How do I recreate the text begging the image, I’ve been struggling with it for a while now, any help will be hugely appreciated

This is an annoyance … I have this indesign document "intent for print", which has paragraph styles and fonts for the various text boxes and paragraph styles.

When I open the document and copy the text boxes, then create a new "intent for print" document and paste the text boxes … the fonts disappear (get defaulted to Minion)!

I use normal "paste" and not "paste without formatting". It even copies the paragraph style, but defaults the font to Minion. This is annoying, because there are so many different text boxes and if I need to change everything by hand … why is Indesign doing that??? (version 17.0.1)

So i have this booklet i made, It was too big for SRA3 so i have to put scale to fit and i don’t like that the crop marks are at the edge of the paper. How can i fix this?

I’m thinking about upgrading from my current MBP 2018, which sadly cracked its screen but also I’ve been noticing that it’s sort of giving me some bottleneck while handling very large IDD files.

I’m sort of in a budget ($1400 max) but don’t know for sure if the M2 base with 16GB is enough or if I should go all in with the M2 Pro.

I mostly work with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. That’s basically my everyday bread.

Just not sure if the upgrade to M2 Pro is a must-do.

I've been putting together a couple of large posters (24 in x 36 in) for a school project and the main image of it is somewhat blurry, both in the InDesign file and when I export it as a png. I've checked that the display performance is set to high quality, the PPI of the main image is over 300, and the main image is very high resolution.

Not sure what else can be done. I've never had this issue before and was hoping someone could help me.

Looking for someone with extensive experience using Indesign preparing comic books for print, and particularly has experience with standard comic page sizes, pushing the panels to the page edge to cut out white space, and has an eye for how to do this in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Experiences with comics is a requirement, as I might have this person work with the letterer to ensure everything is clearly visible and not hidden in the crease (which means being aware of the right-hand space for even #'d pages, and the left-hand side for odd #'d pages). Thank you!

I’m working with a document which has very different layouts.

The ones that are repeating are set on the parent pages.

However, some repeat only twice. Is there a fast way to copy paste margins into another page?

Or is the only way to do so - parent pages?

Hi, all! I’m new to indesign, but am working with a team on a project. While we can see the ability to invited to edit in Illustrator, we are not seeing the same functionality on Indesign even though when I look online it seems as though it does exist. Any suggestions or information is welcome! Thanks

If the table doesn’t fit on one page, can you make it smaller to fit and then have a function where the viewer can click on it to see it full size. I am thinking about how if you are reading a research article, sometimes it will show a smaller version and it will say something like ‘Click here for full size view’, but just for the one table you are on? If there isn’t an easy way to do this I will just have it continue on the next page, since this is for a college course and it is already late. It is just that the requirements for the document specifies how many pages it should be, with each page covering one section. This document is our Learning Plan for a course in Digital Tools for Communication and Writing. We decide which software we want to learn how to use and which training and tutorials we are using.

I want to paste a text from google into indesign without losing its Formatting. I searched and everyone kept saying go to clipboard handling and select everything under paste. I did that but it is still not working. What do i do?

My team is having a weird issue viewing/using a shared CC Library from within Indesign. Items won't show in the Indesign CC Library panel, but I can see them in the web version and the CC app. This is happening randomly to various people. The status symbol in the panel says the folder is up to date. If I check other libraries (that I've created) from the panel in Indesign, they are displaying fine, which makes me think it's just narrowed down to anything shared with me/the team.

Any ideas on what I can do to force it to refresh in the program?

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Example where there should be about 20 files within the Indesign CC Library Panel.

Me and my colleague are working on a magazine design together.

Is there anyway to mark or highlight a page as done/finished/complete so it is clear to both of us which pages still need to be worked on?

Thanks

I have encountered a color problem when exporting files from InDesign for a black and white book I'm working on. The images are displaying with altered colors. However, I'm unsure of the source of the issue.

I've utilized images from ProCreate; could this be causing the problem?

I've attempted to create a new file, reload the images, and relink them, but the issue persists.

Could someone kindly guide me on resolving this matter?

Every time I try to open my INDD file, InDesign will start up like normal, and then IMMEDIATELY fully quit once it tries to pull up my file. It happens so fast I couldn't even see if there was an actual error message until I screen recorded it happening and was able to pause the recording:

https://preview.redd.it/bt6ytg4fm0vc1.png?width=528&format=png&auto=webp&s=be4d26b01a00b5a8533d2c233ae22046ead67f66

The problem is, this popup flashes on my screen for half a second before all of InDesign closes, so there's no way for me to click 'Save As' in time. I'm at my wits end as, of course, in a classic horror scenario, I've just stayed up all night working on a project for a client, had JUST completed it when this happened.

Troubleshooting notes:

• I've tried opening other random INDD files and they do not crash.
• I've restarted my computer, and updated InDesign to the latest version.
• Upon reopening InDesign itself, I am asked if I want to recover the previous file. If I select 'Yes', Indesign immediately shuts down again.

I want to cry. I've poured days and days into this work. Does anyone have any tips on opening this file, or how to click 'Save As' before the popup gets closed?

I am making a poster and the colors get way darker than they were before adding the objects with transparency. How can I fix that?

I am having issues getting the Page number to appear correctly on the master page. I have watched a ton of tutorials and looked through my settings and can not figure it out.

These are the steps I am taking:

1. Go to master page
2. Make a textbox off to the side
3. Type > Insert Special Characters > Markers > "Current Page Number"

When I click "Current Page number," it gives me a Number "1" instead of a placeholder. Additionally, it does not show up anywhere on my document at all.

I recently updated and have never had this problem before. Could there be something weird going on in my settings that I am unaware of? Any help is more than appreciated.

It had the placeholder on another document I was working on just fine, but can not for the life of me figure out what is different between them or what is going on.

https://preview.redd.it/c9mk9032myuc1.png?width=818&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c3952e868be4facd55291efc9326f5486fd8679

https://preview.redd.it/75wfwi32myuc1.png?width=1988&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fd6838068397348cdec8e759ef713aea968201e

https://preview.redd.it/bfmd0j32myuc1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=c042a3de4a70e30ec1eaa5dabdbb2ed3e6df98a7

I cannot for the life of me fix this template I am working in. It has a running header & page numbering in a footer, I was able to delete them from other pages in the layout, but not these! I can change the character style, but I cannot select this to delete the footer. It does not show up in the Master pages. I have not worked in ID in a while, please help!

I’m working on a 200 page book with lots of images. Everytime I try to export a pdf for review, I get this error. The page number changes every couple of times. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Hi, I have some text with a screen effect which appears perfectly normal in indesign but when I export it to PDF, it gets rid of it. I'm not sure how to fix this and there are no google results that can help. Thank you so much! I'm extremely desperate since it'll be due soon.

screen effect shows in indesign

effect disappears in pdf

Anyone else experience this? If I am working in a document, and go to start something new, InDesign just freezes and I have to open my task manager to close it. I am operating 2023 - 18.5.1.

It updated to 2024 when I rebooted one day and it was just terrible, so I reverted back, and things were fine for awhile, but now it's constantly freezing, crashing, and just running terribly. I will update again if I have to, but that created a whole additional world of issues.

Hi - Needed to repost as I narrowed down where the issue is.
I want to delete Child page 1 and also child pages 2-3 (spread). As soon as I delete them, the rest of the pages of the book begin to appear very strange. Any help with deleting them without affecting other pages?

So I'm making a comic in Indesign and I'm not sure how I should export it for grayscale (digital) printing. Should it be with Color Conversion 15% or higher? What's the difference between 15% and 25% for example?

Does anyone know how I could create these tabs? I tried using the rectangle shape and then curving the edges using Corner Options, but they just don't curve the way the ones in this photo do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TIA!

https://preview.redd.it/lijiwj7g2suc1.png?width=78&format=png&auto=webp&s=536a6fe99f06f50e7d1edf28e22caaf9b42a8662

Saw a post the other day asking about this, so I figured I would do a little video on it. Hopefully it'll help someone out.

https://youtu.be/2sP9NPT5Qtc

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Hi just wondering if there’s any way to have the file name from a linked file appear on a page automatically.

For instance I do multi-page artwork proofs, each page has its own linked artwork (illustrator file) that I place on each page, then I have to manually copy and paste the file name into a text box on the indesign page. Is there any way to set up a text box that somehow automatically links the file name too?

Im trying to figure out how to make sure my signatures line up and I get the proper spreads when i print my booklet. I have 96 pages, and intend to print and bind myself. I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to tell if my imposition is correct and if it will print the proper way! Maybe my brain is fried but im struggling. Any advice? I tried printing once already but it all came out in the wrong order.

Hello, I downloaded InDesign and tried to open it after I installed it, but the cursor loads briefly and then stops again. No loading screen - nothing. I also tried to remove it with the CC Cleaner and reinstall it. But when I start the program from CC it works fine. Other programs like Premiere, Photoshop are working fine though...

can anyone convert these two files to idml for me thank you very much

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I2hoitwbPv11TG-eP7a4znMPY8RZSnyq?usp=drive_link

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How do I get my text to follow the path of a circle, whilst keeping each individual character straight, as opposed to the characters curving with the shape path.