an orange pomeranian dog that is wearing reading glasses and sending an email on an imac   ... View more

Edit: This looks like a new bug. See this post for developing information:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/error-in-scripts-opening-indesign-after-photoshop-update-line-2798-no-matching-closing-brace-found/td-p/15231798   have you ever installed any adobe indesign startup scripts (or photoshop startup scripts) that - over time - may no longer work on recent versions? If you inspect the indesign startup scripts folder (located here /Applications/Adobe InDesign 2025/Scripts/startup scripts ) and see if there's anything beyond the ForceDirectory.txt file. Chances are, if there are scripts in here, one of them may be the cause. ... View more

I'll sometimes have this issue when - in finder - double-clicking on an .indd file that is on a server, but if the file opens up as read only, I'll make a minor change and then REVERT from the File Menu, and the reverted copy opens up fine. Usually happens if the file is a larger file and takes some time to open. The other thing I try to do is after I've double clicked the .indd file in finder, I'll single click somewhere in the folder so that the .indd itself is no longer selected, sometimes that makes a difference too. ... View more

I concur with the fellow experts here - draw the graphic in Illustrator (perhaps leveraging some of the effects menu's 'distort and transform' portion) and either copy and paste it into InDesign; or save the file and place it as a link. ... View more

I think it would be fair to say you want to be able to export both PDFs at the same time with the minimum of fuss.   A javascript that can run from InDesign's script panel would be a solution I would use. That said, there isn't one "on the shelf" I can offer so it would need to be written, but in the age of chat GPT there are a few avenues: another poster may read this thread and either offer the script to the community; suggest how to write it; or that they write it for you commercially; an AI web service like ChatGPT may be able to write a script like this with the appropriate prompts; a paid InDesign AI plugin such as Omata Mate might do the same as the above, but remain within InDesign's framework. If you want to tackle this script yourself, I'd suggest going to the InDesign Javascript API that particularly references the PDF export preferences which is here: https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#PDFExportPreset.html ... View more

 This may also be a suggestion for the indesign uservoice site (where the indesign developers look at user submitted bugs and suggestions): https://indesign.uservoice.com/ Only workaround in the meantime is to adjust the pages panel to look like this:   that was done using these options:   ... View more

I see that this thread has split into two issues over time - one about semicolon delimiters; and one about colons in the header row. I've written articles about both phenomena before. The first being comma/semicolon delimiters swapping from Excel and why I prefer UTF-16: https://colecandoo.com/2022/05/16/to-be-or-csv-that-is-the-delimiter/ The second (written for creativepro) features a troubleshooting guide that - for a long time - didn't appear in Adobe's data merge help... at least until I'd written the article: https://creativepro.com/troubleshooting-data-merge-errors/ ... View more

Just had a look on Adobe Stock and competitors and agree that most of the fare on offer is for mockups rather than an actual InDesign file that's ready to go. @Derek Cross provided a link to a good script to make a book cover from scratch. Similarly, Indiscripts has a paid book cover maker for InDesign (https://indiscripts.com/category/projects/HurryCover) that I've reviewed on my own blog (https://colecandoo.com/2024/07/23/indiscripts-hurry-cover-3-has-it-covered/). Note that Marc from Indiscripts and I have known each other for a while so take this into consideration when reading the article, though this declaration is mentioned at the end of the article.   ... View more

Knowing the scope of the project will certainly help determine what method may be more appropriate. If this is a 2 page price-list with not many SKUs then a data merge solution or linked excel file solution may be workable. If this is a 180pp catalogue then something like a catalogue plug-in such as Em Software's InCatalog; Cacidi Extreme; 65bit's EasyCatalog; Meadows PS' Designmerge Catalog; Teacup Software's Datalinker These are paid plug-ins but they bridge the gap required to make full-fledged price/parts catalogues in InDesign ... View more

Cheers for the link from Pantone's site by @Jeffrey_Smith  An even more detailed list of suffixes can be found on pages 96-97 of the Enfocus Action List manual - https://www.enfocus.com/en/support/downloads/pitstop-action-lists FYI - Pantone and Esko (Enfocus' parent company) are both owned by Veralto. ... View more

Hello again. Try the link from my site again - I didn't realise it wasn't available. ... View more

I've a script that will do the planner pages (e.g. page 1 and 2) of your PDF, but so far as the daily pages go, the information such as 1 January Wednesday can all be one threaded textframe, with Excel doing the heavy lifting of generating the dates. However, the three calendar panels will be harder to do, these I'd treat as images that are in a parent page relevant to the month at hand.   Another method might be to look at using data merge to make the pages, where - again - the data for the dates comes in from Excel.   For the last 10 years or so I've been looking to automate diaries in a completely foolproof way over a collection of 250 SKUs. Unfortunately there are so many variables in play that a one-size-fits-all solution. To be clear, that isn't just the dates such as 1 January Wednesday, but also the school terms associated with the weeks; the mini calendars, the front matter... it's a massive task. ... View more

Have you checked this post? I think they are trying to do the same thing:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/using-a-script-to-access-indesign-s-datamerge-fields/m-p/13678552 ... View more

The good folks over at creativepro might have what you're after. Two links in particular - an article by Mike Rankin on the topic; and a script that creates artistic style scalloped edges:   https://creativepro.com/creating-scalloped-edges/ https://creativepro.com/free-script-to-add-an-antique-edge-to-photos/ ... View more

I agree with Mike, if you could perhaps provide us with some more information, that would be great. Are you able to give us an example of an issue you may be expecting?    By 'printer' are you referring to a small print shop with colour copiers or HP indigo machines, large print shop with full colour offset A1 size machines, or something much larger?    While this is your first book, do you have other experience in using InDesign for printing output, and if so, how often would you liaise with your suppliers?    If I were to look on a (good) random printer's website now, they would provide a list of PDF specifications and - if you're lucky - a .joboptions file to load into InDesign for output to PDF to their specs. That said, there's a difference between meeting the specs and making artwork that's print-ready. A document might have the appropriate crop marks and bleed, as well as images at the correct resolution, but might have thin type throughout the document that has a fill colour that contains all four colours - a big red flag for any prepress operator.   What I will say as a prepress operator for +25 years is that the only time a file should be submitted to a printer is when it is absolutely, 100% without a doubt ready to go to press. That is, if you get a proof back from your printer and start making many minor changes to content (that are no fault of the printer such as typos etc), you may find out that these changes are all chargeable, The more proofs that are done, the larger the prepress bill will be AND has a potential to introduce unforced errors into a job through miscommunication. ... View more

Guess you're using a mac. What version of the OS is running? Guessing you've run this script before with the list in the correct order - do you recall when the last time the script ran correctly? I don't think the script is creating the list randomly, but just in a different order (possibly date made or file size, I can't tell from here). When I have a look at the imagecatalog.jsx script in a text editor, I can see that line 59 is the mac file filter. It is literally building an array (a list of stuff) but there isn't an instruction as to how to sort that stuff, so the script may be using whatever sort order is currently active in your finder. Perhaps try an alternative script, such as the two image folder to data merge scripts from Ozalto's website http://www.ozalto.com/en/solutions-en/downloads/ ... View more

There you go... happy to admit I was mistaken on that issue. Could possibly be a printer driver issue that isn't passing on the necessary information to Acrobat's UI that toggles whether to show the checkbox or not. Do you have the latest printer driver for that specific model? ... View more

I feel your frustration, but unfortunately there's a distinction between the print user interface that Adobe Acrobat has, and that is available the printer subdialog box. The main user interface of the Adobe Acrobat print screen contains features that it should be able to invoke on any printer (e.g. scaling, print in grayscale, tiling etc) but there are some features that are printer specific that are out of Acrobat's control (e.g. duplex, stapling, collate sets, top corner stapling, hole punching) and these are controlled specifically by the printer driver. If the main window had buttons for printer features that weren't available to that printer, there isn't a way that Acrobat can either ensure that the function will happen on that printer; or that the printer is capable of that function. ... View more

The default is 211.667mm, but you can change it in a live table.   Highlight the cell and go to cell properties (Ctrl/Option B on a mac) and in the new UI go to the fourth tab across the top, rows and columns.  Where I've circled is the part that dictates the maximum. Now change it to a larger value. In my case, I'll change it to 250mm and click OK.   Unfortunately, you can't set it to that height as a default while no documents are open.    Hope that helps   ... View more

If they are custom page sizes, you'd need to navigate to the file New Page Sizes.xml - I've an article that explains how to get there here: https://colecandoo.com/2019/08/18/document-presets-vs-new-page-sizes-xml-adding-page-sizes/ From here, you need a text editor that can edit the XML and you would have to sort the page sizes manually. ... View more

I'm going to be the Devil's advocate here and actually agree that it would be required. From time to time, I have to deal with suppliers that aren't in the ink-on-paper space but still involved in printing, but they need to handle the files that I've given them that were created in InDesign. Now these suppliers range from applying spot UV varnishes to making hot foil stamps or emboss/deboss blocks - the two latter are often done with cnc machining and they need to open the files outside of Acrobat... so naturally one of the first issues they will have is missing fonts... and I certainly don't want them to substitute the fonts out! It's also very easy to say "use another provider" but come to Adelaide sometime and see just how many providers we have that are local and not interstate in Melbourne or Sydney. Cost and Time does play a big part in who we use as a contractor and I'd love to say to my supplier "get with the times" but they'll just tell me to "get another supplier" that will add days to the turnaround and eat $$$ of margin. However, I do agree with Bob Levine that this isn't the place to ask - the indesign uservoice is where to make the feature requests. ... View more

I'm wondering if it is a feature of the font that's being used. What is the name of the typeface that is being used? EDIT - I've just tried to replicate the fault by creating the same type in the same font (that I believe to be Nunito medium) but there aren't any opentype features that would superscript numbers and brackets. Numbers, maybe... but it would do all numbers, not just numbers in brackets (this is if "fractions" was checked in the opentype portion of the paragraph style dialog box) but it wouldn't do the brackets as there isn't an alternative glyph for a superscripted pair of brackets. To the OP - what happens if you copy this text to a new indesign document; or change the paragraph style applied to it? Are you able to export a snippet of this text or save a portion as idml so that we can try and replicate the fault? ... View more

Is there a keyboard shortcut that can turn the contextual taskbar on/off; or can it be invoked using javascript - and if so, what is the syntax for it? ... View more

Hello there.   I've a few tutorials on my site that use this sort of behaviour. Have a look here https://colecandoo.com/2012/02/19/going-beyond-stencil-letters/ and see if these examples are of assistance. ... View more

To paraphrase, you would like to send your designer the text but somehow tag it so that has the intended formats that you want. Fair to say? InDesign has great control over formatting. I'd suggest reading this link first about how paragraph styles work: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/paragraph-character-styles.html If the styles are already agreed upon and have appropriate names, something as simple as a tag at the start of a paragraph should be enough information to provide to the designer so they are aware of what paragraph style to apply. They can then apply the appropriate style when taking in the content and remove the human-readable tag to it once formatted. Either that, or use PDF round-tripping. That is, let the designer prepare PDF proofs for you, and when you get them, highlight them using Acrobat's markup tools (link here https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/commenting-pdfs.html) so that using different coloured highlights can indicate to the designer what styles to apply. ... View more

Thank you for the mention. In this case the OP might be placing the excel file rather than using them in a data merge. If placed correctly (that is, linked to the source file) the contents of the excel tables in the InDesign file should update while maintaining the formatting... should. I use this method when making school diaries so that the monthly calendars on week to a spread pages can be updated each year and have the numbers change but the format retained. That said, Peter Kahrel has a price adjuster script that might do the trick too - I'd recommend looking at that first: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/price_adjuster.html ... View more