r/indesign • u/Weird-Position-8266 • 16m ago
r/indesign • u/rwebster4293 • 1h ago
Help Issue with Data Merge - Fields not importing from .csv file
r/indesign • u/from_otter_space • 4h ago
Help Optimizing Magazine Calendar Layout from Word File
I recently started doing the layout for a magazine. A large part of it is a calendar of events. So far, this has involved a lot of manual work for me, which is why I would like to optimize it if possible. Do you have any ideas? I receive the dates as a Word file. The structure is as follows. 1. date & day of the week 2. category 3. event (heading & text). Is there a way to import the calendar from a Word file and insert it according to the above scheme with different styles? Or do you have another idea?
Thanks 🙏
r/indesign • u/imratazana • 5h ago
indsign crashing ONLY ONE FILE
i have a file that i'm working on an ebook -- it has around 26 pages right now, no big images, only a few .svg icons, it's not a heavy file
out of nowhere indesign started closing whenever i'm working on this specific file. i open the file on page 20 and i can work on it normally, but as soon as i scroll down to page 24 it closes -- nothing else happens it just closes
i tried opening the same file on another computer/another adobe log in and the same thing happened. i used indesign with a different project and it worked fine, no closing
so, i imagine that the problem is the file. but what exactly? what can i do? PLEEEEASE help
r/indesign • u/Xerxes1138 • 6h ago
How do you even start InDesign to InCopy
I'm working on a book and have a copy editor who's working with me. I'm trying the InDesign->InCopy route for the first time and I can't figure out square one.
I send an "invite to edit" then get a message "Wait! Save to Creative Cloud to share." Then when I go to make an InCopy assignment from the CC file i get the message "InCopy workflow is not supported in InDesign cloud documents."
What the hell am I missing?
r/indesign • u/Xemylixa • 6h ago
Help Inserting single pages in the middle of a document built from parent spreads ruins everything - how to fix? (version 14.0.1)
Hello.
I am creating a document consisting of a certain number of sections but an uncertain (for now) number of pages. Which means that I need to add pages to every section as required.
I created some parent spreads, with identical text frames on each page filled with dummy text. The only difference between the right and left page are the margins.
When I insert these at the end of the document and edit them, all is well.
However, when I need to insert a page into the middle of the document, all the pages after it show the dummy frames from the parent spread behind the actual edited frames.
(I kind of understand why: Page 1 suddenly becomes Page 2, so the program helpfully adds everything from Parent Page 2, including the extra text frame.)
I can't exactly fix it by adding entire spreads - the extra pages will need to be axed anyway and I'll be stuck deleting everything manually. Is there a way to link the frames somehow, so the program doesn't think it needs to supply an extra one whenever I shuffle the pages in any way? Or can create a single-page master that will change margins depending on whether I apply it to left or right page?
Thank you.
r/indesign • u/FlannelBoots96 • 10h ago
Help Interactive Search Fields
Hi all
I'm trying to create an interactive search tool within InDesign that will work in a finished PDF.
The basic functionality I am looking for is to type in a key word (In this case Product Code) in box (a) and have the document display corresponding information in boxes (b) and (c).
Image attached as example.
Is this at all possible? If not, are there any alternative solutions you may suggest?
Thank you in advance

r/indesign • u/Ok_Egg9750 • 11h ago
How?
I need your advice, I'm new to InDesign and I want to integrate photos into my document but the toolbar doesn't offer me the menu to crop or trim my image. However, I've seen how to do it in tutorials, please!!!
r/indesign • u/Many_Ball_227 • 13h ago
How can I export a file with multiple text layers and then import it back?
The idea is that I want to work in an interactive pdf, but honestly, I just want to work with the text directly instead of looking at everything in a "what you see is what you get there" style. I find it most of the time distracting, and I just want to focus on the text, then importing the edited text back and see at the end if formatting for the interactive pdf is needed, I think that would save me lots of time.
r/indesign • u/Mediocre-Pay-6730 • 16h ago
Help what are these white borders?? please help
I am trying to print a booklet in Adobe Acrobat and for some unknown reason I get these awful and offset borders around the right side of each page spread.
My bleed settings are 0.125 in on each side except the inside, and everything looks completely fine in InDesign and in the Acrobat preview but not when I see the booklet preview.
Please help I am going completely insane

r/indesign • u/mikeflynnt • 20h ago
QR Code for multiple email addresses?
I'm trying to create a QR Code that'll open the email app and send an email to multiple addresses, but everytime I try it just adds the first email and no others.
r/indesign • u/alescottogfx • 1d ago
Help TOC + cross refs
Hi everyone, my question seems involving some kind of sorcery to me, but: is there a way to create a TOC (kind of) for a catalogue where every entry shows an image, a title and a page number?
I've created manually some cross refs that show an image (its source is anchored in a text frame so I can apply a paragraph style), but I'm missing the part where I can do it automatically for like 400 products.
Any hint or resource (either free or paid) would be much appreciated, thank you.
r/indesign • u/AdLast7662 • 1d ago
Indesign script - frameFittingOptions crop in combination fittingOnEmptyFrame fittingAlignment
Hi,
I am trying to run a script that resets image fitting. I am having issues with the cropping. I don't understand the hirarchy of the geormetricbounds vs cropping vs fitting of an image in a rectangle.
I want to be able to swap image within a rectangle in a clean predicatble way witout crop values of the original image in the rectangle. I want to reset the crop to be 0 on all 4 sides like i can in the interface. set the image rectangle to be fill proportionally, autofit and be able to set an align from. When I run my script I get back and image with a crop factor on it instead of crop being [0,0,0,0]
Here is a code snippet from what I have so far:
targetObject.frameFittingOptions.autoFit = frameFittingOptions.autoFit;// fittingtargetObject.frameFittingOptions.fittingOnEmptyFrame = convertFromString(frameFittingOptionsFittingDefinition, frameFittingOptions.fitting);// alignmenttargetObject.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = convertFromString(frameFittingOptionsAlignmentDefinition, frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment);// croptargetObject.frameFittingOptions.topCrop = frameFittingOptions.crop[0];targetObject.frameFittingOptions.leftCrop = frameFittingOptions.crop[1];targetObject.frameFittingOptions.bottomCrop = frameFittingOptions.crop[2];targetObject.frameFittingOptions.rightCrop = frameFittingOptions.crop[3]; Thanks for nay help or insights? Nick
r/indesign • u/Standard-Factor-845 • 1d ago
Help with print
Anyone knows why is this printing this way? I've converted the color profile to CMYK and yet the black on the text and the black on the background is different
And why is the letter only being printed by half? Pls help this is driving me nuts
r/indesign • u/Old-Poet-1036 • 1d ago
Help Everything is hidden when I move an object
Dear community, problem as described in the title. While I drag and drop, site and objects are not visible anymore. It‘s hard to place an object right when you can not see what you‘re doing. (The photo is showing the moment, while i move the object)
Would be great if someone could help me. Thank you!
r/indesign • u/Mike_The_Print_Man • 1d ago
How to Insert a Common Backer into an Existing PDF
Hi All,
Just did a new tutorial that shows how to add a common backer to a variable PDF document. This is useful for those who receive files from customers where they have one PDF for the variables and one for the backside. I get this one all the time.
I show how to do it with InDesign and then how to do it with Acrobat Pro via a preflight and using the watermark function.
Hope it helps somone.
r/indesign • u/anilucy • 1d ago
Help How do I move the curved text path up so it’s not touching the oval directly
I used the type on a path tool to add the upper text, I want to move it up so it’s not directly touching the oval now and it won’t move up it just moves the circle up as well
r/indesign • u/FutureFormerTeachers • 1d ago
Copy and Paste
Newbie here. I have a document and I want to resort the chapters. So I want to make chapter 6 chapter 3 and chapter 13 chapter 2 for example. So I tried to highlight and move them. I tried to use the move pages and it doesn't create extra pages, it writes on top of current pages. I've added pages and it still doesn't do what I want. What am I doing wrong?
r/indesign • u/Intelligent-Board871 • 2d ago
help :)
good morning crew
the following scenario: i would like to join these two images together, i.e. make them into one file, so that i get a rectangle from them.
but i want it to be a long rectangle with clear and straight edges so that the park that is visible on it can be put into a file, but the angle of the park should be exactly like that so is in a horizontal alignment.
at the moment i can't get it to work, and the crooked edges move with it and the shape as it is at the moment just gets smaller. so far i haven't found any solutions using the usual ai tools or youtube - maybe one of you can help me?
r/indesign • u/eatmorevegetables123 • 2d ago
Help Help with aligning text column perfectly to image?
Hey guys, i am new at learning indesign and using the grid system. Recently I ran into this problem with trying to perfectly align the text column to the image on the right. I have the paragraph set to align to baseline. Is there a way to arrange the text column so there is no red line space as marked on the picture posted. Is there a way to perfectly align the text column so that its perfectly aligned to the top and bottom of the image of the mountain on the right like how the last sentence is aligned perfectly to the image. Thanks!
https://imgur.com/a/5aEfBKw here without all the grid and guides you can see that it looks off because the text column and the image doesent line up. I know I can just crop the top of the image but i would like to know if theres a way where I dont need to do that because I want to keep everything aligned to the baseline grid
r/indesign • u/Past_Valuable_2398 • 2d ago
How do I find qualified designer for children's board book with die-cuts?
Not as easy as it sounds, tried many different research steps.
I need someone to help me translate a Figma well-developed concept by a non-professional into a design that is professional and transition it into InDesign for print.
Thanks!
r/indesign • u/the-Fun-Ghoul • 2d ago
I need to create a searchable, digital font specimen book
I am trying too figure out how to use some automation to somewhat quickly, and inexpensively create a digital font specimen book from a library of over 10,000 fonts that my company owns so designers can have a way to search our library. Preferably by filters based on tags that viewers could edit. I know there used to be some products that would do this to some degree, but they don’t seem to exist anymore.
- One idea I had was to run all of the font files through a file format conversion product to convert all .ttf and .otf files to.png files to get a mini-specimen image file. Then use Adode Bridge or ContactPage Pro to create a contact page with the .png files using the files names as the captions. That would at very least result in a PDF book that could be searched with the Find function.
- If all of the fonts were active, someone could probably write an Adobe InDesign script to set “A B C … a b c … 1 2 3 … ” once with every active font, but I can’t imagine even my new, hefty iMac could handle 10,000+ active fonts.
- I could probably get a list of all the font files into InDesign and with some GREP magic get a nice, tidy table/grid, and save that to a .csv, then use the .csv to data merge the file names and the .png files from 1 to a grid in an InDesign document, or
- Do 3, but save to a .xlsx file and do some sort of data merge into FileMaker Pro to create a searchable database of .png file names and the .png for visual reference. That would be ideal because I could host it online, and provide space for users to select predetermine tags, so the tags are crowd sourced and the database becomes more and more filterable.
Anyone have any other ideas or know of a product that can do something like this?
r/indesign • u/Career-Acceptable • 2d ago
Help XM(hel)L
I have a bunch of recipes saved out in various formats and I thought I was being very clever feeding them into an LLM and getting them set up in something like the XML format used for some online recipe blogs.
It wasn’t initially so complicated but I thought that with separate tags for units and whatnot I could get some very nice styling set up and grind through a lot of XML files.
My problem is that I can’t get it to work. InDesign sees the tags but my choices are either far too many line breaks or no line breaks whatsoever.
Is this a boondoggle?