Ah I see I didn’t fully get that you might not have realised the consequences of the choices made when creating the document.   When you set up a new file in InDesign, there’s an option for Facing Pages (used for books, magazines, or any layout that opens like a spread (same way a magazine or book opens) and Non-Facing Pages (used for single sheets, posters, or digital outputs).   If you choose Facing Pages, InDesign automatically arranges the pages in spreads so page 1 will be on the right-hand side by itself, and pages 2–3 will appear together as a left and right pair. That affects how the page order looks in the Pages panel and how content lines up across the spine.   If you use Non-Facing Pages, every page is treated as an individual canvas there’s no left/right pairing, which can be easier for single-page documents or exports.   I'll explain it from start to begining on how to spot what is happening for the future.   This is what you've shown us on your original screenshot  We can tell it's on a Parent Page - as on the bottom it shows B-Parent So your screenshot looks like this - as the Parent Pages are not showing - that was the first clue, you are showing Parent Pages A and the pages and there's no artwork on the right hand side - which tells me there's a hidden parent page - and the biggest clue in your screenshot is it shows B-Parent at the bottom.   - when you scroll in the parent page area to find the pages you designed on.  Now - when we put the Parent Pages into the Pages area - it shows correctly     Delete the first blank page and you get what you got   This is one way to fix it - without having to do too much correction. Right click and Untick this option   Then drag 1 down beside 2   ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In future consider if you need Facing Pages or Non-Facing pages before you start. Remember Facing Pages is typically only required for documents like books/magazines/leaflets/newsletters etc.    Everything else, like posters, or simple 1 page - only require to have 1 page - and at the size you require.    Hope that helps.             ... View more

Looks like you've put it on the Parent Pages, I can see 2 pages in the Parent Page area and only 1 page in the pages area.    You need to drag your Parent Pages into the Pages area - and delete the blank page. ... View more

Sounds like a licensing sync issue on Adobe’s end rather than anything local. Since you’ve already tried another device, it’s likely your account entitlement isn’t being recognised properly.   Try signing out of all devices via your Adobe account page, then log back in fresh on one device.   If that doesn’t help, clear the Creative Cloud cache Clear Creative Cloud cache: Windows: C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE   rename the folder to OOBE_old . macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE   rename to OOBE_old . Then relaunch Creative Cloud and sign in again.   or reinstall the CC desktop app using Adobe’s Cleaner Tool. Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html   If others are seeing this too, it might be a temporary server issue. You could always hit the Free Trial and work on that until the issue is resolved - I think it gives you 7 days full access - and this should be enough time to resolve. ... View more

This is happening because your laptop uses a Snapdragon (ARM-based) processor. At the moment, Adobe hasn’t released ARM-compatible versions of all Creative Cloud apps, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Audition are among those not yet supported.   Photoshop and a few others run fine because they already have native ARM builds or work under emulation, but InDesign simply isn’t available on Windows ARM yet. Adobe has said they’re working on wider support, but there’s no confirmed release date.   If you need InDesign right now, the only reliable option is to use a computer with an Intel or AMD processor. Or try the InDesign Beta - it seems to be listed in the link below - so it's probably coming very soon.   https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/download-install/apps/system-requirements/apps-compatibility-copilot.html   ... View more

Typically if I want text and images with captions to flow with the text, I'll put them in a table within the text.    So a 2 row 1 column table.  In top row put the image In the bottom row put the caption (or anchor the generated caption if that's what you're doing?)   Not it's in the table, the table flows with the text.  Just in the Table Options set them to Keep With Next Row - https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/formatting-tables.html#:~:text=To%20keep%20the%20selected%20rows%20together%2C%20select%20Keep%20With%20Next%20Row.   Then you can resize your image without having scale the text - no need for them to be grouped.    Once you do one image/caption table you can reuse them in other places.      ... View more

Did you try the creative cloud cleaner tool - I have a saved snippet here to post   Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html ... View more

If @Mike Witherell compendium of fixes is not working or still have issues   I did see this the other day, could be similar https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-v21-not-starting-after-update-win-11/m-p/15570413#M640032     ... View more

Feature requests need to be submitted here for best traction https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests   Thanks for posting this - I'm sure others need it. ... View more

I'll have to think about it some more.    Had different head hurt day with different problem today than yesterday. Time for the weekend anyway - thanks for the help and tips. ... View more

It's not the filetype that's the problem. it's text wrap is applied to something on the page.  You double click into a graphic to move it around - when you double click does the text wrap show? As you can have independent text wrap on a frame and also on a graphic within the frame.    The fact that you deleted the red background says that it's a text wrap either on that frame or the graphic within the frame.    As others have said - if you select your text frame and go to text frame options and choose Ignore Text Wrap does the issue go away? It definitely loos like text wrap.  ... View more

My apologies if I wasn't clear. I don't need to make a layer or move items onto a layer - although it's not a bad idea...  Many thanks for helping out with the script it is giving me some ideas to try.    I just want to check that there's a text frame on that layer on each page - parent page or not.  The text frame either has to have the Text Variable or the text equal to the file name.    If it's on the Parent Page it's fine don't need an alert ----------------------->unless it's not a text variable or the text in it doesn't match the file name.  If it's on Page 1 - same criteria as above --------->and subsequent pages.   But I think I can try something with this.  The layer move is a good idea, sometimes the Code is not on the right layer. This makes sense to check that it's on the right layer and move it if it's not. ... View more

It's kinda working - it reads the text frame and says it has the variable data in it - but when I remove the text and input garbage text it says it's still variable data I still can't work out the logic to only flag an alert if it's not an all pages so it's fine if it's on the parent page and that it shows on all pages  But would need to know if it's not on all pages (if absent from parent page), or if the text is manually typed in (not variable data).  Practically, it should just flag if the Code layer is missing text frame containing either a text variable or text that matches the filename.    But I'm not sure it can read the text on pages where it's applied via the parent page. Probably way overthinking it. My head hurts. #targetengine "textVariableCheckEngine" code (function() { var TECH_LAYER_REGEX = /technical|codes|code/i; // --- Normalize string for comparison --- function normalizeSafe(input) { try { return String(input).replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, "").toLowerCase().trim(); } catch (e) { return ""; } } // --- Safely extract variable text only if it exists --- function extractVariableText(tvi) { if (!tvi) return ""; try { if (tvi.resultText && tvi.resultText.contents) { var text = String(tvi.resultText.contents); if (normalizeSafe(text).length > 0) return text; } } catch(e){} return ""; } // --- Get all text from a frame: contents + valid text variables --- function getFrameText(frame) { var txt = ""; try { if (frame.contents) txt += frame.contents; } catch(e){} try { if (frame.textVariableInstances && frame.textVariableInstances.length > 0) { for (var i=0;i<frame.textVariableInstances.length;i++){ txt += extractVariableText(frame.textVariableInstances[i]); } } } catch(e){} return normalizeSafe(txt); } // --- No open document --- if (app.documents.length === 0) { alert("No open document"); return; } var doc = app.activeDocument; var fileToken = normalizeSafe(doc.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, "")); var masterHasToken = {}; // --- Check parent/master spreads --- for (var m=0; m<doc.masterSpreads.length; m++){ var master = doc.masterSpreads[m]; var frames = []; try { frames = master.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); } catch(e){} var found = false; for (var f=0; f<frames.length; f++){ var frame = frames[f]; try { if (frame.constructor.name !== "TextFrame") continue; if (!frame.itemLayer || !TECH_LAYER_REGEX.test(frame.itemLayer.name)) continue; var text = normalizeSafe(frame.contents); var variableText = getFrameText(frame); if (text.indexOf(fileToken) !== -1 || variableText.indexOf(fileToken) !== -1){ found = true; break; } } catch(e){ continue; } } masterHasToken[master.name] = found; } // --- Check document pages --- var missingPages = []; for (var p=0; p<doc.pages.length; p++){ var page = doc.pages[p]; var pageFound = false; // 1) Check if applied master already contains token try { if (page.appliedMaster && page.appliedMaster.isValid){ if (masterHasToken[page.appliedMaster.name]) pageFound = true; } } catch(e){} // 2) Check frames on the page if (!pageFound){ var frames = []; try { frames = page.pageItems.everyItem().getElements(); } catch(e){} for (var f=0; f<frames.length; f++){ var frame = frames[f]; try { if (frame.constructor.name !== "TextFrame") continue; if (!frame.itemLayer || !TECH_LAYER_REGEX.test(frame.itemLayer.name)) continue; var text = normalizeSafe(frame.contents); var variableText = getFrameText(frame); if (text.indexOf(fileToken) !== -1 || variableText.indexOf(fileToken) !== -1){ pageFound = true; break; } } catch(e){ continue; } } } if (!pageFound) missingPages.push(page.name); } // --- Output --- var masterWarning = ""; var anyMasterHas = false; for (var key in masterHasToken) { if (masterHasToken.hasOwnProperty(key) && masterHasToken[key]) { anyMasterHas = true; break; } } if (!anyMasterHas) masterWarning = "WARNING: No parent/master spread contains filename/variable on Technical layer.\n\n"; if (missingPages.length === 0) { alert(masterWarning + "All pages contain filename/variable on Technical layer.\nFilename: " + doc.name); } else { alert(masterWarning + "⚠ Filename/variable missing on Technical layer for pages:\n" + missingPages.join(", ") + "\nExpected: " + doc.name); } })(); ... View more

This is as far as I got with the code - when i got into trouble I tried flushing it through ChatGPT and Gemini - but neither could resolve the issue or figure out why it's not working.  This is literally where I have left off.  #targetengine "textVariableCheckEngine" (function () { var enableEventListener = false; // Set true later if you want automatic check on save if (enableEventListener) { var handlerAlreadyAdded = true; for (var i = 0; i < app.eventListeners.length; i++) { if (app.eventListeners[i].name === "textVariableCheckHandler") { handlerAlreadyAdded = true; break; } } if (!handlerAlreadyAdded) { var el = app.addEventListener("beforeSave", textVariableCheck, false); el.name = "textVariableCheckHandler"; } } textVariableCheck(); // Run immediately for manual test function textVariableCheck() { try { if (app.documents.length === 0) return; var doc = app.activeDocument; var usedVariables = []; // --- Scan pages and master spreads --- function scanContainer(container) { for (var p = 0; p < container.length; p++) { var page = container[p]; var pageItems = page.allPageItems; for (var i = 0; i < pageItems.length; i++) { var item = pageItems[i]; if (item.hasOwnProperty("textVariableInstances")) { var instances = item.textVariableInstances; for (var j = 0; j < instances.length; j++) { var v = instances[j]; if (v && v.associatedTextVariable && v.associatedTextVariable.name != null) { var nameStr = String(v.associatedTextVariable.name); // Classic loop duplicate check var alreadyAdded = false; for (var k = 0; k < usedVariables.length; k++) { if (usedVariables[k] === nameStr) { alreadyAdded = true; break; } } if (!alreadyAdded) usedVariables.push(nameStr); } } } } } } scanContainer(doc.pages); scanContainer(doc.masterSpreads); if (usedVariables.length === 0) { alert("⚠ No text variables found in pages or master pages."); } // --- Code Layer check --- var fileName = doc.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, ""); var techMismatch = false; var techFound = false; for (var t = 0; t < doc.textFrames.length; t++) { var tf = doc.textFrames[t]; if (tf.itemLayer && /Code/i.test(tf.itemLayer.name)) { techFound = true; // Ignore frames that have text variables if (tf.textVariableInstances.length > 0) continue; // Clean content for comparison var content = String(tf.contents) .replace(/[\s\u00A0\u200B-\u200D\uFEFF]/g, "") .replace(/[^\x20-\x7E]/g, "") .toLowerCase(); var cleanFile = String(fileName) .replace(/[\s\u00A0\u200B-\u200D\uFEFF]/g, "") .replace(/[^\x20-\x7E]/g, "") .toLowerCase(); if (content.indexOf(cleanFile) === -1) { techMismatch = true; break; } } } if (!techFound) { alert("⚠ No text found on the Code layer."); } else if (techMismatch) { alert("⚠ Code layer text does NOT match the filename: " + fileName); } // Silent if all is okay } catch (e) { alert("Error in textVariableCheck: " + e); } } })();   ... View more

Sure    1. Trying to check the parent page for a text variable or text that matches the filename 2. Trying to check the page 1 for a variable, or for text matches the filename 3. When on page 1 and not page 2 (or vice versa) it doesn't recognise as it finds it on one of the pages Something like the attached.  For example, the text variable isn't always on the parent page. But it picks up the filename.  So I'm trying to catch on all pages where the code is not the filename either by text or by text variable.  ... View more

Part Meaning Example Match \d+ One or more digits ( 0–9 ) Matches 5 , 21 , 103 \K "Keep out" marker — it resets the start of the match, so anything before \K is not included in the final match. If the text is 5th , the regex sees 5th but only reports th . th The literal letters t and h Matches th \b Word boundary — ensures th ends at a boundary (like space, punctuation, or end of word). So 5th matches, but 5thrones does not.   https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/grep-pocket-reference/9780596157005   https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_classes.htm     ... View more

Ok wonder if it's the extra bleed on the right hand side.      ... View more

Looks like the ski is outside the page area and in the safety zone.  Images have to reach the bleed area. And the ski doesn't.    I'd say that's it. ... View more

Try resetting your preferences: InDesign 19.3 and newer go to Preferences > General > and click on "Reset Preferences on Quit" and then quit and restart. Or Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog. More in-depth cleanse of preferences https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html     -------------- Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html ... View more

I just leave it off - no use for it really, seems superflous and counter-intuitive, my workspace is clean, with panels required docked and only thing I want to see on the pages when I'm working is stuff on the pages. I don't like panels floating about obstructing the page, that's just me.  ------------------ If it's not behaving as expected Try resetting your preferences: InDesign 19.3 and newer go to Preferences > General > and click on "Reset Preferences on Quit" and then quit and restart. Or Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog. More in-depth cleanse of preferences https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html   ---------- Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html     ... View more

Yep - raise it with Microsoft Support/ Forums. You can also raise it  here with Adobe https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests   But doubt there's much they can do as it's Microsoft issue as far as I can see. ... View more

Yes, indexing is a separate feature https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/creating-index.html     ... View more

Can you give the exact filename? Can you share the PDF here please?  Maybe it wasn't set to download initially - what happens if you republish it online?  ... View more

The link to the parent page was most likely broken inadvertently. Once you move or adjust a frame on a document page even slightly  it becomes overridden, which breaks its link to the parent page. Any change made directly on the document page, such as resizing, repositioning, or unlocking the frame, will cause it to no longer update when you modify the parent. To maintain the link, the frame must remain untouched on the document page. Once it’s overridden, updates from the parent won’t apply unless you remove the override by selecting the frame and choosing Remove Selected Local Overrides (from the Pages panel menu) or by reapplying the parent page — though reapplying can duplicate items like page numbers if not handled carefully.   Here I've threaded text frames on the parent page and move them around and they update on the pages       Once I break the relationship by going to the page and slightly even nudge it   Then it won't update when the parent page is updated       ---------------------------   What you need to do is reconnect the Parent Page - and you'll probably have to drag the Parent Page to the page in your document and that will recreate the parent elements, then remove the other elements and insert them to the parent items.    If it's all threaded from page 1 to end - then you can select all - cut the text - then delete all pages - apply parent page to page 1 - reflow the text - add another page and click the red overflow box and shift click on page 2 where the parent text frame is.          ... View more

Yeh I can't replicate it, no idea why your file shown in the video is pink and the file I asked for and you supplied is yellow? Why is that?   This is how it looks when I open it     So I have to change the Fill to something else - not a problem Now I have a filled Pink square   Now I select the yellow stroke   The use the eyedropper and shift click the pink rectangle     It applies the fill and not the stroke as the sample doesn't have a stroke, how can it sample it or apply it? I cannot find a key combo that applies the fill colour to the stroke.    I've toyed around in the options for the eyedropper and no combo in their does what you're showing.   Holding down Alt with eyedropper applies the stroke to the other object   Change the setting get slightly different behaviour   This is using Alt click with eye dropper after changing the settings     Anything I do in Illustrator does not change the stroke colour to the fill colour.           ... View more

So it has to be on the previous paragraph like I said originally ... View more

Yeh it doesn't work for me.    Can you share your document? ... View more

Yeh it does blow my mind.  I've tried several Illustrator settings and several key combinations following your video, and it doesn't work for me.  Can you give me a step by step (not video) in Illustrator to recreate? Can you share a file so I'm working exactly with what you have.    This is interesting for me, I've never seen it, behave like this. You have marked one as a stroke and clearly a stroke - but the other is marked as a fill, but I don't see the actual fill settings, as it's not clicked on so it's not clear.    I just want to make sure I can recreate the scenario - a sample file would help tonnes.    Any scenario that looks like it did is either: The object was already filled and just looked like a stroke. Some visual trick (hollow rectangle, appearance stack) makes it look like a stroke has been filled.   Or your eyedropper in illustrator is set to pick up the stroke - and the filled object has a stroke.    I've never seen an eyedropper tool apply a fill to a stroke. And can't replicate the behaviour.   This has piqued my curiosity. ... View more

What’s happening here actually makes sense once you know how the Eyedropper tool behaves in InDesign.   It can copy fill and stroke attributes, but only if the source object actually has those attributes. In your example, you’re sampling a pink fill from an object that has no stroke, so InDesign reads that as “stroke = none” and applies that to your target, effectively removing its stroke.   You can’t directly take a fill colour from one object and have it automatically apply to the stroke of another that kind of stroke-to-fill swapping only looks possible in Illustrator because of how it handles appearance attributes, but it’s not truly converting one to the other there either.   Here's a basic examaple   Illustrator Stroke This is how the stroke is applied in Illustrator. I can't find a way to fill an object with the stroke colour using the eyedropper tool.   But it might only look like a stroked object as a hollowed out rectangle like below. This would make the fill pink but looks like a stroke.  And when you sample this and apply it in Illustrator sure it fills with the colour as it's filled in illustrator. It actually has no stroke, you can can see that in the screen shot, the stroke is null with a red stripe in the bottom left.    If you double click the eyedropper tool in Illustrator you get all sorts of functions, maybe a combination of this works for you I haven't tried, but you can see Illustrator has extra things it can pick up and apply - but I haven't played with it - but I can't imagine it would be pick up a stroke and use it as a fill.   The Eyedropper in InDesign options are limited compared to Illustrators     To achieve what you want in InDesign Sample the stroke     And then use Shift X to swap the stroke with the fill    But I just can't find a way to get Illustrator to behave as you described it, and definitely not InDesign.    Eyedropper tool: can only copy matching attributes (fill to fill, stroke to stroke). Your Script: forces fill to swap stroke swapping between objects. InDesign limitation: no native command or option to interchange fill and stroke between different objects.   The script doesn't “fix” a bug, it's just coded around a limitation.   ... View more

No idea what you're trying to achieve.    I use the eyedropper tool in indesign everyday.    It works different to illustrator.    I'll have a look again and see what step I'm missing   I guess it's my misunderstanding.  ... View more