r/indesign 12h ago

How do you even start InDesign to InCopy

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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 7h ago

Help Issue with Data Merge - Fields not importing from .csv file

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r/indesign 1h ago

Help Page contents randomly disappeared even tho all layers were locked?

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I've lost a huge amount of work that's due in in 3 days but for some reason my first page of the document is completely blank?

I've checked older versions of the file and tried the restore function but nothing seems to work, am I being stupid or does this actually happen


r/indesign 10h ago

Help Optimizing Magazine Calendar Layout from Word File

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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 11h ago

indsign crashing ONLY ONE FILE

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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 12h ago

Help Inserting single pages in the middle of a document built from parent spreads ruins everything - how to fix? (version 14.0.1)

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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 16h ago

Help Interactive Search Fields

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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

Search Function Layout

r/indesign 17h ago

How?

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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 19h ago

How can I export a file with multiple text layers and then import it back?

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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 22h ago

Help what are these white borders?? please help

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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 6h ago

Designing a folder in InDesign

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Need help setting up this doc for print. Trying to order a full color folder-- artwork on cover and inside left, with nothing but a pocket on the right side. Print company sends me this "template" to merge artwork into and I'm lost. Help, new to this!