if ((sel[j].parentPage == null) && (b[1] > 0)) {

my text disappears after i delete a paragraph  marker. the rest of the document disappears. it is weird. i have made the invisible text visible and see nothing weird in the formatting. It can be pages and pages of text.  I am up to date on the app and i don’t see how to fix it. the language is persian. 

Hello! Opening illustrator files from InDesign, working on them, saving them and going back to InDesign. The links are all updated, but sometimes it’s leaving anomolies, like double shadows of the figure in. Friends are having the same problem, one had the cursor x/y measurements from the illustrator file appear in InDesign - which wouldn’t even have saved into the file? Anyone else had this problem?Pictures - show the x/y (illustrator on the left - inDesign on the right) and the double calendar which is most definitely not there in the illustrator file! 

When having a file open in InDesign 2024 on my Macbook Pro (Sonoma 14.2.1 OS), close the lid, plug into my LG UltraFine external monitor and wake the computer up, the InDesign window is still open and all the tool bars are visible and working, but the area where the artwork is becomes black/blank and I can't see the work. I can see the bounding boxes if I select all, but no image or text. The window is entirely blank. The same thing happens if I'm working on my LG monitor, unplug the display and then open the Macbook to work. I always have my Macbook closed when plugged into the LG display and use both an external keyboard and trackpad. The solution is to always save, quit InDesign and reopen. If I go through that it works again. Is it a bug with Apple? Is it a bug with Adobe? My LG firmware, OS and Adobe InDesign are all updated to the latest versions.

Is there a way to have something like this in a pdf form made in InDesign (or Acrobat DC) ? So the person filling the form can format the text he is writing 

Given the cost of Adobe and how many people are complaining about this, I think Adobe needs to fix this. Shutting down over and over to clear this, with only a hit & miss success rate, is not at all practical. I've done the reboots. I've done all the many attempts others have done and I'm still getting the spinning background task manager and it will not clear on a very extensive document. 

I need to see if various things (text, styles, whatever) occur within a book. But “all documents” doesn’t work. Thanks for any insight.

I think this is a Adobe bug.My question is similar to this one “Top of Window Off-Screen, Unable to Reposition (Mac, Multiple Monitors)” which wasn’t resolved. Except for some work arounds.When I open a file in Indesign, especially on a 2nd monitor, the workspace opens up to something far wider/bigger than the actual screen. This happens every time I restart Indesign, no matter what screen set up I may have.I have tried to resolve this, but no matter what I always end up manually dragging my indesign page/window down, and then to the far left, in order to pull the sides in and make it more manageable. As well when I go to a home 2nd monitor from the setup at work, all the control panels are shifting around. Many end up sitting off the screen, or partially on the 2ndary screen. Which I then need to reposition. Incredibly frustrating.I assume this is an Adobe issue that is not being addressed?

When I open an InDesign document, the window fills my monitor from corner to corner so it's difficult to grab any edge to resize it, and it covers everything on my desktop so I'm resizing constantly. I seem to remember a feature in earlier versions, something like "remember window size." Has this been eliminated or is there a new preference for this useful feature? I'm running InDesign CC on an iMac with OS 10.15.7 Catalina. TIA.  

Since updating to the 2026 version, InDesign has been working slower and slower for me, primarily on my iMac. Launching the app takes almost two minutes, the spinning wheel appears roughly every 30 seconds and lasts for up to a minute, and it’s become impossible to. I’ve restarted, updated, and cleared my iMac, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and nothing seems to help. Is there something I’m missing?

Guidance Required on Adobe InDesign Server Licensing for New AWS EC2 DeploymentHello Adobe Community,We are in the process of setting up a new AWS EC2 instance to install and run Adobe InDesign Server, and we would like your guidance to ensure that our licensing approach is fully compliant with Adobe’s recommended and supported practices.To help us select the correct license model and define our operational process, we would appreciate clarification on the points below.1. License Type RecommendationWe understand that Adobe InDesign Server licenses can be issued under the following categories:Individual licenses Site licenses Cloud deployment licenses Redistribution licensesDo we have any enterprise licenses as well?Request:Could you please advise which license type is most appropriate for the following use case:InDesign Server running on a dedicated AWS EC2 instance Used for automated document generation No end‑user interaction Instance is long‑lived (not auto‑scaled)If multiple option

scenario…multipage pdf at size 8.5 x 11 is placed at x0 y0 on 11x17 pages in indesign. Now every placed page needs to be duplicated or “stepped up to the right at x8.5 y0so it look s like 2 of the same pages placed on an 11x17 looking for a script that can automate this copy and paste scenario for all pages

Could we please have the possibility to switch between different pages of a placed PDF after the placement?See an example from the competition where I can choose between all the spreads in a placed PDF without replacing or re-linking.See also this feature reaquest in UserVoicehttps://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/37284274-change-pdf-page-number-ai-artboard-number-witho Thank you!

Since a week or two I often don’t see a document name when I try to save a document. So I open an older document and when I try to ‘Save as’ the document name spot is empty. See screenshot.  Behind ‘Bewaar als:’ there usually is the document name! There also is no document name when I try to save the document as a pdf. Not all documents have this problem: some do and some don’t.I wonder why there is no document name with some documents… and of course I also wonder how I can prevent this from happening. Is there a setting I accidentally enabled or disabled…?I am on macOS and use the latest version of everything. 

Any idea when the fix for the flyout boxes is going to be fixed? It has been months now and still not working.

Linked image within illustrator file not appearing when placed in indesign.I have a map created in Illustrator with a background (flattened) tiff which displays fine in Illustrator. Once placed into InDD, the tiff won't appear (layer is ON and printing) and doesn't get included in exports (thus eliminating a rendering issue of any kind). This has happened on 2 separate files but is fine in others with the same set-up. On occasion the tiff will reappear…This is fundamental to my job.Illustrator 30.2.1InDesign 21.3OS 15.7.4 (24G517)

Hi,Getting an issue with indesign and not recognising the calibri system font installed. From what I can see, there’s a new version of calibri with a latest windows update. V6.26 > V6.27.   Myself and colleagues are effected, and this is spanning across a lot of our documents. Replacing the font does not fully solve the issue as any forms text fields will not update to the font box.  I’ve seen a similar post regarding this with the same issue on times new roman which is marked as resolved but it most certainly not.  FYI, installing calibri via adobe fonts does not work, we are getting a conflict likely due to it already being a system font. We also running the latest version of indesign. Any help on this?

After recently updating to InDesign 2026 I now noticed, that PNG exports look horrible. Vectorized elements like path-shapes or fonts export totally fine, only the images get messed up. JPG: PNG:The PNG and JPG ofcourse have the same dimensions, resolution and dpi. Changing the PNG-Quality or turning the transparency on or off does nothing. Turning off "smooth edges" only makes it worse.To my eye it seems like InDesign is rendering out the image in a lower resolution than the rest... It also looks a bit like the preview InDesign generates when you place the image in the document. (I even tried exporting with setting the placed images preview quality to the high setting, but nothing changes in the export.) I'm on a M4 iMac with the newest version of InDesign (21.0.1)

Bonjour, je viens de tester la mise à jour InDesign 21.3 sur Windows 11. J’ai une petite fenêtre rouge en bas d’écran qui me demande de tenir Windows à jour. Je ne peux pas fermer cette fenêtre rouge. Et comme je suis dans une grande entreprise, je n’ai pas la possibilité d’intervenir sur Windows, c’est une version imposée par l’entreprise et sécurisée. Je ne peux pas non plus quitter InDesign qui me dit qu’il y a une tâche en arrière plan, mais si j’ouvre la fenêtre “tâches en arrière plan” ,il n’y a rien. Je viens donc de revenir à la version 21.2 qui fonctionne sans problème. Une solution ?

Bonjour Depuis le passage à Indesign 2026, mon ordi ne reconnaît plus les .indd dans l'explorateur comme des fichiers Indesign. Je peux toujours les ouvrir depuis Indesign mais plus depuis l'explorateur où ils affichent une icône vierge. J'ai beau choisir Indesign comme appli par défaut (lors de la tentative d'ouverture ou dans les paramètres Windows) rien à faire. Ça ne veut pas ... Si je désinstalle Indesign 2026 et remet la version 2025 ça refonctionne normalement. Mais dès que je rebascule sur la version 2026, le problème réapparaît. Pour info, je n'ai pas ce problème avec les autres applis de la Creative Suite qui ont également basculé de 2025 à 2026. Pas de souci non plus avec Indeisgn ou tout autre appli sur mon ordi portable aussi connecté à ma Creative Suite. Ca donne plutôt l'impression d'une désinstallation d'Indesign 2025 mal faite sur cet ordi ...