Looks like a nice script, Gilad. Thanks! ... View more

It looks like something somewhere is causing InDesign to hang. The usual suspects are: INDD files or links on a server drive. INDD files or links on a cloud drive. Font caches, missing fonts, and other font installation problems. When InDesign can't find the exact location of the "pieces" that make up a document, it tends to hang, often with a screen like your screen capture. I call it "The Screen of Duh?" as in duh, I'm lost and don't know where to go. By chance, are you working on a server, NAS, or cloud drive? ... View more

Note that this will base the tab order on the document's structure in the TAG tree panel. If you'e asking how to set tab order in a form so that the user can tab from form field to the next, then that is based on the order of the form fields in the Form Field tree when you're in Forms Editing mode. Just drag the form field labels up/down the panel from top to bottom to create the form tab order. ... View more

How can I lock the tab order in Adobe Acrobat Pro X Not sure what you mean by "lock the tab order." You can SET the tab order, and I think by default it is locked because users really can't change it. I think that might be what you're referring to. How to set the tab order: From the Thumbnails panel, select one of all of your pages. (Control/Command A usually works). Note that the pages must be selected for this to work. Right-click on any of the selected pages. Select Properties from the bottom of the panel. Select Use Document Structure. Acrobat X is fairly old and I no longer have it on any of my computers, so these instructions are from the current DC:2018 release. But it hasn't changed much over the years, maybe a slight difference in wording of the labels but basically the same procedure. Note that this will base the tab order on the document's structure in the TAG tree panel. Best to you. Let us know if this works. ... View more

Since you're printing on pre-printed labels, you could edit the PDF and remove the background items. You'll be left with just the form fields. Use the PDF Edit tools panel, and use the EDIT tool from the top panel. This will let you select and delete any object on the page. ... View more

Hi Occulus, Please please PLEASE submit a feature request as Srishti suggests above. This bothers me every day I'm in InDesign. If you do and the engineers make it happen, I will be in debt to you forever! ... View more

Kudos to you for doing this for a form you use regularly. Once you get this corrected, it will save you a lot of work! That's smart thinking. It sounds like the electronic form wasn't created correctly. These would be the basic steps to take: Open the original non-fillable form in Acrobat. Run the form tool. it will put you in form creation mode as well as try to identify the different fields in the form. Delete any fields that it got wrong (sometimes it reads lines as a field when they're really just decorative). Add any new fields that it missed. Be sure that you do not fill in any information at this point; it will cause problems like what you're experiencing. When you're Save the form and exit out of Forms Editing mode. Then open the form and fill it in, and it should work. How do I make it work so that each row of fields can be different? This is a more advanced procedure. I think the problem is that the rows and columns of cells have conflicting names, rather than unique ones. Every individual form field must have a unique name. If 2 or more fields have the same name, then the same data will populate them. In your example here is what the cell names in that part of the form should be: For the cells in row 1:      style00  color00  quantity00 For the cells in row 2:      style01  color01  quantity01 You get the idea. Note that the first row is 00, the second is 01, third is 02, etc. I know. Chaulk it up to computer geekiness! For now, go back to your form and open up the forms editing tool. Scan down the left side where your form fields are listed. Check the names. Rename any that might be incorrect (you can do it right there in the panel, just double-click on the name to edit it). Then close out of Form Editing mode, save it, and try the form again. Let us know how this works out! ... View more

Does the purple cell have an inset on the left side? ... View more

Adobe is aware of the problem and it's on their to-do list. Can't tell when it will be corrected, but they know about it. Keep an eye out for this in future releases. It's the type of fix that software companies don't broadcast "hey we fixed that bug!" It It will just appear in a new release. ... View more

Did the indents convert to spaces when the file was imported? ... View more

InDesign's imposition utility (aka, Print Booklet) can't do a 4-up press sheet you show in your diagram (4 pages/side). It really only works for 2-up press sheet, like an 11x17 sheet for a 4-page flyer. Suggestion: try PDF Toolbox by Callas Software, https://www.callassoftware.com/en/products/pdftoolbox There are other plug-ins/extensions you can buy, but Callas has some of the best industry tools on the market. I believe they have a trial download you can test. ... View more

Agree with Bob! Imposition depends upon so much that is outside the designer's hands -- and responsibility. Printer (digital, ink, toner, traditional offiset, etc.), press-sheet size, run quantity, etc. all affect how a job will be imposed and printed. Geeze, Louise, even the local office supply store will take your file and impose it for copier-quality printing...at no cost. The software is built into their prepress workflow. When we designers take on this responsibility, we're also letting the printer off the hook for doing a lousy job...and they can also blame the designer for incorrect imposition, forcing the designer to pay for the bad print job. Prepress functions should be performed by the printer, not the designer. Find a better printer! ... View more

NormaPierce​, << but when I try to select "Save as PDF" from print booklet.>> Use the buttons in the lower left of your screen capture (Page and Printer) to change the final press sheet/paper size to tabloid and landscape. That then should allow 2 vertical 8.5x11 pages to be imposed on the 11x17 print sheet. ... View more

I was able to replicate the problem and yes, I believe it's a bug. Times Roman should be applied to it as with other form fields. Until it's corrected, adjust the properties of each box to use Times Roman (not Times New Roman). Times Roman is listed in the top section of the Properties / Appearance / Font which are the default fonts for PDFs. Don't use the use the fonts lower down in the list as they probably won't be embedded and might have missing characters to your form's users. Question: would you double check that this happens on Combo Boxes? For me, Combos were fine but List Boxes had the crazy font. To clarify: Combo Boxes use a drop down list. List Boxes use a scrolling list with up/down arrows on the right. I'll log this as a bug with Adobe. Thanks Rolzay​ for spotting this. ... View more

Can you reply with a bit more details? Which version of InDesign are you using? InDesign calls drop-down lists "combo lists." Is that what you're creating? Does this happen only to drop-down lists, but to other form elements too? ... View more

@gregorys Looking over your original post, I spot some potential items: My older templates don't work, Going from 2017 to 2018 shouldn't have affected your templates, unless you have some obscure setups. and saving as a .doc destroys my italics (and this is a 650 page book, broken up into different docs and using an .indb file, but no way in hell do I want to have to re-italicize or re-bold hundreds of pages of Greek transliterations).  So I NEED to be able to bring in the clean and correctly formatted .docx. Correctly formatted Word .docx files should come in seamlessly, especially if you use InDesign's Import options to control how the content is imported into the layout. But a lot depends upon how the original Word docx was formatted. Reading your post, I'm wondering if there is a font problem between Word and InDesign, or a bad glyph/character somewhere in the Word file. Or is this Word 16.12 causing the problems? I think it's your Word documents themselves that are the problems, not the versioning of the software and its files. My shop specializes in custom workflows for long, detailed documents, and based on what you've said in your post, here are some items recommend in future that can help with your production (I know, these will be of limited value today in the middle of production, and you might already do them): In Word, eliminate all manual formatting. A Word template for your author would help them do this easily. In Word, use styles for the Greek parts, Greek bold and Greek italics (maybe character styles, maybe paragraph styles...whatever fits the content). In fact, use styles throughout for everything. Ensure that OpenType (Unicode) fonts were used in the Word document because they map the Greek characters correctly. For example, the old TrueType and PostScript Symbols fonts have some Greek characters on them, but not a complete alphabet, they're mapped to the old ASCII character encoding system, and they often choke when brought into InDesign. This kind of Word formatting muck can also be quickly eliminated in Word's Find/Replace, before you attempt to bring the file into your layout. (It's too late in the process to bring all that muck into InDesign where it can crash your system.) Once you have a cleaned and well-formatted Word.docx file, you should be able to import it with Import Options and select whether to strip everything out when importing (which I doubt you'll want to do for this project), or Map Styles and match the Word styles to those in your InDesign layout. ... View more

Hi @gregorys84937500, << That is, I either learn IDML>> It's not something that takes time to learn! It's InDesign Markup Language, basically a way for an InDesign layout to be saved in a format that's usable in earlier versions. Over the years, we've found that it also can help clear out gode-glunk that causes crashes, so it's very handy to use when problems like yours popup. To make an IDML of your layout, File / Save As, and choose IDML rather than INDD or INDT. You can now open the IDML in your earlier version of InDesign. An IDML version is also made when you package a job; both INDD and IDML files are created. ... View more

~lance~xf46mk.idlk is a temporary recovery or "lock" file of the INDD you were working on when your system crashed. Note the ~ and .idlk extension (it's not a tag). If you keep this file, InDesign might be able to use it to recover the remnants of the original file. If you are able to recover the original file, you can then safely delete the .idlk once you exit correctly from InDesign. More info about recovering INDD files is at Recover InDesign documents Let us know which version of Mac OSx you're using, and clarify your question. Not sure what you're asking us about. ... View more

FYI, if your form must be accessible (Sec. 508 in the US and other regulations in other countries), then the pop-up Tooltip is required to meet accesibility guidelines. I don't recommend turning it off because doing so would prevent people who use screen readers from filling out your form. This could trigger a discrimination lawsuit. ... View more

In other thread, Dov Issacs (Adobe) gave these instructions on how to convert RGB to K blacks in Acrobat DC Pro: Quoted from Re: Technicians claim my file doesn't have fonts embedded…but they're incorrect, right? Acrobat Pro DC provides a preflight fixup explicitly for this. In Acrobat Preflight, access the Essentials library, select Single Fixups, and choose the Convert color to B/W fixup under the Color spaces, spot colors, inks group. Run that fix and this color issue is gone. ... View more

#1. If you do decide to convert the text to outlines, then follow Dov Issac's instructions above and perform that task in the latest version of Acrobat DC Pro. As stated before, do not muck with your InDesign file. (FYI, you received free advice from the world's leading expert in this topic, Dov Issacs of Adobe. Listen to him!) #2. A few weeks back, my shop had a similar font encoding problem with Times New Roman used in an InDesign job (latest version on Mac). The client said she used the TNR that came with her Mac OS. Her version of the TNR font wouldn't embed into the PDF, nor would it be packaged up with InDesign's Package utility. And the PDF didn't recognize our version of TNR to process the file. Solution: We opened her InDesign INDD file, swapped out her TNR font for our version (TTF/OpenType version), and re-exported the PDF. Everything worked. We never before had a problem like this with a font so ubiquitous as Times New Roman. Maybe something has recently changed with the font licensing and embedding of TNR? I know on the Windows side, MS no longer installs Arial Unicode MS and has even stripped it off our Windows systems. (Arial Unicode MS is a special version of the regular Arial font.) FYI, I doubt Amazon would want to swap their TNR for yours because this could cause text reflow problems. They would not want to be legally responsible for changing your document like that. That's why they're pushing this file back to you to fix. ... View more

2018: Had similar problem using Windows 10 computer to a WiFi printer. It would appear in all my other printer lists, except when I was in Acrobat DC. Solution: Uninstall the printer through Windows Control Panel / Devices. Add a New Printer. Follow the on-screen prompts and select WiFi printer, not wired. When prompted for the printer's WPS/PIN code, check the printer's screen which will show its custom password to connect the printer to your computer. (This is like pairing your cell phone to your car's bluetooth.) Type this code into the printer's setup on the computer. Done. ... View more

Agree with Chad. @_Crockett_ , have you tried Acrobat's revised Autotag utility in the latest version of Acrobat Pro? The document you describe is one that I would recommend trying autotag. It kills the original tags and structure and uses some new Adobe AI engine to recognize the content and tag it. It might not get the heading levels correct, but I think there's a good chance it will group the individual lines into the required single <P> tags throughout. That might reduce your workload to fix this file. ... View more

<< after a few pages the link shows as broken>> What link is this? Can you describe this in more detail? ... View more