My employer is trying something new this year by breaking up the professional development funds individually rather than have a pool to draw from if you qualify.

I think it would be helpful to work on some automation and customizing InDesign to fit our convoluted workflow.

When it comes to code I can typically understand it, but I cannot write it from the start. I have experience from my Flash days with Actionscript (Javascript) and I can write HTML.

Any courses that people have done and would be willing to suggest?

WHY is publishing a document so hard?

They work (sometimes) as an interactive PDF but online, which is what I want for animation purposes, means that none of my buttons or hyperlinks are working. Internet doesnt seems to have answers. :(

this book is set in a classical-canon text block, so toward the gutter

text frame is drawn properly in parent pages using "margins and columns" dialog to set the purple line, and the automatic text frame drawn to these margins

however the book's native margins (when you set margins in the first dialog box on new doc) are just .5" on all sides for the pages with images

problem comes when deleting one page and the book re-shuffles—the text block of every page shifts toward the fore-edge instead of staying toward the gutter side

the purple margin lines are drawn correctly toward the gutter, but the text frame itself is not

A) is this related to the book's main margins of .5"? and i should start again??

or

B) is there a setting or pref to fix this, keep the text box inside the margin even after deleting one page?

(in margins and columns, "adjust layout" is off. but i tried with it on and it doesn't fix it.)

additional mystery: when i "pull" down a parent page into the layout by clicking and dragging, text frames are on the wrong side; when i "insert" pages from the hamburger menu, they are on the correct side

Can anyone help me figure out the correct way of nesting a two column text box inside a single column one? So that the title goes full width and then we have two columns below. I currently have the below settings using an anchored text box, but when I command+option+C it to clip it to height, the main text frame ignores the columns and treats it as though it's just on one line.

Not sure if there's a better way to achieve this? Any help appreciated - I'm banging my head against a wall with it.

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Hey,

I am working on 100+ Multiple choice questions that I have generated from ChatGPT. I have imported the text stripped of any formatting to allow me full control. Is there an easy way to import the text into Indesign in a way that allows me to select all the text at once and convert it to a series of correctly formated questions and options, orderly numbered from 1 to n? The best I am able to do at the moment is apply two successive styles to the question and list of options using Apply "....." then Next Style on each question, for as many questions as are there. This is an activity I have to carry out every week, so it would be good to have a way of getting this done quicker.

TIA

Hi All,

I am experimenting with liquid resizing. I want to use object-based liquid page rule because it works best with all of my page elements except for font size in my text boxes. How do I get my font size to scale up with my resize using liquid layouts without using liquid page rule scale?

Thanks for any tips!

Okay so here's my problem. In my preflight, I get a warning wherever content is not scaled proportionally. Now, what I've normally done is right click the object -> fitting -> fit content proportionally OR fit frame proportionally.

This not longer works. If I do this, it will scale the content to fit the frame, but it will no longer ensure that it is proportionally scaled. If it was slightly out of proportion, it might make it widely out of proportion. What I do as a workaround to fix this is that I now go to the properties of the object and manually type in the same vertical and horizontal scaling. Then I ensure that I hold ctrl+shift when I scale it to how I like.

However this is time consuming and tedious. Is this some bug in the newest version of indesign? Is this some sort of setting this is screwed up?

An important note: This only happens to indesign files I get sent over from one particular colleague who's notorious for disproportional scaling. I never get this problem on files I build myself from scratch. My colleague is working on a mac and I'm on a pc, if that matters.

Is there anywhere that might have a list of available unused shortcuts. I want to create a couple of custom ones but finding something not already assigned is annoying. Currently I just press keys till it doesn't say it's assigned to something else...

Can somebody tell me why the blacks are different? The bubbles were made i photoshop and brought in as a PNG could that be why?

Hello,

I use InDesign on both my windows PC and Macbook. Basically what happened was I had the latest version work on my PC and saved it as .inddc the night before. I also had the same .inddc file open on my Macbook, not updated to the latest version.

Today, I went to uni, opened my Mac to the unupdated .inddc file, I opened the cloud documents folder and tried to open the updated .inddc file where there was a prompt asking me if I wanted to update the file on my Mac to the latest version of the file. I waited 5 minutes, nothing happened, it was still the unupdated file and opening the updated inddc. file from the cloud did nothing. Thus I decided to force quit InDesign to see if it would do anything. This was a bad idea.

InDesign now crashes on both my Mac and PC whenever I try to open the same .inddc file. I encounter 'Adobe InDesign 2025 has encountered a problem and needs to close'. It works fine with other .inddc files so I suspect it is the actual cloud document. The file also would not download to any of my devices from Creative Cloud. I've also redownloaded InDesign on my PC and it results in the same message.

I've got a pretty important deadline in less than 48 hours and all my work is on that file. Would be a humongous help if someone assists me in troubleshooting this even the slightest.

Thanks.

What solutions are there if the glyphs with the necessary diacritics are not available in the fonts specified by my company? The fonts are Optima and Palatino Linotype. I tried using combing accents - maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the combing accents won't combine with letters in the fonts I'm using. (I can get combining accents to work with other fonts like Times New Roman.) Just in the necessary instances, I tried substituting a similar font that does have the diacritics, but the company says it doesn't look good enough. Any ideas?

I often use GREP to separate one text frame into several frames, but in the latest version when I do this, the frames after the first one (or second one depending on the case) are empty.

Let me explain a bit better:

Let say I create a text frame with the text "x x x x x" (without the ") in it, and with GREP I replace each space with a frame break using the Replace All function, then go to my frame, click on the red + and chain a new frame, I get a frame with the next x, as it should but the next frame is empty, the one after is also empty, and the last one has xcxcx in it.

The exact same method in the previous versions (up to 19.5.1) gives me 5 frames with an x in each.

Do you good people experience the same problem?

Hi there!

I was designing a book with more than 500 pictures for printing. I chose A4 and 300dpi pictures. However I was just informed the book will not be printed but only made available as a pdf. My question is: Should I change something?

In pixels, A4 amounts to 595,276 px x 841,89 px. Is that too small for digital?

And if I understand properly, I should not focus on the dpi of the pictures but rather only in their pixels. That is to say, that they are big enough in relation to the Document size definition. Am I wrong?

Since the book is almost done it will be tons of work changing all the content, I guess.

Thxs!

So I have some customers that are still on InDesign 18.3 or 18.5 and they cannot update to a later version because they are using third-party software that is locked to these versions. After purchasing some new hardware, they are unable to download or install InDesign 18/2023 via the CC app. I reached out to Adobe, but all they would give me is a link for an 18.0 installer. The installer works, but there is no longer any way for the CC app to update it to 18.3/4/5. I have asked them repeatedly and the same answer every time-this is the only installer we have OR update to 2024 or 2025 which is not an option. The only thing that has sorta worked is copying the InDesign app itself from a working machine and copying over the 18.0 version that got installed with the installer. This is a less than ideal solution-anyone have access to 18.3/4/5 updates, directly?

Note/Edit: after installing 18.0, the CC app sees it, but provides no option other than updating to InD 19/2024

I'm using InDesign to create individualized flyers (about 4.000-5000 recipients) because my printing company requests PDFs.

I tested with just exporting 10 recipients/PDFs and it already takes a long time. Of course I need the graphics to have 300DPI which increased file size.

Any suggestions on how to speed up the process or any other advice?

Hi,

I am applying for university applications for design and have a requirement of submitting a portfolio. Most of the applications have a maximum file size of around 20-25 mb (around 20 A4 pages, RGB) and a minimum 150 DPI requirement to be met. My question is in 2 fold:

1. Would linking the photoshop file directly in indesign make the final pdf export lighter or should I just stick to pngs and jpegs?

2. What are the pdf export settings to be used to meet the 150 DPI minimum and 300 DPI maximum for images?

Help in resolving these queries would be very appreciated! Thank you!!

i'm removing some pages from a large (500 page+) textbook.

instead of being built sensibly by section (there are 38 sections), it was built out by SUBSECTION, so i have about 150+ files that all need to be renumbered to account for the removed pages.

i've been doing it manually but it's killing me.

is there a way i could make a book file and update the pages from there without going into each file?

or is there some way acrobat could do that automatically?

i would appreciate any insight to save my snaity.

thanks!!!

I’m packaging an invitation suite. The package menu shows my links as illustrator files (they are) but the format for all show PDF. I had a similar issue in a logo file recently too, with the links panel showing the same— file name .ai and file type/format PDF.

They aren’t embedded, the files are intended for print, and the only workaround I found was relinking to the same files saved as .eps. Is this something I’m fundamentally misunderstanding or have I inadvertently switched a setting?

Would starting over with a fresh layout fix this? Thanks for not making me feel like an idiot- I’ve been using ID for years and not sure if it’s changed or I didn’t pay attention. I’m in 19.5, I reverted when the ai features froze my system.

I’m trying to use a custom field to import specific dimensions of an object. So when the object has a diameter it’s supposed to use that value but if it has not it has to use the length. I’m using the IF function to achieve this. But it doesn’t seem to work. Any advice on how to fix this? Or what else I can try?

Here is how I formulated it in my custom field IF(FIELDSTR(diameter), =, “, FIELDSTR(length)

Hello there,

I'm slightly losing my mind, and I suppose it's some stupid mistake I made somewhere.

As the title says, I'm making a bilingual book (English on the left, French on the right) and am following this post https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/is-there-a-way-to-autoflow-text-only-to-one-side-of-a-spread/td-p/11988076 which seems to be the solution to my problem.

However, I can't get it to work. When placing text on my left frames, it always auto-flows to the right ones too. There are no primary text frames (at least I don't think so, it's not in the document setup and there are no "arrows" on my text frames. In my master spread, I have never linked my left and right frames either.

Is there a simple way to do this ? What am I missing ?

EDIT : when I place text in the right master pages, it does the right thing and flows only to right pages. But the issue remains for left pages, for some reason.

As a designer that has used several Adobe apps over decades, I’m now looking at laying out an entire print/ePub book in InDesign, which I’ve only used a few times over the years.

Also, as a designer, I’m super nitpicky (of course) about the “look.” Aren’t we all?

Since I don’t have a client to worry about, I’m considering breaking convention on two fronts.

First, using a sans serif for paragraph copy. From what I’ve read, it’s non-standard, but not un-heard of. That said, I don’t want to sacrifice readability if it truly is a strain on the eyes. I don’t believe that it is, and also from what I’ve read, it actually isn’t. I just don’t want to get knee-deep into this, hundreds of pages in a realize I’ve made a terrible error.

The other is line breaks between paras with no idents, like how this post is formatted. For me, it’s easier to read. I don’t know if the lack of line breaks and use of idents is just a time-honored industry standard and cost-saving approach or has actual usability (not sure if term applies) data to support it.

Hoping to get some perspective here.

I'm looking to print out a zine i've laid out in indesign. The format is supposed to be the basic 8 page zine printed on an 11x17 sheet of paper (page is divided into to halves with 4 pages on each side). I'm unsure of how to proceed with printing, when going through booklet settings the closest I can get is the 4-up consecutive, although this would only get half of my pages done. Any suggestions?

this is the format

Hi everyone,

I'm still working on the cookbook I've asked about in previous posts. We've ended up re-ordering some of the content so that recipes that span two pages can span a spread of pages (i.e. you see the whole recipe when the book is open, rather than having to flip a page halfway through). I tried cutting and pasting the recipes to reorder, but then I realized I could simply move around the pages in the pages panel. That was a very fast way to do it, but then I realized I had a new problem...the text frames were no longer aligned with the primary text frames on some pages. If a page had been switched recto/verso then it would stay with its original text box position, even though I was hoping it would snap into the correct primary text frame. In the image you can see the primary text frame - where I want the text frame to be - is the dotted line.

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I've been manually adjusting each one, but is there a better way? And, while I've already messed things up this time, what is a better way to reorder content (especially in something like a recipe book where each recipe gets its own page) this going forward?

As a corollary question, I turned on Show Text Threads (when trying to solve this problem using internet research) and found that the text threads appear to be out of order now; they didn't reflow according to my new page order. This was stressing me out so I turned them off. Is there something to be done about this?

I would love to know a more professional way to do this next time, or if there is a shortcut to getting text frames to snap into the correct recto/verso primary text frame. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I'm laying out a normal A5 text with 12.7 mm margins (all sides equal).

But when inserting the page numbering I noticed that the footnotes are too close to the numbering (image attached).

To solve this I thought of increasing the bottom margin. But when I do this, the margin goes up but the text stays where it was (second image).

How can I adjust the content to the margin (not the margin to the content)?

Thank you very much!

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Looking for indesign specialist

I need free report remplate

My wife just bought a company (from her diseased father's estate) and I promised to help. I need to make 30 pages of classifieds (car ads, spare parts etc.) Some have an image, some don't. I have the ads in a database and can put the data in excel, including a path to an image if one exists. What type of import would you recommend? I tried data merge, but it looks really bad, fixed size cell etc. Please if you know a good tutorial, let me know. Side question, all ad images are 72dpi. But 1800 px. Can I use them or will I have to convert to 300dpi?

InDesign is frustrating because it has so many options and the basics are not clearly layer out. Please help a noobie with the above question. Thank u