I’m looking to learn InDesign and was wondering if my laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3) can run it smoothly

Specs: AMD Ryzen 3 7320U with Radeon Graphics, 2.40 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 236GB SSD

I'm aware I can see these in preflight, but this is a "one at a time" situation where I have to click individual errors to adjust manually. I'm typically dealing with documents containing 500-2000 pages. My only adjustments I make have to do with horizontal scaling to fit a name on one line. What I am hoping to do is use Find/Replace to bulk all the text frames that show an overset error and use replace to scale these at one time. Is this possible?

I'm making a catalog for a books/games store. I live in a bilingual country, so for the second language version, I sent my file to a freelancer. I just got the file back, but I think the freelancer didn't have one of the font weights installed (I did include it in the package).

Now all of the products' prices have been changed from ExtraBold to Black, and for each of the prices it says "Price+" in the Paragraph styles. When I go into the paragraph style, it still says "ExtraBold"

Is there a way to clear overrides for all of these instances in some way? Or am I going to select all the prices by hand and clear overrides individually?

So I have tables (just 1 row) filled with text in the document . I would like to create a frame that has curvature on the sides as shown in the photo- How to make the frame work the same way as a table- part of the text ? Alternative solution would be also so find an option to curve the table but I have not managed to find that option yet. Any help appreciated !

I have a paragraph style that has a GREP style to bold certain words and it's creating an override that won't go away. If I remove the GREP style the issue goes away but with it, no matter how many times I clear overrides, it keeps popping up that little + beside the paragraph style.

The GREP style is just this
(?i)word1|word2|word3
and so on.

Using the override highlighter, it shows an override after the paragraph, where there isn't even anything typed. It's not even the only paragraph style with a grep style. It is however the only paragraph style that looks specifically for certain words. So I can only assume it's something to do with how I have this GREP style typed?

How can I fix this?

I design book interiors and have a client who uses endnotes in their picture captions. Typically, I import the picture and create a new box for the caption. However, she already has the captions as part of the regular flow of text and the endnotes are numbered accordingly.

If I cut and paste the caption with the endnote and put in a new text box, it adds a new number (#317) instead of the original #24. The picture it goes with is also a map and no matter where I place it (it needs to be larger so people can read it), that caption will be a bit out of order due to space needed and text flowing to the next page.

I wondered if there was a way to take off the automatic numbering (like converting a numbered list to text) which would help part of my problem but could be tough to work with if she changes any endnotes around when I send her the layout to proof before going to print.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle this? Thank you for your help.

Edit: Changed to footnotes to endnotes

Maybe I’m doing this wrong, but I want to hear your thoughts on this. I have enough knowledge to get the baseline grid to align to margins if I so choose, or have to be able to work with modular grids which I find to be very useful.

If, however, I want a modular and baseline grid then the modular grid has to have gutters which are a multiple of the baseline grid, and this can often be fairly limiting. I’ve tried making the baseline grid 3, and working margins and guides to be in multiples of 3, but then when it comes to multiple paragraph styles and spacing after styles this can cause items to be misaligned.

What should I be doing in order to be able to use a modular grid while also having text baselines in adjacent columns align?

I follow really well with reading instructions, but I can't seem to find anything online that is direct and simple enough.

I've noticed that when publishing online, a document of gifs seems to take far longer than one with videos. I had assumed GIFs would be a lighter workload, and it's important that the document loads very quickly.

Any thoughts?

Hi all,

With the exception of Multiply:

I have always avoided exporting images to print when I have an effect on them eg "Darker" or "colour Dodge". As a simple example, if I have an image in a box, and direct select the image, apply an overlay filter, and colour the box so that it changes the colour of the image.

The reason is I have heard these do not print or export correctly, and quite often if I have an elaborate layered image construction I will just export that composition as a jpeg and use that as the image, and keep the text on another layer on top. It works perfectly well this way, but am I being too careful? I'm an experienced designer and I can't see any guidance online about these effects for print, beyond this warning about nothing but Multiply working.

Thoughts/experiences?

EDIT: thanks to those who have replied about the PDFX 4. This is what I have been using. My question was particularly about specific effects in InDesign and whether they are safe for printing - ie, if I export this design with a certain transparency setting eg colour burn, does it really work properly in terms of production. I know multiply is safe however the others in the transparency menu have a big question mark. I always play it safe so don't have issues, but I just want to make sure I am not being *too* safe

I have been editing this thing and it will kill me. I have to add these special indentations after each header so it lines up like the image provided. I'm not stellar at Indesign so I have just been hitting tab to make them, but then it starts this type of nonsense and I am beyond lost. If anyone could help tell me why or show me a better way of doing it please let me know.

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Hey guys/gals,

Been a long time user of InDesign and never had this issue before. I'm convering an old document and I have a numbered paragraph style to all my lists are consistent. Problem is I have two lists but for some reason its continuing rather then restarting back at 1.

I've tried a few things to get it to reset but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or suggestions?

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Is there a way to do this the same way you would add page numbers automatically? I’m creating chapter headers and this would save me a LOT of time

So I stumbled upon this plugin for Indesign, which lets you use ChatGPT inside of Indesign via the OpenAI-API: https://github.com/RolandDreger/indesign-openai

I'm not sure yet how to use it in my layout projects and I also did not test it yet, but you can find out more about what it can do by watching these videos, which are very promising: https://github.com/RolandDreger/indesign-openai?tab=readme-ov-file#use-cases

I'm very sure that LLMs (large language models, like ChatGPT) are slowly becoming a big thing in the world of graphics design too, and was hoping for a while that we could use AI not only in photoshop but in layout apps too. And because every week there are several models published which could make our work easier and more efficient, I think that this or a similar plugin should sometime be able to connect Indesign to a locally running LLM. (i.e on an Ollama server, https://ollama.com). This means that such a plugin would be able to send and receive content, as seen in these videos, to and from a locally running LLM (maybe even finetuned for this purpose) and therefore it could be used for free and without giving any data into the hands of companies like OpenAI.

I'm not a programmer myself, just a user of Indesign who'd be very happy if you could share ideas about how to get that going. I also started an issue on the plugins github page, so you can see there what the creator of the plugin has to say about this idea.

Look also here for the current developments regarding LLMs: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA

I´ve been trying to import a whole manuscript from word- it includes tables, footnotes, different text formatting. I´m new to this and and I got stuck right in the beginning- when I try to place the text in the ID document with primary text frame checked (I tried docx and rtf document) it either gets stuck on autoflow loading bar (tried to wait few times but obviously it wouldn´t load 40 page documents for an hour if something wasn´t wrong), OR it imports only few pages from the document (and the number of the pages varies each time!!). Any hints what I might be doing wrong ? I also checked the word doc, everything seems to be alright there. I will be really grateful for any help!

Hi all,

I'm in the process of producing an auction catalogue, and want to create two or three different template pages with guidelines which I can then add as I go through the layout of the catalogue. It's about 80 pages so it'd be really useful to just be able to load different templates depending on what lots are going onto the page.

Is there a quicker way to create and load guides onto a page than just copy and pasting from a previous page? That seems super cumbersome to me...

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Edit] - I've figured it out with Parent pages.

Hi, all. We are putting together a book 8" x 8". The author is not very computer savvy and is very visual. But, without the page edges, she can't tell what the actual page looks like. Where is the text on the page? etc.

I can display the text boxes using a stroke, but how do I get the edges of the page to show up? We are printing on 8.5x11 copy paper for editing and to check layout.

I'm trying to get down to the bottom of something that's been driving me nuts for a while with InDesign.

For example:
I'll start working in a fresh document, I'll write my title with the character settings I want. I'll highlight that line and select "Create New Style." The new character style will accurately assign the highlighted text settings to that new style and I'm set.

I'll move down the document, type out a line of body text, create a new style the same way (I am not in the previous created style while doing this), but there's a 50/50 chance it decides to NOT assign the highlighted text to the newly created style, and I have to go into the style settings and re-enter all the type settings again manually. I cannot figure out why this happens, but it's driving me crazy.

Hello !

I'm working on designing an A5 zine but have never used InDesign before. I'm fairly familiar with Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro but I'm having a bit of a hard time getting the hang of InDesign.

If anyone has any advice/ resources that might help me get started I would greatly appreciate it !

Thanks in advance !

When I change the Object Layer Options of a linked Illustrator file the content jumps around.
This makes it hard to add layers in the linked file. Is there anything in my File Handling preferences I can change to fix this? Screenshot of current settings below.

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https://preview.redd.it/417lmzgwtrnd1.png?width=737&format=png&auto=webp&s=6dabb5a6ee5ed353487be60243403d3b39e65812

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I publish files on a daily basis for my job, but there you go, today GIFs won't play, although they are of course working and looping correctly.

I can't post the link for professional reasons (NDA) but would love if someone can tell me what to look for?

Hiii, I’m the sole designer for my schools yearbook this year and I’m really struggling with the spreads. We have like zero design elements so I’m doing the best w what I can!! I also can only use 6 pictures . The part I really need help with is the pulled quote at the bottom left, it feel weird, any suggestions on what to add there? Feel free to critique as harsh as possible.

Hello,

I'm new to Indesign. I'm trying to place furiganas on a Japanese text but I can't get the "Ruby" option to work, not even when I select the advanced "Japanese paragraphs" setting.

Do we have to set the software in Japanese ? Isn’t the “Ruby” option available in the American English version ?

Also, is it possible to automate furiganas, or do I have to write everything word by word?

Thanks in advance

Is it possible to create a digital magazine with a customisable URL?

E.g., "MyWebsiteName.ClientName/DocTitle

I want to convert individual client documents into e-magazines, but don't want 3rd part urls like issuu.com etc.

I also want to add a view option for table of contents, if this is possible?

Hello, I have some psd files I linked to indesign, they are in CMYK model, but when I print them they are very desaturated. Does anyone know how can I preserve the same level of saturation of my files in printing?