Since InDesign is an industry-standard there HAS to be a solution for this.

First off, unfortunately, I have to use InDesign CS6 at work (no, I don't know why the company hasn't updated the software). But this is my job so I need to make it work as well as I can.

I have made sure that the appearance of black settings are set to both view and output black accurately but when I export PDFs there seems to still be at least some ghosts of other color channels (CMY) in some things that I know were set up as 100% black. Also, I'm exporting these files to make plates for newspapers so I also need to output things that are "close-to-black" as 100% black.

The process they've been using (before I got there) is to export the PDFs then open them in Photoshop, do a color profile conversion, output them as tiffs, take the tiffs back into an InDesign template for single pages (I think this step is just to ensure the pages are inside the printable borders), and output as single PDFs again for the ancient imposition software they're using (*sigh*). Obviously, all of these extra steps are very time-consuming, messy, annoying, and opens more possibilities for errors.

So, what do you think is going wrong with the original export of the PDFs and how do I make sure these output correctly so I don't have to do all this extra stuff? All ideas are welcome.

could someone export this as a IDML file please so I can use it in affinity suite please.
thanks in advance, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5O9AaBulSc_qr8yv6nxOhwDVF2xQ9Nw

Hey all, I'm very new to Indesign/Illustrator and was wondering if someone could teach me how to create mockups? Added one for example, I am not sure if this can be done in Indesign or Illustrator but I can access either!

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Hey yall, I just wanted to see if there was a place to pay for legitimate magazine templates for indesign? I can’t figure out how to use the program (even with multiple youtube videos) and I really just want to create my magazine. I’m not a graphic designer so I want something more plug and play if that makes sense. I know that YouTube should be a great resource for me but I’m being honest with myself, most videos are talking too much, moving too fast, and not “ELI5”.

So i use a laptop usually and things are normally fine. however for some reason now all objects on my second monitor is not moveable. i can click on the object and when i attempt to move it theres a red circle icon. if i move the indesign window to my main screen everything is moveable and the problem only happens on the 2nd monitor. ive tried reseting preferences, nothing is locked.

How do you prepare a long document in Word? I have realised that this is one of the most important things, and I would like to know which styles are correct and how to prepare it.

All this focused on books: novels and essays.

Thank you very much!

Anyone know where I can and how I can get super sick graphics into it? For a HSC major work. and anyone know how to like blur things or fade things away on indesign so I can get like colour splotches. Also open to any cool ideas for graphics, my portfolio is Mario kart themed!! If anyone knows how the graphics were done in the photos pls lmk!!

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I'm trying to make the leading look more like photo 1 which looks tighter but says it has the same leading as photo 2 which is 15 pt. I am using the same exact paragraph style for both but can not understand why the leading looks so much larger on text in photo 2

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About how the reading order Adobe picks is almost always, without exception, the stupidest possible way that the document could read. Stuff on the bottom of the page first? Sure. One random word at the end of the paragraph designated as it's own section? Hell yes!!

It's goes on and on, and it's pushing me to the brink of insanity. If you know anything about it, let's chat.

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Hey! As you can see in the picture there is a slightly blue background connected to a link. I want to remove this background/link. How do I do this? Because the background/link doesnt show up in the layers.

Hey all, I am making a foundational typography styles document which will serve as the basis for a brand's design system. I am working on custom bullets and numbering now.

Since these things are controlled used individual Character Styles, is there a way to indicate "make this bullet 80% the current size of the font" or do I just need to make a Character Style for each size?

Looking for some advice/direction. We produce a community services guide every year, and our annual editing workflow involves physically marking up a printed copy that then has to be interpreted and re-keyed into the InDesign file.

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In this example, we've got five main parts of each entry:

1. Title
2. Phone number
3. URL
4. Address
5. Description

I'd love to have a spreadsheet with columns for the each of these info categories that could be imported into InDesign each year.

As such, I'd also love to be able to map the spreadsheet columns to our paragraph styles for the import. I'm assuming we'd always need to go through the document and fix weird formatting things, but I'm still thinking that such a work flow would be better than several people making and writing notes over notes in the margins.

I know it's pretty standard to map spreadsheets to tables and table styles, but we're not using tables. Anybody done something like this?

Is this an xml thing? Any better ideas?

Thanks!

Hello Im new to easyCatalog.

When I create a new "custom field," can't it be used across the different "tabs" inside the panel?
I can't see the new "custom field" under "show/hide" when I'm on a different "tab."

Hi first time posting here - pretty regular indesign user but running into a wall with a very annoying task. Basically I'm using a font that I need to swap out for very specific characters through a large body of text. (Think replacing every ampersand in a font that is otherwise fine). I've messed around googling find/replace functions and no luck so far, any tips would be appreciated, otherwise I'm just going to be manually switching fonts for quite a while, which I'd rather not leave to human error.

Can anyone please help me get this fixed it just started doing this in the export settings menu where the text is getting cut off with … Does anyone know how to fix this?

I am working in another designer's master indesign file that I received from the publisher. There are ~300 linked images. When I export (no matter what PDF setting I choose), it takes forever to export, and it comes out as a huge file (around 890mb). Can someone please help? I am not supposed to alter/modify any of the images, and I need to get a print-ready file. My export compression settings are set to downsample color and grayscale images to 300 for images above 450, and downsample monochrome images to 1200 for images above 1800.

(image files are all .tif) and export settings have them compressing to automatic (jpg)

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I have a whole package, filled with images, whenever I export to PDF, this photo does this. It's a crisp image, properly linked, good quality. It's the only image in the document doing this, and it has not done this in the past, I have used this image on several recent documents I've created... None of my export settings have changed, I have no idea whats going on? How do I fix this?!

I use indesign 2020, how can i send the the indesign file being editable with the images in place?

Is anyone else having issues downgrading from version 20.1?

Mine is losing each and every one of its marbles, and having seen the earlier post I've been trying to downgrade, but CC is showing no previous versions available. Is this the same for anyone else?

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Placing from word document and get this really irritating paragraph spacing thing even when i back space and press enter again. I'm not sure why is occurs but the way im fixing it is going into the word document and then shift, enter, where the weird line break is and then re-place into indesign (which can taken a few attempts as its not even a paragraph its the same sentence). I can sometimes do this inside indesign but other times it doesn't work.

Been doing this for ages and I just wondered if anyone knows a quicker work around to fix this easier? I just want it to go to the next line I get its something to do with different line breaks but i don't know much about that and im the only person in my company who needs to use indesign.

Just to add, I have obviously checked the Leading, there is also no other elements that are wrapped to make this happen, but still it persists.

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I updated InDesign earlier this month, and when I need to work in it, it crashes seemingly almost every 1-2 minutes. I notice it happens mostly when I option-drag something to duplicate a graphic element or page. It will crash right away. I've seemingly tried everything... freeing up storage, restarting my comp, uninstalling and installing it again. Not sure what's up. Wondering if this is a major bug for anyone else.

I have a 200 page PDF that I want to import into my InDesign template which features a header and footer.

I know of the JavaScript "PlaceMultipagePDF" which is great if you want the PDF to take up your whole spread, but that's not what I am looking for.

I want to be able to do the same thing that the JavaScript does but within a Frame, so that I don't have to go back and resize all 200 pages.

Make sense? Can someone please help?

I am preparing the digital edition of an art book I designed, and I'm trying to figure out if there is any way to make it so that the pages with two-page spread illustrations export as single spreads in the PDF, while the rest of the pages remain single-page? That way the two-page illustrations don't get split in two when being viewed on a mobile device, for instance. If not possible in Indesign, can it be done in Acrobat? Thanks!

At my organization I will be required to start updating presentations on a monthly basis. Previously these have been on powerpoints, but I am pushing to allow them presented as .PDFs so I can create them in InDesign.

One issue that will arise is constantly updating graphs, charts, and figures every month. I am looking to automate this as much as possible to save myself and my team time.

As it works right now, I get the data handed to me in excel files, and I create the graph in excel, and move that into a powerpoint. I am looking to smooth this workflow out in Powerpoint and ideally InDesign.

Thanks

This is directly inspired by this post in Graphic Design:

https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1i97u6v/how_do_you_manage_changing_stats_and_figures_in/

Hi, I’m currently in the process of printing a children’s book for college using the Blurb Bookcreator plugin on InDesign. When I go to publish the book and I get back the PDF it shows a faint white line around pretty much all of my images that I have placed into InDesign… Will these show on the printed copy?

Thanks a bunch