InDesign

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); 

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.

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 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? 

I’ve been having major issues with InDesign locking up ever since this update. It doesn’t crash so it doesn’t send a report either. At least two times every day, I need to either force quit the app or restart. It is very frustrating!

I have been using InDesign for nearly 30 years, and the app is just getting worse to work with! Full of bugs! So this is a suggestion to the developers -STOP using all your energy on fancy new AI features and make the app more stabil for daily work! I’m growing tired of conferencing with AI all the time to solve all the bugs. Such as - the marker becomes a spinning wheel - the app freezes and I must force it to stop - my personal work space is always putting in windows I have removed a billions of times! The view is not currently updating. Etc etc….Please make the app reliable again - PLEASE!!!!

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! 

Hello everyone.I want to set two options for a script.If I just pressed Ctrl+3, execute a support.If I just pressed Ctrl+4, execute b support.Is it possible to detect which two keys were pressed to start the script?

InDesign 21.6 Bug: When place a (Interactive-) PDF in a InDesign document, transparencies are wrong visible, when View → Display Performance → High Quality

I’ve seen this problem mentioned in the InDesign Community a few times in the past, but has anyone recently had problems with Share for Review comments unmapping from their pins? 

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.  

I have a 310 page InDesign document. When I export it to pdf it started off at 3.03 GB. I need it to be smaller. So I started by reducing the png resolution and photo size. That made the file bigger. Then I changed a bunch of the pngs to jpegs and that also made the file larger even though both of those actions made the photo sizes exponentially smaller. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

After five years or so, why is Copy Editor (Beta) still (Beta)? I use it all the time, it’s much better for me than Story Editor. My only ask for it would be able to change the typeface size for my old eyes. 

Hello all. I've created an index for a 90 page document. It updates and generates a new index with no problem, but when I place the index in my document, it only goes to 'S' and there is still room in that space to be filled and shows that there is overset text. When I click on the overset text box, and place it in the next column, only the next 'S' entry appears. What the heck is happening and how do I fix this? Thanks in advance! 

I just had a scary incident where I imported native InDesign pages into a file for imposing the pages 2-up. The original files were created by me and modified by another designer who preferred Palatino for her font rather than the Adobe Caslon Pro that I had used. The ligatures in question were the “ffi” and “ff” ligatures in Palatino—both regular and italic. Both appeared correctly on screen and when sent for proof in a pdf but disappeared when output to my HP5000 laser printer. Very frustrating after printing 125 12-page booklets that had to be fixed and reprinted: all under deadline, of course. Her Palatino was a 2006 truetype © Apple which seems to line up with what I have installed in my system (MacBook Pro 2018 running OS 15.7.9 and InDesign 21.6). I replaced the Palatino with the original font I had selected—Adobe Caslon Pro—and everything worked fine. Might be time for me to retire… Any solutions or explanations?

I installed Adobe 2026 on my imac. Now undo doesn’t work. It’s permanently grayed out. ID 21.2 on a Retina 5K running Ventura 13.7.8. If you look at screen shot, I can’t undo the neon effect I made or undo the letter ‘M’ I deleted. I’m opening 2025 ID to see if that helps. 

Not long after compiling 47 chapters into one file, I noticed the following unwanted behavior after going back and inserting an additional page spread in the middle:1. A few items newly placed on the pasteboard in subsequent chapters  are now one spread off in sequence. 2. Running chapter footers (intended to appear after the initial spread of each ch., so I simply cover them with a white box on the first spread of each ch.) are also now visible, perhaps due to this sort of recollating. 3. On the page spread just before the newly inserted one, a pic with a bounding box set to 1 cm text wrap now pushes or covers the footer when moved close to it . Items with text wrap do not do this to running footers anywhere else in the doc.It may already be clear what's happening but this also might be related: on the pages panel, there's a new blue line or box showing up on the spread preceding the newly added spread:Thank you