This is probably really basic, but I've been googling until I'm blue in the face, I even did a lengthy paid tutorial, and I still don't understand what is happening and how to fix it.

I created a single-file document for a book, into which I intend to import multiple chapters. Maybe that's my first mistake, but I totally don't get the reasoning behind a multi-file book (an explanation of why people do that would be awesome if someone has time--it just seems like an awful idea, unless it's just a RAM thing, which is not an issue for me).

I typed in all my front matter, and on the last page of the front matter, I inserted an odd page break. I then used "Place" to drop in the first chapter from a Word document. Then I went back to create the parent pages--oops, probably should have done that first, but I didn't. Is that a fatal error? I thought you could create them whenever?

I then set up numbering for the front matter starting with the first page as lowercase Roman numeral i, and left the "[None]" parent page applied to all the front matter pages I didn't want to show a page number, and on each page after the first page, I went to Layout -> Numbering & Section Options and unchecked "Start Section". If I don't do this, I get an error about page 1 already existing.

Then I got to the first page I wanted to be numbered with a 1, which is a right-side page. The verso page before it is skipped for content, because of the odd page break, but (of course??) still appears in the pages on-screen. This is normal, right?

So I went back into Numbering & Section Options, and checked "Start Section" and "Start Page Numbering at: [inserted 1 here]" and changed the style to Arabic numbers. As soon as I click OK, the empty verso page before the new page 1 disappears, and I'm left with a gap.

What the heck is going on? How do I get the blank verso page to stay where it belongs?

Thanks for any help!

Good afternoon people of Reddit,

I'm a graphic design student right now and whenever i setup a new InDesign document I was told that i have to manually setup the layers and swatches as shown, I've recently discovered the "Scripts" window and was wondering if i can automate those processes with one click instead of wasting 10 minutes every time i make a new document. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in Advance.

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I'd like to achieve what is shown in this FIRST screenshot (without the black highlighting). Indenting ONLY the first line of first paragraph is my goal.

When I change settings in the paragraph setting, it applies the first line indent to each paragraph first line. I could have sworn there was a "first paragraph" only indent. Do i need to create another style and then manually change it for each location? That cannot be.. :) I know there' s a way.

Thanks, my reddit pals. You all ROCK.

Does anybody know if there is book layout advice /best practices tutorials for designing with Adobe's new PDF liquid mode in mind? We have several heavily illustrated book PDFs and about half of the material reads well in liquid mode. The other half , not so much, mostly tables and boxes with illustrations. I searched online but couldn't find much info. Liquid layout in ID doesn't seem to be the answer either. Thanks in advance for any leads.

I’ve been at this for sooo long so if someone could help me, that would be such a relief.

I’ve got this InDesign file that I need saved as a post script file in two separate spot colours for the purpose of Riso printing for Uni.

But I’m having a nightmare trying to save it as such. I was struggling to convert my full colour images to Riso, so it may be something in that area.

But if anyone can help me, I’ll be so happy, it’s very important and I can’t spend anymore time on it.

Thanks.

I'm creating some computer renderings to be printed on paper.

The rendering shadows, supposed to be shades of gray, have a strong yellow dominance, that I don't see on monitor.

The rendered image (JPEG RGB) once imported into InDesign and printed with Konica C300, has these yellowish shades of gray.

What should I check to make sure that what I see on monitor is printed as accurate as possible on paper?

I guess the problem lies in the color management, probably in InDesign color settings...

Where should I start ? Thanks

my setup: Apple PowerBook M1 / Mac OS 14.4 / Cinema 4D 2023 / InDesign 2022 / Konica C300

Hello! I need to save my 25 page portfolio in 5 mb (which is ridiculous 🙄) for a university application. I've tried everything, save with the smallest size preset, save with high quality print present but reducing image resolution, optimize the size In acrobat after saving in smallest size etc but i have only been able to get it down to 7 to 8 mb while my images are still in an acceptable quality and not pixallated.

Does anyone know what i can do with separate illustrator links and high qulaity line plans and diagrams within the file maybe to reduce the final output?

Thanks in advance!

yo. i don't know if I'm literally the only person on earth which has that problem but iv come to work on multiple pcs now and saving online seems like a smart thing now.. sadly i pressed " don't show again" on that "save on pc or online" UI months ago..

so any ideas on how to change the save-options? im completely lost after an hour of googling

also sorry for the bad english. im not native

Hi all!

I'm having a weird issue with an installation of InDesign 2024 on MacOS. I use a plug-in that I normally load through a PluginConfig.txt placed in the Preferences folder. This always works fine. Multiple machines over many years. I even wrote a small app to switch between conflicting plug-ins that uses this method.

Except for this installation. The plugin works when I place it in the Plug-Ins folder, but not when I place it somewhere else and direct InDesign to it with a PluginConfig.txt.

Often when InDesign is being weird I can find other people talking about it somewhere on the internet, but not in this case.

Has anybody perhaps encountered this issue before? Does someone know what the solution could be?

Many thanks in advance!

why doesnt the align tool work the same as in illustrator? im clicking the options but its not moving the object or doing anything

Hey everybody! I have a quick question that probably has an easy solution I just can’t figure it out. So I’m designing a book in inDesign. Each page has one picture on it. Also every page has a border. I put the borders in by making a square with a stroke but no fill. But now when I drop in the pictures to the page, it fills the object that is the border, since it’s technically an object covering the whole page. But I want it the picture and border to be independent of each other. I’m assuming there are betters ways to make a border. I’ve googled it but can’t find a good answer and yall are always way more helpful anyway. Any advice on how to make this work? Thanks!!

Hello,

First sorry for my english, I'm french.

I'm wondering if I should buy EasyCatalog.

I would like to make catalogs about discounted items or our new products.

A few questions :

1. Is it an easy pluging to use or it has a steep learning curve ?
2. Can you import excel spreadsheets and it automaticaly format those in indesign format?
3. Is it easy to modify a page / whole document ? For example if I put a product on page 3 and finaly I want to remove it from the catalog, will it automatically put up all other entries from the next pages ? Or if I change the size of a box ?
4. Can you easily add new products ? (relatable to question 3) Thank you !

Thank you !

I've got a 96-page document being spooled from a book of many chapters (it's a TTRPG book). I am having an issue with two very specific hyperlinks to text anchors. Specifically, these two:

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For some reason, every other link in the book, from the ToC to the other reference links to the index at the back all work fine.

It's just these two.

I've deleted and retyped the words, deleted and re-inserted hyperlinks, attempted to delete and re-establish the original text anchor and then re-link.

No matter what, when I spool it out, these two links won't work.

Anyone ever (a) see this before and (b) bludgeon it into submission?

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One last bit of info: I first built this file in 2021, presumably using whatever version of Adobe InDesign was current at the time. This most recent re-spool was correcting some errata, basic file content maintenance stuff. But I gotta admit, of all the wacky behavior one can see from InDesign, two particular links going on strike was not on my list.

Am instructing students in InDesign. A new issue has been increasing over the recent couple of years. When opening many assignments InDesign will indicate that there are missing fonts (font). So to ensure they are Packaging properly I check the fonts folder, and all of the missing fonts are present. Most students are using their system fonts, or are downloading from Google fonts (Lato, Poppins, Roboto etc.) so there shouldn't be any issue with the font files themselves.
This never use to be the case. Wondering if anyone knows why, or is experiencing this?
Note, these are not Adobe fonts, as those don't package and have the option to be 'activated' when a file is opened.

Hi i feel dumb but cannot find a solution to my problem. i want to number all of my pages after page 3 for a portfolio, so (absolute) page 4 is going to be numbered at page one. but when i section it, it keeps messing up the orientation of my book and i cant find the setting to fix it.

(1,2, and 3 are title page and table of contents, i dont want them numbered)

Hello all! I’ve only used inDesign a couple times in the past so I need some help. I’m designing a book manuscript that mainly only has pictures, one picture per page. And the goal of course would be to put it directly in the center of the page. However when added, most pictures have selection boxes that far exceed the border of the picture itself, some even stretching off the page. Which makes the snapping-to function for centering nearly impossible. Now I could close the border around it but even then I’m worried I may cut off part of the pic with the framing border, if that makes sense. Plus eyeballing it would cause the centering to be off as well. I feel there’s got to be a hot key or an option in a drop down to enclose the object with the selection boxes exactly to the edges. I am probably just overlooking something. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks so much!

My kamvas 13 works perfectly on every single Adobe app but Indesign, when i hopen the app basically the draw tablet start to do weird things and not moving the images properly on the screen, it works perfectly on Photoshop, Ilustrator,etc.

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I tried update the drivers, disable windows ink, reinstalling the software (Adobe and Kamvas) and nothing seems to work, can someones help me? i need it for my Unniversity work

Sorry for my english, it’s not my first language.

I made a magazine on indesign for school (it was the first time I used indesign so I didn't know much about it). When my printer printed my magazine, all my photos were very dark, almost black. I work with my macbook air so I believe the color is p3? Whatever, my printer told me he worked with CMYK. I believe this has to do with the wrong color of my photos (which were not in cmyk). How can I easily modify my document so that my photos are not too dark when printed? I don't have much time because I have to submit my project in 4 days. Thank you!

Hello, fellow Indesign users.

This morning I downloaded the Idd Beta app, just to see it, but then immediately uninstalled it. I have a Windows 11.

After that, I couldn't open the files. Every time I clicked on one it showed me a popup that said that app or file couldn't be found or/and I should select a default app, I don't remember specifically. Btw the icon was white/blank.

I went to settings to set it as default, but there weren't any Adobe programs on the Default apps list to be selected, except Adobe Reader.

I then uninstalled the idd program and installed it again, in hopes of fixing any of the problems, but the mission was unsuccessful

When I click on the file now, I get the popup to select the app I want to open the file with, but the problem is, there is only possibility to check "Just once", the "Always" is missing (pic), and even if I click just once it doesn't open it just keep looping the same popup.

I can though open the Idd program and get to the home page then open files from there, but that is extremely time-consuming.

Do any of you have any ideas, on what could be wrong/how to fix this?

I fixed it :)

Uninstalled it and installed it again, then in Settings - Defaulf apps - Related setting - Choose default by file type - I searched for idd files and from there I could set it as default. Hope this helps :)

Is it better to edit images for a brochure in CMYK, or in RGB and convert it to CMYK before the print? What other settings should you pay attention to?

I only know the exact CMYK color values to which I should adjust the colors of the images. Schould I look for the RGB values and approach the colors?

I've been going old school since forever - I've been continuing to use my copy of Photoshop 7 and Pagemaker 7 on a Windows VM on my Mac for years simply because I knew the tools and really, really, didn't want to go spend the money on the current subscription software. However, I just replaced my 2016 MBP with a 2023 M3 MBP, which means my long standing Windows VM no longer runs without re-installing new. SOOOOOOooo, I've decided I'm going to take the plunge and join the modern world, and buy tools for my Mac. I think I've decided on Pixelmator Pro for my Photoshop replacement, but haven't figured out what the way to go is for my Pagemaker replacement. Recommendations? I use it primarily for personal use with the occasional business use to do design and printing for my wife's business, so it's fairly sporadic usage. Hence why I'm not really interested in paying the heavy Adobe tax. I'm willing to pay a reasonable one time price for the software though.

How to create inner crease of book?

Does anyone know how to create the middle crease of a casebound book in Indesign? Normally, I would just download the vector and paste it into InDesign from Illustrator, but I find that makes my file super large when I'm ready to export, and I'm trying to avoid that. Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA

*Pic for example

Since this morning, when I open my Indesign CC 2019 today, the recent file screen endlessly tries to load but doesn't succeed.

I know I can disable the function and crack on but it's a handy page. Help!

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Hi folks,

Hope you are able to help me!

I have placed a 50 page word document into InDesign and cannot seem to find a way to change all the bullet pointed lists throughout the document into the right typeface. I've attached an example of what I'm seeing above.

I have already tried doing the following, but it just doesn't seem to be working.

- Choose related paragraph style
- Bullets and numbering
- List Type: Numbers
- Choose Correct Character Style

Is there anything else at all I can do?

Would really appreciate some guidance on this one.

Thank you in advance,

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Hi dear Redditors! I am using conditional text and would like to assign a condition to a whole row of a table, so that, if I toggle off the condition the whole row disappears. Is this possible ? TIA, have a nice day!

Hi, i am copy pasting a text from word to indesign, the text spreads on the entire page, even if it s a short sentence. As you can see, on the first page it flows naturally and then expands. Pls help and thanks

Hi Reddit I really need help. Im a book illustrator and InDesign is my most important program but recently I have this problem that I can't solve. InDesign won't open AT ALL. It's shows an indicator that it's loading (cursor), but it's only couple seconds and nothing happens. I tried many stuff, even completely bring windows to its first state (don't know how it's calls in English). Please help.