If you put the text frame that contains your data fields on the master page, you can create the merged document, and then if you change the content of your data source, you can update the link to the data source, and select Update Content in Data Fields from the fly-out of the Data Merge window, all from the merged file (no need to go back to the original and create a new merged document). I think that's what you're lookin for. ... View more

The dotted line means that the text frame is on the master page. It would be unusual to have all of that type in a master page, so I wonder if you are working on the master page when you meant to be working on the document page? ... View more

All the text shrunk to slightly weird sizes, text is 12.6/14.9, which is fine, but if I tried to apply the style sheet I get the unreduced, original size. By @eahuffman You can click into the newly-sized type and choose Redefine Style from the fly-out, then Option-click on the style name to remove the local formatting. That will make your 12.6/14.9 the new original size. ... View more

Are you using Auto Size in the Text Frame Options to dynamically size your text frame? If not, give it a try. Instead of grouping the image frame with the text frame, anchor the image frame using a custom anchor, and place the anchor as the first character in the text frame. Any text you add or delete will keep the text frame snapped to the size of the type, and the image frame will stay where you want it. ... View more

I'm not a Windows guy, so I can't help you there, but if you post your versions of InDesign and Windows, you might get some help a little faster. They pulled my monthly fee just a few days ago. I have "Manage My Account" available in the Help menu in my Mac version. It might be somewhere else on Windows, but I couldn't say for sure. Maybe your subscription needs to be updated. Just a thought.   EDIT: Looks like you got it sorted while I was replying. Cheers. ... View more

Does the whole book have to be in one InDesign document? Many people do a different document for each chapter, and use the Book feature to tie them all together. There are some advantages to the Book feature, but maybe there is something that makes you want it all in one document. Do you have a particular reason, or is this just something you decided? ... View more

I think you just want to be able to hide objects as you work. Is that correct? If so, there are at least two ways that are much easier. First, select an object and go to Object>Hide (or use the keyboard shortcut Command 3 on Mac or Control 3 on Windows). To show all, go to Object>Show All on Spread, or use the same shortcut, but add Option on Mac or Alt on Windows. The other way is with the eyeball that you can't find. It's in the Layers pallet like this: The eyeball only seems to show or hide all objects on the layer, but if you open the triangle, it will show each object on the layer on it's own, and these objects can be shown or hidden with the eyeball. ... View more

I think you may be able to use what they call in the newspaper game a "jump line." That's the thing at the end of a column which isn't the end of the story that reads something like "See Warehouse Fire-p7," and then on page 7, you might see something like "Warehouse Fire cont. from p3." To do this in InDesign, you use Type>Insert Special Characters>Markers>Next Page Number. In this screen shot, I'm showing a text thread that jumps around between pages 2 & 3: The large 2 on the left page is a text frame that has such a character in it. Because it's just sitting in a blank part of the page, it shows the page it's on, which is page 2. If I move it over to a blank part of page 3, it displays a 3. But if I place it where it's contacting a threaded text frame, it will show which page the next text frame in the chain is located. In this case, the next one is on page 3. And if I move the same text frame on top of one that threads back to page 2, it displays a 2. You can put any descriptive text in the text frame along with the Next Page special character, so have a go with this and see if it works for you. ... View more

Two columns and one column wouldn't be too hard. Just set all of the text frames to two column, make a body text style for the single-language that spans both columns, and a copy of the style for the two-language that doesn't. The trick is that you probably want the second language to be set beside the first language, which might be tricky if it goes longer than what fits on a page. That's because the part of the first language that doesn't fit in the first column would flow to the second, rather than to the next page. For that, you would want two single-column text frames on those pages. And this all gets more complicated if the amount of text changes which page it flows into (delete or add some text, and now your single-language text can't flow across columns, because it's flown into a page with two single-column frames, if you see what I mean).   There's probably a good answer, but it seems like doing it manually might be what ends up working. You'll probably get better answers than this, so keep an eye on this thread for a while. ... View more

The text wrap works on lines in the paragraph after the anchor marker, so in your example, if you moved the anchor before the first numbered paragraph, it will honor the wrap of the numbered paragraph. Give it a try and see if it works for you. ... View more

That won't work. If you cut a text frame from the middle of a story, the contents of that text frame will flow to the next avilable text frame in the chain. When you paste the cut frame back in place, you will have a duplicate of the contents that are now in the subsequent frame. ... View more

The company I work for is still using 2020, so I can't open your 2021 file, but is the text frame itself set to 3 columns? It's easy to mistake a single-column text frame when it's sitting on a document page that has 3-column guides. Here's a screen shot: The page has 3-column guides. The top text frame is single-column. The middle frame is 3-column. The bottom frame is 3-column with the text set to span all columns. I wonder if this last one is what you have. ... View more

I used to do book work years ago, but I don't any longer, so this isn't something I do daily. That said, I think what's supposed to happen is that if you specify how you want the PDF to look in InDesign, that's how it should look in Acrobat. If it's not doing that for you, then there is a problem. Now, with that said also, keep in mind that Acrobat isn't the only program that will open PDFs. If you send this to someone who opens it with Apple's Preview, it will open how ever Preview is set to view it. Just out of curiosity, have you tried changing the view settings in Acrobat? Can you get those two pages into a spread over there? ... View more

This is really more of a Photoshop question, and even though there are plenty of Photoshop experts who view the InDesign forum,  if you post in the Photoshop forum you might find some help.   Essentially, you're asking Photoshop to create new pixels as it enlarges your image. It can, to one extent or another, choose what color to make new pixels based on what the nearest pixels are colored, but what you are getting is typical. There are somethings that will be better than others, but expanding the size of an image isn't part of my regular workflow, so I'm not that experienced with what works best. Good luck. ... View more

If you don't need to work on all of them right now, maybe just convert the ones you need and hope that when they rewrite the code you won't have to go through .idml. If you do end up having to do that, you can probably get some help with a script that would do it for you, which would free up your day. ... View more

I don't use InCopy, so maybe "assignment" is a term they use, but other than that, it sounds like you're working with supplied files from a tutorial. Without knowing what files you have, it's hard to know how to help you. Then again, I could be completely wrong. ... View more

What does it look like if you use View>Display Performance>High Quality Display? ... View more

I work in print, and don’t do any work for the web, so I can’t advise you on this. With any luck, someone else on the forum can help you.  ... View more

You should report this as a bug. It’s beyond my understanding, but if you give all of the details, and contact info for the font designer, maybe you can get help.  ... View more

Well, that's generally a good benchmark, but it all depends on what you're printing. A photo on newsprint could work at much lower resolution, and if it's for a billboard that will be viewed from across a street, it could be lower still. ... View more

I think when you say "export," you really mean "import." When you bring an image onto the page, some programs call that importing, but InDesign calles it "placing." If you are using a copy of InDesign with a non-English interface, it might be called something different, but it's in the File menu.   What you see on the page isn't necessarily what you get, though. When a high-resolution image is viewed on the screen, it takes some time for the computer to render the digital info into pixels, and if you zoom or move around on the screen, it has to redraw those pixels again. This can take time, so InDesign defaults to showing you a lower-resolution image that is good enough for most placement issues. When you output the page to a printer or PDF, the low-resolution preview image is replaced by the actual image info, which is usually better. If you want to see the full-resolution image, you can go to View>Display Performance and choose High Quality Display, but your system will be a little slower. You can also show all of the images as grey blobs if you choose Fast Display, which you might need if you had many high-resolution images on a page, and you just need to edit the type.   The actual resolution of the image is a combination of the image's resolution (if it's a pixel-based format), plus the scaling. If a 300ppi photo is scaled up to 200%, it's resolution will be half, or 150ppi. Reduce it to 50% and it will be 600ppi. You can see the actual and effective ppi in the Links window. Vector images don't have a ppi, so you can scale them without changing the resolution. ... View more

It looks like Sibelius is placing the flat under the 5, and then moving it back under the sharp when the 3 is entered. I couldn't say how Sibelius is doing that. It could be a ligature, the way f and l or f and i typed as individual glyphs can be substituted for a combined glyph, as in this example: Maybe when you enter the flat and then the 3, it's substituting a combined glyph instead. You can check this by going to Type>Glyphs and seeing if there are any ligatures of flat with 3. That's just a shot in the dark, though. It could be done with kerning that Sibelius is designed to do automatically, but I wouldn't know that either. Although it would be easier to just type it, making character styles for positioning would make the whole thing fairly easy to apply. ... View more

It sounds like this font has some new features not found in contemporary fonts, but how does Sibelius create these chord symbols? Does it create type from the notes you put in, or do you type the chord symbols? I mean, if you're in C, and you enter C-E-F#-Bb, does it know that's a C7#11 and that if the F# were a Gb it's a C7b5, or do you have to type that yourself? It may help understand why typing this font into InDesign isn't working.   You might consider making a text frame that you can insert as an inline object. In this example, I have used a combination of Superscript, Subscript and Kerning. I don't have any music fonts for the accidentals on this computer, but you get the idea. ... View more

Here's a screen shot: The top frame is a radial gradient inside of a rectangle. The middle frame is the same radial gradient inside of a square. The bottom frame is the rectangle pasted inside of a square, which looks the most like your screen shot. I'm not sure what you have, or how it was created, but can you describe what you want, and what steps you are taking to get it? ... View more

Bob can answer this with great detail, but here's a reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUvayH_AIG8 ... View more