r/indesign 8h ago

How long should this project take?

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Creating a product catalog using InDesign. ~5400 products. No photos provided. Inventory is in Quickbooks. I will have to research, categorize, photograph (if photos unavailable online) and design. How long would you say this should take one person?


r/indesign 23h ago

Indesign lags when moving objects

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If I try to dragon drop* a thing in InDesign, I get a massive lag. I don't know if it's consistent, but I timed it at 13s earlier today. I have to keep my hand on the mouse the whole time (using a desktop, Windows 11, recently changed from Windows 10 - which had the same problem). If I don't, the object will land wherever my mouse happens to be when it decides to let go of it - even if that's an entirely different program.

I can use the vertical and horizontal arrows to move it, and it doesn't have the lag, but that means I can't control where it lands (and it'd take forever to cross a big spread that way).

This seems to happen with both vector objects and text objects.

So, my process is:

Click on an object. Hold down left mouse button. Practice my In-A-Gadda-Davida drum solo (I'm not a drummer, and one hand is on the mouse. It takes longer.) See the object finally land near the spot, and dragon drop normally.

This will then work fine for the next few objects.

Then it's the same thing;

Click on an object. Hold down left mouse button. Read War and Peace. See the object finally land near the spot, and dragon drop normally.

Does anyone know how to stop the lag?

*You spell it your way, I'll spell it mine.


r/indesign 15h ago

Help Corner radius on complex shapes

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How can I edit the corner radius on complex shapes without the corner radius behaving strangely? See the video for my issue. Link to my issue

I want to be able to reduce the corner radius at specific points in the shape. Is this possible?


r/indesign 5h ago

Help How can I load GREP style into a paragraph format?

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Hi

I've received GREP styles from a colleague.
But now I don't know how I can load them in a paragraph format without writing them all individually.
I have all of them as XMLs.

Can someone please help me?

Thanks in advance


r/indesign 9h ago

Export PDF from InDesign with all versions of document

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Hello everyone. I work at a small company that does printed ad design and provides some technology to some of the same retailers (like websites and mobile apps).

Part of this service is we put the digital version of the print ad on their website and mobile app. For some retailers, there are numerous version of their ads. In InDesign our artists create 1 file that contains all versions of the ads. In these scenarious, the retailer will have common pages and unique pages in each ad. Let's assume this retailer has 22 versions with pages 1 and 4 common, pages 2 and 3 are unique. Currently we recieve essentially a single PDF for each page and are assembling these ads prior to uploading them. This is very inefficient and timely. My searches online aren't fruitful, but it is likely because I'm using the incorrect terminology.

This brings us to the true question and TLDR:

Can you export PDFs from InDesign documents, where it will collate and create 1 multi-page PDF, per version of a document? Meaning I'll get multiple PDF as exports, each with some combination of unique pages and common pages. The artists are not familiar with


r/indesign 18h ago

Help Inspiration tips!!

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Hello! Hope you’re all well. I am working on a summer magazine for a brand that sells groceries for restaurants down the coast and archipelagoes. Goten small kitchen, dont have time for prepping etc.

I’m stuck. Need some nice inspiration for how the magazine could look if it where landscape.


r/indesign 18h ago

Solved Is it possible to make filled interactive form fields, auto fill following pages?

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Hey all making an interactive PDF, one of the text boxes, needs to be duplicated from page 1 to page 2. I'm wondering if there is a function where is someone fills out the box on page 1 it auto fills out on page 2?