InDesign

I have been using Adobe express, not the app but the inbuilt quick action or from the contextual task bar in indesign, I have been using the feature for quick photo edits instead of opening photoshop or Express app, I only noticed now that the option is greyed out for some reason I dont know why. I need help please.Attached below for reference  

Hello everyone.I have been searching for the width to height (W/H) ratio of the image before it is deformed in InDesign.Today, I suddenly discovered a genus named Dimensions,Unless modified in Photoshop, this value will not change in Indeisgn, right?I only found item.HorizontalLayoutConstraints in ExtendeScrip; I don't know how to use it.How to obtain this value using a script?Thank you. 

For example, I want to open the "D: \ AA \" path by default and select A1. indd by defaultvar defPath ="D:\AA\";var myFile = File.openDialog("Select File");if (myFile) { app.open(myFile);} else { alert("No file selected");} 

A long time ago I had a tab open that explained how to find a font that contained a specific glyph, but it’s been lost to too many updates. Who knows how to use InDesign to find a font that has a specific (semi-obscure, an asterism) glyph?

I am always excited when a new release of InDesign comes out. I have no pressing deadlines so I can explore to my heart's content. The first thing I noticed Is that the icons for InDesign on my Windows 11 Taskbar and desktop were blank. I threw them in the Recycle Bin. and then dragged the InDesign 2026/21.0 icon from the Start Menu to the desktop. I then renamed the desktop icon from "Adobe InDesign 2026" which is more information than I need to "InDesign" as I have done with many different versions when updated. Then, I started InDesign and noted that the Taskbar icon, though it showed InDesign as the program when I hovered the mouse over it, it was entirely blank: a blank area on my Taskbar. It worked to start InDesign, so I thought I would go with the flow and leave it that way. I then spent a considerable amount of time to get my Windows 11 TaskBar Jumplist for InDesign configured the way I like it for easy access to my ongoing big project: InDesign > File > Open &

My work PC has recently been updated and I’ve had a new profile created which has knocked off my InDesign settings. Now when I open my design files, all images which are PNG files and have transparent backgrounds (in the original file source, not InDesign clipping), now have white boxes behind them.  When opening the PNG image file in Photoshop or Explorer the background is transparent.When I export the file as a PDF, the white backgrounds behind my PNGs disappear. So it is a display / performance setting within InDesign that I’m not finding. The background fill for each container is set to None.I have explored the different Display Performance settings such as ‘Typical Display’ and ‘High Quality Display’ and all have the same issue. Thank you! 

Where do i find InDesign JSX script that balances the two columns according to the actual heights of the rows?

Examples: Tool cursors not updating to selected tool, Cmd-Z randomly stops working, files grayed out for no reason when importing images, documents refusing to open, double-vision text when changing paragraph styles, wonky dialogue boxes… I could go on and on. Maybe stop bothering me to try AI toys and work the bugs out of your core functionality. It’s not just me, right?

  Hello everyWhen the paragraph style is not applied, the following two sentences (Leading) return "AUTO", but I want to know the actual value. How to modify.It seems that when applying the [Basic Paragraph] style, Leading also returns AUTO.var item = app.selection[0];var curFirLeading = item.textColumns[0].lines[0].leading;var curStyLeading = item.lines[0].appliedParagraphStyle.leading;alert(curFirLeading);alert(curStyLeading);I found a complicated method online to obtain the magnification of auto relative to the font size and calculate the Auto value in reverse. 

HiEach time I import an image into Indesign, the image loads okay, but I get the blue swirling ‘loading’ icon that never stops. I can save my document, and the menus still work but I can’t work on the actual page, and the only way I can clear it it to Force quit Indesign using Task Manager. This started about 2 weeks ago, and was fine before and I haven’t made any changes to my PC. I thought maybe it started after an update of Indesign, so I tried reverting to an older version, but still had the same problem.I have tried re-installing Indesign. (version21.3)  I use Windows 11.I really hope you can help please?Thanks Chris

I have discovered a peculiar phenomenon: is there something special about the characters ∆ (U+2202) and ∂ (U+2206)? Regardless of whether the font applied to them actually contains glyphs for these code points, InDesign always manages to display them—though it is unclear which font is being used as a substitute. This behavior occurs exclusively when using the Adobe CJK Composer or the Adobe Composer; it is not present when using the Adobe World-Ready Composer. Is this an intended feature of InDesign, or is it a bug? If it is a feature, are there other characters that behave the same way? I entered these two characters into a text frame, along with the letter "a" for comparison. As shown in Figure 1, the Character panel indicates that the font in use is "Adobe Ming Std." Furthermore, when I open the Glyphs panel and select ∆ (U+2202)—as shown in Figure 2—the glyph displayed for this character corresponds to U+0046, which is incorrect.  

Indesign vindt de NVidia Ge Force RTX 2050 niet. Bericht: geen compatibele GPU gedetecteerd. Ik heb alle suggesties uit de eerdere posts hierover geprobeerd naar niets helpt:NVidia als standaard in Indesign zetten, driver updaten, .... In Photoshop werkt de GPU wel. Versies: Indesign 21.6, 

I selected a cell in a row, but I found that its minimum height is not determined by itself, but by the cell with the most text lines in the row.How can I use a script to find the cell with the most text lines in this line?The minimum height of the red cell in the sample file below is 30pt. It seems that there is still an error in the calculation as follows:CellH=14+14+2*1.417=30.834>30pt。Another question, how to calculate the total height of the table columns in the current text box 

We are having an issue with a macbook pro running Mac OS 26.6 trying to save files to our file share. We are getting this very unhelpful “InDesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged.” error message any time we try. Already tried changing to using SMB as our connection protocol, but no change. What’s really weird is a file does appear, but its zero bytes and crashes Indesign if you interact with it. Notably after the change from AFP to SMB we got a similar result, but the file was 1.7MB, opening it caused Indesign to crash, and we can’t delete it due to missing permissions apparently. Some help would be appreciated. 

Hi there!!MathML for InDesign is great!!I wish I could change font color something like below...             <math mathcolor="#000000">                <mrow>                                <mi>a</mi>                                <mi>b</mi>                    <mi>c</mi>                    <mi>d</mi>                    <mi>e</mi>                    <mi>f</mi>                    <mi mathcolor="#d0111b">g</mi>  &

Hello all, I have heard that since the latest update (October 2023) it should be possible to compare texts from two files. Is this correct? Can someone explain to me where I can find the function? Thus far, I have only been able to find (old) answers from 2020 on this topic, which recommend exporting the files to PDF or using a script. However, I would like to compare the texts directly in Indesign. Many thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,Today on two different computers, both running the latest InDesign, I started getting this error every time I edit a file:“InDesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged.”Then, when I try to close the file, I get another message:“Could not complete your request because of a database error. The file ‘InDesign Defaults’ is damaged (Error code: 1).”I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign, resetting preferences, testing files saved locally, in the cloud, and on a USB stick, but nothing helps. I can open and save files as long as I don’t make any changes, but once I edit anything, the error appears.Everything worked fine yesterday, and now both computers are affected. Is anyone else seeing this problem, or does anyone know how to fix it?

I am putting together a large document and want automatically generating titles without having to reply on page numbers.

I am using InDesign 21.3, working on a simple 2 page file, I go to place a logo and the blue thinking wheel pops up and doesn’t go away. I can click and move things around but none of it is being “saved”. I close the file and click to close the program and it just sits there still open. I then have to force quit the program. When I relaunch the file opens with the software and everything I did while the wheel was spinning was not saved.It’s done this several times since the update and there is no pattern to why. I’m finding it randomly acting up. It’s really frustrating, especially when I’m not working on anything complicated.

I am working in the latest version of InDesign (V21.6) on PC. I have noticed that when I export to PDF recently that InDesign is taking a very long time to complete the export. Has anyone else had this issue?